Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

BYOD at school is more than the latest buzz phrase you hear at every corner of the teacher’s rooms or along school hallways. It’s really happening. More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. Success stories , like Forsyth County Schools from Georgia, Katy ISD from Texas, or Fairfax County Schools from Virginia, get to the ears of teachers

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Creative Literacy Lessons with Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Therapy dogs. Lunch bunch. Reading groups. These are just of a few ideas you can use to excite students about reading and writing. Writing can be fun. So can reading. Let’s discuss lots of creative ideas that work. In today’s show, librarian Margo Janzi has a wealth of ideas.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

How can we foster and encourage successful learning, where students apply knowledge, build connections, think critically — and retain important knowledge over time? In this second Digital Promise Research@Work video , we share a learning strategy called retrieval practice , which is based on more than 100 years of cognitive science research. It is a powerful evidence-based tool that significantly increases the learning of foundational knowledge, as well as higher order skills, for diverse studen

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2016

By Heather B. Hayes Officials set up a robust infrastructure before rolling out platform that celebrates student voice and choice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here are ten of the top Math-and-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: C-STEM Studio — A Great Way to Blend Math and Robotics. 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. Zap Zap Math–Clever, Robust Math App for K-6. Celebrate Pi With Your Students. How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields. 32 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5. 3 Websites to Gamify Your Math Class.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., with the Highlander Institute and Rhode Island Office of Innovation. #EdClusters16 brought more than 140 leading educators, ed-tech entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and thought leaders to collaborate, work, and learn together.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rural schools have received little attention in national conversations around education reform—even though they serve nearly 1 in 5 students in America. Could personalized learning and the use of technology fundamentally change rural student outcomes? Perhaps—but there’s a problem. . In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Google has recently launched a new platform called The Transformation Centre geared towards school leaders. The Transformation Center is ‘a hub of resources to help education leaders improve.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Startup Weekend Education is on the move again. Today, 4.0 Schools , a New Orleans-based nonprofit that has managed Startup Weekend Education (SWEDU) events for the past year, announced it is turning the keys over to Techstars , which operates accelerator programs around the country. The transition comes just 16 months after UP Global, which previously operated Startup Weekends across all verticals (including education), was sold to Techstars in June 2015.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As part of October’s National Bullying Prevention Month, educators and students are turning to technology solutions that allow for anonymous reporting and encourage those who witness bullying to stand up against it. National statistics from Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center reveal that 22 percent of students reported being bullied during the school year.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Online education was once considered a distant second to in-person classes. Now universities across the country, from Yale to the University of California, Berkeley offer virtual degree programs, with price tags close to tuition for on-campus experience. Helping universities scale their face-to-face courses to digital environments has become a. $1.5 billion industry , according to investment banking and strategy consulting firm Tyton Partners.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Below is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: creating and sharing quick notepads, carry out advanced mathematical.read more.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. The all new Apple Teacher program launched recently alongside the iPhone7 and Air Buds, though to significantly less fanfare outside of the education community. This free program offers teachers with four distinct sets of resources as well as the potential to earn badges towards an. Learning Resources for Teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Across the nation, school districts are investing in one-to-one computing programs and supplying digital devices for their students to use as learning tools. While these tools can be very empowering, giving each child a device isn’t enough to close the digital opportunity gap that exists between students of varying economic means. This issue is near to our hearts in the Manor Independent School District in Texas.

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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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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2016

It’s not everyday that you get people honking and asking to slow down to take a picture of your friend riding in the back of your car. I could read the parents' lips asking if that was JiJi in my car. I laughed while his daughter kept snapping pictures with her phone. We arrived at John Marshall park in the heart of Anaheim, CA. The park was just starting to transform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Matt Pinchinat, who has successfully met all the requirements for licensure and certification, finds himself questioning why so many African-Americans struggle. “Is [it] indicative of what schools they went to or is [it] indicative of something else?” he asked. Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Jason Valade from TechSmith Education gives us a demonstration of the BRAND NEW Camtasia! Check out this great video to see how you can win a copy for your classroom! The post Video Preview: Introducing the new #Camtasia from @TechSmith Education appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you’re a G Suite for Education user who thinks that Google Vault will fulfill all of your eDiscovery and compliance needs, you might want to reconsider. As school districts search for ways to archive new data sources such as social media and mobile, Google is building self-driving cars and doesn’t seem too worried about data governance for photos, Docs and other files stored in Drive.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In this episode, the TechEducators, welcome TechSmith and Kyte Learning on to discuss the best ways for teachers to create effective screencasts for their students. Together, we discuss content, timing, and much more. Additionally, we have the privilege of being the first podcast to get a demonstration of the new version of Camtasia! The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Image Source As More Schools Bring 3D Printers into Libraries, Maker Spaces and Classroom, Teachers Need to Consider how to Leverage This Intriguing new Technology in Lessons, Lectures, and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Create Posters to Clearly Communicate Ideas I saw Canva tweet a blog post “20 Easy Ways to Create a Professional Poster that Goes Above and Beyond [with Free Templates].” Canva is awesome, you should use it. One of the 21st century skills is for students to clearly communicate their ideas. (Communicate does not have to be […]. The post Create Posters to Clearly Communicate Ideas appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education.

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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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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2016

It is about one hour after the US Presidential Debate on September 26th, 2016. I am not going to get into it. I will say this, though: the debate left me with an unerring sense that it is high time to abandon the worst parts of the old ways. This is an education blog, so I will write something about education and not about politics. My forebears have acted like education and politics are inextricably intertwined, but I say that is patently false.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Base-ten blocks are a fantastic learning tool, and this version takes up far less space in your cupboard than the wooden sets.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I’m a big fan of the humble light night. A few nights ago my husband was making his way from the bedroom to the bathroom and somewhere along the way he stubbed his toe in the dark. I, of course, giggled at his little mishap. Then a night or two later I did the exact same thing, but it wasn’t as funny. None of this would have happened if our night light was working.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Excerpted from The Gardener And The Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik, published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright (C) 2016 by Alison Gopnik. All rights reserved. By Alison Gopnik. How does mastery happen? For most of human history, learning in middle childhood meant apprenticeship, not school.

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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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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Helen Hume's survival guide for grades 7-12 art teachers, coordinators, content teachers and homeschoolers proves to be a rich resource for lessons, project ideas, and art history touching on all the arts. Retired principal Mary Langer Thompson recommends it.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rachel Langenhorst, K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach in Rock Valley, Iowa, presented an edWeb.net webinar on “ Implementing a Personalized PD Program in Your District ” where she provided a guide for how educators can use edWeb in school districts as a tool to implement relevant and collaborative PD. In a system where people learn in a variety of ways, one size does not fit all for PD programs.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 12, 2016

One of the challenging realities of a country like Australia is that the bulk of our population is gathered into a handful of large cities. As a teacher, if you happen to live in one of these larger cities you can find plenty of opportunities for attending professional development workshops and conferences. That's why when we started running EdTechTeam Summits in Australia we started with Sydney and Melbourne, but since then we have been able to bring the Summit experience to many other Australi

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EdTechnocation.com

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I recently posted about the missing Citation tool in the new Explore for Google Docs and shared some alternative options ( see How to Create Citations without the Research Tool ). I also shared a way to let the Docs Team know your disappointment over the missing Citation Tool. The Docs Team was listening and they want more feedback! Read on to learn how you can participate in an official Google Docs Team feedback survey.

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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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