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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

As students progress through school, they dig deeper into concepts of body systems, organs, cells, diseases, and the importance of good health. Prove this by asking students for personal examples of health problems that upended their lives. Students read what they type (and get the benefits of reading).

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

With the not-so-recent addition of audio and video files (easily embedded from sites like Instagram and Periscope ), educators can easily use it as a student-friendly approach to everything from assessment to sharing notes. Again, as with your administration, be prepared to explain the benefits of a Twitter-powered class.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey ), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. How to use it. Google Forms is simple to use. It’s that popular.

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Flexibility EdTech Curriculum Personalized Learning 187

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APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. The pre-online versions weren’t dynamic or flexible, couldn’t be re-used, and few teachers had the time or energy to build these summative, purpose-built assessments. That changed with online rubrics.

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Energy Curriculum Flexibility Computer 156

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MARCH 19, 2019

(Words Open Reading Doors) is an independent K-5 learning resource that is committed to the principle that all kids should understand the words they use, how to use them to express themselves, and that doing so powers their lives. They are introduced via themes to spark interest and keep students engaged. In W.O.R.D. scholastic.

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Critical Thinking Curriculum Problem Solving Flexibility 181

National Science Foundation

MARCH 6, 2024

Noyce scholar teacher candidates are placed in school districts with higher populations of low-income and minoritized students who underperform on standardized assessments as compared to their non-low income or non-minoritized counterparts (Florida Department of Education, 2023).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

There are a lot of online math systems to help students through one of school’s toughest subjects (if not science). Each one proclaim s they have the way to teach students while having fun, in ways that are aligned with state and national standards. How do you decide what is best for your class? Set up is easy.

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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JUNE 10, 2015

He explains his specific learning needs and calls on all educators to see life from his and millions of other students’ perspective. By sharing his specific needs with teachers, needs that are faced by millions of students across the world, he hopes to provide help in supporting their learning.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This article originally appeared back in December at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. As our semester comes to a close, David and I will be giving retrospectives on how things went for us in our courses, particularly our grading setups.

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User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

Rather than the maker experiences being an after school program, an add on activity, or an activity that is implemented when students have done their regular lessons work, it should be part of the regular, day-to-day curriculum. To do this, though, the educator needs to approach his or her curriculum and lessons with a maker mindset.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 26, 2023

Just as advances in the STEM industry occur over time, improvements in STEM education change the work that we do with our students. NSTA offers pre-conference workshops that focus on justice-oriented learning, designing equitable assessments, and using problem-based learning in the science classroom.

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STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

we are asking you to pose the questions, leave questions unanswered if necessary, explore ideas, and push one another to think deeper in a way that we can’t do in the day-to-day of the job.”. How can leaders make innovative change sound exciting to their faculty? How can leaders make innovative change sound exciting to their faculty?

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STEM Discovery Education

OCTOBER 6, 2022

we are asking you to pose the questions, leave questions unanswered if necessary, explore ideas, and push one another to think deeper in a way that we can’t do in the day-to-day of the job.”. How can leaders make innovative change sound exciting to their faculty? How can they make the perception positive?

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In teaching, the implicit bias, automatic thoughts, views, or judgments we may have about students can deprive them of opportunities and learning experiences. Implicit bias develops over a lifetime and is described as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our judgements or assessments of others (NEA Center for Social Justice, 2021).

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Grounded as it is on brain research and extensive research into how people learn self-determined learning is particularly popular among those interested in innovative approaches to learning. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. Creating Learning Legacies Using Blogs: Robert Schuetz.

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Education Education Learning Teaching 107

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Some reports note that while only 20% of students admitted to cheating in the 1940s, today the percentage may be as high as 80% 1. If students are allowed reassessments, for example, does it open the door for dishonesty -- especially if the reassessments are coupled with flexible turn-in or deadline policies, or done outside of class time?

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MARCH 11, 2016

Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more. But–this may surprise you–students don’t mind a wit. A digital annotation tool allows students to take notes in class PDFs. backchannel devices. class calendar.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I thought other teachers might benefit from access to a few of my project assignments and resources as well as example projects that teachers in the course produced. What does it mean to teach and engage our students in our modern world? How might we use principles of STE(A)M to engage all students? Student Examples.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Photo by micheile dot com / Unsplash How we teach is an extension and a physical sign of our strongest beliefs, not only about how people learn but about humanity itself. And yet, the dominant form of instruction in higher education today is still lecture, even when instructors know what active learning is and what its benefits are.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

‘Digital literacy’ is one of those buzz words floated by experts as being granular to 21st century students. Here are the eight transformative skills required of the digitally-literate student: Basic tools. It’s purpose-built and student-driven. As a teacher, your goal is to meet students where they learn.

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Computer Accessibility Physics Communications 168

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JULY 21, 2017

By adding the creativity and problem-solving skills that are part and parcel to Anything Art, students have permission to use colors, images, and outside-the-lines thinking to address Big Ideas and Essential Questions. A text tool allows students to label parts, add their name, and append notes that explain what they created.

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