EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Assign logins and teach users how to construct strong passwords. Of course, users must have a phone that’s also locked down, but the consultant the district hires can educate users on how to use these two-factor systems safely. Just learning about how to apply appropriate patching routines can pay for itself.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

This is a how-to article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor describing clever ways to make remote teaching work. This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. For the curious, one requirement for attending the Army War College National Security Seminar is “non-attribution.”

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

The combination of students and mobile devices in the classroom has long been a debate topic among education professionals. In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. And now, story time!

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As someone who has been in teacher education for several decades, I often think about – teach about how to make curriculum engaging, fun, effective, authentic, and relevant for learners. This past week I asked my freshman seminar class to do a few activities related to communicating with their parents. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2018

let’s first look at technology’s place in the current education landscape. True, it is touted as a magic wand that will fix all education woes. It will never: take over education. The human piece to education can’t be overstated. ” — RAND Education. . ” — RAND Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Among the hallmarks of in-person higher education that students might lose in a semester or entire year without ordinary campus encounters are chances to learn from and build relationships with people who are different from them. We believe it can. But will it? Probably not—unless additional action is taken. The upshot?

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 14, 2021

In a recent article, entitled " Parental Involvement is Key to Student Success ," Grace Chen writes that: "Extensive research has shown that students achieve more in school when their parents are involved in their education." Parents should stay involved in their children's education from preschool through high school.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

While I typically post an informal video each week in my classes (recorded the day prior to the start of the week), I do a tremendous amount of curation for the majority of the class content—meaning I’m recommending articles, podcasts, videos and sites elsewhere on the internet.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2021

Chris Loper, one of the instructors for our upcoming course described below, has written an article for parents: " How to Succeed When School Returns to Normal." To read his advice on what parents and students can do to prepare for the coming year in healthy ways , find the full article here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2016

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. National Association for the Education of Young Children , International Society for Technology in Education ).

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. And most teachers are patient pragmatists.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2017

Tens of thousands of educators use it for unit and course planning; hundreds of districts and schools use it as the basis for their curricula. Look at who has adopted UbD: the College Board, to guide the revision of its Advanced Placement (AP) subject matter courses and for the development of its courses AP Seminar and AP Research.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. Early in the semester, during a unit on the U.S.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

It seems like no matter how many strategies you implement, how much time you allow for brain breaks and meditation, how many fidgets you allow, how many times you email parents, how much you discuss in class meetings how to meet expectations, and how much energy you put into solutions … it’s never enough.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2018

Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. The experts shared tips on planning for educational travel to make it accessible for all students. When planning a trip for your students, start by figuring out how much money you will need and determine your deadlines.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

There's no way I could measure this, but I believe that I've written more in terms of my books and articles and everything else over the years since I started teaching 43 years ago than I would have had I not been teaching. I taught them how to move through the water a little more smoothly and efficiently. So what did I teach them?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. There are thousands of online tools to streamline education delivery. For this article, we scoured thousands of reputable digital tools to bring you the best digital tools for future-ready classrooms in 2022. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE. You May Also Like.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

All educators are lifelong learners, whether they’re figuring out how to incorporate the latest edtech device into their lessons or researching bios on NBA players to help a reluctant reader. But while schools expect teachers to continue their education, most only get rewarded for getting an advanced degree like a master’s or a Ph.D.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2015

In education, we tend to value a student’s ability to answer our questions. This is part 2 of a short series (can two articles be considered a series?) The Teaching Channel video above models the Socratic Discussion/Socratic Seminar process. Paideia Seminar. Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. The upside?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Over the last 12 years, Pedersen has completely transformed his classroom, making it a model for other educators in the region and winning accolades (including a 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching). In that class, two students choose a peer-reviewed article and lead seminars every Friday.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 24, 2017

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in June 2017 and is re-posted here with permission. How can you lead your teachers or colleagues to promote inventiveness in the classroom? Discovery Education has material to support creative thinking in your classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

My current cohort of computing and ICT specialists during a seminar A new breed of teachers is emerging. This next generation of educators are just as determined to make a difference as previous generations of teachers. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2017

They will have no memories of the 20th century, which just happens to be the same century their lecturers were born and educated within. These young people - sometimes referred to as Generation Z, or Centennials - will redefine our understanding of learning, and will challenge the way university education is conducted.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. How to learn more about edtech options. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Amy Stohs. If you always do stations on Wednesday and Thursday or start each Monday with a socratic seminar or always do labs on Tuesdays because you have a group of kids that can assist you Monday afternoons to prep, then you are relieved of the decision making needed to pick a day.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country''s most outspoken critic of education''s fixation on grades [and] test scores."

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Tuesday morning was my preconference seminar on “Building an Emerging Technology and Futures Capacity in Your Organization” The goal here wasn’t to present on future trends for education and technology, but rather to help campus information professionals figure out how to better think about the future themselves.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground." This parent seminar is like no other.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Amy Stohs. If you always do stations on Wednesday and Thursday or start each Monday with a socratic seminar or always do labs on Tuesdays because you have a group of kids that can assist you Monday afternoons to prep, then you are relieved of the decision making needed to pick a day.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way? Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In And there would be a regular cold read and short-answer test on the main idea of a non-fiction article. Text Complexity?

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 31, 2012

Held in Bradford's prestigious National Media Museum (more on this in a future post), the day was packed full of quick fire workshops, seminars and plenary presentations. The entire account of that research can be found in the 2008 British Journal of Educational Technology article The Good, the Bad and the Wiki.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way? Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In And there would be a regular cold read and short-answer test on the main idea of a non-fiction article. Text Complexity?

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As we get used to explaining and questioning this way, students understand two things: How to understand a concept to its core in order to understand and/or explain it fully How to ask questions, even ones that others might be perceived as basic Asking Open-Ended Questions: Yikes! Students can’t wing these types of things.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2018

Cornally wrote an article about these observations that ended with a call for Cedar Rapids to consider a school without grades or classes as part of its effort to rebuild. That article sparked a small experiment at the community college, with just 12 students and one half-time teacher.

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