eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

A new report outlines the need for K-16 students to develop key data literacy skills. Focusing on three specific areas could be key to boosting K-16 students’ data literacy in a world where big data’s importance grows daily, according to a new report. EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators for a workshop on data literacy, and panelists focused on what it means to be data literate in today’s world of big data, as well as what

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2016

A Tip for Parents and Teachers From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He was dyslexic. I’m not sure if there is such a thing is “very” dyslexic. If there was, he was. I had a trick that worked with my older children. But would it work for him? The “trick” was simple. On a long trip, I would start reading the Chronicles of Narnia.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2016

By Meg Conlan Experts from around the web share tactics and advice for educators who want to make the most of Google Forms.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

The Need. Perhaps you’ve seen the statistics — more than 30 million adults in the U.S. are unable read, write, and solve basic math equations. But our adult basic education programs can only serve roughly four million of those adults. This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2016

Buncee is a web- and iPad-based creation tool for both teachers and students. With it, teachers can prepare engaging lessons, newsletters, and how-tos. Students can write interactive digital stories, easy-to build presentations, and more. The drag-and-drop interface makes it simple to put exactly what you want where it fits. If you ever struggle with getting PowerPoint to do what you want, you won’t with Buncee.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2016

Offering a secure examination experience for teachers and students in the cloud can be a daunting task. There is a reason that standardized exams are so simplistic in nature. It is a lot easier to standardize procedures if every student takes the same exam at the same time and the scores can be tabulated by a machine that counts black and white circles.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2016

Seth Godin said: most of the stuff that goes wrong, much of the organizational breakdown, the unfixed problems and the help not given, ends up happening because the system lets it happen. It happens because a boss isn’t focusing, or priorities are confused, or people in a meeting somewhere couldn’t find the guts to challenge the status quo.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 20, 2016

May 20, 2016 Critical thinking, as we have argued elsewhere, is an essential skill for the 21st century students. Not that it was not essential before but in a digitally focused world.read more.

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TeacherCast

MAY 20, 2016

Here’s a list of tools that will make the hard work of teaching just a little bit easier. The post 11 Digital Tools that make Teaching Easier by @Diana_Beyer appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Teacher Tech

MAY 20, 2016

How Do You Learn New Ideas? There are so many new possibilities for teaching. Blended learning, Common Core, DOK levels, Project Based Learning (PBL), Minecraft, Standards Based Grading (SBG), Student-centered classrooms, BreakoutEDU, making global connections, collaboration techniques and of course just using new technology. Teaching is too hard to go it alone.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 20, 2016

Justin Reich, co-founder of EdTechTeacher, speaks at Google Boston, during our 2015 Google for Education Conference. EdTechTeacher is proud to announce its acceptance in the Google for Education Partner Program. EdTechTeacher is now an official provider of Google for Education consulting, training, implementing and technical services to schools. Google for Education Partners are a select group of organizations recognized by Google for their delivery of high-quality professional development to e

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 20, 2016

The post 14 Questions Every Teacher Should Ask Themselves About That Lesson Plan appeared first on TeachThought.

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 20, 2016

Bots won't replace apps, better apps will. Read the entire post for insights on the limitations of the conversational user interface, including too many taps and lingering skeuomorphism in chat interaction design. 85% of Facebook video is watched without sound, which is why you'll find savvy organizations posting videos like this , this, or this -- all tell a compelling story with the audio off.

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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

MAY 20, 2016

May 21, 2016 Image to PDF Converter is a wonderful tool from Smallpdf that you can use to easily convert images to beautiful PDFs. The tool is free and simple to use. It also supports major popular.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Jennifer Riley-Collins is the executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi. May 17 th marked the 62nd anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students.

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The Thinking Stick

MAY 20, 2016

I sit here….on a piece of driftwood wondering where this log came from. For sure somewhere here off the Washington coast…I think. For two days this will be my thinking spot. The spot where there is no connection. No cell service, no Internet. There is my wife, myself, these waves and this fallen tree. I look to my right and see our bald eagle friend who obviously has a nest near by.

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ProfHacker

MAY 20, 2016

A recurring favorite topic for ProfHacker writers over the years has been alternatives to, or ways to dispense altogether with, learning management systems. No one likes them, no one likes the idea of “managing” learning, and the whole affair feels like a Skinner box designed to teach us the truth of Audrey Watters’s claim that ed tech is basically here to destroy education from within.

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Edutopia

MAY 20, 2016

Photo credit: @Jon Wason/500px Terry Heick Literacy This summer, have your students make their reading meaningful by thoughtfully applying what they learn to areas of their life that matter to them.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 20, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, Sesame Workshop and Reach Capital unveiled a new partnership to support start-ups. And a social learning network for middle and high school students and a math tutoring company received funds from the investment community. Sesame Workshop Partners with Reach Capital: Sesame Workshop, through its Sesame Ventures investment arm, and Palo Alto, Calif.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 20, 2016

In Case You Missed It! In the past months I have continued writing columns for ASHA Leader. A few that have been published for the web version of the magazine: Tech Your Message Out: Private practitioners can tap easy-to-use tools to better communicate with staff, clients and families. It’s All About Your Client: Harness the Book Creator app to make treatment relevant to your clients’ lives.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 20, 2016

Years ago I heard about a great program from a school district that wanted to work with their teachers on deepening their understanding about using technology for learning. They created 50 spots for teachers that would have to attend 12 sessions, on their own time, to further their learning in this initiative. As incentive, at the end of the 12 sessions, they would be given their own laptop to use at their discretion.

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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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Edutopia

MAY 20, 2016

Photo credit: "24/7 Connectivity: Wi-Fi Powered Buses" Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy) 5-Minute Film Festival Is your school or district "Future Ready"? Whether you're new to the Future Ready Schools initiative, or your district or school is in the process of Future Ready changes, this video playlist offers ideas, tips and strategies for facilitating district- or school-level change.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 20, 2016

Snap circuits are a fun way for children to learn more about electronics. Kids can make all kinds of cool things, including remote control toys, simply by snapping the right pieces together. The great thing about snap circuit sets is that they are both incredibly easy to use and totally safe. Each set contains motors, resistors, switches, transistors and capacitors.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

New scalable system has 99 percent black surface area for high contrast, high resolution, immersive visuals. At InfoComm 2016, Sony will highlight its display capabilities in a big way, focusing on upgrading the landscape for large-scale visual entertainment. The new technology, Crystal LED Integrated Structure (CLEDIS), uses Sony’s ultrafine LEDs in a unique surface mounting structure as its light source to deliver a visual experience not possible with even the highest-end conventional LED arra

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MindShift

MAY 20, 2016

While many educators now recognize that “noncognitive” factors that affect how a student thinks about his or her abilities are important to learning academic content, there’s little consensus about how teachers can help build those qualities. Some districts are trying to include noncognitive factors in measures of school effectiveness , while other schools focus on certain character qualities as part of their mission.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

Contestants will have a chance to showcase their talents, win prizes and get mentored by an IEEE member. A new opportunity for the innovative, creative and curious maker to transform problems into technology solutions has opened. IEEE, a technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced the annual IEEE Maker Project Competition, welcoming innovators and tech enthusiasts to battle it out for great prizes and the chance to work with an IEEE member.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 20, 2016

Kentucky’s community college system just laid off nearly 200 people , including 45 faculty and 125 staff members. What are the causes of this slashing? My readers will be utterly unsurprised to learn that declining enrollment was one. In addition, the state cut support: President Jay Box was not immediately available for comment Wednesday. But earlier this month, he warned of upcoming spending reductions because of a 4.5 percent cut in state support over the next two years.

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techlearning

MAY 20, 2016

Both Evernote and Notability are great digital note-taking tools for teachers and students. But which is best for classroom use?

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 20, 2016

Kentucky’s community college system just laid off nearly 200 people , including 45 faculty and 125 staff members. What are the causes of this slashing? My readers will be utterly unsurprised to learn that declining enrollment was one. In addition, the state cut support: President Jay Box was not immediately available for comment Wednesday. But earlier this month, he warned of upcoming spending reductions because of a 4.5 percent cut in state support over the next two years.

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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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