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MARCH 25, 2016

By Melissa Delaney Founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife, Priscilla Chan, tour the school and begin collaboration on personalized learning project.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2016

Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s March 31st. Here are some websites your students will love: Easter color-me (for Kindergarten/first grade). Easter Color Me to print or import to drawing program. Easter games II.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 25, 2016

I’m finally posting the video from my Redesigning lessons with trudacot presentation at ISTE last year. 3 minutes. Happy viewing! Want to learn more about the trudacot discussion protocol? No related posts.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 25, 2016

By Karen J. Bannan Wi-Fi becomes a necessity as more school districts log on for learning. .

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2016

Jeff sits down with Travis and Anthony from mcSquares, a dynamic new edtech tool that brings personalized non-tech learning back into the classrooms. Jeff sits down with Travis and Anthony from mcSquares, a dynamic new edtech tool that brings personalized non-tech learning back into the classrooms.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 25, 2016

I write this the day immediately after the end of the Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: an AMICAL institute. We had three intense days, followed by a full day unconference. We had a lot of virtual options ( livestreams of keynotes and recordings of Virtually Connecting sessions here ). We had fun! I organized this event at the American University in Cairo , as part of my role at the Center for Learning and Teaching.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 25, 2016

March 26, 2016 BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a popular learning trend that 's being increasingly embraced by teachers in their classrooms. BYOD is premised on the idea that students.read more.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2016

Jeff sits down with Travis and Anthony from mcSquares, a dynamic new edtech tool that brings personalized non-tech learning back into the classrooms. The post Looking For Some Non Tech For Your Classroom? Check Out @MC_Squares Today appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Jeff sits down with Travis and Anthony from mcSquares, a dynamic new edtech tool that brings personalized non-tech learning back into the classrooms.

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Edutopia

MARCH 25, 2016

Photo credit: Lisa Yokana and Fallon Plunkett Fallon Plunkett & Lisa Yokana Design Thinking Follow the process as psychology and architecture classes join forces to design and build furniture for their high school's new learning spaces.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 25, 2016

March 26, 2016 Below are two very good Chrome apps you can use on Google Drive for collaborative mind mapping. Students can use them in their classroom projects to pool information, share ideas and.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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education’s recent selection of Knovation’s curated open education content is a signal that publishers and ed-tech providers are jockeying to find ways to take advantage of open education resources. The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 25, 2016

Scott Brinker has released the 2016 marketing technology landscape diagram, mapping 3,874 solutions into six capability categories (shows above). The slide shows that “one platform to rule them all” has not yet emerged — middleware is enabling greater integration among them. When building a digital product, it’s easy for teams from marketing to development to get atomized and hyper-focused on local goals.

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Edutopia

MARCH 25, 2016

Photo credit: marco antonio torres via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Frank Ward Classroom Technology A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 25, 2016

I was a very high achieving kid in school. I made it through the K-12 educational system earning A’s in each grade level until earning my first B+ at the end of 12 th grade physics. Everyone around me kept telling me how smart a kid I was, and of course I believed them. But things changed as soon as I entered college. The grades in the history, science, math, and engineering courses didn’t come as easily as I assumed they would.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2016

Big E-rate changes mean schools must chart a new path. A bigger annual cap isn’t the only recent change to the E-rate program. New forms, new data, the potential for infrastructure discounts, and (even more) new funding are all colliding to create one of the most challenging application periods in memory. We asked E-rate guru John Harrington, CEO of Funds for Learning, for his application-time thoughts and advice.

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Edutopia

MARCH 25, 2016

Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Keyana Stevens Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy) 5-Minute Film Festival Need a bit of help bringing apps into your classroom? This video playlist and resource collection will help you get started using apps with your students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2016

The post Learn To Earn: Why We Must Teach Students Financial Literacy appeared first on TeachThought.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. A company focused on improving K-12 literacy through ed tech has struck a deal with the Washington Post that will give the provider access to dozens of breaking news stories weekly, and hundreds of stories in the newspaper’s archives. LightSail , founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, says the partnership will allow the company to use its reading platform to deliver articles tailored to students’ with different skill levels.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2016

Clayton County, Atlanta County and Fulton County demonstrate success with Parchment to improve college readiness. High school and college students across the state of Georgia are leveraging simple solutions every day to improve their access to their next educative journey. Parchment, a leading academic credential management service, works with more than 65 high schools and 72 college admissions offices across Georgia to create a robust network that helps to simplify the college application proce

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

Anya Kamenetz was our Future Trends Forum guest on March 15th , and she sparked one of our most energetic discussions to date, focused on testing. Questions and comments raced over Shindig, and live tweeting was vigorous. We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researchin

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2016

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

This piece was co-authored by Lisa Guernsey , director of the Early Education Initiative and the Learning Technologies Project in the Education Policy Program at New America and Michael H. Levine , founder and executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. You can join us for a conversation with Lisa and Michael in our next edWeb webinar on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 1-2 p.m.

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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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techlearning

MARCH 25, 2016

In collaboration with 40 school districts around the country, Common Sense Education announced the launch of the Common Sense Privacy Evaluation Initiative to help schools evaluate the privacy and information security practices of educational technology used in K-12 classrooms.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

What's something new you want to try in your class? What's holding you back? Courage is the ability to face our fears and try something different, intimidating, or even frightening. In the next installment of our Twitter chats that focus on the "5 Cs" of #growthmindset (curiosity, collaboration, creativity, courage, and celebration), we focus on courage and ask the question: How can I practice courage to try new things as an educator?

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District Administration

MARCH 25, 2016

Starting with the district’s mission and vision will be key to success District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, May 2016 By leveraging technology and digital content, schools can create highly effective 21st-century teaching and learning environments that significantly impact student engagement and drive achievement. In order to create these environments across a district, however, administrators first need to create a strategic digital conversion plan.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

What's something new you want to try in your class? What's holding you back? Courage is the ability to face our fears and try something different, intimidating, or even frightening. In the next installment of our Twitter chats that focus on the "5 Cs" of #growthmindset (curiosity, collaboration, creativity, courage, and celebration), we focus on courage and ask the question: How can I practice courage to try new things as an educator?

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2016

The post 3 Crucial Tips To Build A Blended Learning Plan That Works appeared first on TeachThought.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

This piece was co-authored by Lisa Guernsey , director of the Early Education Initiative and the Learning Technologies Project in the Education Policy Program at New America and Michael H. Levine , founder and executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. You can join us for a conversation with Lisa and Michael in our next edWeb webinar on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 1-2 p.m.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 25, 2016

The emphasis on “creation” in schools is crucial, yet it does not mean that consumption is not crucial in the process. Several years ago, I saw John Medina speak (the author of “ Brain Rules “), and he said something that resonated with me (paraphrased): Creation without consumption is similar to playing the air guitar. You might be able to go through the motions, but you do not really know what you are doing.

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techlearning

MARCH 25, 2016

User-Friendly Assignment App a Hit with Teachers Classkick’s real-time monitoring, flexible features, and ease of use make it a great tool for 1:1 iPad classrooms.

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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