The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 11, 2019

Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen on episode 512 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Karen Lirenman ( @ KLirenman ) and Kristen Wideen ( @ mrswideen ) have written the definitive book on using iPads in the elementary classroom, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 17, 2020

It teaches how to organize your topics so that students can find their files, how to take attendance (and connect with students while you do), a discussion about due dates, and how to teach students to find files and respond.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 9, 2019

In my previous post we explored the origins and definitions of digital humanities and covered a few examples of how the techniques are being applied in higher education. There are a number of analogue printables aides online that will help elementary school teachers bring a new dimension to story-time.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, I'm amazed at the impact technology can have on the learning process—especially when it enables teachers to personalize learning. One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” 6) Webinar—Blended Learning: Which Model Works For You?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

Milton Bryant is the first to admit that implementing blended learning successfully didn’t come overnight. For the past four years, Bryant has been tirelessly adapting his approach to personalized learning to ensure that each student is thriving, even when that means scrapping ideas that don’t quite pan out.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

It’s definitely a work in progress. Kristen: I think it’s really — first and foremost — looking for those followers that are excited about the topic, that are already using technology in their classrooms, that are already volunteering for these new initiatives in our district — like the blended learning opportunities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

You’d definitely want to check the transcript and show notes for all of these ideas. You’ll definitely want to go to Eric’s website Control Alt Achieve and his YouTube channel. And Eric Curts @ ericcurts from Control Alt Achieve and co-leader of their higher Google Educators group has so many fantastic ideas.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2023

Meet the Money Monsters stories introduce elementary aged students to ideas, habits, and activities that they'll need as you grow up and start to manage money. A searchable Financial terms glossary that has definitions that help build financial understanding. Teachers can order free classroom sets!

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. My visit to Maple Hill Elementary School in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, NY blew that notion to shreds.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

I think this whole passion project was definitely more about the process than the product. I think they are learning more along the way, and that’s what’s important. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. Lindsey: Totally! Have the kids investigate.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. The Science of Reading : Imagine Learning's core, supplemental and intervention products that bridge the gap between pedagogy and classroom instruction.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Planning Blended Learning for another year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 28, 2018

We definitely do that. Stephanie definitely makes it fun for me planning, just because it’s easy for me to see what she has. Then we can bounce ideas off of each other, “I learned that in college, what do you think about that?”. Lindsay: Oh, definitely. But I am definitely not one of them. Vicki: Absolutely.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) released a report last week warning that online and blended learning schools are struggling. Regarding blended learning in particular, the report used a deeply flawed methodology to count and evaluate the blended schools nationwide. Do lectures work?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Enrique: Yeah, you definitely want to keep them seated. He specializes in the the introduction of technology into the classroom, the use of innovative strategies such as blended learning and gamified learning, and in helping teachers and administration adopt these into their districts and classrooms. Vicki: (laughs).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. “You become very attached.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop. Subscribe to our Blended Learning newsletter. The question, “Can we teach all students?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Our way was definitely best,” Baldwin County’s Robertsdale High School Principal Joe Sharp told AL.com. I can’t imagine having to do both,” said Abby Bjornson, a fourth-grade teacher at Munford Elementary School in Talladega County. Elementary kids need a little help sometimes,” she said, adding that parents have been very supportive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2018

That fear can definitely come in there. Teach them that people are watching and deal with issues. I think there is a fine balance between the “Am I paranoid that someone is watching me?” and “Are they really watching me?” Vicki: Yeah.

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Linways Technologies

MAY 2, 2019

Technology integration in education is definitely a major trend now. Automation and technology integration in education is so well perceived by academicians and experts that it will almost be elementary in the future of education. Linways helps to implement Blended learning , OBE , Student Based Learning , Bloom’s taxonomy , etc.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Hundreds of administrators tell the Learning Counsel the great effect of this research survey telling them what it really means to transition digitally, what the definitions of things really are, and how to look at new software capacities and digital curriculum for their utility and efficiency. Buckeye Elementary School District.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston. MAPLE’s definition of personalized learning emphasizes what is different today.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Bourret’s learning curve when it came to personalized learning is pretty typical for teachers, said Chris Liang-Vergara, who was then serving as LEAP’s chief of learning innovation.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. They have used these programs, online based, adaptive learning software, with a great deal of success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A coordinated, intentional program of blended learning is changing teaching and learning in the Nation’s capital. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. Part of their success has hinged on the way teachers are using blended learning in the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab. Knikole Taylor: Oh, I'll definitely say Cicely. I've reached out to Cicely a lot. Cicely Day: Oh my God, Nicole.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Just putting a kid in front of a computer is not the best way to learn. But we still need to develop these blended learning models and evaluate them.”. We definitely wouldn’t come away from this study saying online credit recovery is great,” Rickles said. “It “The research is becoming clear,” Rickles said.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Elementary teachers looking for spelling and sight word practice ideas should definitely take a look. . #4 If you’re not playing go check it out! To bring Wordle into the classroom try Flipity. A great new alternative for introducing or reviewing vocabulary words. 4 Chrome Bookmark Folders.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? The Construct of True Anti-Racist Education. Tonia Durden, Ph.D.,

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 10, 2017

The name is a bit of a misnomer, it definitely isn’t what you think of when you think of the Maker Movement. While it does blend technology and play, I wouldn’t call it a Maker Box. This kit is better billed as a blended learning play kit. 2) The recommended ages are 4-9 years old.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Think back to an assessment you took in your elementary years. Educators are adapting to different learning models – hybrid, remote, hyflex, and back to face-to-face; but with these different learning models, we cannot forget the learner’s voice, choice, and engagement with their learning. Let’s embrace that!

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 17, 2020

It’s not easy to teach, and it’s definitely not easy for our young students to master, let alone enjoy. 36 years teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school. There will always be topics that interest different students, and there will always be struggles with skills that are challenging. About Debra Copeland.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Learning Menus Can Be Used with Any Age Group. I have found that menus and choice boards tend to be more popular among elementary teachers, but I used them in my middle school classroom, and now I use them in professional learning workshops with adults. Any grade level can use learning menus! I love Hyperdocs!

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