A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 6, 2017
As many of us know all too well, the process of change is not always a successful venture. It is fraught with twists and turns, not to mention challenges that come in all shapes and sizes. Out of the chaos excuses materialize, further complicating the process. One common excuse, or challenge depending on your point of view, is too many initiatives at once.
Edsurge
AUGUST 6, 2017
When I think about education technology, images of engaged students in front of computers and tablets come to mind. I imagine wide-eyed kids with big smiles, just like the ones I see on edtech product pages. But at the moment, there’s reason to question these expectations—and expect more. As the director of business development at Zinc Learning Labs , a literacy company, my bread and butter is communication with educators.
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Teacher Tech
AUGUST 6, 2017
First Day of School I’m into a student centered classroom. What does it say when the first thing we do on the first day is have kids sit and wait for us to talk about ourselves and sit through a list of rules? What do we do the #firstday to have kids running to class […]. The post #firstday How Do You Engage Students to Want to Come Back appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 6, 2017
August 6, 2017 Using technology in class should always be motivated by a real need to optimize students' learning and to enhance your teaching. Every time you want to digitize a teaching task ask.read more.
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2017
A high school library in a school district in Mentor, Ohio, was redesigned to fit the school’s vision for blended learning. Photo: Nichole Dobo. Phonological awareness is an essential part of oral language development. It includes identifying and using words and syllables. In an earlier opinion article for The Hechinger Report , I discussed how children with these skills have a much easier time in learning to read and spell.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 6, 2017
Using Flipgrid to Engage with New Teachers Guest Blog Post by Lisa Dabbs originally posted at lisadabbs.com Teaching is hard. As a former school principal, working 19 years in the field I saw the struggle first hand that my new teachers experienced. As prepared as they were, with classroom pedagogy and strategies, it wasn’t enough. […]. The post New Teacher Chat is BACK #ntchat appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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MiddleWeb
AUGUST 6, 2017
As the new school year approaches, explore some excellent digital tools suggested by Curtis Chandler for streamlining lesson planning, creating secure class websites, connecting with families, and gathering information on how your new students learn. Hit the ground running!
The Cornerstone for Teachers
AUGUST 6, 2017
Are you having back to school nightmares? I always did, every year I was in the classroom. It was awful during my first few years–I barely slept in the weeks leading up to the first day. And the year I transferred from PreK to third grade I thought I had insomnia, it was so bad. I was so afraid that I wouldn’t know how to handle the “big kids” and they wouldn’t listen to me.
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 6, 2017
More jobs are on the chopping block through 2019 as Pearson plans changes to improve its financial results. The post Pearson’s Latest Financial Report Card: Another 3,000 Jobs To Be Cut appeared first on Market Brief.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 6, 2017
The post A Video Game-Themed Student Interest Inventory For Elementary Students appeared first on TeachThought.
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.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 6, 2017
Tracy Zager's professor told students it would take five years to become a skillful math teacher. In this message to beginning educators, Zager shares insights that can help push the process. Most important: "Become addicted to listening to students' mathematical ideas.".
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 6, 2017
While we’ve made progress in supporting students with digital literacy, citizenship, and using technology to support teaching and learning, one area where we haven’t kept up is news and media literacy. A Stanford study found that America's middle, high school and college students are shockingly bad deciphering fact from fiction or detecting bias. Educational companies are starting to rise to the challenge of addressing this issue.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 6, 2017
The post We’re Hiring A Curricula Developer appeared first on TeachThought.
EmergingEdTech
AUGUST 6, 2017
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … free Open Educational. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
edWeb.net
AUGUST 6, 2017
edWeb has presented over 1,200 edWebinars with more than 1,000 amazing “Webinators” who are educators who generously share their knowledge, practices, and tips with peers. Educators from all over the world benefit from this free, anytime/anywhere learning. At the ISTE 2017 conference this year, edWeb held a poster session to “Meet the Webinars” where three of our “star” Webinators – Michelle Luhtala, Shannon Holden, and Rachel Langenhorst – met with some of their edWeb fans and conti
The Principal of Change
AUGUST 6, 2017
Where I seem to really decompress and clear my mind is through running in a new city. I love to explore where I am and listen to motivational playlists that provide me inspiration to push harder. This playlist was quite powerful and there were some quotes that really stuck out to me. Here are a few that I loved and put the idea of “success” into perspective.
The Daring Librarian
AUGUST 6, 2017
(WARNING - Lots of embedded videos - page may load slowly) Got the Gabsee App? I just got Gabsee and I love it! Gabsee is like an animated, 3D version of Bitmoji but with an Augmented Reality twist. Some are saying it's the "Bitmoji of the future — and illustrate a more personalized path forward for AR." -The Verge I say that it's a whole lot of fun, and I can see using it for program advocacy, as well as book and library promotion.
Reading By Example
AUGUST 6, 2017
Better Data Days Are Ahead. We’ve all been there, we collect data, make beautiful color coded spreadsheets detailing nearly every data point we could possibly collect on each possible child. We compare district data to state data, nationally norm referenced data against in class assessments. We highlight students’ projected growth in order to make adequate progress for each child.
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MindShift
AUGUST 6, 2017
Several years ago, former fourth-grade teacher Tracy Johnston Zager took an informal survey of two groups of people to find out how they feel about math: mathematicians and teachers who teach math. She discovered that while mathematicians used words like “beauty” and “wonder” to describe math, teachers recalled “dread” and “fear.” These words aligned with what Zager had observed in her job mentoring student teachers who expressed similar reservations about math.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2017
Silas Woods works on a car at Duxbury Auto Shop. Woods earned math and science credit by working during the school day. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Duxbury, Vt. — At 8:00 on a chilly spring morning in this rural Vermont town, while most kids his age are filing into classrooms and preparing for a day of school, 17-year-old Silas Woods rolls up the sleeves of his plaid button-down shirt and hoists a tire up to a mini Cooper, suspended a few feet above ground in the corner of the nois
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