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OCTOBER 6, 2016

By Dr. Jeffrey Sheen Stamina, strength and stability make this Acer an attractive option for IT professionals and educators.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Mobile devices are everywhere. Adults and children are using smartphones, tablets, e-readers and more to interact with each other and the web every day. More people interact with digital media through mobile now than through desktop computers, and that number continues to grow. Seventy five percent of kids under eight have their own mobile device. [.].

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2016

By David Hutchins Advance preparation, solid infrastructure are key for administering student assessments.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I recently organised and ran the Federation of British Schools In Asia (FOBISIA) maths tournament. It was successful and I got positive feedback from both teachers and students. Well done to the winners: Now that it is finished, I thought I would share some of the resources I created/used. They were described by my students as ‘really tricky’!

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

By Tim Kridel Districts offer tips and tricks for a smooth migration.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

During its heyday, Amplify touted its orange tablets as the tool that would transform digital learning experiences in school. Yet the company’s most impressive offering may have been its games. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company invested more than $25 million to partner with talented developers who built 30 learning games covering math, science and English Language Arts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I’ve been playing Minecraft Education —mostly with students or other teachers—for about four years now. My experience came to a head two weekends ago, when I attended MINECON, the annual Minecraft convention and fan fest held this year in Anaheim on September 24-25. I go to a lot of educational technology conferences, but I don’t have a lot of experience with “fandom conventions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Here is one of my favourite videos on flipped classroom. In this funny and insightful video, Keith Hughes explains the idea behind the flipped classroom and provides some excellent tips for teachers.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Faculty development in higher education looks the same today as it did 30 years ago: educators attend face-to-face workshops and consultations in an attempt to find new strategies and ideas for improving learning. But the way faculty teach is drastically different from what it was even five years ago. It’s now the norm for them to lead face-to-face, blended and online classes.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Learning.com announces its first Code-a-Thon, a nationwide competition that will run from Nov. 14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. “We’re standing under a waterfall, feasting on information that’s never existed before,” said Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist and associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE).

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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Google has announced that it is changing Google Apps for Education to G Suite for Education. This move is much more than a simple rebranding, however, in that many new features will be rolled out as a result of the transition. So far, Google’s marketing strategy has mainly focused on how this change will impact businesses. The world of education, to this point, has been a mere footnote.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

This week in S’Cool Tools, we again share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. . If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. FANGeopolitics . Written by Doug , a high school social studies teacher from Illinois. Doug’s school is a 1:1 device environment and has a high number of low income students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

October 6, 2016 Google’s popular app Science Journal has recently added an interesting feature called Light Instruments which is basically an activity that enables students ‘to design and build a.read more.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As I look back on the summer, one of the things that strikes me is how often a workshop I’ve given has followed a “technology training” at a school. In other words, faculty had already received tech training on the particular platform, device or tool I was asked to address. Sometimes this training had been administered in-house, but often it had been delivered by a technology company who came in and explained how their product works.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Math Puzzles, Get Students Thinking Google Home was just introduced, this allows you to shout out questions to the universe and have the answer. Wouldn’t it be interesting to get a Google Home for the classroom so students could shout out “Ok Google, what is the perimeter of a square with a width of 7 […]. The post Math Puzzle, Get Students Thinking appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Keeping children happily engaged is one of the biggest challenges I hear about in my workshops and training events. Children come to your After-School Program at a lag time in the afternoon where they have already spent a lot of energy and focus during school hours. Their bodies and minds are tired, sugar levels might be on the low side, and they have the urge to let loose after being pent up all day.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Collaboration. Community. Social Responsibility. Cox Communications believes deeply in all three and works to bring them to life, transforming these concepts into real, powerful, impactful change for the communities and people they serve. Thanks to Cox, MIND’s newest public service announcement (PSA) promoting our upcoming 3 rd annual Math Fair will be aired throughout the month of October.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 6, 2016

For years, I have been using Tweetdeck to schedule tweets. Yesterday I suddenly wondered why I couldn’t just schedule tweets from an app on my mobile. So I searched and found this Mashable article recommending 3 free tools (it called them apps so I thought they were mobile apps, but they’re actually web-based) and I thought they worked better than Tweetdeck for some things but worse for others.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 6, 2016

This Example can Serve as a Template for Projects of Many Types Project Based Learning (PBL) has become a major pedagogical focus today, and well it should. The idea behind PBL is that students will. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Class Tech Integrate

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Part of the purpose for student usage of technology in the classroom is to allow students to become creators not just consumers. A large part of this creative process for our learners is the resources that they find to put into their product. In this case we are talking about visual resources, or images. Many students and teachers go directly to Google and search images.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Screenwise by Devorah Heitner is a book for both educators and parents that adopts "a gloriously positive attitude" about adults' ability to learn and model wise use of the digital tools that engage people of all ages today. Teacher-author Heather Wolpert-Gawron finds lots of wisdom and lots to use.

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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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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The Google Apps (G Suite) administrator console is what makes Google Apps an outstanding solution for K-12 schools. The ability to configure and adapt the settings of your devices to the unique needs of your district is worth every penny of the.O, wait, it's free!!! While the admin console is very powerful and helpful, it can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you don't have a ton of experience with enterprise controls in general or Google Apps specifically.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The post Halloween Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Halloween Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings! Halloween Fun with Google Drawings! Who’s ready for a little Halloween fun with Google Drawings? I’ve created a Halloween-themed magnetic poetry template with Google Drawings for you and your students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The post Everyone Is A Novice With Technology appeared first on TeachThought.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 6, 2016

By Tanner Higgin, Common Sense Education. It’s clear coding and computer science have become key priorities in K-12 education. From Code.org’s massive round of funding and the formulation of the Computer Science Coalition to President Obama’s Computer Science For All initiative to big school districts, like the San Francisco Unified School District, building K-12 computer science curriculum – there’s indications that this is more than a passing fad.

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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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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

My Little Pony games are as popular now as they were almost 40 years ago. The iconic little ponies have made a comeback in a big way and if you, like me, grew up in the 80s chances are you would have owned at least one. If you yourself, as a male, didn’t own a magical pony with a rainbow colored mane, then you probably had your Action Jackson action figure ride one into town or you would have maimed and disfigured your sister’s a la the destroyer of toys, Sidney “Sid” Phi

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In his guide to writing memoir with adolescents, Jack Wizner shares what he has learned as a writer teaching writers: how to balance honesty and discretion in student writing and how to reach writers of all levels. Fellow 8th grade teacher Brian Kelley loves it.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Recently in a workshop, I asked a participant if I could use their phone and write a tweet from their account to get them some information. When they handed me their iPhone, I realized that it was an iPhone 4, and confirmed that with them. Compared to my iPhone 7, it seemed so small, and to be honest, quite slow. I kind of laughed in my head, not because of the quality of the phone, but just thinking about a story directly connected to myself and this same version of phone.

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District Administration

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Nominations for the 2017 award year will be accepted from January 15 through March 1. District Administration DA’s Districts of Distinction program, which honors innovative projects in America’s public school districts, will be showcased in a special annual edition of the magazine each July, starting in 2017.

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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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