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3 ways classroom ecosystems are changing

eSchool News

One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines ecosystem as “something (such as a network of businesses) considered to resemble an ecological ecosystem especially because of its complex interdependent parts.”. When you take a look at a classroom, there are several interdependent parts working together to create a successfully functioning classroom.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). This used to mean enrolling at your local college or online institution. Now, the right classes may not be available, or available but at the wrong time, or the class is full before you get a chance to enroll.

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Culturally Responsive Education: Evidence to Influence Practice

Digital Promise

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

Edsurge

It’s a tough time to be a teacher. They’re burned out , they’re demoralized , they’re facing hostility from parents , they’re not paid very well , and they’re either dreading or dreaming of a return to remote learning —a decision that most of them don’t have the power to control. Meanwhile, it’s a tough time to be a college student, too. Student loans are scary.

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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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When edtech concepts become practical classroom realities

eSchool News

In this week’s episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education , host Kevin Hogan explores the following: Bringing the world to life through augmented reality 3 wireless technology trends to track in 2022 How artificial intelligence can transform professional development for teachers.

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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

Edsurge

It seemed like the minute hand on the clock was stuck. “When will this PD end so I can get back to lesson planning and grading student work?” I thought to myself in silent desperation. Then, I followed up with a pledge: “When I am a principal, I am not going to do this to my staff.” For those who have been educators for any length of time, I’m sure this is a familiar scenario.

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The Power of Pretesting: Why & How to Implement Low-Stakes Tests

techlearning

Steven C. Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National University of Singapore, shares highlights from his recent research and tips for implementing pretesting in the classroom.

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Why self-discovery increases college and career success

eSchool News

What do you want to be when you grow up? As we get older, the answer often changes from highly visible and glamorous endeavors, such as being an actor or a rockstar, to something more useful and meaningful to us personally. Determining a great career path, however, isn’t always easy and is more often than not inhibited by a lack of exposure to career options and awareness of our own natural abilities.

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How College Students Are Helping to Solve the Substitute Teacher Shortage

techlearning

Some K-12 schools are turning to education majors at local colleges as short-term substitute teachers. The practice is a win-win, say those who have participated.

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How To Participate in an Instagram Live

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

How To Participate in an Instagram Live. Learn from educators anywhere in the world as they share on Instagram. The post How To Participate in an Instagram Live appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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STUDENT VOICE: Is anyone out there? We need help figuring out our futures in Hispanic communities like mine

The Hechinger Report

“Mamá, ¿sabe en dónde puedo encontrar pasantías?” (“Mom, do you know where I can find internships?”), I ask. “No sé … pregúntale a la consejera de escuela o a tu maestra. Ellas te van a poder ayudar más porque tienen más información.” (“I don’t know… ask your school counselor or your teacher. They will be able to help you more because they have more information”), she replies.

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Student-Created PSAs Ignite Critical Thinking

MiddleWeb

Involving your students in creating public service announcements (PSAs) not only promotes media literacy, writes Frank Baker, it builds teamwork skills, energizes kids to conduct research into authentic social issues, and gives them opportunities to write with real purpose. The post Student-Created PSAs Ignite Critical Thinking first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Benchmarking Toolkit for 2022

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated an extant trend toward digitized communications, and highlighted the weaknesses in many schools’ and districts’ communication plans. School communication is currently strong in some areas, notably general parental engagement and support, but it has major weaknesses. These include school-teacher and school-student communication in schools, as well as communication with a hard-to-reach quartile of parents.

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Twitter Lists and Why They Are Important

Hansen's Link to Tech

Do you ever feel when visiting Twitter all the people and trends you follow flows as fast as a burst of a fire hydrant? The drinking from the fire hydrant metaphor is so true especially when you mix in tweet content that is either. not of interest click bait toxic redundant/irrelevant. One way to make Twitter to work for you is creating and/or following lists.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Webinar: "Overcoming Self Sabotage - The Educator's Guide to Changing Your Life" | More Webinars, Workshops, and Summits Detail

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please consider joining us for one or more of our brand new series of affordable 'Survive and Thrive!' webinars, workshops, and summits, part of the LearningRevolution.com family: Library 2.0 , The Future of Education , ReinventingSchool.com , Classroom 2.0 , and TeacherLibrarian.org. More details below. OVERCOMING SELF SABOTAGE - THE EDUCATOR'S GUIDE TO CHANGING YOUR LIFE Part of the LearningRevolution.com 'Survive and Thrive!

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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

Somewhere in Indiana, I ran into a ghost of the Queens grandmother who brought down a schools chancellor more than 25 years ago — all over a book called “Heather Has Two Mommies.”. The story of a fictional little girl named Heather with two moms enraged conservative families , who were dead-set against a Rainbow curriculum that included teaching social issues in classrooms.