EdNews Daily
MARCH 5, 2017
The high school years are a time for discovering oneself — learning strengths and weaknesses, identifying dreams and goals for the future, developing key communication and real-world skills, and mapping out plans for college or a career after graduation. Many high schoolers never receive the guidance, training, or opportunities necessary to adequately prepare them for post-graduation life.
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 5, 2017
Let’s face it – great things occur in all schools on a daily basis. We see the fruits of our labor through our students as they show growth in learning over time. There is nothing more gratifying as a servant of education then when our passion translates into helping students of various ability levels accomplish tasks that they themselves never thought possible.
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Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2017
A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has been digging deeply into social media data to examine the roots of the public dialogue around Common Core. In the most recent chapter of work released, the researchers identify one group that accounted for "roughly a quarter of all Common Core-related activity on Twitter" during the 32-month time period they studied.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 5, 2017
The post Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books To Encourage Students To Change The World appeared first on TeachThought.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 5, 2017
March 5, 2017 Astronomy Picture of The Day (APOD) is an awesome free app we want to bring to your attention. As its name indicates, the app, developed in partnership with NASA, features a huge.read more.
eSchool News
MARCH 5, 2017
Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. CommonLit. What’s It Like?
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 5, 2017
March 5, 2017 Below are some good iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. Some of these apps like the movie making and video editing app Vizzywig are pricey ($19,99).read more.
Teacher Tech
MARCH 5, 2017
I am trying out something new. One thing that is always a challenge when you have a PD day is that you have only that day to learn everything. No surprise we are totally wiped out at the end of a PD day. I’ve had some friends encourage me to make an online course of […]. The post Go Slow Online Workshops appeared first on Teacher Tech.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 5, 2017
The post But Who’s Going To Save The Bully? appeared first on TeachThought.
eSchool News
MARCH 5, 2017
“I think this conference is unique in that all the sessions are educator-led, rather than vendor-led. It’s a conference for teachers by teachers. Think of it like education’s version of a Star Wars convention. That’s the level of passion and engagement we see,” said PR Specialist Beth Cherry for CUE. As national conferences grow and fade, like stars in an ever-evolving educational cosmos, it’s been interesting watching the rock star-esque growth in popularity of the CUE conference, billed as a c
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.
The Innovative Educator
MARCH 5, 2017
At their most basic level, playing video games is akin to reading books. Like books, video games can range in quality from trashy novels to informative historical fiction. Like books different genres of video games have varying learning potential. Like books, video games offer different purposes and varying levels of usefulness when it comes to learning.
EmergingEdTech
MARCH 5, 2017
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … inspiration, ideas, and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
NeverEndingSearch
MARCH 5, 2017
Today, I came face to face with an elephant, accompanied Iraqi forces as they fought to retake Falluja, and I rode along with police officers in Flint, and I tended bar for Don Cheadle. Storytelling is evolving and thrilling and sometimes dizzying. National Geographic has been growing a very cool YouTube playlist of 360° Videos. These videos allow us to see things differently–to fly above the the canopies of the giant sequoias, to plunge into a Caribbean coral reef, or to go back in time to exp
MiddleWeb
MARCH 5, 2017
Teachers have lots of justifiable reasons to complain about their jobs, says author-educator Jenny Rankin. But "loving your work and experiencing peace and success on a daily basis are certainly within your reach." Attitude isn't everything, she says, but it helps.
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.
eSchool News
MARCH 5, 2017
They say computers make life easier. I say they sometimes make our lives miserable. During the past two years, I’ve visited Apple’s Genius Bar eight times. I’ve watched a student cry in front of her PC after she found a Word document she had worked on for days corrupted. I’ve witnessed someone spill coffee on my colleague’s MacBook, and then felt enraged when he had to spend almost half its price to make the thing work again.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 5, 2017
March 5, 2017 Upon the request of some of our readers here in EdTech and mLearning. we went ahead and created the infographic below which you can download and share in PDF format from this link. The.read more.
Doug Levin
MARCH 5, 2017
Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.
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