EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We are quite excited to share our very first interview here with Inkeri Martin, English Teacher from 51Talk. . 51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. 51Talk enables millions of students across China to take live, one-on-one interactive English lessons with North American teachers. 1.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 11, 2016

HyperDocs are the creation of Sarah Landis and Lisa Highfill – expert educators. Hyperdocs sound complicated but they really aren’t. HyperDocs are basically online documents but rich in hyperlinks to other documents, images, websites, text and video. They have been described as interactive worksheets. How are they different to document with hyperlinks?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many educators, including myself, routinely talk about the need for innovation in education. If we continue to employ the same type of thinking then we will get the same or results. We also run the risk of taking a step backwards and experiencing worse results than anticipated. Change isn’t coming; it is already on our doorstep! Thus we must begin to embrace new ideas and methodologies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2016

December 11, 2016 Blended learning is an instructional approach that combines both face to face technology based methods. Blended Learning is a big concept, an umbrella term, that contains several.read more.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2016

[ Editor’s note: This piece was originally published here on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog.]. One of the core ideas of the Christensen Institute’s research on innovation is that technologies improve over time to better meet the needs of the people they serve. For example, early smartphones supported only basic apps such as email and web browsing; but, over time, these devices have added functionality to support a huge variety of apps that have dramatically changed how peop

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District Administration

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Thought leaders weigh in on a wide range of topics affecting K12 education Tim Goral Education faces no shortage of important challenges in the quest to improve our nation’s schools. Whether it’s the debate over testing, racial issues, learning standards or shrinking funding, 2017 promises to be a year of change—for better or worse.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2016

December 12, 2016 Google has recently released top five lists of the most popular content in 2016. The lists cover top trending apps, games, songs, movies, TV shows and books. In today’s post.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Spotlight Series Podcast, we welcome MIE Expert Mick Hellgren on the program to discuss a fantastic (FREE) tool from Microsoft called Power BI. Welcome to the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Spotlight Series Podcast. Please subscribe to our podcast on both iTunes and YouTube today! The post What Makes a Great Data Assessment Tool?

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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Register for the TemplateTab workshop webinar on Monday 12/12 at 6pm PST. TemplateTab TemplateTab is an Add-on script I wrote to make it easier to have all students working on the same spreadsheet. Instead of collecting 30 digital documents, you have ONE where all students contributed to the same one. This makes it easier to […]. The post TemplateTab: All Students on One Spreadsheet appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. DocentEDU. What’s It Like?

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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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techieMusings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Let’s dive into some ideas for student-created EDpuzzle’s in this post! I have written a couple of blog posts on how I use EDpuzzle in my classroom ( how I use EDpuzzle analytics ; favorite tools for teaching online AP Calculus ). I am beginning, now, to turn my attention to a topic I began exploring last year with Zaption — digging into uses beyond a flipped classroom tool.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Platforms, and standards, and subjects, oh my! Choosing the right digital resources to meet your goals used to be a daunting task. Fortunately, those days are in the past. Today, there is a whole army of people out there figuring out the best tools to meet learning needs with the resources you have available to your students. You can access that army by visiting Common Sense Education’s Ratings & Reviews.

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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 11, 2016

With post-election "vitriol" just below the surface in her classes, Sarah Cooper employs of a familiar history teaching tool: shifting perspective. First students discuss the Hamilton cast's statement to VP-elect Mike Pence – then Jefferson's slave ownership.

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EmergingEdTech

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … colleges (along with many. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Christopher Danielson used to hate teaching geometry. Now he sees it as a playground of mathematical ideas for middle schoolers, with opportunities for exploration, wonder, and smart conversations. Here Danielson shares ideas and images teachers can use to begin the fun.

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The Electric Educator

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Google has been rumored to be working on a team aspect to Google Drive for years. This mythical feature was finally officially announced this past September but didn't actually emerge until last week when the Early Adopter Program (EAP) was launched for G Suite domains. Here's your first look at this substantial new feature to Google Drive. My previous post provides an overview of Team Drive from a user perspective.

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techlearning

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Top-notch tool empowers kids to invent, build, and control wirelessly.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. NEW YORK — In July, Sheryl Javier stood before a room full of her peers and the entire staff of Bronx Arena High School to present her senior project.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Whether your role is as an administrator, teacher, parent, or student leader, if you’re reading this, you are probably interested in helping other school community stakeholders understand the power of technology in a teaching and learning environment. A common mantra I’m hearing from digital learning coaches and innovative administrators is that they feel the progress toward using technology tools in their schools has plateaued.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Does every student have to change the world? Depends upon how you look at what that truly means. This quote, from one of my favourite songs of 2016, “Growing Up”, by Macklemore and Lewis, stopped me in my tracks: Powerful words that should make every educator pause when we think about our kids “changing the world” What does that truly mean and what does it look like for each of the learners we serve?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour Papert died at his home in Blue Hill, Maine in August (yes, that’s the site of the Blue Hill Fair, where Charlotte the spider saved Wilbur the pig ). Seymour was 88; or, as he was born on February 29 – a Leap Year baby – he was just 22.

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