Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Instructional coaching is a form of professional development (PD) in which an accomplished teacher works with teachers in one-on-one settings to provide guidance and focus on practical strategies to increase student engagement and learning. Like in sports, its goal is to improve individual and team performance.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These default features force online instructors to use a style of teaching that feels more like shouting to the masses than engaging in meaningful conversations.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 135

Linways Technologies

MAY 21, 2020

Open-ended discussions always keep students engaged. The students can experiment and experience with this active learning strategy. Dividing students into pairs and giving them small rewards will also encourage the students to participate more actively. It will also boost confidence in students.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. Observing the veteran teacher down the hall effectively facilitating Socratic seminars helps new teachers see and hear what success looks like. Tech tools aren’t just for the kids.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts. Students move around the room, examining each display and discussing their observations with their peers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

Digital instruction is commonly divided into “asynchronous” and “synchronous” modes, with “synchronous” referring to real time teaching in a classroom or virtually over Zoom or other video conference tools.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Consider how intellectually electrifying it might be for an underfunded college to recruit an eminent professor from a top-ranked school abroad to teach remotely—to deliver a lecture, attend a daylong seminar, or teach a semester-long course.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To inspire tomorrow’s brightest minds, educators need today’s best tools. The event serves as a collaborative space for individuals committed to enhancing the educational experience for students. Student Engagement : Discover innovative methods to engage and motivate students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

These software tools also allow you to publish the content. The main concern while publishing content is the quality of the final output which will be accessed by students. They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process. Be it an online video or a live seminar.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 108

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs and Skype could be utilized to work on projects from afar. Yet I don’t mind the drive, as I look forward to engaging in class discussion for the topic of the week based on the offered readings and content available online. These instructional approaches are traditional in the best sense.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs and Skype could be utilized to work on projects from afar. Yet I don’t mind the drive, as I look forward to engaging in class discussion for the topic of the week based on the offered readings and content available online. These instructional approaches are traditional in the best sense.

Learning 33

Learning Personal Learning Network Examples Analysis 33

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“The higher education market is incredibly competitive, so to be a competitive institution, you have to go beyond an amazing education and a great faculty,” said Donna Curry, who took over in March as executive director of alumni and student engagement at Clark University.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. Results pinpoint a student’s knowledge to a specific list of skills. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Part of The Corwin Connected Educator series, in this volume you’ll use the principles of connectedness and flipped learning to engage stakeholders—teachers, administrators, and parents—digitally, so they’re ready for productive discussion when you meet in person. Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential – Carol Dweck.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Technology tools have the benefit of quickly collecting, surfacing, and storing data. Some technology tools, like polling or quiz tools, provide immediate results that can be used during the lesson. Other technology tools can capture and store information for teachers to reference after the lesson.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

As if fate wanted to re-affirm for me the value of KySTE, I learned of a new tool in the very first hour of the very first session of the conference that got me so excited, I knew I'd be doing a blog entry about it! and the tool was Verso. I’m highlighting Verso in Edtech Elixirs, a tool I’m pretty excited to share!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Technology tools have the benefit of quickly collecting, surfacing, and storing data. Some technology tools, like polling or quiz tools, provide immediate results that can be used during the lesson. Other technology tools can capture and store information for teachers to reference after the lesson.

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Schoology Assessment Data Learning 285

Edthena

JULY 13, 2021

If you support teachers and their professional development, you can cross the hard part off your list — the stats tools inside your Edthena groups are designed to make your life easier. Is Tina struggling with Socratic seminars right now, or was that months ago? But searching for and compiling all that data is a chore. Not so much.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

How the Virtual Classroom Shifts Power and Boosts Participation Remote learning has been a great tool for such decentering strategies, as it does away with some of the problems of margins. This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before. In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority.

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Education Learning Accessibility Libraries 214

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

How the Virtual Classroom Shifts Power and Boosts Participation Remote learning has been a great tool for such decentering strategies, as it does away with some of the problems of margins. This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before. In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority.

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Education Learning Accessibility Libraries 184

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Can schools avoid the temptation to add more screen time to animate students’ lives? Given proficiency learning’s emphasis on adaptive learning, real-time monitoring, technology use and student engagement, it seems inevitable that the answer will be: Forfeit and join the Brave New E-World: screenify , binge , gamify , infotain.

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