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AUGUST 9, 2022

For over two years, many schools, parents, students, and teachers have struggled with how to teach remotely, and then–when can we go back to in-person learning. For hundreds of years, that’s how it’s been done, but done right, remote learning is a winner. Creative Options for Remote Learning.

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JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Educational trends have been changing towards personalized learning approaches.

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MARCH 27, 2024

“The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.” You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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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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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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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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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. George is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. The first letter in the series was about what I learned when visiting a colleague’s hybrid class. Instead, I was a partner in the learning process. She will forever be one of my greatest teachers.

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MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. Then designers should make small improvements based on what they learn, he says, and keep doing that in an iterative way throughout the development process.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” That was the last class I taught at the high school before moving into my new role as an assistant professor at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, where I teach a course for pre-service teachers on educational technology.

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MARCH 4, 2022

This month: Learning. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice , CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today , and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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MARCH 7, 2022

She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice , CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Remote learning used to be for snow days or virtual schools–alternatives to the traditional. Now, all public schools are coming up with remote learning plans. Here’s a great article in K-12 Dive on that subject: Geography, socioeconomics created significant variation in pandemic learning plans. But they vary.

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JULY 15, 2021

Learning Styles inventories –several. VARK Questionnaire –how do you best learn? You can find her resources at Structured Learning. SpiderScribe– add text, pictures, files, more; free sign-up, fee for more than 3. The Crossing –attempts to cross a gorge; some fail; all result in success. Logical Thinking. Miscellaneous.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2024

NEW YORK — Loyal Harmoni Harris travels every day to Bronx Regional High School, where she learns emotional, motor and language skills. Loyal’s mother, Honesti Melendez, is 16 and attends high school in the same building where her daughter learns. Experienced educators help students learn parenting skills. LYFE isn’t new.

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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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MARCH 24, 2023

She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice , CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Dave Largent, a CS professor at Ball State University, had an important reminder on his blog - Dave's not here, or is he?: Teachers need to struggle to learn (davidlargent.blogspot.com) Our students often (usually?) struggle to learn new things. It also helps us model life long learning for extra value.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Why Learn Keyboarding?

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JULY 26, 2021

At a time when coding careers continue to flourish – despite the Covid19 pandemic and its adverse effect on the world economy – it is not surprising to see kids learning programming at an early age. So what is Python and why should kids learn it? This has definitely added to its appeal making more kids want to learn Python.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

James told us of the best of his undergraduate professors, someone who was legendary within the entire program. Apparently, sometime in the middle of his three hour drawing intermediate class, the professor would walk out of class. So when the professor left, of course James continued to work diligently, alongside the other art majors.

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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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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. Our panel included: Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University who works to translate the latest brain research into practical advice for teachers and learners.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has written a great article on behavioral learning in the classroom. Introduction to Behavioral Learning Theory Behavioral learning theory can sound complex, but it’s actually quite straightforward. Skinner and involves learning from consequences.

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MAY 22, 2023

Teachers have known for decades that ‘summer learning loss’ is a reality. This summer, show students how learning is fun, worthy, and part of their world whether they’re at a friend’s house or the water park. Kids learn to measure ingredients, make change, listen to potential customers, and problem-solve.

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MARCH 25, 2023

I have observed that many professors and teachers often ask students to summarize articles in their own words, I believe this practice will not be as effective in measuring understanding and reading comprehension with these summarization tools that are about to be built into everything. It will help them with homework, for sure.

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MARCH 5, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Last March I made my first custom GPT to assess project-based learning activities. It's not the final say in the classroom that it sure can be helpful when you have those big projects for project based learning. It's an app. It's a tool. It's a great tool.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Reach University offers adults employed in schools and other workplaces the opportunity to earn a unique bachelor’s degree that embraces work experience as part of the learning process. As Boaler asserts, “Everyone can learn math to high levels. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math. Mistakes are valuable.

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MAY 12, 2022

Burns is one of the millions of college students forced to adapt to remote learning at a pivotal time in her education. I felt really disconnected from my professors, and I was very eager to get back in person. Now, my brain is more geared towards being able to learn this way,” she says of remote instruction.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Her premise was that a key link between professors and students was broken. Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments. She called her startup Piazza. program at Stanford University.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

In addition, education in music is a way to take student learning to new levels and higher performance. Musical learning presents multiple advantages for students, and there are even studies to back them up. MUSIC EDUCATION & STUDENT LEARNING. MUSIC FOSTERS CREATIVITY AND CONFIDENCE. MORE THAN MUSIC.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. However, as I noticed how often students were engaging with you, I thought to start to use some of the classroom observation protocols I have learned over the years. With abundant gratitude, Bonni.

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