The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
10MT | 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Jennifer Gonzalez From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Technology moves so quickly! Do you know what to try next? Well, today’s guest and edtech expert Jennifer Gonzalez @ cultofpedagogy gives us some amazing tools to try for Five Idea Friday. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.
EdTech4Beginners
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. What they don’t see is the infrastructure underneath that’s driving the whole project. Learning is becoming more collaborative to mirror the way that adults live their lives.
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Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Mobile technologies allow adult learners to study anytime, anywhere, extending their learning far beyond classroom hours. According to Pew Research Center , 92 percent of American adults own cell phones, and they are embracing their phones as learning tools. Watch this recorded webinar to hear from teachers and learners themselves about how one mobile app, Learning Upgrade , is moving the needle for English language learners.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
February 24, 2017 Since the start of the new year, Google Drive released a number of important updates geared towards enhancing the performance of its services. The one we liked the most in this.read more.
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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.
Gaggle Speaks
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Whether we’re talking with superintendents, technology directors, police chiefs, parents or even students, a common theme is the need for a cyberbullying resource to understand the topic better and prevent cyberbullying incidents inside and outside of school. To help, we’ve published a new ebook, “Everything You Need to Know (and more) About Cyberbullying.” Along with an opening section on who poses the greatest threat to student online safety, the ebook also includes: S
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
February 25, 2017 A few days ago we shared with you a collection of some very good templates teachers can use to create professionally designed forms. In today's post we are featuring another.read more.
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My Island View
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
I have been writing in social media about education and changes in education for about a decade at this point in time. One of my observations, as I enter discussions with educators in various parts of the country, is that many educators bring up problems within their own districts that were discussed in detail and often resolved in many other districts a number of years ago.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Plessy students use play masks and mustaches as costumes. Photo: Courtesy of Homer A. Plessy Community School. NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
February , 2017 Dopbox for Gmail is an excellent tool to use to ‘send and preview Dropbox files and links without leaving your Gmail window’. We have tried it in multiple occasions and it worked.read more.
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.
ProfHacker
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
There’s been a lot in the news again this week, but it’s important not to miss another major internet security breach. This one, called Cloudbleed, is not *terribly* likely to compromise anyone’s individual data , but the usual advice to get out there and start changing passwords (ideally using a password manager !) definitely applies.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. “I’m not recruiting right now,” proclaimed Densen — founder of Bricolage Academy, a charter school that currently serves kindergarten through third grade, but will eventually be a K-12 school.
The Principal of Change
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Working with groups, I often hear this question when talking about parents and their lack of willingness for their students to use technology. “What about the parents that do not want their students using technology in the classroom?”. In my last session, what I had said was that these parents who do not want their children using technology, are “not as much as you pretend.
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Temple ISD became a G-Suite for Education District in 2013. We started by concentrating on six base apps - Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Draw, Slides, and Gmail. The five instructional technologists and I became Google Certified Trainers and then proceeded to provide a base of knowledge to teachers through content and grade level targeted two-day trainings.
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.
Learning with 'e's
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods. At Plymouth Institute of Education we have been using a number of classroom technologies, but perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the SMART Interactive Whiteboard.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
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NeverEndingSearch
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
You’ll want to share these tips with both teachers and students. Google Slides recently added some new functionality for working with video. Slides has become my go-to presentation platform for the easy ability to collaborate and build with others and for its portability. If, like me, you regularly use Slides as a platform for presenting, teaching or for sharing student projects, these new video features will come in mighty handy.Check out my little video tutorial.
Kevin Corbett
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Internet Security If you haven’t seen the Norse Global Real-Time Attack Map, I highly recommend it as both visually fascinating and informative. The site provides a geographical display of live cyber attacks along with the origin, attack type, and target. What Is A DDOS A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to. Read More.
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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
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
There’s no doubt you’ve heard of Minecraft, the popular game that has players building a pixelated world using blocks, tools that they earn during the game and their own creativity. Of course, anything popular with kids soon becomes a theme for birthday celebrations and people are always looking for cool Minecraft party supplies. It’s not only a lot of fun, it also introduces and develops children’s problem-solving, organizational and planning skills.
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Are you trying to figure out which formative assessment tool to use in your classroom? Kahoot! and Quizizz are both great options for engaging your students -- but which quiz game should you choose? Well, it really depends on your needs. We've identified the most important categories to compare. Scroll down for details! Kahoot! Price: Free Platform: Any device with a web browser; there's also an Android and an iOS app for students.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Absorbing gameplay helps students hone their addition and skip-counting skills.
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Are you trying to figure out which formative assessment tool to use in your classroom? Kahoot! and Quizizz are both great options for engaging your students -- but which quiz game should you choose? Well, it really depends on your needs. We've identified the most important categories to compare. Scroll down for details! Kahoot! Price: Free Platform: Any device with a web browser; there's also an Android and an iOS app for students.
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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
A bright central hallway at Little Scholars features child-height peepholes Photo: Sarah Gonser. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Little Sunshine Preschool looks orderly: Its hallway is lined with cheery murals in primary colors, and construction-paper snowflakes adorn classroom doors. In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Here’s a comprehensive infographic put together by KidzType. It covers lots of basics from touch typing rules to which-finger-which-key to one that is often forgotten when teaching keyboarding skills: pacing. More keyboarding tips: My Students Think Hunt-and-Peck is Good Enough. What do I do? A Conversation about Keyboarding, Methods, Pedagogy, and More.
Perry Hewitt
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Amazon celebrated Alexa reaching 10,000 skills with a new musical game called Beat the Intro. The fast rise of Alexa skills invokes the inevitable comparison to Apple’s app store, and with it the associated growing pains of discovery. Is that really Michael Flynn on Twitter? Before you retweet or reply, take these steps to determine if a Twitter account is legit.
ASIDE
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Source: Pocket Stories Just by chance today as we looked through our resources, we came across the video entitled " Migration vs. Travelling: An Infographic Journey." It could not be timelier as we watch the growing turmoil around the country at town hall meetings and in debates about immigration searches or transgender rights. In light of the first 30 days of a new administration, with echo chambers propelling confirmation bias on a scale not witnessed in decades, as well as a media that dwells
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.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Perhaps the only clear policy direction emanating from the U.S. Department of Education is its desire to “return power in education back to where it belongs: with parents, communities, and states,” as Education Secretary Betsy Devos remarked at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. Already, amendments that would loosen accountability rules in the Every Student Succeeds Act are working their way through Congress.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Veterans in College Source: National Veteran Education Success Tracker. Despite often having to juggle schoolwork with jobs and families, veterans attending college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill are finishing at rates slightly higher than their classmates, a new report shows. The Topic: Student veteran graduation rates. Why It Matters: What are veterans getting for their time and effort, and taxpayers for their GI Bill money?
Hack Education
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ President Trump on Wednesday rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, overruling his own education secretary and placing his administration firmly in the middle of the culture wars that many Republicans have tried to leave behind.” The Department of Education press release : “U.S.
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