Mon.Nov 16, 2020

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4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement Based on Current Research

The CoolCatTeacher

Mariana Aguilar discusses the current research on student engagement From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Mariana Aguilar shares 4 Essential Factors for Student Engagement. Our focus on the frontlines of education is to keep students engaged. We can never get enough ideas on how to help our students stay excited, engaged, and learning.

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My Journey to Becoming a Distance Learning Teacher-Leader

Digital Promise

Earlier this year, as schools and districts across the country closed their doors in response to COVID-19, educators looking to continue engaging their students in powerful learning joined us at Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home—a series of virtual, unconference-style professional development opportunities for educators to support one another in navigating distance learning.

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What Highly Effective School Leadership Really Looks Like in a Pandemic

Edsurge

In the school building, while washing my hands in the bathroom, I fixed my face. As I dried my hands, I fixed my posture. Before opening the door, I fixed my tie. As I stepped into the hallway, I cleared my throat. The way I dressed, the way I walked, the way I looked, the volume of my voice: all of these, when I was an in-person principal, were elements of leadership.

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PROOF POINTS: Evidence increases for writing during math class

The Hechinger Report

Essay writing and math class might seem like oil and water, two things that don’t mix easily. But there’s increasing evidence that students who are asked to write about what they are learning master the material better — even in number-filled subjects like math and science. Education experts call it “writing to learn,” in contrast to “learning to write,” which is usually taught in an English class.

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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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Connecting the Classroom to Careers Through AI Explorations

Edsurge

Artificial intelligence is an increasingly prevalent part of our everyday lives. From live-updating, turn-by-turn driving directions to responsive voice-controlled digital assistants—all in the palms of our hands—we are constantly interacting with computer programming where machines learn from experience and adjust to new data to perform human-like tasks.

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Google Slides for Breakout Rooms

Teacher Tech

Use Google Slides in Breakout Rooms No matter if you use Zoom or Google Meet or another video product to do breakout rooms with students, consider having a Google Slides per group. First Slide Built into my First Slide Add-on I have created a way to manage Google Slides for breakout rooms. Note that First […]. The post Google Slides for Breakout Rooms appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Supplementing remote learning with non-traditional education

eSchool News

Ninety-nine percent of K-12 teachers are facilitating remote instruction. The shift to remote learning has proven to introduce new challenges for both students and educators at all levels. Zoom fatigue, lower engagement (which varies across racial and economic lines), and minimal information retention have created a subpar learning environment that often needs to be supplemented with varying forms of learning outside of the virtual classroom.

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Eric Schmidt’s Youth Talent Competition, Part of $1B Effort, Kicks Off With Unusual App

Edsurge

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has committed $1 billion to finding exceptional young people aged 15 to 17 and offering them financial support and mentorship throughout their lives. Today his global talent search officially kicked off, with the launch of a smartphone app that lets people begin their application for the competition by posting video essays and commenting on the videos posted by others.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. As the community near the Mexican border came together to make education a priority, scores in math and reading on state standardized tests rose.

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The Digital Writing Workshop: Tools and Apps to Use in Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Writing, as is the case with learning in general, is not only about product but is also about process. In other words, writing is about the cognitive processes (e.g., thinking skills and analytic.

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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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Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities

The Hechinger Report

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Rising from the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, just south of the Canadian border, this distant city looks like a quaint throwback, with Victorian-era architecture, church steeples and a main shopping street laid with brick. This story also appeared in National Public Radio. It’s a picture postcard of a New England community, slow-paced and scenic, whose biggest employers are the hospital and the university and whose most notable exports include ice cream, craft beer and snowb

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Some Helpful Reads to Educate Students on Race and Racism

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today as people took to streets in the United States and in several other places in all around the world to denounce racism and police brutality, a spark of optimism shines in the gloomy horizon; a.

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 223 Improving Teaching In The Era Of Remote Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Drew Perkins talks with Michael Driskill, Chief Operating Officer at Math for America, about the evolution of their work to help improve teaching in the remote learning era. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 223 Improving Teaching In The Era Of Remote Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

Graphite Blog

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. It's also a standout choice for incorporating teacher, parent, and student feedback -- something not as easily achieved on Google Classroom.

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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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Cyberattacks on Ed-Tech Companies Rare, But Hugely Disruptive, Report Finds

Marketplace K-12

While just 15 of 99 cyberattacks recorded over a four-year period targeted ed-tech vendors, those breaches had an especially destructive impact, the GAO found. The post Cyberattacks on Ed-Tech Companies Rare, But Hugely Disruptive, Report Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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A Hybrid Companion for Middle Level Teaching

MiddleWeb

As middle graders face increased responsibility and learning challenges in virtual, hybrid and distanced classrooms, grade 6 teacher Cheryl Mizerny offers strategies in 3 key areas: supporting their need for organization, adapting our methods, and modifying our curriculum.

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Education: Google Admin Console Limitations

Vizor

Reading Time: 3 minutes Google Admin Console is a great tool. You can configure your devices, add policies, deploy applications, and overall manage your Chromebooks on a basic level. If you didn’t know, it even has the option to remotely wipe the information on a device. If your student loses one, you can easily wipe it without needing the physical device.

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4 pathways to help school leaders make critical decisions

eSchool News

The U.S. is grappling with a global health pandemic, economic uncertainties, increased awareness of racial and social injustice, divisive politics, and natural disasters–all in 2020. School leaders are at the helm of an education system that can produce students who work as activists in an effort to create a better world, and the decisions these leaders make will have a drastic impact on students’ future.

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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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Intersectionality and Deaf Learners—One Education Does Not Fit All

edWeb.net

By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. At the beginning of each school year, teachers often take the time to get to know their students—their favorite subjects, their goals, their families, etc. With deaf and hard of hearing learners, though, many educators stop and let that one characteristic define the student and the student-teacher relationship.

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Computer scientists launch counteroffensive against video game cheaters

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

Computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. The researchers developed their approach for detecting cheaters using the popular first-person shooter game Counter-Strike. But the mechanism can work for any massively multiplayer online (MMO) game that sends data traffic to a central server.

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Funny Christmas Card Messages

Fractus Learning

Every year people receive and send Christmas cards to family, friends, colleagues, and loved ones. Most of the Christmas cards contain traditional Christmas wishes, messages about the New Year, or happy holiday season sayings. If you were looking for something different than the traditional Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year message in your Christmas card this year, here are some funny Christmas card messages and quote ideas.

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New Feature: Buncee Integration with Microsoft Teams

Buncee

When it comes to making communication both seamless and fun, Buncee and Microsoft Teams can be a great pair. For those of you that haven’t heard, Teams is a digital hub that allows for secure communication and collaboration with your entire school community. Teams allows you to integrate with apps you already use, such as Microsoft Word , Excel , OneNote , and of course, Buncee !

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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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Data shows how disruptive the pandemic really is for students

eSchool News

The Greenville County Schools in South Carolina was expecting enrollment to increase by about 1,000 students this fall, continuing a recent pattern driven by affordable home prices and accolades for “livability.” But instead of hitting the estimate of 78,000 students, officials are predicting a precipitous drop to about 74,000, according to The 74. The news is quite different for the John Adams Academy, a charter school with three campuses outside of Sacramento, California — a growing destinatio

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The Lighting of A Candle: SETDA Announces the Candice Dodson Influencer Award

SETDA Says

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg has said, “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” Candice Dodson was that leader. Sadly, we lost Candice’s bright light in July but we are here to affirm that her impact and her influence continues to be […].

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TEACHER VOICE: The United States is not a democracy. Stop telling students that it is

The Hechinger Report

When U.S. voters recently cast their ballots, an unchecked pandemic raged through the nation, uprisings against racism and police violence stretched into their eighth month, and new climate change-intensified storms formed in the Atlantic. The reactionary and undemocratic system by which we select our president was an insult to the urgency of the moment.

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