Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.” The event had a strong financial services theme, although I met audience members engaged in a wider array of fields (including healthcare and social media)

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Neo LMS

MARCH 10, 2016

Working students. Aren't they a character? Interrupting classes because they arrive late, skipping classes altogether and affecting everyone in their learning group by not being totally prepared for the latest course, or turning in late assignments and begging for them to be taken into consideration. And they have the best excuse: they have jobs. Sometimes they seem to forget that a future well-paid job settles above a university degree.

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MARCH 10, 2016

The multiple perspectives, the buy-in from diverse stakeholders, shared leadership teams are a powerful tool in your arsenal for making large-scale school change stick. Shared leadership teams focus on the strategic work of the school. They focus on school change and improvement. They are not simply an advisory group. They are the decision making body.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 10, 2016

The idea of extreme learners fits so nicely with my ideas of user-generated education. So what follows is an aggregate of ideas, videos, and graphics related to being an extreme learner. Milton Chen has stated, “Extreme learners aren’t so different from everybody else.” I believe that the tenets and characteristics of extreme learners can apply to every learner given the support, time, and skills to do so.

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Personalized Learning

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MARCH 10, 2016

This is the fourth in a series of posts on teaching technology quickly so technology-based learning activities can be focused more on the learning than on the technology. Kids Teaching Kids. Another effective strategy is “Kids Teaching Kids.” This strategy is important because many teachers still don’t feel they know as much about technology as their students do (whether they actually do, or not).

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FuelEd

MARCH 10, 2016

Contributor: Kelli Hicks Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 12:00pm When I first started teaching online, I thought I would never get to know my students very well in the new environment. In my previous brick-and-mortar classroom, I was able to see my students every day and was able to talk and interact with them in person. As a result of this daily interaction, I didn’t just know them academically.

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The Jose Vilson

MARCH 10, 2016

The electoral politic has brought up some revelations. For one, it only takes a couple of “outsider” candidates to reveal the people who otherwise felt disenchanted by the federal government. While I won’t mention the other guy on the so-called right, I’m intrigued by the idea of Senator Bernie Sanders. It’s easy to be enamored by his progressive agenda: going after the big banks, focusing on Main St., and bolstering the social safety net for everyone.

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Class Tech Integrate

MARCH 10, 2016

Last month EdSurge and several other news outlets released an article about Obama and the White House releasing millions of dollars worth of eBooks to kids in Title One and Special Ed programs. I jumped in right away to see what this was all about. The program runs through First Book and an app called Open eBooks. Right now, the app only works on tablets (iPad/Android), but the Open eBooks company informed me that they hope to have a web based version out later this year, so if you are a Chromeb

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Edutopia

MARCH 10, 2016

Dr. Lori Desautels Social and Emotional Learning In the first of five posts about the film "Inside Out," Lori Desautels offers strategies to help explore how joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust can help students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

March 10, 2016 Music has its own beautiful language that is usually not easily accessible to everyone. The musical jargon is full of technical terminology that requires specific dictionaries to.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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ProfHacker

MARCH 10, 2016

Recently, I found myself involved in a conversation about clickers. The topic under discussion wasn’t their usefulness in the classroom, but the fact that there are a number of different types available, and as the manufacturers update their products, equipment that’s already in use may end up obsolete. As I listened to the concerns being raised, I thought that, if I needed to do in-class polling (which I’ve not as yet had occasion to do), I’d probably just use Google For

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

March 10, 2016 Below is a collection of some very good sources for digital textbooks. These are websites that provide access to a wide range of free and premium e-Textbooks and educational.read more.

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Class Tech Integrate

MARCH 10, 2016

Last month EdSurge and several other news outlets released an article about Obama and the White House releasing millions of dollars worth of eBooks to kids in Title One and Special Ed programs. I jumped in right away to see what this was all about. The program runs through First Book and an app called Open eBooks. Right now, the app only works on tablets (iPad/Android), but the Open eBooks company informed me that they hope to have a web based version out later this year, so if you are a Chromeb

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

March 10, 2016 Google Docs added today a new cool feature titled Document Outline which allows you to easily structure your documents. Outline is also a great tool to help you quickly navigate the.read more.

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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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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 10, 2016

This post first appeared on Edutopia. Note taking lies at the heart of curricula around the world. Beginning in elementary school, we teach students to “take notes” so that they can maintain a record of the content disseminated to them by the teacher. And yet, with mobile devices replacing paper notebooks, this process has become increasingly complex as students (and teachers) struggle to apply previous strategies to new tools.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 10, 2016

New webinars to prepare teachers for National Medal of Honor Day (Friday, March 25, 2016) with their students. edWeb.net and the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation present new, live interviews with Medal of Honor recipients in the Lessons of Personal Bravery and Self-Sacrifice professional learning community (PLC). On National Medal of Honor Day each year, there is a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate and honor the day, and the Citizen Honors recipients wil

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

Partnership between Highlights for Children and the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network delivers bilingual educational resources for families. Highlights for Children, a family media brand and publisher of the best-read children’s magazines in North America, and the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. (HITN), a U.S.

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Edutopia

MARCH 10, 2016

Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett Kevin Jarrett Maker Education In part eight of his year-long series, Kevin Jarrett reveals the power of a four-word design thinking mantra dominating the wall of his middle-school makerspace.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

K-12 educators and admins to earn university professional development units with badge and micro-badge courses. Under a new partnership, PD Learning Network (PDLN) and University of the Pacific’s Center for Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) will let K-12 educators earn university professional development units for skills they develop post-degree.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 10, 2016

Chemistry, Biology, Geography, and More Will Come to Life With These Exciting, Highly Rated Apps! Hands-on experiences are second to none for learning, so this month’s Roundup is dedicated to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

Energy company Brightergy and nonprofit Women in Solar Energy have partnered to develop an interactive solar energy curriculum and community, KidSun. Kansas City-based energy company Brightergy and global nonprofit Women in Solar Energy (WISE) are announcing their partnership to develop KidSun. KidSun will be a solar energy education program built for students and teachers to interact and engage in conversations about energy in real-life terms.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 10, 2016

Teacher-led innovation elevates teaching and focuses on today’s learners. Community art and media making, coding and STEM, urban planning and design are just a few of the innovative programs proposed by eleven nationally recognized recipients of an LRNG Innovators Challenge Grant from the National Writing Project (NWP). The LRNG Innovators Challenge is an annual program supported by the John D. and Catherine T.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2016

The post How To Help Teachers Create Their Own Professional Development appeared first on TeachThought.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

A rubric is an assessment tool that helps to maintain integrity and fairness in grading. They also help students to be responsible for their learning through better and timelier feedback. But how do rubrics accomplish this? What makes a rubric such an effective way for online instructors to articulate to students the desired learning outcomes for the lesson and the specific components that will be graded?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 10, 2016

Photo of Manon by Unesco I was privileged to share the stage with a school student during the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week symposium. Held each year in Paris, under the shadow of the iconic Eiffel Tower, #MLW2016 attracted delegates from almost every nation in the world, who came together to spend 5 days learning about the latest news and research on mobile learning.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 10, 2016

In conversations about student data privacy, the terms "privacy," "security," and "encryption" are often used interchangeably. While these terms are related, they ultimately are distinct concepts. In this post, we will break down how these terms overlap with each other and how they are distinct. But at the outset, I need to emphasize that this post will be incomplete; a comprehensive treatment of these terms and the distinctions among them would be a good subject fo

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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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MindShift

MARCH 10, 2016

One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to “ construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. ” That’s a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a math classroom passively receiving instruction. Knowing that improving the quality of math discussion in their classrooms won’t be easy, educators are applying the “lesson study” technique to improve their craft.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 10, 2016

Susan Brooks-Young offers a gateway to designing a Hybrid Mobile Technology Platform in any unique school district setting. Her brief book features an abundance of resources, guidelines, and questions, says Joshua Zagorski, a K-12 STEM supervisor and tech implementer.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

Toddlers and pre-school children really benefit from a healthy dose of fresh air every day. Playing outside gives them the opportunity to run around and blow off some steam. Exercise is very important for children and backyard playsets will help get your kids outside practicing their motor skills: they can run, jump, skip, throw and catch, all of which will encourage them to burn energy and maintain a healthy habits.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 10, 2016

What's the probability of finding a math book about probability that's research based, innovative and fun? Teacher Linda Biondi has found it in Scott Chamberlin's new book on how to use Model-Eliciting Activities. Recommended as stretch learning for grades 4-6.

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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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