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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment.

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5 AI tools for classroom creativity

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K-12 students can use AI tools in various ways to boost creativity through art, storytelling, music, coding, and more. Here are 5 AI tools for classroom creativity: Quillionz : Helps teachers and students generate quizzes, multiple-choice questions, and flashcards from text input and encourages self-assessment and interactive learning.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! For example, Nepris , a Houston-based company, connects professionals in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) fields to classrooms to give lessons related to their jobs.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

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In a conversation with Education Week , Bdeir said schools need to find ways to make science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) education more fun, engaging, and accessible for students. “I “We want to unleash the inventor in everyone,” Bdeir said. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine. Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust.

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” A multiple-choice question asks students to name the terrorist group Osama bin Laden led, and one answer option is “Towelban.” Ooh, it’s a gun,” and removes a silver toy gun.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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