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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. In navigating today’s world, trauma-informed teaching is vital to our success as teachers.

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How this state is turning its virtual teachers into online learning experts

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Even more worrisome, they might not have any exposure to critical online teaching skills such as sifting through digital resources, managing the online platform, and hosting strictly-online discussions. Alliance members co-design the programs and help deliver the actual training. It is an intense experience,” she said. “It’s

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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AVER INFORMATION INC. The module goes beyond tracking app usage, and uses advanced data analytics to help educators discover which programs have the most influence, and inform plans to replicate, scale, or adjust resources accordingly. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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Learning management systems 101

Neo LMS

Modern learning platforms also have social media-like features, such as a news feeds where school administrators and teachers can make announcements; a simple instant messaging system; and most importantly, a private messaging feature so users can send private messages to each other like they would through email.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

Often, the most popular apps “are what teachers are discovering at conferences, reading online, and across social media,” according to Dan Carroll, chief product officer of Clever. All that is required for each account is a student’s first name, last initial and grade level; no other personal information is required.

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Organize Texts for Test Prep with LiveBinders

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These standards ask that students know how to look at information from varied sources, explore arguments and claims, and analyze multiple texts with similar themes. Paste in a URL to add a Web-based information source to your first tab. LiveBinders has been around for a while. Here are five steps to help you build your first binder.

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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. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak. For more information.