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4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher
By: Gayle Allen and Lisa Yokana. There’s a missing link between real-world maker movement popularity and classroom making. But the mystery is solved if you consider that most educators have never learned how to teach making.
Preparing Teachers For Deeper Learning
A Getting Smart white paper that outlines the attributes of next-generation teacher preparation with recommendations to support the development of teacher preparation and development systems.
The Need for Design, Planning & Implementation Support
This is not “EdReform.” We’re going through a phase change, one that is fundamentally altering the way human beings learn and develop, how they communicate their capabilities, and how the work and relate to the world.
5 Gifts to Give Learners… When We Get Out of the Way
Recently I wrote about what happened when I let my learners actually move to the center of the learning conversation. Through continued reflection on past, present, and future learning experiences I am responsible for creating, I put together this list of the gifts I’m learning to give when I get out of the way.
Northwestern Educators Are Starting Their Engines at #NCCE2014
The day’s schedule consisted of a number of summits, workshops, and sessions. However, the general consensus in the corridors of the Washington State Convention Center was that value was offered by all.
8 Principles of Productive Gamification
Well constructed and applied, learning games and game-based strategies hold the potential to boost motivation, extent persistence, build automaticity, and deepen learning.
10 Things We Learned From Dr. Temple Grandin
Dr. Grandin had so much great advice to share, but these 10 facts really helped us understand how there can definitely not be a “one size fits all” answer when it comes to helping these students succeed in school settings and beyond.
A GPS for Every Secondary Student: 10 Key Features
There are 10 benefits that secondary students should expect from school advisory, counseling and guidance systems. These services are gaining importance as digital learning options expand.
Hoover Conference Explores Blended Learning
The panel concluded that blended learning has to be a bottom up, organic adoption by teachers--a reflection of the schools and districts they represented. The panel missed the “extended reach” strategies outlined by Opportunity Culture and in the SmartSeries paper, Improving Conditions and Careers.
An Elementary Edcamp- An Unconference for Students
So how do you get started? I would get familiar with the edcamp model or even attend one (not required) to fully see one in action. See how the session board is setup, how sessions go and who partakes, maybe even you. This will help you share with your students. It did for me. Then if you are using Google Apps in Education, I would post a spreadsheet with a link for them to fill out the sessions.