Adaptive learning platform, Fishtree, launches a new Performance Response feature, using learning analytics to further enhance the personalization process, and offer new insights into student learning. The next generation learning platform, Fishtree, has this week launched a new feature set to accelerate its impact on the EdTech industry. Fishtree, a global leader in education technology, focused on providing the most powerful education solutions, has branded the launch significant in its unique approach to improving the overall teaching and learning experience. The intelligent feature signifies a key development in learning analytics, as a facilitator in the personalization process. By enabling adaptive…
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I love teaching, I love learning, and I love sharing with students and colleagues.  And, I’ve been doing it for a decade or two (actually, almost three!).  Long enough to remember that my “AV” course in university included running a “Gestetner spirit master” machine (never actually used one in my career…), the  use of  filmstrips,  running a film projector without the film unwinding on the floor, and how to incorporate an overhead projector into my lesson plans.  I also remember the first time I experienced the internet  (I think I expected something to jump out of the screen), the last…
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1. “Believe you can and you’re half way there” ― Theodore Roosevelt When you enter the classroom on the first day of school, your confidence is your shield. Walking into an unfamiliar room filled with high expectations and critical minds is a challenge for even the most experienced professionals. While you may believe yourself to be a great teacher, we’re not all built for the stage. Confidence and self-belief will provide you with the tools you need to unleash that greatness. Remember your struggle to get where you are now, and consider every morsel of wisdom that you have to impart….
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Classroom management is a tricky subject in the field of education. Creating a positive environment that keeps every student engaged is not easy. Maintaining that environment is close to impossible. However, there are ways to create and maintain the productive environment that every teacher dreams of, and what better time to start than the first day of a new school year. Following these simple steps, you can transform your classroom into a cooperative and collaborative learning environment, and make coming to class less of chore, and more of a hobby. 1. Lead by Example One thing that we always try…
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I often hear people moan about teachers moaning. The general consensus is that teachers have a shorter day, work less hours in a week, earn a higher than average salary, and have a more relaxed career, yet still manage to moan more than most. I think it’s time we investigate what all the moaning is about. Firstly, this idea that teachers have a shorter day than usual needs to be officially nipped in the bud. Yes, school finishes around 3 or 4pm for many, an hour or two before the average working day. But the misconception that a teacher’s duties…
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Professional development is widely considered one of the dullest routines in education. For some reason, what should be one of the most exciting and engaging aspects of a teaching career has become a mundane practice, limited to boring meetings and conferences that often leave you feeling less motivated than after a meeting with your bank on that unattainable loan. What makes it so boring? The fact that those encouraging professional development are speaking the wrong language. For most educators – teachers, principals, and superintendents alike – the aim is to learn; to get motivated; to discover; to collaborate; to think….
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Differentiation has played a key role in education for as long as most can remember, but it’s finally gaining some ground. Technology is redefining the differentiation process to a level that far exceeds our manual attempts at scaling one-to-one instruction. Schools are being advised to ramp up their differentiation strategies in order to compete with state standards, but the reality is that many are still coming to terms with the last change in technology to hit their schools. Often, teachers take matters into their own hands, forming their own solutions to differentiation and investing in technology to lighten the load….
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One of the most recurring fears that teachers face when it comes to using technology in the classroom is cyberbullying. Having become so prominent in recent years, it’s a constant threat to the youth of today, and a disheartening misuse of technology as we know it. While many would argue that bullying has always been, and will always be, an unavoidable plague on our society, cyberbullying poses a much more complex threat for the following reasons: Thanks to the anonymity of cyberbullying, perpetrators feel much more secure in their surroundings as the fear of getting caught is eliminated. This encourages…
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As educators, we use assessment as a means of measuring student performance and progress. These tests are merely snapshots of continuous learning that too often fail to paint the bigger picture. 21st century educators are faced with the challenge of tracking student performance and progress accurately in an age where we are all aware of the shortcomings of assessment, and yet we still fumble at finding a better alternative. Apart from our awareness of the flaws in our system, we are also conscious that we’re moving swiftly into an age where personalized instruction is at the forefront. How then, can…
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I remember the first time I entered the classroom as a teacher. I was nineteen years old, working as an English language teaching assistant in the southern region of Grenoble, France. Setting foot in a foreign country with nothing but your passport to provide a comfortable reminder of home is no easy feat. Add a tiny rural French quartier and no English speakers to the mix and you’re officially out of your depths. With my confidence already taking a battering, surrounded by unfamiliar territory, I remember thinking there was no way in hell I could stand up in front of…
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