The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The US Presidential Election Can Be Taught: But How? From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The fifteen thousand pound Statue of Freedom placed upon the US Capitol Building is dressed to defend her country. Oddly enough, she does not wear the red liberty cap, originally worn by freed Roman slaves, which was given to the French and Americans fighting in the Revolutionary Instead, she wears a helmet, ready to defend her land.

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Doug Levin

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Education released non-regulatory guidance for the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant (SSAEG) program (as authorized by Title IV, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act ). This guidance is important, because it lays out in (debatably) human-readable language how the Department interprets the legislative language and intent of Congress in implementing specific provisions and programs in the nation’s new K-12 education law.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Judy Willis in How to Teach Students About the Brain writes: If we want to empower students, we must show them how they can control their own cognitive and emotional health and their own learning. Teaching students how the brain operates is a huge step. Even young students can learn strategies for priming their brains to learn more efficiently. Teaching students the mechanism behind how the brain operates and teaching them approaches they can use to work that mechanism more effectively helps stu

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #160–14 Assessment Strategies.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I was recently contacted about the opportunity to write for a joint project between Google and the Times Educational Supplement (TES). Tech and creativity were the focus and I jumped at the chance. Tech makes so many opportunities for learners to create things and I have listed 10 of the best ways I have discovered. Click here for the full article.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s time once again for The Hulk of edtech conferences— Educause , which kicks off fully on Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif. It’s big, expecting some 7,000 attendees. It’s full of exhibitors with bold marketing claims. It’s trying to serve all kinds of tech leaders. So who else to turn to for advice about what to look for at this year’s event than. @EDUCAUSE_HULK , the long-running parody Twitter character who captures the spirit of the event with simple pronouncements in all-caps.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When professional learning communities (PLCs) meet frequently to examine and analyze student work and data, higher levels of teacher morale emerge, according to a new report from the Learning Sciences International (LSI) research team. The report, Did You Know? Your School’s PLCs Have a Major Impact , expands on existing research about the role that human and social capital, collaboration, and knowledge sharing all play in education.

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esri

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Finding map content can often be a challenge, even nowadays when so much content is available in ArcGIS Online. Recently, Charlie Fitzpatrick and I taught a a workshop entitled “Key Strategies for Finding Content and Understanding What You’ve Found.” The goal of this activity was to enable GIS-using educators and their students to understand what spatial analysis is, effectively find spatial data, use spatial data, and become familiar with the ArcGIS platform in the process.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher. Now, the certified academic language therapist and licensed dyslexia teacher at Griffis Elementary School in Caddo Mills (Texas) is leading the way in using technology to help some of her dyslexic students develop a love for reading. Using Bookshare , which, with 480,000 books is the world’s largest digital library, Patterson is helping her students access books they can read, using th

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This talk was presented today at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, as part of the Domain of One's Own" initiative that the school is launching. The complete slide deck is here. I’m often asked to give a title for a talk months in advance, certainly weeks before I’ve ever actually planned what I’m going to say or written a word.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Who do you think poses the greatest threat to online student safety? When asked this question, you might imagine a shady, older, online predator with malicious and abusive intentions — the type of character who shows up at the door on NBC’s To Catch a Predator. Media and television have no doubt reinforced this presupposition: The greatest threat to your children must lie outside of the school walls.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Sometimes you miss things. Apparently Google released this feature over a year ago, but only recently did I notice the “Explore” button in Google Sheets — likely because, for whatever reason, Google decided to call it to my attention by splashing a notice over the lower right quadrant of my browser window. I’m glad it did. There are times when I’d like to analyze information I have in a spreadsheet, but I’m only moderately good at formulas, and positively lousy at creating charts.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Pin Tab: Google Classroom, Email, Gradebook Google Chrome allows you to pin a tab in the browser. The moves the tab to the front and locks it to the front. This can be really helpful for websites you visit a lot. Pin Tab To pin a tab, right click on the Chrome browser tab and […]. The post Pin Tab: Google Classroom, Email, Gradebook, Drive appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The post 5 Strategies For Teaching Students To Use Metacognition appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Google Classroom: Pin All Your Classes Pinning Google Chrome tabs makes it easy to get to websites you regularly frequent. If you are a Google Classroom user, definitely pin this tab. If you have multiple Google Classroom classes, pin each of the classes. Open Classroom Classes Rather than opening a class, going back to Classes, […]. The post Google Classroom: Pin All Your Classes appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In a column I contributed to August's ASHA Leader , I mentioned expository text structures as providing an important framework for organizing language for comprehension and expression, in this case around social studies topics. First, to elaborate on expository text structure, this is the informational "sibling," so to speak of teaching story grammar--parts of a story and the connections of character, setting, initiating event, response, plan, events, and conclusion.

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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The Harvard Business Review launched a Slack bot to deliver insights from more than 200 best-practice articles, neatly chunked into do's and don'ts (an editorial feat I don't envy.) The bot will send you daily articles, and serves up related case and article links. What are the ethics around creating ever more addictive new digital experiences? The Atlantic explores the role of moral integrity in software design.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The post Making Thinking Visible, The Story Of A Sketchnoter appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edutopia

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy) 5-Minute Film Festival Looking for a new way to spark creativity in your students' writing? Try these video writing prompts.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Writing can be a challenge for anyone staring at a blank screen, faced with creating something from scratch. Making the leap to writing a novel can seem like a daunting task, but for English teacher Laura Bradley, assigning her students to write a novel every year is now part of how she teaches English to middle school students. The Young Writers Program at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has helped make that possible.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Presidential Campaign Politics. There was a Presidential debate this week. Thankfully, it was the last one. There’s also a global wine shortage, and I’m like, no s**t. We are drinking so heavily to make it through this election. News broke over the weekend that billionaire investor Peter Thiel is making a million-plus dollar donation to the Trump campaign.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Get little ones moving with a classic toy that everyone loves – a fun trike! Whether your little one is just ready to start scooting around the house or is looking for big adventures out and about the neighborhood, there is a trike to fit. There are a few things to consider when choosing the perfect tricycle though: First, it should be appropriate for your child’s age and size.

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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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SETDA Says

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The U.S. Department of Education today released Non-Regulatory Guidance for the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) Grants. SETDA was invited to deliver remarks on. read more.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Carey Wright, state superintendent of education, says Jackson Public Schools’ failing score indicates low proficiency on state examinations. Photo: Imani Khayyam. JACKSON — For the first time in several years, Jackson Public Schools has joined the Mississippi Department of Education’s list of failing districts in the state, with 17 JPS elementary and middle schools drawing an F in numbers the State made public today.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Meagan Kelly Math and AVID Teacher Team Technology Leader Hesperia, CA Twitter: @ meagan_e_kelly [link] Why Google Cast? During the previous school year, our district offered all teachers the opportunity to apply for a $1,000 “imagination” grant. The grant would be awarded to teachers who wanted to purchase supplies that would promote 21st century skills and the 4 C’s (creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking) within their classroom.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Just as we teach our students how to do algebra, analyze historical documents, and write persuasive essays, we must also teach them how to be good digital citizens. Oftentimes, we assume that digital natives will already understand many of these concepts, when in reality, our students need guidance on leaving positive digital footprints that will not hinder them later in life.

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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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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today I will be presenting at #TLTechLive in Princeton, NJ where among other things I will be discussing why the U.S. Department of Education wants teachers, schools, districts, and states to #GoOpen. I was interested in discussing this topic after attending #ISTE2016 when Amazon announced "Inspire" and then there was a debate about if teachers should pay teachers or share freely.

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