The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Dr. Anael Alston talks about what really turns schools around From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today we’re talking to Dr. Anael Alston about specific issues with high-poverty schools. In a refreshing take on dramatic school change, Anael does not recommend that we assign blame. Instead, he recommends an approach that focuses on teacher expectations and several other things.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez State IT leaders outline recommendations for school infrastructures over the next 10 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A decade ago, in an effort to buttress technology prowess in my classes and with colleagues, I started tracking how often I got the same tech questions from students, teachers, and even parents. Turns out, 70% of the time, it was the same finite group of problems. That was a relief because—as you probably know–using technology in the classroom can be frightening, whether you’re a grade-level teacher or in charge of the lab.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Yesterday afternoon Google announced a ton of updates and one big new thing - a new name for Google Apps. It is now "G Suite". They also changed the name for all of their services to Google Cloud. It is a name change to better align with all of their offerings and products and the services and apps are still the same. Different name, same great products.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For the past 30 years, people have thought of the American Dream in two ways: owning a home and going to college. The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. The same phenomenon is true in higher education. Incentive structures have been created that encourage people to pursue a degree, but many drop out when they are unable to navigate the complexities of the college experience.

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve long been in favor of teachers visiting each other’s classrooms, and not just for the purpose of evaluation. For many of us in higher ed, what we do in the classroom is professional activity observed only by our students, and we seldom (or never) get to see how our colleagues go about the work of teaching. Sometimes we’ll be able to read others’ assignments, if they’re posted online or — as in my department — accidentally left in the photocopy machi

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In an earlier post here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, we argued that setting up a class virtual space in the cloud is an indispensable task for today's teachers. This space can.read more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If you could create a college from scratch today what would it look like? Minerva Schools at KGI has done just that, building an accredited, four-year undergraduate program that has an inaugural class in its sophomore year. . Jonathan Katzman, chief product officer at Minerva, says the curriculum focuses on practical “Ben Franklin-style” knowledge and uses the latest video technology to connect students who log into class from all over the world.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

My week kicked off with inspiration. Tweens speaking with confidence. Teachers who sat down and let middle schoolers teach them. Musings about a cloud plow by the age group who will not only live in the future, but mold it. Educators from around the region headed to Creekside Middle School in Patterson on Monday for a Google Leadership Symposium. Teachers in Patterson Unified, like most districts around here, use Google for Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is the fifth and final profile in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigni

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This post is a response to a couple of questions we received from some teachers asking about alternative apps to Evernote. While we do recognize the huge educational potential of Evernote for.read more.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Video produced by NationSwell in partnership with Cisco. This blog was orginally published on NationSwell and is reposted here with permission. By: Sarah Morgan. In elementary school, Matthew Peterson struggled mightily with math. When an instructor explained a problem, Peterson would be so focused on figuring out the language that he forgot the beginning of the question.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Use the Explore Tool to Research Google announced several updates yesterday. One is that Google Apps will now be known as G Suite. If you have been a Google Sheets user, the Explore tool in Google Sheets now comes to Docs and Slides. Like in Sheets, the Explore tool can be found in the bottom-right […]. The post Google Docs: Not Research Tool… Explore!

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Paul Hamilton Head of Learning Technologies Primary School Matthew Flinders Anglican College Queensland, Australia Twitter: @ PaulHamilton8 Teachers who have introduced their students to coding will have witnessed a couple of things. Firstly, the deep level thinking and problem solving that occurs. That expression on the students faces that clearly says "I'm not sure what went wrong, but I'm going to keep going until I find out!

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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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Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Black, teal, and coral: those are your color options for Snap Inc.'s new product, Spectacles—sunglasses with a pair of cameras. Your questions about how to use them are answered here. Will this be the breakthrough wearable device? Ben Thompson concludes that our wearable future isn't here, and it's probably not even close. I've often wondered how content gets into Google Knowledge Graph -- those answers that appear in white boxes on the search engine results plages.

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Kevin Corbett

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What’s on the five-year horizon for K-12 Educational Technology & which trends and technologies will drive educational change? This publication charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies in school communities across the globe. With 15 years of research and publications, the NMC Horizon Project can be regarded as the world’s longest-running exploration.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Promethean Planet , an interactive whiteboard community for educators, is now part of ClassFlow , a collaborative teaching and learning software community. With the merger, all lessons and resources designed to be presented on an interactive whiteboard can now be shared across a connected classroom and sent to students’ Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops using ClassFlow.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

As computers become a common part of daily life for most adults and children, the debate about whether handwriting should be taught in school has heated up. Some claim it will be more important for students to learn keyboarding than writing with pen and paper given the ubiquity of digital communication. But there’s a lot of strong research showing that learning to write by hand aids cognition.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Dr. Chris Craft Director of Strategic Partnerships EdTechTeam Interested in partnering? Contact Chris. We are excited to welcome Soundtrap as our newest Platinum sponsor! With Soundtrap you make music and podcasts online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Written by Alexandra Newmarch, Provisional Psychologist & Chiu Lau, Principal Psychologist. Toilet training is rarely smooth sailing, but adding a child on the Autism spectrum can add that extra bit of complexity that makes the situation feel overwhelming. However, the good news is, the basic principles and readiness signs are the same for all kids , although they might come a little later than for a typically developing child, and the training itself may take a little longer.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Whenever including games or any situation where someone has to "go first," it can be a challenge even among students who don't have social learning challenges. We don't want these decisions to eat up our precious and limited therapy time. I do find that Social Thinking ® and 5 Point Scales promote useful self-talk around this: -Play involves 3 Parts: Setup, Play, Cleanup.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Most educators have already heard about this teen who made the “Sit With Us App”, to help students find people to sit with at lunch. The number of times I have seen it shared on social media, or brought up in conferences has been staggering. Here is why the creator, Natalie Hampton, created this in the first place: Natalie Hampton, a 16-year-old from Sherman Oaks, California, is the designer ofSit With Us, which launched on September 9.

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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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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I spend a lot of my time on public transport, and one of my favourite pastimes is eavesdropping on other people's conversations. It not only passes the time, but I also learn new things from listening in, even if the conversations are sometimes ill-informed. Earlier this week, as I travelled into work by bus, I overheard an elderly gentleman conversing with three young people.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The post How To Browse With Split Screens In iOS 10 appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Ashley Cronin 5-Minute Film Festival Inspire young people to get engaged with the political process through a timely new film series about the U.S. system of democracy, elections, and governance.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I've doctored my social media sends to make me look better in the eyes of others. I've sent a filtered Snapchat, edited a profile picture to look a certain way, and posted an Instagram simply to give off the sense that I lead a certain kind of lifestyle. Growing up in the Silicon Valley, it was impossible to separate my two lives -- the living, breathing one around me and the social, filtered one I created online.

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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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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

BoomWriter is a site that I’ve written about many times because it lets elementary, middle, and high school teachers conduct engaging nonfiction, fiction, and vocabulary development group-writing activities in almost any subject area. But their new offering is not just another product- it’s a chance for teachers to completely change how they make money (and relax) over the summer!

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Our partner, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s free online Learning Differences course aims to help teachers better understand and meet the needs of all learners. See what a Constance Seibert, a former participant-turned facilitator, has to say about what makes the course so valuable. . With the fall 2016 iteration of the Learning Differences course starting this Monday, we thought those of you unsure if the course is right for you might like to hear from a past participant

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Sketch Nation the amazing free web tool or mobile app (iOS/Android) has just released their latest update to bring new exciting features to game creation. Students can now create a multiplayer "platform" game in their new "Arena". Also, users now have the ability to upload their own sound effects or music to add into a game, Here are more details regarding Version 4.0.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This profile is the fourth in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspect

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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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