Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JANUARY 19, 2017
Startup incubators provide access to experts around everything from sales to technology. They key is to find the right one and land a spot. The post Finding, Pitching, and Prospering Through a Startup Incubator appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 19, 2017
By Nathan Lang Education technology should complement a learning strategy, not dictate it.
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Ditch That Textbook
JANUARY 19, 2017
Jeff Hoffman created his first company as a student at Yale University. It was a software company called Competitive Technologies, and it was eventually acquired by American Express. He went on to create a company that helps consumers book travel with airlines, hotels and rental cars at a discount. You may have heard of it. [.].
Neo LMS
JANUARY 19, 2017
Two of the most admirable traits of humans are their curiosity and imagination. We are curious by nature and we get excited whenever we find something new. We like to ask questions like Why? and What if? and we use our imagination and resources to find answers to our questions. If our ancestors would not have been so curious and imaginative we would still live in caves.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
JANUARY 19, 2017
Some quick updates… I created a new Innovation Academies page to better describe that work. I love those opportunities when I have an ongoing, long-term engagement with a district’s leadership team! It’s quite possibly my favorite work that I do because we can really see a district move significantly in a short period of time when all of the leaders have shared understandings, capacity, and commitments.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 19, 2017
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In our five-part series, Making Sense of Exams , we’ll discuss the purpose of exams, whether they can be done online, overcoming exam anxiety, and effective revision techniques. It’s a pattern many of us have likely experienced in the past. You prep for an exam and all the information seems coherent and simple.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
eSchool News
JANUARY 19, 2017
Throughout my 35 years of teaching, I’ve watched students grow up in what I lovingly call the “worksheet generation.” In this environment, students are accustomed to a very structured style of learning, where they are handed a worksheet, then asked to turn to page five in their math book and solve problems one through 15. This approach, however, often teaches students there is only one right answer and limits meaningful engagement and creativity.
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2017
Like all district administrators, Dr. Ayindé Rudolph, superintendent at Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD), wants to see students improve, be challenged and get excited about learning. But that’s not always easy when students perform at different proficiency levels and speeds. It was about this time last year, in January 2016, when Rudolph was working on a strategic plan that he hoped could address the needs of all MVWSD students.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 19, 2017
January 19, 2017 CommonLit is a free website that helps students develop advanced reading and writing skills. It serves hundreds of thousands of students in classrooms across the United.read more.
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2017
This week in S’Cool Tools, we've got two free tools for you, chosen by the EdSurge team. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Quizlet. Freemium! Quizlet —This past Tuesday marked the ten-year anniversary of the launch of Quizlet.com to the public. Quizlet offers online study tools starting with flashcards and other games, aimed at helping students learn material.
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.
ProfHacker
JANUARY 19, 2017
A long time ago here at ProfHacker , we used to run a series titled “ What’s for Lunch? ” That series prompted me to start keeping track of favorite recipes. Since I was already a heavy user of Evernote , it became my preferred tool for storing recipes. I’d just use the web clipper to send recipes to my Evernote account, then use the Evernote Food app to access my recipes.
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2017
Colleges around the country have been setting up a new kind of research center—with the goal of continually improving how their institutions teach and work with students. In some ways the centers are inspired by autonomous R&D units within major corporations, ones tasked with inventing the next big product or improving business efficiency. Except that analogy doesn’t really work, because education isn’t a product, and most professors bristle at comparisons to the corporate sector.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 19, 2017
Photo: Getty Images. As an unabashed lover of print texts and an avid lifelong reader of fiction, I have learned that storytelling can be terribly unreliable. Wise readers should never believe a first-person narrative in a novel or short story unless they find ample proof that the narrator can be trusted. We are living in an era of stunningly unreliable narration.
Teacher Tech
JANUARY 19, 2017
Little SIS for Google Classroom Guest blog post by Andrew Stillman For many of the same reasons I created Doctopus, I agree with Alice Keeler that Google Classroom — used imaginatively, #notjustforworksheets;) — has an amazing potential to change the way kids and teachers interact and learn. Simply put, Google Classroom makes it easier to […].
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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 19, 2017
“A lot of people worry that technology will take the place of the teacher, but I think it’s exactly the opposite,” said math teacher Kaswell. Photo: Sarah Gonser. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Math teacher Aaron Kaswell is checking off names he’s written on a whiteboard table in blue dry-erase marker. Around him, the busy classroom hums as 30 students work on laptops, interact with other teachers and chat among themselves.
eSchool News
JANUARY 19, 2017
Eighty-eight percent of U.S. school districts have reached the minimum connectivity–100 kbps per student, as recommended by the Federal Communications Commission–to help students effectively use technology in the classroom. The data comes from the second annual State of the States report from the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway , which analyzed 2016 FCC E-rate data representing 10,499 school districts and more than 38 million students.
Gaggle Speaks
JANUARY 19, 2017
Student safety shouldn’t just be the responsibility of one person inside a school or district. Ongoing conversations should take place between technology teams, administration, faculty and even law enforcement about how to protect students from cyberbullying, self-harm, drug or alcohol use, pornography and other harmful situations. The role of these individuals was the theme of last week’s Gaggle webcast, “Backpacks, Browsers and Badges: Law Enforcement’s Role in Online Student
iLearn Technology
JANUARY 19, 2017
We are in full on count down mode for our yearly education conference, 5Sigma. This year our theme is Using Agency to Empower Students: What is Sacred in Education. I could not be more excited for our third annual conference! Each year we work to include educators who have inspired our work. This year is no exception. We have a pretty incredible line up!
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Fractus Learning
JANUARY 19, 2017
In 2015 I was attending a training program called Women in Leadership. The series went over several days and before courses began one day, I was reading the agenda and noticed a session entitled, “Joys of Journaling and Benefits of Blogging.” The joys of journaling made sense, most of us have heard about the importance of journaling. It was the blogging that caught me off guard.
GoConqr
JANUARY 19, 2017
Now that we’re half way through the January blues and the festive period is long behind us, it’s a good time to reflect on new year’s resolutions. Did you resolve to be more adventurous with educational technology, or to come up with strategies to engage your students more effectively? Here is a rundown on some apps to help you stick to your resolutions, and more importantly to reach your teaching goals.
The Principal of Change
JANUARY 19, 2017
As an answer to the title of the post simply, “Is leadership an innovative endeavour?”, it is simply…”yes” To answer the question honestly, is that it should be , but it is not always true. Jamie Notter shared this quote in a video, and it has always stuck with me: Some things in leadership that are true 100 years ago, would still be true today, and great leaders have always embodied these traits.
Shake Up Learning
JANUARY 19, 2017
The post Google Teacher Tribe Podcast Begins Monday! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Countdown to the First Episode of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast with Matt Miller and Kasey Bell! We are less than a week away from the premiere of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast! Our first episode will be released on Monday, January 23rd. What is the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast?
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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 19, 2017
Capital City Public Charter School students doing field work. Photo: EL Education. BOSTON — In 1963, Greg Farrell, an assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, learned that an organization rooted in the teachings of a German educator was about to launch a wilderness training school in Colorado. “I thought maybe they could use me,” he recalled recently.
EdTechTeam
JANUARY 19, 2017
I was very fortunate that my school system last week hosted a special EdTechTeam conference for all teachers and staff. For the first session, I chose to attend a presentation by Jay Atwood , whose description exhorted attendees to not be be afraid of data. Now, I remember years ago a fellow student teacher having to create a spreadsheet of how every student scored on every test item, every week or two.
techlearning
JANUARY 19, 2017
Unified Technology to Revolutionize Classrooms Today’s K-12 educators are leveraging technology to inspire and engage students every day. As technology rapidly evolves, it continues to change the way.
Fractus Learning
JANUARY 19, 2017
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an epic battle between the light and dark sides of the Force was waged. The movies that told their tales have captured the imagination of kids both big and small for 40 years now. Over that time, we’ve all dreamed of swinging lightsabers, piloting the Millennium Falcon, and saving the galaxy—and who says we can’t!
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.
MiddleWeb
JANUARY 19, 2017
Becoming Brilliant, written by two psych professors, is less about intelligence than about helping children become collaborative, creative, competent, and responsible. Reviewer Rita Platt notes with dismay the authors' blanket view that public schools are failing.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JANUARY 19, 2017
This is something I care deeply about. After eight years of holding online and global education-related conferences (with hundreds of keynotes, thousands of sessions, and hundreds of thousands of attendees), I'm planning my most ambitious event ever: a massive, worldwide, online, and free conference devoted to technology and learning. Something that really helps to connect people and ideas, and to change education.
MiddleWeb
JANUARY 19, 2017
Called to the Middle is a primer for anyone considering the challenges of middle level teaching. Veteran MS educator Linda Mancia says Joey Eidson's commitment to adolescent education comes through his relaxed writing style but notes some editorial shortcomings.
techieMusings
JANUARY 19, 2017
I’m so excited to see my post featured on the ISTE EdTekHub !
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