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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning.

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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning.

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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

And if you can incorporate their phones and/or electronics into the lesson, you’ll get a lot more students paying attention! Lecturing at the front of the room allows reluctant students to disengage easily, especially if they don’t understand what you’re teaching (and they’re not likely to ask questions about it).

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Schools and districts that ignore TikTok’s lessons are bound to fail

eSchool News

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? Or, if you’re Maynard Kereke (Hip Hop M.D.),

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There’s No Easy Protocol for Handling Classroom Conflict. We Must Challenge Ourselves.

Edsurge

One of my students, who I previously thought wasn’t paying attention, pipes up, “That’s firme !” I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. I didn’t need to lecture about the anti-Asian history of California. You are not a gangster.

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Higher Ed’s Technology Blind Spot: a Response to Sherry Turkle

Edsurge

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. I used to have the belief that I have very little to do with the success of my online students.

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Lacking Online Programs, Many Colleges Are Rushing to Partner with OPMs. Should They?

Edsurge

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. None of them partnered with OPMs.

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