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3 Tips for Building Community Online

Catlin Tucker

This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. If students are not participating in discussion or group work in breakout rooms, that may indicate that they are not feeling comfortable asserting themselves online.

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Here’s what you missed at BPLC18, the Blended & Personalized Learning Conference

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Attendees saw blended and personalized learning in action and collaborated with other practitioners to see these ideas in practice. Unlike many conferences I attended this year, this event was a chance for educators and leaders to discuss blended learning in action with people who are already doing it. Learning games.

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Now Is the Time to Redefine Learning — Not Recreate Traditional School Online

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It is the opportunity to imagine entirely new ways of teaching and learning—for example, attendance policies that emphasize engagement versus seat time, blended learning models that leverage technology for anywhere, anytime learning, and instructional design that allows increased student choice and participation.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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The initiative supports IU instructors in leveraging the features of any classroom—whether low-tech whiteboards or high-tech touchscreens—by granting access to reimagined rooms that foster a range of active learning strategies. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

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Those barriers include “(1) student assessments that don't accurately reflect students’ true understandings and skills and (2) methods for grouping students (by age) that often poorly align to their true needs as learners.”. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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SEL and Classroom Culture In an Age of Distance Learning

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When Ray was my student, I decided to test out gamifying my Greek Mythology Unit by creating a new Edmodo class, chunking the content into small groups, and providing my students with a paper game board to support the blended learning within the unit. Edmodo Assignments, too, can be used for in-person and online group work.

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One Step at a Time: A Traditional School’s Journey Into Personalized Learning

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During the 2018-2019 school year, I participated in the Consortium for School Innovators (CSI) residency, through which educators like myself shadowed at 3 to 5 schools throughout the Bay Area to learn about innovative techniques in the areas of blended and personalized learning.