Catlin Tucker
MARCH 18, 2016
Each year at the start of spring semester, my administration sends every teacher a form called “What’s Your Flavor?” It asks teachers a series of questions: Are we planning to continue teaching next year? If we could describe our perfect teaching assignment, what would it be? Who would we enjoy working with? This year as I stared at the form and asked myself, what is your perfect teaching assignment?
More Verbs
MARCH 18, 2016
The true value of laptops and tablets in schools is not learning to use the technology, but rather using the technology to learn. The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI ) have been in place since 2002 and has certainly helped close the Digital Access Divide in Maine. But almost 15 years in, our data show that our students are still stuck at just using their devices for word processing, presenting and online research, skills we certainly want students to develop, but don’t go far en
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EdTech Magazine
MARCH 17, 2016
By David Andrade Technology may be the backbone of one-to-one programs, but it should not take the spotlight — learning goals and outcomes require equal attention.
Ditch That Textbook
MARCH 15, 2016
Maps are a fundamental part of everyday life. Even if we don’t pull paper maps out of our car glove compartments anymore, we still rely on GPS and digital directions. Without maps, we’re lost. With maps, we can clearly see how widespread or concentrated our data and content is. Maps touch practically every content area [.].
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The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 18, 2016
Secrets from Language Teacher Isil Boy From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teaching language is a challenge. Isil Boy from Turkey teaches students how to speak English. Today, she shares her secrets for helping language students learn. She also shares her tricks and tips for using technology in the classroom.
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 13, 2016
The following is a guest post by Jill M. Hackett Ed.D. - Assistant Superintendent, Academic Services/School Accountability, North Kansas City Schools, Kansas City, MO. Rigor and Relevance can seem like abstract terms until you start to understand how schools and districts apply them in specific ways. Over the past five years, we North Kansas City School District restructured our purpose so that student-centered learning was the ultimate objective.
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Ditch That Textbook
MARCH 18, 2016
Garth Holman’s students created something spectacular, and I cringe at calling it a “textbook.” That’s the easy description. They created their own digital textbook. But that term — “digital textbook” — doesn’t do these students’ product justice. A textbook is a static set of content. It doesn’t change and adapt and demonstrate the creativity and thinking [.].
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 17, 2016
Mattering Mondays with Angela Maiers From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You believe, you receive. But how can you believe in a child who has let you down? How can you believe in yourself when you aren’t sure if you can do it? Angela Maiers shares practical everyday ways you can help people know they matter in this fourth of the series.
More Verbs
MARCH 12, 2016
There is an old quote that the true value to learning isn’t learning to use the technology, but rather using the technology to learn. To leverage the power of learning through technology, for focusing more on “verbs” than on “nouns,” the technology needs to be treated as a tool, and most of the instructional time needs to be allocated for the learning activity.
Digital Promise
MARCH 16, 2016
Patti is the Director of Adult Learning Initiatives at Digital Promise. You can follow her on Twitter at @patticonstan. We see more and more evidence that technology use in K-12 education is expanding to include adult learners as well — namely the 36 million learners who have low literacy, numeracy, and job skills. For instance, we see a game from Learning Games Studio that uses simulations of real life social interactions to help adults learn English; we see EdReady , a product that incor
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.
EdTech Magazine
MARCH 15, 2016
By Eric Patnoudes Without quality professional development, technology will have little to no impact on learning.
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 16, 2016
You might just be surprised. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This week my students are preparing for a visitor. My good friend Dr. Frank Buck ( he’s been on the show to talk about his organization book for school leaders) is coming in town along with his lovely wife. My students are going to be giving an overview of their learning for this year and are practicing today.
Teacher Reboot Camp
MARCH 16, 2016
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost. April is around the corner and when we are encouraged to inspire learners to celebrate National Poetry month. No matter what subject you teach, poetry can engage learners or stir their creative juices. Use shape, acrostic, haikus or short poems as a lesson introduction for science, math, history, or any other subject.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 18, 2016
Few people can sit down and start writing. Most of us hem and haw as we mentally walk through how to get from introduction to conclusion. It’s called ‘prewriting’ and students are no different. Where they diverge from you and I is they haven’t tested all the available methods for planning a story, constructing non-fiction, or building the evidence-based argument.
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.
Tom Murray
MARCH 14, 2016
The following is a guest post from Ross Cooper. Connect with Ross on Twitter. Over the last handful of years we have seen an explosion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. And, coinciding with this movement has been an influx of new STEM-related products that are school friendly. Some of the more popular merchandise includes littleBits , Snap Circuits , and Spheros.
Battelle for Kids
MARCH 14, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 7. Driving Question: How can 5th graders pass a real-world final STEM exam? At Katherine Smith School, we are passionate about project-based learning. We also know that STEM is important enough to have a dedicated STEM teacher and lab. Every kindergarten through sixth grade student gets the opportunity to engage in hands-on lessons, lab experiments, and high-quality science content, technology, engineering, and math lessons.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 14, 2016
I enjoyed Pam Lowe’s recent post about personalized learning. She asked four important questions: Why does everyone have to learn the same thing? Why can’t learners learn what they want to learn? Can learners choose their own learning tools? Why do learners have to learn the way a teacher says? Using Peter Pappas’ four negotiables of student-centered learning , we can see that Pam’s four questions center around the first two ‘negotiables.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 16, 2016
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. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle II. Puzzle–Leprechaun jigsaw puzzle.
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User Generated Education
MARCH 15, 2016
As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I come from a background in Experiential Education (yes, it is a specific professional discipline). I’ve also discussed reflecting on the activities to increase the chances of extracting learning as well as transferable skills and knowledge from the activities which is an integral part of experiential education – see my previous posts, Where is reflection in the learning process?
The Web20Classroom
MARCH 15, 2016
This post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Science Technology Engineering Math STEM. I had the honor of being both a Middle School Math and Science teacher. Those were some of my fondest times in the classroom, blowing things up (it happened once!) while at the same time being able to connect the math to the science we were doing.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 12, 2016
The Van Meter Schools have long been an incubator for innovation. Van Meter was one of our earliest districts to implement a 1-to-1 student computing initiative and also was one of the first districts in Iowa to be named an Apple Distinguished School. More recently, Van Meter has been diving deeply into project-based learning, standards-based grading, competency-based education, and flexible, modular schedules in which students can exercise some choice and determine how much time they need to sp
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2016
Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π 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.
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
MARCH 16, 2016
Pat Deklotz is Superintendent of the Kettle Moraine School District in Wales, Wisconsin. She was recently named Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year. Across our nation and our world, new developments are transforming the way students learn. Whether in rural or urban settings, or on small or large campuses, digital tools are enhancing learning and allowing educators to personalize instruction.
Battelle for Kids
MARCH 13, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 6. Driving Question: Who gets arts education and who gets left out? Excellence for all students in the 21st Century means developing students' sense of self, their engagement with their community and their world, and their capacity for joy and persistence, as well as positive expression and reception. ~ Shelly Gilbride ( At the Crossroads of Arts & Equity ).
EdTech Magazine
MARCH 14, 2016
By D. Frank Smith Windows devices were the top seller globally, despite facing pressure from Chromebooks in the U.S.
Educational Technology Guy
MARCH 17, 2016
Zoho ShowTime is a very cool, free, tool that makes your presentations more interactive. It's easy to setup an account and then get started using it. You can import an PowerPoint presentation or PDF or create a new presentation right in it. (if you use Google Slides, just download it as a PowerPoint and then import). What's different about Zoho ShowTime is that it gives you live interaction with the audience as well as analytics.
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.
Digital Promise
MARCH 16, 2016
We see more and more evidence that technology use in K-12 education is expanding to include adult learners as well — namely the 36 million learners who have low literacy, numeracy, and job skills. For instance, we see a game from Learning Games Studio that uses simulations of real life social interactions to help adults learn English; we see EdReady , a product that incorporates pre-tests and other regular assessments to help adult students with a personalized learning path to learning math; we
Voyager Sopris Learning
MARCH 16, 2016
An Innovative Approach to Meaningful Embedded Assessment. In recent years, assessment has gotten a bad rap because of overuse and misapplication of mandated accountability tests. All of us involved in education, however, know that meaningful assessment is an important aspect of the learning cycle. We are particularly grateful that, in a time of frustration over isolated testing, embedded assessment is finally getting the attention it deserves.
Securly
MARCH 18, 2016
The end of UK Local Authority school networks. By: Richard Moore. In the UK, Local Authorities (LA’s) have been responsible for providing schools with fast, safe internet connectivity for the past 20 years. However, in 2000 the Academy program allowed schools to take control of their own finances and to operate as independent businesses funded by central government.
Educational Technology Guy
MARCH 17, 2016
Touchscreen Chromebooks are becoming more popular, and flip models like the Acer C738T are also getting popular. These Chromebooks open up some more options and features for students. Here is a short list of apps that are great for touchscreen Chromebooks: --. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.
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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