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How do you teach the hard to teach class? Watch the video.

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Differentiate This video is from a series I taught for school districts. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. How do you teach the hard to teach class?

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12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students

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Interactive Quizzing Platforms Interactive quizzing platforms are revolutionizing the way educators assess understanding and retention in the classroom. Educational Video Content Creators Educational video content creators are empowering educators to bring lessons to life in ways textbooks simply can’t.

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Key Digital Innovations for Today’s Education Professionals

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Gamification Dry subject matter coupled with decreasing attention spans means traditional teaching approaches are becoming less effective. One way of addressing this is by borrowing principles video games use to keep their audiences engaged. Gamification in the classroom can take on various forms.

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6 Websites that Explain Elections

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The first few explain elections in general and the next teach the process through gamification. Also included are direct access to elected and appointed individuals, audience call-ins to officials, audience-created videos, lesson plans for educators, and more. easy-to-understand video in plainspeak. website, radio app, podcast.

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The Top 5 AI Quiz Builder Tools That Can Transform Your Classroom and Their Benefits

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Educators can incorporate images, videos, and animations into quizzes, creating an immersive experience that appeals to different learning modalities. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

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Self-help is expected, such as using online references and how-to videos. Assessments aren’t about finding perfect. Digital citizenship is taught, modeled and enforced in every lesson, every day, and every class. Play is the new teaching though it’s beenrelabeled ‘gamification’. Here, I’m thinking of parents.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games.

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