Wed.Oct 19, 2016

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The Importance of 3D Printing in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

A topic I don’t cover enough is 3D printing. It’s relatively new on the education landscape and I have yet to reach a comfort level with it. Thankfully, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Lisa Michaels, has lots of knowledge and experience on this topic. Here are her thoughts on the importance of 3D printing in education: The range of possibilities which 3D printing provides is almost limitless.

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140 Twitter Tips for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Help for teachers curious or skeptical about Twitter From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The curious teacher opened up Twitter. In the teacher’s lounge this morning, an excited teacher was talking about a new tool she’d found on Twitter that had her students raving. Rather than ask anyone, the curious teacher opened up Twitter (there was less pressure that way.

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Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 2]

Neo LMS

In the last week’s post I promised to address exactly 10 BYOD concerns that keep schools reluctant to allowing students to use their mobile devices in the classroom. But I only delivered five, so this post will address the other five. I invite you to check them out again. However, here’s a refresher of the previous post and the five BYOD concerns that are already put on the table: BYOD deepens the digital divide; BYOD will distract students; BYOD encourages students to cheat; Student

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Top Tips for Fast Formative Assessment that Works

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You’re teaching your heart out. All of a sudden, you look in their eyes and wonder if they understand. But in due time, you decide enough of them know the material and it is time for a test. After they take the test, you start grading. In a moment, you realize that while one or two know the material, that you were hopelessly unaware that most of them needed some more teaching.

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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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Using Social Media To Make Learning Competitive.

EdTech4Beginners

My colleague recently shared with me how he used social media, in an innovative way, in the classroom. The lesson was secondary chemistry and the students were challenged to make infographics using the website Piktochart ( click here for my tutorial ). To motivate the students, they were told that their finished products would be shared on social media and the winner would be the one with the most hits / likes / shares.

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Educators, Organizations Develop K-12 Computer Science Framework

Edsurge

Business and government leaders, including President Barack Obama, have been drawing attention — and investments — to support computer science education. Now a coalition of industry and education organizations have created guidelines to help educators teach the discipline. Announced Oct. 17, the initiative aims to guide educators, states and districts in teaching the concepts and practices around computer science thinking.

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How to Integrate Green Screens Into Any Classroom

Edsurge

Green screens, once a staple of any special effects film studio, are now becoming an exciting and realistic addition for any digital classroom. But where to begin? With a digital camera, a green backdrop, and a simple green-screen app or movie editing software, any student can incorporate this technology into their creative work.Green screen projects are certainly sensible for media arts classrooms, but there are some great applications for core subject areas, as well—especially for those teache

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Here Is A Good Visual on Blended Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a short visual we created for teachers explaining the core notions behind the concept of Blended Learning. We have also included a collection of what we believe are some essential web tools.read more.

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Code.org: More Than an Hour-Long Commitment

Edsurge

The guy who helped create the “Hour of Code,” an event that even got President Barack Obama pecking out a line JavaScript, almost sounded apologetic. “Not everyone should ‘code,’” acknowledges Hadi Partovi, CEO and founder of Code.org , in a chat with EdSurge. But everyone should learn to think like a computer scientist, he adds. “We’re about helping schools teach computer science,” Partovi says, namely, to frame questions or information the way that computer scientists do.

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Awesome Free Templates for Creating Educational Magazines, Brochures and Newspapers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The popular Lucidpress platform has this library featuring a number of excellent free templates to use for a variety of educational (as well as business) purposes. Templates are already pre-designed.read more.

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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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Higher Ed’s Technology Blind Spot: a Response to Sherry Turkle

Edsurge

We’ve written this article in response to the recent EdSurge. interview with Sherry Turkle, which raised some interesting conversations at our campus, California State University Channel Islands (CI). Like Turkle, we agree that human relationships and personal connections are at the core of meaningful experiences in education and college teaching. And, like Turkle, we are concerned that the predominant uses of technology in higher education—both in the workplace and the classroom—do not place hu

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Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills

The Hechinger Report

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. Photo: Jessica Anderson. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Puppets Tell Jokes: Make America Laugh Again by @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

The World Needs Puppets Tells Jokes and Puppets Tell Jokes is here to help! The post Puppets Tell Jokes: Make America Laugh Again by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. The World Needs Puppets Tells Jokes. Recent events have highlighted that we need the children of the world to be smarter and funnier than the adults of the world.

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Help students improve their writing with instant feedback from Turnitin

The Cornerstone for Teachers

If there’s one thing all writing and ELA teachers wish their students would do more of it’s revise their work. Some kids see editing and revising as such a chore that they don’t want to bother reading it through and looking for ways to improve. Other kids simply don’t know how to do it and feel overwhelmed by the number of issues they need to be looking for. .

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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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Why So Much Indecision?

My Island View

During the last year, or for as long as this election has been running, I have had a growing concern. I listen to interviews of voters in our democratic society and wonder how well we have prepared our citizens to actually make considered and responsible decisions. I realize that emotions may weigh heavily on decisions we make, especially in election years, but decisions should initially be, at the very least, critically analyzed, and based on facts rather than opinions or pledges, promises, and

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Open Thread Wednesday: Solutions for Tracking Projects

ProfHacker

Pretty much everything we do in academic publishing has a deadline, whether it’s the date for an abstract or paper submission to a call for proposals, the next big national grant deadline, a personal goal for a thesis or book manuscript, or a contract from a publisher. Since most of us have multiple (if not dozens, or more!) projects going at once with competing deadlines, keeping track of everything in the pipeline can be a big task.

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Survey: Parents prefer texting and mobile communication from schools

eSchool News

Determining the right mix of traditional and digital tools to best engage with parents and district stakeholders remains a primary challenge for district communications, according to a new report. A large part of a school district’s ability to implement successful initiatives or pass bonds lies in its communications and its ability to connect with community members.

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20 Things You Can Learn In 10 Minutes To Become A Better Teacher

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 20 Things You Can Learn In 10 Minutes To Become A Better Teacher appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy

eSchool News

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. It is not about malicious intruders hacking or stealing credentials to get into a system to steal corporate intellectual property or records to sell on the dark web. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII.

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How Leaders Can Improve Their Schools’ Cultural Competence

Edutopia

Chris Lehmann School Leadership Helping students learn to accept differences is one way to overcome the hate we see in so many facets of our society today.

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7 Key Considerations When Making the Move to a 1:1 Device Program

EmergingEdTech

Making the Leap to 1:1 a Success Takes Proper Planning Initiatives to place tech devices in the hands of each student are by no means a new practice in K-12 districts. Although classrooms have been. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Highlights from Tri-Association Conference 2016

EdTechTeam

EdTechTeam at Tri-Association Conference The EdTechTeam is an official Google for Education PD Partner This year Monica Martinez and Dominique Dynes represented EdTechTeam at the annual Tri-Association Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico This conference brings together more than 700 people from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the location changes each year.

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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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Why Don’t Teachers Get Training On Mental Health Disorders?

MindShift

Teaching may be one of the most difficult jobs in the world, with expectations and demands coming from all sides. Teachers juggle content standards, the social and emotional needs of students, behavior , and often trauma , but they also are the first line of defense when students have mental health problems. Paying attention to all these elements helps create a well-run, high functioning classroom, but dealing with all of them well — often in overcrowded classrooms — can feel complet

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The Light of Learning – Why Leaders Need to Light the Path

Fractus Learning

Great leaders have many common qualities and I am fortunate to work with many of them in numerous districts across the country (and one outstanding director in Mexico). What I find over and over again is the best educational leaders share the desire to learn and a mentality of communicating their expectations through personal modeling. Those are two of the best traits in good leaders: Leaders Learn alone and alongside their colleagues and Leaders Light the path by modeling what they expect to s

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In the marketplace: Digital learning, NGSS resources, IT partnerships, and more

eSchool News

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education.

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9 Genuinely Incredible RC Planes for Amateur Aviators

Fractus Learning

Let your kids’ imagination take to the skies with a radio controlled (RC) plane! It may mean they’ll have their heads in the clouds—but they’ll also be reaping a rake of rewards down here on Earth. Piloting RC planes boosts concentration, strengthens hand-eye coordination and tests risk assessment. What’s more, constructing, adapting and repairing the aircraft will challenge kids’ creativity, mathematics and problem-solving abilities.

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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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Class Podcasts: Listening to Student Writers

MiddleWeb

Last year 8th grade teacher Brian Kelley began podcasting conversations with his student writers. Through conferring, he says, teachers let adolescents know that their voices matter "and their explanations can make us better teachers." Kelley shares three samples.

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Watch the Debates: help your students explore this debate and the history of debates

iLearn Technology

What it is: Tonight is the final debate before the presidential election in the United States. While I can’t say that I’m going to miss the absurdity that has been this debate, Watch the Debates is a pretty wonderful site! In addition to the ability to watch tonight’s debate live, students can also explore past presidential debates.

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Why So Much Indecision?

My Island View

During the last year, or for as long as this election has been running, I have had a growing concern. I listen to interviews of voters in our democratic society and wonder how well we have prepared our citizens to actually make considered and responsible decisions. I realize that emotions may weigh heavily on decisions we make, especially in election years, but decisions should initially be, at the very least, critically analyzed, and based on facts rather than opinions or pledges, promises, and

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Defining Love: An Assignment That Can Reveal Students’ Perspective on Life

MindShift

Excerpted from Personal Narrative, Revised: Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom by Bronwyn Clare LaMay. The following is from the section, “Love and Agency in Our Stories: Surviving ‘Whole.'” By Bronwyn Clare LaMay. Love can be hard to define. I pinpointed it as a topic that was real to my students’ lives and that would hopefully become a door into the literature we would read in semester two of our second year.

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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.