EdTech Magazine
MAY 3, 2016
By Amy Brown When schools put time and effort into device selection, professional development and infrastructure management, students can experience the full benefits of digital textbooks.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 3, 2016
As a minority entrepreneur in the education technology space, I don’t often think about the intersection of my ethnicity and my venture’s success. Perhaps I should. EdConnective was founded with a desire to impact the education system, especially for people of color. I’ve worked hard to keep this venture sailing into new seas: research, selling, building financial models, acquiring stakeholders, project management.
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Battelle for Kids
MAY 3, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 3. Driving Question: Why The Fuss Over Early Play? Play is the natural way to learn. It helps children learn to solve problems, promotes flexibility and motivation, teaches regulation of emotions and builds resilience and confidence. It is also essential to the development of the young child's brain, forming the basis of healthy cognitive function and mastery of the child's physical world.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 3, 2016
I was recently stopped in my tracks when I discovered that minority-owned companies receive just 3 percent of venture capital investments. That disparity is startling, given that more than half of k-12 students in this country are minorities. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.
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K12 Open Ed
MAY 3, 2016
Credit: gurmit singh. I am often prompted to reflect on why people don’t borrow and remix high quality, open licensed educational content more often than they do. There are many projects that have created amazing content and licensed it under a Creative Commons license. But the degree to which this content is used and especially remixed is often lower than people expect.
TeacherCast
MAY 3, 2016
In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at THOUSANDS of resources for students and teachers to engage in the art of map making. Did you know that you can take a walk on the Moon. or Mars. or Middle Earth? Check out the episode today to find out how. The post How Many Ways Can Your Students Be Awesome By Creating Maps On Their Chromebooks?
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EdTechTeacher
MAY 3, 2016
Technofy Your Vocabulary Instruction originally appeared on Shaelynn Farnsworth’s blog on May 1, 2016 . I do love a challenge, and my friend and fellow Certified Google Innovator , Alicia Brooks offered the perfect one a few weeks ago. Alicia wanted ideas for blending sound vocabulary instruction with intentional technology. I gladly accepted the challenge, it was a way to blend my passions in literacy and technology. __.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 3, 2016
May 4, 2016 Below are four great websites to enhance literacy teaching and learning. They provide a wide variety of educational materials and resources designed specifically to help learners and.read more.
Marketplace K-12
MAY 3, 2016
The major testing provider ACT Inc. has acquired a provider of open educational resources, in a move it says will ramp up its ability to direct academic resources to students whose assessment scores show they need help. The prominent Iowa-based testing organization’s move is the latest sign of the burgeoning interest among education organizations — be they commercial, or nonprofit, as ACT is — in weaving open resources into their lineup of products.
Graphite Blog
MAY 3, 2016
A typical teen's day includes up to nine hours of texting, gaming, watching videos, and posting on multiple social networks -- even while doing homework. It's enough to make you wonder: Are my students addicted to technology? Look around, and it's easy to see how media and technology have changed our day-to-day lives, even compared to a decade ago.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 3, 2016
May 4, 2016 After posting about digital activities and tools to use for wrapping up the school year, below are some more resources in this direction. These are excellent websites and webpages.read more.
eSchool News
MAY 3, 2016
The data dashboard has become more sophisticated, but it is still only one lens through which educators should view their students. When Amber Teamann was a teacher in Garland, Texas, seven years ago, her use of data to help guide her instruction was fairly limited. “Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said.
Edutopia
MAY 3, 2016
Photo credit: ©Hero Images/500px Monica Burns Open Education Resources If you want to use YouTube in the classroom, here are some tips to help you find and distribute appropriate content, explore virtual reality, and share student work.
eSchool News
MAY 3, 2016
The U.S. Department of Education issued guidance to school districts and educational leaders on funding STEM education opportunities. The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidance around leveraging federal funds for STEM education in an attempt to close the equity and opportunity gaps that persist for historically underserved students. A letter directed to states, school districts and schools offers examples of how federal funds can serve to support the development, implementation and exp
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.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 3, 2016
Learning a new Language can be Quite Challenging. But Assessing Progress Doesn’t Have to be … Let’s face it: we live in a time of evidence-based teaching. Parents, administrators, and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Bryan Alexander
MAY 3, 2016
Over the years I’ve enjoyed experimenting with new technologies as they appear. Which is appropriate for a futurist. This week we started another such pilot, and I wanted to blog about it. We now have a Tesla PowerWall installed in our house. Main unit on center-left. Inverter, control panel, etc. to left. Hestia the dog snouting around on the bottom.
NeverEndingSearch
MAY 3, 2016
“You don’t have to be an art teacher to include the arts in your classroom or to encourage children to think about the arts.” Emily Valenza believes there are many engaging ways all educators can make thinking visible, rethink assessment and critique, and make critical connections across artificial disciplinary boundaries. I am pretty darn excited about the upcoming webinar, Literacy through the Arts: Standards-Aligned Curriculum for History and Social Studies.
Bryan Alexander
MAY 3, 2016
Over the years I’ve enjoyed experimenting with new technologies as they appear. Which is appropriate for a futurist. This week we started another such pilot, and I wanted to blog about it. We now have a Tesla PowerWall installed in our house. Main unit on center-left. Inverter, control panel, etc. to left. Hestia the dog snouting around on the bottom.
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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
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 3, 2016
The post 10 Things Every Great School Should Be appeared first on TeachThought.
MindShift
MAY 3, 2016
Girls often excel in school, sitting quietly and following teacher directions more carefully than their male peers. There’s evidence to suggest that girls are also being socialized to be perfect , which makes them less likely to tackle challenges in areas where they don’t already excel. In her TED Talk, Reshma Saujani recognizes that tendency in herself, highlighting her first really courageous career move at age 33.
Fractus Learning
MAY 3, 2016
Today we speak casually of lifelong learning, but in a few decades, it will likely be so much the norm as hardly to require its own label – David Perkins. You’re an educator with your finger on the pulse of what’s relevant to teaching and school. Being well read, you know that educational thought leaders are focusing recent dialogue on learning.
Bryan Alexander
MAY 3, 2016
Next up on the Future Trends Forum is our first return guest, Deanna Marcum, from Ithaka S+R. In March we discussed the future of libraries and attitudes about the future of higher education shared by campus leaders and experts. This Thursday we’ll push further on the fate of libraries, then explore Ithaka S+R’s new study about faculty attitudes towards information.
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.
Edutopia
MAY 3, 2016
Photo credit: ©Hero Images/500px Judy Willis MD Brain-Based Learning Adolescents need guidance in learning judgment -- academic-cognitive and social-emotional -- while their prefrontal cortex is transitioning into a more efficient network for making decisions and achieving goals.
Bryan Alexander
MAY 3, 2016
Next up on the Future Trends Forum is our first return guest, Deanna Marcum, from Ithaka S+R. In March we discussed the future of libraries and attitudes about the future of higher education shared by campus leaders and experts. This Thursday we’ll push further on the fate of libraries, then explore Ithaka S+R’s new study about faculty attitudes towards information.
techlearning
MAY 3, 2016
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 3, 2016
JACKSON — In an interview with the Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick, an educator from DeSoto County, called charter schools “private charter schools.” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public schools.
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.
Graphite Blog
MAY 3, 2016
A typical teen's day includes up to nine hours of texting, gaming, watching videos, and posting on multiple social networks -- even while doing homework. It's enough to make you wonder: Are my students addicted to technology? Look around, and it's easy to see how media and technology have changed our day-to-day lives, even compared to a decade ago.
MindShift
MAY 3, 2016
The Maker Movement has helped spur renewed interest in hands-on learning and the value of spaces where children can explore their own ideas, be creative, and tinker. Some schools have made makerspaces and FabLabs a priority , building making activities into the curriculum and encouraging kids through afterschool activities. In large part, this new excitement has come from a predominantly white, male sensibility and conversations about equity and tinkering tend to focus on questions of access to
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 3, 2016
The post 20 Questions That Schools Should Be Asking About Professional Development appeared first on TeachThought.
The Principal of Change
MAY 3, 2016
The title of this post is taken from one of my favourite videos from Derek Sivers, titled, “Obvious To You, Amazing to Others” The idea behind the video is that the things we share and do that become almost second nature, could be amazing to other people. I think this is why we (myself included), are extremely tough critics of our own work.
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