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Diana Zinveliu

Diana Zinveliu

Diana has been a teacher for over ten years. She writes about finding the perfect balance between traditional and tech-assisted teaching strategies, sharing the best practices she’s learned along the way.

Foster student agency with these online tools

Education is not a one-way street. It implies joint efforts from both teachers and students to reach the desired outcomes. Moreover, the process of teaching and learning needs to be anchored in real l...

Our favorite teacher memes for 2020

Dear fellow teachers, Last year I wrote an open letter that was meant to be fun and supportive at the same time, and to make you welcome the new year with a positive attitude. Read more: Our favorite ...

What every teacher should know about the hexagonal approach to learning

In a quest to find innovative ways to stimulate learning, teachers often try to reinterpret patented theories. One of these reinterpretations is the hexagonal approach to learning. Based on the Struct...

How to manage assessments in the blended classroom

Technology is part of our daily lives. Schools have taken big steps towards using online resources and tools, but we can expect online learning to have a more important role in students’ education due...

Helping students develop job skills through the use of edtech

Education lies at the core of any society. It has a crucial role in shaping people to become strong pillars of society, capable of sustaining development in every domain. With all the changes that the...

The 5 Bs of online feedback teachers need to master

The online learning environment has become the new school for almost every student in most countries as a result of the current pandemic. Teachers have been trying to keep their students connected to ...

How to give feedback to students in the online learning environment

The educational process has suffered major changes in the past few months due to the pandemic that has spread around the globe. For many educators and students, this has been a bumpy road. But teacher...

3 Pillars of personalized instruction: interactivity, flexibility, and authenticity

Education is a complex process of getting teachers and students involved in a journey of self-discovery and personal growth to benefit everyone involved. To get the best of this experience, teachers h...

Delivering personalized instruction: Focus on the teacher

The concept of personalized instruction goes hand in hand with personalized learning as two sides of today's educational process. Thus, personalization can be viewed from two perspectives: one of the ...

AR is here. Is your classroom on board?

Augmented Reality (AR) is more and more present in a variety of domains. Education is one of them. And this is not surprising since the current generation of students have lived all their lives surrou...

The 9 elements of Digital Citizenship your students need to know [INFOGRAPHIC]

This post has been updated on July 8, 2020. With the rise of the Internet, we have become more and more present in the online world. This has come with its own sets regulations which we have to abide ...

Implementing differentiated instruction: the good and the bad

Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching focused on students and their uniqueness. Learners come from different cultural backgrounds, they have different cognitive strengths, they evolve ...

Our favorite teacher memes for 2019

Dear fellow teachers, We have reached the end of another year and you probably had a busy time, especially these past weeks. From spending countless hours grading papers to endless staff meetings, fro...

Ease the struggle of struggling students with these useful browser extensions

E-learning has become an intricate part of education in general. However, there are categories of students who don't have equal chances when it comes to accessing the Internet, which hinders their dev...

5 Benefits of including VR in classroom activities

Virtual Reality (VR) is at the forefront of development and the next step in the evolution of computerized instruction. Its ability to deliver perspective changing content, virtual collaboration and c...

9 Characteristics of authentic learning

The need to adapt learner instruction to the challenges society gives us has increased in recent years. What schools used to teach students, the skills needed in the past and their applicability in re...

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