Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Be prepared for and enthusiastic about using technology tools in the writing class. June 28, 2021.

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The Journal

OCTOBER 1, 2018

"1-to-1, blended learning is the future of educational technology." 1-to-1, blended learning enables student inquiry, which is at the core of personalized learning. And personalized learning is the hottest item in K-12 today. Never hath a truer statement been spoken!

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These represent new methodologies for some, while others are now applying what they had already been doing to the current situation in the form of blended learning. Blended learning is where students use tech to have control over path, place, and pace. Scaffold questions and activities to bump up thinking.

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Neo LMS

JULY 18, 2019

Along with concepts like blended learning, adaptive learning and virtual learning, the need to focus on the main character in the learning process came about. This is how personalized learning became the key to every new approach to learning and teaching. Individual mastery.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 21, 2020

The premise of a hybrid learning model is to combine traditional and non-traditional methodologies to improve education while ensuring that high-quality learning for all kids is the gold standard. Take this definition from Learning Technologies: Hybrid learning combines face-to-face and online teaching into one cohesive experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Personalized learning is the latest buzzword in an education environment bursting with new ideas but this one is impressive. In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” ” — ISTE.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2014, Education Elements promoted the notion of "Integrated Digital Content" as a core component of blended learning. In 2017 we changed this term to “Flexible Content and Tools,” recognizing that both online and offline content have an important role to play when personalizing learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

Difficult decisions have had to be made regarding grading, making funds available to get technology in the hands of disadvantaged kids, getting school work to kids where the digital divide could not be overcome, and figuring out how to provide professional learning support virtually. However, the pedagogical tenets remain the same.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 9, 2020

A balance of digital and non-digital activities is preferred, but you might have to lean one way or another depending on the availability of technology and WIFI in your respective community. Discourse can easily be achieved through the purposeful use of technology.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of education, blended learning gets thrown around for any type of new education involving technology. . What Does Blended Learning Mean for K–12?

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

After much deliberation, many are considering operating classrooms under a blended learning model, which entails a mix of onsite and remote schooling, to make social distancing more feasible in school buildings during the coronavirus pandemic. But the adoption of blended learning today could be seen as more than a safety measure.

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Education Elements

APRIL 12, 2017

I hear educators across the country telling themselves the same lie: “I would love to personalize learning for students, but I can’t because I don’t have the technology.” Or sometimes it’s phrased a little differently: “This initiative is great, but I’m behind the times with technology.”

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Several years ago, some students in San Francisco Unified School District had the wrong idea about educational technology. They viewed technology as a “toy” or “free time,” Ben Klaus, principal of Jose Ortega Elementary, said during a virtual presentation at CoSN2020, the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking. “It

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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. And I never tire of hearing stories from educators who are successfully implementing personalized approaches to provide their students a truly unique learning experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The overreaching goal for each session was to support instructional strategies aligned to rigor & relevance and the 6 C's with a focus on the purposeful use of technology. Both the math and reading sessions focused on how edtech could be used during independent work, formative assessment, and pedagogically-sound blended learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 6, 2020

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. March 2020. INTASC 1, 7. INTASC 1, 8.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A move to real personalized learning at scale is the most logical step. This includes digital pedagogy that consists of purposeful use, a move to personalized learning through blended strategies, use of data to differentiate, innovative assessment, and performance tasks. Professional learning can fill this void.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

Today Weston Kieschnick @wes_kieschnick helps us how to go bold school with blended learning. Old school plus blended learning = bold school. In today’s show, Weston Kieschnick talks about blended learning and old school teaching: The old school wisdom we should hold onto. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The physical and virtual environments where learning takes place play a pivotal role in shaping the effectiveness and depth of personalized learning strategies. It is not merely a backdrop but an active participant in the learning journey. As you embark on the personalized learning journey, consider the impact of place.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Kiddom , a transformative approach to teaching and personalized learning, has a new guide available for teachers–and it’s free: Blended Learning 101: An Introduction to Blended Learning Instruction. Learn how to start a blended learning program in your classroom or at your school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

As of late, I have been working with quite a few districts on personalization through a variety of blended learning strategies. I can honestly say that I have learned so much from them over the years as to what pedagogically-sound blended learning really is, and, in my mind, they are a global exemplar for others to emulate.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

In an effort to personalize learning more and more educators are turning to blended learning strategies. When it comes to personalized learning , the “personal” should be emphasized. In many cases, but not all, technology is a catalyst to facilitate the personalization of the learning environment.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , I honed in on research-based strategies that have withstood the test of time in addition to emerging strategies such as personalized learning. When it comes to technology, less is definitely more. Be sure to check out this post on the topic that adds context to the image below.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Be prepared for and enthusiastic about using technology tools in the writing class. March 1, 2021.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2022

A foundation can then be established for more personalized approaches such as pedagogically-sound blended learning, self-paced activities, and bitmoji classrooms. It also sets the stage for structured cooperative learning activities that could occur live or asynchronously as part of virtual learning.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. However, to make significant and sustainable long-term changes in education, our perceptions of what teaching and learning “look” like have to fundamentally shift to avoid stagnation and make progress.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

Blended Learning. Blended learning is a school or classroom structure in which students learn partially from direct teacher instruction and partially in more self-directed activities.[1] 1] This mixture might be perfect if students are learning from both school and home next year. Personalized Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Three years ago, with the help of the education agency the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA), Iowa rolled out its initiative to implement blended learning as a model for the state. The collaborative identified blended learning as one vehicle to implement competency based education and personalize student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Nights and weekends were spent at the local office store getting transparencies made for the overhead projector, which was the primary technology tool at the time. With the new tech technology in hand, my days of making transparencies were done, and the overhead projector was retired. Add in movement and brain break activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Use technology to drive authentic writing activities and project-based learning. Assess student technology use organically.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Here are some of my thoughts from 2013 , which have aged nicely: Digital leadership considers recent changes such as ubiquitous connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization. The purposeful use of technology and sound pedagogy that empowers kids to think through relevant applications should be the drivers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Be prepared for and enthusiastic about using technology tools in the writing class. January 2020.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2020

Several years ago, some students in San Francisco Unified School District had the wrong idea about educational technology. They viewed technology as a “toy” or “free time,” Ben Klaus, principal of Jose Ortega Elementary, said during a virtual presentation at CoSN2020, the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking. “It

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2020

Several years ago, some students in San Francisco Unified School District had the wrong idea about educational technology. They viewed technology as a “toy” or “free time,” Ben Klaus, principal of Jose Ortega Elementary, said during a virtual presentation at CoSN2020, the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking. “It

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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