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6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling with Your Students
Most likely, you are doing digital storytelling activities in your classroom already. But, if you are not yet convinced of the benefits of digital storytelling, here are the top six reasons why you should be doing digital storytelling activities with your students.
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#FETC | Moving Student Consumers to Creators of Digital Games
By: Cori Coburn. While there are excellent technology tools available to help educators create engaging content, I would like to invite a change of perspective: Seek the tools and opportunities that allow students to become the creators of these game based tools.
Difference Making
It’s Time we Talk About Career-Tech
By: Shane Haggerty. It is ultimately up to all of us to do better educating parents and students about all pathways. There is a skills shortage in many industries, skills gaps mismatching degrees with talents needed for jobs, a mountain of growing debt that students can’t repay.
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The Future Demands Idea Economy Students
By: Elaine Menardi. Our new operating system, "edOS 3: Ask-Think-Solve" will emerge from students very soon. Students will be driven by their own desires to satisfy curiosity and achieve a sense of accomplishment.
Difference Making
Engineer Your Future: Don’t go it Alone, Own it, Create it
By: Fushcia-Ann Hoover. Struggling to decide on entering or staying in a degree or career? Don’t quit because you doubt your abilities or worthiness. Go for it. It will be hard and—I won’t lie—sometimes very isolating, but it is worth it and so are you.
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EdCamp Voxer: Personalized Professional Development
400 teachers, from more than 20 states, participated in EdCamp Voxer Personalized PD. The virtual collaboration proved the best teacher professional growth does not exclusively occur between the walls of the school at a designated time.
EdTech
10 Tools to Create Online Student Portfolios
One of the most promising learning opportunities brought by this transformation is the possibility of creating online student portfolios. The best portfolios are those which are compiled by students themselves. Here are 10 best picks for fostering this creative exercise in the classroom.
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Talking Math: 100 Questions That Help Promote Mathematical Discourse
By: Gladis Kersaint. Do the questions you ask in math class open a door for students to really share their knowledge in a way that highlights their true understanding and uncovers their misunderstandings? Here are 100 questions and an infographic to help you promote mathematical thinking and encourage classroom discourse.
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Community Conversations Shape Portrait of a Graduate
To improve the quality of the education offerings by Marion City Schools the team endeavored to create a new picture of what a Marion City Schools graduate should know and be able to do.
EdTech
Personalizing Math and Success Skills in Brooklyn
Data can be a tremendous asset to mobilizing school communities and unlocking the potential of teachers and learners. At Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB) real-time, ongoing assessment that informs educator practice, coupled with personalized learning, serve as the primary drivers of academic achievement.