Fri.Jan 22, 2021

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Tech Tip #161: Ten Most Important Keyboard Keys

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 10 Most Important Keyboard Keys. Category: Keyboarding.

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Are You Using Micro-Credentials in Rural Communities?

Digital Promise

Is your organization using or exploring the use of micro-credentials in rural industry, education, or training initiatives? Does your initiative promote social mobility for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people impacted by poverty in rural communities? If so, we want to know about it! Digital Promise has launched an exciting new project to explore the use of micro-credentials in promoting social mobility for rural learners impacted by poverty, particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people.

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Beyond subject-verb agreement

Dangerously Irrelevant

Kelisa Wing said : What kind of world do you want to leave for those who come after us? Who cares if my students know how to make their subjects and verbs agree if they use language to promulgate hate? Who cares if my students know the Pythagorean Theorem if they use numbers and statistics to minimize others? Who cares if my students know the stories in their history books if they do not use the past to ensure that we create a new equitable future?

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The Role of Cognitive Skills in Academic Performance

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a five-part series. The negative impact of COVID-19-related disruptions on student learning has fallen disproportionately on students living in economically disadvantaged communities, students with learning disabilities and students who are English Language Learners. Those populations were already achieving academically at substantially lower levels than the general population.

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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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7 easy apps to get students coding

eSchool News

Inspired by the Hour of Code , many educators have pledged to go well beyond 60 minutes and teach their students coding and programming skills on a regular basis. The beauty of learning to code is that its benefits stay with students even if students do not pursue programming degrees or careers. Computational thinking, problem solving, and perseverance serve students well no matter what their future holds.

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The Oracle at Sacramento

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik 2800 hundred years ago in Greece, a priestess named Pythia was famous throughout the ancient world for divining the future, and it is said no major decisions were made without consulting her first. Recently, a similar site was unearthed in Fair Oaks, California near Sacramento, and a new oracle has taken her place. This oracle, known only as Charles, is said to possess the wisdom of the ages, and can see into the future of education.

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Understanding the Choices We Make

EdNews Daily

By Mac Bogert “People are capable of flight. The problem is the landing.” –Mark Yozart Acrophobia applies to people with “extreme, irrational and persistent fears of heights and situations associated with them,” according to the APA. I’ve often been confused by this. Flying doesn’t scare me, and I’ve tried skydiving more than once (solo—this was before tandem jumping, though that’s a great name for an acoustic duo).

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A New Chrome Extension to Transcribe and Caption Google Meet Calls in Real Time

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I just learned from a tweet by Joe Dale about this excellent Chrome extension from Otter.ai that allows you to automatically transcribe and caption Google Meet calls in real time. The transcription.read more.

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4 Districts Review New A.I. Teacher Assistant

EdNews Daily

What if there were a new software application that uses your own teachers digitized into animated avatars to present lessons? Learners engage in interactive conversations with socially intelligent virtual humans in a realistic setting – the teacher-as-avatar. Such an application could be a huge time saver for teachers for many subjects, and also be a useful way to reduce “Zoom fatigue” because lessons can be moved through at the student’s own speed and get personalized sets of questions.

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Here Is A Good Tool to Enhance Students Writing Style

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Editor is Microsoft's writing assistant to help you refine and enhance your writing. Editor detects your spelling and grammar mistakes and checks your writing style and provides suggestions for.read more.

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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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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

edWeb.net

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Data-driven decisions now determine how students are taught, teachers are paid, and schools are run, so data management and sharing have become crucial job functions.

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Another Great Source of Copyright Free Photos to Use in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unsplash is a great source of free high resolution images that you and your students can use in various school projects and art works. I am definitely adding it to this of the best free photo sources.read more.

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Additional Student Login Options

N2Y

Students have better access to learning now that it’s easier than ever to sign into n2y solutions! We’ve added login options that include single sign?on (SSO), which can simplify password management.