Mon.Dec 19, 2016

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The One Present I Wish Parents Would Give My Students

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The gifts that change your life are the ones you didn’t know you wanted in the first place. I can tell the kids who get this kind of gift. They are different. Let me tell you how. This post is written as part of Cathy Rubin’s Global Search for Education. The question is “what one gift do you wish parents would give your students this year?

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?Places to Go, Mountains to Climb for Edtech in 2017

Edsurge

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now!

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7 New EdTech Tools to Try Out

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 20, 2016 In this week's series of New EdTech Tools for Teachers, we are sharing with you this collection comprising seven interesting web tools and apps to use for a variety of educational.read more.

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

Edsurge

Recently, we had the privilege of interviewing Georg Petschnigg, cofounder and CEO of. FiftyThree. Georg generously shared with us a number of ideas, both strategic and tactical, for helping organizations to be more creative, for promoting sharing, and for preparing to solve the world’s most challenging problems, whether they are well articulated or have yet to be determined.

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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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#9: Virginia heading for dramatic high school overhaul

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on April 6th of this year, was our #9 most popular story of the year. The countdown continues tomorrow with #8, so be sure to check back!]. Virginia high school is going to look different for the freshmen who enroll in 2018. Even the idea of high school will be different, according to architects of a plan that the State Board of Education will flesh out over the next two years.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. Three years later, the government is taking a look at the progress of the program—after a somewhat rocky start. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S. corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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Openness as a Value

Iterating Toward Openness

Several months ago I received an invitation to contribute a brief Foreword to a book Patrick Blessinger and TJ Bliss were editing. Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education is now available in print and online under a CC BY license. I’m excited to share the Foreword with you now that the book has been published. These few paragraphs sum up my feelings about openness, perhaps better than anything else I have written.

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The Gift of Identity

Turning Learning On Its Head

I fundamentally believe that people operate out of identity. They live their lives out of their deepest sense of self. I contrast identity with a list of “do’s” and “don’t’s”. Trying to motivate kids (students, or your own children) with a list of rules may lead to compliance, but not to lifelong success. Too often we discipline kids to modify their behavior instead of examining the root-cause of poor behavior.

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Five Culturally Relevant Books To Inspire English Language Learners

MindShift

Part of our series, 5 Million Voices. I grew up speaking Spanish, and I didn’t start learning English until I was in preschool. When it came to books, I struggled — like many ELL students — to connect with characters that didn’t look like me or speak my language. To this day I have yet to pick up a copy of Anne of Green Gables. It wasn’t until Ms.

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Innovating with Flipped Learning Educators

Turning Learning On Its Head

I have seen first hand how flipped classrooms are changing the face of teaching across the globe. In 2016 I have been in Spain twice, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Taiwan, China, Australia, Argentina, and New Zealand. I have seen amazing teachers flipping their classrooms. However, I have also seen that the vast majority of these teachers are flipping their classes in isolation.

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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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10 Fresh Administrative Tools to Help Principals Lead the Way

EmergingEdTech

Tools to Help Empower Top-Down Leadership Principals are not only managers but leaders who change their schools and guide them to better teaching and learning. Our responsibilities as leaders have. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Google Classroom in Paradise: Call for Presenters

Teacher Tech

Google Classroom in Paradise: Call for Presenters July 1st in Honolulu Hawaii Join Alice Keeler and Michael Fricano for a day of learning about Google Classroom and G Suite. If you would like to present at the event fill out the call for presenters. Google Classroom Hands down Google Classroom is the fastest way to […]. The post Google Classroom in Paradise: Call for Presenters appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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7 EdTech Events to Attend In-Person in 2017

Gaggle Speaks

While you can stay on top of most everything going on in edtech by reading blogs, listening to podcasts and following social media, sometimes you just have to get out and see things for yourself. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best edtech events, conferences and workshops to put on your calendar in 2017. EdSurge Summits. Riverside, CA: January 20-21, 2017.

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College students and information overload

NspireD2

Most Americans like their choices in today’s information-saturated world. But 20% feel overloaded, and there are stresses for those with fewer pathways to the internet or who feel they are expected to do too much information gathering. That’s how the Pew Research Center summarized its recent findings on Information Overload.* One take-away for teaching and […].

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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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Rich Web Resources to Raise Cultural Awareness

MiddleWeb

Teaching expert Curtis Chandler sees an urgent need for educators to help students become more aware, understanding, and appreciative of other nations and cultures. Here he offers a rich collection of web resources that can bring global diversity into the classroom.

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11 Horse Toys Kids Will Love

Fractus Learning

From plastic figurines to the classic rocking horse, horse toys have long been a favorite for children of all ages. Nothing inspires imaginative play like riding a rocking horse and pretending you’re in a rodeo, or setting up a set of plastic horses for a pretend race or horse show. Horse stuffed animals are the cuddly version of a beautiful, majestic animal kids love and dream about.

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Closing the stubborn college graduation gap between rich and poor

The Hechinger Report

Today, a college degree is more critical than ever. Those with a college degree not only earn more than those without, they are more likely to be employed. Beyond the individual benefit, our nation is stronger when talent from all parts of society has the opportunity to flourish, and postsecondary education is still the main source of that opportunity.

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Soundboard Melbourne- The Learning Never Ends

EdTechTeam

Re-posted from "Flamingo Teacher" Recently I attended my third EdTechTeam summit and was once again completely inspired and in love with all things Google. Every time I walk away with a burning envy – I want to be a presenter that has such energy and knowledge that the audience walks away feeling motivated to make a difference. The sessions I attended were so varied and engaging, from Google Search to Google Expeditions and Break Out Boxes to Digital Technologies – I was not disappointed with an

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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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We All Teach SEL: Humility Activities and Tools for Students

Graphite Blog

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as humility requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. Humility is: not regarding yourself as more special or better than others.

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Report details privacy concerns of security upgrades in schools

District Administration

Andrew Bauld With increased technological surveillance to protect and monitor students has come deep consequences for student privacy and equity, according to a new report from the National Association of State Boards of Education.

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We All Teach SEL: Humility

Graphite Blog

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as humility requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. Humility is: not regarding yourself as more special or better than others.

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Kids Program Robots From Tablet, Phone

techlearning

Cool robots and creative play make programming irresistible.

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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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Is Your Child Having Friendship Problems?

Fractus Learning

At some point throughout their schooling years, children will experience problems with their school friends. Have we not all been there? Because of this, it is important to differentiate “normal” childhood conflicts and bullying. Normal childhood conflict is characterized by both children having equal power where neither one is seeking control.

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Teaching 'Truthiness': Professors Offer Course On How to Write Fake News

Edsurge

It sounds like a fake news story: Two professors plan a free online course on how to write fake news. But this course is real—as well as an act of satire. It’s called “ How to Write and Read Fake News: Journalism in the Age of Trump ,” and it’s being offered as a kind of performance art to draw attention to the problem of the influential falsehoods that are spreading online.

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