EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, as they say. For many teachers, who’ve been stuck at home instructing virtually for nearly a year and a half, making the most of tough circumstances brought on by the global pandemic isn’t just a coping mechanism — it’s also a source of light and inspiration for students who are lacking all of the tangible and intangible benefits of in-person instruction.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2021

As a teacher, one of the greatest joys is seeing your students’ eyes light up when they learn something new. We’ve all had that teacher who made us like a subject simply because their personality and enthusiasm were enough to spark an interest in anything. A good teacher-student rapport positively impacts students’ learning outcomes, motivation, and socio-emotional development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 30, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As we consider how we move back into school, we need to think about neuroscience research about how students learn. Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath talks about stress, learning duration, homework, spaced repetition, and sleep as well as computers and technology. You can’t just have a longer school day to improve learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2021

March 31st is called World Backup Day. At least once a year, backup your data files to an external drive (like a flash drive). This is one that isn’t connected to your local computer so can’t be compromised if you get a virus. It’s good to always backup data to cloud drives or a different drive on your computer but once a year, do the entire collection of data files to what is called an ‘air gap’ drive–one that is separated from any internet connection.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 30, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Join me and @ClassTechTips on Tuesday 3/30 at 7 pm Eastern on Clubhouse. If you’re a newbie, we can learn together. If you’re a pro, jump on stage and share a tip! Click here to join us: [link]. So, what will we be doing? Monica will be talking about how teachers are using Clubhouse.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Assistant Principal Ronda Smith remembers her heart racing when she learned that John F. Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. We had to figure out how to get students engaged online, which was already a focus in the brick-and-mortar setting. “We didn't have the tools or the training,” explains Smith. “This was going to be a challenge, and if we didn’t get it right, it could literally set us back in our efforts to move forward.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Remote instruction may have raised acceptance of school that happens at home. STEM courses in higher education need labs, but that doesn’t mean labs are being used online. And the pandemic year has taken a toll on U.S. education conferences—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 30, 2021

Final is a new web tool that facilitates collaboration on video and audio files. It allows you and your collaborators to exchange feedback on your video and audio files. The way Final works is.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

School principals and district superintendents have a wealth of school improvement options at their fingertips, but many of these solutions fizzle out as they run into conflicts across the school system. But the goal remains: School leaders must work to improve their schools and their districts in the form of better test scores, higher graduation rates, new innovative programs, state-of-the-art technology initiatives, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2021

The atrocities against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders making headlines spotlight the reality millions of individuals live with every day. Time is overdue for one group who has the ability to influence large swaths of people in every community across the country to take action: educators. It is imperative that educators in positions of power protect Asian Americans at school, at work and at home.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

It’s been said a million times: COVID-19 delivered a school year like no other. The challenges of an abrupt shift to virtual and hybrid instruction shed light on socio-economic disparities, the struggle for internet and device access, and the difficulties in getting resources to students with special needs. A new survey of more than 800 teachers reveals how teachers of students with reading challenges such as dyslexia, cerebral palsy, and low vision encountered even more challenges as they

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 30, 2021

Guest Post by Victoria Thompson Number 3 is one of my personal favorites: it focuses on Techquity! “Techquity” refers to the infusion of technology and equity, and equity refers to the concept of every student needing what they need to be successful in the classroom. Specifically, how do we make meaningful connections with all of […]. The post @VictoriaTheTech’s Favorite Microsoft Educator Center Courses – #3: Techquity- Creating Learning Environments for Sustainability, Equity

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

Osmo Projector App for Teachers Reaches 100,000 Downloads. Osmo for Schools , the educational division of Tangible Play that promotes in-classroom usage of Osmo’s award-winning educational systems, celebrates its fifth anniversary March 30, 2021 and highlights recent achievements. These include upgrading to plastic pieces in all its school bundles to maintain the highest standards of classroom hygiene, along with reaching 100,000 downloads of the Osmo Projector App intended for teachers, which h

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. As controversies about the pandemic, climate change, and social justice continue to make headlines, these same topics also provide opportunities for students to learn and apply media literacy skills that will help them with their course work, personal lives, and civic engagement. Ways to engage students in developing media literacy were recently discussed during an edWebinar , sponsored by the News Literacy Project , which feat

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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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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 30, 2021

The post Must-Have Google Skills for Teachers (Part 1 – Chrome) – SULS0103 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I’m sharing the must-have Google skills for teachers who use the Google Chrome web browser or Chromebooks. If you are a Google-using teacher, you should be using Google Chrome on all of your devices. Google works best with Google!

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Turnitin

MARCH 30, 2021

In part one of this series, we detail the challenges of addressing Full Page Handwriting Text Recognition and explore current State-of-the-Art approaches.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 30, 2021

My dad passed away eight years ago this past week. . I think about him all of the time, and although it is tough to think he never met my kids, it warms my heart that I see him in my children every day. I feel closer to him every day, even after his passing. Every year since he has passed, I notice that I struggle more on the days or weeks that it gets closer to the actual date.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Organizations that want to issue micro-credentials to their teachers can accomplish that process via their Edthena partnership.

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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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MiddleWeb

MARCH 30, 2021

Sunny Nwazue discovers she is a witch in Nnedi Okorafor’s novel about how a girl raised amid Nigerian-American culture experiences tween life in Nigeria. Dina Strasser recommends the book for its overt tackling of racism, ableism, and sexism as well as its narrative magic. The post Akata Witch: Young and Magical in Nigeria first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

MARCH 30, 2021

New research suggests that these increased hours spent online may be associated with cyberbullying behaviors. According to a study, higher social media addiction scores, more hours spent online, and identifying as male significantly predicted cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents.

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2021

As students walked into Jahdai Jeffords’ classroom for the first time, he greeted them with an assignment: “Say something!” Jeffords, who teaches Spanish and Latin American studies at Carver High School in Winston-Salem, N.C., had been teaching remotely since March 2020. When school opened back up almost a year later on February 15th, he had never met, or in some cases, even seen many of the students he had been teaching.

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

MARCH 30, 2021

Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a study of more than 8,500 American parents.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 30, 2021

What Is Me Learning? A Student-Centered Learning Model. by Terry Heick. Years ago, I developed a kind of self-directed learning model. At the time, I thought of it as a way to support students in understanding how to learn. It was designed to let students identify–on their own– what to learn as the critical core for understanding how to learn, while also requiring them to design when and with and through what means –learning strategies, technology, alone or together, project-b

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Hubbli

MARCH 30, 2021

Why Private School Retention Requires Great Customer Service. The video below is a clip from a Montessori Administration Accreditation program offered by the Center for Guided Montessori Studies ( CGMS ) wherein our founder, Jono Landon, lectures on the topic of Private School Retention. If you prefer to read, here’s the video transcript: In this lesson, we’re going to be talking about delivering exceptional customer service.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 30, 2021

The Full Text Of ‘My Pedagogic Creed’ By John Dewey. by Terry Heick. What did John Dewey believe? While known by teachers for his work in education (he was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 until 1930), he was also a psychologist and philosopher who interested in governing and social improvement and saw public education as a critical component of a functional democracy.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 30, 2021

I’m sure you’ve seen all kinds of math memes floating around social media. They’re funny, but sometimes they get at fundamental ideas about mathematics education. Many of these memes are driven by the question which I’m sure you’ve heard someone say, “Why can’t we just teach math the way I learned it?”. And this naturally leads to an ongoing debate, “How do we teach math?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2021

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is refusing to back down on a federal requirement that states administer standardized tests this year, although a letter to state leaders from the U.S. Department of Education last month said that states will have flexibility on how to apply results. States concerned about the safety of administering a test during a pandemic may implement shortened versions of assessments.

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