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Why Making and the Arts Need Each Other to Survive and Thrive in Schools

Edsurge

When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning. But who has the time or the funding to allow that to happen? Instead, let’s ask ourselves: How can these constraints compel us to leverage our creativity?

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The 7 Questions Your MS Students Ask First

MiddleWeb

First day routines evolve over the years, says veteran teacher Cheryl Mizerny, but she has found that addressing 7 questions most students bring to class will help them feel welcome and excited about learning. A student advisory panel supports her observations.

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What can a 4th grader teach us about Digital Citizenship? | #StuVoice #DigCit @mbfxc

TeacherCast

Digital Citizenship is the teaching of community building online and helping your students understand how to treat one another equally and fairly. The post What can a 4th grader teach us about Digital Citizenship? | #StuVoice #DigCit @mbfxc appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Digital Citizenship is the teaching of community building online and helping your students understand how to treat one another equally and fairly.

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4 Important Apps for A Paperless Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Planning a paperless classroom? Here are four important apps you should definitely consider. Using these apps will enable you to create and distribute assignments to your students, provide feedback.read more.

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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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Learning how to bring Next Generation Science Standards into the Middle School Curriculum @FossScience @DeltaEducation

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Podcast. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Mariel Warnock from School Specialty to discuss the launching of their AMAZING Foss System for Middle School students. Learn how your students can learn Next Generation Science Methods today! The post Learning how to bring Next Generation Science Standards into the Middle School Curriculum @FossScience @DeltaEducation appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Unintended Consequences: How Gates Foundation Money Steered Uversity Into Trouble

Edsurge

This article, “ Unintended Consequences ,” was first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Jamie Glenn, chief executive of a once-hot social media startup, was between a rock and a hard place. Or rather, between a binding legal agreement and a faltering business model.

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Changing the T&L Culture of a District – SXSWedu

The Thinking Stick

I’m excited to be partnering with Becky Berg , Superintendent of Marysville School District #25 (MSD25) and Scott Beebe , MSD25’s, Chief Technology Officer, as we are submitting a case study proposal to South by Southwest EDU conference (SXSWedu). I have wrote occasionally here about the work the Eduro Learning team and I are doing in partnership with Marysville as they roll out over 5000 Chromebooks to students 6-12 in their district.

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3 Stretch Goals for Math Teaching This Year

MiddleWeb

Before planning her first lessons, math teacher Michelle Russell came up with her three teaching goals for the year. Most of all, she wants to strengthen her student relationships and make learning about math more fun. See the survey she did on Day One.

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Does Your PD Have These 5 Essential Qualities?

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators aren't born, they're formed and one way that happens is by participating in and providing excellent learning opportunities. This means knowing what mistakes to avoid and being part of experiences that are more than the outdated “sit and git” lecture. And, it’s not just a preference. As reported in EdSurge, research supports this belief.

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Dyslexic Thinkers Aren’t Disabled Thinkers

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Dyslexic Thinkers Aren’t Disabled Thinkers appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Get your MeL Chrome Apps!

The Electric Educator

I'm excited to announce to my fellow Michigan Educators that the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) has published six of their databases as Chrome Web Apps! It's now easier than ever to give your students access to high quality research databases. Six different apps are available in the Chrome Webstore: MeL.org Access the entire Michigan eLibrary which features all of your favorite MeL databases and resources including MeLCat.

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Emerging Technology and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 08-13-16

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 in the Wrap, we start off with a great set of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Feature-Rich Screencasting Tool Ideal for Flipping the Classroom

techlearning

Slick, complex screencasting tool with cool creation, privacy features.

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Against the Flow Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

Change is uncomfortable for virtually everyone. I am the first person who will say that the process is not easy or absent of difficult challenges. The challenge of change becomes even more difficult when the main adversary is always right in front of us – our mindset. Our complex brains often work against our best intentions at times. This is Maslow’s hierarchy at play in a nutshell.

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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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“When your attempt rate is high, each individual failure becomes a lot less significant.”

The Principal of Change

“When your attempt rate is high, each individual failure. becomes a lot less significant.” Ron Friedman. For all of the people reading this blog post right now, there are exponentially more that aren’t. And for every blog post that I write, only a very few seem to stick. I can’t say that any of them have ever gone “viral”, although many have been shared a lot more than what I have ever expected.