Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

I don’t typically make “pie in the sky” New Year’s resolutions, but. this year I am bound and determined to move ALL assessment into the classroom! Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. However, there are three reasons I’d argue we should NOT spend our time outside of class grading: Our prep time is better spent designing creative and engaging lessons

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2017

By Elizabeth Combs Use research tools to determine the next course of action in schools.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 9, 2017

Google Slides is such a versatile tool in G Suite (Google Apps). It goes much further than creating a slide presentation to show on the screen to the entire class. Mix in images — the visual tools that make instant connections in our brains — and you’ve got an engaging activity in the making. I [.].

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2017

By Mike Chapple K–12 districts must implement filtering tools to comply with federal funding rules.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2017

I’ve noticed that the same people subscribe to both my weekly newsletter on Tech Tips and Websites. That means they get two emails a week in their email box from me, in what is probably already a cluttered, overcrowded bit of virtual real estate. That inspired me to make a change. I’m going to merge the two lists and send one email a week that includes both a Weekly Tech Tip and a Weekly Website.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2017

Teachers understand the value teamwork, communication, and collaboration holds in our increasingly complex and fast-paced world. To prepare their students for long-term success, teachers are constantly looking for ways to incorporate those behaviors into their students’ daily activities since they strengthen critical project management skills. Teachers like Karl Ruffat at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, who started a program where project management mentors are paired with students

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 9, 2017

Perhaps you are like me and have to sit through presentations often. Sometimes they are great. You can tell the presenter put a lot of thought into what they want to talk about and it feels like they really know their stuff. The slides they use are engaging and help reinforce the story that’s being told. But then there are those times that are the complete opposite.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

Every January, it’s customary to make resolutions and predictions for the new year. This year, I want to go all out and make a prediction not just for the next year, but for the next decade. The caveat is that this prediction can only come true if many educators, entrepreneurs and funders work toward a shared vision; happily, this work is already well underway.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2017

SAS Writing Reviser is a terrific free Google Doc tool for helping students identify writing issues and improve their written work. Available as a Google Docs Add-On, SAS Writing Reviser analyzes a document for potential grammatical and syntax issues, highlights or lists the issues it finds, and provides information for resolving them. Once installed, SAS Writing Reviser is available for use in any Google Doc.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Can students learn about what they like, at their own pace, and still pass standardized tests at the end of each year? It’s a dilemma facing a growing number of schools and districts that have jumped onto a new tech-fueled trend in education known as “personalized learning.”. The goal of personalized learning is to tailor lessons for individual students to help them master content on their own schedule, whether it’s faster or slower than their same-age peers.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2017

January 9, 2017 Below is a collection of some good educational web tools we are featuring here in EdTech and mLearning for the first time. Some of the things you can do with these tools.read more.

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BYOT Network

JANUARY 9, 2017

Schools and districts are now utilizing an influx of digital tools, content, and platforms with several hopeful intentions. With the use of these resources, educators are planning to better engage student learning, increase academic performance; and prepare students for an ever-changing digital world. Whether the technology devices are owned by the students and brought to school as part of a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative or provided by the district, teachers and students are using

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 9, 2017

2017 couldn’t have started off better when I checked the mail on January 3rd. Sylvia Duckworth’s new book Sketchnotes for Educators: 100 Inspiring Illustrations for Lifelong Learners arrived! A few years ago, when I joined Twitter (see page 172), Sylvia’s sketchnotes quickly caught my eye. I had seen people doodle before but never like this. What a beautiful and succinct way to capture learning!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 9, 2017

The post A Quick-Guide To Teaching Empathy In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 9, 2017

January 10, 2017 Speechvid has been a pet project near and dear to my heart from the moment our son was diagnosed as speech delayed at 2 year of age. He is also on the spectrum, which for him means.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 9, 2017

The post Why Teachers Need Formative Assessment Too appeared first on TeachThought.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 9, 2017

As I seem to have become the resident “ fake news ” writer here at ProfHacker, I feel like I would be remiss not to review the new tool Hoaxy , developed by Filippo Menczer, a professor of informatics and computer science at Indiana University at Bloomington ( you can read an interview with him here ). According to the FAQ on the website , Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking online.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2017

The most efficient school districts are those that leverage the technology tools available to them to improve teaching, learning, and internal processes. Easier said than done, however, when district leaders grapple with teacher turnover and shortages, changing policies and mandates, and funding cuts. So how do efficient districts focus on empowering teachers to do what they do best–teach?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 9, 2017

A quick response to some of the conversation prompted by my recent post Advocating for CC BY. I work very hard to be a strong and effective advocate for openness generally and for CC BY specifically. My advocacy always occurs in the context of the following beliefs: In every case, people should choose the Creative Commons license that will best help them to accomplish their goals.

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Insight Education Group

JANUARY 9, 2017

A few years ago, the height of elevated education discourse was centered around what we in the U.S. could learn and adopt from Finland and Singapore, two countries that share more in terms of demographics than educational philosophy. These small counties (with populations of about 5.5 million each) have revolutionized their approach to teaching and learning, but in ways that have taken advantage of their small size and powerful national education administrations.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2017

Ask many public school parents about student data use and privacy, and you’ll likely end up with a heated debate about protecting sensitive, personal information. But what do parents really understand about school technology use and student data privacy? The Future of Privacy Forum set out to do just that in 2015 and 2016, and surveys revealed that while parents understood the technologies used in their children’s schools, they were less informed about specific laws and practices tha

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of my recent posts, “Don’t Be a Luddite, Technology is Here to Stay,” made the point that educational technology is not as unnatural as it initially seems. Any time you take something natural, modify it and use it for your own purposes, you’re making or using technology. In this sense, even the harnessing and utilization of fire can be called technology.

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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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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 9, 2017

So often I see the same sentiment from educators involved in education dialogue, “Wouldn’t it be nice if a school were doing _. I would love to see a school who actually implemented _, instead of just talking about it.” As an educator, I felt the same. I would be energized by discussions with colleagues at conferences and then again each week during Twitter chats; I was inspired to do something better, but unsure of where to start.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 9, 2017

Ed-tech startup Learntron has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Mumbai-based early-stage investor Kae Capital in a pre-Series A funding round, according to press reports. The post K-12 Dealmaking: LivingTree Acquires ClassMessenger; LearnLaunch Touts New Cohort appeared first on Market Brief.

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esri

JANUARY 9, 2017

In spring of 2017, Esri is hosting a network of US state competitions for grades 4-12. Successful pilot events occurred in 2016 in Minnesota (MN) and Arkansas (AR). “Students had a lot of fun with it and liked the freedom of making any type of map they wanted,” said MN teacher Kyle Tredinnick. A high school student said “This project was one of the most rewarding things I have done.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 9, 2017

Rokenbok construction toy systems are an ideal way to introduce your child to STEM concepts and learning. Science, technology, engineering and math skills promoted by STEM toys are not only useful in school, they are important skills for understanding how the world around us works. Building Rokenbok cities and then interacting with them with remote control vehicles, conveyor belts, and other machinery is a fun and exciting way for kids to explore scientific concepts from simple engineering up to

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Mississippi legislators have proposed dozens of bills aimed at improving or reforming education in the state ahead of the mid-January deadline for submitting legislation. While some of these are broader and deal with topics like elected superintendents or failing school districts, others dig into smaller, specific aspects of education. Here’s a look at some of this year’s education bills that have been sent to the House and Senate education committees: Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsle

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 9, 2017

“… the success of the online learning experience isn’t as tied to the technology we choose as it is to the way teachers and learners engage with it” I was recently discussing with a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 9, 2017

Recognizing the need for a reliable, research-based method to test listening comprehension skills, Monica Brady-Myerov at Listenwise has worked to bring an easy-to-use method to the classroom, drawing on curated NPR content to engage students with important stories.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 9, 2017

With just over two million people living in New Mexico and almost 700,000 of them spread across rural regions, many New Mexico students still lack access to the high-speed broadband necessary to take advantage of digital learning in the classroom. The high cost of new fiber construction and the shortage of Internet service providers in these remote areas contribute to this connectivity gap.

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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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