Sat.Mar 07, 2015 - Fri.Mar 13, 2015

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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

'Discussion can be a powerful tool for learning yet engaging all students in equitable discussions can be challenging. When I began teaching, I was frustrated because in-class discussions were dominated by a small group of vocal students while the rest of the class sat quietly avoiding eye contact. It wasn’t until I incorporated online discussions into my traditional class that I was able to engage every voice in our class dialog.

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Engagement Does Not Always Equate to Learning

A Principal's Reflections

'No matter where I am, whether it is a physical location or virtual, I am always hearing conversations about how technology can be used to effectively engage students. This is extremely important as the majority of students spend six to eight hours a day in schools where they are completely disengaged. I for one can’t blame today’s learner for being bored in school when I all have to do is observe my own son at home playing Minecraft to see firsthand his high level of engagement.

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Rejection Therapy for Ed-Tech Entrepreneurs and Startups

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'Entrepreneurs face a lot of rejection. But if you learn to embrace it, success can be on the other side. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Researchers Hunt for ‘Secret Sauce’ of Digital Learning Success

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith A new report studies what worked and didn''t for five districts'' digital learning strategies.

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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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Ideas for Promoting Digital Diversity

Teacher Reboot Camp

'For the next week, I will be participating in many events to support gender and cultural diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Below find a list of these events and ideas for promoting digital diversity. Research points to low percentages of females and minorities pursuing STEM degrees and professions. The National Association of Women in Technology reported 26% of the computing workforce in 2013 were women (5% Asian women, 3% African American women, and 2% His

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6 new free Google tools to upgrade your classroom

Ditch That Textbook

'When my students and I work with Google Apps, there are two common struggles that we face: 1. Options for slide templates are scarce (and the ones in Google’s directory aren’t very good). 2. When we add Creative Commons images to our work, adding accurate attribution can be tricky. Thankfully, I’ve come across some solutions in the [.].

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Idaho Schools Weathering a Broadband Crisis

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith For a frightening two weeks in February, Idaho public schools were scrambling to secure their own broadband connections after a state judge pulled the plug on nearly 200 schools’ Internet service provider over a contract dispute.

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Ideas for Promoting Digital Diversity

Teacher Reboot Camp

For the next week, I will be participating in many events to support gender and cultural diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Below find a list of these events and ideas for promoting digital diversity. Research points to low percentages of females and minorities pursuing STEM degrees and professions. The National Association of Women in Technology reported 26% of the computing workforce in 2013 were women (5% Asian women, 3% African American women, and 2% Hisp

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As Teachers Fear PARCC Assessment, Principal Says, Let It Go

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Like many administrators, I’m concerned with the stress that comes with the PARCC Assessment. Because of this anxiety, I crafted this letter to my staff, so they’d know I that I understand how they feel and how we need to face the PARCC Assessment. Dearest Staff, I want to tell you how special I think you [.]. The post As Teachers Fear PARCC Assessment, Principal Says, Let It Go appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Is it wrong for me to wish the ISTE keynotes focused more on ed tech?

Dangerously Irrelevant

'ISTE announced its 2015 conference keynote speakers yesterday : Soledad O’Brien, journalist and news anchor. Jack Gallagher, comedian and parent of a child with autism. Josh Stumpenhorst, Illinois teacher of the year and ISTE Emerging Leader. I love ISTE and the ISTE conference. But every year I wish more of the keynotes were actually helpful to our technology integration and implementation efforts.

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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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Digital Learning Success Is About More Than the Technology

EdTech Magazine

'By Matt Renwick A principal offers insights from his teachers on Digital Learning Day.

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18 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites: Color the shamrock. Color the Pot-o-gold. Color the leprechaun. Games–St. Pat’s games and activities. Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle.

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Hands Down: Fifteen Techniques that Ignite Total Participation

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. You know the drill all too well, I’m sure: you pose a question, and the same hands always rocket up into the air. The same learners are ready to respond, prompt after prompt, while others remain reticent. It isn’t that they don’t have answers or are incapable of contributing, it’s that they choose not to. [.]. The post Hands Down: Fifteen Techniques that Ignite Total Participation appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

'Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! Click here to participate: The deadline to be considered for the award is. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

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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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What K–12 IT Leaders Really Think About the Cloud

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith A new survey from CDW reveals the advantages and challenges that cloud technology presents for K–12 districts.

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Digital Leadership Daily: 1-month update

Dangerously Irrelevant

'A month ago I blogged about a new initiative, Digital Leadership Daily. So far over 550 people have signed up. Woo hoo! Want to get one (and only one!) awesome digital school leadership reading or resource each day? Just text @dldaily to 81010. Also available on Twitter and Facebook. Related Posts. The challenges of digital leadership. A new resource for school administrators: Digital Leadership Daily. 10-day update: Digital Leadership Daily.

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4 Amazingly Easy Steps to Engage Learners: Infographic

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. You want to engage learners, and it should be easy, right? Of course, inspiring every student to interact with assignments and lessons is a teacher’s most imposing challenge. This infographic, from teacher Jeni Day, outlines four amazingly easy ways to engage learners. Day adds practical tips for evaluating learning, which we find brilliant because they are [.].

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Developers: Share the Science Behind Your Product

Digital Promise

'At universities across the country, researchers are designing and running experiments to better understand learning. Education researchers and learning scientists are studying a range of topics such as motivation, engagement, learning progressions, memory, literacy, child development, and learning disabilities. Still, very little knowledge gathered from the research literature informs classroom practice – an immense challenge that numerous organizations are working to overcome.

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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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Satellite STEM Program Expands Its Reach from Space to Earth

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith One company plans to use new funding to reach more schools and conduct new kinds of experiments.

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Tips to Using Google Keep in Education

Educational Technology Guy

'Google Keep , Google''s easy to use note taking app, is a great resource for students and teachers. Here are some of the features: • Easily, quickly, Create notes, lists, and audio notes • Add photos to any note • Hide and show checkboxes to turn notes into checkable lists • View and create notes from homescreen and lockscreen widgets • Selectable color for notes • Safely sync notes to Google Drive and other devices • Notes can also be used from h ttp://drive.google.com/keep I use Evernote for

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Disrupting Education: Capturing the Essence

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Disrupting Education: Capturing the Essence By Rod Rock and Arina Bokas When public high school seniors were asked whom they wish to become as a result of their time spent in our schools, their responses spoke of the essence–to be individuals, aware of who they are, how they’re smart, and how they fit with others [.]. The post Disrupting Education: Capturing the Essence appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Celebrate Pi Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant ? (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of ? in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes. If you’d like to find out more about Daniel Tammet , click for my review of him.

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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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Charged Up: The Care and Feeding of UPS Batteries

EdTech Magazine

'By Neil Bright Batteries comprise the heart of uninterruptible power supplies. Learn how to maintain and effectively use these components.

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Being Digital Isn't Just About Technology-#DLD15

The Web20Classroom

'Digital has truly made our world smaller. From the desk in my classroom I can travel to far off places and talk to friends via Skype or share my thoughts through my blog or experience historic sites like never before. The digital tools we have available to us for both teaching and learning is (and will continue to have) dramatic effects on both. And there is a shift (albeit small) in professional learning as well.

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Awakening Your Inner Bruce Lee: Homework without Homework

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. In Enter the Dragon, a classic martial arts movie, the legendary Bruce Lee is asked about his self-defense style. “I call it fighting without fighting,” Lee’s character answers, and moments later he defeats his would-be opponent without throwing a punch or breaking a sweat. Lee does, indeed, win by fighting without fighting. I recently watched Enter the Dragon [.].

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Cometdocs - free file conversion - online and Chrome Extension

Educational Technology Guy

'Cometdocs is a free online file converter. It converts PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCAD, HTML, and other formats. You can also create PDF files from almost any file format, including XPS, Publisher and more. You can also store your documents online and share them. You get 2GB of storage with the free account. There is also a Chome extension, Cometdocs PDF converter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cometdocs-pdf-converter/olgfoomjdkeijllelookodfgiogbdoch/ These are some of

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

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.

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Learning about relevant education, the future from NYT’s David Carr

Ditch That Textbook

'I admit that I didn’t know much about David Carr when he died, but there are several things that endeared him to me. He was a New York Times columnist and writer. I was a journalism major and wrote for several daily Indiana newspapers. He was a reporter-turned-educator, serving as the Lack Professor of Media [.].

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The consequences of success

K12 Open Ed

'Today, on the first day of Open Education Week , I am happy to say that OER has gained traction in K-12 over the last year. More and more people are talking about OER. States and funders are putting serious efforts into OER as core curriculum. More high quality OER content is becoming available, and most importantly, more K-12 schools are using and remixing OER.

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Paper Schmaper: 5 Ways to Smack Down Your Paper Load

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. I have a crate on wheels. I’ll bet you might have one too. Maybe it’s a backpack or a largish bag. Or maybe you’ve gone paperless. If so, it’s your laptop that’s calling your name. It shakes you out of bed early on a Saturday, as you will yourself back to sleep for just a [.]. The post Paper Schmaper: 5 Ways to Smack Down Your Paper Load appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Engaging Students - some thoughts, tips and ideas

Educational Technology Guy

'image from: [link] Engaging Students - probably the most important, and sometimes most difficult, thing teachers need to do. If the student isn''t engaged, they will have a hard time learning in that class. This is also true about teachers and professional development - if they aren''t engaged, they won''t get anything out of the training. The tips and resources below can be applied to both students and teachers.

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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.