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MARCH 21, 2016

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) was not designed to be primarily an equity of access to technology program (although that was part of it). And it wasn’t designed to be primarily a program by which students could develop technology skills (although that was part of it). MLTI was designed to be primarily a learning initiative. It was designed so that teachers could design lessons for their own content area that created powerful learning experiences for learners and leveraged

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2016

Advice from a National Award Winning Teacher Who Has Had Tough Times Too From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. According to a recent Gallup poll, sixty-nine percent of teachers are not engaged in their work in the United States. Teachers are not emotionally engaged in the work. What can we do about it? National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb shares his views on how to engage more teachers in teaching.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 21, 2016

Ever wish you could take your class to impressive landmarks around the country or world? Google Maps Street View makes many of those visits possible virtually — and for free. Street View is an immersive panoramic image experience through Google Maps. It lets you feel like you’re right on the street of many locations around [.].

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The Journal

MARCH 21, 2016

This week’s blog post is about how CN un-traumatized ES after his professional development "experience." Without CN, he presided over a 50-minute session on how to use our Collabrify Apps in the K-12 classroom, at a one-day professional development event at a regional high school. ES thought that telling teachers how to use technology in their classrooms was a '90s strategy — not a today's strategy.

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MARCH 21, 2016

By Steve Zurier Schools save money, add security and enhance collaboration through the cloud. .

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 21, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 9. Part I of this post (March 21) described the critical features that have made this P21 Exemplar School one of the best in the nation not only for serving a diverse population, but also for modeling what it takes to transform a school into a deeper learning model beneficial or all students. Today, MNTHS teacher, Janice Trinidad , describes the results of this innovative approach.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 21, 2016

The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. TechEducatorPodcast.com Follow us Live on Video: [link] Leave a Voice Mail: [link] Email: feedback@Teachercast.net Twitter: @TechEdShow Hashtag: #TechEducator Hosts: Jeff Bradbury – TeacherCast.net – @TeacherCast Jeff Herb – InstructionalTechTalk.com – @JeffHerb Sam Patterson… What Windows Device

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

International data sets show U.S. Millennials hit global bottoms for skills in literacy, numeracy and technology problem-solving. It’s a conversation a decade ago that was so widely circulated and discussed that even dedicated education stakeholders grew weary of it: U.S. students are performing below average in math and reading compared to their international peers—what do we do?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 In response to multiple requests we received from our readers here in EdTech and mLearning we went ahead and curated this collection of some very good Android science apps to use with.read more.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 21, 2016

I’ve been fortunate to have opportunities to virtually give several classroom talks using Skype or Google Hangout. I love these types of conversations because they give me a chance to engage with students in other disciplines and institutions, but I’ve been hesitant to invite people to my own classroom. Several concerns tend to hold me back: a desire not to impose on peers for what can become another service commitment, particularly for those who get these requests constantly; fear o

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 Google Drive's new templates gallery features some really cool templates you and your students can use for a variety of educational purposes from writing book reports to.read more.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 21, 2016

Programmers have long been used to text editors that offer syntax highlighting , a feature that does exactly what it says on the tin: it renders specific aspects of code in different colors, so that you’re better able to find relevant sections–or even just fix mistakes! Syntax highlighting is mainly a thing for structured languages, such as ones for programming or markup.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 In a previous post in the past we talked about three basic ways you can use to mirror your iPad screen to a projector. Today we are adding another great resource in this.read more.

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Edutopia

MARCH 21, 2016

Photo credit: Chris O'Brien Chris O'Brien Maker Education Makerspaces encourage student success by demonstrating the value of failure, engaging students with standards and curricula, motivating them to care, and demonstrating real-world uses for education.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2016

The post A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks appeared first on TeachThought.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 21, 2016

During March Madness we have to ask: what can teachers learn from great coaches? Cheryl Mizerny reflects on the words of basketball coaching legends and considers how their insights carry over into classrooms and the work teachers do with their own learners.

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Edutopia

MARCH 21, 2016

Maurice Elias Social and Emotional Learning If we believe that a school is an ecosystem, then we realize we must care about every aspect of the school.

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Adam Welcome

MARCH 21, 2016

Looking at my Twitter there aren't many teachers that I follow. I tend to only really follow Principals so I wanted to highlight a few that I do follow and why you should too! I have to kick this post off with the Gridley Girls. There's a crew of teachers at Wilson Elementary in Gridley, CA that I got to know a few years ago when they came to visit my school.

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MARCH 21, 2016

A New York coding academy’s acquisition of a Chicago coding school, and international transactions in Latin America and India dominate recent dealmaking news. Fullstack Academy Acquires The Starter League: The New York City-based coding school has acquired The Starter League , a coding school based in Chicago. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. Edulastic. What’s It Like? Edulastic is a Web-based platform designed to help teachers assess and monitor students as they work toward mastery of the Common Core standards.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 21, 2016

It’s time to start making a point of helping everyone (me included) start their weeks off right! It’s time for some “Monday Morning Motivation” So to educators of all. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

Johns Hopkins University Center for Research & Reform in Education to provide research and technical assistance. K-12 education software developer Frontline Technologies has launched the Frontline Research and Learning Institute. The institute will provide data-driven research, resources and observations to support and advance the educational community in its goal to impact student achievement.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 21, 2016

What is my movie is a remarkable search tool that can help those of us with memory issues remember the title of that film we are struggling to remember. Simply type anything you do remember in the search box and What is my movie will try to match your search terms among metadata from field of 45,000 English language movies. It’s also a good bet when IMDB doesn’t work for you–a more searchy than browsey approach.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

Guide provides case studies on how districts successfully adopted integrated digital curriculum systems. itslearning, maker of the personalized learning management platform of the same name, released “ Going Digital: A Curriculum Management Playbook ,” a guide to creating a fully integrated curriculum management system using the cloud-based platform.

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eSpark

MARCH 21, 2016

This school year, eSpark students have gotten to know “Rocky,” a new companion who helps with the transition from quest to quest in eSpark’s differentiated iPad product. Rocky offers students a high five for each mastered skill, and awards students with a handshake when they attempt difficult challenges. Though he’s less than a year old, Rocky has doled out approximately 470,00 high fives to students.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 21, 2016

Next up on the Future Trends Forum is Deanna Marcum, from Ithaka S+R. Together we’ll explore the future of libraries and attitudes about the future of higher education shared by campus leaders and experts. We’ll begin by discussing how library services are changing, both in the academic world and in the public sphere. We’ll draw on Deborah Fallows’ recent article, “ The Library Card.” The centerpiece for the second part of this Forum is the fascinating Febr

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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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Fractus Learning

MARCH 21, 2016

Across my teaching career, I have taught at three schools. My first teaching position was in a large high school serving a diverse population of students raised in a factory community. Many of the students then and now came from families who speak English as the second language and usually not in the home. My second teaching position was in medium-sized school, a picturesque bedroom community know for excellence in athletics and academics.

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Edutopia

MARCH 21, 2016

Adam Bellow Education Trends Shift your school's culture with small, steady changes. Collaborate easily with the right digital tools. These are just two strategies for doing more with less.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 21, 2016

The beauty of writing poetry is that there is no concrete, one formulaic way in which to write it. Every piece marks a learning process, a play with words, a way to let your mind wander into a different setting, mood, world. A meditation. Behind my work, there are all different types of processes before starting a poem. The first major obstacle in writing, besides the initial self-consciousness, includes finding a comfortable and productive spot and just beginning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2016

The post Internet Safety Cheat Sheet For Digital Media Use In Schools appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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