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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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Code-a-Thon challenges K-8 students to improve coding skills

eSchool News

Schools are also encouraged to use #codeathon2016 on social media to share their progress and interact with other participants. Then, students log in and code their way through a number of challenges – each with increasing levels of difficulty – earning points for every successfully completed challenge.

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

techlearning

EXPLORELEARNING GIZMOS ( WWW.EXPLORELEARNING.COM ) Gizmos are online simulations that help students to make connections and draw conclusions with an interactive design that supports a manipulation of variables and “what-if” experimentation. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. See the schedule in your local time zone and join the sessions here.

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of Education Announces STEM , Computer Science Education Grant Opportunities.” Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” .” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”).