The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

You’ll want to sign up for your free 30-day trial at coolcatteacher.com/reallygoodstuff and remember – it is only one app – all of the other apps are inside this one simple digital learning collection from Really Good Stuff. Now, that’s good stuff for every K-2nd grade iPad or Google Play enabled tablet! Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2017

How to Turn Blue Light Off on Your Phone and iPad – a quick tutorial. His thought leadership around blended pedagogy has been published in Education Week, Ed-Tech Magazine, and The Learning Transformation: A Guide to Blended Learning for Administrators. Scary Ways Technology Affects Your Sleep Sleep.org.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad. With my interest piqued, I moved on to a girl sitting alone working on what looked like a diagram on her iPad. They explained their goal was to perfect competency-based learning and grading first, and then begin blending learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2017

[ Editor’s Note: This story is Part 1 of our April series on Blended Learning. Too often, educators who are considering investing in blended learning pull back after hearing horror stories of good programs gone bad. We use Chromebook carts for K-5 students and offer iPad carts that teachers can check out on demand.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie: We use both Chromebooks and iPads. As a strong proponent for student-centered instruction, she uses a blended learning model for her students using a strengths-based approach to differentiate for all student needs. So if I took them to an aquarium, or another country, they can see different spots within that 360.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2017

Mari Venturino is a 7th-grade science and AVID teacher and Blended Learning Specialist at Mar Vista Academy in San Diego, CA. She is a Google For Education Certified Trainer and Innovator, a Google Certified Educator Levels 1 & 2, and is Leading Edge Certified in Online and Blended Instruction. Twitter handle: @MsVenturino.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

X.com (Formerly Twitter): @ TannenbaumTech Notes Hosts, Guests & Featured People: Debbie Tannenbaum, Tannenbaum Tech Vicki Davis , Host, Cool Cat Teacher Blog Pana Asavavatana's @PanaAsavavatana episode on How she helps her students using iPads that Debbie said helped her understand how to use icon literacy to teach littles.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Mary's Academy building robots Using blended learning to personalize instruction Five years ago, SMA launched a 1:1 iPad initiative designed to put technology in the hands of every student so she could have greater control over her own learning. And none of us would go back. Students at St.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

What is Blended Learning? It''s a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. 3] Proponents of blending learning cite the opportunity for data collection and customization of instruction and assessment as two major benefits of this approach. [4]

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Learn more by clicking on the link below. To get started, a student will just scan the room using his or her digital device (like an iPad, iPhone, or Droid) before starting. Students can create and invent using Augmented Reality and share in your 3D Bear Classroom.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school.

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 6, 2016

The post 34 Diverse Blended Learning Apps For iPad appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

in the news for the rollout of iPads districtwide, which some readers out there might remember. Well, in one region—the Local District Northwest sector of the district—administrators, schools and teachers have been busy expanding efforts for blended learning implementation in collaboration with Stepan Mekhitarian.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

He is always trying to find new and innovative ways to incorporate technology across the curriculum in order to increase student learning and engagement. Donnie has run a 1:1 iPad, Chromebook, and Macbook classroom over the course of his thirteeen year teaching career. Donnie received a B.A.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? From the Trough of Disillusionment Toward the Slope of Enlightenment: Blended Learning. That’s tougher to say.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

And when learning remotely, 56 percent of teachers said student devices were Chromebooks, far and away outpacing tablets like iPads (16 percent) and other mobile computing devices. MDR reports a “surge,” with 1:1 schools most likely to be high schools (41 percent), then middle schools (37 percent) and finally elementary (22 percent).

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 9, 2020

What is Blended Learning? It's a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. 3] Proponents of blending learning cite the opportunity for data collection and customization of instruction and assessment as two major benefits of this approach. [4]

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of teachers in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools reported feeling prepared, with 93 percent crediting the program with making aspects of remote instruction easier to implement.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

He is currently the chief product officer of Renaissance Learning, which acquired myON in 2018. Ten years ago, the iPhone was already out, but the iPad had not been released yet. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

An introduction to blended learning , featuring an explanation of basics and tips to help your blended learning program succeed. A Smithsonian Learning Lab Webinar that seeks to use objects as evidence to answer essential questions in inquiry-guided lessons.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. Where LAUSD's iPads were used at all, they were used for whole-classroom instruction, just like whiteboards of old.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

However, with the recent proliferation of Chromebooks and iPads into classrooms, there is more student activity in the classroom that has moved online. For example, a learning activity is represented like this: “Student A (actor) started (action) Quiz B (object.)”. And that creates data that can be shared.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The content is based on the common core math standard and is a blend of live action lessons and individual math-game play for most grades. This is a free app for iPads (no Android yet) designed as a game students play while exploring how numbers relate to each other along a number line. Motion Math: Zoom. Tech skills. Conclusion.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It's easy to capture video audio and I can have it open on my iPad and take notes by hand as well as open on my computer and pull in PowerPoint notes that I can take notes beside. Think more student notebook so they have subjects. Now you can type anywhere on the page, which is really awesome. In the other ones don't really do that.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Part 3… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Verbs and Blended Learning Possibilities. tools, iPad apps, and droid apps. The Padagogy Wheel – Great interactive tool with special emphasis on the iPad. Appolearning – Great Web Site that match iPad Apps to learning at all levels.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

One was a fifth-grade class at Whelan Elementary School in North Providence, Rhode Island, that had just agreed to begin a commercial personalized learning program. The other was a third-grade blended-learning classroom at Lincoln Central Elementary School, in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 24, 2017

However, like many schools these days, our district is moving farther away from traditional teaching methods in which we teach specific subjects at specific times (which is what the curriculum publishers supply us with) and is instead encouraging us to teach in a more blended learning/project based learning approach.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

Much of this has to do with fluctuating learning priorities where critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a future-ready, tech-savvy student body are given precedence. These learning priorities are met with increased blended learning methods that combine in-person instruction with online experiences. .

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Learn more about the tools that Meeks uses in her classroom: The Perfect Pairing: Blended Learning and Edtech Tools For example, using Google Slides, I frame my lesson so that students can see what I'm teaching—meaning they have a kind of visual script—because some students learn best by seeing it, and some may do better with hearing it.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Back in 2013, approximately 60% of Maine's participating districts chose iPads. Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. In 2013, school districts were given the option to participate in one of five solutions, which included Apple laptops, Hewlett-Packard laptops, and iPads.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

I think we are at a breaking point in which blended learning is on the cusp of changing our practice. A decade ago, the iPad hadn’t been introduced. When I wrote my first grant for a classroom set of iPads, I could barely find any math apps that I felt were beneficial for my students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 19, 2016

As I shared at ISTE this year at the Blended Learning Panel discussion , our classrooms are built from bricks and clicks. iPads: For example, some people who use iPads will say “apples up” when they want the students to put their screens face down on the desk. . Design Your Online Classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2015

How students still complete assignments on off-days at one district thanks to their iPads. Leah Sparks, the technology director for Kanawha County Schools, has spent several years planning for a district-wide technology program that has culminated in the distribution of nearly 10,000 iPads this school year.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

Mineola Union Free School District made iPads available to students all summer long. Coupled with high-quality online curriculum opportunities and requirements through programs like eSpark Learning, Mineola ensures all of its students have the opportunity (and expectation!) Adjusting the academic calendar.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Not long ago, states and school districts were implementing one-to-one initiatives designed to make a computer or iPad available to every child. Then, flipped classrooms and blended learning introduced compelling ways of leveraging digital tools to maximize instructional time and student-teacher interactions.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 18, 2015

The Riddle Of Meaningful iPad Integration. In lieu of being incredible pieces of hardware with significant learning potential, iPad adoption has produced uneven learning results thus far. Do something about iPad workflow!” by Noah Kravitz. Background. The Problem. Or would we? A Problem Made Worse.

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