Sat.Apr 13, 2019

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We Need to Humanize Education More Than We Need to Personalize Learning

Edsurge

Over the last ten years, my privilege has allowed me to participate in a number of educational arenas. I’ve co-founded both a charter school and an education technology company, and I provide consulting and coaching support to schools and leaders related to personalized learning. In any given week, I’m actively engaged in trying to deepen my own knowledge, support the growth of others’ knowledge and internalize a wide range of diverse perspectives on how we can best serve children via more perso

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Instructables- A Good Website to Promote Project-based Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Instructables is an educational website and mobile app where you can have access to a treasure trove of instructional videos and how-to guides covering a wide variety of topics from science.

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Don’t Forget About YOU!

Tom Murray

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We Can Do Better Than Varsity Blues

Edsurge

There’s no lack of commentary about the recent college admissions scandal (codenamed Varsity Blues by FBI agents) that featured well-heeled parents exchanging hefty sums to get their kids slots at America’s most revered universities. But if we’re being honest, who was surprised to learn that people of influence are using that influence to benefit their children?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Extending Classroom Discussions with Technology

Dr. Shannon Doak

Classroom discussions are a great way to get students to think about a topic and take that thinking deeper. Having multiple perspectives widens viewpoints and enables better understanding to form in the learning community. There are many discussion techniques. I actually found a fantastic blog post that not only gives you a big list of strategies , it also explains them well and how to use them.

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Enhance Students Creativity with This Amazing Tool

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Curiosity Machine is an interesting website that connects scientists and engineers with children inspiring them to be creative inventors. The site provides a wide variety of open-ended engineering.

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Achieving High Performance by Recipe-Following: Truth or Fairy Tale?

The 21st Century Principal

Educators, and I would add business leaders love fads and leadership gurus. While I don’t know personally the data regarding how much money is made by consultants and gurus in the educational industry, I would bet it’s often more than whole educational budgets in states and districts. There is money to be made, and the entrepreneurial sects know it; that’s why our inboxes of our email accounts and our message boxes of our LinkedIn accounts get stuffed daily with promises of high performance nirv