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APRIL 20, 2016

By D. Frank Smith Gurus, communities, leaders and all-stars highlight this year’s latest batch of the top K-12 blogs. .

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2016

Growing up in Oaxaca, Mexico, Octaviano was forced to leave school before completing the first grade. For the next 20 years, his only “academic skill” was the ability to write his own name. A seasonal farm hand, Octaviano continued that work when he moved to the United States, until an accident left him unable to. It was then that he decided to learn English and work toward becoming a U.S. citizen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 20, 2016

Tell me if this sounds familiar: With the 2016 New Year, you resolved to build your Professional Learning Network –finally, to stop living in the 20th century where your world revolved around a sticks-and-bricks building, a landline phone, and the mailbox. You joined all the big social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, blogging–just for starters).

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 20, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 23. Driving question: What are answers to the frequent questions readers asked about STEM AND STEAM? This double-month issue focused on STEM and STEAM. It brought the most questions and comments for any prior theme. Some Steve and other authors answered directly. I SKYPED with Steve, this issue's guest co-editor, to discuss those questions most repeated in one form or another.

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Education Elements

APRIL 20, 2016

Writing—whether a persuasive essay, lab report, constructed response or research paper—is a consistent element of most performance tasks used by teachers to measure their students’ knowledge, understanding of concepts, and skills. The reasons are many, but perhaps the most important is that the very act of writing, which requires students to make sense of information and ideas and to express that understanding coherently, is itself a critical skill.

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Waterford

APRIL 20, 2016

SALT LAKE CITY—(BUSINESS WIRE)—A Utah state report shows that children who use Waterford UPSTART for one year at the preschool level see lasting positive results on standardized tests, a finding that suggests the state-wide school readiness program effectively gives all children a strong academic start and helps close the education gap early for those at risk.

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Waterford

APRIL 20, 2016

SALT LAKE CITY—(BUSINESS WIRE)—A Utah state report shows that children who use Waterford UPSTART for one year at the preschool level see lasting positive results on standardized tests, a finding that suggests the state-wide school readiness program effectively gives all children a strong academic start and helps close the education gap early for those at risk.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 20, 2016

April 20, 2016 In yesterday’s post we reviewed web tools that you can use to create interactive lessons, lessons that integrate a wide variety of multimedia materials. In today’s post, we are sharing.read more.

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Edutopia

APRIL 20, 2016

Photo credit: iStock.com/Jodi Jacobson William Parrett and Kathleen Budge Education Equity In high-poverty schools, it's critical to establish caring relationships, supporting students through advisory programs, create smaller learning environments, and encourage participation in extracurricular activities.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 20, 2016

April 20, 2016 Google announced today some major updates to its note taking app Google Keep. Important among them is the release of a new Keep Chrome extension. This new add-on allows you to.read more.

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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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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2016

Each week EdTechTeacher will bring you a new, short video (10-15 minutes) by one of the staff exploring an app, web tool or idea in the world of educational technology centered around a new theme each month. This month, we explore Leadership , and ask Tom Daccord , Director of EdTechTeacher, what the top questions he gets asked from Leaders in schools implementing technology programs.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 20, 2016

Interested in helping students learn how to spot a stereotype on a TV show? Or how to identify bias in a news article? Are your students obsessed with becoming YouTube celebs? Do they love to take and edit photos for Instagram? If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider integrating digital and media literacy education into your lessons.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 20, 2016

Productivity tools like Google Apps for Education for classroom collaboration make 1:1 initiatives a realistic goal for any size school district. But giving students devices and access to email and online file sharing and storage also bring safety risks. These and other topics were discussed during the last week’s Gaggle webcast, “Using Google Apps to Create a Safe 1:1 Learning Environment.” Seth Hemken, Director of Technology at Redding School District, walked attendees throug

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

AASA launches new initiative to support, advance women in key school leadership positions. AASA, The School Superintendents Association, has launched a new initiative called More Than a Power Lunch: Building Networks to Support and Advance Women in School Leadership. The purpose of the project is to help mitigate the impact of social barriers women face in ascending to the top leadership positions within school systems and to significantly increase the number of women seeking and becoming CEOs a

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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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MSEDTechie

APRIL 20, 2016

Video in the classroom is powerful, because it has the ability to make the classroom come alive, and make meaningful learning experiences and connections. Video allows you to deliver long-lasting images, and reach children with various learning styles. But how do you make sure you’re keeping things fresh? Here are a few ways you can incorporate video projects in your classroom—on a daily basis. 1) Flip your classroom—but for real Flipped classrooms allows for a student to never again miss a less

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The Thinking Stick

APRIL 20, 2016

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to chat with The Edupreneur Podcast. A quick 30 minute conversation about the Palm Pilot program I rolled out in Saudi Arabia in 2002, Gamification of Education and Global Education. Always a great time talking with students.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 20, 2016

A group of charter schools that have tried to pioneer “personalized learning” in schools face big questions about the sustainability of their approaches after private sources of funding run dry, a new analysis suggests. The report , published by the Center for Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, Bothell, examines 16 schools that received support through Next Generation Learning Challenges , a competitive grant program that makes awards to support personalize

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Edutopia

APRIL 20, 2016

Photo credit: Beakerhead via flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Lincoln Sedlacek STEM Math matters for computer science because it teaches students how to use abstract language, work with algorithms, self-analyze their computational thinking, and accurately modeling real-world solutions.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 20, 2016

The post 4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn appeared first on TeachThought.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 20, 2016

Magic Leap is a pretty secretive* yet awe- (or hype-)inspiring startup that promises a world-changing new technology. That tech is a combination of virtual reality with augmented reality, often dubbed “mixed reality” or “artificial reality” It’s hard to get information on Magic Leap – did I mention they’re secretive?

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

The funds will be used to support the GTG Collaborative. Girls Thinking Global (GTG) has been awarded a grant by the NEA Foundation to support the creation of the GTG Collaborative, an online community of practice. “Girls Thinking Global has been working to develop the GTG Collaborative, an online community of practice, to support, connect, and empower organizations that serve adolescent girls and young women,” said Kathy Hurley, CEO of GTG.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 20, 2016

We broadcast our first live learning event yesterday, where our third year students listened to a talk by innovative school leader Dave Strudwick. We are live streaming all of the keynote lectures for the next few weeks for our Visions and Values module - with a focus on educational philosophy, theory and practice. The video of Dave's presentation is below, with much thanks to the digital wizardry of technical manager Benji Rogers and his team, who made sure the live feed went out on the web as

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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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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 20, 2016

Modeling Compassion Driven Innovation This Undertaking is Enabling Students to Make a Difference and Solve Real World Problems I am delighted to see that three education and technology powerhouses. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 20, 2016

Interested in helping students learn how to spot a stereotype on a TV show? Or how to identify bias in a news article? Are your students obsessed with becoming YouTube celebs? Do they love to take and edit photos for Instagram? If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider integrating digital and media literacy education into your lessons.

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Kevin Corbett

APRIL 20, 2016

Sunday, April 24th at 8PM Central (6PM Pacific) Thanks to @Tom_Kilgore and the popular @TxEduChat for asking me to host another Twitter Chat! I’m excited to have some fun and explore the topic: AI & Robots: How can we “future proof” students? Artificial Intelligence and Robots are developing are a RAPID pace!

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Edutopia

APRIL 20, 2016

Elena Aguilar Student Engagement Listen and look for the "teachable moments" when rather than teach, you can kindle the fire of a child's curiosity.

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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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The Principal of Change

APRIL 20, 2016

Working with educators and trying to help challenge the traditional notion of schooling, many of them will come to me privately and say, “I would love to do some of this stuff, but our policies won’t allow us.” When I talk to their principals though and ask them about those same policies, they will tell you that they don’t exist.

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StratEDgy

APRIL 20, 2016

The departing public editor of the NYT might as well have been talking about higher education. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2016

M.-A. Lucas. In a recent Hechinger Report series on childcare in Mississippi, writers Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz asked what it would take for that state to transform its childcare into a top system. They pointed to the remaking of the U.S. military childcare system as an example of such a turnaround. The military’s childcare revamp is a Cinderella story that more people should study.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

Two Chicago schools find looking to students a very freeing experience. How do you combat student engagement problems and encourage students to take an interest in their own learning? For many schools the answer seems to be some variation of personalized learning, as interpreted by school administrators or outside curriculum savants. For two Chicago-area schools, however, the solution came down to asking students: How do you want to learn?

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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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