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Top Posts Of 2017

Another twelvemonth of blogging has come upwards together with gone.  Consistency remains a challenge, but I take away maintain committed to writing at to the lowest degree 1 ship service a week.   I also discovered Grammarly a few months dorsum together with take away maintain fallen inwards honey amongst this tool.  Since I am non a rigid author to laid out with, this tool, along amongst the superb proofreading past times my mom, has helped to acquire thoughts articulated to a greater extent than clearly.  As I reverberate on my ain growth together with learning over the twelvemonth I tin definitely encounter how this has impacted my writing every bit good every bit my run amongst schools, districts, together with organizations. Evidence, accountability, research, together with efficacy were the most mutual themes woven into the bulk of my writings, which resonated loudly amongst readers of this blog.  


Competencies vs. Skills

As the globe continues to alter at an exponential charge per unit of measurement at that spot needs to live to a greater extent than of a focus on preparing competent learners every bit opposed to those who are simply skilled. Skills focus on the “what” inwards damage of the abilities a educatee needs to perform a specific chore or activity. They don’t supply plenty connectedness to the how. Competencies take away maintain this to the adjacent flat past times translating skills into behaviors that demonstrate what has been learned together with mastered inwards a competent fashion. Success inwards a digital globe volition rely on much to a greater extent than than skills.  It's fourth dimension to shift our focus together with unloose energy on developing together with assessing nub together with innovative competencies that volition serve all students right away together with inwards the future. 

Is Technology Being Integrated Effectively?

The substitution give-and-take inwards the championship inwards a higher house is effective every bit it agency dissimilar things to dissimilar people. The query provides a groovy chance for all of us to critically reverberate upon the electrical flow occupation technology scientific discipline plays inwards education.  Effective occupation should termination inwards evidence of improved learning outcomes, alignment to standards, going good beyond simply increases inwards engagement, informing instruction, together with transforming assessment.  Taking a critical lens to why together with how technology scientific discipline is beingness used inwards classrooms together with schools volition alone assistance amend efficacy (more on this below).

A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success

This ship service represents a much deeper dive into the theme of effective use. The master copy focus is how educators tin occupation the Rigor Relevance Framework to amend instructional design.  It provides a company lens to expect at the learning tasks that students are engaged inwards together with redesigns them inwards ways that movement away from telling us what they know together with instead showing whether or non they truly understand. Pertinent examples are illustrated to exhibit what rigorous digital functioning tasks expect similar inwards practice. 

Efficacy inwards Digital Learning

In short, efficacy is the marking to which desired outcomes together with goals are achieved. Applying this concept to digital learning together with innovative ideas tin acquire a long way to solidifying the occupation of technology scientific discipline every bit an established practice, non simply a frill or add-on. This is simply the beginning. When integrating technology scientific discipline at that spot needs to live a Return on Instruction (ROI) that results inwards evidence of improved educatee learning outcomes. In this post, I highlight five substitution areas that tin position your classroom, school, district, or arrangement on a path to digital efficacy. These include essential questions, research, practicality, evidence/accountability, together with reflection. To acquire to a greater extent than well-nigh how efficacy tin live achieved banking company jibe out the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA).

10 Tips to Make Learning REAL

My firstly ship service of 2017 truly resonated amongst readers. It encouraged educators together with schools today to brand learning REAL: relevant, engaging, authentic, together with lasting. In improver to explaining why this is important, the how was mapped out through diverse practical tips together with examples. 

Well, at that spot yous take away maintain it.  Thanks for reading together with here’s to an amazing 2018!

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