Wed.Nov 02, 2016

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Networking Plays a Crucial Role in Startup Progress and Beyond

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

The ed-tech startup journey is a continuum, and the relationships we've built along the way make our whole community stronger. The post Networking Plays a Crucial Role in Startup Progress and Beyond appeared first on Market Brief.

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Teaching Computational Thinking is the First Step to Bridging STEM Skills Gap

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Educators already instill in their students many concepts of computer science.

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Should parents also know how to use e-learning platforms?

Neo LMS

All parents want their children to receive the best education possible, and for many kids in today’s world, this means being taught through an e-learning platform. Using technology to access tests, communications from teachers, and study guides is foreign to most parents since class certainly wasn’t in this format when they were children. But, should parents adapt to the times and learn how to use e-learning platforms?

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5 Tech Tools That Are Great For Adaptive Learning.

EdTech4Beginners

Adaptive learning is where teaching methods and materials change to match each student’s pace. How could a teacher possible manage that for a whole class? This is where technology becomes incredibly powerful – students can be set challenges through apps and websites and they can work at their own pace – the technology adapts. Here are 5 great tech tools which will bring adaptive learning to your classroom: Socrative – set questions and tasks which students can then work through at their ow

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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169 Tech Tips–Two Great Chromebook Shortkeys

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #121–Chromebook Caps Lock and #122–Chromebook Delete Key.

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VR’s Higher-Ed Adoption Starts With Student Creation

Edsurge

The headlines and stories about the real. adoption of virtual reality (VR) in higher education emphasize that it’s not quite ready for prime time and hasn’t been for more than two decades since it started streaming over the early iterations of headsets back in the early 90s. While widespread adoption remains to be seen at colleges and universities, virtual reality research and development is being driven by passionate students who are working in a kind of Wild West of intense experimentation.

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Better Know a District Superintendent: Dr. Philip Hickman’s $800K Textbook-for-Technology Swap

Edsurge

Sometime during his junior year at University of Missouri, Philip Hickman hung up the football pads and decided to pad his resume with degrees and awards. On those four pages are six degrees, countless certificates, and a recognition by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology as a #GoOpen ambassador for his use of open educational resources.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. The slides are also available here. Thank you very much for inviting me here to speak today. I’m particularly pleased to be speaking to those from Sociology and those from the English and those from the Media Arts departments, and I hope my talk can walk the line between and among disciplines and methods – or p**s everyone off in equal measu

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Is Your School Toyota or General Motors? Creating a Culture of Proactiveness

Edsurge

As we head into the thick of the school year, the excitement that once surrounded new initiatives in September begins to fade, and problems in implementation become exposed. Whether your school or district initiative is a move towards competency-based grading or the rollout of an online program, issues are bound to come up and changes in situations can derail a plan.

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New Free Interactive Guides from Apple to Help Teachers Integrate Technology in Their Insrruction

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 2, 2016 As we were reading about Apple’s ‘everyone can code’ initiative on Edsurge we learned about this program from Apple designed specifically for teachers. Apple Teacher program features.read more.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: Answerables, Tiggly Education, Remind

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Answerables. Written by Jenna, a 4th grade teacher from California. Jenna’s school is a 1:1 device environment.

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On Digital Literacies

ProfHacker

This post is co-authored with fellow Prof Hacker Lee Skallerup Bessette and Autumm Caines , Associate Director of Academic Technology in the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Capital University in Columbus Ohio, and co-director of Virtually Connecting. Caines blogs at autumm.edtech.fm and DigCiz.org. “Buying into a system doesn’t automagically make you, or a University, digitally literate or creative” — Sheila MacNeill.

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6 steps to college and career readiness

eSchool News

A collaborative leadership model is critical when it comes to bolstering school policy and helping students meet college and career readiness goals, according to a new report from the Learning First Alliance. The report, A New Philosophy on Education Decision-Making , urges governors to consider changes in practitioner-driven policies and practices that will empower local school leaders and stakeholders to work together toward school improvement.

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The reason so many black teachers leave the job early

The Hechinger Report

What will it take to get more black teachers to stay in the classroom? School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization. As the nation’s classrooms become increasingly diverse, with non-white children now making up the majority of public school students, schools have made i

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

At eSpark Learning, we want to reimagine classrooms so that they’re student-centered, allowing students to succeed in school and in life. I’m really proud of our product that we have today, shaped in large part by the school districts we’ve partnered with over the years. The trajectory of eSpark Learning has been marked by what I like to call “magic moments,” instances in which fearless educators and administrators have aligned with our team to work towards a vision in which every student, regar

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Gsuite for Education vs. Office 365 for Education: Which Is Better For Your Classroom?

EmergingEdTech

Which of These Evolving Productivity Suites is Best for You and Your Students? We can Help you Decide. Being a teacher is about making decisions. You have the responsibility of shaping young minds. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Want To Host The TeachThought Podcast?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Author information. Terry Heick. Director at TeachThought. Founder & Director of TeachThought, humanist, technologist, futurist, failed philosopher, macro thinker extraordinaire. | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ |. The post Want To Host The TeachThought Podcast? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Using a Wiki in Your Classroom for Teaching, Learning and Collaboration

Fractus Learning

Wikis are the workhorses of the web. If you have looked anything up on Wikipedia , you have used a wiki. Wikipedia is one of a group of education-related wikis. Wikimedia includes Wikipedia, a dictionary, a collection of textbooks, a collection of mostly copyright-free images and other media as well as other collections of shared information. The spirit of a wiki is to provide information openly and freely, which aligns well with using wikis in the classroom.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Inspiring Illustrations

EdTechTeam

Sylvia Duckworth French Teacher Author of "Sketchnotes for Educators" Google Certified Innovator Toronto, Canada @sylviaduckworth I have been pinching myself for days, ever since the dream of creating a book with my sketchnotes became a reality with the recent announcement from the EdTechTeam Press for book pre-ordering. You see, I stopped drawing when I was around ten years old.

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Top teaching tech tools for schools and colleges

My Paperless Classroom

Education is getting smarter – it’s official! Thankfully, the days when a whiteboard (or blackboard!) and an overhead projector were the start and finish of classroom technology are long gone as ICT has been playing an ever increasing role in teaching techniques everywhere. But have you seen the latest gadgets designed to make teaching even […].

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What does Student Agency mean?

EdTechTeam

I was recently asked what "Student Agency" means in the EdTechTeam Honeycomb , the visual framework we use when supporting any school change initiative, including new technology initiatives, such as a 1:1 Chromebook or iPad roll out. Student Agency is the most important part. and we've thought about making it the center of the honeycomb (instead of the rocket) if there is ever another element we want to include.

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U.S. Ed. Dept. Challenge Offers Big Prize Money for Educational Simulations

Marketplace K-12

Virtual reality designers, video game developers, and ed-tech companies are invited to submit concepts for the competition, which is offering $680,000 in prize money. The post U.S. Ed. Dept. Challenge Offers Big Prize Money for Educational Simulations appeared first on Market Brief.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Game Changer: When teachers prove they can teach all kinds of students

The Hechinger Report

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One.

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An honest review of CE Credits Online for professional development

The Cornerstone for Teachers

There are lots of online options for teachers to get continuing education credits–but how do you know if a site is a legitimate? When CE Credits Online reached out for help in promoting their courses, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to take a thorough look at the availability and types of courses, user experience, and quality of the course and professor interactions.

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In the marketplace: Minecraft Education Edition, apps for ELLs, digital citizenship, and more

eSchool News

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Check below for the latest marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mo

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Using e-Learning technologies for effective language teaching

My Paperless Classroom

I remember the first time I decided to learn Italian. I was so enthusiastic about my new objective only to find out there was actually no Italian teacher in my town. Refusing to give up, I took my first lessons by Skype with a tutor from Italy, and later, became an Italian teacher myself and […]. The post Using e-Learning technologies for effective language teaching appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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How One School Changed Its Math Culture, Starting With Teachers

MindShift

Many educators are aware of Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset. The Stanford psychologist has found that the way students think about and approach challenge makes a big impact on their learning. Students who believe that they were born with a certain amount of intelligence that cannot be changed — a condition Dweck calls a fixed mindset — are often afraid to seek out challenging tasks and are resigned to one’s perceived set of abilities.

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10 Ways To Use SmartFeed In Your Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 10 Ways To Use SmartFeed In Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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9 Fun Tumbling Mats for Kids to Practice their Acrobatic Skills

Fractus Learning

Active kids are healthy kids. It’s not always easy to drag children away from their smartphones and tablets, but the more you encourage them to jump around and indulge in physical games, the better it is for them. The problem is that activities are not always the safest—unless you have a soft surface to cushion a fall. Tumbling mats are ideal for gymnastics, acrobatics and anything where a child might land heavily.

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Strengthen School Culture & Community: #NYCSchoolsTechChat - 11/3

The Innovative Educator

Learn innovative ideas for building and strengthening school culture and community during our seventh monthly #NYCSchoolsTechChat taking place tomorrow, Thursday, November 3rd at 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. During this chat we will have special guest. Jordan Pedraza (@JordanPedraza) at ( @RemindHQ ). You can read more about Jordan in her LinkedIn profile.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.