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Blended Learning and the teaching profession. TPACK Framework. Exponential Learning. ACTFL 21St Century Skills Meet Technology Infographic. Six Tips for Brain-Based Learning (now available in Spanish!) Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning (now available in Spanish!) The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Your Students. The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Students by Jane Healey, A Teacher Trying Harder To Listen “The single most important thing I learned in this class is that I don’t have to have tons of homework to learn a lot.”

The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Your Students

Mid-year or more frequently, I ask students to complete an evaluation form. I craft the questions carefully so simple answers are hard to write. Instead, I try to create specific, complex questions that cover the material, the classroom activities and the students—peers and the individual. Many teachers shake their heads and avoid these exercises. Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future. By Paul Moss, edmerger.com Students Need Professional Learning Networks, Too Learning to create, manage and promote a professional learning network (PLN) will soon become, if it’s not already, one of the most necessary and sought after skills for a global citizen, and as such, must become a prominent feature of any school curriculum.

Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future

9 Characteristics Of The Shift To Learning With Tablets. 9 Characteristics Of The Shift To Learning With Tablets by Terry Heick.

9 Characteristics Of The Shift To Learning With Tablets

Interaction Builder. 10 Ways Teachers Can Use BigMarker. Guest post from BigMarker, a free online tool for online teaching Education is constantly changing.

10 Ways Teachers Can Use BigMarker

Technological innovations will increasingly allow us to break down the walls of the classroom to connect students with teachers, guest speakers, and professionals around the world. Virtual field trips are becoming more common, and in some classrooms, physical textbooks are a thing of the past. Education Week. My Pedagogic Creed. ARTICLE ONE.

My Pedagogic Creed

WHAT EDUCATION IS[edit] •I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. This process begins unconsciously almost at birth, and is continually shaping the individual's powers, saturating his consciousness, forming his habits, training his ideas, and arousing his feelings and emotions. Through this unconscious education the individual gradually comes to share in the intellectual and moral resources which humanity has succeeded in getting together. He becomes an inheritor of the funded capital of civilization. •I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. iNACOL. Online Learning 101 - BrainHoney Player.

Maker Education: A “Good” 2013-14 Educational Trend. In the midst of the implementation of common core state standards and no relief in sight from all the standardized testing, there’s been a breadth of fresh air in the form of maker education entering into many classrooms.

Maker Education: A “Good” 2013-14 Educational Trend

The Maker Movement is not easily defined nor placed neatly into a nice little box. It can be high tech or low tech; hacking what is or creating from scratch; it can be creating from building and arts materials or creating on the computer. The Myth of Learning Styles 'Debunked' Developments in cognitive science have had some far reaching impacts on learning theories.

The Myth of Learning Styles 'Debunked'

For instance , Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has its repercussions in learning styles theory. A whole new body of substantiated and scientific knowledge was subsequently produced to encapsulate the core principles undergirding the multiple intelligences theory in educational literature. Quiz Options. 5 Crucial Strategies to Prepare Students for The Future. Here is another awesome infographic I have recently stumbled upon on Learndash.

5 Crucial Strategies to Prepare Students for The Future

The graphic outlines 5 ways to prepare students for future. It also features some interesting stats concerning the digital behaviour of today's learners. In a nutshell, to prepare learners for tomorrows job market, teachers need to draw on these strategies : Using videos, embracing video games, encouraging on the go study or mobile learning, teaching digital citizenship, and flipping the classroom. 10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom. 10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom by Mike Acedo Many of us can recall instances in our lives where we found ourselves idly sitting in a classroom, eyes glazed over, half listening to our teacher as they lectured in front of the room.

10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom

Nmef.wikispaces.com/file/view/Differentiation for 200 Students/132812567/Differentiation for 200 Students. Excellent Poster Featuring The 7 Essentials of Project Based Learning. Problem-Based Learning Project. Five Steps to Reboot Schools. Published Online: October 29, 2013 Published in Print: October 30, 2013, as Five Steps to Reboot American Schools.

Five Steps to Reboot Schools

Creating a Culture of Innovation - Teaching Toward Tomorrow. I work with 29 schools with over 1,000 educators and 17,000 students. As such, there is an incredible variance in our teachers' comfort level and experience with digital learning tools. Additionally, it makes it quite difficult to get to every building and meet individually with each teacher. So how do we support teacher growth and thus student growth when it comes to technology?

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