Ditch That Textbook
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
It’s the nightmare of students trying to create or do research digitally. It’s the frustration of teachers seeking out the best resources to share with their classes. The over-protective school Internet filter. Many of us deal with them daily. We’ll do a Google search, see the perfect article or site to share with our students [.].
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Many people in the United States, particularly students, parents and teachers, join forces on Read Across America Day, annually held on March 2. This nationwide observance coincides with the birthday of Dr Seuss. Here are some great reading websites for students K-5: Aesop Fables—no ads. Aesop’s Fables. Audio stories. Childhood Stories. Classic Fairy Tales.
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More Verbs
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
The more we try to to help build the talents of every student and help every learner succeed in school, the more we have to be deliberate about creating good learning experiences in our classrooms. I have certainly added to the conversation about what I believe gives students good learning experiences. The roots of those ideas are not just my own experiences as a learner and a teacher, and not just conducting research and reviewing research, but from actually asking people about their own good l
Battelle for Kids
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 1. Driving Question: What makes a STEM School? What makes a STEM school? That is the question that is most often asked. I have literally sat on so many panels (K12,Higher Ed, political, policy, and industry), participated in meetings from the White House to the schoolhouse, been active in research think tanks and included in numerous case studies to define what STEM is and what makes a STEM school and we are still asking this question.
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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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FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Destination matters. What if you were a sailboat captain. Let’s even say you’ve got a great boat and a wonderful crew. Together you’ve done a lot of sailing. Maybe you even work well together and know how to collaboratively operate the boat to maneuver well and go really fast, coaxing its peak performance. But what does all this mean if you have no destination?
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
By Wendy McMahon Certifications help data center professionals advance their careers and fill high-need roles.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
By Adam Bertram Option offers speed, scalability and lower costs for schools.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Jennifer is the director of the educator micro-credentials initiative at Digital Promise. You can reach her on Twitter at @JenCohKab. Ms. Richards, in her fourth year in the classroom, teaches seventh grade history. Passionate about history, she works hard to master her school’s curriculum and make the most of the resources available to her. Despite her efforts and passion, she has noticed that her students are not nearly as engaged in her lessons as she’d like.
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
By Jackie A. Walsh Student skills are the means and ends of productive classroom discussions. When students engage in meaningful academic conversation, they are intentional in their use of important social, cognitive, and use-of-knowledge skills.
EdTechTeacher
FEBRUARY 29, 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’s theme of collaboration , Greg Kulowiec hosts us Reshan Richards, co-creator of Explain Everything, to showcase the new live collaborative features of our favorite Screencasting apps.
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.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Want your tech rollout to be successful? First, you need the right mindset. Most educational organizations want to improve teaching and learning by leveraging technology. The terms blended learning and its subset, flipped learning, are touted extensively as useful educational goals. However, there are a number of fundamentals that need to be in place in order to increase the likelihood of organization wide success.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
February 29, 2016 The discovery of gravitational waves that was announced a few weeks ago substantiated Albert Einstein’s oracular ideas about black holes.The importance of such a discovery in.read more.
Edutopia
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Alex Shevrin Mental Health To help a student who's experienced trauma, ground yourself emotionally, determine your own role, and address that student's emotional truth from a place of informed support.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
I have a chapter about open educational resources that will be appearing in a book on trends and issues in instructional design and technology later this year. The chapter will be openly licensed and I’ll publish it here in full after it appears in the book. But Phil’s great post today about the price difference between digital and print textbook rentals has me wanting to post the chapter’s Summary of Key Principles.
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.
EdTechTeacher
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
This post first appeared on Edutopia. Lately, I have heard teachers and school leaders express a common frustration: “We are _ years into a _ initiative, and nothing seems to have changed.” Despite redesigning learning spaces , adding technology, or even flipping instruction , they still struggle to innovate or positively change the classroom experience.
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Spreadsheets are an incredibly useful tool for students and adults. Here is a template to teach your students some basic spreadsheet skills. This template was created specifically to help practice skills students would need for the Common Core online test. Feel free to modify and use this template with your students. Template alicekeeler.com/sheetspractice.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
ESSDACK, GoEnnounce launch digital citizenship curriculum. ESSDACK has collaborated with GoEnnounce to build an affordable digital citizenship curriculum for secondary students titled Your Digital Footprint. The curriculum includes 10 lessons focusing on the importance of building a positive digital image for students to carry into their future. With 35 percent of college admission officers already visiting applicant’s social media pages as of 2014 according to Kaplan, and this predicted to rise
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Spring's promise of renewal is just ahead. But for many educators, spring is also the season of testing anxiety. Curtis Chandler shares research and wisdom from fellow educators that can help turn angst into achievement for students and for their teachers.
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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
K12 Inc., the major for-profit provider of online education, is making a big expansion where it says there is strong demand from schools–and employers: career-and-technical studies. The Herndon, Va.-based company has announced it is launching the Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin , expected to enroll high school students beginning this fall.
esri
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Computer Science for All is President Obama’s initiative to get all US K12 students to learn computer science. Why? Problem-solving, creativity, entrepreneurship, and logic are crucial life skills. Governors, mayors, school district leaders, and other education influencers are joining the call. Good news! Students and teachers alike can do this with GIS, online, starting even at a young age, in just minutes.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
“Stronger Together” is not the name of the latest social-media fitness app. It’s a grant proposed in President Obama’s new budget, reviving an idea that hasn’t gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in public schools. If the request is approved, $120 million will go to school districts for programs intended to make their schools more diverse.
Edutopia
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Photo credit: Bernard Goldbach via flickr (CC BY 2.0) Ainissa Ramirez @ainissaramirez Education Trends With a strong vision, simple setup, and plan for content, format, production, and promotion, you can turn your expertise, unique approach, and enthusiasm into a podcast.
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.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
The northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, are home to some of the city’s poorest residents, including about 80,000 schoolchildren. Many families are recent immigrants to Australia, moving to find work in factories located in the northern outskirts of town. Unemployment is high in parts of this region, but other parts are fairly affluent. If these conditions sound familiar, it’s because lots of school districts serve similarly divided communities and have similarly stagnant results from tradi
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Books, videos, math games aim to boost student engagement. JibJab Bros. Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. The product also includes the newly released StoryBots Math Skills, an extensive collection of kindergarten-level, standards-aligned math games and lessons.
EmergingEdTech
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
(Image Source) The Next Big Enhancement in What we are Watching on the Web and on Our TVs is 4K Video, and it’s Pretty Sweet 4K Video “refers to a horizontal resolution of approximately. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Bryan Alexander
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Over this past (or current, depending on where you are) winter the College of Saint Rose performed a classic queen sacrifice , cutting programs, staff, and tenured faculty. President Carolyn Stefanco led the axing of 27 programs and almost 6% of faculty. One response came recently from the local community, in the form of… applause. The Albany Business Review praised Stefano, formally recognizing her with an award as a leading disruptor.
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.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Classroom timers are simple tools that can have many uses and benefits in the classroom. From taking tests and quizzes, to timing turns during games and presentations, and encouraging students to move quickly from one activity to the next, a timer can keep a classroom functioning smoothly. Students often focus better on a task when they have a clear sense of when it starts and ends.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
What is the Awards of Excellence program?The Awards of Excellence program has been recognizing outstanding ed tech curriculum products for the last quarter century. With a solid reputation in the industry as a longstanding, high quality program, the AOE.
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Three deals that closed recently include an expansion into a private school market, a merger centered on addressing the teacher shortage, and a funding round that bolsters a company that matches international students with accommodations. Here’s our roundup of dealmaking news in late February: Follett Acquires ClassBook: The education materials and technology provider has acquired ClassBook , an online textbook retailer that serves schools, teachers, parents and students, for an undisclosed sum.
The Principal of Change
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
I found this awesome story from a site called “The Happy Manager”, that has some great little leadership stories , about seeing the “bigger picture”: One day a traveller, walking along a lane, came across 3 stonecutters working in a quarry. Each was busy cutting a block of stone. Interested to find out what they were working on, he asked the first stonecutter what he was doing.
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