The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 16, 2016
Every Classroom Matters with Dr. Linda H. Mason From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Improve reading skills by helping students learn how to set their own goals. Dr. Linda Mason helps us understand how to help students become better readers with goal setting, self-regulating, and self-assessment strategies.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JULY 19, 2016
Ever since Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success came out in 2006, terms like fixed and growth mindsets have become staple buzzwords in education. However, according to Dweck, parents and teachers often misuse growth mindset research , failing to instill the mentality most conducive to students’ success.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
JULY 16, 2016
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.” – Ovid. Goal: For 1 week, dedicate at least 30 minutes a day to rest and relaxation. Accomplish this goal: Part of avoiding burnout is dedicating time to ourselves unrelated to teaching. I’ve struggled with this many times throughout my life, because I am passionate about what I do.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 19, 2016
By Meg Conlan A new digital resource platform gives teachers easy access to content and provides Amazon an open door to the education technology marketplace.
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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.
The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 22, 2016
Keep Your Phone from Waking You Up From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Not sleeping? You might need to turn off blue light on your phone. This week, I was interviewing John Medina, author of Brain Rules, for a future episode of Every Classroom Matters. He made the offhand comment, “blue light wreaks havoc with your brain.” We’ve known this since 2006 , This Psychology Today article can help explain why your teenager may be awake ALL
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 17, 2016
We are in the midst of disruptive change that is engulfing our society. The second we get a grasp on a new technology there is an update, new version, or something entirely different. It is an exciting, yet terrifying time as many of us just try to keep up. This is the new normal in our world and advancements in virtually every field and profession will continue at an exponential rate.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 22, 2016
By Jon Phillips Initiatives are about more than just adopting technology.
The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 21, 2016
How Model Teachers Model Digital Citizenship From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A one time assembly about digital citizenship is not enough. So, Susan Bearden believes digital citizenship should be reinforced daily with kids. In light of how much work we have to do in schools, this whole-school approach brings out so many questions!
EdTech4Beginners
JULY 17, 2016
Pokemon GO is a new phenomenon in the gaming world. Children and adults are roaming the streets looking for characters to ‘catch’. The key to the game is it’s use of augmented reality (AR). But what is AR? AR is the layering of information on top of real world views. So basically, you look through the video recorder on your device and the AR app recognizes things and places.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 22, 2016
A screencast is a video recording of what’s happening on your computer monitor, often with annotations and/or narration. It can be simple or sophisticated, anything from a whiteboard presentation to a slideshow to a movie-like video. With Common Core’s emphasis on understanding and explaining tasks, screencasts are a great way for both students and teachers to share the required steps in completing a math problem, collaborate on close reading, or pursue any other literacy activity.
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.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JULY 21, 2016
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” – Thomas J. Peters. Goal: Design a badge for your students or another colleague. Get your copy of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers or Learning to Go !. Accomplish this goal: For the past 4 years, I integrated badges into my courses and trainings to motivate, engage, add some fun to the curriculum, and build a community.
The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 20, 2016
How to Mix Problems, Passion, and Projects to Excite Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Implementing a STEAM Lab Program can be a challenge. (STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.) Today’s guest, Alicia Roberts has navigated this process several times and gives us five steps to make it happen.
Battelle for Kids
JULY 18, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 7. Driving Question : How can students discover their role in the world as global learners? "Global Citizens". "Changemakers". This is how I refer to students in my 5th grade classroom. This was our path for learning. My goal this year was to open up the world to my students in a whole new way, having them recognize who they are and, equally important, what their role in the world is as global learners.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 22, 2016
Last time we co-authored a blog post, Shaelynn Farnsworth and I shared Blab. It was so much fun and such an easy app to integrate into the classroom we wanted to share another favorite of ours! Recap is a free video response app created by Swivl which allows students to reflect, respond, and demonstrate through video. Recap is easy to use as both an educator and as a student.
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.
Education Elements
JULY 20, 2016
For anyone who attended the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit this May, you had a chance to attend a workshop focusing on the Core Four. While districts across the country are using the Core Four of personalized learning to focus instructional habits as they make the shift to personalized learning, some of them are doing it with a bit more fidelity and spirit than others.
Edsurge
JULY 19, 2016
In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. One key theme emerged in their conversations: Institutions are looking for partners—not vendors—when it comes to implementing new solutions. We sat down with participants at OSU’s Adaptive Learning Open House to hear why they decided to hold this workshop, how they’re defining the product category, their experience with adaptive learning
Battelle for Kids
JULY 20, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 8. Driving Question: How can personal experiences with inquiry develop deeper learning about global education? My home country of Australia is a melting pot of cultures. That nation's global perspective started me on my 21st Century professional educator's journey and made it personally enriching. Now, from my place in the U.S, also a great melting pot, I can trace my learning journey in global educations.
Educational Technology Guy
JULY 21, 2016
Microsoft has a lot of Education resources for IT, Educators and Students. Here are some of them that I have found useful. Microsoft for Education Resources CDW-G Microsoft for Education Site: https://www.cdwg.com/content/brands/microsoft/microsoft-for-k12-education.aspx Microsoft for Education Site: [link] Microsoft Partners in Learning: [link] resources to guide school leaders as they transform schools with a vision to empower students to achieve more. - includes why go MS, etc.
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Brilliant or Insane
JULY 21, 2016
Brilliant or Insane. Dawn Casey-Rowe wants to de-standardize education. But is this problem really hackable? The author of Don’t Sniff the Glue: A Teacher’s Misadventures in Education Reform thinks so. In Episode 52 of the Hack Learning Podcast, Casey-Rowe explains how her business experience helped her learn how to de-standardize her classroom and meet individual learners on their favorite […].
Edsurge
JULY 17, 2016
You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? I couldn’t agree more. Busch's student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast Directors," the “iPad Consultants," the “Makerspace Mentors," and the “Cyber Squad.
Battelle for Kids
JULY 17, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 6. More young people around the world are on the run today than at any time since World War II. Estimates show that 30 million children have been forcibly displaced from their homes. While most of these children and their families remain near their home countries, many flee long distances to safety and a better life. Some of those journeys end in the United States, notably for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JULY 18, 2016
Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. You will discover around one hundred resources in this series along with some great ideas for finding student success. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans.
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.
Class Tech Integrate
JULY 18, 2016
As the beginning of a new school year approaches, teachers begin to think about introducing the norms & rules of their classroom to a new group of students. Included in these classroom behaviors, are the expectations for technology usage. Digital Citizenship has become a popular term in recent years both inside and outside of the classroom. Frankly, it isn't only our students that need to work on Digital Citizenship skills, but many adults as well.
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2016
During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. sending out reminders and raising money on Twitter while interacting with people on Facebook was a huge deal. Both Twitter and the iPhone were less than a year old.
Teacher Tech
JULY 17, 2016
Brownie Division If you have been following me recently you know that I am completely obsessed with the book “Mathematical Mindsets” by Jo Boaler. Dr. Boaler is a mathematics professor at Stanford who shows how recent brain research should cause us to change the traditional approaches to teaching math. Color Coding In her book, she […].
TeacherCast
JULY 20, 2016
Are you ready to shave not just minutes. but HOURS off of your work week? ClassTag provides educators with the perfect platform to form a partnership between teachers and parents. The post Turning Parents into Partners | Learn Why You Should Check Out @ClassTagMe Today! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Are you ready to shave not just minutes. but HOURS off of your work week?
Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions
The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 19, 2016
July 19, 2016 The digital storytelling wheel is a visual we created through Google Drawing based on a chart we have previously published here in EdTech and mLearning. The visual contains a number of.read more.
Edsurge
JULY 21, 2016
Pokemon Go, the augmented reality game that is the most popular mobile game in US history, initially asked users to sign a Gastly privacy policy. The game requested full access to a user’s Google account, allowing it to read and write emails on behalf of users as well as access Google Drive. By nature of the walking gameplay, the game could and still does collect GPS data on users.
Insight Education Group
JULY 21, 2016
As I discussed in my recent article in Getting Smart, Back-to-School Prep for School Leaders , we know from supporting schools and districts across the nation for the last 16 years that some of the greatest levers to improving student achievement lie in the school leader and an effective Instructional Leadership Team (ILT). An ILT is sometimes called a School Improvement Team (SIT), a School Leadership Team (SLT), or a School Management Team (SMT), but no matter what acronym you choose, the team
The Hechinger Report
JULY 20, 2016
Marc Tucker. Why do American students suck at math? Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Tucker describes a vicious cycle. “We are mainly recruiting teacher candidates from the bottom half of the kids who go to college,” said Tucker.
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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