Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2019

The Frayer Model is a graphic organizer that many teachers use to support vocabulary development. It can be easily adapted to facilitate fun icebreaker activities at the start of the school year. I created the template below using Google Slides then added a quirky, fun question to each section of the graphic organizer. I use Google Slides for this activity because students can answer the questions a combination of text, images, and videos.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Computing, Cost Savings and the Cloud: The Value of Virtualization. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/19/2019 - 09:40. Even amid the proliferation of mobile technology in K–12 schools through BYOD programs and one-to-one computing, desktop computers remain a popular choice. But given the advancements of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and the growth of cloud computing, are traditional computer labs passé?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Meehan on episode 546 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Student engagement! We need it! Today’s guest, John Meehan, shares inspiring stories that help us use amusement parks, mud runs, and escape rooms to inspire exciting lessons in our classroom. John is the author of EDrenaline Rush: Game-changing Student Engagement Inspired by Theme Parks, Mud Runs, and Escape Rooms.

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 19, 2019

Quick Take: Explore how to build interactive presentations that will engage students and use technology integration to create interactive learning environments. Students today expect the classroom to be both educational and enjoyable at the same time. Interactive presentations help engage students by having them participate in the lessons instead of passively listening to lectures.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tuning out social media, day-to-day noises and even the radio for short periods of time can boost energy and help startup founders focus on their goals. The post Filter Out the ‘Noise’ to Become a More Creative Entrepreneur appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

When consumers search the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard , the results that come back are ranked by the average salary students make after graduating. That’s just one example of the growing use and prominence of early-career earnings data in evaluating colleges. But new research argues that the metric can be misleading, and that the amount of money that recent graduates make says more about the demographics of the students than it does about the quality of a college’s education

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

The education industry’s current fascination with income share agreements—in which students typically pay a percent of their future income in lieu of upfront tuition—is no better exemplified than in the current crop of graduates from Y Combinator. More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos put the brakes on Obama-era regulations to monitor how students of different races are identified with disabilities. New research study questions whether black students are disproportionately put in special education. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 19, 2019

StoryJumper is a good web tool students can use to create and publish storybooks. It’s an ideal way to enhance students writing skills and immerse them in engaging writing projects. StoryJumper is.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

This month marks the four-year anniversary of Summit Learning , a program that aims to personalize learning for students with an emphasis on projects, mentorship and technologies that help them build skills and self-initiative. Grown out of a small pilot in 2015, the program began as an experiment. Few were sure how it would be received or who would want to adopt it.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2019

Confusion, stress, new schedules–sound familiar? If it does, then it must be time to head back to school. But as the now-common saying goes, there’s an app for that. Back-to-school apps can help teachers and students hit their stride, organize assignments, multitask, and more. The start of a new school year can be stressful for even the most seasoned educators.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 19, 2019

1:1 Classrooms are teaching/learning environments where each learner has his/her own device be it a computer, laptop, or a tablet. The pedagogical strengths of 1:1 classrooms lies in the fact that.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can code!! Step 1: what app are you using? Jeff says “Slides!” Great! You start with SlidesApp and press period. In Google Slides go to the Tools menu and choose Script Editor. Once in there, within the curly braces of the function type SlidesApp Press period. A multiple choice list will come up and […]. The post Jeff Whitsitt Codes Google Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 19, 2019

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 174 How Might We Build A Better Transcript? Drew Perkins talks with Ben Rein, Senior Director of Outreach and Partnerships at Mastery Transcript Consortium, about their work to remake the transcript into a more useful and meaningful tool for schools and students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: mastery.org @MastTranscript […].

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 19, 2019

Math educator and consultant Jerry Burkhart is back with more playful ideas for the mathematics classroom! Diagrams that show relationships between operations and numbers create engaging and meaningful opportunities for students to have fun exploring mathematical concepts. He offers lots of examples to get you and your students started.

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Omega Notes

AUGUST 19, 2019

The financial costs of textbooks and course materials acts as one of the primary obstacles college students are forced to overcome in order to have a fully developed and successful education in the 21st century. A survey conducted by Morning Consult in July 2018 consisted of 1,651 current and former college students, which revealed that paying for course materials was the second most reported source of financial stress, second only to paying for tuition.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 19, 2019

As you may know, I continue to blog monthly on the website of Mindwing Concepts Inc, creators of some of my favorite tools, Story Grammar Marker® and Thememaker. This summer I wrote four posts summarizing recent research and published articles. The goal of these is to provide summer "food for thought," each post with a little tech tie-in. In case you missed them, here they are: An evidence-based inference and narrative curriculum (free) for you.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2019

Elkin City Schools (ECS) is my home. It’s a small district, located near the North Carolina border, with three schools and about 1,200 students. It’s a small, tight-knit community full of passionate leaders, dedicated teachers, and inspired learners. We rank considerably well in the state almost entirely across the board. We’re ranked 7th or better for ELA in grades 3-7.

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Cycles of Learning

AUGUST 19, 2019

Ever since I read amazing physics instructor Frank Noschese's writngs on Standards Based Grading (SBG), I have been obsessed with figuring out a system that works for me. This 2011 blog outlines my initial attempt. This 2018 blog outlines one of many subsequent revisions. Today, day 1 of the 2019-2020 school year, and my 19th year in the classroom, I find myself reinventing the SBG wheel once again.

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techlearning

AUGUST 19, 2019

ACT Academy is a K-12 resource library where teachers can search for, save, and assign multimedia content to individuals or groups of students.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2019

Communication and collaboration are not the same thing. There are many tools that allow educators and administrators to talk to each other, but to take advantage of edtech’s promise, they should also be able to use the tool to work together on the same projects. In her presentation, “ Collaboration Near and Far in Digital Professional Learning Communities,” Geri Gillespy, Administrator of Digital Integration at West Ada School District in ID, talked about how to get the most out of online collab

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Prodigy

AUGUST 19, 2019

Telling time worksheets are the perfect way to make sure your students understand how to read different kinds of clocks. They’ll be using this necessary skill throughout their daily lives, so it’s important you give them all the tools they need to succeed. Worksheets let you see what students understand, and where you may need […]. The post Telling time worksheets: 20 effective practice materials appeared first on Prodigy.

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Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2019

He is not going to be happy with me. He'll think I've gone overboard in trying to put thoughts to "paper" about how I feel about all of this. Just a few short days ago, a mentor to hundreds taught his last SDL admin course. Dr. Brooks taught his last course? That doesn't even seem permissible or plausible. Mention his name to a group of educators in our region and you'll always find at least one person who has such fondness and memories of learning from him.

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techlearning

AUGUST 19, 2019

Kids learn how hot-air balloons launch and maintain flight in this Science Buddies project.

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Prodigy

AUGUST 19, 2019

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of learning math? The basic 2 + 2 = 4 is probably high on the list. That’s because, after counting, addition is the building block that leads students directly to other essential math skills — like subtraction, multiplication, and division, for starters. Addition worksheets are […].

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 19, 2019

Parlay is a very innovative online tool that educators are using to take classroom discussions to the next level. Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. Also, Parlay is great for assessing students making it easy to differentiate instruction and for "blended" learning.

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Buncee

AUGUST 19, 2019

Back to School Season is drawing near, and Buncee has tons of new graphics, activities, and ideas you can use right now to start the school year off right! Let’s take a closer look at what’s new on Buncee this week: Check Out Our Latest Graphics! . Our 3D Planetary Graphics are out of this world! Perfect for STEM visualization, these 3D planetary graphics are fully interactive, allowing students to explore our solar system up close!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2019

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norm

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are thought to represent the left-leaning wing of the Democratic Party and even to embrace some socialist ideals. Their ambitious proposals to eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees at public two-year and four-year colleges, as well as at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), though, signal that the real constituency they are courting is the American middle class.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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