EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Updates to a variety of platforms could make classroom technology use a bit easier.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 17, 2016

In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business , Charles Duhigg details what he learned about the factors that create and sustain habits. In this series of posts, I’ll discuss how we can incorporate these insights to influence students, teachers, parents, and school systems to adopt ed-tech software and integrate it for good. Duhigg explains that there are three primary psychological processes essential to lasting habits: cues, cravings, and rewards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2016

Here are the top geography tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: 14 Ways to use Scribble Maps. Lesson Plans: Where Did I Come From? 149 Websites for K-8 Geography/Geology. Google Street View. Sponge Activities for Geography. A Virtual Tour of America–Via Biplane. The Power of Symbols–What does the word ‘Turkey’ mean? Wonders of Google Earth. 20 Websites to Learn Everything About Landforms.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 17, 2016

Former educator colleagues have apologized to me for accidentally calling me a “vendor,” knowing that I spent 20 years working alongside them. But I am, in fact, a vendor, and hope that my perspectives — shaped by my work as a teacher, district leader, and entrepreneur — will be helpful to educators wanting to collaborate with companies like mine (ThinkCERCA).

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Education Elements

AUGUST 17, 2016

“Look out - it works!”. Two of the teachers in our workshop at the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit had just gotten their wheel-launcher to work, and they were bubbling with excitement. When I saw the little wooden wheel fly across the room, I went over to check it out (trying to keep out of the line of fire). Their invention, made from a small electric motor, some laser-cut wooden parts, and rubber bands, was certainly an effective wheel flinging machine!

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 17, 2016

Add Topics to Google Classroom Google Classroom has some new updates for Fall 2017. You can now add topics to a Google Classroom post and filter the Stream by the topic. Updates to Assignments Google Classroom Topics When creating an assignment you have the option to add a topic. Next to the due date is […]. The post New Feature! Add Topics to Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

In several years, nearly all universities will have a cloud computing provider. Google in June announced an. education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services both offer education programs, and now Google Cloud wants a part in shaping future computer scientists — and probably whatever they come up with using the tool.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 17, 2016

An ed-tech startup developing software to help students learn computer coding principles through Minecraft has been awarded a $750,000 grant through the National Science Foundation. San Diego-based ThoughtSTEM received the award earlier this month through the foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research program. The National Science Foundation gives out more than $190 million a year to small businesses, through about 400 separate grants.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

It’s that time of the year—the time when companies start making back-to-school updates and announcements. First up: Google, in the form of updates to Classroom, Expeditions, and the overall Google for Education offerings, all announced on Google’s blog. Google Classroom: Email Summaries and Annotations Google Classroom , the company’s learning management system, is now getting a new feature.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2016

As back-to-school approaches, Google has just released a grab-bag of new features aimed at K-12 educators—mostly upgrades to existing Google products like Classroom and Expeditions— announced in a new blog post. For Classroom, Google’s still relatively new LMS, the company is adding summaries of student work that can be automatically shared with parents by teachers, who can send the summaries (or classroom announcements) daily or weekly as they choose.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2016

Below are two useful tools you can use with your students to create 3D models on the cloud. You do not need to download any software, the tools are web-based and, best of all, work on.read more.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2016

If you ask kids today why phrases like “hang up” the phone or “roll down” the window exist, chances are they’ll have no idea. Fast-forward to the near future and “search the web” may also cause a few head scratches. “We’re evolving, but remain electronic ‘hunters and gatherers,’” explained Ralph Lucci, cofounder and user experience director at Behavior Design.

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Edutopia

AUGUST 17, 2016

Rebecca Alber New Teachers Check for understanding, manage your students, and build classroom community with these six opening and closing classroom routines.

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 17, 2016

How many different things can YOU do with Google Classroom? Here are 10 of our favorite ways we will be using Classroom with our students this year. The post 10 Great Ways to Use Google Classroom to it’s Fullest Potential This School Year! by @jennjudkins appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 17, 2016

Implementing edtech can be a very exciting venture. But faculty do not always share the same excitement. When staff members drag their feet with technology (or don’t move forward at all), it can be detrimental to the success of your technology initiatives and learning outcomes of students. Here are a few ways to get faculty buy-in and build some positive momentum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

Idit Harel. Maria, the woman sitting next to me on my flight from New York to Austin, is playing with her daughter, Monica, on her lap. The baby holds her smartphone, clicking, and Maria asks what I’m working on as she sees me typing obsessively on my laptop. I tell her about what I do and how my company addresses society’s need to educate citizens for millions of unfilled jobs — in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) jobs, as well as jobs in computing.

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Kyle Pace

AUGUST 17, 2016

Another school year has begun or it will begin soon. This is my 13th year as an instructional technology specialist/coach. I am sitting here reflecting on the teachers, students, administrators, parents, and other staff members I have had the honor of serving. It’s such fun meeting people here in my new school district and also when I get the opportunity to travel and speak in other places around the country.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 17, 2016

Access Google Docs Offline I am on a plane right now and with no WiFi I was able to pull up Google Drive in the Chrome browser and open a recent document I was working on (it was a spreadsheet, no surprise). Google Drive You will want to enable offline mode in Google Drive. Go […]. The post Google Docs: Turn On Offline Access appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is my last week of summer, despite the fact that Florida heat won’t be going away anytime soon. Depending on your university’s calendar, if you’re on a 9 month contract you might also be staring down the first day of classes or savoring a last few weeks of summer research time. Either way, fall marks a time of transitioning that those of us in academia experience as our own new year’s, usually coming with its own resolutions and regrets.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 17, 2016

Editor's note: HT to @Mr_Casal the purveyor of geekery who reviewed and revised this post to help ensure it was technically accurate. Livestreaming has been around for awhile making it's debut with platforms like UStream and Livestream. While those platforms were powerful, they didn't take off like the next wave of livestreaming platforms which have advantages of being ad free, cost free, and a built in audience.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Crowdfunding Possibilities Facilitated Across the Web can Work for Students and Teachers too “Crowdfunding” bought a whole new angle to charitable donations by turning the Web into a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Tech Helpful

AUGUST 17, 2016

I'm at a place in the elementary school where I am seeing technology integrated more and more seamlessly every day. In the last few years it's gone from me sometimes pushing (sweetly) to get technology in the classrooms to ensure our students have exposure to technology as a learning tool to just seeing it happen where teachers find it aids their lessons.

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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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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

Whether it’s solitary, cooperative or imaginary, for children, every form of play is a learning experience. Kids table and chairs are simply a piece of furniture or a nice-to-have item for us adults, but for them, it’s a tea party with their teddies, a place to create artwork and build puzzles or to sit with friends, just ‘shooting the breeze’ and socializing.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 17, 2016

I encourage people to challenge me in my workshops, and share their frustrations and hurdles that they have to jump to get to the next level. This one amazing lady shared this with me. She said, “You know every time I learn something new in my work as a teacher, all of a sudden there is something else new. I get so frustrated because I feel I am always starting over again.” First thing I said to her, was that I loved her for being so honest.

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Kyle Pace

AUGUST 17, 2016

Another school year has begun or it will begin soon. This is my 13th year as an instructional technology specialist/coach. I am sitting here reflecting on the teachers, students, administrators, parents, and other staff members I have had the honor of serving. It’s such fun meeting people here in my new school district and also when I get the opportunity to travel and speak in other places around the country.

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Adam Welcome

AUGUST 17, 2016

Kids start next week (some districts they've already started), aren't you excited, I can't wait for them to arrive in our schools - let's get pumped up! Maybe it's a video, check out three below! Micheal Phelps pumps me up! Kids look up to you, don't loose the love and get pumped up for them! FLOTUS and Missy - who wants to sing! Maybe it's a #KidsDeserveIt Canva, see a few below!

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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

AUGUST 17, 2016

I love the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. My favorite of the Canterbury Tales is the Pardoner’s Tale. If you do not remember, it is about a clergyman who regales the pilgrims with stories of all the ways he has conned people like dipping supposedly magic bones into a well and telling the common folk that the relic will cure what ails them. The tale itself is about three greedy thieves who discover a treasure under a tree.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 17, 2016

Tower Math is an excellent app for learning basic Math skills. Tower Math uses the ultra-popular "tower defense-game" format to create a fun learning environment for kids. Teachers can use this to integrate Game Based Learning into a classroom while students learn basic Math skills such as: addition, multiplication, subtraction, etc. I highly recommend checking out Tower Math by clicking here !!!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 17, 2016

Clockwork Brain is a free brain training iOS app. This is a super-fun game that has a steampunk feel to it as users play through 17 brain training activities. These games focus on different skills such as: memory, attention, dexterity, reasoning, and more. Also, a player will collect power ups to unlock special features. Best of all, is the detailed reporting that shows graphs of the different areas of how a person is doing.

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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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