Fri.Feb 26, 2016

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A Peek in My Week: Games, Mattering, Questions, Laughter & Learning WHEW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Level Up a Little Bit Every Day From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes as you teach others, you end up changing yourself. It is happening so much lately to me. Here’s a peek. Game based keyboarding. My keyboarding classroom is completely game based using ClassCraft (thanks, Shawn Young ) and the kids run to class.

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3 Whiteboard Apps for Teachers and Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Whiteboards have long been a de rigeur staple in classrooms, occupying pride-of-place at the front of the room. Despite the popularity of hi-tech Smartscreens, the simple whiteboard remains the favored method of sharing information during class time. But one change has revolutionized their use: They can now be projected from your iPad. Before introducing three amazing must-have whiteboard apps, let me note that there are dozens of options , all with varied traits and prices.

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Why Not Become A @Graphite Certified Educator

The Web20Classroom

Y'all know I love Graphit e and the work that the folks over at Common Sense Media are doing for educators and students. Their site is full of helpful tips for digital citizenship, the best apps and sites for a plethora of content areas and so much more. There are lesson plans , boards to share your favorite groups of content, and a community to connect with other educators.

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4 Web Tools To Create Newspapers and Flyers for Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

February 26, 2016 Below is a collection of some very good web tools you can use with your students to create educational posters,flyers, brochures, and newspapers.The tools are simple and easy to use.read more.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Talking in the Hallway: 3 Questions Principals Should Be Asking

Edutopia

Mitch Center School Leadership Principals could use casual interactions with the school population to promote literacy, emphasize that student and staff ideas matter, and actually invite those ideas.

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A Handy Chart Featuring Some of The Best Drive Add-ons for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

February 26, 2016 Here is a Google Drive resource we have been working over the last few days. This is basically a collection of some of the best educational add-ons to use for different.read more.

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Listen To Me and My Favorite Songs [Rhymes and Reason]

The Jose Vilson

Rhymes and Reason interviewed me to talk about my book This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education from a hip-hop perspective. I appreciated the time to just talk things out, tell stories about my upbringing, and inject Kanye West into an education conversation. To listen, click here. Let me know what you think. continue reading The post Listen To Me and My Favorite Songs [Rhymes and Reason] appeared first on The Jose Vilson.

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Who Pays for Supplemental Materials?

Iterating Toward Openness

One of the reasons faculty can be slow to switch from commercial textbooks to OER is a perceived lack of open supplemental materials like powerpoint presentations, lab books, and test banks. There are certainly some disciplines in which this is a challenge (I’ll discuss how we’re changing that below). But let’s think for a moment about what that means: 1.

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Friday 5 — 2.26.2016

Perry Hewitt

Snapchat now allows users to design and submit their own geofilters — overlays that appear on snaps sent within a defined area and timeframe. Techcrunch explains how to make your own. , If you’re now perpetually wandering around with earbuds in, you’re likely spending some of that time listening to Spotify. But you may not know some of Spotify’s lesser-known, cool features, like re-producing your favorite album or finding obscure musical sub-genres through advanced search

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5-Minute Film Festival: 10 Great Video Resources for Teaching Math

Edutopia

Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy) 5-Minute Film Festival Spice up your math lessons with these engaging, interesting, and entertaining teaching videos.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Ep. 32 Learning, Loving And Listening To Our Kids

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Ep. 32 Learning, Loving And Listening To Our Kids appeared first on TeachThought.

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Basic Twitter Analysis With twXplorer

ProfHacker

There have been a number of posts here on ProfHacker about using Twitter , particularly around archiving tweets. Our favorite method has been Martin Hawksey’s free TAGS template for Google Sheets. But, there may be a situation when you want a quick analysis of activity around a certain hashtag or term (trending or otherwise) without the trouble of setting up a permanent archive.

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The Dialogue Surrounding Dyslexia: Five Important Takeaways

MindShift

Last fall, over the course of five stories, we attempted to piece together where dyslexia, also known as a failure to read words and sentences that affects anywhere between 5-20 percent of students , stands in schools today. The results of our research, along with consultations with the country’s best experts as well as parent and teacher interviews, were by no means conclusive, but still informative.

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Giving 100% When You Are Running on Empty

The Principal of Change

Staring at a blank screen…wanting to write something but having nothing to share. Feeling exhausted, tired, and running on empty. Yet I am still writing something down…Why? Because it is easy to do something we love when we feel inspired, but when we are running on empty, it is extremely hard to let that “love” take over. The same thing happens with teaching; you may love working with kids and sparking minds, but sometimes when that tank is running on empty, the “p

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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An Eleven-Year-Old’s Quest To Spotlight Black Girls In Literature

MindShift

Marley Dias is like a lot of 11-year-olds: She loves getting lost in a book. But the books she was reading at school were starting to get on her nerves. She enjoyed Where The Red Fern Grows and the Shiloh series, but those classics, found in so many elementary school classrooms, were all about white boys or dogs … or white boys and their dogs, Marley says.

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Brain Research about Attention & Engagement

MiddleWeb

The Motivated Brain by Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt provides educators a better understanding of the brain and offers suggestions for implementing strategies to improve attention, engagement, and perseverance, says education consultant Anne Anderson.

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Technology can help states meet learning, leadership goals

eSchool News

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll be bringing you a recap of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of our news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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The Learning Starts With The Student: 5 Statements

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post The Learning Starts With The Student: 5 Statements appeared first on TeachThought.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Learn How Managed Wi-Fi Improves Digital Learning

techlearning

Digital learning is only as effective as a school’s ability to provide access. When bandwidth and management barriers bottleneck that access, students and teachers bear the burden. Fortunately, new g.

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13 Great Desks and Study Tables for Kids and Teenagers

Fractus Learning

As kids grow older, homework becomes a big part of their lives. Like it or not, your children will have to spend a significant portion of their time outside of school, studying, writing essays and hitting the books. To make this job easier, a purpose designed study table for kids is an essential accessory. Some kids are happy to sit at the kitchen table to do their homework.

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Weekly RoundUp: End of February

EdTechTeacher

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#LearningIs memorable

Learning with 'e's

In this new series of posts I'm investigating learning. Each post will start with '#LearningIs.' We never stop learning, but all learning must be memorable. Learning involves using our senses to make meaning from our environment. Once we see, hear, or otherwise sense something we have an interest in, we will begin to pay attention. Much of this information can be lost if we don't encode it in some way, that is, make sense of it in a way that is memorable to us.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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You Will Be Missed Coach

The Principal of Change

My former high school basketball coach, Kevin Grieman, passed away this past week. He was not just a coach to me, but he was like a second dad growing up, and he was affectionately known by my friends as simply “Coach” His impact on my learning and leadership at such a young age, has stuck with me for years, and I would venture to say that no other “teacher” had as much of an impact on my life.

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Resigning the game: Chicago State University sends layoff notices to all staff

Bryan Alexander

Earlier this month I wrote about how some Illinois public universities were in financial distress. Well, today Chicago State University just sent layoff notices to all staff , faculty and administration alike, thanks to the worsening state political and economic crisis. This is no mere queen sacrifice, but a move to resign the entire campus game.

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Confessions of a Digital Leader: Learning New Technology, A Necessary Evil

RafranzDavis.com

Daily, many of us in these roles expect teachers to be open to learning new technology…new ways of doing things. I’ll admit that it’s sometimes frustrating when learning something new becomes so much of a hassle that it’s completely unreal. At the same token, I also have to admit that our version of “this is important” differs greatly from that of the users that we serve and knowing that part is half the battle.