Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MARCH 22, 2016
When you provide feedback to a teacher by coaching them virtually, new strategies come into play. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 22, 2016
English teachers know the key to writing is rewriting, but getting students to do that has always been a challenge. That is, until I found Turnitin’s Revision Assistant. Revision Assistant makes rewriting easy to understand, self-directed, and believe it or not–more fun. In fact, it uses features from the gamified classroom to encourage students to maximize the strength of their writing ‘signals’ by revising and editing.
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EdTech Magazine
MARCH 22, 2016
By D. Frank Smith Gearing up for CoSN 2016? Here's what to expect from one of the year's biggest education technology leadership events.
Turning Learning On Its Head
MARCH 22, 2016
Jon interviews Michelle St. John who has made the transition from the flipped classroom to the Flipped-Mastery classroom. What is amazing is how well this has worked with her ADHD students. [link].
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EdTech Magazine
MARCH 22, 2016
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eSchool News
MARCH 22, 2016
The clubs are fashioning the next generation of TED speakers one big idea at a time. One of Mitzi Stover’s biggest challenges as a teacher is convincing her students they have a voice. Stover teaches speech and English at Torrance High School in a working-class area of Los Angeles where kids seldom travel or even leave the neighborhood. “Their world is very small geographically,” Stover said during a recent presentation at the CUE 2016 national conference in Palm Springs.
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Edutopia
MARCH 22, 2016
Photo credit: K.W. Barrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Elena Aguilar Teacher Development There's healthy and unhealthy conflict. Most of us are familiar with the unhealthy kind, but what does healthy conflict look and sound like? Check out these suggestions for school teams in addressing conflict.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 While iPad has a huge learning potential but it can also be a major source of distraction for our kids. Educating our kids on the appropriate use of the web and teaching them about.read more.
EdTechTeacher
MARCH 22, 2016
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Getting and staying organized as an individual varies with each person’s learning style. Therefore, when it comes to getting a group of people to get organized to accomplish a project, finding the right organizational system can sometimes be the biggest struggle to accomplish the end goal. To cut down on the number of emails, meetings, and documents, you could use Trello , a free web-based tool and app.
Graphite Blog
MARCH 22, 2016
From "TMRW" and "WYCM" to "vamping" and "vlogging," the current digital lingo resembles that of an encrypted secret language -- a secret code only known to those still waiting for their driver's licenses. Students are coming up with clever, short, and to-the-point phrases that can make communication quicker and in many ways more interesting.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 There are different ways to remotely control your presentations through iPad. For instance you can use one of the wireless mirroring apps to display your iPad screen on a.read more.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 22, 2016
It’s becoming increasingly harder to keep students’ attention. Search any educational website or blog (including this one) and you’ll find a wealth of articles and suggestions on how to stimulate student engagement and how to get students to become active participants in their learning. The amount of technology being offered to solve this problem seems never ending.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 Awesome Screenshot is a great screen capture tool for teachers. We have already reviewed it in previous posts here in EdTech and mLearning. Today we are revisiting it again.read more.
Edutopia
MARCH 22, 2016
Elena Aguilar Teacher Collaboration Check out these six, educational ideologies that influence a teacher's decision-making. Which one represents you?
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.
eSchool News
MARCH 22, 2016
Programs between the education, business communities help students become engaged in computer science courses from a younger age. Computer science education is enjoying more prominence thanks to awareness efforts such as the Hour of Code, as well as states’ efforts to put more weight behind Advanced Placement computer science course credits. As computer science grows in popularity, some districts are going beyond traditional courses and are partnering with local businesses to take their co
Edutopia
MARCH 22, 2016
Dr. Lori Desautels Social and Emotional Learning In her third post about the film "Inside Out," Lori Desautels explores visualizing the memories and emotions that inform students' identities and shape their cognitive processes.
EmergingEdTech
MARCH 22, 2016
A Fascinating Look at the Future of Adaptive Curriculum and Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning MobyMax is a leader in the world of online curricula for grades K-8. Their powerful Adaptive. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
MiddleWeb
MARCH 22, 2016
Project-based learning in history class can be challenging as teachers juggle a content-laden curriculum and limited class time. Shara and Jody and their tech colleague Doug Hinko set out to find practical ways to make PBL work with a unit on medieval China.
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eSchool News
MARCH 22, 2016
Online CTE model will provide hands on training and dual credit opportunities for middle and high school students. Online learning provider K12 Inc. announced the opening of Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin, an online career and technical education (CTE) high school in Wisconsin using the curriculum and academic programs by K12 Inc. It also offers a construction apprenticeship program in partnership with industry leaders. “Studies have shown that by 2020 two out of three jobs will
Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous
MARCH 22, 2016
I’m beyond excited to finally announce that I’m a 2016 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. This has been a very hard secret to keep for so long. I’m extremely honored to represent the power of libraries in our world along with the many other talented individuals on this year’s list. I have so much respect for the other librarians who have been on this prestigious list through the years, and it’s surreal to see my name alongside people who are my mentors and friends a
MindShift
MARCH 22, 2016
Data are increasingly at the core of efforts to improve instructional quality, but often the data available to school leaders and educators are limited to specific academic points. Many teachers report classroom data have become too overwhelming to be of much use and are often represented in granular, siloed ways that make it difficult for teachers to get a sense of how students are doing overall.
Graphite Blog
MARCH 22, 2016
From "TMRW" and "WYCM" to "vamping" and "vlogging," the current digital lingo resembles that of an encrypted secret language -- a secret code only known to those still waiting for their driver's licenses. Students are coming up with clever, short, and to-the-point phrases that can make communication quicker and in many ways more interesting.
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
MARCH 22, 2016
Sometime during the first few weeks of school at Montgomery Bell Academy, an independent, all-boys college preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, college counselor Ginny Maddux gathers all the ninth-graders in the auditorium to talk about college. The freshmen are each given a piece of paper and asked to make a list of every college and university they can think of; once finished, they make it into a paper airplane.
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 22, 2016
This week #EDENchat will feature a discussion on how we use personal technologies for learning. There are many personal technologies available, including smart phones , e-books and e-readers, games consoles and laptop computers. All of these tools are used mainly for informal learning and other activities unrelated to education. Where they can be harnessed for formal education, what are the main issues and challenges?
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 22, 2016
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Technology Tidbits
MARCH 22, 2016
Teach'n Go is a new site for managing online courses for educators. This is a nice way to create a course, charge what they want, schedule, and communicate w/ parents and students in a safe collaborative environment. Also, Teach'n Go is web based and works on any browser based device making it ideal for mobile learning. Below is a brief demo video. I highly recommend checking out Teach'n Go by clicking here !!!
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.
techlearning
MARCH 22, 2016
Earth comes alive with interactive textbook; some content lacks depth.
Technology Tidbits
MARCH 22, 2016
GoConqr (formerly known as ExamTime) has recently been through a major site overhaul which has improved on the user interface, mobiles apps (iOS/Android), and polished new look. This is an excellent learning tool for education that lets users create, flashcards, mindmaps, quizzes, and more. Here is more email from their promotional email. ExamTime is now GoConqr.
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 22, 2016
Terrible ideas and brilliant ones can be surprisingly difficult to tell apart. More often than not they tend to be terrible. So, from a purely statistical perspective, what you’re about to read is likely a horrible idea. That fact notwithstanding, in the great tradition of selfishly publishing less than half-baked ideas on my blog so that I can benefit from readers’ comments and feedback, I present the following little thought experiment for your enjoyment.
Technology Tidbits
MARCH 22, 2016
Help Teaching is an excellent site for educators, parents, and others looking for educational resources such as quiz/test creators, online assessments, or worksheets/printables. These printables are for K-12 and cover a wide range of subjects. Also, there is a test/virtual room where students can take online assessment and get results in real time. I highly recommend checking out Help Teaching by clicking here !!!
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