Mon.Sep 19, 2016

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Cloud Fuels the Advance of Digital Curricula

EdTech Magazine

By Alan Joch As cloud technology continues to make inroads into school districts, educators increasingly see it as a tool for enhancing classroom experiences.

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Equity and Innovation in K–12: Horns of Real Dilemma

The Journal

Public education must keep equity front-and-center in all its policies; public education is all about equity. And, innovation must be nurtured; teachers who are willing to try to improve their classrooms must be supported. In this week’s blog post, we tell a story — one that T.H.E. Journal readers will surely recognize — of how equity and innovation can be, unfortunately, in mortal conflict!

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Finding the Back-to-School Balance as a Parent and a Startup CEO

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

I think for most parents back-to-school season is the busiest time of the year. As a parent and ed-tech start-up CEO , it’s as if life goes into hyperspeed. Over the summer teachers used our product less, so we were able to shift our focus to building out more lessons, adding content, and improving or adding new features. Our salespeople still reached out to administrators, but our emails frequently received out-of-office messages.

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Promoted Post: Try this innovative tech tool in your school today!

EdTech4Beginners

Zzish is a great new piece of technology for schools. In a nutshell, it is a class management tool which brings all of your classroom apps into one place and tracks the progress of your pupils. How does it work? What are the main features of Zzish? The main features of Zzish are as follows: 1) Class management. Easily set tasks and make personalised learning a breeze.

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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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Pirate Resources for Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Teacher Reboot Camp

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”- Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean. September 19th is International Pirate Day, but you can engage your learners all year long with pirate activities. Students can learn science, math, geography, history, culture, citizenship, and more by studying famous pirates. They can also learn cartography, the study and science of map making.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

This fall, nearly 4 million children are starting kindergarten, enough 5 year olds to simultaneously fill every seat in every NBA arena in the country for five weeks in a row. They will be joining the other 47 million students already in U.S. public schools and learning what it means to be a student. Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market someti

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How Community Colleges Can Combine Digital Innovation and Human Connection

Edsurge

Technology is often seen as the silver bullet that will help community colleges address the myriad of their often-competing priorities. But how can teachers best support learning in a digital environment? How can schools foster digital innovation that enhances teaching and the human connection, but doesn't replace it? How can schools foster digital innovation that enhances teaching and the human connection, but doesn't replace it?

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9 Essential Digital Skills for the 21st Century Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether.read more.

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Can Bite-Sized Courses Help More Students Complete Remedial Math?

Edsurge

Students in North Carolina and Virginia community colleges who started their fall semester have already knocked out credits for math and English and are moving onto their next classes. Both state systems have implemented a new approach to remedial education, breaking credits into bite-sized modules instead of semester-long classes. Remedial classes that teach students what they should have learned in high school are often a barrier to graduation, especially at 2-year colleges.

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6 ways to bolster STEM education for the future

eSchool News

The ideal future of U.S. STEM education would emphasize problem-solving, interdisciplinary approaches and the value of discovery and play, according to a new 10-year vision from the American Institutes for Research for the U.S. Department of Education’s STEM Initiatives Team. The report, STEM 2026 , pulls from the work of experts in science, technology, engineering and math, and the authors point out that current conditions do not ensure equal access to STEM teaching and learning.

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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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How Proposed Title I Changes Impact School Funding and Edtech Vendors

Edsurge

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which Congress reauthorized in 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), is the federal government’s largest commitment to K-12 education. Congress provides nearly $15 billion in Title I funding every year and, since 1970, the law has been clear that these funds can only be used as a supplemental source of funding, meant to support the academic needs of students in schools with a high concentration of poverty.

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Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

The Hechinger Report

See the full list of all states/territories. QUEENS, N.Y. — Wendy Thompson always knew she wanted her son to go to college, but she didn’t realize so many people would disagree. Her son was born with cerebral palsy, a disease that confines him to a wheelchair but has little impact on his academic abilities. He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of stude

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Discriminatory Design in Education and Educational Technology

ProfHacker

Twice this week I have seen images of these benches. Public benches that have dividers or armrests. These are what Mike Caulfield called “hostile design” because they implicitly prevent homeless people from sleeping on these benches and therefore pass on a social message and enforce particular behavior. Ruha Benjamin in her ISTE 2016 keynote called it something I find more accurate: discriminatory design.

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Combine Maker Activities and STEM Lessons

MiddleWeb

Hands-on teaching has always involved kids in “making.” But today’s focus on maker spaces is pushing making to a whole new level, nurturing students’ curiosity and creativity. Anne Jolly shows how combining maker activities and STEM lessons can boost learning.

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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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Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class

Teacher Tech

Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class Guest blog post by Julie Smith. Author of the book Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World By now you’ve probably heard about SNL’s Leslie Jones, who’s been the victim of some horribly racist attacks online after she appeared in this […]. The post Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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App of the Week: Free science and math simulations for all ages

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. PhET Interactive. What’s It Like?

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt. A student at a Massachusetts private college learns midway through a semester that his financial aid is less than he expected.

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Survey: Most schools still haven’t tried virtual reality but many would like to try

eSchool News

Twenty-three percent of schools in a recent survey said they have tested virtual reality or tried it in classrooms. More than half of those surveyed said they are actively investigating virtual reality for classroom use. Ten percent said they are planning to use it over the next year or two. Those were the results of a recent survey from Extreme Networks that gauges schools’ progress in implementing and planning for virtual reality in classrooms.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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8 Ways That Blogging Enhances the Brand of the Educator

EmergingEdTech

(Image Source) We are all our own Distinct Brand, Aren’t we? Take Pride in it! Teachers are often master marketers. They need to know how to market content to a classroom of students who might. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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My 4 biggest pieces of advice for new podcasters.

My Paperless Classroom

Over the last 6 years I have had the privilege of working with several new podcasters to help them create the shows of their dreams. Here is some advice for anyone wishing to create their first podcast. The post My 4 biggest pieces of advice for new podcasters. appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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How To Use Twitter For Exit-Slip Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post How To Use Twitter For Exit-Slip Teaching appeared first on TeachThought.

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Swift Playground: Apple’s free app that teaches kids to code!

iLearn Technology

What it is: Swift Playground is an awesome new app from Apple that teaches kids how to code in Swift. This free app for iPads uses games to teach kids Apple’s coding language used to create apps. Students can drag and drop code, and easily edit the code to customize it. The code can be instantly run so students can test out their code and see if it works.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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On a Mission to Transform Lives

EdTechTeam

My name is Kristin Mulder and I am the Director of Digital Education for a K-12 school in South Dakota. I am also a Google for Education Certified Trainer. Our school district made the move to fully integrating Google Apps for Education three years ago, after I attended an EdTechTeam Summit in Phoenix, AZ, and began to better understand the combined power of the Google tools.

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How Are Kindergarten Teachers Balancing More Rigorous Standards?

MindShift

Education experts widely recognize that a strong early childhood education is an important factor to set kids up for success in school. But whether kindergarten is more like preschool or elementary school has long been an open question that leaves teachers caught in-between. For some children kindergarten is the first time they’ve been to school, and at five-years-old they’re still too young to shoulder the anxiety and pressure of benchmark testing.

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K-12 Dealmaking: L Squared Acquires Learners Edge; PikMyKid, Stoodnt Raise Funds

Marketplace K-12

In the latest news from the dealmaking front, L Squared Capital has purchased online professional development platform Learners Edge, and PikMyKid, a school dismissal app, raised $980,000 in funding. L Squared Capital Partners Acquires Learners Edge: Private equity firm L Squared Capital Partners has acquired Learners Edge , a provider of online professional development, continuing education and master’s degree programs for K-12 teachers from Stone-Goff Partners, according to The PE Hub Networ

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Students have the right to demand receipts for pledging allegiance

The Hechinger Report

Colin Kaepernick #7 and Eric Reid #35 of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest during the national anthem prior to playing the Los Angeles Rams in their NFL game at Levi’s Stadium on September 12, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. Photo: Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images. It’s not too much to sit out a national anthem when members your ethnic group can be shot dead in the street.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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3 More Critical Questions For the Innovative Educator

The Principal of Change

I originally posted “ 5 Critical Questions for the Innovative Educator ” in September of 2014. Here are the original five questions that I still think are crucial: Would I want to be a learner in my own classroom? What is best for this student? What is this student’s passion? What are some way that we can create a true learning community?

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with 'e's

A few years ago I presented a keynote for the Reform Symposium. Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. Participants can join in and leave at any time, as the rolling programme of keynotes, discussions, panels and seminars/workshops plays out in real time on screen.

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SETDA Applauds the Innovation for Tomorrow’s Workforce Act

SETDA Says

Last week, Senator Hatch (UT) and Senator Bennet (UT) introduced the Innovation for Tomorrow’s Workforce Act of 2016 which would amend current law to. read more.

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Professional Learning and Development Surveys

edWeb.net

edWeb is kicking off back to school with two webinars and three surveys on professional learning and development! Callie Turk, founder of Intersections in Education Consulting, began the webinar on Building Trust, Respect, and Empathy into Personalized PD by discussing the fall 2015 Personalized Professional Learning Survey sponsored by Performance Matters.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.