Student reflection during live virtual teaching
Accelerate Learning

Strategies to Empower Students

Discover strategies to develop student agency, providing students voice and choice to accomplish all that is possible.

Accelerate Learning by Making Connections: Build Trust Through Relationships, Community, and Connection

Explore four ways to accelerate learning through classroom connections: connecting teacher to student, student to student, teacher to family, and student to learning.

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Show Students How to See Patterns and Also Use Them

Help students learn about pattern recognition and how it helps solve problems.

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Help Students Recognize and Apply Abstraction

Develop and deepen your understanding of abstraction and how it can be used in the classroom.

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Teach Students to Divide (Decomposition) and Conquer (Algorithmic Thinking)

Deepen your understanding of decomposition and algorithmic thinking and how you can use both to help your students become better problem solvers and better understand the world around them.

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Publish With Pride: Step 5 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology

Use digital tools to add your finishing touches, conduct one final check, and then publish your finished project to your audience.

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Polish With Precision: Step 4 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology

Use digital tools to analyze your writing, identify mechanical issues, and help you create a polished final draft.

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Put the Pieces Together: Completing the Puzzle With Computational Thinking

Begin to develop an understanding of computational thinking and why we should be teaching it to every student.

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Revise With Resolve: Step 3 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology

Use technology to efficiently and effectively improve the content, organization, and coherence of your writing.

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Draft With Direction: Step 2 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology

Explore ways to integrate technology as you transition from the planning stage to writing your first draft.

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Reimagine the Writing Process

Consider how the integration of technology can expand how you define the process and product of writing in your classroom.

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Pre-Write With Purpose: Step 1 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology

Explore ways to integrate technology into four pre-writing tasks: clarifying your writing task, generating preliminary ideas, gathering ideas and content, and organizing and planning.

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Make Project-Based Learning Truly Authentic With Public Products

Examine the importance and explore different types of public products that can be used in project-based learning.

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Mash It Up With Multimedia

Provide students with expanded creative opportunities by allowing them to mix together video, audio, images, writing, and animation on a multimedia canvas.

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Support Student Reflection, Critique, and Revision in Project-Based Learning

Let’s go deeper into the key elements of project-based learning and explore strategies to support student reflection, critique, and revision.

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Enter the Magical World of Animation

Empower students with strategies and tools to create animations for digital storytelling, classroom communication, and personal reflections on the learning process.

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