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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Course: Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies “In this course, you will explore the importance of culture; how it impacts thinking, learning, and behavior; and how to embrace cultural differences and become a culturally responsive teacher.” Digital Assessments How can we effectively assess learning in a digital classroom?

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal.

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Educators Share How Video Games Can Help Kids Build SEL Skills

Edsurge

And they build social media profiles and write journal entries for a character in the game to highlight the dichotomy between how people present themselves publicly versus how they really are. Video games are good for teaching kids problem-solving and ethical decision-making as well, Farber says.

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#04: Simple Ways to Find Your Teaching Blindspots in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

True excellence is a mindset, a desire to serve, a belief that helping others leads to the best outcomes.” ” SMART Learning Suite is today’s sponsor. Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Listen on iTunes.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

Edsurge

Tanner: I would say the persona of the course is what students are used to finding online, on social media platforms. Instead of saying, ’These are your learning objectives,’ we just have #goals. Also there’s a game-based learning element to it. So we weave that throughout all of our content.

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Florida Virtual School mirgrates to Brightspace

eSchool News

Since the platform incorporates personalized learning, teachers can deliver their lessons with much greater flexibility and give each student the personal experience they need to succeed. Additionally, Brightspace includes real-time learning analytics to provide teachers with engagement data that can help them improve student outcomes.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

If we want technology to finally transform education and teach the 21st century skills our students need to succeed, we need to design tools with the understanding that teachers are activators of learning and the secret to achieving better student outcomes. 7th Grade Informational Writing: How is social media used in times of crisis?

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