Thu.Mar 31, 2016

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5 tech devices that should be part of all classrooms

Neo LMS

The ancient Greeks thought that the end of the world was today's Morocco and the titan named Atlas bore the weight of the world on his shoulders. Kids today learn about this myth and know better than the most civilized people in the ancient world. Schools bear the same weight on their shoulders, because kids must always know more about our world. There are a lot of aspects to learning and a lot of dedicated people that work together for a better education system.

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2 Steps for Using Technology as a Catalyst for Learning

EdTech Magazine

By Wendy Drexler An expert from ISTE offers her advice for moving forward with technology-infused learning.

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5 tech devices that should be part of all classrooms

Neo LMS

The ancient Greeks thought that the end of the world was today’s Morocco and the titan named Atlas bore the weight of the world on his shoulders. Kids today learn about this myth and know better than the most civilized people in the ancient world. Schools bear the same weight on their shoulders, because kids must always know more about our world.

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Emoji Get to Know You Activity

Teacher Reboot Camp

“Emoji and emoticons have developed to mean much more in language than the faces they represent.”- Lauren Collister (2015). For the past year, I’ve been studying how learners use emoticons, emoji, and text speak to communicate, read and write. Emojis are part of digital literacy and citizenship. When our learners use emojis in their writings, they are humanizing their digital experience.

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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 You Might Have Missed This Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of March: 20 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills. 22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom. Website Review: ProdigyGame.com. K-8 Hour of Code Suggestions by Grade Level. 3rd Grade Resources. Do You Miss Kerpoof? Try These 34 Alternatives. 20 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students. 52 Resources for Read Across America Day. 13 Reasons For and 3 Against Technology in the Classroom. 84 Math Websites for K-8.

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Security at K–12 Schools Ramps Up as More Devices Roll In

EdTech Magazine

By Wylie Wong K–12 districts increase security measures as more students bring their own devices to school.

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5 Steps to Enhance School Network Security

EdTech Magazine

By Steve Zurier Expert offers five tips to defend against hackers and other breaches.

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Showcasing Digital Student Work

ProfHacker

Digital projects have been at the center of a number of ProfHacker posts: the easy and free availability of cool tools for making things gives us all sorts of possibilities for the classroom. However, works produced in the classroom often have a very small audience, with peers and the professor serving as the only guaranteed audience. Creating opportunities for showcasing digital student work for outside audiences can provide incentives and recognition for great student work while also creating

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Why I Shudder Every Time I Hear the Phrase “Research-Based” Teaching Practice

The 21st Century Principal

I am being totally honest when I say I shudder when I hear educators and policymakers use the phrase “research-based teaching practice.” It’s like when someone runs their fingernails across a chalkboard. Those of us who remember chalkboards also remember the degree of inner discomfort that accompanies that experience. I even used it as an attention-getter in my earliest days of teaching, but I digress here.

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Top 4 Flashcard Creation Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 31, 2016 Flashcards are great learning tools students can use to enhance their study skills and make better grades. They are especially helpful for memorization and note taking. The apps.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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We Have Student-Led Conferences. Why Not Teacher-Led Evaluations?

Edutopia

Photo credit: Savannah River Site via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Andrea Hernandez Teacher Development Modeled on student-led conferences, teacher-led evaluations support teachers as learners, motivate risk taking, and recognize the necessity for personalization.

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4 of The Best Apps for Creating Educational Comics in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 31, 2016 Technology provides us with endless possibilities to create immersive learning experiences for our students. Comic creation is one solid example of a digital activity to engage.read more.

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Contagious Emotions and Responding to Stress

Edutopia

Photo credit: Jose Kevo via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Dr. Lori Desautels Social and Emotional Learning In her fourth post about the film "Inside Out," Lori Desautels helps us diffuse students' stressful emotions through distancing, validating feelings, and choosing appropriate consequences.

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NGSS Explorer helps teachers with digital STEM resources

eSchool News

Common Sense Graphite search and ratings tool connects educators with STEM and STEAM apps, websites aligned to NGSS. A new search tool aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aims to help educators identify digital STEM and STEAM resources to use in their science and math instruction. The NGSS Explorer, from the nonprofit Common Sense Education, helps teachers locate the ed-tech resources that can help give students a cross-disciplinary, inquiry-based approach to science learning

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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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I'm Not Angry #savmp #leadupchat #KidsDeserveIt #edchat

Adam Welcome

I'm really not - I'm just frustrated and passionate and want what's best for kids. We're making it all so complicated, so many initiatives, so much testing, so many different programs, too much red tape, to many decisions that are best for adults and not always best for kids. Let's be smaller, more nimble, more discrete - let's have our focus be more focused!

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5 principles for rigorous technology evaluation

eSchool News

A new proposal offers a way to determine how effective different education technology tools are for teaching and learning. A new policy proposal notes that while education technology holds great promise to improve K-12 educational outcomes when correctly implemented, methods to rigorously evaluate education technology tools have not kept pace with the tools themselves.

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When Kids Have Structure for Thinking, Better Learning Emerges

MindShift

Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it’s easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative and qualitative understanding of the world. Teaching for understanding has always been a challenge, which is why Harvard’s Project Zero has been trying to figure out how great teachers do it.

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Technologically Blind or Technologically Conscious

Fractus Learning

How do we define the difference between being technologically blind and technologically conscious? How would you answer the question “ do you think that those students who do not have access to technology have as good a chance of getting a good education as those who do have access to technology? ” I am 50 years old and I can assure you that I didn’t have a computer, I didn’t have a mobile phone, and I certainly did not have access to a tablet throughout my high school and most of my college yea

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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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Getting to Know Knovation – Curated, Contextualized, Managed OER for K-12

EmergingEdTech

Knovation Makes Open Educational Resources More Manageable and More Efficient Many schools are looking to lower costs by transitioning away from text books to Open Education Resources. EmergingEdTech. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The NGSS Explorer: Classroom Tools, Tips, and Lessons

Graphite Blog

We are excited about the potential of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to elevate how teachers and students tackle scientific and engineering problems. As students struggle to make sense of their learning, the NGSS provides the framework and practices to get students acting like scientists and promotes the need for melding engineering with scientific inquiry.

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13 Top Toy Tow Trucks for Kids

Fractus Learning

Big kids and little kids love to play with toy tow trucks. Just like you did when you were knee-high to a grasshopper. It’s great fun pushing around a toy truck in the dirt, picking up mud and stones, and pretending to rescue other stricken vehicles. Toy tow trucks are not just good fun to play with, however. They are also a useful toy from an educational perspective.

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Wash. district implements neuroscience reading intervention

eSchool News

Tool will serve students in general education, special education, Title I, and state-funded Learning Assistance Programs. In the state of Washington, school districts can receive state funding for a Learning Assistance Program (LAP) to provide supplemental instruction and services to K-12 students who do not meet reading, writing, and mathematics standards.

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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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Advisory

Reflections

One of the newest ideas we implemented this year in our middle school is our advisory program. It's not the typical advisory program. As a PBIS school, we have added to our menu of interventions for students with behavioral needs at the Tier 2 and Tier 3 levels. Last year, we knew we still had the top "5%" we needed something more for. Enter advisory.

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Personalizing Learning for Today’s Students

MiddleWeb

Learning Personalized is a resource that does not shy away from wading into the messiness that is true learning. Educators can deeply explore the book, one chunk at a time, to create learning experiences that appeal to all types of students.

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Choose the Right Adaptive Math Software – a Buyer’s Guide

techlearning

Event status: Not started ( Register ) Date and time: Thursday, March 31, 2016 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Duration: 1 hour Description: The word “adaptive” h.

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A Leadership Toolkit for Schoolwide Rigor

MiddleWeb

Williamson and Blackburn set out to provide strategies and resources for education leaders to use as they work to achieve more rigorous, supportive schools. The description of this book as a “toolkit” couldn’t be more accurate, says principal Bret Olson.

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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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The NGSS Explorer: Classroom Tools, Tips, and Lessons

Graphite Blog

We are excited about the potential of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to elevate how teachers and students tackle scientific and engineering problems. As students struggle to make sense of their learning, the NGSS provides the framework and practices to get students acting like scientists and promotes the need for melding engineering with scientific inquiry.

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A Linear Scale For Critical Literacy

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post A Linear Scale For Critical Literacy appeared first on TeachThought.

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3D Jewelry Artists in 1st Grade Using Blokify

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

In my latest collaboration with our superstar art teacher, Rita Foretich, we are crafting with 1st graders. One of her art standards has to do with students creating a craft, which is defined as an art creation that serves a purpose. Rita is always pushing herself as a teacher to try new things and stretch the boundaries of what kids have experiences with.

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A Balanced Approach To Social Media For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post A Balanced Approach To Social Media For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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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.