EdTech

Preparing for the Future of Education

[…] on or off, and moving in all of those spaces was awesome. It offered flexibility by being able to move your avatar into any of the different learning spaces and quickly enter another space to connect with attendees. While it is similar to being at an in-person event or a virtual conference and changing sessions, […]

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Competency-Based Education

Amplifying Student Voice to Design the Vision for Learning

The iterative process of launching a microschool is challenging, but continuously engaging student voice in the process can elevate student learning and create shared ownership in a vision for learning.

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Difference Making

Making Civic Learning Meaningful With And For Young People

[…] Jaiden, and Samirah were asked to describe in one word the workshop they took part in with designers and museum educators from Educating for American Democracy’s civic learning community earlier this month, the students from Thomas A. Edison CTE High School shared these, capturing how resonant and rewarding the co-design experience was for each of […]

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Leadership

Can’t Miss Education Conferences in 2024

[…] state convention and exposition in the US. TCEA’s Convention & Exposition is the place to meet industry peers, collaborate with other educators, and build a tight-knit, professional learning community.  Digital Learning Annual Conference February 26-28, 2024; Austin, TX DLAC aims to bring together practitioners working on real change and is designed for a wide […]

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Future of Learning

Promoting Student Choice and Voice in Learning

Student choice and voice in learning are essential. It is important that we provide a variety of opportunities for our students to develop skills in ways that meet their specific interests and needs. We need activities and tools that will help students to develop content-area knowledge and skills, while also developing essential social-emotional learning […]

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EdTech

Metaverse and Education: What Do We Need to Know?

[…] students to prepare them for whatever that will entail.  If we set 10 years as the tentative launch date,  our elementary and middle school students will be learning and working in the metaverse. So with something that is quite complex, what do we as educators do? Interested in having a conversation about the metaverse […]

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Green Schools

Real World Learning About Sustainability

Rachelle Dené Poth highlights some of the hands on learning students are doing in her classroom to better understand SDGs.

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EdTech

Expressing Learning Journeys Through Digital Portfolios

[…] me initially after we used Wikispaces to create a travel agency in Spanish III. As students in groups built a “real” service, they were more engaged in learning, working collaboratively, and applying their learning in a more authentic way. They could all access the site from wherever they were and update it as needed. […]

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EdTech

10 Tools With a Big Impact in 2020!

Rachelle Dene Poth shares ten digital tools to try in 2021 in in-person, virtual, and hybrid learning environments.

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