EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2018

By Jacquelyn Bengfort K–12 districts anticipate and adapt to changing technology needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2018

Day 14 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We cannot let how we feel determine how hard we work. Famed basketball coach John Wooden always taught his players that there’s no such thing as 110%. If they didn’t give 100% in practice, it could never be gotten back later with some superhuman effort.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. While 21st-century pedagogy puts group projects and collaborative learning at center stage for students, these cooperative habits have not yet assumed such a prominent role for teachers. But collaboration among teachers — and a desire for that teamwork — is growing, with positive repercussions across schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 16, 2018

January 15, 2018 A working formula for a successful learning activity with kids involves three main elements: engagement, interactivity, and fun. The more of these elements a learning activity.read more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

If organic chemistry were easy, an old joke goes, it would be called biology. Getting a seat in Garg’s Chemistry 14D class—even one on the floor in the aisle—is for many undergraduates a cause for a victory dance. For some, O-chem is where med school dreams go to die. Many see it as an impossible maze of ceaseless memorization. But Professor Neil Garg looks at organic chemistry and sees a delightful puzzle, an engaging problem to be solved.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 16, 2018

January 16, 2018 In yesterday’s post we talked about grading and we featured a number of apps to help teachers with their grading. In today’s post we cover a closely related concept: rubrics.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

Woodrow Wilson High School students in Camden, N.J., see a rich orange flame in a chemistry lab that digs into atomic structure of elements. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 16, 2018

Reclaiming Your Day: 3 Simple Digital Efficiency Hacks For School Principals by Heather Warrell, TeachThought PD Leadership Workshop Facilitator Let’s be honest—while school leadership can be highly rewarding, it can, at times, be absolutely brutal. From juggling district demands, to tracking data, to cooling down angry parents, to drowning in emails (gag), to attempting to make ‘an appearance’ […].

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100mentors

JANUARY 16, 2018

You’ve probably noticed that the number of international schools is on the rise, with over 6.000 founded in the last 9 years (The Economist, “ The new local ”, 2014). This is partially due to the shift in the student population from expatriates to domestic elite, as well as the increased demand for schooling mostly, or entirely, in the English language.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 16, 2018

January 16, 2018 The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a digital library that provides K-12 teachers and students with a wide variety of math activities and virtual manipulatives. These.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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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2018

Welcome to the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each and… The post Healthy Schools Now: protecting students and staff to improve learning. appeared first on TeacherCast.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

We have written quite a lot at ProfHacker about Markdown , a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using simple typographic characters. Jason’s post from last January links to lots of ProfHacker pieces on Markdown in its first paragrah. If you regularly write for multiple formats, such as print and the web, or if you just want a way to keep writing without being distracted by fiddling with formatting,

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 16, 2018

The ideas here have certainly been shared on the site before, but I thought a fresh look at them might be helpful, as many of us continue to look for ideas to spark the new year and bring more. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 16, 2018

Copy and Share a Google Form It can be a little tricky to share a Google Form without making your data vulnerable to who you want to share with. I have coded an Add-on for Google Forms that creates a copy of the Form you are using and asks who you want to share the […]. The post Share a Copy of a Google Form appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2018

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking an outside, nonprofit organization to help it support and build the #GoOpen Network. The post Feds Searching for Partner to Support Open Educational Resources Project appeared first on Market Brief.

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MindShift

JANUARY 16, 2018

Over the past several decades public education has shifted to focus on literacy and math learning, largely due to high stakes tests measuring those two elements of school. But educators have long known that while reading, writing and math are important to academic success, they are far from the only qualities students need to go forth and lead productive lives.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 16, 2018

In addition to being the technology director for SAU#19 (Serving the Goffstown and New Boston, NH, School Districts), Gary Girolimon is a certified teacher. With a Master’s Degree in Education in Instructional Technology, he understood both the technical nuances of school broadband and the real-life implications of classroom connectivity. Gary knew that if technology is to be successfully integrated into the curriculum, it needs to be trouble-free.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 16, 2018

Examining differences between the movie and the actual history – and the processes screenwriters use to adapt a true story – is worthy of media literacy classroom time, says Frank Baker, author of Close Reading the Media. Truth is, the film will never match the book!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

When Robyn Young was growing up, she never thought of herself as college material. She says when she graduated from high school, her classmates applied for college, and she applied for food stamps. By the time she was 21, she had a baby, and was in and out of jobs and living on friends’ couches. She enrolled at a for­profit college, but she had a hard time paying for childcare.

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Jamf on EdTech

JANUARY 16, 2018

For most students in Haiti, access to technology is extremely limited. See how we are trying to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

The Mississippi State Capitol. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Mississippi’s legislators have proposed dozens of bills this year aimed at improving education in the state. These legislative ideas range from small curriculum additions and other changes to large pilot programs and even to universal preschool. Here’s a look at some of the education bills that will be discussed during the current session.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 16, 2018

No matter if you are in the classroom, the storeroom or the boardroom, there’s always a benefit from improving your memory. Quicker and deeper recall of people, places, events and information can help improve your life […].

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2018

Today’s students are more connected to their devices than ever before, whether they’re using their tablets or cellular devices to take notes in class, conduct research, or write a report. As such, strong cellular connectivity has become a must for schools and universities. Faculty and students rely upon secure wireless data and mobile coverage in order to teach, learn, and grow together.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 16, 2018

BoomWriter Media Inc., a collaboration tool for the crowdsourcing of writing content in schools and colleges, has closed a new round of funding worth $4.1 million. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chinese Tutoring Platforms, Area9 Lyceum, and Ellevation Raise Funds appeared first on Market Brief.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 16, 2018

Walking into my se cond EdTechTeam Summit , there was a sense of excitement in the air. I was greeted by Juan de Luca and Emily Fitzpatrick , and I knew in that instant that this would be a great weekend of learning. The icing on the cake was the gift of a Rocketbook. At first, I was just excited about another notebook, since as much as I like technology (especially my Chromebook), I still love to write notes and ideas down.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 16, 2018

Emaptico is a new learning tool that connects teachers and classrooms around the world. Empatico reminds me of a cross between Skype and Wiziq and is a great way for educators to easily teach online classes. The way this works is a students selects their desired activities, availability, and then get selected w/ a teacher. Best of all, Empatico has lots of free resources for teachers to use while interacting w/ their online.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greg Smedley on episode 232 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Greg Smedley Warren @kindersmorgie shares his tips and tricks for using technology in kindergarten. It should be simple. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 16, 2018

Storyboard That the amazing site that educators are using for creating timelines, graphic organizers, digital stories, storyboards, project based learning, and much much more, just released their Illustrated Guides. These one cell storyboards are great for teaching any number of subjects such as: Mythology, Literature, History, and more. I highly recommend checking out Storyboard That's Illustrated Guides by clicking here !!!

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 16, 2018

Students are obsessed with technology and gadgets nowadays, so why can’t we use technology to keep them engaged while learning? The education department is evolving on a global scale along with the techniques of teaching and learning. The traditional methods of education are being replaced by more interactive methods which are influenced by technology.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that every education technology (edtech) publisher says their product works, and they all have some sort of supporting evidence. But oftentimes that evidence—if it’s fully experimental—is very scarce. In many cases, it’s just one study. Yet just that one piece of "gold standard" evidence is often considered good enough by educators when making a purchasing decision.

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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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