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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

Classroom discussions can be one of the best ways to boost student engagement. As students discuss their perspectives with each other, they’ll not only solidify their understanding of a topic—they may learn to see it in a new light, too. Teachers, looking for ways to get the most out of class discussions? In this article, we’ll go over why classroom discussions are important and introduce a few techniques to help you supercharge discussions with your students.

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6 Digital storytelling tools for hybrid learning environments

Neo LMS

Throughout the school year, we have many opportunities to engage students in digital storytelling. At the beginning of the school year, I find that by asking students to share their stories — either by creating an About Me or participating in some icebreakers — it helps build the essential relationships in our classrooms. Read more: Focus in the new school year: Building relationships.

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Reflections on project-based learning

eSchool News

David Ross is a global education consultant and former CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). After holding national and international education leadership roles for 15 years, in August of 2019, Ross returned to the classroom to practice what he had been preaching: project-based learning. He teaches sixth graders at Technology Middle School in Sonoma, California.

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5 Ways to Teach Gratitude in your Classroom #creativitymatters

The CoolCatTeacher

Lesson Plans that Teach Gratitude From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Whatever your activities for November and Thanksgiving, I’ve got some ideas to inspire gratitude in your classroom. Use it to inspire art or just a change of heart as we help children become more grateful, joyful people. Teach about gratitude and encourage students to say thank you with activities and projects this November.

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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 Adapt Educational Leadership in the Age of Virtual Learning

EdTech Magazine

The art of leading looks vastly different for school administrators today. They are now tasked with adapting their leadership practices to an environment where digital tools and remote collaboration and communication are the norm. While this is no easy feat, it does provide a great opportunity for school leaders to create a stronger school community and embrace innovative learning and teaching methods.

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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

It seems like every day presents a new challenge or adventure, depending on how you view the current landscape. Educators are stressed, worn-out, and constantly wondering when the pandemic will end. There are no easy answers or solutions that will work for everyone. The fact remains that there was no professional learning to prepare for the reality that everyone is facing nor a plan for something like COVID19.

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How to Improve Google Classroom & Remote Learning Experiences with Kasey Bell

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How to Improve Google Classroom & Remote Learning Experiences with Kasey Bell Teaching online is challenging for many teachers. In this show, we talk about best practices to re-engage students, the common mistakes districts are making, and teachers’ importance right now.

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How Smart Technology Can Help Create Healthy School Buildings

EdTech Magazine

As districts start phasing students back into the classroom after months of online learning, they’re under growing pressure to ensure school buildings and other learning spaces are clean and safe to use. Experts say that will require delivering cleaner air and managing crowds, which can be accomplished with the help of smart building technologies such as advanced HVAC controls and video sensors.

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Supporting Mental Health in Schools

A Principal's Reflections

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on students’ mental health, from coping with stress and anxiety about their health or the health of loved ones, isolation from friends, and now, a school year that, in many cases, looks very different than any they’ve experienced in the past. Image credit All of these issues have a very real impact on students’ ability to succeed in school this year.

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The truth about “Maslow before Bloom”

Neo LMS

Among the many famous sayings that teachers know by heart, “Maslow before Bloom” stands out the most. Unlike other popular educational theories, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (HN) seems to have reached a universal agreement: students are motivated to achieve learning goals when their basic needs, such as hunger and safety, are met. Credit: Simply Psychology.

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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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20 virtual field trips for your classroom

Ditch That Textbook

Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further? Here are 20 field trips and 10 activities […]. The post 20 virtual field trips for your classroom appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ed Tech Needs Will Increase, Educators Say

EdTech Magazine

A majority (86 percent) of educators believe that technology needs in schools will increase over the next three years, according to a recent survey by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development and the EdTech Evidence Exchange, a nonprofit affiliated with the university. With the sudden shift to remote learning due to COVID-19, achievement gaps among students in U.S. schools widened.

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How to Put Kindness in Your Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

Image credit: [link] /. World Kindness Day 11/13. Kindness isn’t a natural instinct. In the continuum of nature vs. nurture, it’s well on the side of nurture. Kids aren’t born knowing the part community and friendship play in their lives. They learn this from family, friends, schoolmates, and life in general. That means, among the topics that must be covered in school, kindness may be the most important.

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A Message from Karen Cator

Digital Promise

Friends, Between the global COVID-19 pandemic and a tumultuous election season in the U.S., I want to first acknowledge how challenging this year has been for so many of us. Educators in particular have carried a heavy load, and it has been our honor at Digital Promise to champion and support the courage and tenacity of teachers and leaders working to bring powerful learning to all students.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Creating eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings

Ditch That Textbook

Infographics are visually stimulating and force us to summarize well. These brain-friendly student creations can be a great change of pace for essays and research papers. Infographics are everywhere. I first started noticing them on the front page of USA Today as a journalism major in college. As Pinterest became more popular, the long, tall […].

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How the Remote Learning Pivot Sparked Innovation in Education

EdTech Magazine

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world. Educators are learning new teaching methods and are constantly striving to innovate.

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Books I read in October 2020

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in October 2020… What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism , Dan Rather & Elliott Kirschner [politics]. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , Ocean Vuong [literary fiction]. The Guest List , Lucy Foley [mystery]. The Fifth Season , N. K. Jemisin [sci fi]. A Memory Called Empire , Arkady Martine [sci fi].

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Our Virtual Journey – Lessons Learned

EdNews Daily

By Rita Mortenson Like many school districts across the nation, the decision to open our doors virtually for students in grades 3-12 was heartbreaking. We had been working throughout the summer on variations of a reopening, and when the decision was made in mid-August to go completely virtual, we embraced it with a mixture of resolve, and the clear understanding of what a big change that this would be.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Ditch That State Report Card: Design your Wakelet evidence-based portfolio

Ditch That Textbook

Through the use of Wakelet Spaces, teachers created their own Wakelet Evidence-Based Portfolios. You can too. Here's how. This post is written by Dr. Randall Sampson. Randall is the founder of Liberty Leadership Development. He has been a teacher and public school administrator, as well as a university professor and national education transformation specialist.

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How the Remote Learning Pivot Sparked Innovation in Education

EdTech Magazine

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world. Educators are learning new teaching methods and are constantly striving to innovate.

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Here’s a Preview of November

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in November. It’s a short month and we wish you the best during your holiday celebrations: How to Make Kindness Part of Your Classes. National STEM/STEAM Day. Tech Tips: 4 Stages of Keyboarding Growth. 16 Sites, 3 Apps, 7 Projects for Thanksgiving. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher).

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Adaptations for Flexible Learning in a Resilient School District

Education Elements

Fenestration, in architecture, is the way windows, doors, and openings are placed and arranged on a building. In medicine, fenestration refers to a new opening in the body made through surgery. There is another meaning of the word and it is used to describe openings in the leaves of plants. Where I live in South Florida, there are a number of plants with leaf fenestrations, perhaps the most common of which is the monstera deliciosa.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Looking Beyond the Pandemic: We Need a Change in Attitude

EdNews Daily

By Christy Stephens Martin, Ed.D Our nation is suffering from a labor shortage. Most especially, in the area of trades and unskilled labor. As a nation, we have encouraged our youth to go to college and seek the higher echelons of medicine, law, business, engineering, and architecture. We have encouraged them to seek a career that will ring of success and discouraged those fields that require labor, dirt and skilled knowledge.

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4 Ways to Launch a Data Initiative — or Get One Back on Track

EdTech Magazine

Data-driven initiatives have helped schools improve student learning outcomes and measure technology ROI. The School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, for example, relies on its data systems to spot which students may be falling behind and need more academic support in a school that may be doing well as a whole. “We use data to make sure we can drill down to every student and every other facet of the organization,” says Superintendent Donald Fennoy II.

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What You Might Have Missed in October

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of October: Inspire Young Writer’s with Young Writers Program. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Digital Citizenship Week–Oct. 19-23–Here’s What You Need. 10 Best US Colleges for Computer Science. How do I become a Web Designer? 7 Apps That Inspire Students. A Geek is asked, “Who are you?”. Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, Books, and a Costume.

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6 Common Mistakes to Avoid for a Stronger Data Culture in Schools

Education Elements

On January 28, 1986, the space program experienced one of its most catastrophic events to date when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just over a minute after launch. All seven crew members died, including Christa McAulliffe, a school teacher who would have been the first teacher in space. If you’re familiar with the event at all, you know the accident was caused by a failed O-ring seal in the solid rocket booster.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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How Introducing AI Across the Curriculum May Address Key Equity Concerns

Edsurge

“It should be fun to work with artificial intelligence tools,” says Nancye Blair Black, Project Lead for AI Explorations and Their Practical Use in School Environments. We want all students to have an equitable opportunity to succeed. It’s a simple credo but one that belies both a deep passion for computational thinking and an urgent desire to see this project succeed in its primary objective: to cultivate a broad and diverse group of future AI users and developers.

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How the Remote Learning Pivot Sparked Innovation in Education

EdTech Magazine

Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world. Educators are learning new teaching methods and are constantly striving to innovate.

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Subscriber Special: November

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. November. Coming soon: Discounts on Google Play products. Stay tuned! If you aren’t a subscriber to our newsletter, sign up here. Then get your monthly freebies! xx. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher).

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Time’s Up for Breakout Room: Google Slides Hack

Teacher Tech

When students are in a breakout room you may want to have each group have a Google Slides for them to organize their conversations and guide the activities. To let students know that the time is up I have coded a “Time’s Up” announcement to push to the slides. Template Pile of Slides I have […]. The post Time’s Up for Breakout Room: Google Slides Hack appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.