Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2016

“Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).” – Karen Stephenson. When we connect with other educators and develop Personal/ Professional/ Passionate Learning Networks (PLNs) , we participate in collective, networked learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 23, 2016

Gamification is applying typical elements of video games, such as levels and experience points, into other areas of life. Video games can be effective learning devices, assisting understudies, and enhancing the learning environment. Higher education has been making moderate movements towards implementing video games into the classroom, by conjoining the standard curriculum with an exciting “video game” feel in a concept called Gamification.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2016

This is a follow up to ‘ Building an educational app? Read this first ’. At Socratic , we’ve spent 3 years building educational products for high-school students. Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned. Everyday, high school kids in the US spend 7 hours at school, a couple of hours doing extracurricular activities, and then go home to do 3 hours of homework.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2016

July 17, 2016 Mind maps are great organization tools that students can use to structure and visualize their ideas and thoughts. They can be used for a variety of educational purposes. For instance,read more.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2016

Educators, especially those of you in rural communities—you shouldn’t have to go out and find good professional development on your own. Your state should provide it. But where do state administrators start? In the rural state of New Hampshire, online professional development empowers educators to take ownership of their own growth and learning. Through consistent support and feedback and flexibility in scheduling, the OPEN NH program , run by the Office of Educational Technology at the New Hamp

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2016

July 17, 2016 Below is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: a fully featured.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2016

This week, we're talking to Yuta Tonegawa, founder of the Japanese equivalent of the Hour of Code. He's passionate about engaging young Japanese students with coding, but the barriers he faces are distinctly different obstacles that face his American counterpart, the Hour of Code.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

In an event that could be called a love fest, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out her education priorities in a rollicking speech at the annual assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union. Clinton profusely thanked teachers for doing the difficult job of educating the nation’s children, and the 7,500 educators in attendance responded with cascading chants of “Hillary, Hillary.”.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 23, 2016

What’s waiting for you on the other side of the door? Lots of excitement, a few nervous moments, and faces filled with questions. Welcome back! We've rounded up lots of useful resources for your first days.

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The Electric Educator

JULY 23, 2016

I have had an opportunity to explore the use of Android Apps on my Chromebooks for the past few weeks. You can read through my comprehensive overview here. I have two new observations to share. 1. Distinguishing Apps One of my initial concerns when I began adding Android apps to my Chromebooks was issue of differentiating between Android and Chrome Apps - they all look the same!

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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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Teacher Tech

JULY 23, 2016

Find Your Keyboard Shortcuts This trick will work for you if you are a user of Google Apps: Drive, Sheets, Slides, Docs, Drawing or Forms Control Slash Hold down the Control key and press the slash (question mark) key on the keyboard to reveal a list of keyboard shortcuts. Note this works in most Google […]. The post Control Slash: Find Your Keyboard Shortcuts appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 23, 2016

As teachers go back into their classrooms preparing for the new school year, many educators spend an inordinate amount of time decorating their classroom. The will use terms like “our classroom”, yet they will be the only ones who have had the options of what it looked like. My first year of teaching a fourth grade class, I remember spending a ton of time making little basketballs and placing every student name on one of them outside of the classroom as a way to welcome them.

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