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Subscriber Special: April

April 5th-15th:

Buy a K-8 School License

get 5 free print books of the grade level you purchased

(domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only)

Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between April 5th and 15th, get five per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

To take advantage of this special, purchase from Structured Learning with PayPal or with a PO. Email us (admin at structuredlearning dot net) with your proof of purchase. We’ll send the extra books.

What is a school license?

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. All of them, no matter whether they’re in a classroom, the library, one of the tech labs. As many as the school wants. It is perfect for private schools, independent schools, charter schools, public schools–any school with multiple computer labs, classroom computer pods, 1:1 programs.

Benefits of a School License

provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school

provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. This maximizes productivity and student independence.

enable flexible learning paths as students work at their own pace, with the ability to review or work ahead as needed

share tech-in-ed pedagogy to infuse your school with technology

enable teachers to dig deeper into relevant topics, vertically integrate with core grade-level teachers

provide multiple authentic and organic formative and summative assessment

provide free online Help via Ask a Tech Teacher (staffed by educators who use SL resources) and grade-specific online resources (for K-5 tech curriculum). This is unique to Structured Learning’s technology curriculum, not found with any other provider.

Benefits of School License for Students

provide easy access to monthly lessons, how-tos, rubrics, project samples, practice quizzes, grade-level expectations, homework, images, and checklists (grade level Scope and Sequence and the Ready to Move On monthly keyboard workbooks lists, for example)

provide quick links to websites required in lessons

provide full color instructions that can be zoomed in on for greater detail

allow a convenient place to take lesson notes (using a PDF annotator like iAnnotate)

encourage students to be independent in their learning, work at their own pace rather than a one-size-fits-all class pace. This is great both for students who need more time and those who ‘get it’ and want to move on

enable a quick way to spiral up to the next grade level for quick learners or back to earlier resources for student needing to scaffold their learning

provide access to 10 companion videos (Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding curriculum license only) to take students through each month of their keyboarding journey. They’re approximately one hour, viewed at student’s pace

prepare students for the rigor of end-of-year summative testing

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Subscriber Special: April published first on https://medium.com/@DigitalDLCourse

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endevia · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: April

April 5th-15th:

Buy a K-8 School License

get 5 free print books of the grade level you purchased

(domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only)

Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between April 5th and 15th, get five per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

What is a school license?

Benefits of a School License

provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school

provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. This maximizes productivity and student independence.

enable flexible learning paths as students work at their own pace, with the ability to review or work ahead as needed

share tech-in-ed pedagogy to infuse your school with technology

enable teachers to dig deeper into relevant topics, vertically integrate with core grade-level teachers

provide multiple authentic and organic formative and summative assessment

Benefits of School License for Students

provide quick links to websites required in lessons

provide full color instructions that can be zoomed in on for greater detail

allow a convenient place to take lesson notes (using a PDF annotator like iAnnotate)

enable a quick way to spiral up to the next grade level for quick learners or back to earlier resources for student needing to scaffold their learning

prepare students for the rigor of end-of-year summative testing

Subscriber Special: April published first on https://medium.com/@greatpricecourse

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corpasa · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: April

April 5th-15th:

Buy a K-8 School License

get 5 free print books of the grade level you purchased

(domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only)

Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between April 5th and 15th, get five per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

What is a school license?

Benefits of a School License

provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school

provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. This maximizes productivity and student independence.

enable flexible learning paths as students work at their own pace, with the ability to review or work ahead as needed

share tech-in-ed pedagogy to infuse your school with technology

enable teachers to dig deeper into relevant topics, vertically integrate with core grade-level teachers

provide multiple authentic and organic formative and summative assessment

Benefits of School License for Students

provide quick links to websites required in lessons

provide full color instructions that can be zoomed in on for greater detail

allow a convenient place to take lesson notes (using a PDF annotator like iAnnotate)

enable a quick way to spiral up to the next grade level for quick learners or back to earlier resources for student needing to scaffold their learning

prepare students for the rigor of end-of-year summative testing

Subscriber Special: April published first on https://medium.com/@DLBusinessNow

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statrano · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: April

April 5th-15th:

Buy a K-8 School License

get 5 free print books of the grade level you purchased

(domestic purchase or freight-forwarders only)

Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between April 5th and 15th, get five per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

What is a school license?

Benefits of a School License

provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school

provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. This maximizes productivity and student independence.

enable flexible learning paths as students work at their own pace, with the ability to review or work ahead as needed

share tech-in-ed pedagogy to infuse your school with technology

enable teachers to dig deeper into relevant topics, vertically integrate with core grade-level teachers

provide multiple authentic and organic formative and summative assessment

Benefits of School License for Students

provide quick links to websites required in lessons

provide full color instructions that can be zoomed in on for greater detail

allow a convenient place to take lesson notes (using a PDF annotator like iAnnotate)

enable a quick way to spiral up to the next grade level for quick learners or back to earlier resources for student needing to scaffold their learning

prepare students for the rigor of end-of-year summative testing

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pascribe · 3 years

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A list of the 2 day courses coming up in January, February and March. Weekends are repeats of weekday so you can catch one or the other. The courses are built on research I have been privileged to pursue in the studio with the various historical source materials I have and are a different look at regular scripts. Courses will be recorder and students will be able to access the recordings for month after the study days. Looking forward to seeing some of you there. @pascribe @tncaligrafia #pascribe #calligraphy #classes #courses #workshops #copperplate #textualisquadrata #gothic #ligatures #flourish #flourishing #pascribeItalic #pascribesmallcaps #pointednib #broadnib #pencil #brushpens #structuredlearning (at Paul Antonio Scribe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJQyP5TAqqt/?igshid=cl1mvv4ai84d

#pascribe #calligraphy #classes #courses #workshops #copperplate #textualisquadrata #gothic #ligatures #flourish #flourishing #pascribeitalic #pascribesmallcaps #pointednib #broadnib #pencil #brushpens #structuredlearning

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breakfreeconsulting · 7 years

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statrano · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: February

Feb. 10-14th

Buy a print book; get the pdf for free

Purchase any print book from Structured Learning. Send your Proof of Purchase to admin at structuredlearning dot net and we’ll send you the PDF. Our Valentine gift to you!

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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endevia · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: February

Feb. 10-14th

Buy a print book; get the pdf for free

Purchase any print book from Structured Learning. Send your Proof of Purchase to admin at structuredlearning dot net and we’ll send you the PDF. Our Valentine gift to you!

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Subscriber Special: February published first on https://medium.com/@greatpricecourse

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corpasa · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: February

Feb. 10-14th

Buy a print book; get the pdf for free

Purchase any print book from Structured Learning. Send your Proof of Purchase to admin at structuredlearning dot net and we’ll send you the PDF. Our Valentine gift to you!

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Subscriber Special: February published first on https://medium.com/@DLBusinessNow

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evnoweb · 5 years

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Subscriber Special: February

Feb. 10-14th

Buy a print book; get the pdf for free

Purchase any print book from Structured Learning. Send your Proof of Purchase to admin at structuredlearning dot net and we’ll send you the PDF. Our Valentine gift to you!

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Subscriber Special: February published first on https://medium.com/@DigitalDLCourse

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endevia · 6 years

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Curriculum Companions Start September 10th!

Curriculum Companions (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can see how another teacher uses the curriculum and access additional resources like vocabulary and how-to videos. It’s your mentor, your sidekick, your best friend in the tech ed field.

32 webinars per grade (192 webinars in all), 9 months

If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (6th edition), you have free access to the six grade-levels

Curriculum Companions not only include weekly videos, you also get:

comprehensive tech vocabulary

how-to skills used in lessons

shared resources

Questions? Contact Zeke dot Rowe at structuredlearning dot net

Detail

Digital access: via video

Language: English

Length of time: one school year

Access: free

Here’s a sample:

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, a weekly contributor to TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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corpasa · 6 years

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Curriculum Companions Start September 10th!

32 webinars per grade (192 webinars in all), 9 months

If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (6th edition), you have free access to the six grade-levels

Curriculum Companions not only include weekly videos, you also get:

comprehensive tech vocabulary

how-to skills used in lessons

shared resources

Questions? Contact Zeke dot Rowe at structuredlearning dot net

Detail

Digital access: via video

Language: English

Length of time: one school year

Access: free

Here’s a sample:

youtube

Curriculum Companions Start September 10th! published first on https://medium.com/@DLBusinessNow

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corpasa · 6 years

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14 Education Advancements in a Year

When I went to school, it was all about the 3Rs, desks in rows, and a teacher lecturing from the front of the room. The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. Following is a list of fourteen such changes that have set 2018 up to be the most student-centered, transformative year ever.

1. More Chromebooks than iPads

Chromebooks and iPads have become the two most popular digital devices in classrooms (with laptops, 2-in-1 devices like Surface Pro, and Macs next). Because they serve significantly different student needs, it seemed they were destined to share the education market. What changed in 2017 is that 1) Chromebooks improved considerably from when they first entered the education market. They are now more durable, easier to use and access, and continue to be a low-cost serviceable option. 2) Cloud storage became common and affordable (or free). Classrooms now are more likely to store student files in the cloud (OneDrive or Google Drive for example) than on school servers allowing students to access their work from school and home. This is the Chromebook’s sweet spot–it predominantly works in the Cloud. What was a disadvantage five years ago is now an advantage.

For a comparison of iPads vs. Chromebooks, here’s a comprehensive look from Lifewire and here’s Forbes’ experience after 30 days with a Chromebook.

2. More online access to class materials

Where students used to rely on school servers to store classwork, which couldn’t be accessed at home, now Cloud storage is common, cheap, and easily accessed. Whether it be via Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, or another option (like Box), it’s much easier for students to start a project at school, finish at home, and then submit it via the Cloud. No worries about losing it in a backpack or having it eaten by a rambunctious dog.

3. Dedicated teacher training

A 2014 study conducted for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found many teachers felt learning in a seminar or workshop — what is commonly referred to as the “sit ‘n’ get” model of professional development — didn’t work for them. It required wasted time traveling, expensive hotels and plane fares, and then sifting through too much generalization to find what suited their specific needs. In 2017, it became common to replace this sort of all-in-one training with microbadges, online courses, and personalized plans created by the teacher. Educators can access sites like Bloomboard, Annenberg, and Kyte Learning, find courses specifically suited to their needs, and take them from the comfort of their home according to their schedule.

4. Personalized student learning

Differentiated learning traditionally means offering lesson plan options that suit varied student needs. Frankly, it hasn’t been popular with teachers in the past. While the concept is great, the implementation is prohibitive in the one area teachers already don’t have enough of: time. How do they identify specific student needs, create a dozen different lesson plans to accommodate those, and then roll each out to only the student who would benefit from it?

In 2017, this was solved. Treating students as partners in learning meant teachers presented material in a variety of ways (audio, video, written, games, and more). Students then selected the approach best-suited to their individual learning style. Sites such as Kiddom made the roll-out easy by automating the general steps and letting teachers fill in the specifics. For example, a book report can be shared as a podcast, a video, or a comic as long as it satisfies standards and provides evidence of the student learning.

5. Less about textbooks and more about authentic resources

Textbooks used to be de rigueur in a classroom. Now, they’re reference material. 2017 lessons were enriched with teacher-curated resources shared through intuitive programs like Edmodo, Google Drive, and PearDeck. Teachers provided links, PDFs, videos, and other materials with the lesson plans that could be quickly changed year-to-year. No more waiting for the expensive update to a textbook. Now, teachers find the right materials (say, through sources like Teachers Pay Teachers and StructuredLearning) and push them out immediately to students.

6. Greater acceptance of technology as a tool

Using technology in teaching has long been delegated to the digitally-adept teachers. The surprise of 2017 was that 75% of teachers incorporated technology into lessons. One reason is that teacher tech training has systemically and diligently filled in the knowledge holes. Another is that digital tools are much more user-friendly, intuitive to use, and easier to setup than at any time in the past. Me, I only recommend tools that are easily understood and implemented.

7. Easier to adapt for the differentiated needs of students

Differentiating for varied student needs has always been a dream resting on a shaky foundation. Teachers would love to do this but [fill in the blank]: Who has time? Where are the resources? Don’t most students learn best with reading and lecturing? 2017’s wide breadth of tech tools makes it much easier to differentiate quickly and effectively. As tools became more user-friendly, as schools and Districts devoted more time and money to training in the use of technology, as online self-directed learning became more common (think of YouTube), teachers started to find exactly what they needed and then use it productively.

8. Focus on product rather than process

Where teachers used to provide a checklist of required pieces for a project, now, that rubric focuses on goals. Teachers provide the guidelines and suggest methods. Students select what suits their individual learning and communicating style. In this way, teachers support higher-order thinking like critical thinking and problem-solving. These skills serve students throughout life rather than just within the walls of the schoolhouse.

9. Teacher as guide

Where “guide on the side not sage on the stage” used to be a maxim thrown out to show a teacher’s commitment to change, in 2017, the former became more common than uncommon in classes. Rows of desks facing forward have been replaced with grouped “tables” where students collaborate and the teacher walks around to assist. Rubrics that focused on a ToDo list now call out the higher-order thinking required to solve problems. Teachers became less focused on answering a question (acting the part of keeper of knowledge) and more likely to help students think through the process. Proof of this change is the over 100 million students who have participated in Hour of Code, a programming activity where students learn to create a process, troubleshoot, try again, and repeat until they get the desired answer.

10. Shared responsibility

Where classrooms used to be the purview of teachers, now schools expect parents and students to participate as fully-committed partners with the teacher and school. Educators are accepting what business learned long ago: To reach student goals requires teamwork. That means collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity.

For ideas on how that is happening, check out this list of parents-as-partners articles.

11. 24-hour help

Teachers used to arrive at school around 7 (ish), leave at 4 (ish) and schedule truncated and often awkward office hours. No matter work demands, parents had to accommodate that schedule. Now, teachers and parents can meet when it suits everyone’s schedule even if it’s evenings or weekends. Teachers have long worried that such an arrangement would make them on call 24 hours a day. In truth, that doesn’t happen. Most parents can meet traditional hours but those that work late now have an easier time catching up with the teacher via Google Hangouts, Skype, or another online virtual meeting forum, thus becoming committed partners in their child’s academic success. In 2017, more teachers accepted this as they would monitoring a school dance or sporting event. And, some schools even offer a stipend to offset the extra time spent in the off hours.

Additionally, with increasing availability of the Internet, students and parents can access classwork and schedules online, from anywhere, twenty-four hours a day. The stress of leaving a required book at school, losing the homework sheet, or forgetting a due date became a thing of the past in 2017 for many schools.

12, Snow days too will soon be a thing of the past

Where the inability to reach school due to weather used to mean lost class time to the teacher and a vacation day for students, 2017 marked a turning point with the acceptance among administrators that there are alternatives. Many began to treat snow days as regular school days albeit through a virtual classroom. Teachers invite students to an internet-based classroom and run the lesson plan from their snow-bound home. Virtual schools have taken the lead in this, proving that online study can be as rigorous and effective as face-to-face activities.

Here are ten places that have replaced snow days with virtual school.

13. Virtual participation

When students are incapacitated through sickness or injury or out of town for unexpected reasons, teachers used to give them a pile of papers to complete. Now, 2017’s inclusive technologies make it possible to invite them to join the class virtually. Through programs like Google Hangouts (free with Google accounts), students can see what’s going on in the class, participate, even screenshare their contributions so they are fully involved in the activity.

Alternatively, some teachers tape classes and make them available to students who couldn’t attend or those who simply want to revisit concepts.

14. Gamification of classes

In the past, gamifying lessons annoyed administrators and frightened parents. By 2017, the gamification of learning finally had the successful track record that allowed it to be accepted as an effective and engaging approach to teaching. Developers stepped up to meet the education interest in teaching history, math, literature, and more. Some of the most popular focus on critical thinking, problem-solving (through choose-your-own-adventure options), and perspective-taking (such as the differing colonial viewpoints on the American Revolution) and ask students to make decisions based on the information they receive. Studies show that gamifying learning grabs and keeps student attention, inspires them to learn, and sticks with them longer than any other traditional method.

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Did I miss a trend that motivated you in 2017? Let me know in the comments!

— published first on TeachHUB

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. She is also the author of the tech-thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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