Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

However: “Increasing student opportunities to engage with technology — such as teachers using flipped classroom strategies, a school computer lab, and computers using digital curriculum in the classroom – are all steps in the right direction, but don’t meet the full potential of blended learning.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Of course, you have to have direct instruction, but we want to have it sprinkled throughout a lesson that has activated student interest and sparked questions. One of the things that we looked at when we moved to fully remote learning was a flipped classroom. It aligns with our goal of having less [top-down] direct instruction.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. TedEd – The makers of TED… these really are some wonderful flipped lessons with formative tools built in. Curriki Algebra – This is an Open Education Resource (OER) Algebra course that consists of five units aligned to the Common Core.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Some of my recent favorites were LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow and, of course, Geordi La Forge), Brad Montague (Kid President), and Sir Ken Robinson ( best education TED talk EVER). We began examining the details of the Common Core State Standards years before their rollout in school districts.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction BYOD 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Stella Maris Berdaxagar Connecting Students to Language and Culture through a Culture Cafe - Dr. Thomas Moncrief Flipped Classroom para la asignatura Informática - Mrs Silvana Salica ¿Informática sin computadoras? A New Model for Collaboration!

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

VIPKID, also founded in 2013, provides online home English tutoring to children ages 5 to 12 in China using virtual classrooms. The company offers one-on-one English language instruction with curricula based on the Common Core State Standards. To date, VIPKID reports more than half a million registered users.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 2, 2014

Glogster EDU - A popular Common Core Aligned digital platform that allows educators to create student accounts for making interactive posters, signs, presentations, etc. Little Bird Tales - A fun site/app for digital storytelling w/ lessons that are aligned to Common Core Standards. top 10 Web 2.0'

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. This ISTE webinar will focus on ways teachers can create active, student-centered, digital age classrooms that help students meet the Common Core and ISTE Standards. Classroom 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2013

Volunteers : Of course, and event like this is not possible without the terrific support of volunteers who help to moderate the virtual rooms for the conference! More information at [link]. The Schedule : The current session schedule for the Summit is listed below. Williamson, Ed.D., Cook Leading Schools in a Web 2.0

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 9, 2017

Achieving high marks was a true badge of merit because the level of study and the scope of the courses covered a lot of what is usually taught the first two years of a liberal arts college in the U.S. Of course not. She never complained. American Schooling. Do I believe in corporal punishment for mistakes on a paper?

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets. Cleaner Interface: A polished, streamlined functionality lets users more easily navigate existing features including polling for instant feedback, a real-time assessment center, blogging capabilities and classroom organization tools. Here is a list of some of their features.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets. Cleaner Interface: A polished, streamlined functionality lets users more easily navigate existing features including polling for instant feedback, a real-time assessment center, blogging capabilities and classroom organization tools. Here is a list of some of their features.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobility 28

Technology Tidbits

JULY 19, 2019

Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets, Here is a list of some of their features. Cleaner Interface: A polished, streamlined functionality lets users more easily navigate existing features including polling for instant feedback, a real-time assessment center, blogging capabilities and classroom organization tools.

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Khan Academy Differentiated Instruction Common Core Mobile Learning 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Taylor, Director, Education and Engagement Using Local Resources to Teach Globally - Gregory Adler 8:00pm (ACSA) Closing the Secondary Achievement Gap Using Response to Intervention and Instruction (RtI2) - Erik Burmeister Flipped or Flipped Out? Susan Blakely Secondary Math Teacher Globalizing the High School U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

According to Harvard University, “in Activity-Based Learning courses, students do public service, fieldwork, community-based research and internships in conjunction with in-class work. Learning expressly through online courses and related digital resources. Flipped Classroom. Common Core) for individual students.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Flipped Classroom". The problem with the “flipped classroom” is less the pedagogy per se than the touting, once again, of this as “the real revolution,” as Techcrunch did.

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