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The Value of School

A Principal's Reflections

For all intents and purposes I had a great K-12 education. I got relatively good grades, stayed out of trouble, and participated in a wide range of sports and extracurricular activities. Best of all though were some of the amazing teachers and administrators I had during those years who consistently showed they cared. In the end I was deemed college ready and was accepted to almost all of the schools to which I had applied.

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Form+: A Data Collection Tool For Educators.

EdTech4Beginners

With an intuitive and user-friendly form builder, Form+ is a service that allows you collect data (including files) easily using web forms. Data is stored in your Google Drive and you always have access to it. You can also easily share this data with other collaborators easily. Files of all types and sizes can be uploaded using Form+. Using the power of Google Drive, Form+ provides a simple interface where you can easily drag and drop desired form components onto your new form palette.

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Design Challenge

User Generated Education

This year I have been focusing on design challenges and design thinking with my gifted elementary students, grades 2nd through 6th. Last semester I introduced a series of activities to have them explore, learn about, and interact with design thinking principles and strategies. For a description of those activities, see https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/introducing-design-thinking-to-elementary-learners/.

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The Two Resources Administrators Should Maximize for Personalized Learning Success

Edsurge

Personalizing education does not mean simply putting a laptop in the hands of every teacher and student; rather, it occurs as leaders empower teachers to go beyond the traditional role of a “content expert” and organically diagnose, analyze, guide, instruct, and coach students. Personalization requires focused intentionality to shift instructional models, using 21st century tools, towards student-centered 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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Students 5 Steps to Google Classroom [Infographic]

Teacher Tech

Link to drawing Students 5 Steps to Google Classroom Students can get started with Google Classroom in minutes. 1. Go to Google Classroom Students can go to the website classroom.google.com or use the Google Classroom app on their mobile devices. 2. Join a Class Students locate the plus icon in the upper right of the […]. The post Students 5 Steps to Google Classroom [Infographic] appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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6 Basic Google Scholar Tips Every Teacher Should Know about

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 16, 2017 Here is an updated version of one of our popular Google Scholar posters we published in 2016. The visual features some of the basic tips and features that every teacher and.read more.

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5 Great Educational iPad Apps Free Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January , 2017 The apps below are free today and only for a limited period of time. Our favourite app from this list is PDF Markup Ultimate (regular price $9,99) which is a really useful tool to use.read more.

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Low Cost Educational Tools Can Be Useful, Too

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Low Cost Educational Tools Can Be Useful, Too appeared first on TeachThought.

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The First 5 Minutes: Ignite Student Learning

MiddleWeb

To improve student outcomes, says teacher educator Curtis Chandler, it's important to invest extra attention in the first five minutes of class. He shares a variety of techy and not-so techy ideas to ignite student interest and energy for whatever else is to follow.

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App of the Week: Play with Smithsonian resources

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Smithsonian Learning Lab. What’s It Like?

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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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Why I Love This Strategy to Introduce Concepts

MiddleWeb

Middle grades teacher Cheryl Mizerny's favorite way to introduce new concepts in her ELA classroom engages students in "sticky" inductive reasoning and group investigations. Based on Bruner's Concept Attainment research, the technique can work in any subject.

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EdTech and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 01-14-17

EmergingEdTech

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 … it’s easier than you think to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Inauguration Tips for Active Viewing & Doing

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators know that when Inauguration day comes you don’t want your students passively watching. Regardless of your political views, active, engaged, focused viewing is the key. Here are a few ideas to ensure your students are engaged and their minds are stimulated with active viewing activities. Whenever watching video, frame, focus, and follow up are the basics recommended by the EDC’s Center for Children and Tech for viewing digital media in the classroom.

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Helping Students Develop Logical Reasoning

MiddleWeb

Consultant Tammy L. Jones proposes a three-prong approach to support students in their daily journey through content: effective questioning, authentic daily writing, and a bridging structure as they encounter new situations where critical thinking is required.

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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 Change Will Do You Good

Comfortably 2.0

Let's flash back twenty years ago to the summer of 1997. I had not yet started my teaching career. I was the Parks & Recreation Director in the town where we lived. My wife was in her second year of teaching 4th grade in the same town. Boy, were we young. Earlier that Spring my wife's elementary principal had taken a position at a different school district.

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iPracticeMath

Technology Tidbits

iPracticeMath is a wonderful FREE (Common Core aligned) site for Math grades K-12. I like to think of this as the "ultimate" Math resource, as students/educators can find whatever they are looking for, such as: worksheets/printables, interactive problems, detailed problem-walkthroughs, and more. Also, iPracticeMath covers a wide variety of Math problems.

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Is Betsy DeVos good or bad for edtech?

eSchool News

School choice, support of teachers unions, and her record in Michigan have been the leading controversial talking points in education when it comes to Donald Trump’s pick for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. But with a background in technology investment, could DeVos be a leader in the support of successfully-implemented edtech? Here’s What We Know.

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