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JANUARY 5, 2017

By Amy Brown Physical environments are being adapted with students and mobility in mind.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 5, 2017

The first Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit reached educators all over the world with innovative teaching ideas. Thousands of teachers from dozens of countries signed up. The nine video presentations were viewed more than 15,000 times during the 16 days of the summit. The #DitchSummit Twitter hashtag was a flurry of activity, with hundreds of [.].

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Will AI replace teachers? This was the subject at a plenary debate at the OEB conference just last December. I was intrigued. What arguments would the four expert speakers bring to the table? Artificial Intelligence is surely spreading and its uses are getting more and more diverse. AI will definitely change the educational system as we know it, but will it really replace teachers?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 5, 2017

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. . Illiteracy is a global concern. Research suggests that 175 million young people, largely from poor countries and regions, lack basic literacy skills. This has wide-ranging negative effects, both for individuals and society at large. Illiteracy has been shown to contribute to poor health.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

As open educational resources (OER) grow in popularity, school leaders are tasked with identifying the best way to find, organize and use these resources. But that process can be overwhelming, to say the least. As a result, many education leaders rely on best practices and success stories from other districts to guide the process. During a CoSN webinar focused on using effective OER use, a panel of educators shared their experiences and offered insight on OER’s impact on education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2017

January , 2017 theLearnia is a virtual whiteboard that allows you to record video lessons using your voice while interacting with the whiteboard (write, draw, insert images). It even allows you.read more.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 5, 2017

Friday at the Modern Language Association conference, I’ll be presiding at a session entitled “ That’s Not How Scholarship Works! Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making. ” This panel builds on something I’ve talked about before at ProfHacker : thinking beyond the essay and making interesting, unusual, and playful things as part of academic work.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Last fall, I had the privilege of meeting and convening with amazing, accomplished women (and men) all focused on one theme: GIRL-POWER! And even more exciting – a clear call to action emerged: for us to unlock dreams and open doors to life-changing careers by mentoring young girls. Million Women Mentors Summit & Gala. I was honored to participate in the opening panel of STEMConnector’s Million Women Mentors Summit & Gala in Washington, D.C., on October 5, 2016.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 5, 2017

The post 12 Tools That Made The Biggest Difference In My Teaching appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Check below for the latest marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. Gallup , a global research and analytic company, just released Gallup’s Top Education Findings in 2016, and the list includes a key data point uncovered

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2017

How do you engage university students, hear their concerns, and give them both the information that they need and want? It’s a big question that most, if not all college administrators and faculty grapple with. But one company thinks it has figured it out, and it’s been rewarded with a few extra dollar signs to prove it. ClearScholar , a student engagement platform where students can receive notifications, store information and virtually interact with their university, today announced it has re

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2017

January 5, 2017 Typing is key to learning any of the digital literacy skills we talked about in our previous post. To this end, we are sharing with you this updated chart featuring some of the best.read more.

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MindShift

JANUARY 5, 2017

Design thinking has been slowly gathering momentum among educators for the past few years as a way for students to engage with real-world problems and design solutions using interdisciplinary ideas. But, like many trends that catch on quickly, many educators still aren’t totally sure what design thinking is. In an article in The Atlantic , Jessica Lahey describes attending a design thinking session at a teaching conference where teachers presented on an exciting urban design project studen

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 5, 2017

I was excited to read the article, “ More Students Are Graduating Because High School Is Getting Less Boring “, saying, “America’s high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high—83.2 percent for the 2014-2015 school year” This is great news and a nice acknowledgment of schools. I was interested by this: The president took that chance to tout some of his education initiatives such as investing in preschool education and a push to connect classrooms to bro

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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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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2017

What it is: Literature Map is a literature recommendation system. It is really easy to discover a new author. Start by searching for an author you enjoy, and magically a map of names will appear based on what other readers of that author have read. The closer that two writers are on the map, the more likely it is that you will like both of them. Click on any name on the map to travel further and find more recommendations.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 5, 2017

How a local public library in Nashville is using digital media to help teens see themselves as readers, and much more. It began with a simple library lending program. When funding for the library at the Woodland Hills Development Center in Nashville, Tennessee, was slashed in 2015, the staff there reached out to their local public library for help. The Nashville Public Library (NPL) got the teens at Woodland Hills set up with library cards, which they use often.

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 5, 2017

When was the last time you used something that made you think, “That was really inefficient”? Or “That didn’t work the way I thought it would”? Did you feel frustrated, annoyed, or ready to give up? Perhaps it was when you used the photocopy machine in your school for the first time, or when you […]. The post Doing Our Homework: How User Research Builds Great Classroom Tools appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 5, 2017

The post Ep. 64 The War On Teaching Evolution And Science appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2017

Discover the favorite tools this year for #NYCSchoolsTech educators. Then, get inspired to come up with an idea for one tool you can bring back to your work to make teaching or learning more effective. Join us for our 9th monthly Twitter chat at 6:00 pm EST. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon moderates with me throwing in my two cents. We will also be joined by some leading ed tech companies who will share what you can look forward to in 2017.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2017

Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) is an annual initiative that aims to inspire K-12 students to take interest in computer science. During this annual program, schools around the world host their own Hour of Code ™. Organized by Code.org , Hour of Code™ is a one-hour basic introduction designed to celebrate and expand participation in computer science.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 5, 2017

Dinosaur games—there is nothing quite like the lure of Prehistoric creatures to get kids excited about science, and no better way to do it! From the roaring T-Rex to the soaring Pterodactyl, dinosaurs are the pet project of of many young children. You may even know a handful of serious enthusiasts—you know the type: too young to tie their own shoes, but able to name thirty different dino species.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 5, 2017

EdTechTeam Mexico is growing! We are beyond excited to present our new team members who seek to improve education in the country (and beyond) through the use of innovative technology in the classroom. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Patty Zamora has been a Digital Literacy Coach and a teacher for the last 22 years in The American School Foundation , Mexico City.

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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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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 5, 2017

I have always wanted to write a book and publish a podcast. I finished my book in November, so I decided to tackle the podcast! Next week I will be launching the Chromebook Classroom podcast to explore how Chromebooks are impacting education. Season 1 features 6 interviews with a wide variety of guests. Here's what you can expect: ep. 01 | Cyrus Mistry - Group Product Manager, Android & Chromebooks for Education ep. 02 | Dave Bast - Technology Integration Specialist, Holland, Michigan ep. 03

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 5, 2017

Weber, Crane and Hierck provide many charts, examples and resources that can be instantly adopted, adapted, or enhanced for a school or district RTI process in middle school math. Instructional coach and interventionist Kim Schneider offers her highest praise.

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District Administration

JANUARY 5, 2017

Publication Date: January 12, 2017 Early research on value of virtual reality in education. zspace_learning_in_the_digitalage.pdf Technology Relevant Date: 01/12/2017.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 5, 2017

Barbara Boroson offers a useful, comprehensive, summative guide providing positive and proactive strategies to educators who are not familiar with or may not be comfortable yet working with students on the autism spectrum, says SpEd veteran Carrielynnn O"Reilly.

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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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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2017

I find it useful to look back to see what were the most popular blog posts of the previous year. In retrospect, trends are more observable than they are when you're in the thick of it. My learning definitions series #learningis (13 posts) proved to be popular with a combined hit count of almost 50,000 views. It kicked off after I watched a video of some teachers at Geelong College in Australia, talking about their definitions of learning.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 5, 2017

"Equal parts how-to and shopping list," teacher Any Estersohn says Ruth Culham's Dream Wakers will help any middle grades ELA or social studies teacher add more Latino voices and mentor texts – especially in classrooms with a writer's workshop teaching approach.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 5, 2017

Wiz Kid is an excellent platform game from RoomRecess. This fantasy inspired game focuses on Language Art skills such as: word meaning and homophones. Like other RoomRecess games a student tries to collect coins and answer questions while avoiding/defeating enemies. As the student progresses through the levels they can unlock/purchase power ups as they game gets progressively harder.

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techlearning

JANUARY 5, 2017

Silly sentences build grammar and vocabulary skills, inspire writing.

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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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