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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher Collaboration Building and being part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is an important strategy for leveling up your teaching. Flipped Classroom The flipped classroom allows students to learn from pre-recorded videos and then to complete homework and other activities during class.

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Rethinking learning time in Clear Lake

Dangerously Irrelevant

CLMS took that idea and ran with it, substituting ‘teacher genius hour’ for some of its traditional professional development. All of these filter back into educators’ classrooms and improve student learning experiences.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

In my own work with educators around the globe, I’ve watched the emergence of 21st century trends such as makerspaces, flipped learning, genius hour, gamification, and more. For more strategies about harnessing technology for deeper learning, listen to the EdSurge podcast featuring edtech expert and author Scott McLeod.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.