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Learn With QR Codes! 22+ Apps, Web Tools and Activities

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” – Anatole France. QR codes, Quick Response barcodes, inspire curiosity in our learners. QR codes get learners out of their seat scanning to discover what the knowledge they will uncover with their mobile devices.

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3 Top Tips to Make Writing Exciting

The CoolCatTeacher

Collaboration, Commenting, and a Global Audience From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learning writing can be exciting! Kids can love writing. Now, students can easily join writing communities. After joining, students find that commenting on another student’s writing can be fun. Teacher-librarian, Cynthia Alvarado , shows us how to make writing exciting for kids.

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Virtual Reality, Real Science: Virtual Ecosystems and Technology-Enhanced Curricula Can Build a Deeper Scientific Literacy in Middle Schoolers

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The pond is alive with birdsong and duck sounds. You can wade into the water and measure its temperature and quality. You can track fish populations and observe microscopic life. About the only thing you can’t do in EcoMUVE — a virtual world where ecosystem science comes to life — is feel the mud between your toes.

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Get Real – How Much LEARNING Came Out of That

Teacher Tech

Digital Does Not Have to Be Hard I am adamant that switching to digital tools is a change in mindset. It doesn’t have to be hard, but it should be different. Worse Than Paper Taking all your stuff and throwing it online is overwhelming and confusing. Learning how to deal with that mess is hard. […]. The post Get Real – How Much LEARNING Came Out of That appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

“Technology invites us to move from engaged to empowered.” — From George Couros’ Innovator’s Mindset. The Clark County Schools District in Las Vegas, Nevada is the 5th largest school district in the country. The district houses 350,000 students in over 350 schools, spread out over nearly 8,000 square miles. It is known for being vast, but it is also notorious for consistently being at the bottom of the United States rankings academically, 49 out of 51 according to the latest statistics.

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Design Thinking and the Deskless Classroom

Edutopia

Tracy Evans Learning Environments Use design thinking (brainstorming, prototyping, testing, building, and reflecting) to co-create your classroom environment with the students who will be learning in it.

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How this state is turning its virtual teachers into online learning experts

eSchool News

In Arkansas, as in most states, student interest in online learning is skyrocketing. While most students still take at least some of their courses in a face-to-face setting, the need to scale online learning opportunities for thousands of students has required new infrastructure, new curriculum, and, of course, new teachers. The state’s official response was to create a new program, called Virtual Arkansas , to manage its online courses and work with districts to find students who want to

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Robot Maker Wonder Workshop Raises a $20M Series B to Expand Internationally

Edsurge

Wonder Workshop is dashing towards new markets, especially China. The maker of Dash and Dot has raised a $20 million Series B round led by WI Harper Group and Idea Bulb Ventures with with participation from Learn Capital, Charles River Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and TCL. The company’s flagship products are two round blue robots aimed at introducing students six to 12 to computational thinking.

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Design Thinking in Higher Ed – From Research Paper to Documentary

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on EdTech Researcher and was co-authored by Sabba ( @AskMsQ ) and Claire Norman ( @ClaireNorman17 ). Claire is the Director of Communications at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California where Sabba is the Director of Innovative Learning. “Meeting people has really helped us understand the community as a whole more than statistics that we may read on paper.” -Tracy Nguyen, PA-S (Class of 2018).

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Creating a #STEMLAB this year? Here is a versatile material that must be in your shop today! By @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

If you are creating a STEM LAB this year, think beyond the electronics and more into the homemaking skills that can build larger projects. The post Creating a #STEMLAB this year? Here is a versatile material that must be in your shop today! By @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Visualizing The National Parks - Celebrating 100 Years Of America's Wonder

ASIDE

Source: National Geographic On August 25, 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) turns 100. After a century of shepherding America's splendor, the Park Service and its personnel will rightfully be feted as dedicated, humble stewards of our country's most precious landscapes. Personally, we have been lucky enough to visit many of the nation's 59 parks on all points of the compass.

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Intro to Gmail: Understanding Gmail Labs

My Paperless Classroom

With Gmail Labs, you can add extra functionality to your Gmail Inbox. This video shows off 3 of my most recommended and most used Google Labs. The post Intro to Gmail: Understanding Gmail Labs appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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How IBM’s Watson and Cognitive Computing can Impact Education and Outcomes

EmergingEdTech

Had IBM Returned to the Halcyon Days of Offering a Technology-Enhanced Tomorrow That Will Improve the Lives of Many? Watson says, “Yes” When I was a kid, IBM represented the exciting, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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10 Strategies Help You Hack the Common Core

MiddleWeb

Hacking the Common Core by Michael Fisher is the book on the CCSS that many teachers have been waiting for, says reviewer Rita Platt. The short but powerful text, in ten easy-to-read chapters, is a practical guide to making the standards work for your students.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Chromebooks are on the rise, but Windows reliance remains

eSchool News

Sixty-two percent of K-12 schools participating in a recent survey support Chromebook initiatives, and 22 percent of those schools use Chromebooks as a primary classroom device. While Chromebooks appear to be increasing in popularity, Windows presence remains heavy–92 percent of survey respondents said their schools use at least one Windows-based application, and 29 percent said they use five or more Windows applications for teaching and learning. [ Editor’s note: We’re always

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Storytelling with technology

Learning with 'e's

It's important we listen to the student voice - educators are foolish if they don't. What students say can and often does inform our professional practice. I've written about this in previous blogs, and have also put this principle into action by incorporating student voice into many of my own public presentations. On several occasions I have also invited my students to join me on stage to present their views.

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Managing Learning in the Action Classroom

MiddleWeb

Management in the Active Classroom is a unique behavior-oriented resource. Few other books offer specific strategies that help the teacher provide structure while still honoring the dignity of every student. Jodi and Matt Renwick recommend it for every school.

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How Robots in English Class Can Spark Empathy and Improve Writing

MindShift

Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one. At many schools, if there’s a robot at all, it’s located in a science or math classroom or is being built by an after-school robotics club. It’s not usually a fixture in English classrooms. But as teachers continue to work at finding new entry points to old material for their students, robots are proving to be a great interdisciplinary tool that bui

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOX: CREATIVE LEARNING SPACES

techlearning

Don LaBonte, co-director of Convergence Academies—a three-year initiative through the Department of Education to test theories around connected learning to enhance curriculum—chats about the benefits of creative learning spaces.

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Break the Election with MediaBreaker/Studios

Educator Innovator

MediaBreaker/Studios, a free tool to teach students how to critically dissect election advertising and media, can be used in conjunction with opportunities and resources from Letters to the Next President 2.0 to, as our partner The Lamp says, “Break the Election.” Just because students are too young to cast a vote doesn’t mean they’re too young to have a voice in an election.

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THE ISTE ISSUE

techlearning

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the ISTE data overload, between the content-filled sessions, the keynotes, the poster and playground spaces, and the endless conversations.

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Solve the Summer Slide with This Must-Do Back-to-School Activity

Graphite Blog

Every teacher preps for the summer slide, the three-month drain of some of last school year's learning. In fact, you probably have some tried-and-true assessment and refresher strategies aimed at figuring out where your students are and how to get them up to speed. The summer slide is just one of the many challenges teachers tackle come back-to-school time.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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CLASS TECH TIPS

techlearning

ISTE Roundup! Resources from Denver Whether or not you were at ISTE, you can link to all of the resources from Monica Burns’ presentations and sessions—how-to’s on QR codes, Book Creator, apps galore, and more.

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Back to School: Getting Students Engaged

Graphite Blog

Hooking kids up front is always a goal when introducing new content, and video is a tried-and-true method that appeals to many learning styles. But when students passively watch a video, it can be challenging for them to comprehend and critique the material. EDpuzzle can help solve this problem. This website offers teachers a series of tools to make videos more interactive, from inserting pauses for reflection to adding questions that get students thinking critically about what they watch.

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SURVEY EXPLORES TECHNOLOGY NEEDS

techlearning

PowerSchool’s national teacher survey, an independent third-party survey of 800 U.S. teachers and administrators, explores educators’ pain points and needs as they relate to educational technology for the classroom.

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Assistive Technology with MakeyMakey

Cycles of Learning

In addition to my vocation as a High School Science teacher, this summer I spent three weeks facilitating science camps for elementary age students. Planning, organizing and teaching science camps has always been a small, but very fulfilling part of my work as a teacher during the summer time. This summer I decided to organize and formalize the process and launch my own series of camps.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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SIIA Releases 2016 Vision K–20 Report

techlearning

The SIIA’s 2016 report focuses on online professional learning (PL) and provides insights on how educators are taking online PL courses, why they take them, and which courses they’re choosing.

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9 Fun And Engaging Dog Games For Young Pet Lovers

Fractus Learning

Dogs have a way of working their way in to our hearts and becoming indispensable furry family members. Many kids love playing and cuddling with the family pet, or begging for one if your household doesn’t already include a canine. Dog games are fun for young dog obsessed kids, whether or not they have a pet. Video games, board games, and card games offer children a way to enjoy and learn about dog breeds and dog care, or simply play an entertaining or educational game that features their f

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Seeing RED at ISTE : The Latest Edtech Findings

techlearning

How can technology help re-engineer our education system? Project RED, a national research and advocacy plan, is seeking to answer this question through its large-scale national studies.

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Curriculum Focus, Not Technology Focus

Education with Technology

In my public school career I have been a classroom teacher, a technology integration specialist and a technology administrator. In my technology role, I served under the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. She had a simple mission: Improve students’ academic learning. My mission was equally simple: Improve students’ academic learning through technology.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.