Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders to support transformative teaching and learning in their region. Together, these partners collaborate outside of the traditional silos of sector and institution to form a network that is uniquely poised to design, implement, iterate on, and disseminate breakthrough learning practices and tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

10MT #22 | An Interview with Librarian Chad Lehman From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Librarian Chad Lehman helps us learn about the technologies we need to set up an awesome maker space. Guess what? Great maker spaces often have arts and crafts too! Additionally, Chad talks about how he orients students to the maker space and the biggest problems he’s had with it (and how he’s solving them.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

How to teach more efficiently? and How to learn more efficiently? are two questions that puzzle educational professionals and students from the dawn of education. Teaching has been around for thousands of years and it changed and adapted many times during the course of history in order to satisfy the human hunger for knowledge. It evolved constantly and eventually became the mass education we all know today.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Projectors and a new collaboration tool could add flexibility to K–12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When it comes to measuring growth and proficiency in schools, the conversation tends to center around academics. But what if alongside grades and test scores, teachers also had a way to discuss students’ social and emotional skills, with quantitative data to boot? Dr. Clark McKown, director of the RUSH NeuroBehavioral Center in Skokie, Ill., has spent the last five years working to make this a reality.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

1. VexTab Music Notation Input music directly into Google docs! This Docs add-on lets you render standard music notation, drum notation, and guitar tablature in your documents using the VexTab notation language. Link to Add On: goo.gl/MyufY1 Tutorial: www.vexow.com/vextab/tutorial.html 2. UJAM UJAM offers online software that allows you to record and produce your own song.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Learning how to effectively use and implement new classroom edtech requires educators to spend their most valuable currency: time. Time spent troubleshooting technology in the classroom is wasted, and it can make educators skeptical of new technology. My role as a school technology coordinator in San Diego is to make the edtech integration process easy and manageable for our teachers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

EdSurge is on the road. This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. There we got the chance to learn what was on the hearts and minds of educators—some who are just beginning their personalized learning journey and others grappling with new challenges that have emerged from years of implementation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

February 28, 2017 If you are a heavy user of Google Drive, chances are you already have so much of your content stored there. While Google Drive does provide some excellent organizing features that.read more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Community colleges are known for innovating to meet the challenges of educating some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students: low-income, first-generation, minority, and adult learners. One new category of tool schools are experimenting with is. adaptive technology. These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online.

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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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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

More than a year into our most recent move, we finally spent entirely too much money on bookshelves and took to the task of unpacking our books. We’re a dual-PhD/recovering academic couple, both in humanities disciplines. We are also compulsive media hoarders; my husband, who doesn’t have a sentimental bone in his body, nonetheless insisted we keep all our old CDs so that our then-hypothetical kids could explore our musical tastes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Tinh Tran likes to bring his science classes at University High School in Irvine, Calif., on field trips to local companies to get a firsthand look at how scientists and engineers spend their day. But even though these experiences are very powerful for students, they require time and money—and they’re hard to scale so that all students can participate.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Educators, nonprofits, lawyers, students and technologists gathered at New York University’s engineering and design school on Saturday for a civics-oriented hackathon. Working with nonprofit organizations like CUNY CLEAR and the Center For Constitutional Rights , the teams developed apps, synthesized data, and designed graphics to support the organizations’ efforts educating immigrants and protecting minority rights in an event titled, “ Hack the Ban.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Our students use the web every day -- shouldn't we expect them to do better at interpreting what they read there? Perhaps … but not necessarily. Often, stereotypes about kids and technology can get in the way of what's at stake in today's complex media landscape. Sure, our students probably joined Snapchat faster than we could say "Face Swap," but that doesn't mean they're any better off at interpreting what they see in the news and on the web.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

February 28, 2017 iPad is a versatile device that embeds tons of interesting features that are not immediately visible to the lay user. Knowing how to operate these features can make a whole.read more.

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Since professional learning communities (PLCs) for teachers starting taking off in the 1990s, they have been full of promise but lacking in execution. They were grounded in the belief that participating in them would ultimately lead to improvement in teacher practice and increases in student achievement. Too often, though, we have seen that promise go unfulfilled.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The post 50 Of The Best Writing Apps For The iPad appeared first on TeachThought.

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Consultant Jen Serravallo often hears teachers say they're uncomfortable teaching writing. Her solution: promote student engagement and independence. As kids become more excited, she says, "that enthusiasm will spill over to you." Here are five ideas to get started.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

February 28, 2017 Here is another excellent resource for science teachers. Easy Science for Kids is a website that provides a wide range of educational materials to help young learners learn about.read more.

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Teacher Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Magic of Metacognition Guest blog post by Dr. Lisa Nyberg Metacognition: an awareness and understanding of one’s own thought process. “What do you think?” This is such an easy question to ask. When we are in a rush to tell…we don’t always ask what our students are thinking. What are they wondering? How can […]. The post The Magic of Metacognition appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which has lost market share, has issued an RFP for a new hybrid test for college admissions and federal accountability. The post Smarter Balanced Issues RFP for ‘Hybrid’ College Admissions, Accountability Test appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In our most recent #IMMOOC Live session , I had the pleasure to have a conversation with Katie Martin , AJ Juliani , and John Spencer. As we are all discussing the importance of sharing your learning (process and product), one question that came up was along the lines of, “How do we ensure that this is seen as sharing not bragging?” First of all, I made the distinction between “sharing” and “bragging”; bragging definitely happens in all spaces, online and off

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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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EmergingEdTech

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Small Country Embraces Education Technology at a National Level In a little-known city state in South East Asia lies the world’s top performing primary and secondary school students in maths and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The post The Ultimate Google Cardboard and Expeditions Resource Guide appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Best Google Cardboard and Google Expeditions Resources for Teachers! I’ve been curating everything I can find to help teachers learn about Google Expeditions and Google Cardboard, and I have created the Ultimate Google Cardboard and Expeditions Resource Guide for Teachers.

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Tracking progress toward a larger goal helps us build a sense of achievement and the courage to keep going. "That’s the same cycle you want to build in your students," says Barbara Blackburn, who shares ways to help kids see their growth and recall their victories.

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NspireD2

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Every January brings predictions about trends that will dominate the headlines in the coming year. This article is my biased attempt at identifying a consensus among. To help you keep from being left out of conversations around the water cooler, each trend is defined and includes a short bibliography. 1. IoT and Smart Home Tech The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) describes devices (other […].

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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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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

ACT will invest in ProExam, a provider of noncognitive and professional credentialing. And Capstone, a children’s book publisher and provider of digital products and services, has sold myOn to technology investor Francisco Partners. The post K-12 Dealmaking: ACT to Invest in ProExam; Capstone Sells myON appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Providing timely and frequent feedback to teachers can be challenging if you’re a coach and your teachers work in a different school or town. But what about when there are no roads and the only way to visit is via helicopter? Amy Vinlove is a professor of teacher education at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. For years, she’s faced this exact problem.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

—Every day, I want to grow and become better. Through every task and experience, I am pushed as a leader. How will this decision affect kids? What impact will this have on our school? What is our next step to make the most of what we do to help our students be successful? How do we prepare our teachers and our students for the world in which we live and the world of tomorrow?

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Since professional learning communities (PLCs) for teachers starting taking off in the 1990s, they have been full of promise but lacking in execution. They were grounded in the belief that participating in them would ultimately lead to improvement in teacher practice and increases in student achievement. Too often, though, we have seen that promise go unfulfilled.

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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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