Tue.Dec 27, 2016

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Mock Twitter Chat with Your Students

Teacher Tech

Mock Twitter Chat with Your Students I love Twitter chats. They are exactly one hour Allow for everyone’s voice to be heard It is okay to have a side conversation about one part of the topic to go deeper while the rest of the conversation continues Guaranteed to get through 5-10 questions in an hour […]. The post Mock Twitter Chat with Your Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Fighting FAKE NEWS: Recommended Reading and Resources for Teachers

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

FAKE NEWS! It's time for all of us to step up our efforts to fight fake news. Yes, all of us , not just social science teachers and librarians. I've created a reading and resource list to help battle fake news at our school. Feel free to share these resources with your teachers! History: Fake News isn't New • Three Historical Examples of "Fake News".

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Best Educational iPad Apps of 2016

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 27, 2016 If you are using or planning to use iPads in your instruction, chances are you are already spending time searching for apps with educational potential to try out with students.read more.

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Why I Never Let A Statue Tell Me How Nice I Am [2016 In Review]

The Jose Vilson

One of the few tracks I put on when I hop on a train, a plane, or any automobile is A Tribe Called Quest’s “Award Tour.” Something about the rotating electric guitar sample and Dave’s (Trugoy of De La Soul) vocal butter chorus puts me in the mindset to make ideas and conversations flourish. That buh-duh-DUH-duh-duh-duh duhduhduhDA.

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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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IT#1: What’s next in ed-tech? These 18 trends

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on September 14th of this year, was our #1 most popular IT story of the year. For last week’s #2 IT story, click here.]. I do a lot of speaking about ed-tech trends, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. Part of this is our never ending interest in what is “new,” and also that little voice in my head that says, “maybe I am falling behind.”.

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Watch Out for the 'Digital Traps' in 2017

Edsurge

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now!

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Ten Issues Capturing the Minds of Educators and Parents This Year

MindShift

Every year there are some topics and conversations that grab readers’ attention more than others. In 2016, MindShift readers engaged most often and deeply with stories about the tricky job of motivating learners, especially when circumstances like poverty, learning differences and trauma complicate classroom dynamics. Educators are looking for ways to reach all facets of the complicated learners that sit in their classrooms, diving deeply into research about self-control, mindfulness programs an

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How Technology Helped Reluctant Students Learn to Embrace Reading

EmergingEdTech

Learn how this Teacher Used the EPIC! Reader App to Get Challenged Students on Board with Reading For years, educators have heard how technology was going to change teaching. But for most teachers, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

edWeb.net

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. In June 2016, the Alliance, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, expanded FRS to position school librarians as leaders in this effort.

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National nonprofit to recruit Mississippi communities for reading program

The Hechinger Report

Five Mississippi communities are in preliminary discussions with the national Campaign for Grade Level Reading to roll out community-based initiatives that will aim to improve third-grade reading success. Hattiesburg, Vicksburg, Clarksdale, Jackson, and New Albany may join Oxford and Gulfport as “Campaign for Grade Level Reading Communities,” which means those cities would receive small grants to roll out or ramp up various educational initiatives like summer learning opportunities or efforts to

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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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Standing Up for Our Students in the New Year

MiddleWeb

It's time, writes teaching coach Elizabeth Stein, for co-teachers to take a strong, visible and audible stance on behalf of those students "who have been on your mind every day since school began." Co-teachers need to become social justice leaders in the classroom.

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Virtual Reality Video App Inspires, Engages Learners

techlearning

Exciting videos will pull users into virtual worlds that are hard to leave behind.

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Why Seeing Hidden Figures is Important

RafranzDavis.com

As a student in school, I didn’t have a Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan or Mary Jackson to look up to. Heck, I never even heard their names until college when we were privileged to learn from the great Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville , mathematician and former IBM programmer who actually created programs written for NASA through their contract with IBM.

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17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 (Infographic and FREE Download)

Shake Up Learning

The post 17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 (Infographic and FREE Download) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 #SUL #edtech Click To Tweet. 17 Challenges for Teachers in 2017! 2017 is upon us, and there are so many new and exciting advances in technology coming our way. I always geek out learning about the latest gadgets, but I especially love learning about new ways that technology can improve learning in the classroom.

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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.