Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Free-form Station Rotation Lesson

Catlin Tucker

As I planned my lesson for today, I identified three specific tasks I wanted my students to complete over the course of our 90 minute block period. I knew they would work at different rates, and I wanted them to have the flexibility to move through each task at their own pace. Below were the tasks I had planned: Station #1: In-class flip with a grammar video about using semicolons followed by a collaborative practice activity.

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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Busy teachers can use good classroom decoration and design principles to boost learning.

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Literacy Startup Unveils Andre Agassi Investment at Electronics Conference

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

What happens when two experienced entrepreneurs find themselves navigating the unfamiliar waters of the K-12 ed-tech marketplace. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Motivating students to become more self-directed

Neo LMS

Teachers continually face the challenge of keeping their students engaged and motivated. And let’s face it. Digital learning has lost a bit of the so-called “personal teaching touch” because most of the learning, teaching and exams are done online and there’s less physical interaction. In traditional learning, teachers can directly monitor student progress and class standing, and address any concerns if there are any.

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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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Every Schools' Obligation

A Principal's Reflections

Just because today’s students have grown up in a technology-rich world does not mean that they know how to effectively and responsibly utilize technology. It is a common misconception that today’s learners can seamlessly transition from the routine use of devices for personal reasons to using them for learning, research, and enhanced productivity. We routinely hear how students use digital tools inappropriately for sexting, cyberbullying, cheating, video recording teachers and fights with peers,

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Reaching Hard to Reach Students with Passion and Tough Love with Ron Clark

The CoolCatTeacher

Every Classroom Matters Episode 202 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teaching hard to reach students can be so frustrating. Master teacher and motivator Ron Clark shares his secrets for reaching kids and staying motivated to teach. I especially LOVED the advice he has about what we should remember before we start complaining!

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

I’ve long been intrigued by the physical keyboards teachers and homeschoolers use to introduce keyboarding to the youngest typists. I occasionally get questions from readers about them, but never have a good answer. Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding.

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New Ed-Tech Event Valuable for Education Entrepreneurs

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

The National Education Week conference, is a new, surprisingly intimate ed-tech gathering that has a lot to offer to startups. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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A LOOK INSIDE a Digital Shop Class: Game Based Learning, Design Thinking and …

The CoolCatTeacher

Every Classroom Matters episode 200 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Digital shop class! Igniting wonder! You can write on the desks. You can write on the walls; there are no grades! Learning is a game where students level up and earn experience points. Kids are building things to improve their community.

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FETC 2016: Why This Year’s Show Is Focused on the Future of Education

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Discover what this year's FETC will bring to the table for educators.

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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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KidzType–the Keyboard Practice Site You’ve Been Waiting For

Ask a Tech Teacher

One question I get urgently and often is how to teach students to keyboard. With so much of student performance based on their knowledge of using computers and keyboards, it’s become the tip of the sword in preparing students for learning. Teachers are struggling to find ways to teach keyboarding that transfers those skills to real-life situations (like testing).

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U.S K-12 Educational Technology Policy: What is the Federal Role? (Part I)

Doug Levin

What should the federal role be in promoting access to and use of technology for K-12 education (AKA ‘educational technology policy’)? What are the types of programs and policies that Congress could enact that would benefit students given: (1) a limited federal role in (and national budget for) education, and (2) continual and rapid advances in technological capabilities, tools, and services that are or could be applied to benefit student learning (both in and out of schools)?

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Historical Inquiry: 20+ Creative Ways History Teachers Can use Primary Sources

The CoolCatTeacher

Every Classroom Matters Episode 201 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Historical inquiry helps make history class exciting. History teachers can use primary sources in creative, exciting ways to make history come alive. Many people in history might be dead, but your teaching doesn’t have to be. Let’s dive in.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

This post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own. From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. Regardless of which region of the country the conversations take place, a number of concerns arise regarding a district’s digital transformation.

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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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Shifting A Paradigm: A Rural District Blends Learning In Personalized Math

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 1, Number 6. Driving Question: What if a small school math teacher adopts blended learning as the instructional framework to personalize mathematics instruction? "What does happen when a lone math teacher in a small community in a vast rural area realizes that the traditional math approach just wasn't working?" That was a question I had to ask myself.

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What You Don’t Know About Homework Research

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. In recent months, I’ve had dozens of conversations with educators and parents about the impact of traditional homework on learning. These discussions included a wide array of opinions, which I’ve distilled here. Popular opinions about homework Homework takes too much time from family activities Most of it is worksheets or workbooks that kids hate Homework doesn’t […].

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Pass That Exam! 14 Test Prep Strategies

Teacher Reboot Camp

“… these tests are unable to measure all of what it is that makes you the valued person who you are.” – Principal Len Christie. Exam time is stressful for students and teachers. Teachers want to help students pass exams due to the high stakes, but also would like the curriculum to focus on meaningful learning. Research has shown standardized test scores do not reflect many students true knowledge and skills.

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2 Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans

Ask a Tech Teacher

I have two lesson plans, both aligned with Common Core, to help you plan Martin Luther King Day. 4th grade. Students interpret the words of Dr Martin Luther King in their own words in a visual organizer. Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Common Core aligned. 7-page booklet includes a sample, step-by-step projects, a rubric for assessment, and additional resources to enrich teaching. 5th grade.

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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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A Natural and Experiential Cycle of Learning

User Generated Education

Given this era of learning where information is abundant and easily accessible, it is even more important than ever to help learners understand the learning process. As such, one of the major responsibilities of an educator in this era of education is to make the learning process overt and intentional so learners develop skills for becoming more effective learners.

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Blended Learning: It Is The Questions That Matter

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 1, Number 4. Driving Question: How does a teacher's question quality make blended learning deep? Whenever I look at the many pop terms that include "learning", I wonder about their meaning. When teachers I currently coach in Project-Based-Learning asked me about another "learning" term, "blended learning", I had to think about my answer.

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FETC 2016: Q&A with Reshma Saujani on Bringing Girls to Coding

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Learn from a leader who's paving the way to a new era for girls in coding.

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Did You Miss These Posts Over the Holidays?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are five activities to get you ready for the demands of a new school year: 10 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer. End-of-Year Tips: 18 Steps To A Speedier Computer. End of Year Tips: Update Your Online Presence. 4 Collaborative Projects Students Will Love. Try them out–post a comment if you need help. I’ll be here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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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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Web Filtering Anywhere

Securly

By Tom Walker. Web filtering is an effective tool to ensure online student safety. Recent innovations have allowed web filtering to improve from a rather stationary service, to a mobile and easy-to-use necessity. Schools are starting to abandon inconvenient web filtering hardware in favor of flexible cloud-based solutions which better provide for 1:1 program safety measures.

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Interactive Map: Integrating Technology in Early Literacy

Waterford

A new interactive map called Integrating Technology in Early Literacy was released by New America and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Click to view full map. A new interactive map called Integrating Technology in Early Literacy was recently released by New America and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. This map illustrates 30+ parenting and educational programs across the country that have integrated new technologies to support language development and early literacy.

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Samsung Announces 3 Chromebook Solutions at FETC 2016

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Districts seeking to go one-to-one can test-drive the idea with Samsung’s latest education packages.

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Subscriber Special: January

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: If you donate to my blog drive, I’ll send you FREE. The 18-page two-lesson plan bundle to blend your class into Martin Luther King Day January 18, 2016. We’re close, but not there yet. To those who have donated–Thank You!

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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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Successful Online ELL Support for an International Ballet Student

FuelEd

Contributor: Mike Gray Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 10:15am. The following is a story that Mike wrote to show how important an online education can be to a young student who needs a non-traditional path to education, especially through the use of online ELL (English language learner) support. Jinny is a ballet student who has been accepted to an elite ballet boarding school in Florida.

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New Year’s Resolution: Know Your Students, Be the Change

Voyager Sopris Learning

The holiday divinity and fudge are just about gone, and the heart-warming Christmas movies seem to have been replaced by weight-loss commercials. I’ve made more than my share of New Year’s resolutions, and rarely have I stuck to the calorie-counting, mile-running regimens that I have planned. This year, rather than set some lofty goals that I will most likely fail to achieve, I plan to stop trying to find who or what is to blame for the problems with education today.

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How Battery Technology is Charging Ahead

EdTech Magazine

By Rutrell Yasin Solid-state batteries offer multiple improvements over lithium-ion.

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How Do You Backup Your Data

Ask a Tech Teacher

Probably, of all computer functions, backing up data is the most critical and the most likely to make you tear your hair out. Hard drives crash, files get corrupted, your computer is lost or stolen, a virus and malware forces you to reformat (which can lose all of your data), what you thought you saved you didn’t–I could go on. There are dozens of reasons why you should–really–backup your data.

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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.