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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

You will be expected to engage in the learning activities during class time. You will be expected to do collaborative learning during the class time. I will introduce the learning activities, but you will be responsible for the actual learning. You are important as a learner in this class.

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Beginning the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

You will be expected to engage in the learning activities during class time. You will be expected to do collaborative learning during the class time. I will introduce the learning activities, but you will be responsible for the actual learning. This coming school year I am working with gifted elementary students.

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5 digital tools to enhance your social studies instruction

eSchool News

As a fourth-grade English/language arts and social studies teacher in an elementary collaborative learning magnet program–which is also a NASA Explorer School–I get the challenge of unlocking the minds of 9- and 10-year-olds who are more at home in the STEM subjects than in exploring literature or our country’s history.

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

The CoolCatTeacher

With respect to school change, he describes himself as a “catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning.” In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. Students have opportunities to work on smaller projects to familiarize themselves with collaborative learning and integrated projects. Preparation sets up students for success.

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Lumio: Making Review and Practice Easy

The CoolCatTeacher

You’ll see when you login that you start off by being able to add activities, explore the resources they have, or get some training on how to use this collaborative learning tool. In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. .

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Vernier Software & Technology Takes Science to the Next Level

eSchool News

To further support collaborative STEM learning, Vernier Software & Technology recently launched LabQuest 3. The company is committed to teachers and to developing creative ways to teach and learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) using hands-on science.