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Researchers: Forget Internet Abstinence; Teens Need some Online Risk

The Journal

If adults want to help teenagers learn how to handle the big risks of Internet usage, the best thing we can do is let them get used to handling smaller risky online situations. That's the conclusion from a Pennsylvania State University research project that examined adolescent online safety.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Installing a New Educational App

EdTech Magazine

By Meg Conlan This checklist will help teachers select apps that not only improve learning outcomes but also align with school and district technology goals.

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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Recently I was invited by the Natick, Mass. public schools to attend an Apple Distinguished Schools Day where Natick shared its blended learning approach with other schools and districts. As an online learning tool, Listen Current fits well into blended learning, but I wanted to learn more about how schools are adopting it and how we as a company can be more attractive to schools using blended learning.

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Educational Technology is at a Fork: Instruction vs Construction

The Journal

There are some that use technology to support construction-oriented pedagogies — maker movement, project-based learning — and some that use technology to support instruction-oriented pedagogies — personalized learning. Instruction may well be less costly to deliver — but the loss of the opportunity to develop our children’s creativity is inestimable.

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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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OERwashing: Beyond the Elephant Test

Doug Levin

My reaction to a news story about an education company acquisition seems to have set off a debate in my twitter feed about the intersection of open educational resources (OER) and the role of the private, for-profit sector in the K-12 content/curriculum market: For the love of all things good and holy, can we not keep confounding ‘open’ with ‘free’?

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UC Davis To Host C-STEM Day

The Journal

Students from elementary school through community college will take part in the sixth annual C-STEM Day held by the University of California, Davis on May 21. The C-STEM Day events will take place at the UC Davis campus and at University High School in Irvine, CA.

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NEF's $80 Million Matching Grants Enable Schools to Qualify for $800 Million for Energy and STEM

The Journal

The National Education Foundation (NEF) has set aside $80 million for mandated matching grants to school districts and schools to allow them to receive up to $800 million in federal Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZAB) funds.

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A Free, Downloadable Visual E-Timetable

EdTech4Beginners

Timetables are very important to have in the classroom. Children need to know what they will be studying over the day. In particular, it is known that pupils with special educational needs, need the structure and support of a timetable. A visual timetable is great because student’s of all ages can understand it and it is clear to see. I have made an electronic timetable which can be projected to the whole class or shared with them using a class management tool such as Google Classroom.

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Oculus Launches Virtual Reality Program in High Schools

The Journal

The new initiative provides students with VR equipment to create short films on social issues.

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6 Summer School Tech Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class.

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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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CENIC Network Adds City of Los Angeles

The Journal

The City of Los Angeles has joined the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), a 100 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) research and education network, providing California schools, colleges and universities with high-speed access to the city's data and services.

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OUCH! Did I Just Learn Something

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 10. Play-Based Learning: A Guide for Grown-Ups. Driving Question: Do 8th Graders need recess? What joyful childhood memory can you recall most clearly? In a series of interviews with colleagues, adults answered by reliably recalling moments of freedom and discovery born of extended periods of play: long summer afternoons rigging a rope swing across the creek, vigorous evenings of capture-the-flag in neighbors' front yards, or hours of dress-up imagination games with sib

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An unknown future? Prepare students with these timeless skills

Ditch That Textbook

The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that 65 percent of today’s schoolchildren will be employed in jobs that don’t exist today. Think of how you would have felt 10 years ago if someone said these would be full-time, paying jobs: Search Engine Optimization Specialist User Experience Manager Social Media Manager Telecommuting Coordinator Online Advertising Manager Medical [.].

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Communicating Student Data Privacy

Tom Murray

This post originally appeared on futureready.org. . In recent years, student data privacy has emerged as a major education issue at federal, state and local levels. Recent news coverage and social media conversations about student data access, especially as it relates to outside service providers, have heightened the public’s overall interest in the use and security of student data.

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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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Becoming Innovative: 15 New Ideas Every Teacher Should Try

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Becoming Innovative: 15 New Ideas Every Teacher Should Try appeared first on TeachThought.

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Do you really believe all children can learn? Then stop disciplining black students out of the system

The Hechinger Report

Students chat as they leave Martin Luther King Jr. High School Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in New York. Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens. If we viewed students as learners and not uneducable criminals, then we wouldn’t kick them out of schools. We certainly wouldn’t shuttle children through an adult justice system. Education’s original sin of not believing children are actually children erodes even the most strident of educators’ belief that all children can learn and should be educated in school (and

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Google Classroom: Grab and Update a Post from Last Year

Teacher Tech

Reuse and Update Google Classroom Posts Google Classroom users can reuse posts from previous classes. As you create your new classes there is no need to start from scratch. Grab and update assignments you gave last time. Digital Filing Cabinet I was warned as a credential student not to be “that guy” who has a filing […]. The post Google Classroom: Grab and Update a Post from Last Year appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Reboot: 5 Resources for Teacher Inspiration

Edutopia

Photo credit: TED Conference via flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Monica Burns Teacher Wellness Whether snacking on TED-Ed videos, reading with purpose, checking into a smile backchannel, or chuckling at hashtags and memes, you're never far from relief and inspiration.

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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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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. Photo: Jackie Mader. OAKLAND, Calif. — It was almost the end of first period at Bret Harte Middle School when the five superintendents descended on math class. Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look fo

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Many educators these days see Pearson as the embodiment of commercial businesses’ continued push to turn profits from public schools.

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Google Released A New Interesting Group Sharing App

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 17, 2016 Google announced today the release of a new service called ‘Spaces’. This is basically a group sharing app that allows members to share, discuss and comment on topic-specific content.read more.

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What K12 Archiving Features Matter Most?

Gaggle Speaks

When evaluating a personal budget, advisors often recommend that you begin by drawing a line between items of necessity and those of luxury. When evaluating archiving providers for your school and district data, it’s wise to start evaluating product features in a similar manner. What archiving features matter most for schools and districts will assuredly vary, because each of the latter has unique circumstances, needs and requirements.

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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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Excellent Educational Posters Featuring The 9 Character Strengths of Successful Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 16, 2016 Character Lab is a nonprofit with an educational focus on the advancement of the science and practice of character development. Character Lab’s team is composed of dedicated researchers,read more.

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Stop, Drop, and Roll With It: Teacher Burnout Prevention

Edutopia

Photo credit: ©Hero Images/500px Nicholas Provenzano Teacher Wellness Prevent teacher burnout by sustaining yourself with a non-education hobby, finding a teammate for shared venting, regular journaling or blogging, and finding reasons to laugh.

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Converting Courses for Accelerated Summer Sessions

ProfHacker

This summer I’ll be teaching during our accelerated summer session: that means we have six weeks to cover material normally addressed in sixteen weeks of the semester. Compressing a course for summer session isn’t as simple as trying to cram everything into the new box, unfortunately: trying to cover every assignment, project, text, lecture, and activity at breakneck pace doesn’t end well for us or our students.

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3 Important Tips to Boost Students Confidence (TED Ed Lesson)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 16, 2016 In a previous post we published here in EdTech and mLearning, we talked about Chrome Lab’s 9 character strengths that characterize successful students (namely: grit, gratitude,read more.

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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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Virtual and mixed reality in education: Maya Georgieva on this week’s Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

This week the Future Trends Forum continues exploring emerging technologies for education. Our guest will be Maya Georgieva. Maya is cofounder of and partner in Digital Bodies , a design and consulting firm specializing in mobile, wearable, and virtual technologies. She and I, plus participants in the Shindig environment, will discuss virtual reality, augmented reality, and emerging mixed reality in terms of their educational implications.

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App of the Week: A game that teaches game design

eSchool News

Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. Project Spark. What’s It Like? Project Spark is a digital game creator that lets students build their own games. Students can browse, play, and learn from other community-designed games and from plenty of genres: action/adventure, first-person shooter, arcade, puzzle, strategy, and platformer.

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School Makerspaces Should Spark Innovation

MiddleWeb

Cheryl Mizerny is excited about the maker movement and all that it implies for education, but she hopes educators will take school-based makerspaces in the direction of incorporating 21st century learning goals, avoiding rote projects, and promoting innovation.

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My Social Media.in 1986

Comfortably 2.0

I'm a child of the 80's. I'm proud of it. Yep, I wore the black Reeboks with the rolled up jeans. I sported the Ocean Pacific tee shirts and you might have even noticed about 30 friendship pins attached to those black Reeboks. The good old days! The image you see above is from a digital citizenship presentation I created called "Growing Up Digital.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.