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5 Tips to Strengthen Your School’s Identity

A Principal's Reflections

There are many lessons we can learn from the business world and adapt in ways that align with education. Take the concept of branding. Since the advent of media organizations across the globe have worked tirelessly to build a positive brand presence that resonates with potential consumers. In short it represents a promise that is woven into a combination of words, design, colors, music, video, logo, service, etc.

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You HAVE To Use Virtual Reality As A Writing Prompt.

EdTech4Beginners

I recently needed a short, engaging prompt to inspire my students to write. The lesson focused on ‘show not tell’ when describing feelings – i.e. instead of telling the reader how they felt “I was scared” , they show how the characters are feeling “my hands began to tremble and a cold pain shot up my spine” I thought, why not use virtual reality and see what effect it had?

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An Activity to Help Kids Learn Civil Discourse

MiddleWeb

Middle schoolers are "notorious sponges" who soak up the emotional energy around them, says teacher Elyse Scott. In the wake of a divisive election, she recommends an activity that can help kids build collaborative skills, empathy and acceptance of other viewpoints.

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8 Great TED Talks to Teach Students about Climate Change

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 27, 2016 While climate change is a hotly debated topic especially in mainstream media yet a lot of people are not well aware of its deep implications on the life of species on the planet.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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Spotlight on school solutions

District Administration

DA readers pick top education tools for powering the learning process Ray Bendici This year, District Administration’s Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products features selections from more than 1,500 nominations that range from cutting-edge student information systems and cloud-based security to innovative gamification software and state-of-the-art classroom projectors.

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6 Educational iPad Apps Free Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 27, 2016 For this week's Apps Gone Free series, we brought you 6 interesting iPad apps that are on sale today and only for a limited period of time. These apps are available for free.read more.

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Type Your Math

Teacher Tech

Type Your Math As a math teacher I was 1:1 almost my entire teaching career. I try to be consistent that even when writing on the board or on paper that I would write out what the math would look like typed linearly. I asked the students to always write the linear version in addition […]. The post Type Your Math appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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App of the Week: Inspire a love of music and creation

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Easy Music. What’s It Like?

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“Telling will never be as effective as experiencing.”

The Principal of Change

In my consulting work with Winnipeg School Division ( #WinnipegSD ), we have developed a program in which we develop “Innovative Teaching and Learning Leads” (ITLLs). The purpose of this program is to focus not only what innovative teaching and learning looks like, but also to develop teachers as leaders to support the process within their schools.

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EdTech and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 11-26-16

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … a short wrap for a short week here in. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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Learn how to participate in the #Skypeathon with these great podcasts | @Microsoft_EDU @OneNoteEDU

My Paperless Classroom

Here are 4 great podcasts to help you and your students get connected with the world during this years Skypeathon. The post Learn how to participate in the #Skypeathon with these great podcasts | @Microsoft_EDU @OneNoteEDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Voting for Wisdom: Election 2016 & the GRA

MiddleWeb

Mary Tarashuk's perceptive 4th graders take note of the world around them, in fiction and in the news. As they follow and study the US election, they also learn about the power of people helping one another during their Global Read Aloud of Sara Pennypacker's Pax.

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Digital Library Offers Expansive Selection

techlearning

Unique digital library gives access to those with print disabilities.

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Time to get back at it…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Folks say that when you haven’t been blogging for a while, you shouldn’t explain or apologize, you should just get back at it. So I’ll do just that, beginning tomorrow. I could make lots of excuses related to our move from Iowa to Colorado: a new home, a new community, new schools, a new job, and a new educational policy environment.

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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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What teachers need to know about the gender gap, disengaged boys, and girls in crisis

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I recently heard physician, psychologist, and author Dr. Leonard Sax talking on NPR about how our schools are failing boys. I was absolutely fascinated by his insights, and was thrilled when he agreed to be a guest on my Truth for Teachers podcas t. Listen in as I chat with Dr. Sax about the challenges boys are facing in schools, the unique crisis girls are facing, and what teachers need to know about supporting all students.

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Clarity, Purpose and Happiness in Hamilton

RafranzDavis.com

There was a moment yesterday when the deep funk(Post Trump Stress) that I’ve been drowning in shifted. Minutes after leaving an online meeting with a few friends, I sat down to write what I can only describe as the most morbidly piece of depressive words that I’ve ever put in black and white. I knew that I was struggling as my withdrawal from 90% of online connectivity was enough proof but I had no idea just how bad it was until I started reading back my own thoughts.

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Who Cares About Saving Public Schools? @BetsyDeVos as #TrumpEducation Secretary

The Innovative Educator

Note: Twitter won't let you Tweet my blog url. Please use this shortened url instead [link]. Trump has named Betsy DeVos ed secretary and now some public school teacher groups say they’re appalled. But should they be? Appalled indicates you feel shock and outrage, but this was always the sort of person our president-elect said he wanted in charge of education.