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

TeacherCast

With personalized learning at the forefront of many school initiatives, the use of learning management systems has become a hot commodity among schools. With so many choices on where to build your digital classroom, the questions often arise: “Why do I need a learning management system? Why consider Schoology?

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

Game-based learning might not be what you think. On today’s show Matthew Farber, author of Game-Based Learning In Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games , talks about how to use games in the classroom effectively. Game-Based Learning in Action. There’s gamification. There’s game-based learning.

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How One Teacher's Curiosity Led to Gamification in the Classroom

Graphite Blog

Online games offer an embedded feedback that guides learning along the journey. Use a learning management system to put it all together. I’ve organized my missions into folders in Schoology. Other photos from BrainPop and Schoology captured by the author. Find game-based sources. Used under a CC BY 2.0

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

Strong Class Culture Is Key As the classroom teacher, I learned that the biggest factor for how things went when I was gone was the strength of the classroom culture. My absence simply could not be a reason to stop our learning trajectory or allow an unproductive misuse of time. How well had I prepared my students?

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

Strong Class Culture Is Key As the classroom teacher, I learned that the biggest factor for how things went when I was gone was the strength of the classroom culture. My absence simply could not be a reason to stop our learning trajectory or allow an unproductive misuse of time. How well had I prepared my students?

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Teacher Absent? How Tech Can Bridge the Gap

Graphite Blog

Strong Class Culture Is Key As the classroom teacher, I learned that the biggest factor for how things went when I was gone was the strength of the classroom culture. My absence simply could not be a reason to stop our learning trajectory or allow an unproductive misuse of time. How well had I prepared my students?

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. There is much to learn from the Meeker report. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” It’s just not what you think.”

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