Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Guest post By Nikki Navta, Founder and CEO of Zulama. Nikki has been inventing products that combine left-and right-brain thinking for more than two decades. Her work on the product development side of the educational textbook publishing industry gave her the experience and inspiration to launch an ed-tech startup. Through a series of courses developed with faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, Zulama helps students develop critical programming, art, and design skills.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Once, it was so handy to carry one of those disposable film cameras around in our pockets. Once, we were so thankful for our point-and-shoot digital cameras because they made instant photography so much easier. Today, so many of us carry cameras around in our pockets. We pull them out at a moment’s notice. Many [.].

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Organizational Supports Teachers Need to Serve in High-Poverty Urban Schools. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The legend of the superhero teacher who steps into a crumbling, underresourced school and singlehandedly changes the lives of a group of indifferent or hostile students is a pervasive one in popular culture.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

“School is a game,” says Barry Fishman, University of Michigan professor of education and information. But unlike Monopoly or Taboo, Fishman believes the plays and strategies in higher education courses are often poorly designed. He and his colleagues at U-M’s Gameful Learning Lab are working together to incorporate essential elements of well-designed games into courses.

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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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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This fall, as part of our #ETTchat series , Communications Editor James Daley will be chatting with our EdTechTeacher instructors about some of their favorite tools, apps, and strategies for the classroom. In this post, he chats with co-founder Justin Reich about the question Is All This Innovation Working? In his role as co-founder of EdTechTeacher, Justin Reich has spent years working with schools and districts to help them implement technology initiatives and find innovative, student-cent

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. Some 100,000 students currently take to Kadenze , an online arts education platform, every month for classes ranging from machine learning for musicians and artists to audio programming. Launched in June 2015, the Valencia, Calif.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Recent college grads seeking employment and professionals looking for a new gig would do well to include Hadoop and Hive on their resumes, according to research from LinkedIn. Today the network unveiled the top 10 skills employers need in 2016. Cloud and distributed computing topped the list for the second year in a row. LinkedIn monitored hiring and recruiting activity that happened on its platform between Jan. 1 and Sept. 1 in 2016—several billion data points, according to the company.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 20, 2016

[ This post is co-authored with my colleagues, Hoda Mostafa (@hodamost), Associate Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo and Sherif Osman (@the_sosman), senior officer, pedagogy and assessment at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo ]. Co-teaching means sharing your students, sharing your resources and sharing the joys and challenges of each step of the learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have made their presence known in education, with teachers and administrators voicing their excitement over free resources that are easily shared and adapted. In fact, the movement has grown so much that it has received federal attention. The U.S. Department of Education’s #GoOpen campaign encourages states, school districts and educators to use open educational resources.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Dictanote is an excellent note taking tool with a powerful speech recognition facility. We have already featured this tool in our list of the best 5 speech to text apps for chrome published a couple.read more.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Black and Hispanic students are consistently at a disadvantage when it comes to computer science education opportunities, according to a new report from Google and Gallup. In addition to racial disparities, gender disparities exist as well, with girls less likely to be aware of the availability of computer science education. The report, Diversity Gaps in Computer Science: Exploring the Underrepresentation of Girls, Blacks and Hispanics , notes that women and certain minority groups lag behind in

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

What does equal access to high quality education look like? Today, the internet plays a central role. Students need online access to conduct research projects, use educational apps and access homework, while parents need to receive important communication from their school and teachers through the web. Students without reliable access to the internet face a distinct disadvantage in their education.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Whether Darwin said it or he was paraphrased, this clichéd quote still has merit: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. Tweet. What the author of this quote left out was that “ change is defeated by anxiety almost every time. ” Then, when anxiety is eventually overthrown, change is going to be a messy business, fraught with uncertainty.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In his succinct text Bruce Dixon provides a jumping off point for anyone wondering how to tackle changing the way we educate students, writes tech resource teacher Renee Bogacz. His analysis can inspire educators to create their own frameworks.

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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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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 20, 2016

A Lesson Using Kathy Schrock’s “5 W’s” to Evaluating Web Site Content I teach an introductory level technology course at The College of Westchester, focused on emerging. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In designing lessons, I ask myself several questions. One of them is Digital tools can be great because they allow for some elements of personalization. Even something very small can enhance the interest level for students. Allow the context of the assignment to include something a student is interested in. Students can choose a photo […]. The post What Small Thing Does The Student Add to the Assignment?

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Some change sucks and it is why a lot of educators hate it. . Many educators see change as being done for the sake of change, and to be honest, in many cases they are right. There are way too many initiatives that happen in education that we quickly abandon because they are not seen as useful. Time is the most precious commodity we have, and once you give it up, you can’t get it back.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 20, 2016

A few months into your first year teaching and ready for on-point advice? Todd, Katherine and Madeline Whitaker's common-sense advice in Your First Year can both inspire you and help keep you on the right track. Linda Biondi thinks veterans will find it useful too.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Holbrook Mahn, Professor in the department of Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, presented in the edWeb.net webinar, “ Using edWeb for Collaboration in Higher Education Courses.” Holbrook discussed how he uses edWeb in his higher education seminars. Since he began teaching in 1997, Holbrook has been interested in the use of technology to facilitate learning in the classroom.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Impressive, interactive 3D models augment classroom learning.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Help students build scientific literacy with the research-based strategies developed by Jennifer Altieri in her book Reading Science. Science teacher Joyce Depenbusch finds the ideas for vocabulary instruction and cross-curricular projects especially helpful.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This post is another reaction paper I wrote for the course I am currently taking, Technology and School Leadership, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enjoy! In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority. So many things are thrown their way: assessments, evaluation tasks, submitting lesson plans, building duties, parent communications, and so on.

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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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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This post is another reaction paper I wrote for the course I am currently taking, Technology and School Leadership, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Enjoy! In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority. So many things are thrown their way: assessments, evaluation tasks, submitting lesson plans, building duties, parent communications, and so on.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Picture yourself arriving at Sommerville School in Tamaki, one of Auckland’s poorest suburbs. You are formally welcomed by a dozen students, each representing a different school. These boys and girls, all aged 12, are collectively the “Manaiakalani ambassadors”. They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Few things capture a little one’s imagination, especially a little girl’s, like the magical world of princesses. Princess games are a fantastic way to tap into a love of adventure, magic, beauty and happily ever after. There are a large number of princess games available, often featuring everyone’s favorite Disney princesses. Familiar characters like Elsa, Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine and more can be found in popular game formats like Candyland and memory games, as we

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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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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age Initiative’s new video series documents best practices and new strategies in civic education. Are you concerned about the health of our democracy? Do you feel like schools aren’t doing enough to prepare young people to fully leverage the potential of digital tools toward civic ends or to avoid the pitfalls of the digital age?

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