EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Buildyourwildself.com is absolutely brilliant. I used it recently as part of a lesson on character description. What is it? To put it simply, you create a fantasy creature from a huge number of options i.e. ears, hair, legs etc. When you are happy with your creation, click ‘I’m Done’ and it will come to life, complete with descriptions of all the features.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
This is a response to a recent blog post by Stephen Wolfram, “ How to Teach Computational Thinking.” (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.). I recently read. Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points.
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
CK-12 , one of my all time favorite, free resources for teachers, has a very cool new feature called "Concept Maps". "Concept Maps" uses visual concept mapping to show connections between different concepts in math, science and connections between math and science. It is very easy to use and is a great way to help students see these connections, make their own connections, and see why learning these different topics is so important.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
“No one can see a bubble. That’s what makes it a bubble.” So says a disgruntled investor to hedge fund manager Michael Burry in the 2015 hit film “The Big Short,” skeptical of the quirky but brilliant Burry’s prediction that the U.S. subprime mortgage market is primed to implode. As we all know, the market did collapse. It turns out that Burry could see the bubble after all.
Edutopia
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Dr. Lori Desautels Classroom Management Here are some activities to stimulate your students' minds when they need a change, and to focus and calm them when they're just too stimulated.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The web provides limitless opportunities for learning, creating, sharing, and exploring the depths of human knowledge. But it is also an unsafe arena where one needs to be equipped with the needed.read more.
EdTechTeam
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Martin Male Manager of Technology Services for YK1 Yellowknife, Northern Territories Twitter: @EclecticBlogs EdTechTeam Adventures Leader EdTechTeam is thrilled to announce EdTechTeam Adventures, activities designed before, during, and after summits that combine exploring the outdoors and cultures of the amazing places we visit around the world with great pedagogy, technology, and networking!
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The Lawrence Hall of Science is a great educational website from University of California, Berkeley. It provides a wide variety of resources to engage kids and students in learning science.read more.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. Educators love to share their successes, learn from the success of other schools and districts, and they also love to share lessons they learned along their journey. eSchool Media and Xirrus have teamed up on the Innovate to Educate Awards to give a national platform for educators to share what they’re most proud of in the
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.
MIND Research Institute
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
I have always loved the beginning of the school year. It is a time filled with excitement, and new beginnings. It is also a great opportunity to establish a strong school culture that engages and excites students about mathematics. While on the surface, school culture seems like a purely non-academic factor, it can strongly influence students’ academic achievement.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Classroom walls don’t exist to Toni Olivieri-Barton, a library technology educator at Fountain Valley School. She specializes in using technology to connect students at the private day and boarding high school in Fountain with students worldwide to do projects together. “Students need to learn at a young level that they have similarities and differences” with students from Mexico, Ireland, Kazakhstan and other countries, she said. “Kids’ eyes get opened up, and they
Kyle Pace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
My job is to support teachers with technology integration. Sometimes it’s technology that they’ve learned from me, and sometimes it’s technology they have sought out on their own via a conference, Twitter, a colleague, or some other avenue. I really enjoy sharing new tech tools with teachers. It’s important for teachers to be equipped with a reasonable amount of options for how they can infuse more technology into teaching and learning.
Gaggle Speaks
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Just in time for the start of the new school year, Google has announced a long-awaited feature that gives parents and guardians access to student report cards, classroom announcements, assignment due dates and other course-centered material. Reports arrive via email at an interval selected by the teacher. It’s important that parents, guardians and teachers alike consider Google’s aim in this release, so as not to confuse the benefits it offers.
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.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Google Slides: Create a Locked Down Background When using Google Slides you can set the background image on a slide by clicking on the “Background” button in the toolbar. Any images on the background are locked down. Template alicekeeler.com/drawslides Google Drawing I created a template in Google Drawing that is the same size as the […].
Perry Hewitt
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Rather than say, "I think users want this feature," a product manager should ask, "What outcome do you predict this feature will have?" Read more insights from co-VPs of Product (!) at Reddit. There's a lot of information elegantly packed into the mobile screenshot above: this approach provides an outcome-focused frame for feature decisions. Instagram will soon allow users to reduce abusive comments by offering the ability to disable comments and block particular keywords.
EdTechTeam
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Kim Meldrum, M.Ed. Technology Innovation Consultant Lester B. Pearson School Board @ MeldrumKim As teachers we meet lots of students and we try our best to meet their individual learning needs but sometimes we have a student like John. John has not been very successful at school. He is in grade ten and is thinking of dropping out. John is very intelligent but he has challenges with written language.
ProfHacker
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
[ This is a guest post by Nabeel Siddiqui, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at The College of William & Mary, where his research focuses on personal computers and the intersection of the public/private sphere. You can find him online here. --JBJ]. If you a watch a Mac user use a Windows machine or vice versa, you know how attached people can become to their operating systems.
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My Paperless Classroom
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Please take a moment and chime on this weeks poll and remember to follow us on Twitter @TeacherCast. The post Twitter Poll: What is your favorite Google App that you can’t teach without? #GAFE appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Fractus Learning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
I love playing dress up. My daughter, Emma, was five months old when she experienced her first Halloween. She was round and plump and made the perfect little pumpkin. Our neighborhood held a contest for the best dress up costume and guess who came first in the category 0-12 months? My Emma! Since then I’ve loved Halloween and my child has hated vegetables.
Tech Helpful
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
For a couple of years I've been trying to figure out a way to have an elementary tech team.I wanted an opportunity to mentor a few "go to" kids that have a natural bent towards all things techie. This year my wish came true. Our elementary school is piloting the idea of elective Friday's for fourth and fifth grade students. For six weeks I will have the opportunity to lead 15 students that chose to be in this elective to become technology leaders in the lower school.
NeverEndingSearch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
We want our kids to be in on the joke. As I mentioned last time around (or in 2012) , presidential elections present ultimate, authentic teachable moments, opportunities for us to exploring a variety of literacies with learners at all levels. Political cartoons are everywhere. These powerful little works of editorial art and sharp, nuanced thinking force a fun and humorous awareness of the importance of visual literacy.
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.
MindShift
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. A panel of 59 experts from 18 countries discussed major trends in education that are driving the adoption of technology, as well as the big challenges to effective implementation.
Educator Innovator
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Our partner Project Zero previews the insights from its forthcoming book, Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds , the results of their multiyear Agency by Design research initiative. “While the popular narrative in the media suggests that the driving force behind maker-centered learning is an interest in developing young people’s proficiency in the STEM subjects, our investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies associated with maker-center
The Principal of Change
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
My brain is in so many different social media spaces now that I have no idea where this question came from, but someone asked (paraphrased), “What do we mean by risk taking?” I thought about it, and in my opinion, when people are talking about “risk taking” in the context of education, they are not meaning something dangerous to students (physically, emotionally, or mentally).
Kyle Pace
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
My job is to support teachers with technology integration. Sometimes it’s technology that they’ve learned from me, and sometimes it’s technology they have sought out on their own via a conference, Twitter, a colleague, or some other avenue. I really enjoy sharing new tech tools with teachers. It’s important for teachers to be equipped with a reasonable amount of options for how they can infuse more technology into teaching and learning.
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.
Fractus Learning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
My first year teaching, a lot happened to me. First of all, it was 2001. I started the school year on September 7th. Four days later, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, killing thousands and sending the USA and the world into a tailspin of paranoia and fear from which we have not fully recovered. I believe they are calling this era of mistrust and doubt in one’s fellow human “ the new normal ”.
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Consider this: Bill Gates has poured billions of dollars into what he calls the “future of learning” - and Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new $50M ed-tech investment. Both with a big push towards personalized learning. Course Hero, now led by a new CMO - former Google Play Marketing chief, Patrick Mork - wants to also bet on students, by democratizing access to study materials: its 12.5M users, to be exact.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Education Politics. An incredible piece of reporting by The Guardian on corporate lobbying and influence in Wisconsin politics following Scott Walker ’s anti-union efforts in the state. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has reiterated his promise for free community college tuition for eligible high school graduates. From the press release : “The U.S.
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