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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. By offering meaningful choices, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to successfully apply and communicate their learning, accommodating their unique strengths and preferences.

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Using technology to support learning through movement

eSchool News

After all, its easy to imagine how technologies such as AI tools, robots, VR headsets , and computers, for example, can be used to support learning in these settings. Physical movement supports academics There is significant evidence of the connection between physical movement and learning. But gymnasiums?

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How Online Learning Research Can Improve Remote Instruction

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At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. If nothing else, the experience of learning online can alter a teacher’s perspective, which is a crucial first step toward improving practice.

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles.

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6 ways to make your blended learning PD more successful

eSchool News

“Just do it” may be an effective slogan for a sporting shoe company, but it is not an effective change management technique to move to blended learning. The move to blended learning has been labelled as “disruptive” by many, such as Clayton Christensen in his book “ Disrupting Class.”

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It’s expensive to become a teacher in California. This bill would pay those who try

Cal Matters

In 2020, about 60% of teachers borrowed money to finish their degrees, according to a recent study by the Learning Policy Institute , with loans averaging about $30,000 for a four-year bachelors degree and a credential program. We definitely need more teachers, and paying student teachers is a good start, Hunter said.

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How to Assess Learning in a Pandemic

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As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. And that if they don't do that, then it's an educational problem that we have to solve. And I was very parsimonious in giving good grades.

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