Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 22, 2016

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt. Unlike many other technologies, mobile devices can support physical health along with learning. With a mobile device students can create, problem solve, critical think, and engage with the world around them. In my digital book, Learning to Go , you’ll find rubrics, handouts, and lesson plans for some of the activities listed below.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2016

By Tommy Peterson Districts offer advice on how to integrate technology with an emphasis on coaching teachers first.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 22, 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 got this question from a teacher. It’s becoming more common as students start life on iPads: Do you have any suggestions for kids who have developed substitute patterns for using home row keys?

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Education Elements

JUNE 22, 2016

When I started writing Disrupting Class in 2006, I was stunned to learn that our school systems—not just in the United States, but throughout most of the world—were not built to optimize learning. They were built to standardize the way we teach and test and for sorting.

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FuelEd

JUNE 22, 2016

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 9:30am In its new series, “ Research: Outcomes of Blended/Online Learning Programs ,” the Evergreen Education Group takes an in-depth look at successful blended and online programs across the nation to examine the best practices that have created tangible results. We are pleased to share with you some highlights from the Carver Military Academy case study.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 22, 2016

Apparently between 1998 and 2010 we killed kindergarten. Lots more testing. Much less music and art. Fewer centers and unstructured play time. Fewer student-driven activities. Greater disregard for young children’s variation in development. More emphasis on teacher-directed instruction and textbooks and worksheets… We knew this but now it’s not just widespread anecdotes.

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FuelEd

JUNE 22, 2016

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 9:30am In its new series, “ Research: Outcomes of Blended/Online Learning Programs ,” the Evergreen Education Group takes an in-depth look at successful blended and online programs across the nation to examine the best practices that have created tangible results. We are pleased to share with you some highlights from the Carver Military Academy case study.

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Battelle for Kids

JUNE 22, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 8. Driving Question: What comes first Grit or Problem Solving? After I saw the movie "The Martian". I thought a lot about this question. Did grit come first for the stranded astronaut so he survive because of his grit? Or did his problem solving skills come first and he developed the grit to go with his problem solving skills?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 22, 2016

June 22, 2016 In today’s post we are sharing with you this handy visual featuring an updated collection of iPad educational apps that go with the six thinking levels of Bloom’s revised taxonomy. For.read more.

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Battelle for Kids

JUNE 22, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 8. Driving Question: What comes first Grit or Problem Solving? After I saw the movie "The Martian". I thought a lot about this question. Did grit come first for the stranded astronaut so he survive because of his grit? Or did his problem solving skills come first and he developed the grit to go with his problem solving skills?

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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 Guy

JUNE 22, 2016

Google will be hosting some great sessions and discussions at ISTE next week. We hope to see you at ISTE 2016 in Denver. Visit us in Room #103 (street level of convention the center) where educators and Googlers will be giving short presentations throughout the conference. We look forward to seeing you. Full Schedule https://www.google.com/edu/events/iste2016/ -.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 22, 2016

June 23, 2016 This is a quick post to share with you this excellent resource from Fusion Yearbooks. This is a collection of some of the most popular educational podcasts to energize your teaching.read more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Guide shares best tech practices, insights, and resources from educators, administrators, and technology experts. With ed-tech spending expected to reach $55B by 2019 as predicted by market research firm Technavio, schools and districts should ensure they can produce carefully-crafted technology plans that outline how technology will work successfully in classrooms.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 22, 2016

DIY Literacy by Kate and Maggie Roberts is not only a how-to book on designing visual learning tools but also a source of advice on implementing them in the classroom. It has just what lead teacher Sandy Wisneski needs to augment her lack of artistic talent.

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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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Edutopia

JUNE 22, 2016

Monica Burns Classroom Technology Using QR codes and AR, math teachers can connect to tutorials, make their word wall interactive, share student work, explore 3D shapes, and update old textbooks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Voki can be customized for a variety of subjects. Educational technology company Oddcast launched a new version of its Voki website for teachers along with a free iOS application called Voki for Education. Voki is an ed-tech tool adopted by millions of teachers and students that enables the creation of talking characters or avatars in the classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2016

The post It’s Time To Plan For Struggling Students From The Beginning appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Partnership supports educators’ access to open educator-curated content. LMS provider itslearning and Gooru , a nonprofit organization which provides a free online learning navigator for educators of the same name, announced a strategic partnership to enhance itslearning’s platform with open educator-curated content and successful practices for personalized learning.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 22, 2016

If you really want to look for evidence of how federal initiatives like "Race to the Top" and "No Child Left Behind" have impacted schools, you only need to read the findings of this study: "Study Snapshot: Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?" In that study, it is very clear that our schools have increasingly short-changed and abused young students with their testing fetish.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 22, 2016

Although this is a post about digital death, it is not meant to be morose or anything. I just occasionally think of this problem, and while discussing it privately with Jim Groom (co-founder of Reclaim Hosting) recently, I thought it might be worth asking other academics what they are thinking of doing about this. My two questions are: What happens to a person’s website on their own domain when they die?

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Educators share how tech is pushing engagement in novel ways. Walk into a Cleveland County Schools classroom today, and chances are you won’t find a traditional chalk board or an old-school overhead projector, but instead, laptop computers and touch-screen smartboards. With technology at the forefront of education, classrooms are ever-evolving, and educators have begun to adapt and change their teaching approach to better suit 21st century classrooms filled with 21st century learners.

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MindShift

JUNE 22, 2016

Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. Luckily, several tech-savvy librarians have been curating the apps their colleagues find useful and sharing the all-stars with one another through personal learning communities (PLC) and edWeb webinars.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

3 out of 4 districts have little plan for providing off-campus internet. But there are solutions, and some districts are leading the charge. The growing ubiquity of internet access and pervasive use of online information has changed the learning landscape forever. Students continue to benefit from enhanced connectivity throughout the formal school day thanks to a $1.5 billion increase in E-rate funding over the last 18 months.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 22, 2016

ISTE 2016. By Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. D. College World Language Students’ Preferences. Digital Badges – 52% Paper Certificates – 48%. World Language: Can-Do Digital Badges. Digital Badges Pro-. – Breaks down proficiency more. – Shows all badges at once. – Is more attractive. – Is more appropriate since we use Schoology. – Avoids misplacing paper certificates.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Startup in maker education endorsed by Steve Wozniak secures $2.1M seed round to expand product offering to educators and students across the world. Piper , a startup that empowers budding inventors with its DIY computer kit for kids, announced $2.1 million in seed funding. The investment arrives as the company looks to expand its product offering to allow educators and students to learn about, and build creatively with technology, code and electronics.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 22, 2016

Don’t waste their time – it’s one of the guiding principles for high school teachers. Start on time; end on time. Put off routine tasks (like passing back papers and taking attendance) until after students are engaged in a new assignment or discussion. No matter how much students beg, don’t give them free time or a movie day. When you share stories, share them with a purpose in mind.

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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

JUNE 22, 2016

In the valuable book Infusing Grammar into the Writer's Workshop, Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub make an effective team, says special ed teacher Marci Warboys. Benjamin focuses on research and pedagogy and Golub provides detailed lesson plans and resources.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2016

Our partner, KQED compiled a list of the ten best resources to help educators prepare for the fall by building curricula that engage students with the Presidential election using Letters to the Next President 2.0. “While we have one eye on the campaign trail, we’ve got the other fixed on the impressive list of curricula resources being collected for Letters to the Next President 2.0 (L2P 2.0).

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Mark Smithers

JUNE 22, 2016

This post first appeared at [link]. Be warned, I’m about to torture an analogy. You might want to look away if you’re squeamish. Growing up in Yorkshire in the 70s and 80s I went to a local high school along with 1800 other kids. To cope with the numbers the local education authority had installed some ‘temporary’ classrooms. They were used long before my 7 years at that school and long after, so it was clearly a new definition of word temporary.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 22, 2016

If you've ever had the opportunity to attend a Maker Faire, you understand what a fantastic experience it is. Last year when I attended many teachers lamented that the ticket price put attendance out of reach for them and their students. Don't let them happen again this year. Don't just visit the Maker Faire. Be a part of the experience and apply within the next month (application closes July 17th) to participate in one of many ways.

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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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