Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 27, 2016

“The hashtag, that ubiquitous pound sign followed by a keyword, are part of the language of social media.”- Neil Patel, Forbes. This summer learn more about teaching trends by exploring hashtags. Hashtags (text with a # sign front) are found all over social media on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, and GooglePlus. Hashtags are the key for educators to learn about the latest teaching trends and find lesson ideas and free resources from teachers who put these trends into

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 27, 2016

By Meg Conlan As the convertible notebook market expands, K–12 schools and districts put their faith in the devices.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 27, 2016

Matific is simply excellent. It’s available at Matific.com or alternatively as an app (available on both Google Play and the App Store). It allows teachers to set individual students, groups or the whole class challenges and activities. My students are big fans and are always pleased when they see that Matific has been incorporated into a lesson.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 27, 2016

Here are thirteen of the top writing-with-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: A Helping Hand: Assistive Technology Tools for Writing. Tech Tip #124: Editing is Easier with Digital Writing. Revision Assistant–the Most Comprehensive Virtual Writing Assistant Available for Students. 4 Ways Students Can Plan Their Writing. 7 Innovative Writing Methods for Students.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 27, 2016

By Steve Zurier New support from technology vendors signals a potential boost in the adoption of Web Real-Time Communications.

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 27, 2016

Friday 5 is taking a break to go peer at people's internet-enabled devices in 三门峡 and 西安 -- neither of which I can pronounce, but Wikipedia can teach you. Back in time for Lionel Messi's birthday, Friday, June 24. This UX reality check presents 14 hard truths about users. Most common mistakes I've seen (and committed) are ignoring the fact that users are in "doing mode" rather than reading your help text; and believing reported behavior ("Sure, I'd use that app!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 27, 2016

May 27, 2016 Here are three effective educational tools we want to bring to your attention in today’s post. These are all platforms that you can use in your work as a teacher to create, organize and.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2016

The post How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 27, 2016

May 27, 2016 This is a quick post to share with you this amazing find from Open Culture. This is basically a curated collection featuring over 200 free textbooks, or what is conventionally referred.read more.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 27, 2016

May 26 5pm EST on EdWeb.Net. Watch the Webinar Recording on EdWeb. Most educators think robotics, 3D printing and construction when they envision maker spaces, so how does this concept fit into the curriculum? By using design thinking as a framework for instruction, we will explore the possibilities for students to engage in empathy, seek new problems to solve, then prototype and test their solutions.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 27, 2016

May 28, 2016 Spelling check is supported in most of the browsers and word editors.However, to check for grammar you do need a third party add-on. And even with these add-ons grammar checking remains.read more.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

Planning is a big part of any initiative. Here’s how to plan a better one-to-one program. The word is out. We hear every day from teachers who tell us their school will be going one-to-one this school year. Their classrooms will be equipped with a laptop or tablet for every student, and in many cases, the students will get to take those devices home at the end of the day.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 27, 2016

What if 'they' had to really face kids and tell them? What if somehow kids from across town knew what was happening at the other schools in other classrooms? Somehow they found out that kids their same age in the same grade level in the same district or county were having 'the' experience? What if 'those' educators had to tell their students face to face why they don't want to innovate?

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ProfHacker

MAY 27, 2016

A significant percentage of those who use your web pages are people with disabilities, and many of those people can’t use a mouse to navigate through the information they find there. For example, for people who are blind or have low vision a graphical user interface is useless, so they rely on their keyboard alone. Those of us who are sighted might find it difficult to imagine what it means to navigate information by keyboard alone, but there’s an easy way to learn: stop using your m

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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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Fractus Learning

MAY 27, 2016

Fact: Kids love Minecraft. The unique and ridiculously popular game is often compared to digital LEGO’s, and at it’s core, allows players to place and break blocks in a 3D world. With more than 22 million users in 40 countries , the Minecraft craze is only growing and kids can’t seem to get enough. The draw of Minecraft? For kids, it’s a blank slate and gives them the opportunity to let their imagination run wild.

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ASIDE

MAY 27, 2016

Source: ASIDE 2016 Our Nifty Notes first grade entrepreneur project is in its fifth year, and so is our push to educate the young learners about media literacy. This collaborative project brings together their study of economics, including wants and needs, supply and demand, and scarcity and abundance, with an understanding of the art of persuasion, marketing, and hype.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

Focusing on communication and stakeholder involvement can help data privacy. Technology, family involvement and communication are key to executing school data privacy best practices, according to a new white paper from communication service provider West Corporation. “School and Student Data Privacy: Nine Considerations for Community Engagement” offers an overview of nine best practices that can help school leaders navigate student data privacy policies and frameworks.

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Edutopia

MAY 27, 2016

Observe and advise your teachers throughout the year, and at their summative evaluations, celebrate their strengths and share possible improvements through open-ended questions.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

“We are in the learning century!” What does open education mean for higher education? After one conversation with Cable Green , my Future Trends Forum pursued this theme further on April 27th with excellent and dramatic guest Curtis Bonk. In this post I’ll share my notes along with the complete video recording. Some discussion on Twitter occurred as well, along with several good questions, which you can examine in this Storify.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: "Library as Classroom," is coming up soon! Register now to join us on June 15th, 2016, from 12:00 - 3:00pm US-Pacific Time ( click for your own time zone), or to be able to watch the recordings at your convenience. There will be an hour-long opening keynote panel, three half-hour blocks with multiple choices of practitioner presentations, and then a half-hour closing keynote (see below).

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

Ten middle and high schools are using the system’s digital curriculum management and delivery tools to support and optimize personalized learning. The nation’s fourth largest public school district, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), is running a semester-long pilot program utilizing the itslearning learning management system (LMS) to select, deliver and manage the instructional components for secondary level social science courses in 10 schools.

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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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SpeechTechie

MAY 27, 2016

In my recent ASHA Leader column, Apps that Help Teach Social Perspective , I discussed The Incredible 5-Point Scale by Kari Dunn Buron and how easy it is to create these tools with apps such as Keynote. Here's a video tutorial on how to do that !

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Edutopia

MAY 27, 2016

Many schools take a traditional approach to family engagement. It's time to think outside of the box.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 27, 2016

In the book, “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World ” by Adam Grant , he shares a really interesting story about people who went with Internet Explorer on their computers at work, versus those using Chrome and Firefox: Why are the Firefox and Chrome users more committed and better performers on every metric? The obvious answer was that they’re more tech savvy, so I asked Housman if he could explore that.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 27, 2016

How educators and teachers can get the most out of online forms software Online forms might not be the first thing that comes to mind as a helpful classroom tool. 10 years ago the idea would have seemed absurd. But today? Online form tools can save hours, paper, and your budget. That’s because the way students and teachers interact with technology has completely changed.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 27, 2016

Andrew Rickard has written a thoughtful essay on OER, open pedagogy, and commercial interests. In it, he reflects on several topics, including his honest misgivings about the recent OpenStax / Knewton partnership announcement. His doubts are not unique; I think there is a broad sense of uneasiness regarding the participation of commercial players in the open education space.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Education Politics. Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. The states: Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Tennessee , Texas , Utah , West Virginia , Maine , Wisconsin , and Arizona. More via The New York Times. The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability.

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