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Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces after a Period!

…post, written two months later…The Price of Snark: What I Learned About Teaching from a Viral Post.] By the way? This isn’t what I usually write about. For the most part, this site is about teaching. So if you happened upon this article AND you have an interest in education, you need to stick around, baby. Join my mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration — in quick, bite-sized packages — all geared toward making your teaching more effective and joyful. To thank you, I’ll send you a free copy of my new e-booklet, 20 Ways to…

OMG Becky. PD is Getting So Much Better!!

…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.” On the platform,…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 44: Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom with Listen Current

…Current. Can you, just for listeners who have never seen Listen Current, describe the site for us, and explain what it offers for teachers? BRADY-MYEROV: Listen Current curates public radio for the classroom. At our core, that’s what we do. We make it available on an online platform surrounded by teaching resources and standards alignment and all the things you would need as a teacher to quickly and easily find the right public radio story for your middle or high school classroom and use it in an online format, which could mean a class with one computer and speakers for…

Everything You Need to Know About Building a Great Screencast Video

…are willing to put in the hard work to ensure that their authentic teaching styles remain intact. This should not be a surprise to anyone who understands the art of teaching; technology simply cannot replace teachers. One of the most effective ways to move instruction online is to build screencast videos. Screencast videos are unique because they are actual recordings of your computer screen or tablet as opposed to a video of an in-person lecture. They are a powerful way to deliver instruction, but they do require a fair amount of time and planning, which I have learned through a…