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1st Semester- Gamification and Flipped Class Reflections
What I gathered from all their responses was that while majority of the students love the class, both models are not effective tools for ALL students and I am ok with that. For me it means I have to find other ways to motivate and inspire those students these models couldn't reach for whatever reason. That is my challenge for the rest of the semester.
For School Choice Movement, Whistle Stops are Only the Beginning
Urban and rural families, Northerners and Southerners, Republicans and Democrats, teachers and politicians, and most importantly the students are all doning their symbolic yellow scarf to show their support for school choice.
3 Global Lessons Students Can Learn from A Kickstarter Video
The lessons students can learn from this Kickstarter video are valuable to their education. Students will walk away knowing there is an entire world behind a t-shirt, where people who help make the shirts they wear everyday have dreams too.
Map And/In History
From National Geographic to the Library of Congress (to name just two among hundreds of examples), putting maps and mapping tools online has become One of the Things to Do for map-ish people.
Ways to Implement Safe Social Media for Schools
To say the least, social media is occupying more and more of our online time and in many ways is becoming a preferred method of communication. This begs the question: how do we educate today’s students on the best practices of using social networks?
Platform Understands Students’ Strategies
“The platform learns about the student with each of his or her clicks. We learn with the students while the student learns”, says Jessie, who completes with: “The longer the student spends in the platform, the more the platform learns about him or her”.
A Personal Journey to Help Reinvent Schools
It was clear that instruction needs to focus more on learning by doing, collaboration, and competency-based student progress. This represents a fundamental, systemic transformation …
How to Prepare Learners for an Uncertain Future: A Conversation with Dr. Tony Wagner
What are we preparing our children for right now? Will they be ready to get a job, create jobs, and become socially responsible global citizens? Dr. Tony Wagner believes it is our moral and civic responsibility to radically shift our focus in schools, and create an environment where we are creating and cultivating young innovators.
Blending Alone (Part 2): How to Blend Your Own PD
It is important to keep in mind that of the many learning journeys that will be happening in your classroom... one of them will be yours.
Infographic: To MOOC or Not To MOOC
Learning from afar is not a new concept. According to the stats below, correspondence courses started over 100 years ago. The concept has evolved to be able to open college access to huge numbers of students who didn't think it was previously possible. Will 2014 be the year that students learn how to master the MOOC? That is yet to be seen.