The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 24, 2016

How an Award Winning Teacher Went from Failure to Fantastic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When he started teaching, high school Spanish teacher, Matt Miller had a dirty secret: His students couldn’t speak Spanis h. He didn’t want anyone to know. But he came to a breaking point. Learn what Matt did in a fit of frustration and the incredible results his students achieved.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 24, 2016

I remember struggling with social studies classes in high school and college. The content fascinated me. I loved hearing the stories of conflicts and resolutions. Wars and strategies. Politics and leverage. Power and influence. Plus, I met my wife in a social studies class (Intro to Political Science) as a college freshman, and she’s now [.].

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 24, 2016

By Jessica Leigh Brown Educators are discovering wearable devices that can transform surfaces into interactive media spaces.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Dr. John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2016

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. . I discuss teaching vocabulary a lot on this blog. If you’re looking for specifics, try these posts: 50 Sites to Add Rigor and Authenticity to Word Study. 5 Sure-fire Ways to Teach Vocabulary.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 24, 2016

By John Breeden II Great processing power and handy tools for studying and sharing move this device to the head of the class.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

High-quality early childhood education programs give students an equitable start, research says. A new brief highlights 10 important elements of high-quality early childhood education programs, pulled from a body of research, which can help young students have an equitable start with a strong educational foundation. The brief was compiled in part to help states as they redesign early childhood education programs and strive to offer those children access to high-quality learning experiences.

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Fidelis Education

MARCH 24, 2016

By Matthew Lynch via Edvocate. Behind every successful adult is at least one person who pushed him or her to greatness. If you ask some of the world’s highest achievers what motivated them to keep going, they usually mention a specific person who inspired them along the way – a parent, a teacher, a mentor, a coach. Think about the people in your own life who made a positive impact when you were young.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 24, 2016

March , 2016 Apple has recently launched a new educational app called Classroom. This app is supposed to help teachers ‘guide students through a lesson, see their progress and keep them on track’.read more.

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Edutopia

MARCH 24, 2016

Photo credit: DFID - UK Department for International Development via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Maurice Elias Social and Emotional Learning To implement SEL at your school, use these seven activities to help students build self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 24, 2016

March 24, 2016 Read & Write for Google Chrome is an excellent teaching tool to use with students having reading and writing difficulties.It is also ideal for EFL and ESL students. It provides a.read more.

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Edutopia

MARCH 24, 2016

Photo credit: Nanda Melonio via flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) Larry Ferlazzo Literacy By pairing up to write narratives developing experiences, events, or characters, English-language learners can produce better texts in terms of task fulfillment, grammatical accuracy, and complexity.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 24, 2016

March 24, 2016 ‘See revision history’ is a great Google Drive feature that allows you to track changes made to a document, presentation, spreadsheet or a drawing. As a teacher, you can use this.read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

Organizations are invited to submit their STEM news for student consumption. Science and Technology Research News (STRN), a site posting news with discoveries from researchers around the world, has been created for STEM students and faculty. Designed specifically for those students interested in pursuing science or technology careers, STRN’s objective is to help students stay on top of the latest developments in of their area of study. “We gather news from the research community to h

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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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MARCH 24, 2016

About two years ago, Summit Elementary in Oconomowoc (WI) brought in laptops and ramped up its science and math curriculum in an effort to reach the hands-on, active learners who had already begun to check out.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2016

The 2014 National Teacher of the Year , Sean McComb, works at a pretty average-looking high school. Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts isn’t a school with extra funding or special dispensation to try something totally different. Students sit at desks, they rotate through periods and, in many ways, the school hasn’t revolutionized what it looks like to attend school.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. Ed tech can help students develop critical social and emotional skills and character traits, but the market for such tools is currently underdeveloped, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group. The report, titled New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning Through Technology , identifies two main areas for growth: Products that target core academic subjects, which the groups contend

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techlearning

MARCH 24, 2016

How do you react when the Internet goes down, when the tech doesn’t work in the classroom, or when you lose satellite reception driving through an unfamiliar city?

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 24, 2016

Access Your Computer from Other Computers? Once it’s set up, it’s a Breeze! Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection tool is a powerful, simple application that can make your life much. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 24, 2016

Does a rose by any other name actually smell as sweet? Can a digital version of a Shakespearean classic really replace -- or even redefine -- its paperback counterpart? While it's true that Shakespeare's plays were meant to be performed on a stage, there's still a lot we and our students can learn from reading them in class. So how do we, as teachers, bridge this gap?

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MARCH 24, 2016

Sergeant Laboratories announced that advanced filtering is now included with AristotleInsight::K12 for both traditional computers and Chromebooks—making it an affordable, easily managed upgrade from expensive and cumbersome filtering tools.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 24, 2016

Does a rose by any other name actually smell as sweet? Can a digital version of a Shakespearean classic really replace -- or even redefine -- its paperback counterpart? While it's true that Shakespeare's plays were meant to be performed on a stage, there's still a lot we and our students can learn from reading them in class. So how do we, as teachers, bridge this gap?

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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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Adjusting Course

MARCH 24, 2016

Image Credit: Jason Jenkins. I’ve heard some say that “student voice” is becoming a buzzword in education. I’m hopeful this is not true. We can’t let it be true. Student voice should be the lifeblood of our schools. Our kids’ needs, aspirations, and voices should be predominant in education; from the boardroom to the classroom.

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Kevin Corbett

MARCH 24, 2016

The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University Download for FREE the 82 page PDF from the link below: The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford UniversityTweet Quote In this report, we address the question: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Doing so, we build on the existing literature in two ways.

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techlearning

MARCH 24, 2016

Whether you call it digital citizenship, digital wellness, or digital ethics, it all boils down to how we should act when we’re online.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2016

The post What Is Blendspace? appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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MARCH 24, 2016

It’s not often that the editors decide to dedicate pages in three consecutive issues to one particular topic.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 24, 2016

Long gone are the days when, in a classroom setting, only teachers did the talking and students did the learning. While things did not flip entirely (although teachers could learn a thing or two from the younger generations), students today are encouraged to speak their minds about what they learn. Actually, students need talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives.

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techlearning

MARCH 24, 2016

Scaffolded activities introduce Macbeth and Midsummer to young readers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. States considered strong adopters of Common Core are more likely to see a de-emphasis of fiction and a decline in advanced math enrollment among middle school students thanks to adoption, according to a new report that also found a trivial difference in test scores between states that have and have not adopted the standards.

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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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