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End the school year with Epic Review Olympics (free templates!)

Ditch That Textbook

As the school year starts to come to a close, a couple of things are certain. Student motivation will be soaring high. (Not!) Reviewing previous content get more and more important. There are lots of ways to make review engaging, but my students have always responded to review games. They get the competitive juices flowing, [.].

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Blended Learning: A Common Sense, Teacher-Friendly Definition

The Journal

The term “blended learning” accurately describes the pedagogical practices that are taking place in 1-to-1 classrooms. This week’s screed (aka blog post) describes the following unfortunate fact: the term “blended learning” is being used by some to mean “adaptive, personalized learning.” Grrr! Join us in keeping “blended learning” to mean the teacher-friendly, common-sense definition.

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Building a Dynasty in Debate (or Any Competition)

The CoolCatTeacher

from a Montana teacher with 32 straight titles in a row! From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Matt Stergios has been coaching a debate team that has won their state championship in Montana since 1984. We why debate is important. He also shares one of his big secrets: how he convinces key students to join the team.

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Why Open Education Resources Matter #GoOpen

The Web20Classroom

This post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Imagine you need to run to the store to get the ingredients to make a cake. You get the mix, eggs, oil, everything you need to make this most awesome cake. When you get home you decide that cake isn't really what you want afterall. No, you want another dessert. And since you have these cake ingredients you might as well use them.

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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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Field Research Alive in the Sonoran Desert

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 22. Driving question: How Do We Deepen Scientific Inquiry Through Authentic Experiences In The Natural World? "Ms. Fulgham, there's something dead over here!" "What is it?" I replied. "I don't know, it's got to be a rodent because its front teeth are orange – a rat.a mouse?". We were on a field trip, exploring a canyon in Southern Arizona.

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Cloud Computing: A Powerhouse in Classrooms and Behind the Scenes

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff Moving to the cloud gives districts agile options for how they treat devices. .

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Top 10 Ways to Increase Your Students’ Interest in a Subject

EmergingEdTech

(Image Source) Look for Ways to Make it Relevant and Fun – You and Your Students Will Come out Ahead I’m always up for a reminder about the things we need to do capture student’s. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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What I Learned from Student-Created Learning Taxonomies

ProfHacker

My assignments are often inspired by things I learn about from my Personal Learning Network (PLN), and this particular assignment is inspired by several people. The assignment I recently gave my students (who are largely freshmen learning about educational game design as part of a core curriculum course on creativity) is to develop their own learning taxonomy, in any shape or form, with any items that they feel are important to their learning.

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Here Is A Great Tool for Flipped Classrooms

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 18, 2016 DocentEDU is a great web tool and mobile app to use with your students. It is particularly ideal for both Blended and Flipped learning classrooms. DocentEDU allows you to easily turn.read more.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss. school district’s sixth-grade-only school, work on laptops during class. The district has provided iPads or laptops to all students for several years. Photo: Jackie Mader. CLINTON, Miss. — When Zach Osborn was growing up in this central Mississippi town, he had no idea that the diverse classrooms he sat in each day were an anomaly.

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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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10 Key Video Tutorials to Help You Integrate Google Tools in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 18, 2016 Google for Education offers a powerful suite of tools to use in your class to engage your students, enhance their learning and create limitless learning possibilities. From taking.read more.

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6 fun math facts for Math Awareness Month

eSchool News

During April’s Math Awareness Month, math education is in the spotlight. There’s no shortage of advocacy for STEM education, and math remains one of the most in-demand skills in college and the workforce. But math also becomes challenging to teach and learn, and many students–especially girls–lose interest in mathematics beginning in middle schools.

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An Excellent Science Website for Elementary Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 18, 2016 Mystery Science is another great science resource for elementary teachers. Created by a science teacher, Mystery Science provides a wide variety of lessons to enhance your students.read more.

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Leading Teams: How to Avoid “Groupthink”

MiddleWeb

Groupthink happens when people are afraid of the consequences of sharing their real thoughts and feelings, says team leadership coach Elena Aguilar. When this happens there's a danger that the team's decision won’t be the best one. Learn the warning signs.

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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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From Flip Phones and Faxes to Future Focused Learning

Fractus Learning

I’m a Gen X baby. Technology for me in the 1980s was a dodgy microfiche in the university library and then my trusty and often dusty overhead projector in my classroom. I was later amazed at the fax machine and proudly owned a Nokia brick with extendable aerial. And if I’m honest, I found all the hype around Adele’s flip phone used in “Hello” mildly offensive.

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Grit under attack

The Hechinger Report

For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. They’ve been arguing that it’s wrong, and possibly racist, to blame low-income black and Hispanic students for not having enough of it. And they contend that education reformers should focus on fixing systems that keep families trapped in poverty, instead of trying to “fix” students.

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App of the Week: Join a global online writing community

eSchool News

Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. Write the World. What’s It Like? Write the World is a global online writing community that lets teens submit their own work and get feedback from peers, writing instructors, and professional writers.

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Pay Close Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain.

My Island View

The worst advocates for educators using social media for do it yourself professional development are those educators who have been successful developing their own do it yourself professional development. This probably applies to other successful educator undertakings as well. Many of those educators who achieve success with innovative ideas tend to expound on the achievements and benefits of their strategy, method, or project, which tends to overwhelm those educators exposed to it for the first

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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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What Is Competency-Based Learning?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post What Is Competency-Based Learning? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans

The Hechinger Report

Alanda Povroznik, at head of table, works for a company that, as a benefit, will soon be helping her repay her college loans. Photo: Powertex. Excited to be back at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire, Ed Farrington flashed bright-colored pie charts and graphs before a group of business students in what he considered a forceful presentation about the need for them to start saving early for retirement.

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Fun With GIS 196: Esri ConnectED Showcase

esri

Esri joined President Obama’s ConnectED Initiative in May 2014, offering a billion dollars worth of learning resources and teacher support. Two years later, one school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools. Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program (through James Madison University) , teaching GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

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Pay Close Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain.

My Island View

The worst advocates for educators using social media for do it yourself professional development are those educators who have been successful developing their own do it yourself professional development. This probably applies to other successful educator undertakings as well. Many of those educators who achieve success with innovative ideas tend to expound on the achievements and benefits of their strategy, method, or project, which tends to overwhelm those educators exposed to it for the first

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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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New toolkit to help schools increase fiber connections, affordably

eSchool News

A CoSN resource aims to help school tech leaders navigate new E-rate rules allowing for the use of dark fiber. District technology leaders looking for guidance around how to leverage the expanded fiber connectivity opportunities in the E-rate program might find help in the form of a new toolkit from CoSN and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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Pay Close Attention to What’s Behind the Curtain.

My Island View

The worst advocates for educators using social media for do it yourself professional development are those educators who have been successful developing their own do it yourself professional development. This probably applies to other successful educator undertakings as well. Many of those educators who achieve success with innovative ideas tend to expound on the achievements and benefits of their strategy, method, or project, which tends to overwhelm those educators exposed to it for the first

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Shifting into 8th (On MLA’s new edition)

NeverEndingSearch

MLA just rele ased the 8th Edition of its Handbook. And, there are some key changes between MLA 7 and MLA 8 in this fresh look at documenting sources that you will need to note! I chatted with Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communications at MLA. She shared: Our hope for the new edition is that it helps students and instructors think about “how” and the “why” of citation practice–to focus on the principles, rather than

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21 Digital Tools To Build Vocabulary

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 21 Digital Tools To Build Vocabulary appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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5 Reasons Why Edcamps Matter

Edutopia

Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Nicholas Provenzano Edcamps Edcamps provide informal, personalized, and powerful PD because they're educator driven, they build networks, inspire passion, and foster conversations -- and they're low stress.

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Getting Inside Students’ Minds: Why Misconceptions Are So Powerful

MindShift

Think about our planet for a second. Earth has an elliptical — oval-shaped –orbit. That means we’re closer to the sun for one part of the year and farther away another part of the year. Does that fact explain why it’s hotter in the summer and colder in the winter? Lots of kids think it does. Lots of adults think so too. And they’re wrong.*.

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Ep. 43 Let’s Grow Students With PBL And Urban Agriculture

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Ep. 43 Let’s Grow Students With PBL And Urban Agriculture appeared first on TeachThought.

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Open education and the future: Cable Green on this week’s Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Tomorrow I’ll be talking about open education with Cable Green on this week’s Future Trends Forum. Cable is the Creative Commons’ open education director. I plan on asking him about last week’s major open education conference in Krakow , how higher education can best work with the Creative Commons project, and what futures might unfold for open edu.

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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.