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10 Ways to Use Screencasting for Formative Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress. In this blog post, I’ll share how I use screencasting to assess student work.

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Tech Engages Today’s Students, But Teachers Need Support

EdTech Magazine

Tech Engages Today’s Students, But Teachers Need Support. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/06/2018 - 09:13. This generation of students is beyond tech-savvy and could be described as tech-innate. Since this group has grown up in a high-tech society, they think spatially and in 4D, which is different than past generations. As digital leaders, it is important to cultivate systemic conditions in education that support and nurture a growth mindset for these students, while allowing them to utilize their tec

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iPad Magic: 6 Ideas Every iPad Teacher Needs to Know

The CoolCatTeacher

Tony Vincent on episode 247 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Want to show your cursor on the iPad screen? Want to find the cents button? Want to help a student with a unique character spell their name? There’s a trick for these things and more on the iPad. Today, Tony Vincent shares six ideas every iPad teacher needs to know.

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5 Ways to Use JotForm Cards With Your Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

One of the fastest growing technologies in education is forms–to gather information, curate data, test students, and much more. There are lots of platforms available but for many, JotForm is the gold standard whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. JotForm offers what seems to be an endless supply of professional-looking templates that can be used to sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll students into classes, ask for donations, collect payments, and much more.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Handle Criticism Effectively

The CoolCatTeacher

Day 32 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can tell a lot about a person by how they handle criticism. Those who immediately dismiss criticism neglect the fact that most criticism, even that from an enemy, carries with it a grain of truth or no one would believe it. While not every person deserves a response nor does everyone deserve to be heard, when someone loves you, you must listen even when it breaks your heart.

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A Student’s Guide to Using Google Sheets

Teacher Tech

A Student’s Guide to Using Google Sheets Using a spreadsheet is a life skill. In the real world, successful people use spreadsheets. I have created a Google Doc with 4 essential skills that if students can do just these 4 things they can use spreadsheets for assignments. Provide this guide to students along with the […]. The post A Student’s Guide to Using Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quizlet Raises $20 Million to Bring More Artificial Intelligence to Its Study Tools

Edsurge

Big numbers are nothing new to Quizlet , one of the most widely-used digital study tools in the United States. The San Francisco-based developer behind the platform claims more than 30 million monthly users, including 1 in 2 high schoolers, and 1 in 3 college students, in the United States. And according to one website tracker , it is among the most visited sites in the country (besting LinkedIn and Spotify).

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Instant Plagiarism Check Add-on for Google Docs from Unicheck

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unicheck, well-known in the educational circles for their technological breakthroughs and innovations, has created a Google Docs plagiarism checker add-on that enables users to check their texts.read more.

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Let’s Cut The Tech for a Minute. and talk about Whiteboards with @mc_Squares

TeacherCast

Can a Whiteboard be considered Educational Technology? Find out how you can bring "Unplugged EdTech" into your next classroom activity with mcSquares. The post Let’s Cut The Tech for a Minute. and talk about Whiteboards with @mc_Squares appeared first on TeacherCast. Can a Whiteboard be considered Educational Technology? Find out how you can bring "Unplugged EdTech" into your next classroom activity with mcSquares.

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5 ways to move to personalized, competency-based education

eSchool News

A new report from iNACOL examines five key issues that could help improve the future of U.S. K-12 education and increase competency-based education, according to the authors. In the report , the authors describe how the traditional education system isn’t designed to generate the goals educators and policymakers have set for it. Ten primary flaws in the current education system–including that the traditional system is time-based, is built on a fixed mindset, and uses academic grading

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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.

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Should Your School Adopt @MicrosoftEDU as your Instructional Technology Platform?

TeacherCast

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we welcome Frank and Shannon from the Microsoft Education team on the program and Rob Dixon from Nebraska to discuss how Microsoft Education is being implemented in school districts worldwide to meet the needs of districts, teachers, classrooms, and most importantly. students. The post Should Your School Adopt @MicrosoftEDU as your Instructional Technology Platform?

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Thank a Teacher – and Their Families Too!

MiddleWeb

Great educators don’t exist in a vacuum. More often than not they are supported by loved ones who also play a part in the accomplishment of a teacher's daily miracles. Consultant Debbie Silver describes how spouses, children, and parents share in the teaching life.

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Online Poster Maker – Free, Simple, No Account Required

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

Online Poster Maker – Free, Simple, No Account Required Free Online Poster Maker – DesignCap DesignCap.com Designing digital posters can provide a quick, creative, and engaging way for students to show what they know. DesignCap is a free online poster maker that stands out for a few reasons. Not only is it free, but you don’t. Read more.

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Mass Group Google Doc Editing During Class

Cycles of Learning

Not a new idea at all, but I am always blown away by how productive class is when I assign a writing assignment and spend the class editing and providing feedback to all docs simultaneously. Today I pushed out this template, and groups of students relocated to a myriad of places on campus to complete their formal research article according to the template.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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.

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Here’s how 4 schools are supporting wireless internet needs

eSchool News

As wireless internet needs become more important for students and instructors, many schools are bolstering their connectivity to ensure smooth learning experiences. Schools and campuses must support 1:1 online learning initiatives, artificial intelligence/virtual reality (AI/VR) use, BYOD, shared resources, and on-campus surveillance–these efforts require reliable and cost-effective wireless connections that support collaborative digital-learning environments.

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Accessing Your Local Library with Libby and Flipster

ProfHacker

Several years ago, I was part of a focus group on our campus. One of the questions posed to us was, “How often do you use the library?” I had to ask for clarification: was the question about how often I made use of the library’s resources, or how often I actually entered the building? In my case, I used the resources far more often than I entered the building (and that’s still true).

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Strengthening Marshalltown’s STEM Education and Future Workforce

MIND Research Institute

Marshalltown, Iowa, is a city with a diverse industrial base. With major employers in manufacturing, engineering, construction, healthcare and finance, Marshalltown is largely dependent upon the talents of its STEM workers. The city’s business community believes that strengthening the future workforce begins in elementary education, so they recently banded together to bring ST Math to the school district.

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Student Safety and Restorative Justice

Gaggle Speaks

Zero-tolerance behavioral policies spread throughout the United States in the mid-1990s, after the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 required states to expel for one year any student who brought a firearm to school, or lose all federal funding. Similar policies have since extended to drug-related incidents and physical confrontations. Zero-tolerance has since been criticized for a variety of reasons, from being generally ineffective to resulting in egregiously unfair consequences for students and eve

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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What’s So Different About High Tech High Anyway?

MindShift

Walking onto a High Tech High campus is like entering a workshop. Our tour guide, sophomore Caroline Egler, pointed out classrooms that supposedly housed physics or humanities or biology, but most students weren’t in those rooms. They were in the hallways working on projects, huddled around computers together, or even working at desks elevated 8 feet above the ground so they towered over the floor.

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Spot Check Assignments with Google Classroom (Video Overview)

The Electric Educator

Research projects strike fear into the heart of most students. These big projects also strike fear into the hearts of teachers because they require a lot of planning and take FOREVER to grade! Grading complex, long term assignments is overwhelming because there is so much to do all at once. Google Classroom can help. Use the question tool in Google Classroom to provide a place for students to submit a portion of their research assignment.

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NextGen Schools: Measuring the Success of Innovative Practices

EmergingEdTech

As long as there has been public education, there have been efforts to improve and reform it. With the current educational landscape being rapidly improved by technology, keeping up with the latest. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Grammar Bachelor: A Team Learning Activity

MiddleWeb

For many students, grammar is mostly about memorizing rules and having teachers correct their mistakes. Author Sean Ruday's Bachelor Grammar activity helps them see how authors use grammatical concepts purposefully to make a piece of writing as strong as possible.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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‘Windows to the World’ (penpal) global project

Learning Confluence

Remember the excitement around having a penpal? I remember almost 50 years ago having a penpal in Germany – and how strange life sounded in that country! His name was ‘Axel’ and his letters inspired curious conversations and inquiry into what life was like for this mystery person on the other side of the world. Well, you can now provide that same experience for your students virtually using online tools and structured global project design – but with much better connectio

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Animating with Google Slides

EdTechTeam

I was a student of the 80’s. I grew up when education was still “drill & kill”, test scores and worksheets. I struggled as a student. I never got high marks and dreaded getting back my writing assignments. The reason my writing assignments caused so much stress, was the fact that they had so much red ink on them I usually just gave up, took the C- and never really looked back.

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K-12 Dealmaking: ACT Invests in Smart Sparrow; LivingTree, PeopleAdmin Make Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12

In this week’s dealmaking news, assessment developer ACT invested adaptive learning company Smart Sparrow. Also, K-12 engagement platform LivingTree acquired fundraising platform Edbacker and PeopleAdmin acquired Performance Matters. The post K-12 Dealmaking: ACT Invests in Smart Sparrow; LivingTree, PeopleAdmin Make Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief.

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Learner-Centred Innovation – New Book From @KatieMartinEDU

The Principal of Change

I am truly excited to announce that the second book from IMpress , a subsidiary of Dave Burgess Consulting , “Learner-Centred Innovation”, is now available on Amazon. This book is by one of my favorite writers and someone I look to as a thought leader in education, Katie Martin. I have known Katie for several years, and am also proud to call her friend.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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.

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It’s Time to Vote for the 2018 Barrow Peace Prize: Who Will Win?

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our 2nd graders have been hard at work learning about 4 civil rights leaders and preparing a project that has become known as the Barrow Peace Prize. A few details about what has happened before the final products you now see: After learning about people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, students brainstormed a list of character traits that are needed in order to win the Barrow Peace Prize.

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Storyline

Technology Tidbits

Storyline is a cool site for learning how to code/program Alexa (Amazon's smart speaker device), that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Storyline is very simple to use and features a drag-n-drop interface for selecting actions and commands. A Alexa user can now create: games, quizzes, newsflashes, and much much more. I highly recommend checking out Storyline by clicking here !!!

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4 Models of blended learning to implement in the classroom

Neo LMS

We can all agree that the phrase “blended learning” is well and truly a part of the modern-day discourse on education; so much so that academics have begun to curate a universal definition, as well as identify sub-themes and genres of the concept. Taxonomy (the science of classifying things) is important here, because we remain in flux when it comes to online learning modes, and it is always helpful to know when we repeat phrases — such as “blended learning” — in a discussion, most people will k

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Projector Screen Store

Technology Tidbits

Projector Screen Store is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen Store by clicking here !!!

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.