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To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

…teach ESOL in New Zealand. I can’t wait to try it with my 9 and 10 year olds next term. Justine Wilson Next level! This idea takes the typical assignments to the next level while teaching so many crucial skills- evaluation of media, content, etc while also having students engaging with a purpose. Thank you for sharing. No more simple research or museum projects- curation is in our future! Glenda Robertson I would love to read this article . . . Going to try to find it online . . . Kristin Wiseley I am in a bootcamp for Online…

Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online

…their work that automatically gives others permission to use that work in their own projects under specific terms and conditions. A photographer, for example, might use a Creative Commons licenses on a collection of her photographs, so that anyone who finds them online can easily check the chosen license and follow the restrictions of use specified in that license. If your students want to use images they find online, they should look for images that have Creative Commons licenses. You can learn about all of the licenses here, but the safest bet is to steer students toward pictures that have…

OMG Becky. PD is Getting So Much Better!!

…search the #pineapplechart hashtag on Twitter. In the U.K., Paul Garvey has developed the Talk for Teaching protocol, where teachers observe one another and debrief afterwards with the support of an instructional coach. This approach is explained in Garvey’s book, Talk for Teaching: Rethinking Professional Development in Schools. 7. Microcredentials How They Work Teachers earn “badges” or microcredentials for completing challenges or learning pathways that have been created ahead of time, usually online. Example Lucas Gillispie, Director of Academic and Digital Learning for Surry County Schools in North Carolina created Epic Academy, a “game-inspired professional development program in digital learning.”…

Episode 120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race

…staff and they go into expressing their thoughts, their feelings, their experiences, and there’s a dialogue that takes place online, and I find, you know, it’s pretty interesting that you can do this as an online platform as opposed to exclusively doing it in person. GONZALEZ: Yeah. WATKINS: And it was interesting, because we actually found that the conversations were more authentic. And unfortunately, and I say this as I, because social media has created a platform for people to say things they wouldn’t say in public, it meant that it also gave the online user the safety of saying…

Episode 17: Passion Tools

…to become more and more in demand as the students we get right now get older, because so much of what happens in the world happens online. Everything that happens online needs images to go with it. It needs graphic design to go with it. So even a student who’s not necessarily good at drawing can use Canva to really create some interesting visual art that could be used for other things, that could be used as a book cover for the book publishing thing that they’re doing, if that’s something they want to be doing. It can be used…

The Apollo School: What 21st Century Learning Looks Like

…the variety offered by mass customized learning. “We have some courses that run in a hybrid format where they may meet with a teacher for a little bit but then be working independently or in groups, and then they’re meeting back with the teacher again,” explains Ward. “We have online courses where students check in once a week with a teacher, but the rest of the work is done online. So mass customized learning isn’t necessarily Apollo. Apollo is one spoke of that wheel.” Course Requirements: Curriculum and Assessment Over the course of a semester, Apollo students are required…

Episode 176 Transcript

…of courage and not weakness. So making yourself an example when you seek outside help or outside counsel and students kind of seeing that. And we have a lot of case studies in the book with teachers who’ve been through a student suicide and how they’ve adapted their teaching curriculum and pedagogy to embed some of those strategies into their teaching because, you know, I’ve got to teach the subject anyway. Might as well make it worthwhile and teach kind of multiple modalities. GONZALEZ: Okay. ROGERS: And probably one of the most simple things that I encourage people to do…

Episode 61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners

…they learn to get it in the right folder. GONZALEZ: Right. Because they can always find it if it’s in there, they can eventually get to it. PERLER: For these kids, yes. GONZALEZ: Yes. PERLER: And I would not recommend that for more linear kids, but for these kids, yes. GONZALEZ: OK. PERLER: So then the other key to this whole thing, well two other keys. One is to do the overhauls. Every week or two weeks, overhaul the folders, meaning because even though you’re teaching, just like we said before, even though the parents are teaching their child, “Hey,…

Episode 201 Transcript

…learners, not adversarial ones. No other product in the edtech space has a feature that enables educators to give reasons for closing tabs. They simply close browser tabs for students and, in turn, close off the possibility for them to learn how to exercise their executive functioning skills and make good decisions online. Hapara helps educators build relationships with students while giving them autonomy over their education. Visit hapara.com/cultofpedagogy to learn more about supporting digital citizenship skill building for students through ethical monitoring. Support also comes from JumpStart, which is my very own self-paced online course designed to help teachers…