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Disengaged Teachers: A Problem We Need to Solve

Catlin Tucker

I frequently hear about high numbers of students who are not engaged in their learning, but I hear less about teachers who are not engaged in their work. However, a Gallop Poll found that 57% of teachers report that they are “not engaged” at work, with an additional 13% reporting that they are “actively disengaged.” This is alarming.

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Formative Assessment Tools and Tips from Monica Burns #FormativeTech

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 37 of The 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Monica Burns, author of #FormativeTech , shares essential tools and tips for effective formative assessment. Learn how to get results. Pick some tools. Accelerate learning. Monica’s book comes out today! Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The flipped classroom: creating a win-win situation for students and teachers

Neo LMS

It’s funny how some things in our present days seem to be stuck in the past. Take the classroom for example. The place where students spend most of their time preparing to become successful citizens in our ever more connected modern world hasn’t evolved much since the pre-industrial era. Markers and whiteboards have replaced chalk and blackboards, the furniture is nicer, and maybe there’s a projector in each classroom.

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Teaching Morals and Ethics In a World of Gray

The CoolCatTeacher

A Cathy Rubin Global Education Discussion From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The murderous mobster Jimmy Hoffa once said, “I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.” If such an evil man – guilty of prostitution, gambling, corruption, murder and more — didn’t see his faults, what hope do we teachers have of teaching kids the difference between right and wrong?

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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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KidZania: Hands-On Kid Sized Cities Coming To America

EdNews Daily

The world’s fastest growing experiential learning center for children is coming to the U.S., promising to bring unique educational experiences to American children. KidZania’s are mini, kid-sized cities and experiential learning centers that allow kids to role-play in a variety of real life professions, from firefighter to doctor to TV news personality to marine biologist. .

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3D Scanning Adds New Dimension to Learning

EdTech Magazine

By Alan Joch Tools enhance STEAM lab experiences, as well as district curricula.

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169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #127–12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes.

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Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction

Edsurge

Jackie, the team captain of St. Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold. During a panel on the importance of STEM education for women, she explained what it’s like to be a female student competing in a male-dominated program: “Not only were we the only all-girls robotics team,” she explained of a recent competition, “we were the only team that actually allowed girls to touch the robots.

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The Easiest Way To Increase Private School Profit

Hubbli

After five years of consulting private schools on how to use communication tools to grow enrollment, and keep enrolled parents engaged, one thing has become painfully obvious to me: Almost without exception, I find that people who are in school leadership positions have little to no business education or training before they take the position. The only real expertise that exists within the school staff is education.

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?Learning Equality Scores $5M From Google To Bring Edtech Offline

Edsurge

In the conversation around digital learning, there’s a sobering statistic that often goes overlooked: 74. It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. Some, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have taken on the monstrous task of bringing internet access to billions of people around the world.

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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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Telemedicine keeps K12 students in class

District Administration

Treating children in school so they aren’t sent home for minor illnesses Shawna De La Rosa Telemedicine, in which a remote doctor or physician’s assistant provides health care via the internet, has caught on in the business world and is now making its way into public schools.

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Why Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses

Edsurge

Students at the University of Central Florida are busy, and it’s not always with classes. They have sports to play, student organizations to run, even parties to go to. So to keep class schedules as flexible as possible, and to offer more sections without putting up new buildings, UCF leaders have turned to offering more online courses for students on campus.

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Schools collect reams of data, inspiring a move to make sense of it all

The Hechinger Report

Almost every school collects and stores information on how students perform. Test scores. Attendance. Demographics. And on and on. Now, more than ever, digital programs make it easy to gather, slice and dice these numbers. This can be difficult to do by hand, but computers make the task of collecting the data easier and faster. The next task is considerably harder, but it is vital to efforts to use technology in tandem with in-person instruction.

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Teachers at Two Rivers Roll Up Their Sleeves to Build Assessments from Scratch

Edsurge

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Stay tuned for the complete guide, due out in April. This work is supported by NGLC. EdSurge takes full responsibility for all editorial content. Two Rivers Public Charter School welcomed its first class of students in the fall of 2004, after more than three dozen parents from the Capitol Hill neighborhood came togeth

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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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Google Drive: Make a List of Newsletters

Teacher Tech

I noticed Christine Pinto was suggesting that you make a folder in Google Drive to keep your newsletters. Good advice, if you have a newsletter you send to parents it is a good idea to keep all your past ones in the same place. Create a List of your Newsletters It may be handy to […]. The post Google Drive: Make a List of Newsletters appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

Edsurge

Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centres of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. The ambitions for New York City’s Innovation Zone (or iZone) were sweeping: By 2014, city leaders hoped it would be the catalyst for technologically enhanced personalized learning models throughout the district, encompassing

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Another Great Website to Enhance Students Reading Skills

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 22, 2017 Actively Learn is an interesting interactive reading platform teachers can use to engage students in a wide variety of literacy activities and help them develop key reading skills.read more.

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3 Questions To Guide Teaching Through Learning Stations

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 3 Questions To Guide Teaching Through Learning Stations appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Here Is A Very Good iPad App for Music Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 22, 2017 Yousician is a very good app to help students learn to play piano, guitar, bass or ukulele. Here is how it works: you play your musical instrument, Yousician listens to you and.read more.

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How I use Skype to prevent school violence

eSchool News

21 st century schools must include effective and high impact approaches to school violence prevention and student conflict resolution. Unfortunately, “school-wide” or “outside speaker” approaches to reducing student violence and conflict have largely proven to be ineffective. Too often these “imported models” do not have a lasting impact on student conflict and violence prevention.

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7 Strategies For Using Context Clues In Reading

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 7 Strategies For Using Context Clues In Reading appeared first on TeachThought.

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The big 3: How access, achievement and advancement can close gaps

eSchool News

When it comes to learning, giving students access to a magical mix of high-quality teachers, technology, and the opportunity to develop skills such as collaboration sets them on the right path. But educational gaps remain–gaps in technology access, in achievement, and in opportunity. The right blend of pedagogy and technology, however, can help close those gaps.

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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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A Key Phrase In This School's Culture? "We Will Persevere"

MIND Research Institute

Dennis Township Primary School in New Jersey welcomed JiJi the penguin, from the game-based learning software program ST Math , during their annual JiJi Pep Rally last week. JiJi waddled over to celebrate students' progress in the ST Math program, as well as their developments in perseverance and growth mindset. Posters hung in the all purpose room included "We Will Persevere," "Welcome JiJi," and "Race to Argentina" (JiJi's last known location via postcard).

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12 Potential Education Technology Implementation Pitfalls and Ways to Avoid Them

EmergingEdTech

I originally wrote this piece back in 2012 for inclusion in a collaborative effort that celebrated the 5 year anniversary of the popular website and “Ning” at Classroom20.com. Numerous. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Is Your School Modern? Check Out These 10 Principles to Find Out

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators understand that surprisingly little has changed in how school is done today versus the last century. It is clear we must update and/or throw out outdated practices and possibly do something radically different. But what does it really take for a school to be modern? This is the question educators and authors Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon answer in their white paper 10 Principles For Schools of Modern Learning: The Urgent Case for Reimagining Today’s Schools.

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District Leaders Should Get Out of Their Office!

Adam Welcome

The post below was published on EdWeek the week of March 17th. A few questions for district leaders. 1. How many hours per week do you spend at school sites? 2. How many of those hours do you spend in classrooms when you visit school sites? 3. How many teachers do you know by name? 4. How many teachers know your name? 5. How many kids know your name?

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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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How to Incorporate Digital Learning for Increased Student Success

techlearning

Blended learning is driving student success in schools across the U.S., and education leaders in school districts far and wide are taking notice of the results. Blended learning combines online learn.

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Keeping it Together with Google Keep

EdTechTeam

From the community: Find out more about Google Keep here with my tutorial : Behind the Community w/ Hollie: My love for reading and my passion for encouraging others to become lifelong users of information and resources is what inspires me. I began my education career in 2001 as an Interrelated Special Education teacher, mainly serving as a resource and collaborative English/Language Arts teacher.

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Flip It! The Flipped Classroom Model is for Everyone. Here’s Why.

Fractus Learning

“Will a flipped classroom work in your subject and grade level? We think the answer is yes. Here’s why.” In The Flipped Class: Is Flipping for Everyone? , hosts Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams demonstrate basic ways subject-area educators can apply the flipped classroom model to their teaching practice. Bergmann and Sams are veteran educators and pioneers of the flipped classroom.

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Know about Veative Labs

Veative

Veative Labs is growing to be a popular name in the world of education technologies. Veative Labs reflects the deep in roads it has made in many countries across the globe by developing in technology as well as education.The company is structured in such a way to offer more attainable results for use in various education solutions. Veative Labs is driven by a passion for learning and our team which is highly motivated focuses on fulfilling the goals of the company.

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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.