techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. I first heard ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’ early in my teaching career when I decided to try The Flipped Classroom™. Through my flipped classroom failure, though, I did learn how to create a student-centered classroom.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

To me, one of the most important jobs a teacher can have is CEO, or the Chief Experience Orchestrater, of the classroom. I’ve been lucky where my kids have partnered with Google, Microsoft, Skype, Slack, and many other national and local businesses and experts. I’ve left a few out, but maybe I’ll be brave enough to post them one day.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 24, 2015

Officemix : This add-on to the Microsoft Office suite enables users to add questions, polls, video and more to create more interactive Powerpoint presentations. Also note: Microsoft Sway presents yet another interactive report/presentation/storytelling option, based on a modern, media-rich canvas rather than slides.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Collaborative tools such as Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft Teams promote communication and teamwork among students, encouraging collaboration on projects and assignments, which is particularly helpful in online or hybrid learning environments. This maximizes class time for interactive and collaborative learning.

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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. Or the flipped classroom. Despite headlines claiming, for example, that “ Anybody can now buy Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens ,” not everyone and not every school can afford to do so.)

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