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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

1 – Flipped Classroom Concepts for Homework The flipped classroom has been around for a while. In a flipped classroom, students watch lectures and other lesson content on video. Flipping Your Classroom: Redefining Homework and Instruction is an excellent course to help you with this.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. You can create a community of learners in your school, your department, and through social media.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. Flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional classroom and at-home components of a class are switched.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. Flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional classroom and at-home components of a class are switched.

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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. Students can submit work, monitor their progress, and link their accounts to their other social media applications. Why consider Schoology?

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Is Online Education Better than Traditional Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

With most students being active social media users, this kind of an interactive platform encourages them to share, like and comment on course contents. This approach helps in creating an interactive classroom where students learn by solving problems in class with their peers and teacher around them. for better engagement.

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Taking Student Voice Beyond The Classroom

techlearning

At the same time I started the Innovation Lab in 2016, I was invited to a gamification conference at UPenn. Every company is a tech company now, influenced by the pervasiveness of the internet and social media. Just as importantly, the internet and social media provides a platform for students to drive change.