EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2017

By Jacquelyn Bengfort Districts go beyond reconfiguring classrooms and prepare students to take their learning mobile.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 13, 2017

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January: Check out our freebies! Check out discounted discontinued items!

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2017

By Ryan Petersen School districts are updating their classrooms to match their modern technology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

Among the last people to be invited to the White House during the Obama administration is Snehal Patel, CEO and co-founder of. Sokikom , an online, collaborative math program. Perhaps it’s a fitting reward for his dedication: he’s been working on the game pretty much since the beginning of Obama’s presidency. The official purpose of Patel’s trip to D.C. this past Tuesday, however, was to receive a.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 13, 2017

January 13, 2017 YouTube hosts a treasure trove of excellent educational content that speaks to the learning needs of a wide variety of audiences. Some of this content is created by dedicated.read more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the technology world, “smart” is often synonymous with “better” or “more advanced.” We speak of smartwatches, smartphones, and smart TVs. These are smart because they can connect to the internet and generally do more, or do something better, than their traditional, often analog counterparts. Smart devices create opportunities for interactive and, in some cases, autonomous operation.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 13, 2017

] This post is co-authored with Autumm Caines and Rebecca J. Hogue. Together we are the co-directors of Virtually Connecting. ]. They say perfect is the enemy of done, but there may be more value to imperfection in pedagogy than just getting things done. Learning is an imperfect process and the situation is few and far between where we see someone getting it perfect the first time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 13, 2017

January 13, 2017 Google announced today the release of Toontastic 3D which is similar to the original Toontastic but has more awesome stuff to offer. Tonntastic 3D allows kids to use their.read more.

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Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 13, 2017

Even if you’re cooling on your virtuous New Year’s resolutions, keep the one about sending better email. Commit to designing and delivering content that will drive opens, clicks, and conversions. Is on-site search the red-headed stepchild of SEO? Claiming that 30% of visits include on-site search, this article makes the case for improved optimization, and outlines steps to take.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 13, 2017

Shooting stars, colossal comets, and undiscovered UFOs—our universe is a mysterious place that inspires wonder in children and adults alike. Many children imagine futures as astronauts, traveling in a rocketship to explore the vast expanses of space. Whether or not this dream becomes a reality, you can bring the intangible aspects of space a little bit closer to home with the solar system projects we’ve compiled below.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 13, 2017

The post Ep. 65 Using Mindfulness And Meditation To Help Children Manage Stress And Be More Compassionate appeared first on TeachThought.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 13, 2017

I Treated Parents Like PayPal Treated Me I have been having a frustrating exchange with PayPal. I am trying to pay a legitimate invoice sent to me by a programmer I work with in Russia. While the error message only said “We’re sorry, but we can’t send your payment right now” I figured it had […]. The post I Treated Parents Like PayPal Treated Me appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 13, 2017

Google Rocks! Hawaii will be back on January 25, after a nine-month hiatus, with Show #86! We will be airing monthly during the school year, on various educational topics, and always with something Google-rific in the mix. Starting us off will be some special EdTech Team guests, who will get us pumped for the HAWAII SUMMIT , featuring Google for Education.

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 13, 2017

By the time students reach senior year classrooms, we educators tend to give them a little more freedom than we do their younger schoolmates. Freshmen and sophomores are still coming into their own as people. Juniors are on the cusp. Seniors, however, are the adults of the high school world. They have their stuff together, […]. The post It’s Never Too Late To Start Preparing Your Students For Their Senior Year appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 13, 2017

A new survey from the International Literacy Association finds that what many teachers regard as "hot" in national conversations about literacy isn't what they think is most important. Past and present members of the International Literacy Association, most of whom were teachers or literacy/instructional coaches, and other teachers, academics, government workers and literacy professionals were asked to rate a set of 17 topics related to literacy on how "hot" and how "important" the topics are in

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 13, 2017

For Inclusive Schools Week , which took place from December 5th to 9th, Brookes Publishing , sponsor of the Teaching All Students: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms professional learning community (PLC) on edWeb.net , celebrated with a five-day giveaway. The giveaway began with a survey in which Brookes Publishing asked special ed educators for their opinions on webinar topics for 2017.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 13, 2017

At first, I pay no attention to the box. Paying no attention is key in gaining the attention of everyone else. Kids point. They question. I shrug them off. We do our usual morning routine. Kids are clearly distracted by the ominous black box on the floor. It’s okay, though. I’m sacrificing today’s warm-ups for full effect. Twice, I “accidentally” stub my toe on the side of the box.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 13, 2017

I was touched by this timeless Huffington Post article from Mr. James Perry, once mayoral candidate and the the Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: "Among the most important lessons I've learned from Dr. King is the example of servant leadership. A servant leader is one who offers an inclusive vision; listens carefully to others; persuades through reason; and heals divisions while building community.

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MindShift

JANUARY 13, 2017

Maria del Mar Patron Vazquez co-founded the community Spanish-language school and education center Habla , located in Merida, Mexico, where she teaches Spanish and literature to students from ages 4 to 87 (at least that’s the oldest so far). Her favorite book, the significant and award-winning masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude by Columbia-born author Gabriel García Márquez , tells the story of 100 years of life in the Buendía family in the metaphorical town of Macondo.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 13, 2017

I have a confession to make. Over the festive period I binge-watched a number of DVD boxed sets. I watched multiple episodes of the Walking Dead , Scandal and Game of Thrones. It hasn't got any better. Now work has started again, I've been spending time each evening watching The West Wing. I'm not going to lie. Watching DVD boxed sets is really addictive.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 13, 2017

I Know It is the excellent new (beta) site from Super Teacher Worksheets for interactive Math lessons grades K-5th. This is a super fun easy to use site for practice on a wide range of topics, such as: place value, multiplication, counting coins, time, and more. Best of all, I Know It, allows a user to use a certain number of "hints" to help solve a problem and it gives the correct response w/ reason for the wrong answers.

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techlearning

JANUARY 13, 2017

Versatile communication tool fosters parent involvement.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Pearson agreed. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter availa

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Tech Helpful

JANUARY 13, 2017

Teachers need to feel safe in sharing their story. Teachers are doing amazing things in their classrooms. I don't know who first said "if you don't tell your story someone else will" and I even looked it up to give credit where credit is due but what I found as it's been said many, many times. Which means there are many, many people that have experienced what this means.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 13, 2017

I have used Google Classroom for several years with both my elementary and middle school classes. Each Google Classroom is setup to meet the individual needs of my students. I differentiate activities, lessons and resources. In my class we call Google Classroom my students’ personalized study guide. They login from home to view and utilize all of our anchor charts, interactive notebook pages, journals, videos and online games to reinforce skills we have been working on.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2017

An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon completing a warm-up writing exercise. To enter the Word Lab, an afterschool writing center in Santa Cruz, Calif., students must first walk through a “portal.”. Called the Chamber of Heart and Mystery, the portal has the aura of an old-fashioned curiosity shop, sans the dust.

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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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