A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2010

In my experience I have identified 4 key principles that lay a foundation for communicating effectively with parents: Transparency, Honesty, Accessibility, and Flexibility. Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. Hold training workshops for parents. Call home on both positive and negative issues.

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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

Access to a good enough internet connection and a device should be a right and not a privilege. Looking into the future, we now have the opportunity to adopt a positive approach, in which learning becomes accessible for more people , is student-centered , and edtech evolves to extend to all kinds of learning situations.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s why I am now sharing my top tips for creating interactive learning spaces that any teacher can apply to their own classroom: Make learning content accessible from anywhere. For example, holding online Socratic seminars is a sure way of engaging students and getting them to work together.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Though tools to do that are getting more accessible than ever. (I Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. This is part 2. Read part 1 here.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 10, 2016

For example, it's nearly impossible for students working in shifts to be present in the classroom up to 80% of classes/lab seminars. If all learning materials can be accessed online, working students can study them at any time, while being anywhere.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

And second, schools are inherently open environments, so districts try to open up network access to as many people as possible. Guests should only have internet access and should not have a path to any of the school’s financial or personnel systems. To give you an example, at the district I worked at in New England as a CIO.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It gives unlimited access to a great library of well-written, humorous, and engaging stories that will captivate young readers. It’s a little bit like an online literature seminar, in which students and teachers comment on paragraphs, share their ideas, and exchange notes. This is an app especially designed for kids of 12 and under.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A Socratic seminar? Rather than just giving educators access to information about teaching strategies, micro-credentials help us provide educators with a chance to demonstrate that they can implement those strategies in their classrooms. Sounds great! Maybe in October. A historical role-playing activity? Let’s aim for March.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

Besides making use of the apps, your students could use their phones to access your LiveBinders with podcasts, videos, and specific articles for their homework, or for extra credits. The first time I tried gamification with my students was during a seminar on green marketing and consumerism. And now, story time! It was really simple.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Association of American Colleges & Universities has identified a set of “ high-impact educational practices ” shown through research to improve student retention, including first-year seminars, learning communities, undergraduate research opportunities and service-learning programs.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There are also seminars, laboratories and other forms of classes that are designed for students to apply knowledge from lectures, but the professor is usually not involved in these. But many university classes still go with the traditional instructor-centered approach to education. Flipped learning — a different kind of standard. I doubt it.

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Neo LMS

JULY 22, 2021

Instead of attending face-to-face seminars, they can do this at their own pace and receive reminders to complete them on time. . For example, they’ll know how to access and share resources, organize important documents in a portfolio, how to connect with like-minded peers, and even give feedback online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

Generative AI in the Classroom with Steve Dembo Donnie Piercey, AI and Math Donnia Piercey @ mrpiercEy is sharing how to integrate AI into Math instruction and is hosting an upcoming seminar with the National Council of Math Teachers on a deep dive on AI in math instruction for elementary grades. You can leave a comment on this blog.

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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. Participants gathered online each week for seminar-style conversations, case study discussions and peer critiques. The answer may be that we need to balance massiveness with miniaturization.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2018

What technology does, and does quite well, is make learning materials more accessible, more equitable, more up to date, and better suited to individuals. If you were in a seminar, it would include the people on both sides of you and in front and back. ” — RAND Education. You’re not alone. Those are big numbers.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Modern innovations make education accessible to all students and personalized to individual needs. Join a professional organization. Teachers should know about and become members of organizations dedicated to connecting like-minded individuals.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our goal is to build the systems of scale that allow for uncompromisingly good Montessori education that's accessible to the children of the world,” explains Girn. Girn: Our goal is to build the systems of scale that make uncompromisingly good Montessori education accessible to the world’s children.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But I digress… technology, specifically in the form of micro-credentials (sometimes called digital badging) has emerged not only as a powerful, accessible and appropriate way to learn online, but is also allows teachers to manage their time and resources better (keep in mind many teachers pay for PD out their own pocket).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Those talks led to a partnership with ASU Prep that opened up access to the school’s Arizona charter. It’s not dirt cheap, but it’s accessible.” There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Socratic Seminar. Depending on the age and content, allow for enough time and support for students to access and analyze the resources. . In a Socratic Seminar, a small group of 5-7 students will participate in the discussion while the rest of the class observes, each group taking a turn. Why do you think that _?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Because students and families receive direct access to the full-range of academic and wraparound services that schools provide through in-person learning, the disparity offers a sobering reminder that family engagement is as much a matter of equity as access to education itself.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The edtech seminar I'm teaching this semester recently explored the post-desktop world, and to get students thinking about the differences, I began with a quick exercise, asking them to rearrange the classroom into old-school rows.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5. This made a great deal of sense.

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Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 104

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Socratic Seminar. Depending on the age and content, allow for enough time and support for students to access and analyze the resources. . In a Socratic Seminar, a small group of 5-7 students will participate in the discussion while the rest of the class observes, each group taking a turn. Why do you think that _?

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 105

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Regardless of the type of content you wish to display – dynamic visuals, informative content, or artistic installations onto walls, projectors can project your visuals with versatile applications such as edge blending, creating an immersive atmosphere.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The disparities often stem from larger structural issues — a lack of access to quality curricula , for instance, or teachers expecting students to perform poorly. The math seminar also ensured that, for students who would have regularly been placed in a higher-level class, lessons did not slow down their learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Not anymore.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Videoconferencing requires robust internet connection that not all students have access to, and even downloading video clips can be challenging on some connections. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

Invest in equitable access to AI technologies: Ensure all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, have access to AI tools and resources, addressing the digital divide and preventing the exacerbation of achievement gaps.

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Survey Education Digital Divide Digital Citizenship 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Meanwhile, CUNY has cut some costs from its $14,000 program by eliminating the first-year seminar and has expanded it to 25,000 students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. MOOCs have done an incredibly good job of scaling access to high-quality learning content around the world.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Wellness and Leadership in grade 5-9; high school students move on to Career Pathways, an internship course, seminars in the humanities and economics and dual credit opportunities. 21st-century Learning : All students rotate through a suite of classes, including a hands-on STEM class called SmartLab, as well as Global Studies, P.E./Wellness

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