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JANUARY 19, 2024

Rainforest tree house—virtual game Rainforest—Enchanted Learning Rainforests The Colorado River Virtual tour–undersea If any of these website links don’t work, please click here for an update. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Mapping Game Rainforest life—people, etc.

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MAY 3, 2024

Play is a natural part of early childhood development, making play-based learning a perfect fit for preschool education. This approach supports learning across all developmental areas and builds cognitive, emotional, social, and physical skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100. jumping jacks, sit-ups, and deep knee bends) to learn the concept that 10 sets of 10 equal 100. If you use word lists, don’t let them peak!

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Accelerate Learning

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s about tapping into their natural curiosity while motivating them to do the work necessary to learn the lesson. Each of these strategies shares the idea of hands-on learning in some way, but inquiry education takes a unique approach, giving students an increased level of autonomy to help drive engagement.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. I learned early to be open to change.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

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Accelerate Learning

JULY 27, 2023

Learn more about collaborative learning and strategies to help you implement it in your class. Collaborative or Cooperative?

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.

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All About STEM

JUNE 19, 2024

At primary level, learning packs require few resources so they’re perfect to use either in the classroom or at home. These projects have been selected specifically to support educators in finding CREST project ideas that require little equipment and can be run outside of a lab or at home.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is the Learning Pit metaphor? How can this illustration be used with students to help them learn? He also discusses the importance of drawing the Learning Pit correctly and how to teach it to students. He is the creator of the Learning Pit.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. Gerstein: I taught machine learning activities to the students with ISTE standards using Google's Teachable Machine as the tool.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. AI has the ability to expand what learning looks like within a particular discipline, introducing novel teaching strategies and applications for concepts. What Is AI Literacy?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Or, if you’re a remote learning school, do your youngers struggle with tech because they didn’t start to learn it early enough (like Kindergarten)? Kindergarten is the perfect time to start (for the reasons listed below–they love it and learn fast). Kindergartners learn technology fast.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” The Importance of Creating Safe Spaces for Open Discourse As a social constructivist, I wasn’t surprised that in addition to student learning, this form of discourse led me to learn a lot too.

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Accelerate Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This is true regarding your students’ behavior, their style, and even how they learn. Even though learning styles may differ, your ability to meet students where they’re at, to get them interested in what you’re teaching, is always possible.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. The training content is broken up into short, personalized learning “pills” based on personal goals. In SuperSkills!,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Despite the setback, I believe there is still a way for students to re-engage in school, support their communities and learn leadership skills. After taking a closer look at the social emotional learning (SEL) framework, it is clear there is a connection between SEL and service learning that educators can use and nurture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

Purpose Driven Learning (or PDL) is a concept coined by Michael Matera and Adam Moreno to summarize the philosophy that each learner’s inner strengths can be unlocked by focusing with purpose and drive. The Goal of PDL In a phrase: … the goal of Purpose Driven Learning is NOT about a curriculum that lasts a year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s always interesting to find out what new teachers learned in their early teaching that affected their later years. Every teacher has a dream of having a classroom with respectful kids having fun activities and love while learning. There was one thing consistent; learning. However, my first years were not like that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). Blended Learning. assess success at completion. Elementary Math.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 25, 2023

When People Fail: Will The Integrity Gap Cause a Learning Gap? Ethical students will be able to learn better and faster than ever. There will be a new divide — the learning and performance divide created between those who have integrity and those who do not. It will help them with homework, for sure. And so are we.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With schools closed for in-person learning and many children being educated at home, parents are scrambling for quality alternatives that work in a home environment. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has some ideas you may not have thought of: How to Make Remote Learning Work For Your Children. Online Learning Portals.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tract is a peer-to-peer, on-demand, project-based learning platform designed for grades 3-12. It doesn’t focus on state or international standards (though it does meet them–just don’t look for that in the learning path detail). Students learn through peers, often a group they will listen to more closely than adults.

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Accelerate Learning

APRIL 7, 2023

Everyone seems to be talking about phenomenon-based learning, and with good reason. It’s a powerful way to engage students, foster curiosity, and build background knowledge.

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 26, 2023

Learning about alternate teaching strategies is always exciting, especially when they can demonstrate proven results to engage students better. For those who have gotten a glimpse of project-based learning and want to try it, you don’t have to start with creating a project-based learning curriculum.

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Educators Technology

MARCH 21, 2022

Update in March 2022 Grammar is a fundamental pillar in language learning. Whether it is learning about.read more. A strong grasp of grammar usually translates into better written and verbal communication.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2024

Since the advent of generative AI tools in learning environments, educators have sought guidance for the safe and ethical use of AI in education. How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community How Using AI Optimizes Instruction and Learning in Secondary Writing Can AI Help Teachers With Grading?

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Educators Technology

MARCH 16, 2022

Learning a new language is absolutely a challenging but rewarding feat. With the widespread of web and mobile technologies, language learning has become way easier and accessible. You can now learn.read more.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Language learning has many benefits. When you learn a second or third tongue you do not simply learn its linguistic system but you also learn its underlying cultural codes. There are several reasons why people learn new languages. Languages are not empty vessels and certainly are not culturally neutral.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

He says the ideal approach is to put an edtech product or learning material in front of a diverse group of students — without a researcher in the room — and videotape how they use the tool. The challenge of having materials that are not good user experiences is they make the learning more difficult,” says Kayla B.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“I've always thought games were good models for everything—how to learn, but also how to be,” says Arana Shapiro. Now the Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer at Games for Change , Shapiro stands at the vanguard of a movement to both normalize and prioritize game-based instruction in schools. So, I joined her team.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 21, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence is the topic of conversation for anyone who cares about learning, scholarship, and the future of our world, and rightly so. The job losses are supposed to be staggering.

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Accelerate Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2022

STEM and cooperative learning strategies go hand-in-hand. If cooperative learning is the teaching method to engage students, teach collaboration, and help build social and communication skills, then STEM provides the actual activity. Without further ado, let's look at cooperative learning and how to use it in your classroom!

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. There, she also co-directs the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas that align with standards and learning objectives. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject.

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