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JANUARY 30, 2019

FETC 2019: 10 Steps to Develop a Successful K–12 Bus Wi-Fi Program. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 01/30/2019 - 12:56. Wi-Fi-enabled bus programs have the potential to improve K–12 student success by extending their learning time, but the road to implementing one of these programs can be complex. Two years ago, Google and the Consortium for School Networking launched a pilot connected school bus program, Rolling Study Halls , after districts voiced interest in helping rural students use their long bus

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Ray Havasay was a scientist consulted on the making of the original Jurassic Park. Now, she is Executive Director of The Center for Science Teaching and Learning where she specializes in helping engage students in exciting science learning. Listen to Hear Ideas You Need to Know Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 30, 2019

Keeping Everyone on the Same Page Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult When You Use this Simple Hack… Whether your students are in pre-kindergarten, high-school, or somewhere in between, one thing’s for certain– teaching them is not a solo sport. Molding the next generation of young minds takes a lot of effort from a lot of people, and that means teaching requires a lot of communication as well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 30, 2019

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in July: February Subscriber Special. Questions Parents Ask about Tech in School. 20 Valentine Sites For Students. How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. 15 President’s Day Activities. Engineers Week — A Must for High School. Best-in-Category Winners.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 30, 2019

The UK Educational Gap. When I first moved to the United Kingdom, I was very confused about the country’s educational system. It is a very complex matter. Schools can be Academies, Grammar Schools, State Schools, Independent Schools, Colleges, and so forth. It is a long list of different school types and classification. In the past few years, there have been discussions amongst teachers and amongst politicians on whether this is the best system or if it should be reformed.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2019

Did you know that there are almost 100 education conferences every year? Some of these conferences are offered in the States, while others are held around the globe. How do you choose which ones to attend? Whether you’re a teacher or an education entrepreneur, there is something for you. If you’re interested in the combination of education and innovation, here is a short list of five conferences you should check out in 2019 that bring all of these initiatives and leading educators to

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. One U.S. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. Trilogy Education Services announced today that it is expanding its services to help Monash University in Melbourne, Australia launch a bootcamp-style tech training program.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

In response to requests from some of our readers here in EdTech & mLearning, we have curated this list featuring 10 Android apps for taking notes. The titles included here are among the.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

In recent years, the state of Rhode Island has engaged in many innovative learning projects. This past semester I had the opportunity to observe two elementary classrooms using technology in new and exciting ways. One was a fifth-grade class at Whelan Elementary School in North Providence, Rhode Island, that had just agreed to begin a commercial personalized learning program.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Google’s advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows Drive users to easily convert text in images and PDF documents into searchable documents with the ability to easily edit and.

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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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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 30, 2019

A Virtual Mathematical Playground Guest Post by Shaya Zarkesh Polyup is a computational thinking playground. Students from elementary through high school can play with puzzles involving numbers and functions. In a drag-and-drop, expression-building environment, students will create expressions that evaluate to a target value or values. Polyup has recently integrated with Google Classroom.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 30, 2019

“The joke’s on you!” A few years ago, a group of us went out for a celebratory lunch. The celebration isn’t relevant, so I won’t digress, but the picture that we took during that lunch is. At the time there was a trending pose where people on either side of the person in the middle look at the center person, pointing. I happened to be in the middle, with my colleagues evenly positioned on either side, completing that pose to perfection.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. I know that teachers—tasked with helping students achieve and dealing with adolescents—can quickly become energy depleted , even disenfranchised, seeing slow progress for the most at-risk and time-consuming among our students.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 30, 2019

At FETC in Orlando, a panel of ed-tech company investors and advisers weighed in on the latest trends in the market and pitfalls for vendors to avoid. The post At FETC, Vendors Told to Study State and Local Policy to Unlock K-12 Market appeared first on Market Brief.

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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 30, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Six Florida high school students are spending this year at the prestigious Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience , learning data science techniques and how to use them to analyze images of the brain.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 30, 2019

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 150 Deeper Thinking Through Inquiry And Art Drew Perkins talks with Nicola Giardina about her book and work with educators using her “Pyramid of Inquiry” to pull deeper learning and thinking through art. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: nicolagiardina.com Book: The More We Look, the Deeper It Gets – Publisher […].

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 30, 2019

What's the best way to teach vocabulary? It's a constant topic among educators, writes Jeremy Hyler, and not just among his fellow ELA colleagues. Every classroom teacher needs to teach academic words. Hyler shares some vocabulary strategies he's developed over 17 years.

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Prodigy

JANUARY 30, 2019

When gauging student learning, two approaches likely come to mind: a formative or summative assessment. Fortunately, feeling pressure to choose one or the other isn’t necessary. These two types of learning assessment actually serve different and necessary purposes. In this article, we’ll be exploring: A formative and summative assessment definition Difference between formative and summative […].

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 30, 2019

Providing full credit (100%) for completing some assignments or assessmenets can be a great way to decrease ‘test stress' and grade anxiety, gather much-needed feedback about student learning. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Failure is the secret to success; it can also be the confirmation of disappointment and of not being able to make it. How you look at failure determines the outcome. Fear of failure cripples the student […].

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techlearning

JANUARY 30, 2019

On Thursday, January 10th, the Fair Haven Knights esports team made history when we took on the William Annin Vikings in the first round of the Jersey Shore Esports Cup.

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Turnitin

JANUARY 30, 2019

How to supplement in-class writing assignments in order to prevent plagiarism and contract cheating. Tips and insights.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2019

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference (#FETC) was jam packed with edtech professionals sharing experiences through workshops, panels, and discussions in support of driving innovation with technology.

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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 30, 2019

In today’s #AskExcelinEd, we’re sharing a touching new video and some great resources on our comprehensive reading intervention policy. I hope these inspire and equip you to prioritize early literacy for children in your state! Today’s Readers. Tomorrow’s Leaders. Hear why these policymakers and education advocates prioritize reading with their families.

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techlearning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Alive Studios, a provider of augmented reality-based literacy tools for early learners, has introduced Rugs alive, a classroom rug that brings wild animals to life in the classroom.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 30, 2019

A book that piqued my interest in the principalship was Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference by Roland Barth (Jossey-Bass, 1990). During one of my first years as a teacher, I found it while browsing through our professional library. At the time I only knew I should probably go for my masters but I was unsure about any focus.

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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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techlearning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Epic! digital reading platform today announced that it is now reaching more than 10 million children and over 500 million books have been read on the platform since launch.

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MindShift

JANUARY 30, 2019

When the Chemours chemical plant in New Johnsonville, Tenn., needed workers to maintain its high-tech machinery, it advertised for them as far as 90 miles away in Nashville in one direction and 150 miles away in Memphis on the other. It still couldn’t fill the jobs. “You just can’t find anybody because people don’t want to come that far,” said Gregory Martz, manager of the facility, which makes a quarter of the nation’s supply of titanium dioxide used in every

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techlearning

JANUARY 30, 2019

Hanson Robotics Limited announces its robot Little Sophia, a tutorial companion that teaches STEM, coding, and Artificial intelligence (AI)

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Learning in Hand

JANUARY 30, 2019

The teachers at my school, College View Elementary , are doing a year-long inquiry into quality feedback. Our principal, Amy Glime , has lead us through several learning experiences during our weekly professional development time. At first we focused on the feedback that teachers give students. Today’s PD: Create a visual of quality feedback. CV teachers know quality feedback is: timely, tied to a goal, results in improvement, and answers 3 questions: What am I trying to achieve?

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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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