Neo LMS

MARCH 1, 2016

Games are fun; learning is not. Kids could play games for hours on end, without asking for food and holding their bladder for as much as they can. When it comes to doing homework or studying, on the other hand, things cannot be more different: their attention span gets smaller than a goldfish' and all physiological needs become the most important things ever.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2016

By D. Frank Smith An online tool under development will help education leaders make the right decisions on their next major tech purchases.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2016

I love hearing a parent’s perspective on technology in their classrooms so I reached out to efriend, Joe Peters for his thoughts. Joe’s not only a parent, but a freelance journalist and tech enthusiast, so he knew exactly how to get his ideas across on the printed page. You won’t want to miss this article: Parents are aware that classrooms nowadays are much different than when they went to school a generation ago.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 1, 2016

Games are fun; learning is not. Kids could play games for hours on end, without asking for food and holding their bladder for as much as they can. When it comes to doing homework or studying, on the other hand, things cannot be more different: their attention span gets smaller than a goldfish' and all physiological needs become the most important things ever.

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Personalized Learning

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MARCH 1, 2016

Destination Matters. This is true with schools, too. Our destination should be more than just the work we do: taking attendance, direct instruction, providing practice, reviewing and assessing work, providing feedback, etc. Why are we bothering to do this work? For that matter, how do we know this is the right work to do? We can answer those questions if we work with our staff, students, families, and community to create a shared vision.

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Securly

MARCH 1, 2016

Why Choose Cloud Based Web Filtering? Web filtering is most widely known within the context of the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 as a means of protecting students from harmful, explicit content found on the internet. However, web filters – especially those that are Cloud based – are capable of much more , in both home and school environments. .

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2016

March 1, 2016 Here is a collection of some very good add-ons to use on Google Drive to edit and share PDFs. Some of the things you can do with these tools include: merge several documents into.read more.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 1, 2016

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff sits down with Meera Vaidyanathan from TenMarks to discuss how the fantastic team at With Math I Can is pledging to boost morale and confidence of students, teachers, AND parents when it comes to teaching and learning mathematics. In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff sits down with Meera Vaidyanathan from TenMarks to discuss how the fantastic team at With Math I Can is pledging to boost morale and confidence of students, teachers, AND

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 1, 2016

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Jessica Sanders. Many school leaders and education professionals tout personalized learning as the future of learning. While personalized learning, in which students engage with educational content based on their needs and preferences, can be integrated into any classroom, with or without technology, here’s a three-step plan for implementing personalized learning with technology by your side.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2016

March 1, 2016 Flip Book is an excellent tool from ReadWriteThink that allows students to create beautiful flip books and booklets. The tool provides a number of pre-made layouts of the pages making.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2016

Mary and Amanda wrote a great post yesterday about BCCampus’ upcoming plans around open pedagogy. It reminded me that I meant to post the notes I developed for my workshop on open pedagogy at the Maricopa Community Colleges last week. Here’s my outline for the conversation we had there. (Yes, I know it’s outline-y and not completely fleshed out, but hopefully there’s enough here to be valuable.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 1, 2016

Jon had a chance to sit down with Lord Jim Knight, former Minister of Education for the United Kingdom. Listen into their fascinating conversation about teaching and what it means to be “well educated.” [link].

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 1, 2016

What instructional decisions and teaching techniques work best to move students beyond mere compliance to active and engaged learning? Elizabeth Stein shares some favorites, including regular movement, an inviting environment, and plenty of voice and choice.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

Keeping students safe in the digital era — with its myriad dangers — means a proactive IT strategy. Technology has become a mainstay within the walls of today’s schools. One-to-one computing is enhancing and enriching the student experience, transforming the way we teach and the way we learn. K-12 schools were expected to spend approximately $4.7 billion on technology this past year, according to IDC , with no sign of a plateau.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 1, 2016

A Chicago project that pairs ed-tech companies with schools is offering insights on the importance of educators implementing products with care–and businesses producing data to help teachers do their jobs. The marriage of schools with digital providers is being arranged by LEAP Innovations , a Chicago-based nonprofit that attempts to create opportunities for breakthroughs in education by working with businesses and schools.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2016

The post What Happens When Students Are Exceptional At Nothing? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Many kids who hate to read often love reading with technology. The teachers or parents I talk to in my work as a clinical child psychologist and researcher often find this statement counterintuitive. They wonder why the reading vessel should make a difference, and worry that screens will actually make reading harder. In fact, there's increasing evidence that many apps, video games, and educational websites can improve both reading fluency and comprehension, and -- perhaps more importantly --

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Edthena

MARCH 1, 2016

At this year’s NYACTE conference , our partners from St. Bonaventure University presented on how Edthena’s edTPA ® tools improved candidates’ edTPA experience and helped candidates build skills related to video reflection. Watch the presentation below. The presentation was led by Nancy Casey, Interim Dean, and two of her former students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

A growing number of schools are backing an effort that helps align learning to an individual student’s needs. Five Lake County (Fla.) schools are working this year to give students more personalized lessons, ones that allow them to move ahead faster, if they are ready, or to get more tailored help, if they are struggling. It is an approach that has won support from national education foundations, Florida lawmakers and the eighth graders in advanced language arts at Windy Hill Middle School

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Edutopia

MARCH 1, 2016

Photo credit: Aka Hige via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Laura Davis Student Engagement Launch your next student project with laughter through physical, team-building challenges like escaping the room without touching the lava field or cooperating in blindfolded dodgeball.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 1, 2016

3 Minute Teaching “Tooltorial” No. 14 Provides a Quick Overview of ThingLink Early last month I had the pleasure of making my first ThingLink interactive image. ThingLink is such a cool. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 1, 2016

Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer, as low as $5. It runs Linux as the operating system. Students can play Minecraft and access the internet on a Raspberry Pi computer. Essentially, Raspberry Pi is just the computer circuit board. It does not come with a computer case (you can 3D print those), power cord, keyboard, monitor, […].

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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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Edutopia

MARCH 1, 2016

Monica Burns Technology Integration QR codes still have a place in the classroom, leveraging deeper learning by giving students the ability to access, curate, engage with, and share teacher-selected content.

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MindShift

MARCH 1, 2016

In just a few years, art education has gone from the easiest thing to cut in a school budget to an increasingly utilized teaching technique to increase student engagement and deepen understanding. Arts organizations with an education mission are teaming up with classroom teachers to develop lessons that use drama, music, visual art and dance to help students understand concepts that can be abstract and complex.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 1, 2016

Written by Holly Clark Educational Strategist - EdTechTeam In late 2015, my best friend’s daughter was going through something really horrific at school. She would come home and cry about math tests and she was beginning to show signs of hating school. Tanya and I thought it was because her teacher was so caught up in making sure she delivered certain content in a timely matter, that she had failed to notice that some of her students were not understanding the information.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 1, 2016

This post is the third in our kids workspace series. The older kids get, the more time they have to spend doing their school work. A desk is very useful, as it gives teenagers a quiet space to work on assignments or study for exams, but even younger kids will find a desk useful. However, you can’t have a desk without providing somewhere for your child to sit, which is why kids desk chairs are sold separately.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

LabQuest Stream allows students to stream data from multiple sensors directly to a mobile device, Chromebook, or computer. To expand data-collection possibilities in the science classroom, Vernier Software & Technology, creator of real-time sensor data collection, graphing, and analysis tools for science education, has developed LabQuest Stream.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. That is, the technologies that dominated educational technology in the 1970s were technologies that were primarily teacher controlled and oriented toward instruction.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2016

The post Ep. 33 Innovating Education At High Tech High With Larry Rosenstock appeared first on TeachThought.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

There is an excellent history of student generated content at Plymouth Institute of Education. Throughout the programme of initial teacher education, our specialist computing and ICT students are constantly creating blogs, videos and other digital representations of their learning. Occasionally I like to showcase some of their work for a larger audience such as in I'm blogging this.

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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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