Thu.May 12, 2016

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The Shocking Data Security Gap in Computer Science Education

The Journal

Giving students and early start on computer science education with a focus on security is crucial. And high school is already too late, argues Project Lead the Way’s Vince Bertram.

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STEM can be fun, just do this.

The CoolCatTeacher

8 Ideas for Fun STEM Learning with Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. STEM lessons can be fun. Whether it is origami jumping frogs or making a boat out of cement, Mandy Casto has eight high-energy ideas for making STEM fun. She also shares her favorite ways to find new ideas and about the success of school-wide “STEM Time” for the students each week.

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Seal of Privacy: Building a 'Trusted Learning Environment'

The Journal

While the e-learning shift in education holds the promise to accelerate student success, school system leaders are faced with increased responsibility. Chief among those challenges: managing student data and security — and doing so with limited time and resources.

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4 Steps to Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs in K–12 IT Environments

EdTech Magazine

By George Mitchell Districts can respond to financial pressures by following these simple solutions.

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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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52 New York Schools Get Funding in Program to Boost Technology

The Journal

New York state is beefing up funding and support for classroom technology, high-tech security and connectivity in its public schools. On Wednesday, the first 52 school projects were approved, with $45 million from the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act that was approved by voters.

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7 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s summer, time for teachers to recharge their cerebral batteries. That could mean reading, going on field trips, spending time with online PLNs, or taking calls from family members who usually end up at voice mail. For many, it means attending conferences like ISTE and NEA to learn how the heck to integrate technology into their lesson plans.

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Google Apps “GAFE Smashing” activities — Part 3: Breakout EDU Digital

Ditch That Textbook

Breakout EDU is an immersive learning platform developed by James Sanders and Mark Hammons. After visiting an escape room (a room where you are locked in and have to solve clues and riddles to escape) with a group of students, James and Mark noted how engaged the students were while working on the escape. Realizing [.].

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NComputing Launches Chromebook CX110 and Chrome App, Offering Windows

The Journal

NComputing has launched the Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app, paving the way for American schools to easily run Windows applications on their Chromebooks.

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Can Games Increase Student Success?

FuelEd

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:45pm Games are a fun, interactive way to teach students. They can also help encourage students who are otherwise disengaged learners. When students feel a sense of competition and urgency, they become motivated to learn concepts so they can advance further into the game.

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5 Finalists Announced in $225,000 Reach Higher Career App Challenge

The Journal

The U.S. Department of Education’s CTE-focused challenge awarded $25,000 to five finalists who continue to compete for the $100,000 grand prize.

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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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Can Games Increase Student Success?

FuelEd

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:45pm Games are a fun, interactive way to teach students. They can also help encourage students who are otherwise disengaged learners. When students feel a sense of competition and urgency, they become motivated to learn concepts so they can advance further into the game.

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RIT's SMASH Experience for Girls Wins STEM Award

The Journal

A summer STEM program at the Rochester Institute of Technology for girls in middle school is winning some recognition from a local organization.

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The #TechEducator Guide to Google Drawings featuring @ShakeUpLearning

TeacherCast

Learn how Google Drawings can transform the way you create assignments, blog posts, and even professional learning sessions today! The post The #TechEducator Guide to Google Drawings featuring @ShakeUpLearning appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Learn how Google Drawings can transform the way you create assignments, blog posts, and even professional learning sessions today!

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Gale Unveils American Fiction Archive Addition to Primary Sources Collection

The Journal

Gale has added a new archive, American Fiction, 1774-1920, to its Primary Sources program.

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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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3 Study Tips to Help Your AP History Student Succeed

TeacherCast

Any student who’s enrolled in AP history knows just how frustrating it can be to succeed on this difficult test, particularly with a full course load of other classes to balance around as well. It can seem like there are millions of different facts and figures to know and memorize. Parents or teachers of students who are enrolled in an AP The post 3 Study Tips to Help Your AP History Student Succeed appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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My Maps: a Customizable Way to Log Student Learning – from Greg

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. While typically viewed as a navigation tool for mobile devices when traveling to a specific destination, or possibly as a research tool when attempting to learn more about a specific geographic region, there is a hidden gem inside of Google Maps that allows students to leverage the tool in the classroom. Within Google Maps, the “My Maps” section allows students to create, edit, share and collaborate on a custom created Google Map.

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Google Calendar Receives Native Web Notifications

TeacherCast

Google Calendar rolls out new web notifications to remind you of your events The post Google Calendar Receives Native Web Notifications appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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New- Evernote Is Now Integrated with Google Drive

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 12, 2016 Google announced today its new partnership with the popular note taking platform Evernote. Starting today, Evernote users can now add Drive files right into their Evernote notes. They.read more.

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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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Check out Super Mario Brothers featured on Minecraft EDU

TeacherCast

On May 17, the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack comes to Minecraft: Wii U Edition as a free game update. The post Check out Super Mario Brothers featured on Minecraft EDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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N.Y. State Awards $45 Million for Classroom Technology, Connectivity, Security

Marketplace K-12

New York schools will receive $26 million for classroom technology out of a total distribution of $45 million in state funds, the governor announced this week. Designed to improve technology in schools across the Empire state, the funds are the first to be released from the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act , which was approved in November 2014. Receiving approval are 52 districts that submitted “Smart Schools Investment Plans” for how they intended to use the money.

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Protecting Students from Internet Crimes

Gaggle Speaks

Online communication and collaboration open up a whole new world for students and teachers. But this new world has a potential dark side by providing students with opportunities to get into serious trouble. Protecting students online was the theme of last week’s Gaggle webcast, “Student Online Safety In Action,” which welcomed Denver Police Sergeant Daniel Steele, from the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Innocence Lost Task Force, and Jon Castelhano, Director of Technology at Apache

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Bringing Project Based Learning to Life in the Social Studies Classroom

EmergingEdTech

(Image Source) Project Based Learning can Enhance Learning in any Subject – Here we Check out an Approach for Social Studies Most adults today, even many educators, were never exposed to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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How a telepresence robot is changing some classrooms

eSchool News

A new technology enables both interactive communication and observation capabilities with a telepresence robot platform. Thanks to recent strides in robotics and mobile devices, telepresence technology has opened up numerous possibilities at both the K-12 and higher-ed levels, where remote observation and communication can come in handy. Educators and students are exploring a new way to remotely observe and interact with colleagues and peers with a telepresence robot that enables face-to-face co

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Pixel Art Battleship

Teacher Tech

Battleship using @alicekeeler pixel art template plus chrome extension tab scissors. #EndOfYear2016 pic.twitter.com/OCgcl6pgAX — Cindy Schluckebier (@schluckteach) May 9, 2016 Pixel Art Battleship Pixel Art and Battleship… yup that sounds awesome! Cynthia Schluckebier shared on Twitter her students using the pixel art template (alicekeeler.com/pixelart) along with Tab Scissors to play the game Battleship.

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Ed-Tech Startups Win Big in Business Plan Competition Funding

Marketplace K-12

Education startup companies focused on interactive coding, overcoming youth trauma, and helping with dyslexia were among the winners of $140,000 in prize money to build their businesses at a Philadelphia entrepreneurship competition sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Winning companies for the sixth annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition , announced this week, focused on products that also included a digital visual vocabulary prov

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Three Brain Teasers to Spur Logical Thinking and Collaboration

MindShift

There are lots of ways to stretch student thinking and get them talking to each other about ideas. One fun way is through riddles that require inductive reasoning, critical thinking and hopefully some good collaboration around student ideas. The three brain teasers below created by TED-Ed have fun visuals and include an explanation at the end. All the videos also include lesson plan ideas to deepen the conversation and start discussion.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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How to Deal with Difficult Parents, Revisited

MiddleWeb

Building on their 2001 edition of Dealing with Difficult Parents, Todd Whitaker and Douglas J. Fiore offer a valuable resource for professional development, says reviewer Holly Foley, especially when addressing difficult relationships between home and school.

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Teach Your Child to Fish

Fractus Learning

We have likely all heard the adage: “ If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. ” The sentiment still rings true that doing something for someone else isn’t as helpful and effective as teaching them to do it for themselves. This is especially true with our children. We have created a “ do for them ” culture that has often neglected teaching them to learn to do things on their own.

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Expert Advice for Working with Complex Texts

MiddleWeb

Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp want teachers to use the ideas and advice in Text Complexity “to support every student in becoming more skilled at reading complex texts.” Anne Anderson reports their book will “stretch” both teachers and students!

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What should one do? Looking for practical advice for people on today’s academic market

Bryan Alexander

Over the past few months various friends, professional contacts, and random people have asked me for advice about succeeding – or surviving – in today’s academic job market in the United States. These folks (and their friends) are well-educated, passionate, and skilled people, committed to the life of knowledge. They love their respective fields.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.