Thu.May 19, 2016

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Handwriting vs typing in the learning environment

Neo LMS

I’ll tell you a little secret: I was awful at cheating at tests in school. I used to be a pretty good student: I paid attention to class, I did my homework every time, and I scored quite decently in tests. But cool kids usually did the opposite. In a ridiculously naive attempt to become a cool kid myself, I decided one day that I shall cheat on the next test.

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How I Used Technology In A ‘Healthy Bodies’ Science Lesson

EdTech4Beginners

This term, my class’s science topic is ‘healthy bodies’ Last week we went live on Facebook whilst doing a heart dissection. This week, we looked at what happens to the heart during exercise. I started off by showing the students this excellent video as a reminder of last week’s learning: A group discussion followed about what happens to the heart when we exercise.

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Should learning be hard?

Ditch That Textbook

The Calvin Cycle was the bane of my existence as a high school freshman. I was in a biology class. In the midst of surviving swimming practices, working part-time at Burger King and trying to navigate all of my other classes, I was required to learn the Calvin Cycle, start to finish. (It didn’t help [.].

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Easily Make Graphs For Free With The App ‘MyGraph’

EdTech4Beginners

I recently did a Science lesson for our topic ‘healthy bodies’ in which my class measured their heart rates before and after different exercises. Click here to find out about it. After, the students used the App ‘MyGraph’ to create charts of their results (find it for free on the App Store). How do I use the App? It’s very straightforward to create graphs. 1) Open the App and tap the + in the top right corner. 2) Next, choose the graph type, add a title and then l

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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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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

I had the incredible opportunity to visit a school in Queensland, Australia. I spent two weeks at Saint Stephen’s College , a K-12 independent school at the Gold Coast. They invited me to their school to share my flipped classroom journey. Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

Last year, the graduation rate for black students at Rutgers-Newark was 64 percent compared with 40 percent at public institutions nationally. Photo: Shelley Kusnetz. Newark, N.J. — Protests focused on entrenched racism rocked campuses around the country this year. Many top colleges enroll small numbers of black students, and the four-year college graduation rate for black students is half that of whites.

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Create Multiple Chrome Profiles to Use Multiple Google Accounts – from Ben Sondgeroth

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. As more schools adopt Google Apps For Education (GAFE), increasingly teachers and students are dealing with multiple Google Accounts – one for work/school and one for personal use. When this situation happens, we often want to keep our two worlds separate. Google has a way to make this possible that is built into Chrome.

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A Step by Step Guide to Help Teachers Create Facebook Pages for Their Classes

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 19, 2016 Creating a digital presence for your class does not have to be restricted to only standard platforms such as websites, blogs and wikis; social media platforms do offer some.read more.

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Resource gap may be key to closing achievement gap

eSchool News

Income-achievement gaps now far surpass racial-achievement gaps, study finds. Ensuring equal access to resources can help improve educational outcomes and close achievement gaps for children from low-income families, according to a new study. The study from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) notes that improving state finance systems can go a long way to support equitable funding and increased resource access.

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An Excellent Free Tool from Adobe to Create Animated Stories and Educational Posters

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 19, 2016 Spark Adobe is an excellent application with huge educational potential. As a teacher, you can use Spark to create a wide variety of multimedia materials to include in your.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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New guide offers tips to use UDL for personalized learning

eSchool News

New guide explains benefits of UDL as a framework for creating learning-driven environments and how districts can put theory into practice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for K-12 education specifically endorses Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a set of principles that require teachers and students to shift roles as they collaborate around student-driven learning paths.

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New- You Can Now Use Android Apps on Your Chromebook

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 19, 2016 Two days ago, Google kicked off its annual developer conference called Google I/O. The event this year is marked by the announcement of some amazing new products to be released in the.read more.

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Happy Users Become Even Happier Customers

Gaggle Speaks

Gaggle case studies are straightforward success stories about our customers. Each story states a challenge within a school or district, the Gaggle solution and positive results. Our talented graphic designer, Tara Skoglund, does an incredible job presenting them so each case study can be skimmed quickly or read in just a few minutes. Ideas for our case studies come from a variety of places.

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Reflecting On My Visit to Saint Stephen’s College in Australia: The Learning Spaces #flipclass #edtech

techieMusings

I had the incredible opportunity to visit a school in Queensland, Australia. I spent two weeks at Saint Stephen’s College , a K-12 independent school at the Gold Coast. They invited me to their school to share my flipped classroom journey. Their school is committed to organization-wide change to effectively infuse technology into the curriculum and they are truly forward-thinking in their approach; the school has already implemented many innovative teaching practices and spaces.

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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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GAAD 2016: Raising Awareness About Accessibility

ProfHacker

Today is the 5th annual Global Awareness Accessibility Day. The purpose of this day “is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities.” Who is GAAD for? The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use.

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Reflecting On My #Flipclass Workshop w Faculty at Saint Stephen’s College in Australia @OfficeMixTeam

techieMusings

During my visit to Saint Stephen’s College , I had the opportunity to work with small and large groups of teachers to think about how to leverage technology to personalize learning, enhance teaching, and differentiate instruction. I first talked to department heads to get a sense of their needs. I gave them a bit of my background and then was able to hear their questions, needs, and concerns.

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Comments Invite Conversations

Teacher Tech

Move Beyond MarkUp It is well known that I abhor writing on PDF’s. It is not that engaging of an activity and it is not better than using paper. So why not annotate on top of student work to provide feedback? Annotating on top of student work is exactly what we did when we had […]. The post Comments Invite Conversations appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Reflecting On My #Flipclass Workshop w Faculty at Saint Stephen’s College in Australia @OfficeMixTeam

techieMusings

During my visit to Saint Stephen’s College , I had the opportunity to work with small and large groups of teachers to think about how to leverage technology to personalize learning, enhance teaching, and differentiate instruction. I first talked to department heads to get a sense of their needs. I gave them a bit of my background and then was able to hear their questions, needs, and concerns.

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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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Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation

MiddleWeb

Best Practices at Tier 1 will help teachers learn how to create brain-friendly environments, develop a powerful core curriculum by shifting to more collaborative teaching, apply differentiation strategies, and use data to inform instruction, says Linda Biondi.

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Emerging Industries and Implications for Education and Our Students and Children

EmergingEdTech

Learning and looking ahead so we can help young people experience less of this. (Image Source) Getting a Leg up on What Tomorrow’s Work Place Holds for our Students, our Children, and Ourselves. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teaching Reading to a New Generation of Students

MiddleWeb

In Who’s Doing the Work? Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris ask important questions about how literacy teachers should approach reading instruction for a new generation of students. Reviewer and former literacy coach Nancy Chodoroff has high praise for their insights.

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. – Rita-Marie Conrad, J. Ana Donaldson, 2011, Engaging the Online Learner. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses. It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engage

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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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Creating a Classroom of Passionate Learners

MiddleWeb

Want to shift ownership of the classroom to your students, give up reward and punishment systems, eliminate homework, and revamp your current grading system? Laura Von Staden suggests starting with Pernille Ripp's resource-rich, inspiring Passionate Learners.

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Let's Celebrate Growth and Success!

Graphite Blog

It's May. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and your students probably have spring fever! As you figure out what to do with their pent-up energy at the end of the school year, also consider how you can end on a positive note by celebrating their growth and success. Based on the research of Stanford Professor Carol Dweck from her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , growth mindset is about approaching learning with the belief that we can all learn and grow.

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Tips and Resources for Funding an SEL Program

Edutopia

Photo credit: ©Gable Denims/500px Olga Acosta Price Social and Emotional Learning When funding your SEL program, whether through government or private sources, remember that relationships, partnerships, and united fronts matter, and that vision and flexibility are critical.

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edWeb Wins SIIA Education Technology CODiE Award for Best Collaborative Social Media Solution for Educators

edWeb.net

It was announced yesterday that edWeb.net is the winner of the SIIA CODiE Award for Best Collaborative Social Media Solution for Educators. This is the second year in a row that edWeb.net has won this prestigious industry award. The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, to an audience of over 300 education, software, information and business technology leaders. 2

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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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Let's Celebrate Growth and Success!

Graphite Blog

It's May. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and your students probably have spring fever! As you figure out what to do with their pent-up energy at the end of the school year, also consider how you can end on a positive note by celebrating their growth and success. Based on the research of Stanford Professor Carol Dweck from her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , growth mindset is about approaching learning with the belief that we can all learn and grow.

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Edthena Takes Teacher PD Triple Crown, Wins CODiE Award for Best Professional Learning Solution (District Administration)

Edthena

On Wednesday, Edthena, a video classroom observation platform for teacher development, was named the best Professional Learning Solution for K-20 Faculty and Administrative Staff as part of the 2016 CODiE Awards, organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Read more at [link]. The post Edthena Takes Teacher PD Triple Crown, Wins CODiE Award for Best Professional Learning Solution (District Administration) appeared first on the Edthena blog.

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Google Doc Curriculum Map

Hansen's Link to Tech

There are several methods for schools to produce a curriculum map, whether through paid subscriptions or through creative document mapping. Regardless of your choice, the concept of transparency is imperative for continuous and future planning. Keeping the balance of simplicity with complexity here is curriculum map template designed and now available in the Google Docs Template gallery.

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TeachThought Podcast Ep. 49 What New Technology Tools Are Teachers Using?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post TeachThought Podcast Ep. 49 What New Technology Tools Are Teachers Using? appeared first on TeachThought.

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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.