EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2016

By Jacquelyn Bengfort Grade schools pin high hopes on standing desks and mobile classroom design.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 28, 2016

I’m a huge fan of creating custom resources for student learning. We, as teachers, know exactly what our students need much better than a textbook company hundreds or thousands of miles away. For me, that often came in the form of Google Docs with information my students were responsible for and a website for pointing students [.].

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2016

By Jena Passut 'All good makerspaces put kids first in all that they do.'.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 28, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 13. Driving Question: How do robotics reveal and inspire deeper learning? The robot's behavior was not what the third grade partners intended. They turned to each other when it stopped short of the target. "2.5 rotations is not enough," said one. "But 2.6 was too much," the other responded. There was a pause and then one spoke again more slowly, "Could there be a number in between?

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MARCH 28, 2016

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The Journal

MARCH 28, 2016

First the educational need, then the technology! Dialogue, not monologue, needs to be a primary learning activity. Supporting dialogue in the classroom, then, is a real educational need. The Collabrify Suite of Apps – free, device-agnostic, and designed expressly for grades 1-8 – meet that real educational need. Read this week’s blog post, increase dialogue by collabrifying your classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 28, 2016

I facilitated three workshops at ASB Unplugged in Mumbai, India this year for international school educators. All three sessions went extremely well and the folks at the American School of Bombay were impeccable hosts, as always. In my sessions we discussed deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion. We utilized the trudacot discussion protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other learning activities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome to a post that I feel is a must read when it comes to instructional technology in the classroom of the 21st century! In fact, in this article I integrate curriculum, PD, and technology together in a way that makes so much sense. I bring you this as I get ready to join the ASCD Press Core at the annual ASCD Conference in Atlanta, GA. Get ready for some daily posts and tweets throughout the conference that bring you the latest in educational theory with a technology twist.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

The Wayback Machine is a reference tool for the internet Age as basic as a dictionary. When was the last time you saw a student use it? When I’m giving a talk to students about being responsible digital citizens, I’ll tell them, “You know, some day you might apply to college, or run for Congress—and you might regret something you posted online when you were young.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

March 28, 2016 SnapType is one of the best free iPad apps for special education students. This is especially helpful for students struggling with dysgraphia, the inability to write coherently.read more.

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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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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past seven years I have attended and participated in approximately one hundred educational conferences around the globe. I have had the privilege of learning from some of the preeminent thought leaders in the world of education. Their presentations have pushed me to think in new ways about education. Many of these thought leaders have been advocates for student centered learning.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 28, 2016

With my semester hitting crunch time, I’ve been using a number of digital distractions for quick breaks in between grading and editing. The internet is, of course, great at providing cat pictures for those who turn to Facebook or Twitter for diversion — but there’s also a number of recent awesome cat-centric interactive works that can provide both cool models of interactivity and cuteness.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

March 28, 2016 In today’s post we are sharing with you three very good iPad apps you can use with students in class to help them in their writing projects. The apps are especially helpful for.read more.

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esri

MARCH 28, 2016

Computer Science for All is Pres. Obama’s effort to get all US K12 students to learn computer science. My previous blog showed how easily kids (or teachers) can make a map-based web app from a template, in minutes, even with a free public account on ArcGIS Online. But users in an Organization account (which any US K12 school can get for instruction for free ) have more tools (with cool powers!

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

March 28, 2016 Kaizena is a wonderful tool teachers can use to provide audio feedback to their students. We have already reviewed this tool in several instances in the past and today we are sharing.read more.

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eSpark

MARCH 28, 2016

Nine percent of all public school students are early language learners, and in states like California, over 23% of students speak a language other than English at home. As the number of ELL students continues to grow, districts are left scrambling to accommodate multiple languages within each classroom. Studies show that most districts are failing to meet the basic academic needs of students for whom English is a second language, which means that a sizable portion of public school students are g

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Neutron Series Distributed Network Management Solution provides fast wi-fi connectivity without licensing or subscription fees. EnGenius Technologies, Inc., a provider of high-performance, versatile networking and telecommunications solutions for businesses and consumers, recently introduced its new Neutron Series Distributed Network Management Solution.

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eSpark

MARCH 28, 2016

Nine percent of all public school students are English language learners, and in states like California, over 23% of students speak a language other than English at home. As the number of ELL students continues to grow, districts are left scrambling to accommodate multiple languages within each classroom. Studies show that most districts are failing to meet the basic academic needs of students for whom English is a second language, which means that a sizable portion of public school students are

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 28, 2016

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Edutopia

MARCH 28, 2016

Photo credit: Matt Farber Matthew Farber Game-Based Learning Whether you're teaching about molecular arrangements or parts of speech, consider using games that put playfulness ahead of content delivery, because that's where mastery happens.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. WeLearnedIt. What’s It Like? . With this social-learning platform created by the makers of eduClipper [Adam Bellow], teachers can create project-based assignments complete with rubrics and attachments that can be pulled from DropBox, Google Drive, the device’s camera or camera roll, or the Internet.

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MindShift

MARCH 28, 2016

Excerpted from The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose. Copyright ©2016 by L. Todd Rose, published by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. . I hope I have captured just how incredible a pilot Killer C is. But I would never be telling you this story if the U.S. Air Force still insisted that our pilots fit inside a cockpit designed for an average pilot: Colonel Kim N.

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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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Graphite Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

One of the unspoken issues in working on security and privacy in educational software is that, while many people are passionate about privacy and security, many people don't know how to start evaluating software or how to assess any potential risks they might uncover. One of the explicit goals of the District Privacy Evaluation Initiative is to decrease these barriers to entry and to help more people have a more informed conversation about what constitutes sound security and privacy practice

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edWeb.net

MARCH 28, 2016

The success of ClassDojo as a classroom management tool has led to the proliferation of this free platform to thousands of classrooms across the United States and the world. The issue teachers face with ClassDojo is that students find it “baby-ish” in upper elementary grades. Educators report that ClassDojo’s effectiveness diminishes in 6th Grade, and is not an option for student behavior management in middle school and high school.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 28, 2016

Groucho Marx once sent a telegram to a Hollywood Club he had joined. It said: 'Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.' It was a joke of course, and a self-deprecating one at that. But it also held a subtle caveat about involvement in organisations. What happens if you subscribe to a society or club that subsequently damages your reputation?

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

Recently I was invited to help judge a 3d printing contest for my state’s middle and high schools. So this past Friday I drove across and down the Green Mountains to Randolph, where Vermont Technical College is based. It was an exciting event, proof of the pedagogical power of 3d printing, and a heartening sign of the power of schools. The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 28, 2016

Creating video content no longer requires expensive equipment and software as well as years of professional production experience. However, just hitting record doesn’t guarantee success. Videos aren’t just limited to your website or YouTube. Instagram, Snapchat and other video distribution channels provide additional ways for your school community, and the world, to see your work and student productions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Despite tech explosion, schools are not seeing a boon in available computer science, coding courses. California is home to Silicon Valley, a hub of technological innovation. The computer industry boasts hundreds of thousands of well-paying information technology jobs, with more on the way. IT departments are now a staple of corporate America. Yet the large majority of California’s public high schools don’t offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacrament

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ASIDE

MARCH 28, 2016

Source: Inequality Is It goes without saying that in the world of our students today static doesn’t cut it. We get it, and we’ve abandoned many old PowerPoints, moved away from textbooks, and discarded our opus of worksheets. That’s why we are constantly on the prowl to find resources to help make learning participatory. When content is combined with good design, it provides a context for stronger understanding; when the design of information is interactive, it prompts students to engage with th

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