Digital Promise
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Do you see librarians as part of the future? Courtesy Mark Ray Mark Ray is the Chief Digital Officer for Vancouver Public Schools. I posed that question in my recent TEDx talk during the 2016 Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in San Diego. In my district , across the League, and across the U.S., the answer is coming back: “Heck Yeah!”.
Tom Murray
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Today’s digital world is littered with drill and kill technology, much of it no different than a digital version of the worksheets of years past. Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Here are ten of the top digital citizenship resources according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: 19 Topics to Teach in Digital Citizenship–and How. Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft. How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship. How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community. Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts. What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying. 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 25, 2016
One of the biggest trends affecting education across the country is the migration of bullying to digital media, which is commonly referred to as cyberbullying. About 7 percent of students in grades 6-12 experience cyberbullying each year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying is much harder for educators to detect and address.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
EdTech4Beginners
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Haiku Deck is a great website and app, great for creating presentations. It’s available as an app from the Apple Appstore or on the website itself. My students used their iPads and it was really effective. How does it work? Have a look at my video tutorial to find out how to use it: Here is an example of one that a pupil in my class made for their topic work on coasts: Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that’s simple, beautiful and fun.
Education Elements
OCTOBER 25, 2016
This year marks my 17th in the classroom, and I have had the best first few weeks of my entire teaching career. For your reference, I am in the same classroom, I have the same team teacher, I have the same demographic of students, I am teaching the same classes (mostly 12th grade English), so.what is different? When it comes to what learning looks and feels like in my class, everything is different.
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Education Elements
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Virtual schools in the K-12 environment have been a popular topic for discussion for many years. Recently I have noticed an increased level of interest by online charter school leaders, district- or state-run virtual schools, and program leaders in regards to how they can improve their virtual schools. Almost ironically, I also find myself having frequent conversations about virtual school opportunities with brick-and-mortar school leaders.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Ten years ago, I was a decade into my teaching career and ready for early retirement. I was cooked. When the word came that our district was planning something new, I leapt (without looking). Then I looked. What came to pass was the beginning of a grand adventure that was utterly transformative for me. Making the transition to Project Based Learning (PBL) was, at first, cathartic; then it was confusing, frustrating, then cathartic again.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Are today's students impatient to solve problems without enough thought? Curtis Chandler recalls Ms. Porcupine's 6th-grade brain stretchers that required him to slow down and think methodically. He shares one about castles and crocodiles and has tips on creating more.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 25, 2016
The night before Vivianne Nufio gives a presentation about “The Slaughter Yard,” a short story from Argentine poet Esteban Echeverría, she posts questions for her peers on her class website page. She asks what students think the author means in line 45, and how the story compares to others they’ve read. Nufio is giving them a heads up: the next day they’ll discuss these questions and more in class.
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.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Inaugural cohort of the Pionero Scholars program working on their ideas for a logo in the Missions Center at Lipscomb University. Photo: Laura Delgado. This story is part of a series looking at a shortage of black and Hispanic teachers and ideas for recruiting more to the profession. Other stories will look at how the decline of traditional preparation programs has cut off a pipeline of black teachers and two efforts to identify more potential teachers from low-income, minority neighborhoods.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 25, 2016
To get up to grade level in science, Amarachi Onyemaobi knew she needed to understand the systems of the human body. Just as importantly, she knew how long it would take and what she needed to do to master the concept. A freshman at Merit Preparatory Charter School in Newark, New Jersey, Onyemaobi has access to Spark , Matchbook Learning’s online information platform that uses data to help students and teachers track exactly what skills they need to master—and to set goals and find resources t
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2016
October 25, 2016 Google introduced today a new collaborative tool called Jamboard designed specifically to enhance realtime collaboration and brainstorming among teams across the globe. It is.read more.
TeacherCast
OCTOBER 25, 2016
On this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we welcome Dan Meyer from Desmos to discuss how we can provide better integration strategies between Technology and Mathematics. The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. The post @Desmos: Totally FREE … MIND BLOWING merger of Mathematics and Technology appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2016
October 25, 2016 TikaTok is an interesting digital publishing tool for project based learning. It is designed specifically for k-6 students and provides them with a number of powerful Common Core.read more.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Think of Idaho’s SkillStack as a way to gather merit badges that will help you earn college credits or a job. The online tool was created by Idaho Career & Technical Education using federal grant money. The program kicked off in high schools across the state this fall. While it’s more complicated than getting dual credit for a high school course, badges earned through SkillStack can be used toward credit at any Idaho technical institution — and, its online resume-building tool can also help
TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 25, 2016
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EmergingEdTech
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Just When I Thought Wearable was Dying on the Vine, I Learned About so Many Impressive Technologies in Development or Available now … Okay, so with the thoroughly unimpressive track record of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Chromebook: Post Screenshots to Google Slides One thing I advocate is for students to take screenshots of their work while they are working on a Chromebook. This provides a level of accountability for what the students are working on during class and also provides the student with images to discuss their work. Screenshots are easily […]. The post Chromebook: Post Screenshots to Google Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTechTeam
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Check out the EdTechTeam Recommended Book List! 1. The Space: A Guide for Educators By Rebecca Louise Hare and Dr. Robert Dillon 2. Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Discovered By Austin Kleon 3. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results By Gary Keller 4. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding and Independence for All Learners By Ron Ritchhart 5.
Gaggle Speaks
OCTOBER 25, 2016
While recent changes to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) complicate the subject of email archiving, it’s important to understand where products such as Microsoft Exchange fall short when it comes to retention and other important areas of eDiscovery. For a little background, in Exchange 2007 you were provided a cumbersome way to set retention policies in mailboxes.
Fractus Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2016
During my six-year stint as a Head of Department (HOD), the number one thing I wanted to achieve was to have pedagogical influence over my staff. Being passionate about quality pedagogy—about the need to truly engage students, to utilise formative assessment, to foster metacognition and to impart conceptual understanding—there definitely existed the potential within me to have a pedagogical impact on the teachers under my care.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 25, 2016
The post ‘The Freelancer’s Manifesto’ Is Something Every Student Should Know appeared first on TeachThought.
Fractus Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2016
As a kid growing up in the 80s I played with my yoyo a lot. There were regular tournaments held at the local malls and everyone was Walking the Dog or going Loop da Loop. The great news is they are back and the craze is worldwide. Thousands of kids and adults around the world are practising Around the World, the Creeper and the Elevator and if you hit the search button on YouTube for trick tutorials, you’ll be astounded with the number of views some of the videos have received.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 25, 2016
[For those who have been interested in what I've been doing in the tiny house world!] This is a report back on the progress we’re making toward holding an online tiny house “summit,” and a chance to share with you some of the responses from the survey we sent out this summer. 1. Survey Results. We received an incredible 102 detailed responses to our survey ( https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tinyhousesummit ).
Learning with 'e's
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Universities have never been under so much pressure. The unfavourable global economic climate has impacted as severely on our higher education institutions as it has in every other sector of society. Years of financial turbulence have prompted cuts, cuts and more cuts. Adverse media coverage coupled with hostile political pressures have put many of our universities in jeopardy.
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.
Hansen's Link to Tech
OCTOBER 25, 2016
For years the only way we were able to create graded assessments was using the add-on Flubaroo. For years I’ve been a huge advocate of that add-on and have taught, presented, and blogged about it. Now I believe Flubaroo has inspired Google with the new update of adding the Quizzes feature in Google Forms. This video demonstrates a few classroom integration ideas on using Google Forms.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Raising money for field trips, extracurricular activities, and classroom project can be a huge hassle for parents and teachers. Every year, many schools resort to classic fundraising events such as bake sales, handmade crafts, or peddling items that no one really wants or needs. While these activities can generate some money, relying on them to produce all the funding your class or school actually needs seems to become more challenging each year.
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Picture a proud lioness stalking the plains of the Serengeti, slinking silently towards an unsuspecting hyena. Suddenly, another one appears out of the brush. Unfazed, the lioness stalks on, confident in her strength and abilities. But then another hyena appears, and another. This gives her pause. Feeling outnumbered, our lioness silently slinks away, living to hunt another day.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Raising money for field trips, extracurricular activities, and classroom project can be a huge hassle for parents and teachers. Every year, many schools resort to classic fundraising events such as bake sales, handmade crafts, or peddling items that no one really wants or needs. While these activities can generate some money, relying on them to produce all the funding your class or school actually needs seems to become more challenging each year.
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