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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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How to Build Your PLN

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Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. If they don’t know how, they’ll have a friend who does.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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That study concluded that there isn’t a significant relationship between the size of the class and how well the students did in demonstrating learning outcomes. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material. These answers are curated on the main ANTH 101 website.

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Digital Learning Day: Social Media PD Best Practices #DLDay

The CoolCatTeacher

10MT | #19: 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Researcher Laura Pasquini From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If we can upgrade our knowledge based on current research, we can not only create better professional development opportunities for teachers, but we can become better online participants.

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How to Make Assessment Meaningful this School Year | By @EduSight

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Assessment should not just test knowledge, but also process. Are students understanding how to apply concepts? The minor word of caution is that there is some value to memorization and knowledge-based learning, especially in early foundational concepts (e.g., How do you make assessment more meaningful?

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

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PRO TIP: Understand how the Chromebooks will actually get into the hands of the students and how you will track who is using what BEFORE getting the Chromebooks. Retrieved from Kelly Stephens Twitter Feed. As a school or district, decide how many laptops you should have in inventory. Replacement devices.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We need to teach people how to think.

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