The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 3, 2016
Tips for Finishing Well and Getting a Head Start on the Fall From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Some of us have already ended our school year. Others of us have a few weeks to go. These timeless tips from Angela Watson will help you finish your school year well. Listen to this show on BAM Radio Network | iTunes | Stitcher .
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 3, 2016
By Meg Conlan A new Sony prototype projector transforms any surface into an interactive display, giving new meaning to the phrase “hands-on learning.”.
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The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 3, 2016
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teacher Andrew Ward (link to Facebook) always enters class with a hearty “Buenos Dias.” Well, not always but many times. His students secretly filmed him and shared the video with him on the last day. How do you enter class? Is it exciting? Do the kids know you’re glad to be there.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 3, 2016
How to Make Tech Integration Easy, Authentic, and Normative. Starts Monday, June 6th! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 562 and click for more information and to sign up. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.
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The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 3, 2016
And Grab Some of My Favorite Planning Forms Now From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You’ve spoken! I’m only in day two of collecting my 2016 Reader Survey results but one thing is VERY CLEAR. The number one challenge the readers of this blog have is “ I don’t have enough time. ” (I’ve embedded the live data chart below.
Tom Murray
JUNE 3, 2016
This blog was originally posted on the Future Ready website at [link]. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide. With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional ma
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Teacher Tech
JUNE 3, 2016
Voice Typing in Google Docs Highlighting text in a Google Doc can be a little cumbersome. The Google Doc voice typing feature is not only magical, it allows you to edit your document with voice commands. Voice Typing Use the Tools menu to activate voice typing. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Control Shift […]. The post Google Docs: Highlight Text with Your Voice appeared first on Teacher Tech.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JUNE 3, 2016
The post 7 Reasons Apps Should Have Already Replaced Textbooks In Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.
eSchool News
JUNE 3, 2016
“Summer Reading Together” program aims to level the playing field for students. Research shows that summer reading helps reduce “summer slide” for all students, and experts indicate that reading at least 20 minutes a day outside of the school year ensures that students continue to grow and develop. Students with learning disabilities face the greatest challenges in access to reading year-round; and because of their disability, they are often left out of traditional programs, which can damage sel
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 Over the last few weeks, Google added a number of interesting features geared towards improving the overall functionality of Google Drive tools. For those of you who have not seen them.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.
Gaggle Speaks
JUNE 3, 2016
We’ve reached the point at which almost everyone has a camera on their mobile device, and companies are jumping at the opportunity to provide a video chat solution. From grade school students and college lecturers to athletes and child predators, nearly anyone can live video chat with very little barrier to entry. Connecting with video is easier than ever, and it will only get easier.
RafranzDavis.com
JUNE 3, 2016
When Braeden started making puppets, I’ll be honest in saying that sometimes we tried to give him “input” on what and how his puppets needed to be made. He needed to show less “thread”, more material, better precision or whatever else anyone could pick out. He immediately fired back on every occasion that these were things created from his imagination and that he made exactly what he wanted.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 3, 2016
Many districts have shown a strong interest in open educational resources—free academic materials that can be shared and repurposed by teachers and others. And there are few collections of open materials that can rival EngageNY , an online resource created by the state of New York, which has found a surprisingly devoted—and massive—nationwide audience.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 As is the case once every week, we bring you a curated list of educational iPad apps that are free on the weekend and only for a limited period of time. Most of the apps we feature.read more.
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.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 3, 2016
A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. market. FutureLearn , a social learning company owned by The Open University, announced this week that students taking some of its massive open online courses, or MOOCS, will have the opportunity to earn course credits toward degrees, including MBAs, as well as professional qualifications and certification
ProfHacker
JUNE 3, 2016
I spend so much time smoothly meeting strangers online that it feels a lot more awkward going to events where I don’t have close friends or colleagues. I can handle being on my own for some time, but after a while I really want to be sitting next to someone I know at each session so we can talk about it, and have interesting companions at lunch.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 3, 2016
Gamification meets Assessment with these 3 Awesome Tools. But which one should I use? And why? | TeacherCast.net. The post Choosing Between 3 Amazing Formative Assessment Tools For The Classroom by @andrea_grouser appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Graphite Blog
JUNE 3, 2016
The year is drawing to a close, state testing is over, and teachers are packing up their rooms. And while students are getting excited about their summer freedom, some parents and teachers might be worried about kids forgetting all they've learned during the school year. This loss of academic skills over the summer months is what teachers refer to as "summer slide.
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Adam Welcome
JUNE 3, 2016
'Techie' is such an overused word across education. It's a crutch. It's an excuse. It's a scapegoat. It allows people to 'not know' something or learn a new idea. It tells kids that you haven't taken the time to discover and learn something new. It labels people who take risks and learn, against those that may have some fear. Some people (including myself) get pigeonholed as the techie person in a school, or district or just in general.
Adjusting Course
JUNE 3, 2016
This week we welcomed former Greenwood Elementary students back home. Several graduating Seniors walked the hallways they once traversed as K-5 students. Music played over the P.A. system to celebrate returning Alumni. After the “walk” the Seniors took time to reconnect with former teachers and even shared some inspiring advice with our 5th graders.
eSchool News
JUNE 3, 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.
Bryan Alexander
JUNE 3, 2016
Another American state continues to experience higher education pain. Illinois has been struggling under the multiple burdens of demographics, a sclerotic state government, and rising costs ( see some of my posts ). Now the University of Illinois system ‘s chancellor, Timothy Killeen , states that times have become very desperate: “All options are on the table as we go forward — layoffs, reductions of academic programs, closure of units and cuts in a health-care enterprise that pr
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.
eSchool News
JUNE 3, 2016
Companies join forces to deliver flexible instruction to enhance digital curriculum for school districts. Learnosity , a provider of business-to-business SaaS education technology, and Learning.com , a provider of K-12 digital solutions, announce a new strategic partnership that will leverage Learnosity’s expertise to add robust assessment building functionality to Learning.com’s Curriculum Foundry digital curriculum management solution.
Graphite Blog
JUNE 3, 2016
The year is drawing to a close, state testing is over, and teachers are packing up their rooms. And while students are getting excited about their summer freedom, some parents and teachers might be worried about kids forgetting all they've learned during the school year. This loss of academic skills over the summer months is what teachers refer to as "summer slide.
MindShift
JUNE 3, 2016
The classics may seem like an endangered species in K-12 curriculums as they become increasingly incompatible with a wired generation accustomed to novelty, online interaction and instant gratification. Teens who now spend up to nine hours a day consuming digital media prize all things “epic,” except an epic itself. Who has time for Homer and Virgil’s dusty old words when the siren song of notifications beckon?
SETDA Says
JUNE 3, 2016
Another in an occasional series of guest posts, we are pleased to feature the work and voices of state leaders. Peter Drescher is the Education Technology. read more.
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.
eSchool News
JUNE 3, 2016
Scaffold Common Core standards for students with these educator-picked apps. As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are now realizing that they must now be able to determine the both the factors within a given text where students will need scaffolding as well as the type of scaffolding appropriate for the activity. Fortunately, there are a number of free apps that can help.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 Visme is a simple, drag-and-drop, presentation and data visualization tool that you can use to create educational visual content to share with your students in class. It lets you create.read more.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 3, 2016
By guest blogger Taylor Lewis. Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. An ed-tech executive was one of a series of witnesses summoned to an Alabama courtroom this week, as state prosecutors pursue a corruption case against one of the state’s most powerful politicians. Michael Humphrey, executive vice president at Edgenuity , testified in the ethics trial of state House Speaker Mike Hubbard , who is accused in a 23-count indictment of using his clout to attract business for companies
Hack Education
JUNE 3, 2016
Education Politics. “ New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. Via The Atlantic : “Why the Education Department’s New Equity Rule Might Not Be So Equal.” Via the Huffington Post : “ Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) told reporters on Tuesday that he is sending letters to every superintendent in the state advising them not to follow the Obama administrat
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