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APRIL 14, 2016

By D. Frank Smith Classroom is the Windows giant’s cloud-based hub for the class experience, integrated into Office 365.

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User Generated Education

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I believe it is every educator’s responsibility to help insure that learners are addressing the following questions during each school day: What questions am I asking today? What answers am I seeking today? What am I exploring today? What am I making today? What am I finding exciting today? How am I playing and having fun today? How am I using failure to inform my learning today?

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 14, 2016

New marketplaces allow K-12 educators to purchase digital content, creating new entry points for ed-tech startups to sell their products. But how do you know which marketplace will get your company's content in the right hands? Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

Higher education can be considered a luxury for many people worldwide. If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, greyish, and blackish. Denmark, for example, would belong to the whitish part. Higher education in Denmark is free of charge and scholarships and student grants are very much available.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 14, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! Goal: Engage with Poetry. This goal is by Georgia Psarra. In this video, Georgia ( @JoPsarra1 ) shares her inspiration and describes a poetry project with her students in Greece. Accomplish this goal: Have your students create a multimedia presentation, digital story, poetry book, Voicethread, comic or a video in which they express their interpretation, emotions or thoughts about a poem.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

Higher education can be considered a luxury for many people worldwide. If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, grayish, and blackish. Denmark, for example, would belong to the whitish part. Higher education in Denmark is free of charge and scholarships and student grants are very much available.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 14, 2016

Guest post by Monica Brady-Myerov, founder and CEO of Listen Current. New marketplaces have popped up allowing K-12 district administrators and teachers to purchase content, creating new entry points for ed-tech startups to sell their tools. Recently, publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the creation of HMH Marketplace , an online selling market for peer educators and commercial providers.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 14, 2016

Written by Robyn D. Shulman, M.Ed. Do you remember walking into the school library during your elementary school years? For me, as an avid reader at a young age, I can easily recall various unique aspects about that magical room. On the left side, I could sense the aroma of old books, see yellow pages that were slightly torn, and was lucky to glance at newly returned books quietly waiting to be organized once again.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 1:15pm The annual ASU GSV Summit will be here next week. What began eight years ago as a modest event put on by Arizona State University and GSV Capital, an investment firm, to enable investors to hear presentations from about 50 education start-ups has transformed into a central showcase for investors and companies scouting the next big thing in education technology.

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The Jose Vilson

APRIL 14, 2016

I usually don’t do this, but this month, I’m going to have a few special guests speak their peace. First up, Brent Nycz, a special ed teacher and shining star here in NYC public schools. Let him know that you’re feeling this piece by @’ing him on Twitter. Salute. Last year, around this time of the year, I went into the DOE offices on Court Street, preparing for my interview to be a part of a new initiative.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 14, 2016

Welcome to the first post in a series that allows me to share with you my journey to the ASCD 2016 Conference in Atlanta. I hope your enjoyed my tweets throughout the conference, and even my pre-conference post , that brought you the latest in educational theory with a technology twist. For those that did not to ASCD, I have some great ideas and resources.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2016

New teachers need support, research indicates, and these free online resources can help. It’s no secret that new teachers sometimes struggle to feel empowered in their positions as educators. In fact, a lack of support, experienced teacher mentors, and resources lead many new teachers to leave their profession within the first three years. While technology can be a great tool, finding the right technology or tool often proves challenging and time-consuming.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 14, 2016

April 14, 2016 Below is a host of interesting mobile apps and web tools you can use to create educational tutorials and screencasts to share with students in class. And no you don’t need.read more.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 14, 2016

So, what is a Student Online Safety Symposium, you ask? The primary focus of a symposium is to bring together school and district administrators and other educators responsible for student online safety. Attendees engage in strategic and tactical discussions, learn more about keeping students safe and enjoy plenty of networking opportunities. The first-ever symposium was held earlier this year with help from our friends at Iberville Parish School District outside of Baton Rouge, LA, who were our

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 14, 2016

April 14, 2016 In today’s post, we are sharing with you two more resources to help you with the teaching of writing. The first one is a tool from Readwritethink to use with students in class to help.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 14, 2016

Writing comes alive in Paula Bourque's book "Close Writing: Developing Purposeful Writers." Bourque supports her strategies for engaging youngsters in writing, revising and editing with classroom stories, study guides, and videos, says teacher Linda Biondi.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 14, 2016

April , 2016 There are plenty of online resources to help you enliven your social studies class and enhance your students learning. This chart we published a couple of months ago features some.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2016

The post Dear Teachers, Today Is An Opportunity appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2016

New social studies module asks students to think, touch their way to mastery. MobyMax , a personalized learning curriculum, has introduced social studies content for first and second grade. The remaining grades (third through eighth) will be available by August 1, 2016. MobyMax Cognitive Skill Social Studies is an exciting addition to MobyMax’s complete K-8 curriculum.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 14, 2016

“What do you do?” If you’re an innovative educator, the answer, “Teacher” doesn’t come close to giving others insight into your work or life’s purpose. As educators we also need to start speaking about our work in a way that brings respect back to the profession. That calls for a more complex answer than “teacher.” Fortunately, movie producer Adam Leipzig tells us during this TED Talk how anyone can explain what they do by sharing their life’s purpose and he gives five questions to figure it out

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 14, 2016

What is happening to higher education economics? That’s the question professor Robert Archibald will help us address in today’s Future Trends Forum. Chancellor Professor of Economics at The College of William & Mary, Bob is a leading expert on higher education finance. He co-authored the excellent and useful Oxford University Press book, titled boldly Why Does College Cost So Much ?

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Edutopia

APRIL 14, 2016

Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Heather Wolpert-Gawron Professional Development Check out these tips for experiencing your favorite conference from a new angle. Tip five: Join a Twitter chat.

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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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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 14, 2016

What is happening to higher education economics? That’s the question professor Robert Archibald will help us address in today’s Future Trends Forum. Chancellor Professor of Economics at The College of William & Mary, Bob is a leading expert on higher education finance. He co-authored the excellent and useful Oxford University Press book, titled boldly Why Does College Cost So Much ?

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MindShift

APRIL 14, 2016

By Maricela Montoy-Wilson. I came back from my morning run completely energized. I took my headphones out and continued to puzzle over Sugata Mitra’s compelling segment on the TED Radio Hour of “Unstoppable Learning,” which suggested that in many ways, teachers are getting in the way of learning. A tough pill for me – a teacher of seven years – to swallow.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 14, 2016

Last week, I introduced readers to Installatron , a tool that’s very useful for backing up and cloning WordPress installations. This week’s post continues the WordPress thread. Many of us who use WordPress use it for maintaining a personal website and/or a professional portfolio; we’re the only users registered on our sites. Others, however, use WordPress for course sites to which they invite students to contribute, or maintain a Multisite installation.

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MindShift

APRIL 14, 2016

It’s helpful to know that the brain is plastic and can adapt to challenges. And when it comes to learning new things, we can build up mental resources through intentional effort. People can get better at realizing self-regulation, executive functions , a sense of perspective or meaning, positive emotions like gratitude, a sense of strength and the feeling of being cared about.

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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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Edutopia

APRIL 14, 2016

Photo credit: Jayne Clare Jayne Clare Assistive Technology Autism superheroes and "talking" Bluetooth-enabled stuffed animals are among the resources for helping children on the autism spectrum understand their differences and communicate with others.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 14, 2016

Last week Google added the ability to ask a simple multiple choice question in Google Classroom. The interface is very similar to Google Forms, but can be setup in just a few clicks. Shortly after Google's announcement, my friend Ben Rimes published another video in his " video story problem " series. That got me thinking about smashing the two ideas together to help math teachers engage students with real-world math problems.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2016

The post Why Teachers Are Sometimes Leery Of The Next Big Thing appeared first on TeachThought.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 14, 2016

The post The Google+ Communities You Should Know About appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Guide to Keeping Up with Google – Part 4: Google+ Communities. Welcome to Part 4 of The Guide to Keeping Up with Google ! Keeping up with Google is a fun challenge! Knowing where to look and who to follow will help you stay on top of all of the Google updates and features.

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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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