Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

Blended learning is “active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over time, place, pace, and/or path of their learning.” They are not passive consumers but rather active participants. If not, can you modify your design to create more balance?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. For my online students, I’ve adapted this activity using collaborative digital tools.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In this post, Sarah Dunn , a high school math teacher, shares her favorite technology tools and online activities. First, it is essential to remember that it isn’t necessary for technology to be the focus of the entire activity. I was specifically interested in using technology to give students immediate feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2021

When I work with teachers who are new to blended learning, there is often a knee-jerk concern about the time required to design a lesson that strategically blends active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline. When will the teacher work directly with students to provide additional support, guidance, or feedback?

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

I especially like using it for collaborative timelines, maps, and peer feedback. Ive used it for activities like labeling parts of a lightbulb, where students can draw, type, and share without the pressure of presenting. Best of all, it can be used for free, while larger subscriptions remain affordable.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

This is an unsustainable practice for teachers, especially if they must create review activities for multiple subjects or classes. This teacher-led workflow also robs students of the opportunity to drive their learning and engage in more meaningful review activities. They can create review games using platforms like Quizizz and Kahoot!

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When I facilitate workshops on this model, I describe it as a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a specific learning goal or objective. What learning activities will help them make meaning or progress toward learning objectives? How can the playlist support them in applying what they are learning?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Choice boards fall within the umbrella of blended learning when we combine active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline. Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The curriculum offers contextual learning activities using orbital satellite feeds of Earth to engage students in real-world learning as they explore important geography, geology, and environmental science concepts, as well as learn about various careers in the space IT field. www.slooh.com.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. With that feedback, Phipps brought down the ratio of teacher-to-student talk to 50:50. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

These traditional workflows do not position the students to be active agents or help them to develop into expert learners, who are resourceful, strategic, motivated, and self-aware. Too many students spend their days in classrooms passively observing, instead of actively engaging.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Teachers who have traditionally planned a whole group lesson that moves the class, as a unit, through a series of learning activities find it nearly impossible to hold their students’ attention in the concurrent classroom. Finally, I would encourage teachers to end their lessons with an exit ticket activity. What’s working?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online and offline. Blended learning prioritizes student agency, striving to give them a high degree of control over the learning activities and environment. Yet, in many classrooms, mistakes are penalized instead of normalized. 3 Valuing Inclusion.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

From project-based activities that encourage students to apply their knowledge to real-world problems to digital learning platforms that create personalized learning paths, models that focus on learning and are not bound by traditional time barriers foster an immersive learning experience rather than an assembly-line approach to education.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment. That way, students can dedicate their cognitive resources to other activities or tasks. A welcome routine also quickly transitions students into an activity and frees the teacher to handle administrative tasks (e.g.,

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

These AI-powered assistants serve as perpetually available guides, providing instant feedback, adaptive challenges, and personalised pathways through educational content. Unlike traditional educational models, where feedback loops stretch across days or weeks, virtual tutors close these loops in seconds.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Math Participation Feedback High School 257

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Feedback is pivotal as students navigate the complexities of learning how to write for a particular purpose or audience. Students need feedback that is specific, timely, and actionable to develop the confidence and ability to demonstrate their knowledge and learning in writing. Too often, feedback is given on finished products.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Teachers want to know what types of activities I incorporate into station rotation lessons. Online vs. offline Individual tasks vs. collaborative tasks Teacher talk vs. student talk Teacher direction vs. student agency Teacher feedback vs. peer feedback Teacher assessment vs. self-assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

As teachers analyze the data collected during the assess prior knowledge activity, they can more effectively design learning experiences to meet the students’ needs effectively. The Whole Group Rotation The entire class rotates between online and offline learning activities as a unit. 3 Design Learning Experiences.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

The number of learning activities and complexity of the playlist will also affect the time needed to complete it. Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. The “must-do” activities are critical to mastering grade-level content and skills.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

When teachers are working with students online, their role as facilitator encompasses their interactions with students in conferences, the feedback they give students on their work, and their ability to assist students in making meaning in online discussions, both synchronous and asynchronous.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2021

Blended learning is active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over the time, place, pace, and path of their learning. A key aspect of this definition is positioning the students as “active agents” in the lesson or learning experience.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

A playlist is a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a desired result. Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 29, 2020

Finally, I emphasize the importance of providing feedback using different types of media beyond text comments. If you have tips related to teaching online–a favorite strategy, technology tool, or activity, please take a moment and post a comment. If you enjoyed this podcast, please share it with other educators who might enjoy it.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

They have to take an active role in thinking about their goals, managing their time, monitoring their progress, and reflecting on their learning. When working with teachers and leaders, I define blended learning as active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline.

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 543

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The station rotation is a blended learning model that is composed of a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through. In our current COVID reality, the “rotation” is not a physical shift to a different part of the classroom but a transition from one learning activity to the next.

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Attention Blended Learning Activities Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There are a series of stations–or learning activities–and students rotate through them. Tips for using the station rotation model in a concurrent classroom: “Rotate” or transition groups of students from activity to activity on a set schedule. Pulls feedback and assessment into the classroom or synchronous virtual sessions.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Starting each class with a two-word check-in like Brené Brown uses with her team, incorporating fun activities, like online icebreakers and scavenger hunts, and making time to conference with individual students can all help to build community and relationships with students, even if that work happens online. 4 Ask students for feedback.

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Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Following their use of Mystery Writing materials, educators will be asked to share qualitative and quantitative feedback on their experience using the lessons. This feedback will be used in real time to refine current and future lessons. This approach aims to keep students engaged and actively involved in their learning process.

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Writing Feedback Schools Science 312

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Give students a fun “would you rather…” prompt or icebreaker activity to begin their time in the breakout room. Engagement is a complex puzzle composed of many pieces, including interest, agency, access, relationships, feedback, etc. I recommend the following to ease the transition for students. for a unit or text.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

The development of Discovery Educations newest content is based on feedback from the companys school-based partners and makes teaching and learning even more relevant, interesting, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products. activities that encourage students to step into a role of interest.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory. Active and Experiential Learning The brain-based learning framework consistently emphasizes the importance of active learning.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels. This structure ensures that all students are actively engaged in the reading process, developing their comprehension skills and ability to discuss and articulate their understanding of the text.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

A student’s sense of autonomy and agency are enhanced when they are given a choice about how to engage with the content, learning activities, and each other. Ask them for feedback! The more opportunities students have to make key decisions about their learning, the more likely they are to be motivated to lean into the learning.

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