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Learn About the Power of Computer Science Courses in Schools

EdTech Magazine

By Calvin Hennick Schools across the country are ramping up computer science course offerings to help promote problem solving and prepare their students for 21st century jobs.

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What Can Third Graders Do With Technology?

The Journal

In this week’s blog post, a third grade teacher in a public school provides a clear example of what our blog, "Reinventing Curriculum" is all about. Mr. Gabriel DellaVecchia has used 1-to-1 in an imaginative, productive, and effective manner. What the children in his class accomplished is absolutely inspiring!

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One Simple Way to Screencast with Office Mix

The CoolCatTeacher

A 2-Minute Technology Tip on Screencasting From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A screencast is when you record the screen. While there are many great options out there, Office Mix is so simple, I’m using it for most screencasting. In this example, students have written a few lines of code in Scratch.

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How One Classroom Can Transform the School Cafeteria with STEM Thinking

Digital Promise

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) directed by Digital Promise initiative is actively improving learning opportunities for students and teachers in 46 middle schools across 14 states and the District of Columbia. In addition to providing teachers and students with always-available access to technology, every VILS location promotes STEM principles across the curriculum.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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Review: Google Management Console Helps Keep Control Over Small or Large Fleet of Devices

EdTech Magazine

By Buzz Garwood Administrators can regulate applications and extensions, and even view specific device activity.

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Some questions for Betsy DeVos

Dangerously Irrelevant

The Washington Post collected some questions from educators for Betsy DeVos , nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education. Here are a few of my favorites: Would you please state, concisely, any relevant experience you have had in public education, either as a student, a teacher, a school leader, a public school board member, a parent of a public school child, a PTA member, a volunteer in a traditional public school or as someone who once drove past a public school?

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169 Tech Tip #60-How to Add Shortcuts to the Desktop

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip #60–How to Add Shortcuts to the Desktop.

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Google Management Console Helps Keep Control Over Small or Large Fleet of Devices

EdTech Magazine

By Buzz Garwood Administrators can regulate applications and extensions, and even view specific device activity.

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Writing for Scholastic: ‘You’re The Teacher Now’

EdTech4Beginners

I recently did some writing for Scholastic. It was a resource filled with mistakes which students must correct – hence becoming the teacher. Click here to access the full article and activities. Tagged: education , English , learning , mistakes , teachers , teaching , writing.

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Coding in the Classroom: Six Tips to Get Even Reluctant Teachers—and Students—Started

Edsurge

“I can barely fix a printer. If there is a non-tech way to do something, I will find it,” says Shanti Williams, a teacher at P.S. 34 Oliver H. Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Williams may have never considered herself to be a "tech person," but she recognized the value of code and discovered how a supportive community could empower her and her students to learn.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Easy Ways to Upgrade an Assignment from 1900 to 2017

Teacher Tech

Upgrade the Worksheet from 1900 I recently blogged about a student’s homework assignment that was 36 DOK 1 math problems. I looked up math homework from 1900 and it was pretty much IDENTICAL! So what are some easy things we can do to teach like it is 2017 and not 1900? 1. Use Bitmoji Maybe it […]. The post Easy Ways to Upgrade an Assignment from 1900 to 2017 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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20 Educational iPad Apps Perfect for Every Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 18, 2017 Here is a list of some useful iPad apps we have been working on over the last few days. We tried to come up with what think are 20 educational apps perfect for every classroom. We.read more.

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What Educators Can Do Now To Honor MLK Besides Post Quotes [On #MLKNow]

The Jose Vilson

Yesterday, I had the fortune – the privilege – of attending MLK Now 2017 , sponsored by Blackout for Human Rights / United Blackout and the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA). Needless to say, the star power in the building was enough to fill the pews with people of all generations. The target audience felt like a cross-section of the social-media connected young activists and their well-storied and still-energized elders.

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?34.9 Million US Students—Up 10.4 Million since 2015—Now Connected Online

Edsurge

For anyone taking on a project, EducationSuperHighway CEO Evan Marwell has a few words of advice: “If you want to accomplish any goal, you have to measure progress,” he says. ”You can't manage what you can't measure.”. The mantra makes sense for someone like Marwell, whose nonprofit organization has an audacious mission: to make high-speed internet access available for every student in the US.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Create a Tutorial with SlideShot and Explore Tool

Teacher Tech

Create a Tutorial with SlideShot and Explore Tool Want to create a Google Slides with a tech tutorial? Try using the SlideShot Chrome Extension and the Explore tool built into Google Slides. Sample Tutorial To demonstrate how to use my alicekeeler.com/pulltheparagraph Add-on I started a SlideShot from the Chrome extension and went through the steps to Pull […].

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Here Is A Great Tool from Google to Use with Students for Virtual Field Trips and Digital Story Telling

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 18, 2017 Google Earth Tour Builder is an excellent tool to use with students in class to create virtual tours and explore places from all around the world. You can design a tour of any.read more.

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G Suite: Google Classroom Part 2 Top 10 Tips

EdTechTeam

1. Create a "faux class" Set up a fake class full of your reusable assignments and project tasks. Use the Reuse Post feature to pull these out into other classes when needed. Here’s how > goo.gl/taVOsG 2. Managing Class Files Manage class files from inside Classroom, not in Drive itself. Classroom keeps track of everything for you! Learn more > goo.gl/JyEOpK 3.

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How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’

MindShift

Sixty-three years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education , many schools across the country either remain segregated or have re-segregated. Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells Fresh Air ‘s Terry Gross that when it comes to school segregation, separate is never truly equal. “There’s never been a moment in the history of this country where black people who have been isolated from white people have gotten the same resources,” Hannah-Jones says.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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How can schools protect student data without training teachers in privacy basics?

The Hechinger Report

. Gearing up for their district’s password-reset day in October, teachers and school administrators in Raytown, Missouri, watched a spoof video “gym” tour by their tech-support staff, who offered tips for stronger passwords amidst “laptop lunges” and “cross-tech” training. Every few months in Raytown, there’s a new silly video with the serious purpose of safeguarding student information.

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The Innovator’s Mindset—A Blockbuster Lesson from George Couros

Fractus Learning

Let me begin by making three confessions: 1. I think this is a very clever title … read on to find out why. 2. I thought this review would never be written; indeed, I’ve taken nearly twelve months to do so… 3. I believe I might have a form of hypergraphia. This too is highly relevant… read on to find out why. (Or, just to find out what it is.). _.

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4 components of your district’s next PD win

eSchool News

As instructional techniques incorporate more digital technologies and blended models, school principals must create and implement carefully-constructed visions for teaching and learning–and a new professional development (PD) program aims to help them on their way. Thirty-five school leaders from the Rhode Island Association of School Principals recently completed a year of PD focused around building blended learning in their schools.

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Why a Web Filter Isn’t Enough To Keep Your Students Safe

Gaggle Speaks

When superintendents, technologists and other educators first hear about Gaggle, they sometimes confuse what we offer with a web filter. From our point of view, website content filters and Gaggle Safety Management are both valuable, but it’s important to acknowledge that they’re very different. Functionality. A web filter is software designed to restrict or control the online content that a user is allowed to access.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Help Me Help You

Kyle Pace

If you’re an instructional technology coach, instructional technology specialist, educational technologist, or whatever edtech coaching title you may have, a crucial skill in the work of supporting teachers is being a good communicator. It’s essential. It must be a regular, well thought, purposeful component of the job. https://www.flickr.com/people/paulbrigham/.

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Using @Wacom’s #BambooSlate, @zoom_us, & @SlackHQ to Teach Online #edtech

techieMusings

I wanted to do another quick post on how I am running my Online AP Calculus class this year. As I’ve mentioned before, I am loving my Wacom products (especially my new Bamboo Slate this year). And, my students are absolutely in love with Slack ! Having a class Slack channel is, hands down, what they’ve mentioned time and time again to be their favorite part of taking an online class.

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8 Resources Exploring Learning Experience Design (LX Design)

EmergingEdTech

LX Design Brings Together Numerous Learning Disciplines LearningExperienceDesign.com describes Learning Experience Design (LX Design) as, “the process of creating learning experiences that. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Creative Ways To Manage Paperwork Load For Special Education Teachers

MindShift

This time last year, Stephanie Johnson was miserable. She was in her third year teaching special education at a junior high school in Lindon, Utah, about 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City. On the outside it looked like she was doing great. Her classes ran smoothly, students loved her, parents loved her, but like many special education teachers, inside she felt as though she was drowning.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Plan It Green: build an energy efficient model city

iLearn Technology

What it is: Plan It Green, the Big Switch is an online game/simulation from National Geographic that allows students to create their own energy-efficient city of the future. In the game, students build new energy technologies and advance energy research; gain points based on their eco-friendliness, energy production, and citizen happiness; compete with others for the highest city rating; tackle challenges and quests; and explore and build a diverse energy portfolio.

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The New Google Sites: The Good, The Bad, and Nothing Ugly!

Shake Up Learning

The post The New Google Sites: The Good, The Bad, and Nothing Ugly! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Lowdown on the New Google Sites. As I mentioned in an earlier post, There’s a New Google Sites Coming, what is now being referred to as the “classic” Google Sites was long overdue for an update. I usually referred to Google Sites as an acquired taste because it was so antiquated and most users are turned off within the first few minutes of trying it.

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9 Must-Have Balance Games for Healthy Development

Fractus Learning

Every opportunity to play is an opportunity to learn for children. Even simple balance games are essential to their development; without an effective transition from basic balance and sensory integration their learning and reading development can be delayed. Balance is the ability to maintain control of a particular body position while doing something, with minimal postural sway.

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We All Teach SEL: Curiosity Activities and Tools for Students

Graphite Blog

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as curiosity requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to Character Lab , curiosity is: a strong desire to learn or know something -- a search for information for its own sake.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.