Thu.Dec 05, 2019

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How edtech is improving special education

Neo LMS

Technology has transformed the world. In the realm of education, devices and e-learning technologies enable students with special needs to take greater ownership of their learning experience. These options empower them to practice material outside the classroom, which is an important factor in retaining knowledge, especially when regular attendance proves to be problematic.

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Student Goal-Setting with Digital Vision Boards

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! A new year is around the corner, which is a great time to encourage students to create a vision board where they visualize their personal, academic and professional goals. Vision boards are collages of inspirational people, quotes, and visuals to inspire an individual to pursue their dreams and passions.

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Review: Promethean ActivPanel Titanium Has Many Teacher-Friendly Features

EdTech Magazine

Review: Promethean ActivPanel Titanium Has Many Teacher-Friendly Features. shailaja.neela…. Thu, 12/05/2019 - 09:59. It was no surprise to learn Promethean’s ActivPanel Titanium was designed with teachers like me in mind. It comes equipped with numerous teacher-friendly features such as an ergonomic, angled control console that offers quick access to the new unified menu, volume controls, source selection and more.

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Ready to Become a MY World 360? Creator?

Digital Promise

As we approach 2020—the start of a “decade of action” leading up to the 2030 deadline set for achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—we are pleased to announce the launch of a new round of MY World 360?. Recognizing the experiential storytelling potential of immersive technologies, the UN SDG Action Campaign , Digital Promise, and Oculus invite young creators (ages 5-24) worldwide to join the global MY World 360?

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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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Google: Roll Dice

Teacher Tech

Let Google Help You Be a Dungeon Master Google has a plethora of cool calculators and Easter eggs if you just know what to search for. “How many calories are in a brownie?” “Graph y equals 36x squared minus 7x plus 3.” But those are not quite as fun as rolling D20 dice… Or any […]. The post Google: Roll Dice appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The teacher’s role in “phenomenon-based learning”

The Hechinger Report

At the Hiidenkivi Comprehensive School near Helsinki, Finland, students don’t spend all their time learning what other people have discovered. They set out to discover new things on their own. The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the country’s National Agency for Education.

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Embracing the New Ways Your Child is Learning Math

MIND Research Institute

“What’s wrong with memorizing?” This was the question I asked my older daughter’s kindergarten teacher three years ago during the parent-teacher conference. Her teacher was explaining “CGI” math and, having worked in media, I first thought this stood for Computer Generated Imagery. CGI actually stands for Cognitively Guided Instruction. In this student-centered way of teaching math, children are encouraged to not only come up with different approaches to get to the same answer, but to explain th

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Educational Apps to Help Kids Learn Coding

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

August , 2017 Kids learn best when they are engaged in hands-on activities that challenge their imagination and unleash their creative thinking. The coding apps we selected for you today can do just.

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Using EdTech Analytics to Improve Group Work

Omega Notes

Ask most students and they’ll probably tell how group work may be one of the least satisfying experiences they’ve ever had in school. Yet research suggests that group work, such as case-based teaching, can provide significant benefits. Students who participate in group-based active learning methods improve critical thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills, as well as the interpersonal skills necessary for discussion, collaboration, and consensus; all skills which are transferable outside

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 187 Making Math More Accessible

TeachThought - Learn better.

Drew Perkins talks with Robert Kaplinsky about math teaching and learning and how he thinks about making it more accessible. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 187 Making Math More Accessible appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

About an hour outside of Missoula, Montana is Garrison, a small ranching town that is home to about 300 people. The local school serves just 18 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. With multiple grade levels in each classroom and only three full-time staff members, access to the Internet is critical to providing individualized instruction, distance learning opportunities, and digital equity for students and staff.

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Tis’ the Season to be Jolly! 25 Days of STEM Goodies

techlearning

Just click on the calendar below and a post will appear with a free activity suggestion, a list of free resources and tools for that activity, and a free template to copy, edit and use as you wish.

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Check Out the Privacy Ratings for Hundreds of Popular Classroom Tools

Graphite Blog

Since 2013, Common Sense Education has rated over 2,800 edtech products for learning potential. These learning ratings, however, have been telling only half the story. Edtech has been dominated by the collection of data for over a decade: from "free" sites and apps funded by advertising and/or selling user data to the contemporary pushes for "personalized" learning.

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Some Helpful Chromebook Resources for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction, the chart below is a great resource to keep handy. The chart is based on insights collected from Chromebook Help. As is the case.

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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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How We Can Support Discussions about Race

MiddleWeb

Matthew Kay shows how to establish and maintain a positive classroom community that allows teachers to begin to broach racial discourse with our students in a healthy and productive way. Teacher Nicole Warchol finds Not Light, But Fire "smart, supportive, and necessary.".

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? While virtual resources abound, the systems are not coordinated enough to fully address teachers’ curriculum-design needs and to support them as they help students build a coherent body of knowledge. But there are solutions, some already in place that are making it easier to design quality curricula that truly benefit learners.

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Using EdTech Analytics to Improve Group Work

Omega Notes

Ask most students and they’ll probably tell how group work may be one of the least satisfying experiences they’ve ever had in school. Yet research suggests that group work, such as case-based teaching, can provide significant benefits. Students who participate in group-based active learning methods improve critical thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills, as well as the interpersonal skills necessary for discussion, collaboration, and consensus; all skills which are transferable outside

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10 Ways to Publish Your Game Anywhere

The Game Agency

The beauty of The Training Arcade® is once you’ve created a game with your training content, you can launch the game and publish it anywhere! Here are 10 ways you can publish and deploy the game for maximum training effectiveness. 1. EXPORT YOUR GAME TO YOUR LMS. Export the games as a SCORM package (SCORM 1.2 or 2004) and load into your Learning Management System (LMS).

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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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Using EdTech Analytics to Improve Group Work

Omega Notes

Ask most students and they’ll probably tell how group work may be one of the least satisfying experiences they’ve ever had in school. Yet research suggests that group work, such as case-based teaching, can provide significant benefits. Students who participate in group-based active learning methods improve critical thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills, as well as the interpersonal skills necessary for discussion, collaboration, and consensus; all skills which are transferable outside

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Elements of Education for Every Educator

MiddleWeb

The Elements of Education for Teachers offers 100 pages jam-packed with easily accessible, well vetted pedagogies and practices. Each of the 50 elements is presented in a crisp two-page format. Teacher Diane Kaplan has selected several strategies to implement right away.

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Could Minecraft disrupt traditional instruction?

eSchool News

Minecraft, which hit its 10-year anniversary this year, is currently the second best-selling video game ever—only beat out by Tetris. The game is what’s called a “sandbox,” where players move around freely and use pixelated “blocks” to build whatever they want, from functioning virtual computers to a replica of the entire country of Denmark. Over 100 million people play the game, and estimates suggest that kids under 15 are the biggest demographic.

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2019-20 Student Book Budget First Steps

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

It’s that time of year again when I hand over the profits from our book fair to a group of 3rd-5th graders. These students work together through a process to purchase new books for our library that are based on the interests and requests of students in our school. Each year, this project grows and changes and this year brought some of the biggest changes we’ve had in a while.

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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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On the Path to “Purpose”

The Principal of Change

Just some thinking out loud…I have no idea where this is going, but I am “writing to learn” not only to share my learning. This excerpt from my book, “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” was just reshared with me on Twitter, and it sparked some of my thinking. An artist had his easel set up on a street when a person walked by and asked how much it would cost to have a portrait drawn.

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Surviving the Holiday Season

Turnitin

Here are five helpful survival tips for teachers as they tackle the holiday season and approach the final weeks of the year.

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"Bad News" Provides Clever Game to Teach Kids About Fake News

techlearning

Bad News is a short web- and text-based game that highlights how Twitter and other social media are used to propagate fake news.

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#TwistedTrope 23: Dale's crappy cone

Learning with 'e's

An important use of Dale's cone: Image from Wikimedia Commons Dale's cone is a very funny idea. It was invented by British comic actor Edgar 'Jim' Dale who knew a lot about making people laugh, but not very much about education. While on a day trip to Blackpool , the young Jim accidentally dropped his ice-cream on the sand. After a long screaming fit, he calmed down enough to notice that the up-turned cone made a pyramid shape that could be divided into convenient segments (I'm not sure this is

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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.

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Awards Of Excellence Winners Announced By Tech & Learning Magazine

techlearning

Outstanding Education Technology Products Saluted

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#TwistedTropes 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge

Learning with 'e's

Image from Wikimedia Commons So let's say you visit Mexico (other countries are available - Editor), and you foolishly drink some of the tap-water, or perhaps indulge in some dodgy food. Later that day, you become aware of a strange feeling building in your lower reaches. and slowly, it grows. Soon you discover that you are not able to travel more than a couple of steps from the toilet, because quite frankly, the bottom is dropping out of your world.

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Actively Learn

Technology Tidbits

Actively Learn is a site I've blogged about in the past that is ideal for increasing reading comprehension or adding "depth" to any text. AL reminds me a lot of EDpuzzle but instead of "making a video your own" it is "making reading material your own". This can be done using any text and lets educators track student's learning and understanding of a passage through the use of asking questions, annotating, collaborating, and more all in real-time.

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Can PDFs Be Made Accessible?

techlearning

These are the most common accessibility errors to check for:

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks