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How to Parent Teens in a High-Tech World Without Losing Your Mind

EdNews Daily

Robyn D. Shulman, Author. My daughter turned 14 in November. As I reflect back on her childhood, I tend to do what many parents do: compare her life now to how my life was as a teenager then -my then seems like a different planet. To say parenting and childhood have changed over the past thirty years is an understatement. As I felt her move around in a mini-ocean that took over my body, I could never have imagined parenting would be entirely different than it is today.

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3 Injustices in Education

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Last month I was honoured to be interviewed on Corey Engstrom’s Teacher Tech Trails. Near the end of the podcast , I mentioned the ‘greatest’ injustices that we tend to do in more traditional schools and classrooms to three different kinds of students. While I would question my choice of the word ‘greatest’, I think these students are worthy of mentioning and there are enough of them to ask ourselves what we can do to better meet their learning needs?

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New Feature! – Differentiate Assignments with Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

Differentiate Assignments with Google Classroom A new feature makes it easier to assign different things to different students. This allows you to provide challenges for students who are ready to move forward or give students who are into Pokemon a math assignment that uses their game data. Default is All Students Notice when creating an assignment […].

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8 Helpful Videos About Chromebooks From Your Friends At Google!

My Paperless Classroom

In these 8 fantastic videos from Google, you will learn a little something about your new Chromebooks. The post 8 Helpful Videos About Chromebooks From Your Friends At Google! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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What Teachers Need to Know about The Digital Writing Workshop (Book)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 14, 2017 In " The Digital Writer's Workshop"", Hicks Troy dissects the act of writing in the light of today's digital technologies and provides an illuminating and practical analysis of.read more.

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How Can Robots Be Used in a Classroom?

My Paperless Classroom

Did your students watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Was anyone indifferent towards BB-8? We all love that droid. Children, in particular, are crazy about it. Robots have a certain way of mesmerizing students. This technology is powerful because it gives them insights into the future. It makes them dream about the ways technology can […]. The post How Can Robots Be Used in a Classroom?

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Learning with Legos: How Popular Toys Can Forecast Your Child’s Career

My Paperless Classroom

As a child, I spent the majority of my time outside playing with friends. However, when the sun went down and the street lights came on, building Legos became another way for me to escape reality. When I was about ten years old, my love for Lego’s grew. I harassed and begged my parents to […]. The post Learning with Legos: How Popular Toys Can Forecast Your Child’s Career appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Annotating Photos in iOS 10

SpeechTechie

Annotating a photo, or marking it up with text, highlights or shapes has many uses in language, social and executive function therapy. I have previously written about this topic with regard to Skitch. So, Skitch is no more, and though its functions were incorporated in Evernote, getting to them is almost too complicated to talk about here. The good news is that you can now annotate photos without a specialized app, because these features have been added to the Photos app for iPad and iPhone.

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Toontastic 3D: New and free from Google Education

NeverEndingSearch

Check out Toontastic 3D , a wonderful, free, open-ended digital storytelling app just launched by Google Education for tablet, phone and Chromebook. You may be familiar with Toontastic launched in 2011 or Toontastic Jr. Now, with the help of Google, the platform is impressively redesigned for Android , iPad and iPhone. The new app allows students to draw, animate, narrate and share 3D cartoons.

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3 Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! Holding steady at the top is a post looking at the differences between terms like ed tech, tech ed, digital literacy, media literacy, & digital citizenship. Think you know the difference?

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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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Kidjo

Technology Tidbits

Kidjo is an excellent free mobile (iOS/Android) app for finding educational videos, songs, cartoons, and more for kids ages 2-7. Best of all, Kidjo is COPPA compliant so you know all digital content is safe for kids to use. Also, parents can set time limits through Kidjo's parental control and even store videos off-line to view w/out an internet connection.

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Student Goal Setting in the Classroom

Reading By Example

Matt Renwick. Below is my response for Larry Ferlazzo’s Classroom Q & A for Education Week. You can view all of the responses by clicking here. Enjoy! Used smartly and with intent, goal setting can be a game changer in engaging our students in their own learning process. Writing down goals makes them concrete. Sharing goals with peers, teachers, and family members puts more accountability on oneself.

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The One Quality All Successful People Have

The Principal of Change

This Tony Robbins quote, “Where focus goes, energy flows”, has been stuck in my head all week. Whether you look at this quote from the perspective of an individual, or an organization, it is important to understand that if we are to grow in any area, the willingness to learn is crucial. Not only is it important to learn, but to apply that learning, and be willing to be focused and persistent in application.

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8 Great Google Extensions You Probably Didn't Know Existed

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 14, 2017 Today we spent sometime checking the archives of Chrome Web Store and singled out for you the collection below. These are all Chrome extensions created by Google but are not very.read more.

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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.