Catlin Tucker
MARCH 8, 2016
This summer I will be teaching a class titled “ Engaging Today’s Learners with Technology ” at the Stanford Teaching Festival from August 1-5th. This class is designed for educators teaching grades 6-12 (cross curricular). Below is detailed course information if you (or a co-worker) is interested in joining me for a hands-on, collaborative professional development course!
EdTech Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
By D. Frank Smith Calling computer science a “new basic skill,” Rhode Island’s governor wants to make the state a new innovation hub.
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More Verbs
MARCH 8, 2016
This is the second in a series of posts on teaching technology quickly so the focus of technology-based learning activities can be on learning through technology rather than the technology itself. “Just in Time,” not “Just In Case”. The mistake the Health teacher from the recent post made wasn’t doing the mini lessons before letting students start their project.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 8, 2016
March 8, 2016 After writing about iPad apps for creating story books, we received a couple of requests for featuring a similar list for Android users. Below are some of the apps we recommend for.read more.
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MARCH 8, 2016
Schools already have lots of groups that they call leadership teams. But many of them are not what I would refer to as “shared leadership teams,” not in the sense we were talking about in the previous post. I would probably call them “management teams.” Schools frequently have teams that are used to help share information between building administration and teams or departments, or to decide how and when to transition between terms or trimesters, or how to handle lunch on
TeacherCast
MARCH 8, 2016
Coming off of PiCademy [https://www.raspberrypi.org/picademy/usa/] I feel like I can do anything if I am surrounded by the right group of people. It was one of the smartest and most right-minded rooms I have ever been in. Kid-focused From the start, the focus was right.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TeacherCast
MARCH 8, 2016
Have you ever wondered what an Apple Distinguished School looks like? Have you ever thought about rolling out a successful 1:1 initiative across thousands of students and teachers? In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff sits down with Ross Cooper to discuss TL2020, a State of the Art, 21st Century vision for the Salisbury Twp. School District that not only is turning heads worldwide, but chasing the lives of students as they become college and career ready.
eSchool News
MARCH 8, 2016
NSF-funded study will help district determine how best to incorporate computer science in classrooms. Florida’s Broward County School District is starting young with computer science instruction, integrating it in math and science classes at the kindergarten level. More than 110 of the district’s 139 elementary schools are teaching it this year, reaching about 27,000 students.
Edutopia
MARCH 8, 2016
Photo credit: Locus Research via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Dr. Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers Teacher Burnout Avoid burnout through positive self-talk and self-reflection, managing your workload, embracing the little joys of teaching, becoming more resilient, and temporarily setting your problems aside.
Marketplace K-12
MARCH 8, 2016
Austin, Texas. One way to gauge the K-12 activity that is most intriguing to ed-tech aficionados and others gathered at this conference is also one of the simplest: look at the agenda. A review of this year’s schedule at the South by Southwest Education conference suggests that an interest, at least to many attendees, in “maker spaces”—places for students to build and create with varying degrees of adult oversight—is rising.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 8, 2016
March 8, 2016 Google Docs released yesterday another new interesting feature that allows users to download their Google documents in EPUB format. And as you know, EPUB is a file format that you.read more.
EdTechTeacher
MARCH 8, 2016
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 8, 2016
March 8, 2016 This is a quick post to share with you this awesome find. Looking for some good movies to watch with your little ones, this selection from Common Sense media is definitely a great place.read more.
Edutopia
MARCH 8, 2016
Photo credit: Brad Flickinger via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Beth Holland Technology Integration Going beyond the 4Ss of digital note taking (support, save, search, and share), students should work toward curating, synthesizing, and reflecting on their learning.
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.
Nik Peachey
MARCH 8, 2016
I’ve been a long term advocate of the use of infographics in education and especially enjoy thinking of ways that students can be encouraged to engage with and question the content as well as create their own graphics, so when I rediscovered Visme.co I was really delighted to find the tool that I once thought was a PowerPoint substitute for creating online presentations had turned into an awesome interactive infographic creator.
eSchool News
MARCH 8, 2016
Customization, using social media and pushing out safety routes just some new capabilities of mass notification systems (MNS). Anyone who says the use of mass notification is a new trend for education institutions and communities doesn’t fully understand it. Mass notification is as old as communication itself. Paul Revere blasted a verbal warning that “the British are coming.
EmergingEdTech
MARCH 8, 2016
At About $15 per ‘headset’, Google Cardboard Provides an Inexpensive Intro to Virtual Reality, Bringing Learning to Life in Your Classroom Two related technologies that are really. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
eSchool News
MARCH 8, 2016
Knight sat down to discuss using video for instructional coaching. In February, Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena, an online video coaching platform for classroom observation, sat down with author/researcher Jim Knight. They talked about Knight’s new book Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected and how video supports the instructional coaching process.
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Bryan Alexander
MARCH 8, 2016
Just how affordable is American higher education? It’s harder to pay for than ever , according to Jeff Selingo in an important, very accessible article, which I recommend sharing. He breaks this down by cost (what colleges charge, nominally*) and ability to pay (what financial resources American families have). To begin with, tuition continues to rise, despite some tuition freezes, and the steady replacement of relatively expensive tenured faculty with relatively cheap adjuncts, and pop
MindShift
MARCH 8, 2016
Excerpted from Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire. © 2015 by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire. TarcherPerigee, Penguin Group USA, Penguin Random House LLC. The Perks of Being an Outsider. Children learn from an early age that a failure to conform can lead to disapproval from teachers and peers, which may motivate them to try to be like everyone else.
Teacher Tech
MARCH 8, 2016
I am a big fan of collaborative documents. Having all students in the class on the same spreadsheet allows you to collect student ideas and crowdsource information. Once concern about collaborative documents is students accidentally deleting each others work. If a spreadsheet is explicitly shared with the students, Google Classroom does this automatically, the student […].
Graphite Blog
MARCH 8, 2016
Take a moment and imagine your ideal scenario for a classroom discussion. Your students are both perennially engaged yet conscientious; all are equally eager to raise their hands and share in equitable ways, digging deep into substantial, thought-provoking topics. Sounds great, right? But in reality most students just don't come to us with the skills for this type of out-loud, on-the-spot discourse.
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.
Fractus Learning
MARCH 8, 2016
Play Doh is a popular play material for younger children. Most pre-schools and kindergartens have a few Play Doh sets for their kids to play with. A tub of Play Doh may be worlds away from electronic gadgets such as iPads and computers, but kids can learn a lot from squeezing and creating lumps of colorful Play Doh. Play Doh sets are a valuable educational tool for parents and teachers.
eSchool News
MARCH 8, 2016
New Neutron Series solution aims to help provide fast wi-fi with minimal costs. A new distributed network management solution from EnGenius Technologies is intended to make it easy to deploy a wireless network across a school district. The Neutron Series Distributed Network Management Solution is a highly-scalable managed wireless LAN solution that aims to make it easy and affordable to deploy and centrally manage a high-performance, secure wireless network throughout a campus, or even across mu
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 8, 2016
The post Spotlight: Student Work In Project Based Learning appeared first on TeachThought.
The Principal of Change
MARCH 8, 2016
Working with a group of administrators in a workshop, the participants seemed to be evenly split into districts that were either “1 to 1” (1 laptop/tablet per students) and those that weren’t. I was asked by one of the administrators from a “1 to 1” district, “How do you address educators that believe they do not have enough professional learning to effectively use these devices?
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 8, 2016
The post Ep. 35 Growing Better Professional Learning Communities with Dr. Richard DuFour (part 2 of 2) appeared first on TeachThought.
techlearning
MARCH 8, 2016
Flexible features give teachers and students tons of options for interaction and support.
Technology Tidbits
MARCH 8, 2016
Matific is a great site for finding educational resources for Math in grades K-6th. These resources include videos, worksheets, activities, and more w/ an educational portal that allows educators to track student progress. Also, teachers are using this to assess students performance in Math and differentiate instruction. There is even a free mobile (iOS/Android) app for El Ed math games.
Reading By Example
MARCH 8, 2016
The following ideas and tools are worth exploring for future instruction when time allows. 1. ENTRY EVENTS WITH DIGITAL TOOLS. If you are looking for a way to capture your students’ attention in the beginning of a unit of study, consider Goose Chase. This app allows you to create a scavenger hunt. Students use a mobile device, such as an iPad, to complete a set of tasks related to your learning goals.
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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