EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom tech and data will continue to boost learning outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Learning and Sharing Can Spread from Teacher to Teacher with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As a teacher, there is nothing worse than irrelevant, impractical and (dare I say it?) boring professional development. In fact, I learn more from other teachers both in my school and online than I have from most professional development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #80–17 Ways to Add Tech without Adding Time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

The 8th Innovator's Mindset with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students often look at the teacher and ask, “why is this important?” Students wonder what a subject means! George Couros talks about how to make learning meaningful in our classroom. When he says that innovative classrooms have less classroom management issues, I’ve found this to be true!

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Brilliant or Insane

JANUARY 31, 2017

Brilliant or Insane. Last summer, my good friend Jennifer Gonzalez, who produces the Cult of Pedagogy blog, invited me to be a guest on her popular podcast. Gonzalez and I co-authored Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School, the first book in the Hack Learning Series, and she wanted to talk about the series and some of […]. The post Boomerangs, Inspiration Boards and Seven More Simple Solutions for Teachers and Leaders appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Innovator's Mindset with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There are too many apps. Too many ideas. Too many initiatives. Too many jobs to do. Too many strategic objectives. Too many standards. Lack of focus plagues almost every aspect of education. What if by doing less, we can achieve more?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Dealing with school data can be a beast. But Schoolzilla , an edtech company that aggregates and helps analyze student and district information, is trying to change that—and make large gigabytes of data a little bit easier to digest in the process. Today, the company released a new dashboard tool called Mosaic District Progress Monitoring to help school leaders curate and track district performance indicators and help guide the decision-making process.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 31, 2017

January 31, 2017 Audiobooks are a great way to help nurture kids love for reading and develop their reading skills. Audiobooks can also help with other skills including writing, communication,read more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Like all education ecosystems, community colleges have an array of different edtech tools to choose from. Where does one begin to search through the myriad of products out there—and find the ones best tailored to specific needs? One suggestion: Listen to other community college educators, administrators and researchers, and learn about their recommendations.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’m always looking for pedagogical resources, as w. ell as publishing/scholarship opportunities for faculty (and myself) to publish in, and there is a new open-access journal, Prompt. It is, as stated in the editors’ introduction , a multidisciplinary journal focused specifically on collegiate writing assignments. This journal highlights the pedagogical process of crafting writing assignments and offers contextualized reflections on teaching writing in varied disciplines.

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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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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 31, 2017

Last week, over one hundred education administrators and educators joined us for the Deeper Learning Symposium in Irvine, Calif. In addition to sharing information from some amazing leaders in eduation, we dove deep into immersive, hands-on experiences that challenge our current notion of what innovative learning looks like. At MIND Research Institute, we want to change the current models of learning math to provide students with opportunities to experience deeper learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 31, 2017

February 1 , 2017 In previous posts here in EdTech and mLearning we covered some very good tools teachers and students can use to turn educational and inspirational quotes into beautiful posters and.read more.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 31, 2017

Media literacy expert Frank Baker offers a fresh idea for Black History Month – exploring the life, career and creativity of photographer, writer and director Gordon Parks, whose powerful images from the Segregation Era serve as iconic primary sources.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2017

Research has shown repeatedly that humans learn more rapidly and deeply from experiences, rather than from a lecture or a book. However, many institutions struggle with the resources needed to meet this new mandate for personalized instruction, thanks to lack of funding and widespread teacher shortages. The good news is, technologies like cloud, big data, mobility, and augmented and virtual reality are converging to enable unprecedented levels of personalization in education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

. The narrowing of access to college is being driven as much by higher-than-inflation increases in on-campus food, housing, and other costs as it is by rising tuition and fees, a new study contends. The Topic: The rising cost of college room and board. Why It Matters: Increases far faster than inflation are making college even less affordable. The study , by the Urban Institute, shows that prices universities and colleges charge for room and board make up “a large proportion of the increase in

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2017

A growing number of states award teachers a rating of effective or higher even if those teachers score poorly on student learning, according to a new study from the National Council on Teacher Quality. Currently, 30 states use evidence of student learning as part of teacher evaluations. Some of those states give teachers an “effective” rating even if they earn the lowest possible score on their ability to increase student learning.

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techlearning

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Laguna Beach (CA) Unified School District, professional learning has evolved beyond the traditional “sit and get.”.

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Kyle Pace

JANUARY 31, 2017

Last week I had the pleasure to attend FETC in Orlando. I mean, who doesn’t love going to Florida in January right? However, Orlando is not the word in that first sentence that I want to focus on here. The imperative word in that first sentence is attend. I did not present once at the conference, which I discovered was a big surprise to many of my colleagues when I answered, “Zero.” or, “I’m not.” to their question, “How many times/What are you presenti

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Achieve3000 launched a new forecasting tool that allows educators to predict students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s (SBAC) ELA assessments.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 31, 2017

Image Source “There’s folk out there who would do you harm … so I’ll sing you no lullaby” – Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (No Lullaby, from Heavy Horses, 1977). [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

JANUARY 31, 2017

As test scores rise and engagement increases, schools are beginning to see the incalculable benefits of implementing digital curriculum and resources for math instruction.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 31, 2017

Student-led conferences have always been a part of my classroom and will continue to be a part of my classroom as they are an essential aspect of student ownership of learning. Having a student lead the conference puts students at the forefront of the conversation, right where they should be. When I started student-led conferences we had paper portfolios.

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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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IAD Learning

JANUARY 31, 2017

Understanding how far an educational institution has gone on the implementation of learning analytics, may be achieved by using an “analytics maturity model” There several models available. One of the most significant models comes from Gartner. Garner describes his analytics maturity model by multiple dimensions: Time perspective covered: past, present or future.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 31, 2017

How has the role of the teacher changed when a student can Google anything? That’s what three colleagues ( @ eileen_lennon , @JPatanio, @DarlynnAlfalla ) and I discussed with participants at this year’s #Educon. We discussed with participants what we could expect to see more or less of in the age of Google as well as the new vs traditional roles. Here is what we came up with at the session: The role of the teacher in the age of Google, more or less.

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techlearning

JANUARY 31, 2017

As schools reimagine their learning spaces, furniture companies are reimagining their designs to complement these spaces. Below are some of the latest releases for K-12.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 31, 2017

When in London and in a social gathering, you know the weather won’t let you down. You can talk about so many things related to it. The English language offers a cornucopia of words describing the weather, not to mention the magical falling of water from the sky we plainly call rain. The Brits call it a drizzle, a mizzle, a sprinkle, or a shower.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2017

Fun, interactive tool teaches early measurement skills.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 31, 2017

By James Logan. Click here to visit the author’s website. Tagged: classroom technology , edtech , education , educational technology , learning , teaching , technology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

One of the first things students learn about in social studies class is the pilgrims, and how different people fled to a new land to start new lives. It’s an oversimplified narrative, one that glosses over the unjust consequences in the aftermath of their arrival. Yet the moral of the story rings true for students and adults alike: the country was built on a respect for diversity, tolerance and opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

As the majority of the estimated 3.5 million high school seniors nationwide prepare to enroll in college or other postsecondary programs next fall, the country’s educational system is bracing for fundamental policy changes from the Trump administration and Congress. Ideally, these will include changes that enable communities to improve their students’ chances of achieving a college degree or career credential.

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

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