Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 6, 2016

Last week Amazon announced its plan to launch Amazon Inspire , a one-stop shop for teachers in the hunt for free lesson plans, educational materials and ultimately educational software. Of course, we at SmartyReader are excited about the implications. Like Amazon.com, this new initiative centers on rankings, reviews, and a centralized database that will empower teachers with the knowledge and tools to make the appropriate edtech integration in their classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 6, 2016

A live from #iste2016 update From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Bloomz is the free tool I currently use for communicating with parents. Bloomz was one of my sponsors for ISTE 2016 this year, and I appreciate their support. So, I sat down with Bloomz and did an interview about the product and how it works.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2016

By Ryan Petersen Innovative schools are working to turn things around for underserved students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 6, 2016

I’ve attended a few ISTE conferences over the years and this year I was excited to be part of the diversity movement I saw take place more so than any other year I’ve attended. I felt this year the ISTE keynotes represented different ideas, diverse experiences and backgrounds. I, especially enjoyed the keynote, Ruha Benjamin, who talked about equity and encouraged teachers to demand social change from their students.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 6, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 2. Driving Question : What if a high school combines global education, creativity and technology to prepare students for today's flat world? "By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

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FuelEd

JULY 6, 2016

Contributor: Renae Abboud Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 2:00pm Blended learning implementation in the education space is gaining momentum all over the globe—yet teachers have varying degrees of comfort with this innovative model of instruction. As we transition to new education models, it is important to be cognizant that some teacher’ are apprehensive about these changes.

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FuelEd

JULY 6, 2016

Contributor: Renae Abboud Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 2:00pm Blended learning implementation in the education space is gaining momentum all over the globe—yet teachers have varying degrees of comfort with this innovative model of instruction. As we transition to new education models, it is important to be cognizant that some teachers are apprehensive about these changes.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

It sounds like a paradox. How can you teach computer programming without a screen? Computer programming is a term synonymous with coding, after all. Text, letters, syntax, arranged in meaningful sequences that give machines instructions. We code with our keyboards and we see code on our screens. But there is a clear distinction between coding and computer programming, and an even greater distinction between coding and computational thinking, the logical foundations of computer programming.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Ellen Moir. Even the best prepared, most promising first-year teachers face a harsh transition from completing credential programs to becoming solely responsible for an entire class of students for the first time. During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Outside of school, most people apply learning across disciplines, scenarios, and experiences. For a majority of our lives as students, we are taught in a system that creates blocks of time for learning specific content, much like the factory model of production. However, learning should be life and there is nothing linear about life. The linear, factory system of education is counter to the messy, irregular, and creative learning process that our students have grown accustomed to outside of scho

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ProfHacker

JULY 6, 2016

A few weeks ago — Oh look, it was a month ago! Where did June go? — I attended THATCamp NoVa CC (Northern Virginia Community College). THATCamps are always wonderful for learning about new resources. One of those resources is the newly created Smithsonian Learning Lab , a platform to access and curate the millions of resources across all of the 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research institutes, and the National Zoo.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

According to. a study from CareerBuilder, 81 percent of employers have some level of difficulty filling open positions due to the gap between the skills applicants possess and the skills required for the jobs. With the skills gap presenting problems for both employers and students, students must do all they can to present their best selves to prospective employers and showcase the skills they actually know that will make them better matches for open positions.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 6, 2016

The post 8 Awesome Reasons to Go Incognito in Google Chrome appeared first on Shake Up Learning. You Need to Go Incognito in Google Chrome! Here’s Why: Yep, I’m talking about Google Chrome again! One of my favorite little features in Google Chrome is called incognito mode. Incognito mode is a clean window that is not automatically logged into anything, and it doesn’t save your history or save cookies.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Investors have plowed over $2 billion since 2010 into startups addressing the US K-12 edtech market. Now what? Learn more about the flow of dollars and deals in Chapter 2 of our State of Edtech Report. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire. High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 6, 2016

July 3, 2016 As we were browsing Mindshift’s ’15 Tech Tool Favorites from ISTE 2016’ we came across this wonderful resource created and shared by Monica Martinez from EdTechTeam. This is basically a.read more.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 6, 2016

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Social Media and education have a complicated relationship. Most educators come into contact with it for the first time through a negative experience – a disciplinary action involving students or even peers. As such, many administrators have actively cautioned teachers against the use of Social Media, and many educators themselves have condemned Social Media as a mere distraction to education.

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Edutopia

JULY 6, 2016

Brenna Lamprey & Beth Reilly Social and Emotional Learning Through partnering with a preschool special ed class, fifth-grade students learned and taught their community about developmental disabilities, enhancing their own empathy in the process.

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SpeechTechie

JULY 6, 2016

Toca Boca's "Life" series aims to reproduce real-world settings as a context for play with characters and the objects they encounter in indoor and outdoor places. As a result, the series provides a visual play space for us to work with students as they tell stories, make connections, and enact everyday sequences. The latest, Toca Life: Vacation , is another wonderful, visually rich, and highly interactive app you can use to take students on imaginary trips to this beach-y location.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

JULY 6, 2016

Here are 5 great websites to help students be creative digital citizens this summer. The post 5 Free Interactive Websites to Engage Every Student appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 6, 2016

I started to read this extremely enjoyable book by Amanda Lang, titled “The Power Of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success” Although I only have read the first chapter at this point, there was so much that connected with education, that I couldn’t help but to take a “blog break” and share some of my thinking. This quote on the importance of curiosity connected a lot to what I wrote about in “ The Innovator’s Mindset “: Curious kids learn how

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 6, 2016

6 Unifying Factors That can Provide Educators With Individualized, Collaborative, and Effective Professional Development Jason Bretzmann is presenting at FlipCon16 in Allen, Texas this July. The. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Fractus Learning

JULY 6, 2016

One of my instructors in college was visiting from England to complete his Ph.D. in education, and something he said has and always stuck with me: Don’t believe the myth that the American education system is a failure. Of course there are areas of improvement and questions that still need to be answered, but don’t listen to the critics who cite our comparatively low test scores.

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MindShift

JULY 6, 2016

“Why are traffic lights red, yellow and green?” When a child asks you a question like this, you have a few options. You can shut her down with a “Just because.” You can explain: “Red is for stop and green is for go.” Or, you can turn the question back to her and help her figure out the answer with plenty of encouragement.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JULY 6, 2016

Join Jon for the second episode of a new show. Flipped Learning Global Radio will promote flipped learning globally and will feature some of the best minds in flipped learning. In this episode, Jon interviews Dr. BaoHui Zhang who is Qujiang Scholar professor, former dean at the School of Education (SOE), Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), Xi’an, China.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 6, 2016

Kevin Hodgson and his 6th graders learned how to build digital portfolios together in recent months, creating a reflective space to re-examine and "curate" a year's worth of digital projects. He shares tools created to guide the process and the lessons learned.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

Ten Dremel Idea Builder Ambassadors selected to document and share classroom 3D printing experiences during the 2016-17 school year. To recognize educators pioneering the maker movement in STEM education, Dremel , manufacturer of tools for life and learning, announces 10 Dremel Idea Builder Ambassadors for the 2016-17 school year. Ambassadors will receive a Dremel Idea Builder 3D40 and 10 spools of filament to use while sharing their experiences implementing 3D printing.

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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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EdTechTeam

JULY 6, 2016

Lisa Thumann Director of Professional Learning, EdTechTeam We're thankful to have seen so many of you face-to-face in the month of June! We hosted 17 Summits, 34 Certification Bootcamps and 74 custom professional development events in the month of June! The events ranged from our Summits in Northern New Mexico , Utah and the Texas Panhandle to Certification Bootcamps in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and California.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

New Archive2Azure simplifies long-term unstructured data retention for regulatory compliance and litigation preparedness. Archive360TM, a provider of email archive migration software, announced Archive2Azure , the industry’s first regulatory compliance storage solution optimized for the Microsoft Azure platform at ISTE 2016. With infinite scalability, the new product delivers long-term, secure retention of unstructured data including journal email for regulatory compliance and litigation p

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techlearning

JULY 6, 2016

Then and Now! A Science Odyssey gives us a fascinating look at 100 years of science and technology.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JULY 6, 2016

Somehow, I’ve managed to read three books recently that all feature a main character grappling with the challenge of having an absent parent. I didn’t choose these books because of this fact, but reading about someone’s life challenges that are so different from my own has made me a better person. In his recent Newbery speech , Matt de la Pena referenced an encounter with a librarian where she said that she loved his books but didn’t stock them in her library because she

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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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