Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 1, 2016
Today, I began teaching my course “Engaging Today’s Learners with Technology” at Stanford’s Festival of Teaching. One of the first things I asked my students to do was create a Twitter account. I explained that Twitter is ideal for connecting with other educators, engaging in conversations about education, and being inspired by the steady stream of interesting ideas shared online.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 1, 2016
Start #back2school strong From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Heading back to school with the right attitude is vital to our success as educators. These are important days, days that change everything. Educator, your importance is tremendous! You know why you’re so important? Well, you can change everything about a kid’s life.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
AUGUST 5, 2016
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates. Within the garden of learning is the students’ gained knowledge put into use. The way we design our lessons and activities determine how successful our learners will be in grasping new knowledge. We also have to ensure students pass tests and achieve learning objectives. Our lessons can help us achieve both.
Neo LMS
AUGUST 2, 2016
I was strolling in a park the other day and just when I got distracted by a colorful ice cream truck and was wondering if I should resist the sweet temptation, a sudden pain pulled me right back into the harsh reality. Someone stepped on my foot! “Aaaauch!” “Excuse me, didn’t mean to, sorry ’bout that!” And he wooshed in the direction of the ice cream truck with his nose stuck in his phone, without seemingly noticing the colorful vehicle and the loud kids surr
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2016
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Smartphones can help deepen and extend relationships beyond the scheduled parent-teacher conferences.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 5, 2016
A great fundraising idea for schools From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Clorox has an awesome new way to help teachers. First, if you’re a high-need school, learn how to double your impact on your DonorsChoose.org project to take advantage of the $100,000 donation from Clorox, GLAD and Hidden Valley to Donorschoose.org.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
JULY 31, 2016
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! Each year, teachers come together from around the world to accomplish 1 to 30 goals to transform the learning in their classrooms in a movement known as The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers. Below is a clickable graphic of the 15 goals we are currently aiming to accomplish. There are 30 goals in total we will be accomplishing by January 2017.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2016
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The College Board hopes its new program will bring women and minorities into the fold.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 5, 2016
Back to School Classroom Design -- sponsored by Carson-Dellosa From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sixth graders created their own classroom design. Not only were these kids excited to come to school, but they got passionate about learning! Furthermore, the results in Catherine Stanley’s classroom should make us all wonder why more of us don’t let our students customize their classrooms.
Doug Levin
AUGUST 1, 2016
Blockchain technology may seem magical, but it is not magic. For every advantage it may offer over traditional approaches to ‘big iron’ centralized, proprietary IT systems, it imposes new requirements on its users. And, while it is reasonable to expect that some technological hurdles will be addressed in the future, the magnitude of some of these hurdles is so great that one is left wondering if some blockchain for learning advocates even understand the underlying technology of which
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 30, 2016
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.” – Albert-László Barabási. Goal: Set the stage for innovation this year with your learners by implementing a program or creating the environment for innovation. You can do this by creating a makerspace , genius bar , creating an innovation space , doing a Genius Hour project , implementing a student Shark Tank
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 31, 2016
Word clouds, or tag clouds as they are sometimes called, bring words to life in a visual way. They constitute graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more often. These words can be taken from an analyzed text or added manually. The more a word appears or is imputed, the larger it will be in the cloud.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 4, 2016
Start the School Year Right -- Sponsored by @BloomzApp From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Social media and technology have changed parent-teacher relationships. If you’re smart, you can harness their power. Today, educator Joe Mazza shares how you can overcome barriers to creating successful partnerships with parents.
Neo LMS
AUGUST 4, 2016
From a very young age we are all being taught how to interact with others, how to act appropriately in certain social situations, and to respect everyone. In other words, all kids are taught how to be a good citizen: of their communities, of their countries, of the world. Don’t speak with your mouth full! Don’t throw your garbage on the street!
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.
EdTech4Beginners
AUGUST 1, 2016
I recently wrote an article for Edutopia. It was about ways Google Maps can be used to inspire students in lessons. Click here for the full article. Have you used Google Maps in lessons? How did you get on? Let me know by commenting below. Tagged: edtech , educational technology , edutopia , GAFE , Google , Google Maps , lessons , teaching , tech , technology.
Ditch That Textbook
AUGUST 4, 2016
The beginning of the school year is such an invigorating time. It’s still so full of potential and possibility. Plus, there’s that joy that we teachers get from new school supplies (something I’m sure is not fully appreciated by most other professions!). As we gear up for the new school year (or have already begun [.].
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 3, 2016
#StaplesforStudents Twitter Party with $2,000 in Give aways From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tonight Erin Klein and I are hosting a Twitter party with @Staples and @DonorsChoose. We’ll be using the #StaplesforStudents hashtag. We’ll give away $2,000 in prizes to some lucky members of the chat.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 4, 2016
Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. August 1-10. 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech into Your Class NOW. get 10% off with coupon code SUBSCRIBERSPECIAL. 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech Into Your Class Now provides 1) an overview of the tech topics most important to your teaching, and 2) practical strategies to address common classroom tech problems.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
AUGUST 3, 2016
Every time I see friends or family members, they ask, “How’s the business going?”. And every time, I struggle to answer. It was easy to talk about work when I was a reporter. After all, I could simply describe the stories I was covering—like the future of a nuclear power plant, or a trend of drug overdoses. However, as the founder of Listenwise , my ed-tech startup, there are so many facets to my role it’s hard to give a short, comprehensible answer to this question.
EdNews Daily
AUGUST 4, 2016
Young people are frequently exposed to ambitious dreams of changing the world, and a practical way of expressing said interest is through research in science fairs; however, do science fairs provide everyone an equal opportunity to produce meaningful research? One study by the University of Toronto 1 suggests that students who have laboratory exposure typically dominate high school science fairs, such as Intel, Google, and Siemens.
Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 1, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 7, Number 3. Driving Question: How can infographics teach visual literacy and push students deeper in their learning? The phenomenon of social media has made us more connected, possibly more informed, and dare I say it? more impatient. With information coming through our mobile devices so quickly that it almost burns our fingertips, the need to feed the beast, and feed it fast.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 1, 2016
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of
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.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 4, 2016
This article originally appeared on Edutopia. You should know right up front, I’m not a math guy. Left to my own devices, wandering the halls of just about any school, I gravitate to the social studies and art project rooms. It’s not that I’m afraid of mathematics, I just like the stuff I can grab onto. Math always seemed too intangible.
EdNews Daily
AUGUST 3, 2016
Guest article written by: Bob McDonald. . Year after year, educational institutions continue to pour funding into digital technologies, updating classrooms and curriculums for a heavily digitized 21st-century. While it often seems that each new semester brings another digital arts endowment or emerging technologies grant, very few of these investments focus on actually updating campus-wide technological frameworks.
Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 1, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 7, Number 2. Driving Question: When Will We See The Full Potential of Personalized Learning? Information is a tangible commodity in today's global economy. This makes the educational marketplace act as a conduit toward potential social, political, personal, and industrial wealth. Beyond the digital architecture of the information age in the 1980s and 90s that constructed massive databases and personal information cataloging, the infusion of computers as pervasive tools in the ear
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 31, 2016
Parents increasingly find technology a roadblock to tracking student progress in the classrooms. There are too many options, with too few instructions that seem to constantly change. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors summed it up like this: Most parents have some concerns about keeping up with the part of the digital revolution that has extended to their child’s classroom.
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.
The Web20Classroom
AUGUST 2, 2016
For me, the beginning of the school year was the best time of year. I always enjoyed getting back into my classroom, setting things up and getting pumped for the journey ahead with my students. The beginning of the year was a good reset. I could reflect back on the previous year, examine what I had learned over the summer and plan for a better year coming up.
Education Elements
AUGUST 3, 2016
"Preaching to the choir (or the converted - for secular appeal)!” This phrase sums up the amazing experience of sharing our district’s story amongst a room full of skillful professionals working on the same mission in education. It was exhilarating to learn as much as we were able to share, if not more, at Education Elements' Personalized Learning Summit in San Francisco.
Edsurge
AUGUST 4, 2016
Students in Art Goldberg’s English composition classes at Miami-Dade College and Broward College have a different experience than their peers in most introductory college writing courses. They’re role-playing as junior staff writers in a fictional newsroom, creating content for an upcoming broadcast—all within a digital game that aims to make learning grammar more engaging than memorizing Strunk and White.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 5, 2016
BloomBoard is a professional development website for teachers and administrators. On the teacher side , educators learn, share, and discuss teaching ideas. The resources–including over 10,000 articles, videos, lesson plans, and more–are clear, easy-to-navigate, and user-friendly, with opportunities to collaborate with other teachers. What truly makes this educator-oriented site unique is that teachers can earn topical micro-credentials that can be used by their school district or st
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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