Neo LMS
JUNE 9, 2016
In a previous post I talked about why should schools focus on visual elements and user experience instead of features when selecting an LMS. The reason for this is quite simple. Teachers want to achieve the best results from students even on subjects that are information heavy and not that appealing to them. How can they do this? By including as much visual and interactive elements as possible in the learning process.
Digital Promise
JUNE 9, 2016
Back in 2011, Digital Promise started the League of Innovative Schools , a network of forward-thinking districts around the country. At that point, efforts to use personal technology and adaptive software to support teaching and learning were relatively scarce. A handful of school districts were really pushing the envelope and a handful of others were still finding their way.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JUNE 9, 2016
In a recent New York Times article critiquing grit in education, David Brooks writes, “Creative people are good at asking new questions, but the GPA rewards those who can answer other people’s questions.”. From my experience owning a test-prep company, GPA is king and not just for students, whose sense of intellectual worth rises and falls with each letter grade.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 9, 2016
By Meg Conlan Driving student engagement, smartwatches and other wearables will gain traction in the education market.
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EdTech4Beginners
JUNE 9, 2016
David Wiesner is a wonderful author and most of his stories are told solely through pictures. This makes them absolutely perfect for English lessons. Children can be imaginative and creative and in my experience they absolutely love his books. I wrote a unit of work (plans and resources) based around his story, ‘Tuesday’ It is about a group of frogs who, on one strange Tuesday, are given the ability to fly.
Education Elements
JUNE 9, 2016
Personalized learning came along at the perfect time in my life, like the deus ex machina in an M. Night Shyamalan film. It all started, as these things often do, just when I was ready to slam closed for good my own cosmic “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Not long ago, I was reflecting on my visit to Marengo Cave and I couldn’t help but think that the experience of those first two kids, hesitantly making their way through that small, scary opening, was not unlike the experience that many of my
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ProfHacker
JUNE 9, 2016
If you are reading this, chances are, you understand English. Do we realize how much of our online interactions are in English, and how much we are missing of who and what lives on the internet that is not speaking/writing English? I had a recent interaction on Twitter with Juan Domingo Farnos ( @Juandoming ) and a few other people, in which Juan responded to all of our English tweets in Spanish, and Twitter on my phone had a quick translate link (this uses Bing).
eSchool News
JUNE 9, 2016
Even with tight budgets, it’s possible to repurpose your libraries or media centers into 21st century makerspaces. For many of us in education, budget cuts are always a possibility. The challenge becomes how to make our services and programs truly stand out to stakeholders, so that we’re truly transforming what we’re doing to meet the needs of our students in today’s world.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 9, 2016
As a language arts teacher for ten years, I was constantly searching for any tool that would streamline my workflow. Language arts teachers have so much ground to cover in so little time. And on top of that, we often need to fill in gaps that our students come to us with on top of […]. The post 3 Essential Tools for the ELA Teacher by @Andrea_Grouser appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Edutopia
JUNE 9, 2016
William Parrett and Kathleen Budge Education Equity High-poverty schools can meet student, professional, and system learning agendas by strengthening instructional framework, targeted interventions, reading proficiency, reflective practice, and data-based inquiry.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 9, 2016
June 9, 2016 Tinkercad is an excellent 3D design tool that allows you to both create and print 3D designs and models. Tinkercad works right in your browser and does not require any software download.read more.
Gaggle Speaks
JUNE 9, 2016
The way you communicate home has come a long way from the scribbled note stuffed in a book bag, the school marquee perhaps missing a letter or two, and a printed newsletter. Technology provides some options to keep in touch with parents and the community. But with a variety of choices, it can be difficult to determine the best way to send a particular message to its intended audience.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 9, 2016
June 9, 2016 Below are three powerful digital whiteboard apps you can use on your Chromebook for a variety of educational purposes (e,g brainstorming, mind mapping, structuring information,read more.
Teacher Tech
JUNE 9, 2016
Student Work in Google Drive Student work is saved in your Google Drive when you use Google Classroom. This makes is super easy to have students comment on each others work. Create an Assignment In Google Classroom create a new assignment for peer comments. This assumes you already have an assignment where students created something […]. The post Google Classroom: Quick Share and Peer Comment appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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
JUNE 9, 2016
The Smarty Summer by Achieve3000: Diving into Early Literacy Initiative aims to prepare children for kindergarten reading success. Achieve3000 and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach students. Under this initiative, children who will be starting kindergarten in fall 2016 will receive a free summer subscription to Smarty Ants®, an effective, research-ba
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2016
Dr. Sandra Edwards, superintendent at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, is a CODA, or “child of a deaf adult.” She says she knew American Sign Language, or ASL, before she spoke out loud. Photo: Imani Khayyam. Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program.
MindShift
JUNE 9, 2016
By Paul Tough. Because noncognitive qualities like grit, curiosity, self-control, optimism, and conscientiousness are often described, with some accuracy, as skills, educators eager to develop these qualities in their students quite naturally tend to treat them like the skills that we already know how to teach: reading, calculating, analyzing, and so on.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2016
Tuffy Helgeson, right, a teacher, and Walt Bad Road, a student, lead the Hays-Lodge Pole students and teachers in a “Hiyikena Waste” or “Good Morning” ceremony. Photo: Erik Petersen. FORT BELKNAP, Mont. — Tuffy Helgeson, 31, is one of the country’s youngest fluent speakers of Nakoda, his native language. He’d like to change that. In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to a
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Marketplace K-12
JUNE 9, 2016
By Guest Blogger Andrew Ujifusa. Cross-posted from the Politics K-12. Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2016
. Do teachers who learn the job online perform as well as teachers trained in the same kind of brick-and-mortar classroom they’re likely to teach in? A new set of proposals to regulate online teacher preparation programs from the federal government is an effort to find out which programs are working and which aren’t, but it’s facing widespread opposition from the world of distance learning.
Educator Innovator
JUNE 9, 2016
Every Friday from June 17–August 19, teens can submit an essay in The New York Times Learning Network’s summer reading contest by outlining what current events they found to be the most interesting in The Times that week. “Whatever the subject, you’ll see that the best pieces year after year make both personal connections to the news and go beyond the personal to discuss the broader questions and ideas that the topic raises.
Tech Helpful
JUNE 9, 2016
In a series of strange events for my life, I spent 45 minutes with the chief operating officer of a fortune 500 company yesterday. The discussion we had was an interesting one. As he discussed the significance technology plays in his world, I found myself grinning. Unlike many companies in his industry, the company he works for doesn't believe that every client is cookie-cutter; they do believe that leveraging technology can play a major role in personalizing each client's experience for the bet
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.
Fractus Learning
JUNE 9, 2016
For years, LEGO building sets have been a favorite of children and adults alike. Since LEGO’s beginning, an estimated 600 billion LEGO building parts have been produced. In recent years, LEGO City building sets have gained popularity, especially for children in the six to twelve year old age range. These building sets feature fun and challenging building projects that represent things found in the real world like police stations, lots of vehicles, and even working train sets.
Edutopia
JUNE 9, 2016
Anne OBrien Teacher Leadership How do you make sure educators have a place at the table? Learn these three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision-making.
MiddleWeb
JUNE 9, 2016
Joanne Billingsley's Making Words Real provides specific, detailed instructions for teachers to use when introducing a vocabulary strategy. Anne Anderson recommends her systematic approach to card sorts, sample lessons, sentence starters/stems and more.
Fractus Learning
JUNE 9, 2016
There used to be a time when more was more with electronics? The more cables, peripherals, adaptors and dongles the better. Well (thankfully) that time is long gone. It’s all about simplicity. When you buy an iPhone there is nothing more in the box than the phone itself. And the AVer U70 delivers a similarly delightful, simple and clutter-free experience.
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.
MiddleWeb
JUNE 9, 2016
Writing from her experience attempting to implement Standards Based Grading at her middle school, Jennifer Wirtz admits to frustration and looks to Schimmer's "Grading From the Inside Out" for ways to consistently hold students accountable while promoting mastery.
eSchool News
JUNE 9, 2016
New whiteboarding software offers instant sharing to any student device, classroom management, and advanced interactivity building without an internet connection. At InfoComm 2016, EXO U Inc. , a software development company, launched Ormiboard Pro , a visual creation and collaboration tool. Ormiboard Pro gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices.
Edutopia
JUNE 9, 2016
Kevin Jarrett Maker Education In the conclusion of his 11-part series, Kevin Jarrett reviews the capstone projects that illustrate both the triumphs and flaws of his middle-school makerspace program's launch year.
The Principal of Change
JUNE 9, 2016
It has almost been one year since I committed to writing “The Innovator’s Mindset”, and decided to go with Shelley and Dave Burgess, and I couldn’t be more grateful. The response has been overwhelming, and my hope of this book starting conversations instead of ending them, has been something that has come to life. My hope was to make people think differently about the possibilities for education, within the “box” that we work inside.
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