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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

Catherine Davis-Hayes on episode 153 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. They were studying magnets in science.

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Digital Promise Research Map: A Starting Place for Exploring Research on Learning

Digital Promise

The new data visualization is based on over 100,000 peer-reviewed articles from 184 journals published between 2007 and 2016. While it’s not entirely clear why these topics have merged in the learning science field, it may suggest digital multimedia tools are more often studied in STEM classes. Explore the map. Send us feedback.

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14 Effective Self-Directed Learning Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Think about Twitter PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) or educational forums like this Educators Technology for tech-related stuff. This strategy comes from the psychological spacing effect and has been substantiated through various studies, like Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve research. Mayer in his work on multimedia learning.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Another session examines the business of edtech, first by asking the class to read a seminal paper authored in 2007 (but still relevant to this day) about the industry. Knee: A set of case studies about some of the biggest edtech failures, with amazing lessons for current companies. Read the updates too: parts one and two.

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Bucking the Trend

A Principal's Reflections

The following is a guest post by Michael Warren , a Social Studies Teacher at Hasbrouck Heights High School in NJ. You can follow him on Twitter at @mrwarren29. Michael recently visited New Milford HS and reflected on hist visit below. Something I found much more important and revealing of the type of school he runs.

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1 for a visual.)

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The Good Stuff

A Principal's Reflections

When I became the Principal at New Milford High School in 2007 I felt that it was extremely important to communicate with various stakeholders (parents, BOE members, Central Office, staff, etc.) Social media now makes it even easier to get all of this exciting information out to my stakeholders via our Twitter account and Facebook page.

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