Sat.Dec 05, 2020

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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks to Elevate Instruction

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Many teachers are feeling overwhelmed with the sudden transition to digital lessons and online teaching. The learning theories and frameworks below provide useful tips on how to design online instruction and plan digital lessons to help students thrive. Rather than subscribing to one theory, I find that learning about each offers me great insight into what motivates and engages online and digital learners.

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Opinion: What We Need are Community Schools

EdNews Daily

By Christy Martin, Ed.D. Students are suffering Our highest poverty districts are suffering. Schools are essentially closed in these districts, and students are struggling with online models, sketchy Internet access, lack of hardware and instruction that is based on in-person models, not online models. Many of these youth do not have support at home and need the structure and safety net that school provides.

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EdTech Tools to Facilitate Your Transition to Online Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As the current pandemic rages across the globe causing massive casualties and setting up new realities, the way education was delivered pre-pandemic will forever be changed. Distance learning.

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Video: Built for Instant Remote: Any-Student/Any-Staff

EdNews Daily

With the uncertainty about the Fall opening of schools, the smart money says you need to be able to provide instant remote, built for any student and any staff member. In this episode of the Learning Counsel’s Back to (e)School Tactics Discussions series, education leaders from large and small districts as well as charter schools discuss their strategies to successfully provide on-demand remote learning.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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How To Create An Online Course: A Beginner’s Guide

TeachThought - Learn better.

Once you’ve collected all the content for your course, you’ll want to weave the items together into a cohesive outline. The post How To Create An Online Course: A Beginner’s Guide appeared first on TeachThought.

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Pandemic Principals Provide Perspective

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker This is the latest in a monthly series on the impact of Affective Leadership in the school system. Affective leadership is all about working with people, rather than trying to work through them or simply going around them. All stakeholders become far more invested in the school, when they feel genuinely valued, respected, and heard by administration.

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Deficits: Leadership in the Different Age

EdNews Daily

By Mac Bogert Taking Stock The first rule of navigation is not to know where we’re going but where we are. For leaders, that may be more about learning who we are. And that learning hinges on self-reflection. The toughest part, for me, has been acknowledging my self—who I am, my entire story—without judgment. Biased by our expectations, we see ourselves unrealistically.

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Latent Learning: What It Is and How to Use It in the Classroom

EmergingEdTech

Image credit: Unsplash Imagine the following situation. Let’s say that every time you go back home from work, there are two routes that you can use. The first one is longer, and it takes you about 35. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Incompetency

Cycles of Learning

I recently stumbled across this podcast between Tim Ferris and Seth Godin. About midway through the episode Tim begins to grill Seth about the concept of Pedagogy, and how he goes about thinking about learning and instruction through a lens of. cognition and motivation. To quote Seth: "We learn things by becoming momentarily incompetent" This one quote summarizes so beautifully everything I tried to say here , and on my best days, what I try and do in the classroom (pandemic or not).

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Why Continuous Enrollment is Essential

Hubbli

Continuous Enrollment is a strategy already adopted by many schools. In the above video, Jono Landon, the founder and CEO of Hubbli, discusses what it means, why it is useful, and strategies to implement it at your school. This video on continuous enrollment is part of the Montessori Administrator Accreditation program offered by the Center for Guided Montessori Studies.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work! Tools to Inspire Collaboration

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! One of the best ways to engage students online is through peer collaboration and discussions. Google and Microsoft have several apps and tools, which facilitate meaningful student collaboration and discussion. Students can use these suites of apps to collaboratively create presentations, digital posters, documents, infographics, spreadsheets, digital books, and more!

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Coding Websites/Webtools by Grade

Ask a Tech Teacher

Over the next week, I’ll share ideas that will get you ready for your Hour of Code. This includes (links won’t work until the articles are posted) : Hour of Code? Here’s why you should participate. Long list of websites by grade. 6 Unplugged Activities for Hour of Code. This is a long list of online activities related to coding and programming.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it’s the Spanish version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Her students clap along. There’s a greeting from the class mascot (a dragon), yoga, meditation and then some practice with letter sounds: “Oso, oso, O, O, O.” Rosenthal teaches Spanish immersion in a public school in San Francisco’s Mission District.