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Comics for Engaging Students! 22+ Resources & Ideas

Teacher Reboot Camp

“At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read.” – Nicolas Cage. Today, I will be conducting a webinar, Teaching with Comics , for Simple K12. I wanted to share the resources from the presentation in case you can’t join us. Comics can be powerful learning tools. They are brain friendly.

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Facebook, Summit Schools Work Together to Make Classrooms More Personal

EdTech Magazine

By Melissa Delaney Continuous improvement is at the heart of personalized learning plans for Summit Schools and Facebook's partnership.

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Increasing Student Retention: How Can We Help Students?

FuelEd

Contributor: Lainney Ballew Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 9:45am. Why Students Drop Out. How can we help struggling students so they don’t drop out? In order to help them, we really need to identify why they are struggling and why we are losing them.

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5 Ways to Get 100 Percent Participation in Every Class

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. Class participation is critical to successful learning. Sadly, our strategies for class participation are often imperfect. When we’re engaged in something, we do better at it. That’s as true of learning as it is anything else: an engaged student is more likely to learn and succeed than a disengaged one. Technology can play a huge part in […].

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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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Learn How Minecraft Empowers Students and Unlocks Unlimited Creativity

TeacherCast

The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

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Going Gradeless: Student Self-Assessment in PBL

Edutopia

Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Matt Weyers PBL Assessment By replacing student grades with an end-of-quarter conference, you can change that persistent question of "Will I be graded on this?" to "What can I do better?

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Teacher Apps for Fighting Digital Distraction and Managing Online Time

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 29, 2016 In his pioneering book 'The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction' , Alan Jacobs described the 21st century as The Age of Distraction and he was completely right. We are.read more.

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Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design

Edutopia

Photo credit: Bonnie Brown via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Mary Wade Education Trends These five steps are essential in creating a 21st-century classroom: establishing zones, ensuring resource accessibility, encouraging mobility, igniting inspiration, and fostering respect.

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When Should You Reply to Email?

ProfHacker

An uncomfortable truth about the modern workplace is that many people are buried under a seemingly-endless flow of email. Reading it, responding to it, and managing it can take a lot of time unless you have a good system in place. Today I just want to focus on the question of when you should respond to email. Reply to email on your own schedule , not whenever your software notifies you a new item has arrived.

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3 Powerful Attendance Management Apps for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 29, 2016 In teachers’ busy schedules every minute matters. Classroom management is probably one of the key areas where the likelihood of wasted time is higher. Instead of doing things the.read more.

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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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#ettChat: Video Reflection from Greg Kulowiec

EdTechTeacher

Each week EdTechTeacher will bring you a new, short video (10-15 minutes) by one of the staff exploring an app, web tool or idea in the world of educational technology Here, Greg Kulowiec demonstrates how Recap can be used across both Chromebooks and iPads to have students submit timely video reflections. MORE app recommendations organized by learning objectives can be found at edtechteacher.org/apps.

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3 Good Google Docs Alternatives for Student Researchers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March , 2016 Google Docs is absolutely a powerful authoring tool to use for a variety of writing projects. The multiple features it provides especially with the recent addition of Outline.read more.

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To Grade or not to Grade? Exploring the Great Grading Controversy

EmergingEdTech

How we Assess Student Learning is Long Overdue for a Change There has been a lot of hubbub lately about putting an end to traditional grading practices in our schools. Some ambitious educator(s) even. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Help Kids Boost Their Executive Function

MiddleWeb

Our brain’s executive function allows us to control and organize our thoughts and behaviors. All students in the middle grades – not just those with special needs – can benefit from scaffolding as they strengthen these abilities. Elizabeth Stein tells how.

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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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Old School vs New School #futureready

Adam Welcome

On our first date, my wife and I realized we had the same favorite movie in common. Sound of Music is no doubt a classic, so many amazing scenes, songs and wonderful moments throughout. We still laugh about this after six years of marriage! Other than my own children, I wonder how many kids have seen this movie? It's old school for sure - the songs, music, and the dancing.

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Teachers Can Now Share Video Portfolios Securely Outside Edthena

Edthena

Some skills are better observed than described. This is especially true for teachers, who often need to demonstrate their abilities in the classroom for people who aren’t peers or coaches, and who can’t physically observe them – people such as prospective principals. That’s one reason we’re excited to announce that we’ve developed a feature to meet this need.

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At Full Capacity

Adam Welcome

Few people are really at their full capacity I believe. Few people really know how far they can actually go. Few people have the tools to make this happen for themselves or those around them. Few people actually believe there's another level they can reach. Few people push themselves or push others to achieve that level. Are you at full capacity? Have you thought about this - and where else you can go?

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AppSmash these 2 apps to create endless multimedia possibilities

eSchool News

With just 2 apps students can create books that come to life. Ed. note: This post is one in a series that will explore how to AppSmash with a core set of Evergreen Apps. AppSmashing — the process of combining multiple apps to create new multimedia content — encourages more creative use of mobile devices and allows teachers to gain insights into student thinking and understanding.

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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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How I Got Started Using Technology To Assess Student Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post How I Got Started Using Technology To Assess Student Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Could Engineering Be the Coolest Job Ever?

MiddleWeb

The sky's the limit for students pursuing engineering careers. Anne Jolly offers STEM educators Q&As they can share with middle graders who'd like to investigate engineering's possibilities. Jolly highlights creativity, teamwork, making a difference and more.

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Why Teaching With Music Is So Effective

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Why Teaching With Music Is So Effective appeared first on TeachThought.

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SpotOn launches first digital content program

eSchool News

Ohio State University initiative will partner with a K-12 district to create educator-written digital content. SpotOn, an initiative of the Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology, announced Oak Hills Local School District (Cincinnati, Ohio) as the first participant in the SpotOn Digital Content Partnership Program. The partnership is expected to provide professional learning opportunities to 60 teachers and result in 300 educator written reviews of games and apps.

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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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3 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

With the rise of Chromebooks in schools, more student-friendly, classroom-ready Chrome extensions are popping up in the Chrome store. These clever tools can enhance students' and teachers' online activities by connecting to useful utilities or providing powerful features within the browser window itself. From bookmarking and citation plug-ins to collaboration tools, Chrome extensions can boost student learning and offer teachers easy new ways to plan lessons, manage student work, and mor

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Texas district upgrades fiber optic network

eSchool News

New 100G high-capacity network will support 128,000 students and staff across Houston. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD), the third largest school district in Texas, is deploying a private optical network leveraging high-capacity networking solutions fromPhonoscope LIGHTWAVE, a private fiber optic network service provider, and Ciena.

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Is It Time to Question the Place of Football in High Schools?

The 21st Century Principal

“Tough men do not cry. Placing your hands over your head and complaining about the effects of concussions are deemed as signs of weaknesses.” Bennet Omalu, Play Hard, Die Young: Football Dementia, Depression, and Death As it becomes clearer and clearer that repeated blows to the head while playing football causes CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, perhaps its time to question whether we can really guarantee that the thousands of young men who play high school football can really be safe f

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10 Tips for Efficient Workflows Using Google Apps

EdTechTeam

Here we are with another release from our GAFE Tips Poster Series! Read on for 10 simple time-saving tips. You'll definitely want to bookmark this one! 1. Bookmark all tabs 2. Email this page: Download the extension at goo.gl/uix3wo 3. Calendar attachment 4. Gmail filters 5. Jump to a video spot 6. Force "Make a Copy" 7. Search by file type 8. Add someone to a doc 9.

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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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I am all over the media this week, in podcasts and video

Bryan Alexander

Recently I’ve been ramping up my digital media work, between the Forum and some digital storytelling. At the same time other people have been including me in their productions, which has been exciting, productive, and a lot of fun. For example, in podcasts, I went back on Howard Teibel ‘s Tiebelcast. The framing question was “how do you transform academic structures and programs without diminishing the mission?

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3 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

With the rise of Chromebooks in schools, more student-friendly, classroom-ready Chrome extensions are popping up in the Chrome store. These clever tools can enhance students' and teachers' online activities by connecting to useful utilities or providing powerful features within the browser window itself. From bookmarking and citation plug-ins to collaboration tools, Chrome extensions can boost student learning and offer teachers easy new ways to plan lessons, manage student work, and mor

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Readying Students for College and Career: A 3-Step Approach

District Administration

Taking a blended learning approach to career readiness programs District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, May 2016 Education leaders are rallying to transform America’s high schools to better prepare students for their future of meeting the economic need of high-skill, high-demand jobs right out of school college. Career readiness programs are igniting a passion for learning in students and providing them opportunities for training and certifications, while keeping

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Checklist or Art Form?

The Principal of Change

As I was watching a video on “professional learning” this morning, the speaker was discussing the importance of our time to increase results, and something kind of dawned upon me. There seems to be two “camps” on education “reform” that I have noticed on somewhat polar opposite sides of the spectrum. Group 1 that focuses on “improving test scores” (better equals improvement in traditional measures).

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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.