Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 3, 2016

Google Classroom streamlines the management of student work — announcing, assigning, collecting, grading, giving feedback and returning. It has certainly saved many teachers hours of work. Without a solid workflow and some strategy, grading digital work can be cumbersome. Google Classroom does make working with student work more efficient — but only if you understand how [.].

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Brilliant or Insane

MARCH 3, 2016

Brilliant or Insane. Mike Dunlea asked his 2nd graders how they would know if the paper airplanes they were building functioned according to their design specifications. “We have to design an intelligent test to make sure we’re measuring the right way to find out who made the best plane, to define what the best plane is,” Dunlea told […]. The post Did These 2nd Graders Debunk the Myth That Tests Measure Learning?

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Tom Murray

MARCH 3, 2016

This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. The average high school classroom, if drawn on a map, resembles a cemetery. Last summer, I co-authored a piece on “ avoiding the cemetery effect ” for this exact reason. Spaces are often set with desks in rows, students facing forward, with most of the action taking place in the first one-fifth of the room…by the teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2016

I’ve had a lot of questions in the last few months about STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) in the classroom. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, has a great article that will help demystify this topic: . STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and covers an immense range of subject areas. Across the nation, STEM is of the greatest significance due to the function these particular topic areas perform along with the extraordinary influen

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MARCH 3, 2016

If you are reading this, I suspect you want to help move your school or district forward, and recognize that a critical first step is developing a shared vision with stakeholders, including your staff and community. This is the third post describing a process to quickly build an effective vision. The first post set up the activity. The second post described how to collaboratively envision a preferred future for students you care about.

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Edutopia

MARCH 3, 2016

Photo credit: Cody Eichelberger via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Matt Bellace, PhD Health and Wellness To help young people cope with stress and a rapidly developing brain, educate them about the "natural highs" of beneficial brain chemistry triggered by exercise and passion.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 3, 2016

“Life's a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.” (somebody very smart) I am a Google Certified Innovator This time last week, I was on my way to Mountain View, California to embark on an experience that is difficult to put into words. Well, I think I might have two words “Mind Blown” (*drops mic*). Besides the excitement of my birthday (Feb. 24 - which happened to be a school snow day), I had the opportunity to join 34 other educators, from all

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 3, 2016

I recently had a conversation with David Sternela, Training and Program Manager at Abbvie. We were talking about how too many corporate meetings turn into death by PowerPoint. David then shared with me some NASA findings. Apparently some of the blame for the Columbia disaster can partially be credited to a poor PowerPoint presentation. If you recall, approximately 82 seconds after liftoff, NASA had images of a small piece of foam that broke off of the fuel tank and struck the left wing, harming

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 3, 2016

With so many priorities on your to-do list, the school website might get pushed to the back page. If you’re one of those educators who don’t have the time or the team to dedicate to your website, here are five specific areas that you, at least, should always be checking. Useless directories. Too often, web page directories of staff or class pages don’t turn up the information visitors are looking for.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 3, 2016

March 3, 2016 Searching the web for kids-friendly educational websites is absolutely a time consuming task. It takes a lot of scrutinizing and filtering to weed out the good from the chaff. Part of.read more.

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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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Edutopia

MARCH 3, 2016

Photo credit: USAG- Humphreys via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Jeffrey Pflaum Student Voice The Contemplation Music Writing Project develops communication skills, creative self-expression, character education, and values clarification in young people through reflection, writing, discussion, and self-assessments.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 3, 2016

March 3, 2016 A few months ago we wrote a review of the new Templates gallery for Docs, Sheets and Slides and we featured some of the best templates teachers can use in their instruction. Yesterday.read more.

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Edthena

MARCH 3, 2016

Completing edTPA Ⓡ is a critical step for many teacher candidates on the path to becoming a fully-certified teacher. But assembling the different artifacts, commentaries, and video clips in an organized way – and then transferring it to the edTPA platform – can be a challenging part of the journey for a candidate. Our daily focus at Edthena is building tools to make using and analyzing video easy, so we wanted to apply that expertise to ensuring that managing video as part of the edT

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Edutopia

MARCH 3, 2016

Photo credit: marco antonio torres via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Elena Aguilar Education Equity As part of building equitable schools, teachers and administrators need to acquire a set of emotional literacy skills.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2016

Students, teachers executed a virtual learning day to develop online learning and working skills. As college and career skills are touted as essential for students’ success after high school, students in one New Jersey school got a lesson in one fast-growing workplace trend: learning and working from home. Park Ridge High School in Bergen County, N.J., gave its 500 7-12th graders the option to stay home as part of a planned virtual learning day.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 3, 2016

Shamelessly, I bribed my 8-year-old daughter to learn JavaScript. I’ve shown her a couple of things with Google Apps Script (which uses JavaScript). Imagine how delighted I was when a week later she comes home and exclaims “I am teaching my class how to code.” First, major kudos to her teacher who when seeing how […].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 3, 2016

The post 6 Rising Technology Trends In Public School Classrooms appeared first on TeachThought.

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MindShift

MARCH 3, 2016

Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners. She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation with like being a student in her classroom. She presents on how to make the classroom engaging and motivating to all students, even the most reluctant learners, while modeling for her audience exactly how she would do it.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 3, 2016

The post The Enduring Residue Of Project Based Learning PD appeared first on TeachThought.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 3, 2016

The app economy, we’re told, is “bigger than Hollywood.” Apple likes to boast of how many jobs its app store has created, and even the president exhorts the young folks to program their phones, not just play with them. Yesterday, The Verge published a great story by Casey Newton on the collapse of the app store’s middle class , where all those “bigger than Hollywood” dollars go to an increasingly concentrated set of firms, mostly in gaming, messaging, and ente

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 3, 2016

Toy trucks are a perennial favorite with kids of all ages and even big kids are happy to get down on the floor and play with toy monster trucks. For younger kids, a toy truck is an ideal first toy. Pushing a truck around helps kids to fine-tune their motor skills, and as a child grows, a toy truck will help spark imaginative play as they push it around in the dirt.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2016

PowerSchool works with Perrysburg Schools to implement a comprehensive student information system. PowerSchool is collaborating with Ohio’s Perrysburg Schools to replace its student information system to help power its school operations, increase district efficiency, and enrich integration to the online systems used by this district. The new SIS solution will also improve data accuracy and make it easier for families to view student progress at all levels, content in the district’s learning mana

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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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eSpark

MARCH 3, 2016

eSpark is thrilled to partner with JAMF Software , a leader in Apple device management, making it easier than ever before for districts to deploy differentiated apps and videos to hundreds of students at one time. JAMF Software announced that “ the move combines eSpark's unique learning technology with advanced mobile device management capabilities from JAMF Software's Casper Suite , allowing schools to automate app distribution based on the individualized learning needs of each and every studen

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2016

Oh dear. It's a scandal. Apparently there's a watch on the market that allows students to cheat during exams! What a shock! In a recent BBC News item , the so called 'cheating watch' is said to give them an 'unfair advantage', because the wearer can revert it quickly back from its 4GB display of exam answers to a conventional clock face. One head teacher is quoted as being worried that the watch may be a temptation for 'students who are stressed over exams'.

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SETDA Says

MARCH 3, 2016

Another in an occasional series of guest posts, we are pleased to feature the work and voices of state leaders. Kenneth Klau is the Director. read more.

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techlearning

MARCH 3, 2016

Students and teachers can make presentations, lesson plans, maps, graphs, and other digital creations.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2016

Oh dear. It's a scandal. Apparently there's a watch on the market that allows students to cheat during exams! What a shock! In a recent BBC News item , the so called 'cheating watch' is said to give them an 'unfair advantage', because the wearer can revert it quickly back from its 4GB display of exam answers to a conventional clock face. One head teacher is quoted as being worried that the watch may be a temptation for 'students who are stressed over exams'.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 3, 2016

Coda is a wonderful free iOS app that students are using to create their own games and learn about programming and coding. Coda uses a familiar visual interface where users drag-n-drop blocks of commands (code) together to create their game. Finally, the safe online Coda community allows students to share and play other games. Coda also helps students w/ their: Problem solving - Logic - Computational Thinking - Creativity - Game Design & Game Development - Pattern Recognition - Algorithmic T

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MARCH 3, 2016

There are a few ways classrooms can get started with making Google Maps. This post will provide your class (from a student perspective) on how to initially get started with creating your own map for any regional and/or geographical project for any age. 1. Creating from within Google Maps 2. Creating from Google Drive.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2016

IT departments need identity management solutions to streamline processes. Identity Automation is partnering with The Washington School Information Processing Cooperative (WSIPC), a public agency that provides information services and systems to K-12 school districts throughout the state. Through this partnership, school districts that are members of WSIPC can now purchase Identity Automation’s RapidIdentity solution at a discounted price, allowing them to securely create, manage and offboard st

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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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