The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Elisabeth Bostwick encourages us to make progress From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Creating the culture in your classroom can help you be a better and happier teacher and can help your students learn better and be happier too. Today’s guest, Elisabeth Bostwick takes us into her classroom to share how she creates a luminous learning environment where learners are empowered by authentic learning that unleashes their potential.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. Not only does it eliminate the noise of who’s wearing what, disruptive students, and classes cancelled due to snow days, it is becoming the surest and easiest way to treat all students equally. The gregarious students no longer take over the class and the quiet ones are not ignored in their silence.

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Each social media platform grabs our attention in different ways. Here are some ways to use those hooks to engage students. The post 12 social media-inspired hooks for class appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It would like to address the important skill of Communication.If you liked my past posts on Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity, then you are sure to like this post. It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. I hope you enjoy and find the time to pass this along via email or a tweet.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Professional development can be a challenge at many schools. Educators are pulled in a million directions during the school week, and PD often becomes an afterthought among a pile of other responsibilities including grading homework, planning lessons and attending staff meetings. Nonetheless, it still needs to get done. Taking a page from her own experience as an elementary school teacher, Stefanie Crawford, an instructional coach at Dunlap Community Unit School District 323 in Peoria, Ill., h

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In project-based learning, mistakes are allowed and even expected. The result? Students become active rather than passive learners. The post 4 Keys To Designing A Project-Based Learning Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

12 Of Our Most Popular Articles About Project-Based Learning by TeachThought Staff Project-based learning is a useful framework for unifying many of the elements of ‘good teaching’ and progressive learning. With that in mind, we’ve gathered some of our most popular project-based learning articles of the last several years below as we continue to plan […].

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. That idea required changing an existing system. It also pushed me, as principal, to think through some questions: Where will we place a makerspace? How will we train the teachers to use the new technology?

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Teacher Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Create an Assignments Templates Bank I have a style. There are certain ways I write my directions. Certain resources I use all the time. Certain assignment types I like to do over and over again. This means I am also typing the same thing over and over and over again. THERE HAS TO BE A […]. The post Google Classroom – Assignment Templates appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

School districts considering refreshes of physical spaces have more to account for than a furniture overhaul: When looking to create collaborative spaces, educators and administrators first need to understand why a change is necessary. “There is a reason that people are talking about making collaborative spaces,” Jennifer Brown, an education strategist with CDW•G , said Monday at IDEAcon in Schaumburg, Ill.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Working alongside IT administrators in schools around the world, Mosyle has learned a number of best practices over the years. Here, they share some helpful tips for installing and managing applications on student and teacher devices. Click here to view and download the full infographic.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Below are some good iPad apps you can use with young learners to create and share digital stories. Digital story telling is an effective way to enhance students writing, reading and speaking skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. Her grandmother cooked meatballs and classic Italian dishes. She always identified as Italian-American. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. Reagan was one of 30 lucky high schoolers to enroll in a popular English elective focused on genealogy, offered at the school for the last five years.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

More than a third of today’s college students are over age 25, and there are millions of Americans who have earned some college credit but no degree. Colleges and companies are trying to learn how to attract and educate this large population of current and potential adult learners. With their family responsibilities, jobs and financial aid restrictions, these students require different kinds of resources, support systems and instructional techniques than younger college students.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In response to a couple of requests we received from our readers here in EdTech and Mlearning, we went ahead and curated for you the collection below. This is a list featuring some popular platforms.

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Teacher Social Media has had a powerful positive effect on Brent Gilson's professional growth. That’s the plus, he says, but there are also the minuses, including too-safe and comfortable conversations, edu-celebrity, and frequent failure to give credit where it is due.

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Adjusting Course

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I was in one of those meetings recently where you know you need a big box of Kleenex nearby. It was one of those meetings where you listen and learn about really complex stuff kids should never have to deal with. But they do. And the people who help support students know this all too well. The truth is, I can’t really think of a time in my career where I wasn’t having these meetings, but this one hit me harder than most.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The goal of digital equity is to ensure that all students have access to devices, high-speed internet, and opportunities to learn both in school and out. While digital equity is a challenge for all school districts, Dr. Beth Holland, CoSN’s digital equity and rural project director, points out that it becomes a very complex issue given the challenges within rural schools and systems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Change sometimes comes in threes, as it has for Josh Pierce. First, he rebranded his Austin, Texas-based startup to Acadeum. Then, Pierce and his wife had their first child, a boy, earlier this month. And now, the company that helps groups of colleges—a “consortium” in Acadeum parlance—share online courses has raised a new round of funding to support its marketing efforts and woo more schools to its digital course-sharing consortia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Editor’s note: Black students are more likely than their peers to borrow money for college, struggle with repayment and default on student loans. With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Advice is overrated. I know that may sound strange coming from someone who is writing a blog which is essentially providing advice, but just hear me out. How many times has someone offered you “advice” on how to do your job? How many times has that “advice” actually been beneficial to you as a professional? Teachers take their work very seriously and very personally, so “advice” – however well-intended – can often seem like a jab more than help.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Companies whose ed-tech products are based in learning sciences research can apply for this certification. The post Digital Promise’s Ed-Tech Product Certification Centers on Research-Based Design appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

EdTechTeam partner Screencast-O-Matic recently released an intuitive Android screen recorder app. T he Android screen recorder adds to the company’s multi-device suite of video creation tools making it easy for teachers and students to create videos using Screencast-O-Matic on Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, iOS and Android devices. The new release means more opportunities for your students to get hands-on experience with video in the classroom and endless opportunities for students to express their c

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Follett has released Destiny 17.5, featuring enhancements to Destiny Library Manager, Destiny Resource Manager, Destiny Discover, and Collections by Destiny.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

School counselors have long been understood as a key ingredient in college access , but the impact of counselors on student achievement has largely gone unmeasured. A recent paper from researcher Christine Mulhern , a Ph.D. student and PIER fellow at the Center on Education Policy Research at Harvard University , fills that gap, making clear just how valuable a counselor’s role can be.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The Archdiocese of Chicago has adopted Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic for Grades K–2. The Archdiocese will implement the online program as a formative assessment for both reading and mathematics starting in the 2020–2021 school year.

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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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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We talk a lot about career and technical education (CTE) at Excel in Ed. This policy offers states an exciting opportunity to set up their local economies, employers and students for long-term success. As #CTEMonth draws to a close, I hope you’ll take a look at the great resources, articles and posts below to identify ways to strengthen CTE programs for students in your state.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Gale, a Cengage company, today announced the launch of Gale Presents: Udemy, a new online learning platform for public libraries – powered by Udemy for Business –that provides patrons access to over 4,000 on-demand video courses across more than 75 categories.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Math Attax is a super-fun free mobile (iOS/Google Play) Math game that helps students w/ their basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.). This is a 2 player game where students move their player up/down a grid while trying to shoot the correct answer to a equation. Also, they can freeze the other player and reset their score.

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Reading By Example

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This evening is an opportunity to share ideas and learn from colleagues. You will need to sign up for a free account at readbyexample.substack.com to participate. Hope to see you tonight!

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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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