Catlin Tucker

MARCH 7, 2017

This won’t surprise anyone in education, but class size matters. It matters a lot. The bigger the class, the harder it is to meet the individual needs of the learners in our classrooms. As I began to pilot NEW School this year, my goals were to: provide students with individualized learning paths. make time for conversations about where students are at in their learning. engage students in meaningful project-based learning. provide real-time feedback on student work.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 7, 2017

Every day, more teachers leave the classroom, and they are looking for different ways to stay in education and still make a difference using their skills, talents, passion and knowledge. Becoming an online teacher is a big step , one that most educators have never even considered. However, online teaching is becoming an option for many. Teaching English online to students who live in other countries is starting to become a very attractive possibility for many educators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2017

10MT | 10-Minute Teacher #27 Interview with Suzy Lolley From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When you have shared iPads, Seesaw is a fantastic way to get the work off the iPads and into the online classroom. Seesaw embodies simple authentic assessment. Today Suzy Lolley @suzylolley teaches us the ins and outs of Seesaw.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 7, 2017

Classroom newsletters are kind of hit and miss. If you’re sending photocopies of them home in students’ backpacks, I’ll bet your success rate is less than 50 percent. (And that’s being generous.) There’s a big reason I believe that these newsletters — which could be great parent/teacher communication tools — fall on deaf ears (or [.].

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MARCH 7, 2017

By Amy Brown Simulation challenge looks to prepare students for the modern workforce.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 7, 2017

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” – Anaïs Nin. March is Women’s History Month and March 8th is International Women’s Day. It is important for teachers to recognize these events and highlight the great women of history. Even though we have made progress as far as equality and rights for women we still have much more progress to be made.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

A few weeks ago we were talking about school ‘accountability’ in one of my classes. I mentioned that I didn’t think that most schools were yet producing ‘future ready’ graduates. If they were, we would see more school environments that immersed students in deeper learning, student agency, authentic work, and rich technology infusion opportunities. [ Download this image ].

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2017

Every winter, we celebrate Engineers Week by learning about the various types of engineering, such as mechanical, electrical, civil, computer, software, aerospace, and others. We learn about many famous engineers and their contributions, but most importantly, we understand what it takes to become an engineer. This time is particularly meaningful to me, since I was lucky enough to grow up with an engineer.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Stay tuned for the complete guide, due out in April. This work is supported by NGLC. EdSurge takes full responsibility for all editorial content. How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 7, 2017

Kleenex isn’t proficiency (and other stupid things that make grades meaningless) Guest Blog post by Nicole Naditz I wanted to talk about grading. Yup. Grading. And why we are doing it wrong. When I talk to groups of teachers about this topic, I start with three statements for my audience to respond to. I ask the attendees […]. The post Kleenex Is Not Proficiency by @nicolenaditz appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 7, 2017

To celebrate International Women's Day, Microsoft has launched #MakeWhatsNext to challenge cultural norms and spark a very important conversation. The post @MicrosoftEdu and @msphilanthropic Launch #MakeWhatsNext to help bridge the Gender Gap in #STEM Education appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. To celebrate International Women's Day, Microsoft has launched #MakeWhatsNext to challenge cultural norms and spark a very important conversation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2017

Middle school students across the U.S. are learning how the body works by studying the anatomy of a frog, a vertebrate with an organ system similar to that of humans. But unlike school lab work that uses real specimens or images of a virtual frog on a screen, a new approach to this standard experiment is taking the act of learning to a unique interactive level, thanks to the use of technology known as blended reality.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 7, 2017

March 8, 2017 Looking for some good Android audio recording apps, the list below has you covered. These are some popular apps ( based on users reviews) for recording and sharing audio clips in.read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2017

Teachers constantly juggle a number of different national, state, and district initiatives in today’s fast-paced and complex educational environment. Organizing professional development days that meet the varying needs of every teacher has become increasingly difficult as the pace of change far exceeds the number of days allowed for PD. To that end, Garnet Valley has adopted the acronym C.H.O.I.C.E., taken from Brad Currie (@bradmcurrie) and Jason Bretzmann’s (@jbretzmann) book, Personalized PD:

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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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Comfortably 2.0

MARCH 7, 2017

I was afraid of trying to make a video using a green screen app. There, I said it. I loved (and still do) using the iMovie app, it worked for the simple projects that I was creating. But I kept seeing some really neat creations come across my Twitter stream that had been created using a green screen app.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 7, 2017

There has been no want of emotion or zeal in America the past few months. Despite all of the moral and political issues that divide the country, there is one uncontroversial conclusion we can reach with a near universal consensus: the growth and spread of misinformation represent a legitimate threat to our students’ future. In a recent study performed by Stanford University, fake news is defined as “stories that originated in social media or the news media … that have no factual basis, but

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2017

The post Upcoming Documentary Explores Brain-Targeted Teaching Model appeared first on TeachThought.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 7, 2017

The post 150+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students (Updated!) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Search for the Best Chrome Apps and Extensions to Use in Your. Classroom! There are now 150+ Chrome Apps and Extensions in this database. I have put together a Google Chrome App and Extension Database for Teachers (also at the bottom of this post) that is loaded with apps and extensions for productivity and classroom integration.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 7, 2017

March 7, 2017 Profile Publisher is an excellent interactive tool from ReadWriteThink we are re-featuring here in EdTech and mLearning for the second time. Students can use it to create mock or fake.read more.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 7, 2017

JSTOR have just announced the JSTOR Labs Text Analyzer , a clever tool–still in Beta–that will analyze any document you upload (or text that you copy and paste) and find suggested matches in the JSTOR archives. It’s an interesting proposition–if you click that link on a phone, you can even take a picture of text and the Analyzer will process that.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 7, 2017

Marlboro Township Public Schools, a high-performing suburban district, was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high-achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them engaged. Marlboro schools developed a district-wide mission to use personalized learning for a data-driven approach using ST Math. The program's student-centered approach helped teachers collaborate to create different ST Math classrooms based on student needs and weaknesses.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 7, 2017

A large audience of educators and ed-tech providers heard author Christopher Emdin ask them whether they view education as the civil rights issue of our time. The post SXSWedu 2017 Conference Opens With a Challenge of Attendees’ Motives appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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MindShift

MARCH 7, 2017

In the rush to cover standards and ensure students have learned the concepts they will need in the future, it’s easy to lose sight of how fun math can be. These three TED-Ed videos offer fun, challenging riddles that can also be explicitly connected to mathematical concepts. The “Prisoner Box” problem is essentially a loop and could be a high-interest way to dive into this topic.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2017

The post 25 Tips For Teaching With Apps appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 7, 2017

March 7, 2017 Today's chart is based on Apple's Literacy apps' collection in iTunes App Store. These are some very iPad apps to use with your students and kids to help them develop basic.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2017

The post More Teamwork, Less Group work: 27 Ways To Build A Team appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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MiddleWeb

MARCH 7, 2017

When Anne Jolly is asked for advice about creating STEM programs, she's quick to say there’s no one-size-fits-all blueprint for STEM learning. Even so, she believes there are eight components any district, school or classroom initiative must have to be effective.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 7, 2017

I am a big fan of Chrome Extensions. I share my favorites on Twitter and this blog. Extension can control and access a lot of system resources, that's how they can do so many cool things! With that access comes the possibility of misuse. Google reviews all extensions posted to the Chrome Web Store and requires that developers adhere to certain data and privacy rules.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

. Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems. These systems, known as predictive analytics, have the potential to reinforce disparities for disadvantaged students if used without proper training and consideration for how computers might shuffle st

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 7, 2017

(Image Source) Giving students the opportunity to take more ownership of learning and modeling the behaviors you wish to see are just a few ways to bring your ‘A’ game. Honestly, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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