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How to Safely Connect Six-Year-Olds to the World

The CoolCatTeacher

Kathy Cassidy shares her secrets for blogging, sharing and keeping kids safe online From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Six-year-olds can blog. Canadian first-grade teacher Kathy Cassidy has long shown us the way as she has been blogging with six and seven-year-olds successfully for many years. She shares her secrets of keeping kids safe , helping them build a portfolio and the workflow for helping kids become independent bloggers. [ Listen on the web

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Inspiring the Next Generation of Makers

Digital Promise

Right now, in your city or town — in your state and region — people are making things. They’re part of the Maker Movement, a revolution that’s unleashing digital design tools (like 3D modeling software) and production devices (like 3D printers), and letting citizens design and make almost anything they can dream. Around the country, hundreds of schools and communities have harnessed the power of making to offer more compelling and effective 21st century learning opportunities for students.

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Subscriber Special: March

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: Freebies! Posters. Lesson plan for teaching Khan Academy. Articles on Common Core. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Shared Visioning in Action

More Verbs

I recently started a new job: Policy Director of the Learning Through Technology Team (LTTT) at the Maine Department of Education. It’s essentially the state tech director position, and its largest responsibility is managing the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI – 1to1 in 7th & 8th statewide – since 2002! – and making it easy for districts to buy in at other grades), and supporting schools as they think about how technology can support learning.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Maker Educator Workshop

User Generated Education

I am doing full day workshops on The Maker Educator both at ISTE 2016 and EduTECH in Australia. What follows is both the description-goals and an overview of the workshop’s learning activities. Workshop Description, Goals, and Outline. Description. Being a maker educator requires developing a new mindset; a new set of skills and roles. Discover, through this workshop, first, a process for reflecting on making through creating circuits and hacked toys, and second, through a self-assessment,

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Inspiring the Next Generation of Makers

Digital Promise

Karen Cator is President & CEO of Digital Promise. You can follow her on Twitter at @kcator. Right now, in your city or town — in your state and region — people are making things. They’re part of the Maker Movement, a revolution that’s unleashing digital design tools (like 3D modeling software) and production devices (like 3D printers), and letting citizens design and make almost anything they can dream.

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Lesson Planning – What Does it Look Like in 2016?

Teacher Tech

I love the templates Google is putting out for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. I have not put in the effort yet to be a design wizard so having some templates to start with really helps! I am disappointed however with Reading Rainbow, who made a lesson plan template for Google Docs. There is […].

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3 Powerful Online Dictionaries to Enhance Students Reading Comprehension

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 4, 2016 Most web browsers now come with integrated dictionaries which allow you to simply highlight a given term and right click on it to view its definition. However, when it comes to language.read more.

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Friday 5 — 3.4.2016

Perry Hewitt

My mild obsession with work hacks is gratified by this list of 32 of the best productivity tools. I’ve also observed that my habits have changed over time — I use overarching to-do and project management apps like Evernote less, and little tools like Momentum more. When might it make sense to have a digital alter ego rather than share your real identity.

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A Simple Idea: Helping technology work for you, not against you

SpeechTechie

I recently started individual therapy with a little friend who I also see in a group. In this group, we have used social pictures to build situational awareness with strategies such as Ward & Jacobsen's STOP acronym (Space, Time, Objects, People). I continue to find my iPad very useful for this as one can find and save pictures easily, and when displaying from the Photos app, it also serves as an engagement tool.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Sharing the Connections That Students Value

Edutopia

Photo credit: Phillip LeConte via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Penny and James Sturtevant Student Engagement In a youth culture that's all about sharing minutiae, teachers can develop a deeper relationship with students by sharing appropriate details from their own lives.

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How to Turn on the Part of Your Brain That Controls Motivation

MindShift

We know we should put the cigarettes away or make use of that gym membership, but in the moment, we just don’t do it. There is a cluster of neurons in our brain critical for motivation, though. What if you could hack them to motivate yourself? These neurons are located in the middle of the brain, in a region called the ventral tegmental area. A paper published Thursday in the journal Neuron suggests that we can activate the region with a little bit of training.

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Tyranny of the Urgent vs. Importance of the Expected

Tech Helpful

But what if it did? What if as a technology coordinator I put more value on putting my things on hold when the teachers, administrators, and students I support needed me most? What if my job was reactionary? What if I put out fires first and worked on the expected as I could? Everybody loves a hero and at some time or another we have all needed one.

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3 Reasons to Return: Confessions of a #gafesummit Junkie

EdTechTeam

Michele Osinski is a 5th Grade Teacher at Temecula Valley Unified School District. She's been to 6 EdTechTeam Summits featuring Google for Education and we wanted to know what keeps her coming back for more! She just came full-circle back to Las Vegas a year later after 6 Summits! Her partner in crime is Rosalinda Jaimes , and together, they are the T echFairies. 3 Reasons to Return: Confessions of a Junkie The most interesting thing about being a life-long learner, to me, is that even after 30

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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A campus slashes sports: a knight or rook sacrifice?

Bryan Alexander

I’ve been writing about academic cuts for a long time, and not much about sports programs. I’ve also been burned by my foolish 2008-2009 prediction that colleges could cut back on athletics (laugh all you like). So it’s an interesting change of pace to mention a campus that is cutting back sports without hitting academics. St. Cloud State University (SCSU) will truncate or end a number of sports programs.

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3 Strategies To Promote Positive Reinforcement

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 3 Strategies To Promote Positive Reinforcement appeared first on TeachThought.

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SXSWedu Kicks Off as Schools Weigh Big Tech Challenges

Marketplace K-12

On Monday, it seems that nearly every species of ed-tech player—major corporate reps and founders of startups, entrepreneurs and investors, teachers and students, gamers and designers, academic scholars and digitally minded geeks (and I mean that lovingly)—will be on hand in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest Education conference , now in its sixth year.

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Strategies for teaching, learning success

eSchool News

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll bring you a recap of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Where to Find Common Sense at SXSWedu

Graphite Blog

Starting Monday, March 7, stakeholders from all areas of education will gather in Austin, Texas, for SXSWedu to attend four days of sessions, interactive workshops, hands-on learning experiences, film screenings, and a host of networking opportunities. Common Sense will be in attendance, representing the organization's expertise in education. If you're in Austin, be sure to catch the Common Sense team in the following sessions: Moving from Privacy to Trust.

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edWeb Supports Edcamp Phoenix

edWeb.net

Edcamps are a great way for educators to meet with peers in their area and share great ideas. edWeb was pleased to be able to support our friends Peggy George and Deirdre Shetler with EdCamp Phoenix. Here is a great article about why this was such a wonderful learning experience. Edcamp Phoenix has come and gone, and what an event it was! Participants came in to a sponsor-supported breakfast of Chompies bagels and bananas.

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The Next Generation Blended Classroom: Increasing Achievement in Middle and High Schools

District Administration

Active and personalized learning, technology and curriculum can lead to accelerated outcomes District Administration Custom Publishing Group District Administration, April 2016 Blended learning is having a positive impact in schools and districts across the country, but there are a number of key strategies that can advance blended learning to its next generation of even greater effectiveness and improved achievement.

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And the Winner Is…

Adjusting Course

The results of the World Book Talk Championship are in! We started with 16 educators who each created a 30 second book talk. After thousands and thousands of votes only one book talk remains. . Who will be victorious? Will it be the Lead Learners or Literacy Legends? Watch the short (3 minute) episode of the #30SecondTake podcast below to see who won the Super Bowl of book talks.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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 Learning Network: Third Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You

Educator Innovator

The New York Times Learning Network is holding its third annual student editorial contest, featuring short, evidence-based persuasive essays where teenagers take a stand on an issue and attempt to convince readers of their point of view. Deadline: March 29, 2016. “As teachers know, the persuasive essay has long been a staple of high school education, but the Common Core standards seem to have put evidence-based argumentative writing on everybody’s agenda.

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Sign Up Now - Fascinating New Sessions at "Privacy in the Digital Age" Virtual Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're in the process of adding five fascinating new sessions to the Library 2.016 mini-conference: "Privacy in the Digital Age." This is a free event on hosted by The Learning Revolution and School of Information at San José State University and takes place online March 16th, 2016, from 12:00 - 3:00pm US-Pacific Time (click for your own time zone). To register click here.

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The Confident Leader

The Principal of Change

Much has been written on the notion of the trait of “arrogance” on leadership, yet insecurity is equally terrifying in any position of leadership. Yet confidence is crucial in this role is kind of that “sweet spot” of leadership. Both insecurity and arrogance can lead to decisions based not on what is best for kids, but personality.

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Introducing 2016 Inventor’s Challenge in Collaboration with AT&T Aspire

Educator Innovator

From now through March 11, 2016, our partner Imagination Foundation is putting the principles of connected learning into practice by launching its first ever Inventor’s Challenge, where youth seek to solve a problem in their schools or community by making something cool, useful, or even wacky. “We want kids to take whatever resources they have and make something that solves a problem in their schools and communities.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Digipuzzle for St. Patricks Day

Technology Tidbits

Digipuzzle is a wonderful site for finding educational games and puzzles. Educators are using this for centers or free time for students to introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom. Finally, Digipuzzle is a great site to find games/puzzles for different holidays. I highly recommend checking out Digipuzzle for activities of St. Patricks Day by clicking here.

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9 Popular Infant Life Jacket Options for Safe and Fun Water Play

Fractus Learning

If your family enjoys spending time on or near the water, an infant life jacket is a necessity. Whether it’s the beach, on the boat, fishing by the lake or river, or relaxing by the pool, keeping your little one safe is extremely important. The number one consideration when enjoying family time near the water with children of any age is that adult supervision is ABSOLUTELY necessary.

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Chronicle

Technology Tidbits

Chronicle is an amazing iPad app that helps educators harness and organize their best teaching methodologies. This is done by "chronicling" a students' data and using it in a beneficial and meaningful way. Chronicle is an all-in-one tool that teachers are using for classroom management, grading, assessing, and so much more. Here are some of Chronicle's features. 1.