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Smart Review | Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is a must-have for high school students preparing to write college essays. In Write Out Loud, Barash walks you through her storytelling course. The book is divided into four parts: Find, Shape, Perform, and More Tools for Your Journey.
5 Ways Learner Profiles Can Promote Competency-Based Education
Competency-based environments encourage ownership over learning and move students at their own pace and according to their own needs. Learner profiles can play an important role in facilitating competency-based learning. Here are five ways learner profiles promote competency-based learning
Learner Profiles: The New Glue to Unbundled K-20
Whether a traditional school environment augmented by an after school program and online resources, or a full Education Savings Account program, learning is now an anywhere anytime multi-resource adventure. It should be facilitated by a learner profile.
Better College Essays? There’s a Platform for That
Story2 teaches students how to tell their stories out loud using the power of storytelling to write powerful essays in their own voice. Story2 is an online writing application that helps students “build a bridge” from what they’ve done already to what they want to do in the future.
Hours in Front of a Screen… Wasting Time or Getting Motivated?
What is a parent to do when it appears a child is wasting time on a screen, yet passionate? Here are four tips, and the story of realization from Marie that answers the question, "is hours of screen time, wasting time? Or moments of motivation?
Power of Podcasting for Student Learning
By: Monica Brady-Myerov. Storytelling is a powerful tool for deeper learning because when you are telling a story you have internalized information and are able to relay it to someone else. That is the Holy Grail of teaching.
Why Making Meaning Matters for Student Ownership
As a teacher of both teachers and administrators I do not want to settle for a shadow of learning. I want the real deal. My hope is that my students will get deep satisfaction and sense of pride as they learn.
In-Demand Job Skills and the (Mobile) Learning Process
By: Lucy Kosturko. The ubiquity and power of mobile devices make them the perfect companion for self regulated learning. Tools like SAS Data Notebook that provides integrated support for goal setting, progress monitoring, reflection, and communication, and SAS Writing Navigator that guides students through the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing, are changing the game.
Connecting Students and Teachers for Better Learning
By: Jared Stein. Jared Stein, VP of Research and Education at Instructure shares their recently released report and dives into how meaningful relationships are AND how interactions have a direct correlation to positive learning outcomes.
Blogging is Alive and Well for Leaders, Learners and Lead Generators
Blogging is alive and well. Advocates, leaders, and lead generators are using blogs more than ever to share stories and tips that promote empathy and action. What caused this resurgence of writing? We think it’s new platforms, advocacy, content marketing, and a little edu blogging.