Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The search engine for edshelf allows you to narrow down your needs based on a variety of options such as subject, platform, and cost. Read edtech-focused blogs. Reading the posts on these blogs can help you uncover many good ideas. What is this product going to teach the students? What experiences will they gain?

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Let’s embrace this newfound agency this fall, while still supporting those who are building their independent learning skills. When evaluating edtech tools, look for those that are certified as research-based to support the needs of the diverse learners in your classrooms and schools. A Chance to Reimagine Learning for Our Students.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2019

Through intergenerational connections and project-based learning, HP Teaching Fellow Kim Mishkin is creating Powerful Learning experiences for students in grades 2–5 at the Hudson Lab School in Hudson-on-Hastings, New York. In this blog post, Kim describes her unique approach to Powerful Learning.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

I detail it all in this blog post , but heres the gist. Whether its a hotly contested presidential race year or a quiet off-year, if you are teaching civics in the fall, have students research and vote on something on the ballot. These are the moments teaching is made up of. Feature image credit: March on Washington, 1963.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? How did I teach Arabic when I had no clue what the individual letters even looked like? Who’s going to teach them? I asked them to create websites.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Many believe that technology is the key to addressing any perceived learning loss, as well as redefining teaching and learning. There is a learning revolution taking place. However, it’s important to also recognize that the pandemic has afforded teachers the opportunity to teach differently. Yes, there are gaps.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

Yet another might work toward integration of its teaching staff into online, project-based learning communities of practice, with a goal of sparking more student-driven learning in its local classrooms. cross-posted at InnEdCO’s new Innovation in Colorado blog !]. Related Posts. Nobody likes to hear it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lauren Lichtman Head of Strategy & Partnerships Learning Equality Learning Equality offers educational opportunities for the 2.6 It focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning through technology without the internet. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Digital Promise & Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. Teach for America – Las Vegas. Carey Institute for Global Good.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

In this first post of our three-part series, HP Teaching Fellows share how they used teleconferencing to create authentic learning experiences for their students. Keep reading for inspiration on how to create authentic learning experiences with virtual communication in your classroom. Going Beyond the Classroom with Skype.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In HP Teaching Fellow Melissa Wrenchey’s class, students collaborate to design prototypes that address real-world challenges. Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at regional, state, national, and international conferences. In 2011 he was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Register here! Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v. My favorite part was the focus on ‘What exactly are kids learning as a result of this process?’ Scott was a model for how to teach.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The opportunities VILS provided greatly helped foster this success while creating a newfound emphasis on project-based learning. Becoming a Verizon Innovative Learning School opened up a whole new world of teaching and learning for our schools,” added Danielle McClary, the VILS coach for both schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form. Extended Professional Development in Project-Based Learning: Impacts on 21st Century Skills Teaching and Student Achievement. References. Hixson, N. Ravitz, J., & Whisman, A. West Virginia Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Education has evolved fantastic approaches to motivating learning experiences, including project-based learning, problem-based learning, making, inquiry, game-based learning, design thinking, and many more that focus on students engaging in meaningful ways with real challenges that support content learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Time constraints to demonstrate a competency are removed in this system of teaching and learning, and student transcripts have been adapted to reflect student progress in this system. Students at KM Perform leave high school with an understanding and ownership of how they learn best.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn from librarians and educational leaders how libraries engage learners with authentic STEM, computational thinking, and project-based learning. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning. Technology will never replace great teaching.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Has anyone else noticed that birth stories are super popular on blogs all of a sudden? Well, this is my version of a birth story – the birth of my teaching career. Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius. That was a busy time!

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