Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 12, 2021
Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, taught for 36 years before retiring. He has some interesting reflections on the year that was the pandemic: A Year to Remember, A Year to Reflect: Pandemic Instruction. Feeling Overwhelmed. Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students.
Teacher Tech
JULY 12, 2021
Teaching science online is not just making your activities digital. Successful online, synchronous, asynchronous, hyflex science classrooms do things differently. The post 6 Big Ideas About Teaching Science Online – Your Students Will Thank You appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 12, 2021
Green areas are rural regions. Tiny yellow dots scattered throughout the green areas are small towns. Together, rural and small town students account for 3 out of 10 U.S. students, but they are less likely to study science and math in college. City and suburban students, who live in the red and orange areas in the map, make up the remaining 70 percent of students.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 12, 2021
Empowering students voice is key to meaningful lasting learning experiences both within and outside the classroom. Pedagogical empowerment, as I like to refer to it, is a student-centered.read more.
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eSchool News
JULY 12, 2021
As we prepare students for college, career, and life, it’s vital that we foster skills that will ensure students are successful. As educators, we’ve heard about the importance of the “21st century 4 C’s” to our students’ future success. Post-secondary schools and employers are looking for students and a workforce that can communicate effectively, work collaboratively, think critically, problem-solve, and use creativity in various settings.
MiddleWeb
JULY 12, 2021
From a drawing to a book, Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker trace a 5th grader’s growing creativity, curiosity and individuality. Discover their innovative ways to streamline literacy instruction while offering students opportunities to follow individualized learning paths. The post Center Your Students with Literacy Workshop first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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Jamf on EdTech
JULY 12, 2021
Jamf announces a series of #JamfEd summer learning opportunities for educators
techlearning
JULY 12, 2021
This Flipgrid Lesson Plan is designed to help educators implement the digital tool into their instruction
Technology Tidbits
JULY 12, 2021
*Circly recently created some templates that are ideal for education. For example, the image above shows a template on what student's will be doing when they are finished w/ school. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.
techlearning
JULY 12, 2021
MindMeister is a mind mapping tool that works well in the classroom and beyond.
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.
Technology Tidbits
JULY 12, 2021
"Game-based learning (GBL) is a type of game play that has defined learning outcomes. Generally, game-based learning is designed to balance subject matter with gameplay and the ability of the player to retain, and apply said subject matter to the real world. ( wikipedia )" Game Based Learning has stood the test of time and been going on since schools have been around.
Turning Learning On Its Head
JULY 12, 2021
Are you worried that students will be in vastly different "places" when they return to school this fall? Some students will be on grade level while others will be far behind. How will you teach in light of this new reality? Jon presented at a conference sponsored by Harvard University about how to teach in a post-pandemic world. This thirty-minute video will give you an overview of how Mastery Learning can help us post-pandemic.
Technology Tidbits
JULY 12, 2021
Edform is an excellent site for educators looking to easily turn their worksheets into interactive graded assignments. This is done simply by uploading a file (i.e. doc, pdf, etc), add questions or multimedia elements, and then share a link w/ students. Once the assignment has been completed it gets graded automatically, generates a detailed report, and makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction.
eSchool News
JULY 12, 2021
BOSTON ( July 12, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today announced the official rebrand of Rosetta Stone® English to Lexia® English Language Development (Lexia English). The name change follows Cambium’s divestiture of Rosetta Stone’s languages division. Lexia English joins the robust Lexia suite of literacy products in helping all students to reach their academic potential, enhancing educational equity, and empowering Emergent Bilinguals to progress linguistically and
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.
MindShift
JULY 12, 2021
The pandemic has raised concerns about the way stress is affecting kids. Even though the word ‘trauma’ is on a lot of worried adults’ minds these days, information about it is wide-ranging and can leave people feeling unsure about what to do next. Trauma is a response to life-threatening events, harmful conditions or stressful environments, writes Vermont-based educator Alex Shevrin Venet in her book “ Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education. ” As students transition back to learning in schoo
eSchool News
JULY 12, 2021
BELLEVUE, Wash. — DreamBox Learning ®, the company on a mission to radically change the way the world learns, today announced the appointment of five new executives across key functions of the business. Lakshmi Nidamarthi joins the company as Chief Product Officer, Ronit Peled as Chief People Officer, Dr. Jason Sinquefield as Senior Vice President of Sales and Partnerships, Michael Savitz as Senior Vice President of Operations, and Tracy Kleine as Vice President of Marketing.
ScienceDaily (EdTech section)
JULY 12, 2021
Researchers found that a four-week training course made a substantial difference in helping special education teachers anticipate different ways students with learning disabilities might solve math problems.
Edsurge
JULY 12, 2021
Yessika Magdaleno, owner of a home-based child care program in Orange County, Calif., is a problem-solver by nature. When she opened her program 20 years ago, she attracted families by expanding her hours to nights and weekends to accommodate those with non-traditional work hours. When she felt that her own children were not well-served by the local afterschool program, Magdaleno expanded her program to include afterschool care.
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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
eSchool News
JULY 12, 2021
Many have labeled the pandemic’s run as our “lost year”–lost activities, lost vacations, lost connections. More commonly, however, it is a reference to the loss of an academic year for America’s children. Since March 2020, not a single day has been void of news stories, social media memes, or (socially-distanced) checkout aisle conversations about kids, school, dining room tables, and wondering when it will all end.
Edsurge
JULY 12, 2021
After a challenging and unique year of emergency remote learning, I recently spoke with a group of faculty members new to online teaching to learn more about their experiences. While no two educators ever face identical challenges, I heard the same refrains over and over. The first won’t come as a surprise to anyone: The shift to online courses last spring was nothing short of a perfect storm.
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