Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.
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Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views
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Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say
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“By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”
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Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 0 views
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Just as kids used to hang out in parks, bowling alleys, and malls, they are now hanging out online. Instead of talking, they're often texting or interacting via their social-networking profiles. While these activities can be time-wasting, they can also be productive, helping kids define their identities, reinforce offline social relationships and express themselves in a variety of ways.
Professional Learning Communities and You! - 4 views
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a PLC included several key components around which they are defined – 1). a focus on learning; 2); collaborative culture focused on learning; 3). collective inquiry; 4). action orientation and experimentation; 5). continuous improvement; and 6). results orientation. The authors are quick and clear to also point out that a group of people simply working together on a task may not meet the definition of a PLC.
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Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
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Easily the greatest struggle that educators face in today's day and age is properly preparing students for a future that is poorly defined yet rapidly changing.
Nine Elements - 0 views
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requires sophisticated searching and processing skills
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many users have not been taught how to make appropriate decisions
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we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens
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Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Increase Rigor | Edutopia - 0 views
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DOK Levels are not sequential
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DOK levels are also not developmental
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Regardless of how you define "rigor," the important thing is that students are thinking deeply on a daily basis. Webb's Depth of Knowledge gives you a framework and common language to make that happen in your classroom.
Improving Schools Through Design Thinking | Edutopia - 0 views
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Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving that begins with developing empathy for those facing a particular challenge. It serves as a framework that helps to define problems, empathize with others, develop prototypes of possible solutions, and hone those prototypes through multiple iterations until they have generated a viable solution to the challenge at hand. Design thinking encourages a
From Traditional Teacher to "Modern Learning Advisor" - Modern Learners - 0 views
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From a content and skills standpoint, why wouldn’t we expect teachers to connect their students to the smartest, most experienced experts they can find online?
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But it is not either/or approach. It’s NOT either the traditional approach or the modern approach. There is room for both approaches, particularly there will still be a need for the design and management of essential (e.g. compliance, and regulatory) training.
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If nothing else, we should be thinking and talking about this, about how the new realities of the world require different thinking and doing and defining, especially in the context of the roles the adults play in the classroom.
6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment - 0 views
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Assessment involves timely, detailed feedback based around clearly defined learning outcomes. Evaluation is “giving a grade”
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the collation marks too often includes work which was done before students had mastered the material
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pursuit of ‘marks’ often distracts students’ focus from the work at hand
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