Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professional learning designed by and for educators. However, with educators pivoting to distance learning, organizers have developed virtual Edcamps to continue creating opportunities for voice and choice in their professional learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Micro-credentials empower educators by showcasing the professional learning skills they are using every day to develop the students in their classrooms. The Institute has developed a series of micro-credentials around personalized learning implementation based on our Honeycomb Model. Christina Sprader.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Mark Sparvell cites current research about what students really want in their classroom and how social-emotional learning relates to education technology. Just teachers can use the power of Urkund.

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Digital Promise

JULY 29, 2019

The Differentiating Instruction to Support Refugee Students micro-credential aims to build differentiation strategies along content, process, product, and learning environment to promote the highest levels of learning for all students in a classroom. Start earning these micro-credentials today!

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Digital Promise

JULY 20, 2020

The different factors that we know impact learning encompass the whole child—not just their math and literacy skills but also their cognitive abilities, social-emotional states, and their personal background. All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 24, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Eric Curts shares how we can use docs, sheets, drawings, and slides with creative classroom projects. geg-ohio and runs the award-winning blog www.ControlAltAchieve.com where all of his Google Apps and edtech resources can be found.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Finding time to engage in professional learning can present a challenge for educators. As a result, some teachers decide to stay in the classroom because missing out on that time with students is too difficult. Schools have been starting to provide time for PLCs, or professional learning communities. Social Media.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 2, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. These are just a few suggestions I have as a classroom teacher. Harvard Researchers Say Data Isn’t Improving Student Outcomes appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2017

A conversation with Crystal Koenig on episode 72 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, Crystal Koenig shares how she uses Google Keep in the classroom: Letting students personalize the classroom by requesting topics to be taught.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2019

Rachael Mann on Episode 492 The first person to walk on Mars has already been born and is in our classrooms today, so the experts tell us. He or she could be in your classroom or mine. Today we talk to Rachael Mann, author of The Martians in Your Classroom: STEM in Every Learning Space.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 24, 2022

Last week I shared the news that Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms: Preparing Learners for Their Future was published a year ago. Since a great deal of my time as of late has been in the role of a coach, I wanted to share insight that has been gleaned through visits to numerous schools and countless classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

Episode 118 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. Prepare to have your mind shift about how we sit in classrooms today! Transcript for Episode 118 .

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

Teachers can ask students to share their work in the stream in Google Classroom, in a shared Google Slide deck, on a Padlet Wall, or by recording a FlipGrid video reflection. Here are a list o f books I’ve written on blended learning for anyone looking to get a jump on the next school year!

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Tom Murray

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Personalized Professional Learning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Budget and Resources.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2021

We just need two things: great instructional materials designed for the latest research in science education, and transformative professional learning to advance instructional practice and get the most out of the materials. Naiveté is what gets us to start trying, right? This was the beginning of a revolution.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 11, 2021

There were definitely excellent practices taking place in classrooms across the globe. If you are an avid reader of this blog, you have seen examples of what I am talking about in terms of the use of time, differentiation, purposeful integration of technology, and educator collaboration. Now don't get me wrong. In this case, H?para

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As educators, how do we empower ourselves to create boundaries both inside and outside the classroom? We explore issues related to the balance or, more accurately, the imbalance of power and responsibility in classrooms. What can teachers do to partner with their students and give them more responsibility and agency in the classroom?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

My reading regularly inspires my blogs, books, teaching, and work with educators. This year, traditional approaches to professional development may feel daunting because teachers are spread thin due to substitute shortages and the challenges associated with returning to physical classrooms.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

However, we’ve launched an unique learning opportunity that provides educators the opportunity to facilitate design thinking activities with their students, and to receive professional development credit through a micro-credential. Explore the Digital Promise Micro-credential Platform and start earning today.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 18, 2017

Episode 108 with Bill Selak From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Bill Selak @ billselak shares how he’s using Amazon’s Alexa via the Echo and Dot in the classroom. Bill is currently obsessed with sharing his professional learning on Snapchat. Transcript.

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Discovery Education

JULY 10, 2023

Education is constantly changing—from how to engage today’s students to updated technology in the classroom, there’s always something new to learn. So how can professional learning help keep educators up to speed with all these changes?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter STEM can level up and it must begin to include underrepresented communities of women and minorities. Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Tyler Daniel Tarver shares some surprising new ways to use Youtube in education. The post What’s Hot About YouTube in Education appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I never saw myself as a writer until I started blogging back in March 2010. The struggle is real in my case when it comes to finding new topics to blog about or adding an innovative spin to already-prevalent concepts. It all began with goal setting for the Google Teacher Academy for Administrators, and I haven’t looked back.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Jim Bentley on episode 363 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Geo-inquiry helps students learn through geographic based explorations. How to Deepen Student Learning Using PBL and the QFT (on Right Question Blog). Blog: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 4, 2019

TW Williamson on Episode 452 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast TW Williamson, an educator in Taiwan, shares how he is helping literature and language teachers use augmented reality (AR) in their classrooms. Blog: [link] Twitter: @tww00. Travel to the leading edge of this new technology in ways any literature teacher can use.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2019

Leveraging Professional Learning Communities to Discover Impactful Tech. I always like to hear how a tool is being used within a classroom and the type of skill development it supports from both the teacher and students; this feedback largely serves as my edtech due diligence. A newer, shinier tool or program is introduced.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Nearpod or Pear Deck, Google Classroom or Canvas, Flipgrid or Adobe Spark? Most of the training was put together to assist teachers with the basics of integrating technology such as using Google Classroom or Canvas. Thoughtful reflection on who students are, their needs, skills, and abilities is vital for success in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Even in schools outside of the Verizon Innovative Learning network, coaches reported that they were valued more by teachers and administrators than prior to the pandemic. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning. So, what's going on in your classroom right now?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. Blended learning is not new. Learn How 2.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Why should professional learning be a part of every technology initiative? Because of equity, said the three leading superintendents on the edLeader Panel, “ Creating and Leading a Professional Team of Lifelong Learners.” Professional learning should be grounded in the needs of the students.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

There is no shortage of sound research on what constitutes effective professional development for teachers—focusing on specific curriculum content, encouraging active learning, supporting collaboration among peers, and offering opportunities for analysis of student work. Teaching policies can—and must—play a significant role.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. The Tech-infused Teacher. Certificate.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Namely, this was the first formal introduction of competency-based professional learning through micro-credentials in Puerto Rico. Our new case study report highlights the effectiveness and impact of professional learning support for technology integration and use, including competency-based micro-credentials, for educators.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. Keep reading! Click To Tweet.

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