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MARCH 9, 2016

By D. Frank Smith This year’s E-Rate applications are expected to amount to $5.8 billion — but will that be enough to prepare schools for the future?

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 9, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 5. Driving Question: How might school-wide STEAM instruction increase student learning? The Bullis Charter School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) program is the cornerstone of our core curriculum. The first goal of our STEAM program is to make innovative, engaging, rigorous education available to all students at all levels, The second is to facilitate a deeper conceptual understanding of the material in a meaningful way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2016

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from a reader: MS Word opens with Calibri 11 and I want Times New Roman 12.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MARCH 9, 2016

While ed-tech entrepreneurship may be less risky than other sectors, there are still many uncertainties to be aware of. Financial, technology, and market sectors are all areas for deep thought and caution. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Below, is the third of four posts highlighting techniques that will help insure that teachers are helping students succeed with their work by teaching them the technology skills they need, but doing it quickly, so that most of the time could be spent focusing on content from the curriculum. Cheat Sheets. The third trick for teaching technology quickly is a strategy that works hand in hand with mini lessons: the use of “Cheat Sheets.”.

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Voyager Sopris Learning

MARCH 9, 2016

March is Music in Our Schools Month. Since ancient Greece, music has been an important area of study. The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 lists music as a core academic subject. So allow me to step on my music advocacy soapbox (we call them conducting podiums) and illuminate both why and how you can support music in our schools. Advocacy for music in public education is important because it seems that in today’s society, where quality education is summarily evaluated by data from test scores, a

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Fidelis Education

MARCH 9, 2016

We recently hosted a webinar with Josh Cage, EVP of Greenwood Hall, to talk about jumpstarting a game-changing coaching program, all the way from acquisition of coaches, to best practices in coaching.

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Edutopia

MARCH 9, 2016

Maurice Elias Social and Emotional Learning Those concise assessments about social-emotional skills and character on the back of a report card can become valuable talking points between schools, parents, and students.

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Fidelis Education

MARCH 9, 2016

We recently hosted a webinar with Josh Cage, EVP of Greenwood Hall, to talk about jumpstarting a game-changing coaching program, all the way from acquisition of coaches, to best practices in coaching.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

Austin, Texas. Much of the talk about student data these days focuses on worries about how to protect it, and safeguard privacy. But a new survey of classroom teachers underscores a different, and perhaps no less fundamental concern: that much of the data educators receive is of little use to them in their efforts to improve instruction. The results, based on a nationwide survey of educators sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, were outlined during a presentation at the South by

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 9, 2016

March 9, 2016 In today’s collection we are sharing with you some very good digital storytelling apps to use with kids and young learners. These are particularly ideal for enhancing kids literacy.read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

Education technology experts discuss various solutions to the ‘broken’ process of ed-tech purchasing. The ed-tech procurement process is broken, said former New York City Public Schools Chancellor Harold Levy during the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 8—and to prove it, he said a study last month found disparities of more than $100 per unit on how much schools were paying for the exact same iPad model.

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Edutopia

MARCH 9, 2016

Alex Shevrin Social and Emotional Learning Teen drama is the natural disconnect in socially and emotionally developing brains. Help them by honoring (not judging) their experience, teaching social skills, and encouraging reflection.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 9, 2016

Jon sat down with Lord Jim Knight, former Minister of Education for the United Kingdom. They talked about how flipped learning helps students better acquire knowledge and leads to self-directed learning. Enjoy. [link].

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 9, 2016

March 9, 2016 The world of science is teeming with all kinds of technical terminology. Comprehending science jargon can sometimes be a really challenging task for students especially those who don’t.read more.

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Edutopia

MARCH 9, 2016

Photo credit: Intel Free Press via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Heather Wolpert-Gawron Classroom Technology Apparently, the keyboards of classroom computers can be germier than toilet seats. Here's some advice to keep the seasonal bacteria and viruses at bay in classrooms.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

Austin, Texas. The testing world is being gripped by two overriding, and often competing forces: the continued reliance on big, high-stakes assessments for accountability purposes, and the rise of more sophisticated, nimble, and smaller-scale digital assessments, largely at the classroom level. Those two types of assessments are in some ways moving on separate tracks, explained a group of panelists who brought a deep collective experience researching and developing exams to a panel at the SXSWed

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 9, 2016

Each week EdTechTeacher will bring you a new, short video (10-15 minutes) by one of the staff exploring an app, web tool or idea in the world of educational technology centered around a new theme each month. Continuing February/March’s theme of collaboration , Kate Wilson shows us Trello, a free collaborative organization too l, you can use for planning projects, events, or anything at all.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2016

NWEA’s College Explorer Tool helps students use their Measures of Academic Progress score look for colleges that meet their learning needs. The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) has developed a new College Explorer tool that enables middle school and early high school-age students to use their Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) scores to see which colleges and universities they’re on track to enter long before they embark on the application process.

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ignitionEDU

MARCH 9, 2016

Yesterday I was introduced to MobileMind and the professional development solutions they offer, particularly in regards to Google in Education. I’m looking forward to learning more about the workshops they have available not only from the standpoint of an Instructional Technology Specialist responsible for providing quality PD for the teachers in my district but also from the view of an Instructional Designer about to start work on my dissertation in IDT.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 9, 2016

When it comes to education in general, and teaching in particular, the story in the mainstream media is less than pretty.You’ve seen the disturbing headlines and titles that don’t tell the whole story like those below. Fortunately, these days, user-generated content aka posts on blogs, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media are more influential, remembered and trusted than what appears in the mainstream media.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 9, 2016

A JigSaw activity is where students are placed in groups. A topic or reading is divided up amongst the groups. For example, one group becomes an expert on chapter 1, another group and expert on chapter 2, etc… The groups then take turns presenting their expertise to the class. Template alicekeeler.com/jigsaw Share One Template with […].

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2016

The post 9 Rules For Digital Citizenship appeared first on TeachThought.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 9, 2016

This week’s Future Trends Forum is a little different. Instead of having a guest, I’ll take the stage and investigate 2016’s leading trends in education and technology. This is all new material, nothing that’s been presented live anywhere else. Faithful FTTE readers will, of course, have an edge. Please join me and the rest of the mob in Shindig tomorrow.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 9, 2016

Blending technology into teaching has been an ongoing and often intimidating process for Gen X’er Mary Tarashuk, but it’s also ripe with possibility. And tech PD is often opportunistic. Take Mary's recent chat with her teen daughter while doing the dirty dishes.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 9, 2016

EdTechTeam is excited about everything the rest of the year has in store for our team, our community, and the field of education. We started the year with an all-team retreat at our Irvine office. All 29 employees (including 22 innovative teachers and educational leaders) came together to dream out loud as architects of what's possible. and to help create the change we want to see in schools.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. The move will give Truenorthlogic, which provides data on teachers’ performance and tracks their professional development, the ability to take student assessment results and combine them with educator performance data on one platform,

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 9, 2016

This lovely woman came up to me during my session the other day, and talked about how she just signed up for Twitter. She then shared, that she always gets excited for these days, but then struggles because she realizes how far behind she is of other people in the classroom. My response? I shared with her that just by signing up for Twitter and creating her own account, she had actually moved ahead of others in the same room that had been on Twitter for a long time, but weren’t necessaril

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MindShift

MARCH 9, 2016

The following excerpt is from the book “ Freedom to Learn ” by Will Richardson. . Tradition and Nostalgia . Without question, the biggest barrier to rethinking schooling in response to the changing worldscape is our own experience in schools. It’s what we know, and as educators or parents, the familiar feels safe to us and for our kids. Intellectually, we may be able to make sense of the argument laid out in this book, that the world has changed, that being a learner is more importan

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2016

The post Recommended Reading: Do I Really Have To Teach Reading? appeared first on TeachThought.

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

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