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20 practical ways to use Google Forms in class, school

Ditch That Textbook

Everyone wants data. Schools want it to track student performance. Companies want it to learn about their customers. We track data in our own personal lives (fitness data, banking data, even social media data). Teachers and students have their own data gathering and tracking tool that’s free and easy to learn — Google Forms. Google [.].

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5 Tips to Create a Cost-Effective Makerspace Quickly

EdTech Magazine

By Courtney Pepe Teaching students the value of invention doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag.

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Personalized Learning: Research Highlights Need for New Models

Digital Promise

In the first of a series of reports from Digital Promise Global, Making Learning Personal For All – The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom explores learner diversity and learning variability across a variety of factors impacting student performance. A growing body of evidence stresses the need for the research community, educators, and education technology developers to work together to implement new learner models to better differentiate instruction and support students based on their

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Engaging students with the flipped classroom

Neo LMS

Time is a funny thing. Even though a minute has 60 seconds, and an hour has 60 minutes, people perceive time differently. The best example for this is a classroom: for teachers, a class is a lot shorter than it really is; for students, it’s a lot longer. Teachers sometime feel that time flew by and they still have so much information to share. Students, on the other hand, experience time dilation, as if they were orbiting the Earth in a fast space shuttle, and for them a one-hour class could fee

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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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Technology questions to ask students during advisory period

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are some questions that you could discuss with students during a 20- to 25-minute advisory period. These might be particularly apt for middle and high schoolers. If each advisory took notes and then you compiled the responses at the school level, I bet that you would learn some interesting things about the youth that you serve and spark some useful conversations with your teachers and administrators.

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Learning and Playing and Why Both Matter for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Play as the vehicle of education is not a revolutionary idea. Pedagogy has long recommended ‘play’ as a superior teacher for youngers–. Play is the great synthesizing, integrating, and developing force in childhood and adolescence. –PsycINFO Database Record 2012 APA, The play of children is not recreation; it means earnest work. Play is the purest intellectual production of the human being, in this stage … for the whole man is visible in them, in his finest capacities, in his innermost being.~ F

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Traditional Homework May Be Hazardous to Your Child’s Health

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. As the homework debate rages, one important issue may be overlooked: Traditional homework may actually be hazardous to your child’s health. I take on this issue in Episode 60 of the Hack Learning Podcast, embedded below, along with an excerpt from the show notes page. How to Lighten the 20.2-Pound Backpack and Reimagine Traditional Homework […].

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Dissecting Eyeballs and T-Rex’s: Virtual Reality in the Classroom

Edsurge

In the fall of 2015, the Montour School District opened its doors to a new Virtual Immersion Lab. At first, students did not know what to expect (nor the teachers). However, on his first day using the lab, a physics student engage with virtual reality and expressed, “This is like hands-on learning, without wanting to let go.” “This is like hands-on learning, without wanting to let go.”.

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Race, The Little Rock Nine, and Our Obligation as Educators [Video]

The Jose Vilson

On this blog, I mentioned how inspired I was by my visit to Little Rock, AR. Specifically, I mentioned how I changed the core of my talk at the Clinton School of Public Service to reflect my experience at Central High School, the site of one of our most storied desegregation fights. The visit marks a year where I’ve found myself in a plethora of arguments over the state of public education for (and with) children of color.

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We Need a Strategy—Not a Silver Bullet—for Student Success

Edsurge

There is no disagreement that a great liberal arts education can be of value in the medium and long-term. However, the students from lower socioeconomic statuses do not have the financial resources to wait long enough to see the return. As a pioneer of online, blended and emerging technologies within higher education, I know many of the people within higher ed leveraging new tools are looking for a silver bullet to help more students be successful.

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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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What do I Teach in a Pre K-6 Makerspace? by @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

Hello, I am Sam Patterson, welcome to My Paperless Classroom. This year’s adventure is designing a hands on learning curriculum for 8 different grade levels PreK-6th. A Plan? A Plan! Nothing is built from whole cloth, which is to say, I started from something. I moved into a dream space with an amazing library of […]. The post What do I Teach in a Pre K-6 Makerspace?

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10 of The Best Apps for Motivating Students to Learn

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

iPad provides endless learning possibilities for students. From apps to help with learning math and science to apps for doing 3D anatomy and virtual field trips, you name it, the educational app.read more.

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College as Constant Restart: A Review of Practice for Life

ProfHacker

Sometimes books arrive for review like a gift: a new book, on exactly the right topic, at exactly the right time. This summer, as I was preparing to teach a first-year seminar for the first time at my new school, and to teach anything at all for the first time in three years, I was delighted to receive Lee Cuba, Nancy Jennings, Suzanne Lovett, and Joseph Swingle’s new book, Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College (Harvard UP, August 2016), an intensive study of student experiences a

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Top Twitter EdTech Hashtags for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

he introduction of hashtags to Twitter and later on to other social networking websites such as Facebook and Google Plus has revolutionized the way people interact and share resources on these.read more.

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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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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. . If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. IXL. Written by Cory , an 8th grade special education teacher from Michigan. Cory has a classroom with 1:1 devices.

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Survey finds Millennial parents favor online and flexible education

eSchool News

One of the most studied and analyzed generations, millennials are now becoming parents. According to a recent research report , 43 percent of children age 0-17 had millennial parents in 2014, and this figure is expected to exceed 50 percent in 2016. And when it comes to their children’s education, millennials are bringing new notions and expectations, likely influenced by their strong familiarity with digital technologies.

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Time For A Change to Teaching Math

Teacher Tech

Time For A Change to Teaching Math Guest blog post by Venetia Ricchio (@Bellagio594) I want to change the way I teach. I see a lot of students mindlessly memorizing patterns and procedures without any understanding the math I teach them. Technology into the classroom has forced me to do less lecturing and be […]. The post Time For A Change to Teaching Math appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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It's A National Emergency

Adam Welcome

This is my thirteenth year in public education, I've been a teacher - Assistant Principal - Principal and am now a Director of Innovation, my dad taught 2nd and 3rd grade for thirty-eight years, my oldest child is now in Kindergarten. I'm connected with educators all around the country, and many that I talk with feel the same frustration. No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Common Core - in my thirteen years there's been so many new programs from the federal level.

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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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8 back-to-school apps you should share with students

eSchool News

It happens every year: students vow to stay on top of academic work and remain organized all year. In theory, it’s a great idea. In practice, however, it doesn’t always work as social events, sports, and after-school jobs take up academic time. But in today’s app-dominated world, students have a plethora of tools at their disposal to help them meet their academic goals.

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3 Ways Assistive Technology is Helping Students with Dyslexia

EmergingEdTech

Dyslexia is Less of a Challenge Than it Once was Thanks to These Technological Advances It’s a number that tends to jumps out at you: one in every five students has dyslexia. That means. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Obama administration to schools: Stop using police to enforce rules

The Hechinger Report

Los Angeles School police officer Henry Anderson on his beat at Robert E. Peary Middle School in Gardena. Photo: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Two weeks ago, civil rights groups in Richmond, Virginia, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education over the treatment of black students in local schools. The district’s black students are disproportionately targeted by police officers who work in the schools, the complaint alleges.

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The Benefits Of Creating A Website For Your Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post The Benefits Of Creating A Website For Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Washington just advised police not to discipline students in school — Here’s why that doesn’t go far enough

The Hechinger Report

Providing recommendations for the role of police in schools, the U.S. Justice and Education Departments have released the “Safe School-based Enforcement through Collaboration, Understanding, and Respect ‘SECURe’ State and Local Policy Rubric.”. As part of the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, we support aspects of the Sept. 8 guidance , which recommend that School Resource Officers should not administer discipline in schools.

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Warm Ways to Deepen Historical Thinking

MiddleWeb

On each page of History Class Revisited, teacher Jody Passanisi reveals a deep knowledge of middle school minds and hearts and offers many engaging strategies to help students on the way from literal to critical thinking about history, says reviewer Sarah Cooper.

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11 of the Best Bean Bags for Play, Fun and Relaxation

Fractus Learning

Bean bags big and small can be used for all sorts of things. You can make bean bags out of cheap off cuts of fabric and fill them with rice, lentils or pasta, or you can look for some online. Either way, bean bags are super appealing to kids of all ages and a fun accessory for games and sports. Larger bean bags are just as much fun – kids can relax on a soft beanbag and read a book, do homework or play a game on their tablet.

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How to Create a PBL, Performance-Driven School

MiddleWeb

"Transforming Schools" presents a proven school model built on project based learning and performance assessment, with advice from three leaders of Envision Schools on how to reinvent systems, reshape school culture, and navigate the inevitable challenges.

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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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The Wonders of Nature, on an Interactive Screen

techlearning

App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and eq.

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Fixing a Broken Education System: Online Learning and a Better Tomorrow

Fractus Learning

I look back on my 10 years in the classroom with a combination of joy, nostalgia, bitterness and resentment. As I look back, I recall a Catholic priest friend of mine. A dear man who ran men’s groups and helped wayward and lost men one at a time find their path back to a healthy life, responsibility in the workplace, sane financial practices, and a sense of happiness and fulfillment.

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STEAM Program Goals for Students

There is no box

I’ve been thinking a lot about programs lately (new occupational hazard I guess). After edCamp last weekend, STEAM has been front of mind. I tend to think of programs from the perspective of what do we want to see students doing. For a 1:1 program, it basically comes down to accessing information, collaborating, creating and presenting using modern tools.

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How Domestic Violence In One Home Affects Every Child In A Class

MindShift

Part of our NPR Ed series on mental health in schools. Every Monday morning at Harvie Elementary School, in Henrico County, Va., Brett Welch stands outside her office door as kids file in. “The first thing I’m looking for are the faces,” says Welch, a school counselor. She’s searching for hints of fear, pain or anger. “Maybe there was a domestic incident at the house that weekend,” says Welch. “That’s reality for a lot of our kids.” And a rea

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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.