Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. In the middle is teaching a lesson however you might normally do it.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

AI-powered quiz builders are revolutionizing modern classrooms, transforming traditional teaching methods into captivating, gamified learning adventures. Imagine a classroom where students are glued to their seats, laser-focused on interactive quiz games displayed on the smartboard.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. Thanks to technology, there are lots of fun and effective ways to assess learning in ways that transform your classroom. Polls are quick ways to assess student understanding of the goal of your daily teaching. Quick Quizzes. Here are seven ideas: Polls.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. All rights reserved. Bailey, M.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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MARCH 5, 2015

How to use it in your classroom: Even without the requirement for digital portfolios, this is a useful app for teachers. Consider how much classwork is still done with pencil and paper–tests, posters, reports, pop quizzes. More classroom management apps: 3 Classroom Management Apps You’ll Love.

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JULY 8, 2022

I’d love to hear your suggestions in the comments about how you do this in your classes: Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way. Let me break this down for you.

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MAY 9, 2024

These games include puzzles and quizzes that enhance critical thinking skills and offer a fun break from traditional learning. Free 11,000 Worksheets : Over 11,000 free worksheets across various subjects and levels are available to support teaching. Integrates seamlessly with classroom management tools.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. Category: ASSESSMENTS.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 7, 2024

Teaching is a balancing act, with constantly juggling creating lesson plans , grading papers, and many other tasks. Here are a few ways that Canva can help you have a more productive, creative classroom. Streamlines Lesson Plans Canva can significantly enhance the efficiency and quality of your teaching materials.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Anecdotal observation of student learning (this is subjective and enables me to grade students based on effort) Grades on tests, quizzes, projects I’m tempted to put everything in a spreadsheet, award a value, calculate a total and find an average. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The top four education uses for Metaverse are Breakouts ( here’s a spreadsheet with a long list of Metaverse Breakouts by topic) , Scavenger hunts, timed quizzes, and Choose your own adventure stories. This is Classroom Management Made Simple . Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Collecting class data, asking for feedback on activities, and pushing out quizzes used to be laboriously accomplished by passing out paper documents, collecting them as they dribbled in, and then collating the data into a spreadsheet where you could sort and shake to come up with the useful information. feedback on events. class enrollments.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. You will find yourself most comfortable in the Google Classroom environment if the tools you use are aligned with Google Drive, your browser of choice is Chrome, and your digital device is a Chromebook. shared classroom space.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

.” Where a modicum of differentiation in the lesson plan, classwork, or homework would result in a successful experience for the child, some teachers miss the opportunity to accomplish the exact goal that got them into teaching: to make a difference in the life of a child. They teach students in ways that communicate to them.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

While immersing themselves in a topic they love, Genius Hour also teaches students how to pursue a goal important to them. The teacher will make arrangements with interested senior centers for students to teach weekly classes. One-two students will teach while other group members rove through the classroom to help seniors.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Team Post on EZWrite splits the board into side-by-side workspaces, allowing teams to compete in real-time quizzes and activities. BenQ Board smart displays are cloud-friendly, making them the epicenter for classroom management. They can use photos and screenshots as well as built-in templates for more context-rich classes.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). These questions can also be used as moments for teaching.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Here are the top 22 digital tools your colleagues are using in their classrooms: annotation tool. flipped classroom. online quizzes. With it, students can take notes in their books, fill in online rubrics and quizzes, and automatically link to additional resources without having to retype URLs. Online Quizzes.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 1, 2024

Whether you’ve been teaching for a while or are new to the classroom, having these teacher hacks in your back pocket will help you stay organized, manage your classroom, and integrate technology seamlessly into your classroom. Classroom Management Create a positive learning environment with these teacher hacks.

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MAY 2, 2017

It can include video, narration, audio, polls, screen captures, screencasts, photo albums, charts, tables, annotated notes, images, interactive quizzes, and more. Mix provides a wide variety of quizzes that are easily and quickly embedded into the slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

All learning takes place within Moodle, not through videos or quizzes. By the time educators complete VerveEd’s exercises, they have the confidence to excel in their own Moodle classroom. Shared classroom space to allow classes to work together toward goals and projects. adding assignments. exporting the gradebook.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Classroom discussions are a great way to determine whether students are grasping concepts you are teaching, but some students are just not comfortable speaking in front of large groups. Make technology work for you by using discussion boards as another outlet for classroom discussions. Safe Classroom Management'

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning involves complex classroom management, which is different from traditional lecturing. There may be students who are resistant to collaborative learning because they are accustomed to being passive, used to teacher-centered approaches, and use direct traditional teaching. TEM Journal, 12 (3), 1772-1785.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). These questions can also be used as moments for teaching.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Weird Enough Productions (501(c)3/Lithonia, Georgia) teaches students how to combat fake news, identify media bias and create positive content through an ed-tech tool. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning involves complex classroom management, which is different from traditional lecturing. There may be students who are resistant to collaborative learning because they are accustomed to being passive, used to teacher-centered approaches, and use direct traditional teaching. TEM Journal, 12 (3), 1772-1785.

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MARCH 22, 2018

A few weeks ago, I got an email from Nancy with a great suggestion for an article topic: Google Classroom. She writes from her perspective as a Kansas City teacher who loves teaching and blogging. As well, in NearPod, students can go through the interactive quizzes and polls, actively participating in the classroom’s workflow.

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MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. “It’s great to be able to access teaching resources directly from the tool I already use to monitor class progress.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Observation Activity: This activity comes from James Peter Newbury, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, who shares an image on the overhead during class and then asks students, “What do you notice? Journal on Excellence in University Teaching , 25 (4), 1-26. Newbury, Peter.

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Teach Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing Interactive Technology Tools Digital platforms such as Kahoot, Flip, and Google Classroom can make classroom participation more engaging and fun. These tech tools allow students to respond to questions, participate in online discussions, and complete quizzes and projects right from their devices.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Observation Activity: This activity comes from James Peter Newbury, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, who shares an image on the overhead during class and then asks students, “What do you notice? Journal on Excellence in University Teaching , 25 (4), 1-26. Newbury, Peter.

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APRIL 25, 2017

When I started teaching, homework always involved paper–a worksheet, a poster, a written essay, or something else like that. Thanks to Learning Management Systems, that’s changed. An LMS (Learning Management System) is a software application for enhancing student performance by improving teaching and learning processes.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way.

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