eSchool News

MAY 24, 2016

You don’t need power tools and 3D printers to start a makerspace. Instead, get creative. Where others see trash, I see treasure. Reusing, repurposing, and recycling items that can be found in the kitchen garbage can, on the curb, or collected by friends and families helps educators to save money while protecting the environment. Today, our library makerspace has developed into a 21st century learning laboratory, with funding from grants and through the generosity of individuals and organiz

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 24, 2016

By Meg Conlan This weekend’s event highlighted student innovations and offered resources for educators looking to bring the Maker movement to their schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 24, 2016

Free this Week! Learn about Social Emotional Learning and the Impact on Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Social Emotional Learning is so important. The free online conference going on now put together by Jason and Ceilia Hilkey with experts like Alfie Kohn, Tony Wagner and many more experts on this topic is a must-listen and share.

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Digital Promise

MAY 24, 2016

Through the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative, we work with schools that are committed to transforming learning environments with always-available access to technology and powerful, personalized learning. We’ve even created a blueprint for schools to help them successfully navigate this journey. Undertaking this transformation is a challenge, and requires buy-in and commitment from district leadership, school administrators, and teachers in order to be successful.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 24, 2016

Pop Art Studio is a great website in which you can apply Pop Art effects to an image. Our topics this term are World War 2 and Pop Art, so my class created an Andy Warhol style effect on an image associated with the war: Click to view slideshow. How do I create Pop Art? First go to www.popartstudio.nl and choose which filter you require: Next, upload a picture file (I asked my students to download a suitable picture from Google Images ): Finally you can change things such as the size, colou

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 24, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 15. Driving Question: What happens if we play with ideas? The first of Mouse's five learning design principles: "Learning loves play.". The etymology of "play" includes "vigorous movement," "leap for joy, dance," "care for / tend to (with devotion)," "compete.". We are nowhere more serious than at play -- the stakes are too high.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MAY 24, 2016

A new episode of #FlipSide Radio: Only 2 min long. Listen is As Jon explains what you should do now to have a better flipped class next year. A new episode of #FlipSide Radio: Only 2 min long. Listen is As Jon explains what you should do now to have a better flipped class next year.

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FuelEd

MAY 24, 2016

Contributor: Kelli Hicks Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 7:30pm. My Own Learning Coach. When I was in college, I worked part-time as a custodian cleaning one of the buildings on campus. One of our responsibilities was to clean and polish the hard-tile floors in the long hallways. There were three levels of floors, and each one had a different machine with varying levels of difficulty that was used to clean it.

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TeacherCast

MAY 24, 2016

Got the urge to take a selfie? Check out the simple Microsoft Selfie app for iOS. The post Looking Forward To Taking Your Next Selfie? Don’t Worry … There’s An App For That appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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FuelEd

MAY 24, 2016

Contributor: Kelli Hicks Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 7:30pm. My Own Learning Coach. When I was in college, I worked part-time as a custodian cleaning one of the buildings on campus. One of our responsibilities was to clean and polish the hard-tile floors in the long hallways. There were three levels of floors, and each one had a different machine with varying levels of difficulty that was used to clean it.

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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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ProfHacker

MAY 24, 2016

[ This is a guest post by Dr. Leigh Graziano, who is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Program Administrator at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her work focuses on writing program administrator, first-year composition pedagogy, and assessment. She teaches first-year writing classes as well as upper-level classes in visual rhetoric, classical rhetoric, and convergence culture.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 24, 2016

May 25, 2016 Below are two good applications that provide short summaries to long chunks of text. The first one is called Smmry. This is a web based tool for summarizing text. Students can use.read more.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 24, 2016

Summer is just around the corner! What a perfect time for kids to get swept away in the plot of a great page-turner. Our 2014 research report, Children, Teens, and Reading , shows that adolescents aren't reading much for fun; a third of 13-year-olds and 45% of 17-year-olds say they've read for pleasure one to two times a year, if that. However, we know that kids read on their devices all the time -- whether to check their social media feeds, look up a random fact on Wikipedia, or keep up

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 24, 2016

May 24, 2016 Looking for some good websites that provide curated educational documentaries? The collection below features some of our favourite options. These are platforms where you can get access.read more.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MAY 24, 2016

By Guest Blogger Liana Heitin. Cross-posted from Curriculum Matters. In a letter posted today on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s website , chief executive officer Sue Desmond-Hellman acknowledged that the group had made some miscalculations regarding implementation of the Common Core State Standards. The Gates Foundation has backed the standards , which more than 40 states are now implementing, since their conception.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 24, 2016

May 24, 2016 Building a virtual space for your class can immensely boost the teaching you do in class and enhance students learning. Over the last few months we have reviewed several interesting.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 24, 2016

The post 8 Simple Tips For Great Teaching appeared first on TeachThought.

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MAY 24, 2016

Photo credit: ©Gable Denims/500px Maria Derivan-George School Leadership Educators need different levels of support and opportunity at different phases of their career. Here's how to be more responsive to beginning, middle-of-the-road, and veteran teachers.

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The Thinking Stick

MAY 24, 2016

If learning something new was easy everyone would do it. One of the reasons I love working with school districts and teachers over a long term basis is that you get to really dig in and do the work. I have started many presentations over the past year with this: “Raise your hand if you were ever taught in your pre-service program what learning looked like in a 1:1 environment?”.

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EmergingEdTech

MAY 24, 2016

Save the Date: FlipCon 2016, July 19-21, 2016 On July 19-21, 2016 in Allen, Texas, the Flipped Learning Network will host the 9th Annual Flipped Learning Conference (FlipCon 2016). FlipCon is a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

When Jessica Schon decided to start using a new method for managing classroom behaviors, no one in the district had told her to do it. Instead, Schon started using a free program to track behavior and get children excited about things like staying in line. The children soon became enamored with a plump, green cartoon character sporting a ninja mask, which serves as the program’s mascot.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 24, 2016

The number of investors making exits from global ed-tech companies has slowed so far this year— with a big drop-off from lofty heights two years ago—in yet another indication of a cooling in the digital space, a new analysis shows. Just five exits have occurred among venture capital-backed ed-tech companies during the first 136 days of 2016, according to CB Insights, a market research firm.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2016

New web, mobile solution offers creativity, sharing for visual stories. Adobe has launched Adobe Spark , an integrated web and mobile solution for creating and sharing impactful visual stories. Free and designed for everyday communications, Adobe Spark empowers anyone – including small businesses, social marketers and students – to create stunning visual content that engages audiences across multiple channels and looks great on any device.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 24, 2016

Co-teachers have the opportunity to guide a transformation in the way students view themselves as learners and the way teachers and parents view educating diverse learners. Coach Elizabeth Stein describes four steps along the path to becoming an agent of change.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2016

Federal efforts would expand college access, opportunity to high schoolers. The costs of college textbooks and fees, as well as being responsible for their own transportation, proved too much for some students in Career and College Promise, a dual-enrollment program at Guilford Technical Community College. A couple reduced the number of classes they were taking.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 24, 2016

What motivates teens to innovate in STEM? Anne Jolly researches the background of young inventors who are making a difference for our 21st century lives and identifies some common experiences that helped them be successful, including the support of teachers.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 24, 2016

The post Study: Less Than Half US Students Ready To Fill High-Tech Jobs appeared first on TeachThought.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 24, 2016

The number of students enrolled in American colleges and universities declined again. New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has appeared , and shows that the past three years’ decline continues. Let’s break it down. The total number of students enrolled in American higher ed this spring is 18,003,354. Compared to spring 2015, that’s a slight drop of 1.4%, down from 18,267,143.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 24, 2016

The post Ep. 51 Is The Gates Foundation Really Helping Our Schools and Students? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 24, 2016

The number of students enrolled in American colleges and universities declined again. New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has appeared , and shows that the past three years’ decline continues. Let’s break it down. The total number of students enrolled in American higher ed this spring is 18,003,354. Compared to spring 2015, that’s a slight drop of 1.4%, down from 18,267,143.

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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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