Catlin Tucker

JUNE 24, 2016

Social media offers educators the perfect avenue to stay connected, continue learning, and be inspired, however, getting started can be daunting. Some educators love Twitter while others prefer Facebook or Pinterest. USC Rossier Online has created The Guide to Pinterest for Educators to help educators get started. There are tips for curating content, organizing your Pinterest boards, collaborating with other educators, and even connecting with students online.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2016

By Jessica Leigh Brown Manufacturers are making anything imaginable ready for the Internet of Things, but the true value comes in the data.

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EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 24, 2016

I recently wrote an article for the International Teacher Magazine about simple ways to use Minecraft in the classroom. Click here for the full article. Have you used Minecraft in a lesson? How? Please leave any comments below. Tagged: blended learning , edtech , education , learning , lessons , Minecraft , teaching , teaching ideas , tech , tech tools , technology.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2016

By Tim Kridel After upgrading their firewalls, s chool districts are using next-generation platforms for consolidation, content filtering and more.

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Personalized Learning

Tom Murray

JUNE 24, 2016

This post originally appeared on www.futureready.org. The shift to Future Ready Schools with blended and digital learning is dramatically changing the role of the school leader and requires focused attention on the critical importance of school culture in a successful transition. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Stacey Wang , the Director of Personalized Learning for the Oakland Unified School District (CA), and Lynn Ochs , Senior Program Director at Mayerson Academy and facilita

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2016

By Marcia Wade Talbert IDEA:TE taught educators how to use 3D printing, green screen rooms and MinecraftEdu in a play-based learning program.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2016

By Steve Zurier The days of finger swiping may soon come to an end, thanks to an innovative headset and software that interprets brain function.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 24, 2016

Ok, I know it’s still June and so probably a little too early to be thinking about your fall syllabus. But if the alternative is thinking about #Brexit–or, worse, reflecting that “what is the EU?” is a top Google search *in* *England* today–maybe it’s not such a bad thing? I’m teaching a class this fall for the first time in a couple of years, and so I’ve been stealing a few minutes here and there to think about it.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

The annual conference hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education, which kicks off Sunday in Denver , is a gargantuan summit that draws educators and K-12 companies from across the United States, and the world. Many of the 16,000 attendees expected to flock to ISTE 2016 come looking for ideas on how to make smart use of technology in their classrooms and schools, and for a preview of tech trends on the horizon.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 24, 2016

June 24, 2016 For those of you asking about Chromebook tools to use for creating timelines, the collection below is a good place to start with. It features three of our favourite tools we have.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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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

British citizens’ narrow vote to leave the European Union left education companies on both sides of the pond asking, “What will this mean for us?”. So far, there are more questions than answers. “It’s all been thrown into disarray. There’s so much uncertainty,” said Gavin Cooney, a founder and the CEO of Learnosity, an Irish-based company with U.K. clients and employees.

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Edutopia

JUNE 24, 2016

Jennifer Williams Education Trends Through use of classroom space, intentional course design and scheduling, and building "brand" identity, teachers can create a startup culture of empowerment and innovation for their students.

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Perry Hewitt

JUNE 24, 2016

Slack has launched Buttons to ensure you never leave, advancing the platform from a discrete messaging app to a productive work hub. Now you can pay back a colleague, resolve a tech alert, update a project management task all from within Slack, thanks to some new APIs. Is podcasting today following the same, inevitable trajectory as blogging back in 2004?

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2016

Lubbock Independent School District aims to support a thriving culture of digital learning in its schools by ensuring teachers and students have more than enough bandwidth. With 51 schools located in West Texas, Lubbock has struggled to find affordable options to serve their nearly-thirty thousand students. Undeterred by the lack of competition, CTO Terry Driscoll and Director of Technology Bill Lovelace realized the importance of investing in a high-capacity Wide Area Network (WAN) to empower t

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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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Perry Hewitt

JUNE 24, 2016

Slack has launched Buttons to ensure you never leave, advancing the platform from a discrete messaging app to a productive work hub. Now you can pay back a colleague, resolve a tech alert, update a project management task all from within Slack, thanks to some new APIs. Is podcasting today following the same, inevitable trajectory as blogging back in 2004?

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 24, 2016

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 24, 2016

The post 5 Tools And Strategies That Support Personalized Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edutopia

JUNE 24, 2016

Michael Hernandez Education Equity Successful classroom social justice projects require raising students' awareness through empathy, giving them choice and voice in creating their projects, and providing advocacy and aid opportunities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

Sessions will allow participants to discuss specific topics in depth amongst themselves and with education leaders, including world-renowned ed-tech expert Alan November. Educators point to the ability to learn from colleagues, in addition to experts, as essential for enhancing their abilities. itslearning , developer of the itslearning learning management system, is helping attendees at the 2016 ISTE Conference & Expo to be part of topic-specific “professional learning networks” through rou

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 24, 2016

Things I've learned about myself lately: 1. I'm a scaffolding queen. I like to support people until they feel comfortable. I sometimes still find the balance to let them feel little uneasy and I have been known to kick them out of the nest sometimes before they think they're ready but never before I think they are ready. I think that's important for a tech coach but I also think I need to learn how to create a "catch and release" scenario sometimes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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Edutopia

JUNE 24, 2016

Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy) 5-Minute Film Festival It's officially summer and time for some fun! How about beating the summer slump by getting your kids to build a Rube Goldberg machine -- a comically complex invention, often made with household items, created to do a simple task? Since the real Rube Goldberg was an engineer before he became a cartoonist, the exercise is especially well-suited for exploring physics and engineering, but it's also excellent for lessons in persistence and itera

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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

JUNE 24, 2016

New features include customized workflows, pre-populated district templates, and reporting. Three years after launching its flagship platform that delivers digital permission slips and forms for K-12 schools, Permission Click has announced a major new release aimed at districts. District Click powers centralized curation of parent-facing and internal form templates, dissemination of these templates to schools via the Permission Click platform, customized workflows for approvals, multi-site manag

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MindShift

JUNE 24, 2016

Award-winning educator Troy Cockrum is director of innovative teaching as well as host of the Genius Hour innovation class for middle schoolers at St. Therese of Little Flower Catholic School, a K-8 parochial school on the Southeast side of Indianapolis. One of the books that’s been most influential to him as he thinks about his work helping both teachers and students find ways to innovate is Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2016

Teaching kids keyboarding isn’t about finding the perfect online website or downloaded software and setting students lose on a year-long self-directed journey of progressive lessons hoping their speed and accuracy improves. That might work for adults, but it’s a prescription for boredom and failure with K-8 students. They require a mixture of activities, only one of which is drill.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

When students at Virginia’s Tidewater Community College (TCC) earn their Associate of Science in Business Administration, chances are, they will never have purchased a single textbook. Thanks to the school’s Z-degree program—for zero dollars spent on textbooks—students are saving up to 25 percent on college costs. Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by

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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

JUNE 24, 2016

A coding expert shares how to get students truly invested in computer science that goes beyond drag and drop. Teaching students how to code software is one of the most valuable skills you can give them, and will virtually guarantee them employment once they’re in the workforce. According to the US Department of Labor , the median pay for a software developer in 2015 was $100,690, and the growth in available positions is expected to be 17 percent during the period 2014-2024 (more than twice the a

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Education Politics. I watched the results roll in from the Brexit referendum last night with great, great sadness. My mum is British, and I’ve always joked that my British passport is one of my most prized possessions. I am gravely concerned for the future of my youngest family members, who’ve had their futures immeasurably altered by this election.

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