School leaders find once they begin to optimize their instructional models using anytime, anywhere learning, state policies that reinforce seat time become a barrier to innovative approaches delivering highly-personalized learning experiences for all students. Personalized learning is important because it holds the promise to create student agency, preparing all students for college, career and life.
This research guide focuses on creating student engagement and some of the tools that can be used along with active learning pedagogies. (Amanda Albright, JoAnn Gonzalez-Major)
The questions that I answer in my email more frequently than any other are about making screencast videos. Most people want to know what tool I use for creating screencasts and or how to create a screencast on a Chromebook.
If you're using video in your classroom, check out this super easy way to use Zaption to edit videos together to create thought-provoking comparison. By combining videos together, students can draw connections, thinking critically, and connect what they're seeing to a bigger picture.
EDpuzzle is a simple, easy-to-use video-annotation tool. Learn how you can add questions and quizzes within videos to help your students be active viewers. Learn more about EDpuzzle and get ideas for lesson plans.
Whether you and your students are making interactive videos, or you just want to create interactive video lessons, there's no shortage of apps and Web-based tools to help you. A host of video-creation apps offer everything from cartoon and stop-motion animation to video slide shows...
Remixing -- or combining different media to make or say something new -- is an essential 21st-century skill. It gets kids making things, thinking in new ways, and digging into the essence of meaning. These picks run the gamut and get kids tinkering with websites, collages, games,...
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Problems Solved ~ We Flipped Our Classrooms (Published in the AMTNYS Journal) It seems like everywhere you look in education these days, there's an article about the Flipped Classroom. In this...
As flipped learning continues to grow, there is a greater need for flipped learning to scale beyond individual teachers flipping, to larger roll-outs with systemic planning and leadership.
With input from more than 11 million student users annually, MyLab & Mastering creates online learning experiences that are truly personalized and continuously adaptive. MyLab & Mastering reacts to how students are actually performing, offering data-driven guidance that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Includes the ability to make video watching a prerequisite for doing the related problems.