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?Up, Out and Away! The 2018 Higher Education Technology Events Calendar

Edsurge

So we’ve compiled a list of the education technology events for the higher-ed community happening across the world in 2018. gathering hundreds of education leaders, thinkers, researchers around learning, equity and technology. On October 2-4, our Fusion conference returns to Burlingame, Calif.,

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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

In a workshop last week, I was guiding a group through the process of designing a choice board. Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018). Would you rather go to the beach or the snow? Would you rather eat a cookie or a brownie? Would You Rather?

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Fantastic Learning Activities with Google Drawings

Learning in Hand

Every year Matt Miller hosts Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit , a free online learning experience. This year I chatted with Matt about learning activities that teachers can make with Google Drawings, and it was published as a video for the summit. Lots of educators tweeted the things they learned.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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Can This Be the K-12 Edtech Marketplace That Finally Succeeds?

Edsurge

In a survey of this community conducted in June, more than half of the respondents said they use online learning tools every day, and nearly 80 percent said they use games, apps and digital books at least several times a week. Games and Learning traces its origin to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the research arm of the Sesame Workshop.

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Weekend Reading – Valuing the Syllabus Edition

ProfHacker

Last week, it was my great pleasure to get to go to Michigan State on the invitation of the HuMetrics HSS group for a Valuing the Syllabus workshop. — Lee Skallerup Bessette makes zero magic (@readywriting) March 2, 2018. ricetopher) March 3, 2018. highered should do the same. — Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.