Battelle for Kids
JULY 18, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 7. Driving Question : How can students discover their role in the world as global learners? "Global Citizens". "Changemakers". This is how I refer to students in my 5th grade classroom. This was our path for learning. My goal this year was to open up the world to my students in a whole new way, having them recognize who they are and, equally important, what their role in the world is as global learners.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JULY 18, 2016
Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. You will discover around one hundred resources in this series along with some great ideas for finding student success. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans.
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Class Tech Integrate
JULY 18, 2016
As the beginning of a new school year approaches, teachers begin to think about introducing the norms & rules of their classroom to a new group of students. Included in these classroom behaviors, are the expectations for technology usage. Digital Citizenship has become a popular term in recent years both inside and outside of the classroom. Frankly, it isn't only our students that need to work on Digital Citizenship skills, but many adults as well.
Edsurge
JULY 18, 2016
When I first saw the long list of my classes’ ELA Common Core Standards, I remember feeling overwhelmed and worrying about how I was going to cover all of them in a single school year. I was being asked to teach approximately 60 standards in one year, a pace that I had never tried before. Many of the standards were complex, requiring higher levels of analysis and evaluation and more time to teach.
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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
JULY 18, 2016
17,000+ emails in a year. That’s not a guess, that’s how many emails I had in my inbox for one calendar year. That doesn’t include a few hundred deleted items. It also doesn’t include emails to my gmail account… 17,000+ is a total for just my work email. Excluding holidays and weekends, that’s about 85 emails per work day. .
Edsurge
JULY 18, 2016
After a Master’s degree, 120-plus credits, and 30 years in education, I now understand that whatever I do and wherever I go, I am happiest when I’m learning. That’s never more true than in the summertime. And if I can find an opportunity that allows me to further my learning without sacrificing my summer vacation—or better yet, enhances it—you can bet I’m going to be the first to sign up.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edutopia
JULY 18, 2016
John McCarthy Differentiated Instruction Social media can enhance differentiated instruction if the tools are selected with a careful eye on individual students' readiness, interests, and learning profiles.
eSchool News
JULY 18, 2016
Librarians in the Shawnee Mission School District are making way for “ the maker movement ,” and some worry where that story is going. Reading stories, of course, has been a big part of what Jan Bombeck does with children. “Stories, stories and more stories,” she told the school board last month. The Ray Marsh Elementary School directory lists Bombeck as “librarian” because she is state-certified to be one.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 18, 2016
July 17, 2016 Looking for some good Mac apps to try out with your students in class? The collection below is a good place to start with. We have handpicked for you a list of what we think are 12.read more.
eSchool News
JULY 18, 2016
There are thousands of educational mobile apps available for English language learners, allowing learners to practice outside of the classroom in ways that can greatly enhance learning and motivation. Because cost is a critical concern in most schools and for most teachers and parents, this article focuses mostly on free apps. When searching the app store, be aware of words such as “Lite” or “Free” or “In-App Purchases” in fine print underneath the download button.
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.
MiddleWeb
JULY 18, 2016
Department chair Michelle Russell has spent time this summer thinking about what "productive struggle" should mean for the students in her math classroom. Some research – and several workshop experiences where she struggled herself – have given her new insights.
RafranzDavis.com
JULY 18, 2016
I’ve never hosted or planned a hackathon before this one. At the same token, our kids have never done one. Yet and still, we jumped into this space of uncertainty with minimal expectations beyond inspiring our students to design and build what they felt could have impact on their learning community. The ideas that they had were a mixture of inspiring, empathetic and often ambitious in scope.
ASIDE
JULY 18, 2016
Source: Pokemon Go iTunes In just ten days, the cultural sensation of Pokémon Go has attracted over 20 million players. It is the most popular U.S. mobile game ever, surpassing Twitter in daily active users and crashing its Niantic host server. For those who are over the age of 30, or who have been been in a self-imposed digital blackout, or who did not luck into an 11-year-old at a Sunday BBQ to explain the intricacies , here is a one-sentence description of Pokémon Go : the goal is to explore
eSchool News
JULY 18, 2016
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. Pokemon GO. What’s It Like?
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.
Fractus Learning
JULY 18, 2016
Among the many ways to actively engage children in the learning process, educational games are one of the most fun. With so many award winning and cleverly designed games on the market, young children to teens (and even adults!) can develop new skills and reinforce other skills, without even realizing they are learning. Board, card, cooperative, puzzle games, and more encourage interactive hands-on learning in a humorous, light hearted environment.
EdTechTeacher
JULY 18, 2016
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Virtual Reality (VR) has long be seen as the realm of science fiction. However, VR has been making a big splash in education and, with a low price point, is entering the classroom quickly. Here are three tools that you can use to bring Virtual Reality into your classroom. Google Expeditions. Last year, Google announced Google Expeditions , a system that brings educational virtual reality into the classroom.
Edutopia
JULY 18, 2016
Youki Terada Maker Education At the heart of making is the idea that all students are creators, and hands-on learning plays a key role in maker education.
eSchool News
JULY 18, 2016
zSpace announced they are working with Google to create an end-to-end virtual reality classroom experience that combines the power of zSpace’s interactive Screen VR technology with the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program. Students will be introduced to learning content through the vivid photo and video Expeditions followed by in-depth exploration opportunities in zSpace.
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Edutopia
JULY 18, 2016
Heather Wolpert-Gawron PBL Planning Invite students in on the decision-making process when selecting an authentic goal for your class PBL unit and you will have increased their ownership of the unit from the get-go.
Hubbli
JULY 18, 2016
Students, parents, and even a few teachers all anticipate the end of the school year and the official start of summer. Bring on the long, sunny days and the lazy afternoons on the beach! But hang on there, friend. Summer is the most important time to boost enrollment numbers for your school. After all, parents are more likely to enroll their child in a new school before the start of the upcoming school year than pull them out of their current school mid-year and transfer them to your school.
Turning Learning On Its Head
JULY 18, 2016
Jon had a chance to sit down with Dr. Roger Hadgraft to discuss how he helped transform a university engineering program using flipped learning. Dr. Hadgraft is a Flipped Learning Research Fellow who is a conducting research into the efficacy of the model. @ rogerhadgraft . Jon had a chance to sit down with Dr. Roger Hadgraft to discuss how he helped transform a university engineering program using flipped learning.
MindShift
JULY 18, 2016
The education world is full of incremental change — the slow process of individuals learning about new strategies and approaches, trying them out, improving on their skills, and hopefully sharing their learning with colleagues to continue growth. While that process is necessary and good, if the changes to education are all in the service of doing the same thing better, they may be missing the point.
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.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 18, 2016
Successful measures to push more girls into college have combined with a persistent erosion in the number of boys enrolling to create a growing gender imbalance on campus. The Topic: Fewer men than women go to college. Why It Matters: The trend is threatening the goal of having more people with degrees. Men made up 58 percent of American college students in 1970, but the ratios have now almost exactly reversed.
Graphite Blog
JULY 18, 2016
Summer break is a great time to explore a new skill or catch up on some reading. For me, Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess has kept me engrossed and inspired me to try some new things with my class this coming school year. However, since reading this book, there's one line I keep coming back to: "It's easy for you. You're creative.
Marketplace K-12
JULY 18, 2016
In this week’s dealmaking news, Schoold, a provider of a college- and career-planning app, received additional funding, while private equity firm Quad-C acquired an early education services provider. Additionally, two coding education companies raised money. Schoold Receives Additional Funding: Schoold , a college- and career-planning startup based in San Francisco, has raised additional investment capital from new investors include Learn Capital, Social Capital, University Ventures, and Profess
techlearning
JULY 18, 2016
Photo app lets students share learning by making anything talk.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 18, 2016
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norm
The Hechinger Report
JULY 18, 2016
St. Rita’s Catholic School in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making div
The Hechinger Report
JULY 18, 2016
How do we prepare teachers to educate young children for their future, a future with problems we cannot even envision today? Twenty-first century goals call for students who will be critical thinkers, creative, flexible, productive, and accomplished in communication, collaboration and leadership. And so too must the teachers of all students, even teachers of our youngest students age 3 and 4.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 18, 2016
KENT, Ohio — Kambiz Ghazinour would love to persuade more of his Kent State University computer science students to go on to graduate school, but they’re so in demand that most of them head straight into the job market. Convention coverage. During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education.
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