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It's Time for K–12 Schools to Change the Integration Conversation

EdTech Magazine

It's Time for K–12 Schools to Change the Integration Conversation. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 08/28/2018 - 12:03. “Is product X compatible with product Y?”. It’s one of the most common inquiries in education technology evaluation and purchasing, and for good reason: At the end of the day, people just want to know their systems are going to work together , even if it’s not always clear what that means. .

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It’s Time to Make Your Classroom Paper-free

Ask a Tech Teacher

Each year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of paper. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , paper typically found in a school or office environments such as copier paper, computer printouts, and notepads, comprise the largest category. Mitigating the use of paper has long been a goal for schools. Every year, a prodigious number of lesson plans center around dwindling rainforests, the shrinking world forests, and the ever-growing waste associated with paper.

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Whose Land? Understanding Indigenous Peoples Through Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Michael Furdyk from Taking IT Global talks about some global initiatives to help students understand indigenous peoples and develop empathy including Whose Land. Listen to the Show. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Michael Furdyk’s Bio as Submitted.

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3 Alternative roles of teachers in networked learning environments

Neo LMS

Last time we began exploring the role of educators within networked learning environments, broadly using a theory by George Siemens called “Connectivism” as our base. 3 Alternative roles of teachers in networked learning environments. Today we will further that exploration via a few definitions mooted by pedagogues over the years, each of which offers a useful insight into how the role of instructor needs to change in environments were content and information is freely available, but where colla

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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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What do you want school to be? [VIDEO]

Dangerously Irrelevant

A wonderful video from the Early Learning Alliance. Some of my favorite quotes include: I want school to do no harm. I don’t want my kids coming home less interested in their world than when they left. [YES!!]. I wish I felt like I had somewhere to go to learn about what I’m interested in. I seriously just don’t want to be annoyed by mindless crap in my kids’ backpacks.

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Strategies for successful goal-setting

Ditch That Textbook

Setting goals gives us focus as we move into a new school year. Goals give us direction as we find ourselves bombarded with tasks. In episode 91 Keven Rinaman, a technology director from Ohio, talks about the importance of setting goals for ourselves as well as our students. As we ask our students to set […].

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How AR and VR Can Make Students Laugh and Cry Out Loud—and Embed Them in Their Learning

Edsurge

How do you captivate a classroom full of digital-since-birth students? According to one Tennessee college professor, you do it by creating immersive learning experiences. students would cry, laugh out loud, even get angry after an immersive lesson in his English class. In his former role as assistant vice president of academic affairs and English professor at Volunteer State Community College (VSCC), Michael Torrence combined classroom teaching with cutting-edge technologies; he used augmented,

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Looking into the Crystal Ball: The Future of VR in Education

Veative

The future is a realm of all sorts of unimaginable possibilities. But it isn’t too difficult to answer the question of where VR will be in the next five years. The sector that arguably stands to gain the most from rapid developments in VR technology is that of education. What VR facilitates in the classroom is a synergistic confluence between our experience of reality and the fertile creativity of our imagination.

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Does It Make More Sense to Invest in School Security or SEL?

Edsurge

School security is a constant challenge, but tragedies such as the shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students in February bring the issue front and center. After the Parkland shooting, lawmakers from both parties saw the need for action. The support received by the STOP School Violence Act of 2018 is an exceptional example of bipartisan agreement.

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How Can LEGO Bricks Be Used To Teach Our Youngest Learners About STEM Education?

TeacherCast

[spp-player url=”[link] title=”LEGO Interview” textabove=”” optin=”off” ctabuttons=”off” poweredby=”off”]. This summer was pretty amazing. At the end of last year, I found out that I was accepted into the first cohort of the LEGO Master Educator Program and would have the opportunity to attend a pretty awesome Meetup in Chicago during the ISTE conference.

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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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Application Essays Can Help Students Get Into College. Could They Also Predict Their Success?

Edsurge

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time.

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How Can LEGO Bricks Be Used To Teach Our Youngest Learners About STEM Education?

TeacherCast

This summer was pretty amazing. At the end of last year, I found out that I was accepted into the first cohort of the LEGO Master Educator Program and would have the opportunity to attend a pretty awesome Meetup in Chicago during the ISTE conference. During the conference, I learned about LEGO Education and their… The post How Can LEGO Bricks Be Used To Teach Our Youngest Learners About STEM Education?

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Gmail: Change the Subject Line

Teacher Tech

Change the Subject Line in Your Email Conversations Gmail groups conversations. This is awesome and terrible. Having conversations of emails together is really handy until it gets out of control and you can’t find the conversation. What groups a conversation together in Gmail is having the same subject line. If two different people send you […].

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What Can You Do With Windows 10 This School Year?

TeacherCast

This year at ISTE, I had the opportunity to sit down with the Windows Device team at the Microsoft Education booth. Shindy and Javier talked with me about the power of inking, and what advantages it brings to the classroom. The post What Can You Do With Windows 10 This School Year? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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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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‘Prohibition Will Get You Nowhere’: Writer and Activist Cory Doctorow’s Message to Schools and Educators

Edsurge

It’s not unheard of for an instructor to tee up a YouTube video for a lesson, only to have the content blocked by the school or district’s censorware. And while administrators might have good intentions when they decide to use censorware, censorship is often only effective for those who play by the rules. It’s one reason why writer and activist Cory Doctorow thinks schools and educators should rethink their approach to surveillance and censorship.

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How I give my students voice & choice

eSchool News

When I walked into my first college computer class in 1995, the room was filled with Macs, PCs, and loads of potential. I hadn’t been exposed to computers before that, and I thought to myself, “Wow. This is pretty neat, but it’s not my world.”. Fast-forward to 2018 and we’re now teaching students who were literally born with technology in their hands.

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Project Management Then and Now

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

“While the essential steps of planning and executing a project haven’t fundamentally changed since the construction of the pyramids, recent decades have seen a huge shift in the particular tools,read more

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Slow WiFi? Learn 5 WiFi Design Best Practices for Retail

SecurEdge

It’s no big secret that traditional retailers are fac ing tough times. Every few weeks, there’s another news story appearing like this one in Business Insider declaring “More than 3,800 stores will close (this year) — here's the full list.” But what those sensational headlines don’t reveal: Last year, the U.S. retailing industry added 4,080 stores (14,248 new stores opened, while 10,168 closed).

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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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Gmail: Change the Subject Line

Teacher Tech

Change the Subject Line in Your Email Conversations Gmail groups conversations. This is awesome and terrible. Having conversations of emails together is really handy until it gets out of control and you can’t find the conversation. What groups a conversation together in Gmail is having the same subject line. If two different people send you […].

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Highly Rated Curricula Are Not the Norm in More Than a Third of Large Districts Studied

Marketplace K-12

The Center for American Progress identified the math and English/language arts curricula in most of the 30 largest school districts and compared the ratings of those products. The post Highly Rated Curricula Are Not the Norm in More Than a Third of Large Districts Studied appeared first on Market Brief.

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5 Ways Students are Leaving Themselves Vulnerable to Cybercrime

EmergingEdTech

Next Friday, September 7th (at Noon EST), I will deliver a webinar further exploring cyber safety tips like these. We will also take a deeper dive into other ways digital devices and apps are causing. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Stories of Summer

SpeechTechie

In working with students individually or in groups, I find that sharing our own stories can be a very effective elicitation technique. I'm a social interactionist at heart, and it's just pragmatically appropriate. Tell a story about yourself and you seem like a real person to the child. This interaction then becomes a context for all kinds of targets: listening skills, visualization for comprehension, use of comments and questions, and the students' own narrative language.

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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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10 steps for bringing connectivity home

eSchool News

This fall, Cypress-Fairbanks (TX) Independent School District is particularly excited about welcoming back 150 of our underserved elementary, middle, and high school students after they’ve enjoyed their first full summer of district-sponsored Wi-Fi. This group of students is the first to benefit from iConnect, a new program that extends our district’s enterprise network infrastructure with safe and secure learning systems into eligible communities.

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Teachers Have a Role as Keepers of the Meaning

MiddleWeb

As schools reopen, Lauren Brown revisits the essentials of history teaching in a time when authoritarianism is in the air. Central are not only caring about individuals in the next generation but also being 'keepers of the meaning' when established values are challenged.

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Learn your New Students' Faces, Names, and More with Google Slides

techlearning

One of the first things every teacher wants to do each year is memorize their students faces and names. This makes a personal connection to each of your students and helps them feel welcome and valued in your class. The last thing we want to do is call a student by the wrong name or have to resort to a "Hey you". When I was first teaching (back in 1992, you do the math) I took pictures of my new students on the first day of class with an old camera with 110 film.

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Fine Tuning Genrefication with Custom Signs

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

One of the things I’ve loved the most about organizing our library by genre has been the ability to customize the experience for readers. If a section of books isn’t working for how readers find books, then it can be changed. If kids keep asking for a kind of book that is mixed into lots of sections, they you could pull those books into a new section.

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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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Disrupting opportunity gaps will hinge on networks

eSchool News

Recently, Stanford researcher Raj Chetty came out with yet another new study on the jagged landscape of opportunity facing America. Analyzing the relationship between young people’s exposure to innovation and the likelihood that they would go on to become inventors, the study highlights an alarming rate of what the authors dub “lost Einsteins”: young people who show promising potential but who, due to lack of exposure to innovation, appear far less likely to pursue careers as inventors.

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 129 Learning To Learn: Rote Memorization Or Constructivism?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 129 Learning To Learn: Rote Memorization Or Constructivism? Drew Perkins talks with author, professor, and MOOC instructor Barb Oakley about their differences and intersections of thinking about teaching and learning. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Barbara Oakley’s web site @barbaraoakley Learning How To Learn Coursera MOOC New York Times Opinion […].

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Video: How edtech connects

eSchool News

At SXSW EDU 2018, The Christensen Institute’s Director of Education Research, Julia Freeland Fisher, reveals innovative schools that are creating learning models that strengthen teacher-student relationships, and emerging edtech tools that promise to expand students’ networks to experts and mentors from around world. Julia’s current research focuses on emerging tools and practices that leverage technology to radically expand who students know – their stock of “social capital” – by enhancing thei

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Use Reflection Signs to Sum Up & Celebrate Learning

techlearning

Looking for an efficient and effective way for classes to reflect upon what they've learned that works for introverts and extroverts alike. Then you might want to try this fun reflection sign technique. At the conclusion of a workshop, class, or unit, ask participants to speak in pairs or small groups about what they learned that they are excited to put into practice.

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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.