Tom Murray

AUGUST 28, 2016

As mentioned in my previous post 16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools , prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2016

I’ve made a promise to myself and my students: I have decided this year that I am making over my classroom into a “21st century” classroom. “What is a 21st century classroom?” you ask. 21st century classrooms include flexible seating, 1:1 technology, and student-led learning—in my opinion. But as in all classrooms, moving into the next century doesn’t mean that you completely forget everything you know.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 28, 2016

For Cheryl Mizerny, detecting plagiarism and determining consequences require more energy than proactively planning assignments that don’t lend themselves to copying. She shares strategies to support learning while making plagiarism less attractive to students.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

AUGUST 28, 2016

In a flipped classroom, students typically interact with a short micro-video (flipped video) before class and then class time is transformed into an active place of engagement and learning. Some teachers think that students take to flipped learning quickly. However, since many students have been trained in how to learn passively, they need to have explicit instructions on how to learn differently in a flipped classroom.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 28, 2016

I get a lot emails and messages from teachers about problems with administrators. Some of these teachers feel like their principals place too much emphasis on testing and try to standardize teaching. There’s no freedom for the teachers to be creative or exercise their professional judgment, and there’s no freedom for kids to be kids. Others simply don’t feel supported by their admins; they feel like workhorses who continually have more demands stacked on their plates without any acknowledgment

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 28, 2016

Since its release in 2009, Minecraft has sold millions of copies worldwide revolutionizing thus the gaming industry and providing game players with an endless world of possibilities. As a sandbox.read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 28, 2016

Google Calendar can be of tremendous help in enhancing your teaching productivity and facilitating your overall instructional workflow. As a teacher, you can use Calendar for different purposes. For.read more.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 28, 2016

Google Sheets Merge Cells One of my favorite things is spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are great tools for students to use to organize information. When creating a spreadsheet template it can be helpful to create a box for students to enter a text response. The default size of a cell in a spreadsheet is too small for […]. The post Google Sheets: Create A Student Response Box appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2016

Blake Montgomery, one-half of the EdSurge On Air podcast team, is bidding EdSurge adieu to take on a role as a Tech Reporter at Buzzfeed. But before he leaves, he's got some thoughts about what he's noticed from his year at EdSurge. . Specifically, what is he optimistic about? What was his biggest scoop of the year? Why has he become distrustful of edtech company pitches?

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ignitionEDU

AUGUST 28, 2016

There are a number of services out these that allow students to simulate what historical figures or literary characters might post on social media. A popular one is Fakebook. However, we wanted to manage this assignment using Google Classroom. While we did come across some Google Slide templates using the simulated Facebook layout, I just couldn’t find one that incorporated the more recent updates to the look.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 28, 2016

Innovative Educators are Connected Educators. This month's issue of #CiscoFocus is all about how to be a connected educator. You can check it out at https://newsroom.cisco.com/connected-education , There you'll find several useful articles looking at topics like digital tools and the future of connected education. Here's an overview of what you'll find.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 28, 2016

Over my summer travels, I have heard this quote several times ( attributed to Haim Ginott but may have been adapted from Goethe ): “I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 28, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap, a couple of fun YouTube channels. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Adam Welcome

AUGUST 28, 2016

Life is short. I don't take naps. I wake up early. I blog a lot. I run a lot. I kind of can't help it, but I'm always moving around the house. I truly believe we should seize each and every day, Carpe Diem! Here's what the last 48 hours looked like for me. Saturday morning started with publishing three blog posts - here and here and one on MESPA's blog here !

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 28, 2016

The post UN: Internet Access Is Now A Basic Human Right appeared first on TeachThought.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2016

On this site students practice those basic arithmetic operations by playing a fun game.

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There is no box

AUGUST 28, 2016

This question was on a back to school parent form from one of Kid1’s teachers.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2016

Useful tool helps students keep noise levels down and stay on task.

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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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There is no box

AUGUST 28, 2016

This question was on a back to school parent form from one of Kid1’s teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2016

Nobody likes change, but some dislike it more than others. Negative people in every organization can suck the life out of you. These are the people that constantly undermine you and others who challenge the status quo in order to create a better culture. Some have been empowered for all the wrong reasons and take advantage of their “sacred cow” status.

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