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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull. One of the best survival lessons I learned as a teacher was to engage parents. This past week at the ISTE conference, I shared my tips and resources for engaging parents. Take this summer to create a plan for communicating with parents better.

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Sextortion: Your Students Are at Risk, Teachers Can Help

The CoolCatTeacher

Get Netsmartz, the free program to help educate teachers, parents and students. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sextortion is a shocking new way online predators are targeting kids. At ISTE this week, I was upset when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children explained this disturbing trend to me.

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How an Ed-Tech Startup Can Rise Above the Noise at ISTE

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

When I worked as a public radio reporter, I rarely went to conferences or trade shows. It’s not where you found the news. Now that I’ve made the transition to startup CEO, some conferences are must-attend events. One of them is ISTE. This year, more than 16,000 teachers and administrators gathered in Denver, Colo. to share ideas, meet new people and see old friends.

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Support teachers with @Staples and Donorschoose.org

The CoolCatTeacher

and enter to win a $50,000 scholarship & trip to meet Katy Perry From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So many teachers spend their own money on school supplies for their classrooms. In the US, some estimates show 99.5 of all public school teachers use their money to equip their own classroom. I’m so excited that Staples is again supporting DonorsChoose.org and partnering with Katy Perry to encourage people to make their donation to support U

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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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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

Most educators–and parents–focus technology benefits on how it helps academically, but efriend Joe Peters reminded me the other day that there’s more to it than that. Joe’s not only a parent, but a freelance journalist and tech enthusiast, so I asked him to explain that to me and to my readers. Here’s his article on how edtech fosters a child’s social-emotional development: As technology has become mainstreamed in modern education, learners are able to enjoy many ke

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What Is a Bimodal IT Program?

EdTech Magazine

By L. Beatriz Arnillas An expert on education technology offers her advice for a more flexible, collaborative IT program.

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Technology Integration Research Review

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. It was written by Vanessa Vega, with subsequent updates made by the Edutopia staff. Technology integration can be one of the most challenging topics to find quality research on. The term itself is a broad umbrella for numerous practices that may have little in common with each other. In addition, technology tools change rapidly, and outcomes can vary depending on implementation.

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How to Include Fun in the Online Classroom

FuelEd

Contributor: Kelli Hicks Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:45am A couple years ago I ran a 5K with my sister. At the same event, my nephew completed a half marathon. At the end of his event, he received a finisher’s medal. However, my sister and I didn’t receive a medal because they didn’t hand them out for any events shorter than the half marathon. I quickly decided that I wanted a medal too. .

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How Do We Know When Technology Helps—or Hurts—the Classroom? Educators at ISTE Weigh In

Edsurge

“We dropped over $10,000 last year on a math product, but I’m not sure if it’s really helped our students learn.”. Sound familiar? "Regardless of the test, the impact of tech has been negative. Google is distracting, ethics are a mess.". Alan November, Edtech commentator and former school technology director. Over the past few years, “efficacy” has entered the edtech lexicon as a word commonly used to reference whether or not edtech is driving student learning.

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Plain Language and Inclusive Document Design

ProfHacker

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this month about making teaching documents of all kinds more accessible. Some of this is about a syllabus , but some of it is about rethinking some of our signs and documentation at work, as well as ways that we can make our edX courses more accessible to that highly varied audience. So I was delighted to discover an excellent new article on In the Library with the Lead Pipe by Jennifer Turner & Jessica Schomberg on “Inclusivity, Gestalt Princip

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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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Looking to Grow in China? 3 Lessons for U.S. Edtech Companies

Edsurge

As the world’s biggest Internet market, China is an alluring prospect for U.S. tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018.

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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. (Credit: John W. Adkisson for Education Week – file). Mark Edwards—the 2013 national superintendent of the year who taught thousands of educators how technology can play a pivotal role in improving academic results—will join Discovery Education in August, the company announced today.

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Teachers Guide to Using QR Codes in Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 1, 2016 According to Wikipedia, a QR code is " a specific matrix bar code ( or two-dimensional code ), readable by dedicated QR bar code readers and camera phones. The code consists of black.read more.

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The Most Successful Technologies Used in a Classroom

My Paperless Classroom

While educators have been given the opportunity to make their plans and lessons more engaging and easy to create as well as teach, students are given more options outside and inside of a classroom for gaining the necessary skills and knowledge. The post The Most Successful Technologies Used in a Classroom appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Shortpost: A Few Lingering Thoughts from TEDSummit

RafranzDavis.com

1. In education, we tend to learn in silos and it was eye opening as we dealt with global topics from multiple lenses and experiences. This should happen more. For a more accessible experience, see Educon in Philly, which is centered entirely on education. 2. I’ve watched TED videos and had tons of discussions about those thought-provoking ideas shared.

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Combining Environment and Technology Promotes Learning Opportunities

My Paperless Classroom

One of the most significant factors driving today’s world is the need to address and adapt to a changing climate. For students, this means being taught to understand the causes of our many environmental issues and ways innovators are looking to solve them. Since the ‘green’ sector of the economy is growing at such a […]. The post Combining Environment and Technology Promotes Learning Opportunities appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Survey: What online professional learning do teachers prefer?

eSchool News

New survey reveals teachers’ professional learning preferences, trends in priorities. Educators from Pre-K up through higher education most often prefer to participate in professional learning opportunities that focus on training for online software and digital resources (34 percent), classroom management strategies (34 percent), and digital device training (33 percent), according to a new survey released during this year’s ISTE conference.

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8 Tips for Building Your Career Portfolio as an Educator

Fractus Learning

Building a career portfolio for a newcomer into a sector like education is crucial to success. Portfolios do not have to be for the public eye, but rather for yourself, to store important documents, and for use as a reflection of your own goals and progress. As a newcomer into the field of education myself, I have found we’re constantly thrown a wealth of knowledge daily, and a grand amount of resourceful tools which can often be forgotten if not written somewhere.

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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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Meet Milo! A Robot ‘Kid’ That Excels at Teaching Social Skills to Kids With Autism

EmergingEdTech

“This robot, programmed to teach kids about a wide range of social interactions, is proving more successful than humans in helping children with autism, by a long shot.” I recently had. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Want Innovation? Start with the Teachers in Your School Instead of Experts on the Outside

The 21st Century Principal

"The main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing on many sources. Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt, or a lightbulb popping out of the head of a lone individual in a basement or garret or garage" Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Besides the fact that the

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ClassTag | ISTE 2016

My Paperless Classroom

This year, I had the opportunity to sit down with Vlada Lotkina from Classtag. Classtag is a robust communication system that is connecting the classroom to the dinner table by bringing parents into the education conversation. The post Learn how @ClassTagme is helping schools turn Parents into Partners appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Privacy Tool fr @CommonSenseEd Pushes Companies to Make Safer Sites

The Innovative Educator

If you’re an innovative educator the question of student data and privacy comes up frequently. I’ve written about the privacy policies of some of the popular players in classrooms such as Microsoft, Google, Class Dojo, and Edmodo which you can read about at this link. In many cases it is parents who have been the force behind pushing this important conversation.

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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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Pearson Education | ISTE 2016

My Paperless Classroom

Pearson has many amazing programs that are focused on improving learning outcomes of K12 students and this year I was blown away by one of their new programs. The post Learn 5 great ways @Pearson is innovating the way schools track student learning appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Pearson has many amazing programs that are focused on improving learning outcomes of K12 students and this year I was blown away by one of their new programs.

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New Common Sense tool shows how secure your ed-tech apps are

eSchool News

New educator resource is intended to find accurate, up-to-date evaluations of privacy and security practices of ed-tech applications. Common Sense Education, in collaboration with over 70 schools and districts nationwide, launched its K-12 Ed-Tech Privacy Evaluation Platform to support educators in their effort to make informed decisions about the educational software being used on campuses throughout the country.

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PledgeCents - ISTE 2016

My Paperless Classroom

With over 308,000 students served to date, PledgeCents provides educators with a student first approach to raising money for class projects. The post @PledgeCents … School Fundraising Made Simple! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. With over 308,000 students served to date, PledgeCents provides educators with a student first approach to raising money for class projects.

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Action Video Gameplay: Benefits and Dangers

Edutopia

Melina Uncapher Game-Based Learning While evidence suggests that action video games enhance higher-order brain functions, the violence built into most commercial titles is far from beneficial.

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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.

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IO Education, EADMS merger will expand online formative assessment

eSchool News

Complementary formative assessment solutions will help educators better leverage tools. IO Education and Educator’s Assessment Data Management System (EADMS), a provider of K-12 assessment and data management software, have merged to better leverage online formative assessment capabilities. With EADMS’ fully integrated assessment and data management capabilities, IO Education will continue to strengthen its ability to utilize all student data to drive educator insight and improve educational out

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When it comes to student achievement, facilities matter

The Hechinger Report

JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Electric equipment, decades old, fell repeatedly, meaning constant maintenance and repair for the district’s schools in a county where 36.2 percent of citizens live in poverty, 2010-2014 U.S.

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6 Questions Hattie Didn’t Ask But Could Have

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 6 Questions Hattie Didn’t Ask But Could Have appeared first on TeachThought.

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Free Science360 App Engages With High Quality Video

techlearning

Amazing images, videos, and fact-packed text on many science topics.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks