Battelle for Kids

MARCH 30, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 14. There's a reason why so many schools, teachers, and students are excited about STEM or STEAM (STEM plus arts & design, as championed by the Rhode Island School of Design). They make learning more fun and engaging, not to mention provide students opportunities to use content knowledge and skills in ways that are practical and applicable to the real world, just like they would if they were working on science or engineering projects in the field.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2016

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I can’t convince my students to give up their paper and pencil. What’s a great reason that will resonate with them?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2016

By Heather B. Hayes Investments in high-tech security tools provide eyes and ears in school hallways.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 30, 2016

You teach every day in an offline classroom, but the benefits of spending some class timeonline are impossible to deny. When you bring online learning into the equation, students can step outside the four walls of your classroom, while engaging with the content and building a wide variety of 21st century skills.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2016

By D. Frank Smith More districts are being attacked by malware intrusions, and some are fighting back.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 30, 2016

You teach every day in an offline classroom, but the benefits of spending some class timeonline are impossible to deny. When you bring online learning into the equation, students can step outside the four walls of your classroom, while engaging with the content and building a wide variety of 21st century skills. But that’s not all—consider the full list of.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

March 30, 2016 You don’t need advanced video editing skills to create short educational movies to share with your students in class. The iPad apps below provide you with everything you need to.read more.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 30, 2016

Jon had a chance to chat with veteran 4th grade teacher Charles “Chuck” Rieger about how he is flipping his class with great success. Flip Side Radio Jon Bergmann had a chance to chat with veteran 4th grade teacher Charles "Chuck" Rieger about how he is flipping his class with great success.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

March 31, 2016 Vocabulary learning is an essential component in language learning. It helps students become more expressive with their language and enriches the lexical repertoire they.read more.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 30, 2016

Where does humor fit into the classroom? Just about anywhere! Check out these refreshed resources on why humor works, how to share it, and where to find it. Funny math, ELA, social studies, and science resources abound.

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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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ProfHacker

MARCH 30, 2016

I don’t think this is a controversial view or anything, but I’m fond of annotation. I’v written before that I think it’s a fundamental activity in both networked culture and higher education , and we’ve certainly written about annotation quite a bit here at ProfHacker. Tools such as hypothes.is and News Genius , along with older tools such as Diigo , allow visitors to any page to annotate that page in public.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 30, 2016

Want more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) resources for your classroom? CITGO is teaming up with renowned educator Steve Spangler to bring STEM learning to more schools across America through a sweepstakes with some really awesome prizes. What you can win. If you are one of the first teachers to enter, you can receive a free STEM toolkit bonus with lots of great STEM “Imagination Lab” experiments among other prizes, which will be delivered straight to your school.

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Edutopia

MARCH 30, 2016

Photo credit: Slongood via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Mark Phillips Family Engagement Parents can partner effectively in their children's educational success by supporting home learning, establishing constructive dialogue with educators and policy makers, and shining as individuals within their community.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

The major publisher and content producer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today unveiled the HMH Marketplace , a hub meant to allow teachers to search for academic materials produced by peer educators, or commercial providers. The site launches at a time when numerous commercial and nonprofit organizations are moving aggressively to create organized online repositories of academic resources.

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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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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 30, 2016

The TED Ed video below looks at five areas our brain is changing then asks students a series of questions requiring correct answers that in short explain how the use of the internet in general, and social media in particular can ruin them. Go ahead and take 3.5 minutes to watch the video here. Then hop below the picture and read as I debunk each of the five myths.

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Edutopia

MARCH 30, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo Collaborative Learning For English-language learners, simple peer review activities that are kind, specific, and helpful will better assist students in improving their writing and learning about writing.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 30, 2016

In 2011, I made clear my concerns with " Test Pep Rallies" with my blog post "Test Pep Rallies: Good Practice or Waste of Time ?" I still feel that such practices are more harmful than useful. As in my earlier post, I still believe that: Test Pep Rallies potentially harm students and learning. It's one thing to encourage a student to do his or her best; it's another to place emphasis on performance levels, where self-worth might be wrongly tied to test results.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

The College Board’s administration of the SAT in Asia, undermined by cheating in the past, has been plagued by more problems than the testing organization has previously acknowledged, according to newly published stories by Reuters. The U.S.-based College Board has coped with the improper sharing of test information in Asian nations in recent years, causing it in some cases to cancel exams and delay issuing test scores.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

KnowledgeWorks releases guide to help states and districts re-imagine teaching and personalized learning under new federal education law. Amid sluggish education outcomes, increasing need for remedial college coursework and a prevalent job skills gap, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marks an important point in federal education policy. During 15 years of No Child Left Behind, education advocates became increasingly frustrated with the level of federal prescription over the vision and desig

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2016

It was lunch time at Marysville School in Southeast Portland when the fire broke out. Teachers quickly herded their students out of the building to the sports field behind the school as the old colonial-style building burned. The fire that traumatized students and staff alike was in 2009, when Lana Penley was in her second year as principal. The 460 students and 50 staff members of the K-8 school relocated to a vacant school building in another part of Portland, displaced from their school site

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 30, 2016

Cognitive Assessment Specialist Offer a Rich set of Free Resources There is now an entirely FREE version of Mindprint available. Seriously, no catch so please share with potentially interested. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

If you’ve been interested in incorporating games in your classroom, but not sure where to start, I’ve got a very special project for you. I’ve put together a 4-week games project that can be used in (almost) any classroom curriculum. No matter what your experience is with games, this should be a fun and easy project to add to your class. The benefits of adding playful learning are numerous: increased social empathy, increased collaboration, and better memory retention.

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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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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 30, 2016

Way back in 2000, I purchased a very cool computer case that was perfect for traveling. It was called "The Lapdog", and it held my laptop, computer cables, chargers, and PalmPilot. The neatest thing about it was you could unfold it and use it on your lap while in an airport. It was well-made and sturdy, and all the business people in the airport asked me about it!

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 30, 2016

Of course we all acknowledge state standardized tests can't possibly measure everything that matters. Our state even forbids the use of state test scores as the sole basis of making high-stakes decisions. Yet, as the season of testing falls upon us, the obsession with bubble sheets and number two pencils begins anew. But we need to be reminded that tests are only a small piece of information that matters about our students and our teachers.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 30, 2016

This Thursday on the Forum we have the one and only… Jim Groom. If you don’t know Jim, he’s one of the first and longest-running edubloggers, having written at Bavatuesdays for more than a decade. There you can find his thoughts on the intersection of education and technology, with a strong helping of culture high and low. At the University of Mary Washington Jim inspired the edupunk movement, and then invented and taught the famous digital storytelling counter-MOOC DS106.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2016

Starting with World Autism Awareness Day , April brings us a month of celebrating each unique individual who is a brother, sister, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, neighbor, student, or friend. Chances are you know someone on the Autism spectrum. If you’re new to Autism, learn more about the diagnosis and criteria which leads to a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses for individuals on the Autism spectrum.

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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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Graphite Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

We're constantly looking for ways to make Graphite even better so you can continue to easily discover new edtech tools, learn best practices, and share your expertise with like-minded peers. Our most recent update includes exciting new community features and a streamlined way for you to save and organize your favorite Graphite content. We've made several changes to the My Desk experience to make it easier for you to access and manage your content and profile details.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 30, 2016

I’ve been doing a lot of app smashing these days, but I recently discovered that sometimes suites are just, well, sweet. Even sweeter when they are free. A little over a year ago, I kinda fell in love with Adobe Voice , for its easy, elegant storytelling affordances. Gather your images, hit the record button and this little tool allows you to create, narrate and share beautiful stories.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

We're constantly looking for ways to make Graphite even better so you can continue to easily discover new edtech tools, learn best practices, and share your expertise with like-minded peers. Our most recent update includes exciting new community features and a streamlined way for you to save and organize your favorite Graphite content. We've made several changes to the My Desk experience to make it easier for you to access and manage your content and profile details.

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Cycles of Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

I was honored to participate in a Google Hangout today with the folks at littleBits. We chatted about curiosity, technology, youth science camps, MakeyMakey robotics integration, and much more!

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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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