Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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4 Simple Ways to Help Students Drive Their Own Learning

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. How to Move Teachers to the Passenger Seat and Give Kids the Wheel by Connie Hamilton Education is about creating lifelong learners. Sure, we understand this goal but how to accomplish it is often easier said than done. Teachers and parents alike describe students who go through the motions of school without really learning. […].

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Epson’s New Projector App for Chromebooks Adds More Interactivity to Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Students and teachers will find it even easier to share screens in class.

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The Power of Symbols–What does the word ‘Turkey’ mean?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Last year, I did a poll on the meaning of the word ‘turkey’ This was to demonstrate how powerful symbols are to your students and do so with an authentic use of technology to support discussion on math, language standards, and the holidays. As a summation to your discussion with students on symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, farms, or another topic, post this on your Smartscreen.

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Guest Post: Mysimpleshow, The Free Video Creation Tool for Educators and E-Learning.

EdTech4Beginners

Educators looking for a new online teaching and learning tool – we found it! It’s called Mysimpleshow , and it’s free. Mysimpleshow.com is an ‘explainer video-making tool’ that lets users create informative and engaging videos. The tool empowers simple explanation and is of great help to educators and students alike. Educators can use the tool to incorporate mixed media into lessons, support the flipped classroom ideology, enhance presentations with relevant video content, assi

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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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6 Great Websites That Offer Free Online Courses

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 4, 2016 One of the best advantages of the Internet and web technologies is that they have levelled the educational playground making education and learning accessible to anyone.read more.

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10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

Author information. Terry Heick. Director at TeachThought. Founder & Director of TeachThought, humanist, technologist, futurist, failed philosopher, macro thinker extraordinaire. | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ |. The post 10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Latest from Digital Humanities Questions and Answers

ProfHacker

Launched in September of 2010, Digital Humanities Questions & Answers is a joint venture of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and ProfHacker. (See Julie Meloni’s launch announcement.). Digital Humanities Questions and Answers ( @DHAnswers on Twitter) is designed to be a free resource where anyone with an interest in the digital humanities can pose a question to the community of folks working in the field.

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Middle School students use green screens, technology to connect to learning

eSchool News

Longfellow Middle School students are using green screen technology to transport themselves and their classmates to new worlds of learning. Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. Halderson received a $1,000 grant from the La Crosse Public Education Foundation to provide 34 green screens to students in the La Crosse School District’s

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Rigorous Reading: Building Strength and Stamina with Dr. Douglas Fisher

edWeb.net

Dr. Douglas Fisher, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University, presented in the webinar, “ Rigorous Reading: Building Strength and Stamina ,” sponsored by Achieve3000. The webinar explored building strength and stamina in students to improve reading at increased difficulty and complexity. Dr. Fisher began by defining the difference between difficulty and complexity, explaining that difficulty is the amount of effort a student must put into a given task, whereas complexity

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The 10-day summer STEM program improving science instruction

eSchool News

Tesha Frederick sees the endless possibilities of teaching science, thanks to a University of Wyoming (UW) program that promotes STEM careers. Frederick, a kindergarten-first-grade teacher, was among 30 teachers – -mainly from various Wyoming school districts — on the UW campus this summer for a 10-day schedule that included various STEM-related workshops.

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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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Friday 5 — 11.4.2016

Perry Hewitt

LinkedIn is putting user data to work with a new Salary tool, now included with Premium membership. LinkedIn Salary provides filters like industry, location, and title, as well additional compensation elements like signing bonus. If you're convinced you're underpaid, use this newfound information symmetry to make the case. Harvard Business School profs figured out why you dropped your iPhone 6 in the toilet the week the iPhone 7 was announced.

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ISTE working group to refresh teacher standards

eSchool News

In an effort to refresh its standards for teachers, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has convened a new working group comprised of working educators, nonprofit leaders, and those in higher education. Working from initial input received from educators, the group created a draft of the refresh, which will be available online for public comment later this month. “In the next step of this grassroots process, we are inviting educators to once again share their voices

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More on mapping expository texts through tech, Part 3

SpeechTechie

In the past several posts I have been discussing resources for visually mapping expository (and by extension, narrative) topics. In the last post I outlined the use of Kidspiration's Super Grouper feature for sorting ideas into categories--it can also be used for sequencing. Kidspiration and its older brother Inspiration (again free to try , $9.99 for full app , also available for Mac or PC and even on the web ) are better known for their mind-mapping or diagramming features.

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11 John Deere Toys to Add to Your Christmas List

Fractus Learning

John Deere is as American as corn dogs, Abe Lincoln’s beard and pretending you’re from Canada while traveling. Known as the inventor of the “plow that broke the plains” Deere stood for all that is good about America, from the entrepreneurial spirit to the honest and grounded work ethics. John Deere toys are made with these principles in mind; whether it’s a cute corn teether for a baby or a collectible for a teen, you know you’re getting a good quality product.

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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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Falling into October! PD Partner News 2016

EdTechTeam

October was here and gone before we could blink! Lucky us got to work with another 3400 educators! In addition to a Certification Bootcamp in Bahrain, summits in Canada and Australia and keynotes in Texas and New York, we brought another 31 events to educators around the world. Want to bring Edtechteam to your school or district? Please take a moment to fill out our request form and a member of the team will contact you.

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Hundreds of Educators Attend Gaggle EdTech Webcasts, Do You?

Gaggle Speaks

Let’s be honest. There are a lot, and I mean A LOT, of great resources for learning about edtech and online safety issues facing educators today. About six times a year, we hold our own edtech webcasts, part of a series of live presentations with influential edtech professionals and educators. Each Gaggle webcast is recorded, so even if you can’t make one in real time, by registering you’ll receive an email with a link to the webcast recording and slide deck.

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3 Big Ideas from the First Flipped Learning Certified Educator

Turning Learning On Its Head

Listen to an interview with the first ever Flipped Learning Certified Level – I Teacher, Christine Haynes. . If you are interested in learning about becoming flipped certified go HERE. Listen to an interview with the first ever Flipped Learning Certified Level – I Teacher, Christine Haynes. . If you are interested in learning about becoming flipped certified go HERE.

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Create 3D Models From Photos Easily With 123D Catch

techlearning

Super simple to use, and the resulting 3-D objects are extremely cool.

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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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SpellingCity

Technology Tidbits

SpellingCity w/out a doubt is my favorite site for Spelling and Vocabulary. This is a great site w/ educational portal that allows educators to create word lists that can be incorporated into educational games. These games are not only fun but highly engaging and help students learn their "words". Also, an educator can track students, find an abundance of resources/videos, and even use it for mobile learning w/ a free mobile app (iOS/Android).

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What Happens When Colleges Get $25M to Innovate With No Strings Attached?

Edsurge

A curious change is rippling through California State University, Dominguez Hills. Its sophomore class has the highest GPA and persistence rate in the institution’s history. More students in this group are completing 15 credits per semester—the gold standard to graduate in four years—than in any prior class. Dominguez Hills received a $3 million award from the State of California in 2014 to try a new approach.

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Amazon Rapids

Technology Tidbits

Amazon Rapids is the new free mobile (iOS/Android) app for Reading kids 7-12 yrs old. This exciting app engages students in a innovative way as it tells hundreds illustrated stories in a new way. The way this works is Amazon Rapids tells a story via a chat-style dialogue that helps bring the story to life. For $2.99 a month parents can get unlimited access to short stories.

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Will voters guarantee these public school kids a week in the woods?

The Hechinger Report

Students and counselors play a game of “gaga ball,” a bit like dodge ball, before dinner at Crook County’s spring outdoor school at an old summer camp in the Deschutes National Forest. Photo: Joe Kline. While several measures on the Oregon state ballot, including one that would increase taxes on businesses in the hopes of spending more on schools, are proving incredibly controversial, others have no organized opposition at all.

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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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Calif. Attorney General Cautions Ed-Tech Companies on Data Privacy

Marketplace K-12

Kamala Harris, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, issued recommendations for securing sensitive student information out of concern about companies' potential to collect specific types of data. The post Calif. Attorney General Cautions Ed-Tech Companies on Data Privacy appeared first on Market Brief.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Presidential Campaign Politics. Welp. It’s almost over. Via NPR : “What Trump And Clinton Have To Say About Education.” This seems dumb but you know, it makes for a headline: “ Higher ed split 50–50 on Clinton vs. Trump ,” according to Education Dive. Blah Blah Blah. [ Peter Thiel ](Tech Billionaire Backing Trump Suggests Silicon Valley Is Out of Touch).

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Don’t worry: We are going to vote!

The Hechinger Report

Former NSYNC singer Lance Bass, right, was at Kenyon College Tuesday afternoon on a tour promoting voter registration along with attorney Alissa Cravens. Kenyon Democrats were on hand to assist other students through the simple process of voter registration. Photo: Virgil Shipley/Mount Vernon News. Gambier, Ohio — As Ohio goes, so goes the nation, and I don’t have a single relative or family friend who will ever let me forget that.

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