Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2020

As coronavirus cases continue to increase across the country, numerous school districts are reluctantly announcing that they will be doing ‘remote learning’ again this fall. Although we had the summer to prepare for this eventuality, unfortunately we have instead seen a lot of magical thinking from educational leaders and policy makers. . As much as we want our children to go back to school in person, we can’t underestimate how harmful this magical thinking can be.

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Ditch That Textbook

JULY 16, 2020

Webb’s Depth of Knowledge model is a useful tool for evaluating our lessons. What are the best strategies or activities to help students at each DOK level? Here are lots of ideas.Norman Webb’s Depth of Knowledge model can help teachers create learning opportunities that hit a variety of complexity levels. It is a framework for […]. The post 30 activities for any Depth of Knowledge level appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

“Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.” – James Hollis ( What Matters Most: Living a Considered Life ). Now more than ever, educators are learning to live with ambiguity. They are responding to circumstances full of complexities and strange surprises, most of which have not been in their control.

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Neo LMS

JULY 16, 2020

With technology so widespread at work, at school, and at home, being able to efficiently interact with it is an essential skill for everyone — adults, teenagers, and children. To a certain extent, the impact of computer literacy in our personal and professional lives can be compared to the importance of literacy a century ago. If illiteracy makes social and professional inclusion difficult or impossible sometimes, the same goes for digital illiteracy.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2020

In early May, when what seemed like the worst of the pandemic was behind us, the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI), in collaboration with the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA) in New York City, conducted a survey to understand how urban school leaders were feeling during the COVID-19 crisis. Over 1,000 principals, assistant principals and district-level supervisors from New York—then the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States—participated.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 16, 2020

Rocketbook Partners with Panda to Launch The First Reusable Planner, the Rocketbook Panda Planner Rocketbook , maker of Amazon’s best-selling notebook, is pleased to introduce, in partnership with Panda Planner, the Rocketbook Panda Planner. It is the world’s first reusable, digitally connected planner. Specifically designed to improve your productivity and happiness, the planner features several templates to help you set goals, measure your progress, and reflect on how far you’ve come.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2020

SlidesMania is a platform that provides access to a wide variety of pre-made templates that you can use on your Google Slides and PowerPoint. I have spent sometime going through its content and.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

While some students thrived during the coronavirus-inspired spring of remote learning, educators, parents and students themselves have reported frighteningly low engagement. Among 20,000 middle and high school students surveyed by Youth Truth , a national nonprofit research organization, just 41 percent of them said they could motivate themselves to do schoolwork while their school buildings were closed.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2020

As schools rushed to move face-to-face classes online, the unique challenges faced by students attempting to learn remotely came to the surface. The enormous loss of instructional time caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to widen performance gaps in public education. The early warning indicators that districts typically use as predictors of performance and engagement—such as attendance, suspensions, and summative assessment scores—are not data points districts are currently trackin

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2020

Unscreen is a good web tool that allows you to easily remove backgrounds from videos. The process is simple and easy: upload your video to Unscreen and click to convert it to a background-free.read more.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2020

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned schools about an increase in ransomware attacks during the pandemic, with attackers exploiting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections that allow school employees to log in to district servers remotely. While the FBI’s alert is worrisome in its own right, it’s not the issue that keeps K-12 cyber security expert Doug Levin up at night.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 16, 2020

I continued my organizational practices, students were able to move online without much trouble. Because they knew where to find the information, they could keep up. Because they could see how what we did was linked to the curriculum, they were reminded that learning continued. The post It Wasn’t All Bad: A Virtual End to the School Year by @MrsMathews_OHS appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 16, 2020

Since students typically perform better on low-level thinking items, teachers may believe students understand more deeply than they actually do. The post Shifting Your Assessments To Grow Higher-Level Thinking appeared first on TeachThought.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 16, 2020

As a teacher we do things at least 30 times, and as a high school teacher over 100 times! There are so many things that we have to do per student. Knowing how to code Google Apps Script allows you to answer the question “Why can’t I do with Google Docs?” You might be […]. The post Kick Your Teaching Efficiency Up a Notch with Google Apps Script appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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EdTechTeacher

JULY 16, 2020

The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord’s blog, Leading Innovations in Schools: From Someday to Monday. On June 24, educator-consultant Will Richardson shared the following tweet: “What if we just took every piece of the curriculum that we currently teach and just asked “why?” How much of it would fall under the category “Because it’s required to make sense of the world today and to thrive in the future”?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

With the new school year just a few weeks away and coronavirus cases on the rise, many college and university presidents have shared ambitious plans for a never-before-executed fall semester. Students will have to wear masks in class, keep social distance as much as possible, get tested for Covid-19 and more to prevent spreading the virus. The plans are lengthy and detailed, and many of the new rules seem tough to follow, which makes you wonder: What do students think of these plans?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 16, 2020

WindowSwap is a simple website that lets you look out someone else's window from nearly anywhere in the world. And it's strangely relaxing. The post Here’s A Simple Website That Lets You Look Out Someone Else’s Window appeared first on TeachThought.

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N2Y

JULY 16, 2020

Essential Support for Changing Lives. Special educators know how important it is that unique learners have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills, advancing toward such positive outcomes as a fulfilling, productive role in society and independence. A great way to serve your students is to continue to develop your own understanding of the programs you use every day—and it’s OK to take some pride in your professional growth , too!

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 16, 2020

by Caitlin Krause. Start With the Why. In mid-2019, I was dreaming about hosting a remote mindfulness cohort for teachers. Teachers’ levels of toxic stress were on the rise, already among the highest in all professions, and I wanted to do something about it. And, I hadn’t just heard that teacher burnout was increasing, I had experienced it myself and seen it among colleagues who were exceptional teachers, yet the profession was not providing them with a natural way to restore and renew their own

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techlearning

JULY 16, 2020

Teaching digital citizenship is the job of all educators--here’s how to prepare them

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

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JULY 16, 2020

With so much uncertainty about the 2020–2021 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic, one fact remains: The skills and resources that reflective, dedicated teachers need to navigate remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments are plentiful -- and ever evolving. To help you find the professional development you want and need for the upcoming school year, we've put together a short list of free or low-cost PD opportunities.

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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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Reading By Example

JULY 16, 2020

I believe student choice and engagement are inextricably linked. In Chapter 16 of Engaging Literate Minds , “Apprenticing Humanity”, the authors write about the connection between engagement and being a “lifelong learner” (p 270). This leads me to connect choice and lifelong learning. It makes sense. I’ve consciously included choice in my lessons, and I can see students’ engagement increase, and they want to learn more about what they’re reading, independently.

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techlearning

JULY 16, 2020

Advice for educators on how to create a blended environment

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Turnitin

JULY 16, 2020

Here are a few ways educators can build in time for themselves and prioritize self-care in a COVID-19 world.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 16, 2020

In More Grammar to Get Things Done, authors Crovitz and Devereaux strike the right balance of ideological and practical to make the idea of a pedagogical shift to teaching grammar in context not only doable but exciting, says ELA teacher Karen Rubado.

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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

JULY 16, 2020

Have you ever played Truth or Dare as a family? If you have, then you know how much fun it is to play the game. You also understand that the truth or dare questions should be [.].

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MiddleWeb

JULY 16, 2020

Two-for-One Teaching is an excellent resource for educators who want to help connect what matters most to kids with what matters most to schools. The authors' flexible strategies will help students learn and grow, writes 21st century curriculum coordinator Alex Valencic.

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N2Y

JULY 16, 2020

As students return, social and emotional needs will be a factor in the classroom. Gain a firm understanding of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as a foundation for more‑inclusive teaching practices. In this webinar you’ll learn how to: Apply principles of SEL to meet the short- and long‑term behavioral needs of all learners. Use low-intensity strategies for implementation of SEL in the classroom.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 16, 2020

Building blocks, while still a relatively simple toy, remains one of the most critical valuable learning experiences for young children. Whether they’re stacking them or creating more complex structures, children are (unknowingly) learning in all areas [.].

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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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