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Battling Blended Learning Burnout and Finding Balance

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Tiffany Wycoff, the co-author of the bestselling book, Blended Learning in Action , talks about the state of blended learning today. She shares how some teachers are battling blended learning burnout but that it is necessary for learning today and how we move forward. Sponsor: Screencastify.

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Blended Learning Best Practices During the Pandemic with Thomas Arnett

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Thomas Arnett talks about blended learning best practices. His work focuses on using the Theory of Disruptive Innovation to study innovative instructional models and their potential to scale student-centered learning in K–12 education. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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New Directory of Innovative School Models Aims to Encourage Experimentation

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There’s a greater appetite to try new educational models as schools try to adjust to the social and emotional needs of students returning from periods of pandemic lockdowns and other disruptions of the past few years. The nonprofit hopes that the database will shake up the education system.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

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Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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Lessons from My Classroom: What Works, What Doesn’t and What I’m Doing Now

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If you've been following my blog, you know I want to bring practical, innovative teaching strategies to life. And for a bit of fun, meet CAT GPT, my very own Content AI Taskhelper – a personal assistant I've created with a blend of my own educational beliefs and research-backed best practices. Someone explain that to me!)

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When Education Is Designed for All Learners

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Well, as you might expect, she’s a talented and dedicated educator. Propping up her vigorous routine are the poles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the perfect blend of education technology, ensuring that everything keeps spinning along at the right pace and momentum. How does she do it? How can I make it fun?

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AI Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in the Educational and the Learning Landscape

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As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show. Our language around how we teach, live, and create successful businesses and governmental organizations needs to change.