Tue.Aug 04, 2020

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Teaching students how to manage digital distractions

Neo LMS

When I was a teenager, I had a dumb phone that I mostly used for emergencies. By the time I got to work with teenagers, they had sophisticated devices through which they could even fact check me during classes. That’s not to say that my education was better than theirs, or that my generation was less distracted. It was just different. Nowadays, as it was back then, distraction remains the top enemy of classroom learning.

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How Speech-Language Therapists Can Prepare for This School Year

EdTech Magazine

Over the past few months, the U.S. school system has gone through a dramatic shift. But the upheaval is far from over. The balance between onsite and online learning will continue to fluctuate over the next couple of years, with the quality of special needs education in particular set to be disproportionately affected. Failure to adapt in a way that puts student learning needs first could cause irreparable setbacks for children who already face their fair share of challenges.

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Guest Post: Benefits of E-learning For Teachers

EdTech4Beginners

The advancement of technology has had a noticeable impact on education. There has been a revolution that has had an impact on the conventional classroom set up in various ways. With online learning, there has been a deliberate change from the traditional class setup. . Today, you can do your studies from the lowest level of a subject, to the university level, without setting foot in a school.

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Q&A: Bryan Phillips on How to Remove Digital Barriers for Students

EdTech Magazine

Dynamics of digital instruction, learning outcomes and equitable access can be complex, with no one-size-fits-all approach. As researchers learn more about best practices, educators are tasked with putting their findings into practice — a job harder than it sounds. Now, districts are confronting new challenges around equity and screen time as they seek to deliver remote instruction.

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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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Using Human-Centered Design to Reimagine Staffing Models

Education Elements

Through most of the spring and summer, we at Education Elements have intensely focused on helping school districts prepare for returning to school. As we’ve gotten closer to the start of school, and school leaders return to prepare their campuses, one of the most common questions we get is how to think about instructional staff assignments when some students will be learning remotely and some will be onsite.

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Q&A: Bryan Phillips on How to Remove Digital Barriers for Students

EdTech Magazine

Dynamics of digital instruction, learning outcomes and equitable access can be complex, with no one-size-fits-all approach. As researchers learn more about best practices, educators are tasked with putting their findings into practice — a job harder than it sounds. Now, districts are confronting new challenges around equity and screen time as they seek to deliver remote instruction.

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Using the Stream on Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

The Stream on Google Classroom is your landing page for you class but it is NOT your class website. It is NOT intended to be a place to organize your work, resources or announcements. In fact, you have very little control over organizing the Stream. The Stream is your Social Space ESPECIALLY as we move […]. The post Using the Stream on Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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5 Great Tools to Boost Your Online and in Class Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below are five practical tools you can use to boost your teaching online and in class. Using these apps you will be able to create professional looking videos with green screen and animated features,read more.

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Teacher resilience: 3 practices of teachers who toughed it out during remote learning

eSchool News

2020 has been a tough year to be a PreK-12 teacher. As spring was beginning with all the promise of the final push of the year, schools nationwide abruptly shut down. Teachers, sometimes over the course of a weekend, had to shift to remote teaching while at the same time navigating their own quarantine experience. Our team of researchers, all former elementary and secondary teachers who are now teacher educators, saw this as a moment in educational history that had to be captured–and so we

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COLUMN: Black college grads end up with $25,000 more in loans than whites. Cancel that debt.

The Hechinger Report

Soaring unemployment and underemployment, a result of the coronavirus pandemic, are forcing college borrowers to defer loan payments to make room for things like food and rent. Back in March, student loan borrowers received a reprieve with the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which included provisions that suspended loan payments.

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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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From Actionable Dashboards to Action Dashboards

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while now but just haven’t had time. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get these ideas out of my head again. Now they’re out. Maybe I’ll come back later and give them a fuller – and more awake – treatment. Dashboards in educational contexts are usually comprised of visualizations of educational data.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

When Missouri Western State University declared a financial emergency in the spring, it was widely assumed to have been the fault of the coronavirus pandemic. This story also appeared in NBC News. But that was only part of the problem. In the decade since the last recession, Missouri Western had kept hiring, increasing the number of full-time faculty by 5 percent as its undergraduate enrollment was plummeting by nearly 25 percent.

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Breakout Rooms: Best Practices

The Innovative Educator

Break out rooms provide a great way fo r studen ts to work in small groups. Here are some best practices to ensure the success of breakout rooms. Determine norms Discuss with students what the norms of breakout rooms will be. What is responsible behavior and what is inappropriate? What should students do when they encounter inappropriate behavior i.e. end the meeting, report to the teacher.

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With higher ed in crisis, the lack of financial oversight is glaring

The Hechinger Report

Yvonne Mendez was only six months away from graduating with a registered nursing degree from Anamarc College in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, when the school abruptly closed. Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. Credit: Yvonne Mendez.

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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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4 Ideas for Building Relationships During Remote Learning

The Principal of Change

In my newly released, self-paced course, “ Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning ,” I discuss the importance of building relationships in any environment, whether it is online or offline, and provide some strategies on how we can do so. I wanted to create this additional resource and compile some ideas that you might find beneficial for the start of the school year.

Learning 101
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There's a New Standard in Academic Integrity

Turnitin

To help address emerging academic integrity challenges and to help teach students the value of original work, we are pleased to introduce Turnitin Originality.

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Preparing for Back to School: The #NYCSchoolsTech Virtual Summit

techlearning

During this year's #NYCSchoolsTech Virtual Summit, New York City educators recently came together virtually for information and inspiration

Education 101
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Can districts and charters form Pandemic Pods too?

ExcelinEd

For the longest time, August and September were the months when students leave their homes to go to school. As the Center on Reinventing Public Education noted last week, that’s changed. Robin Lake and Bree Dusseault observed that only 16 of the 106 districts in their database are “still committed to opening the school year with in-person learning.

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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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"Personality Quiz" Activities

SpeechTechie

National Geographic Kids has a great page of personality quizzes i.e. what _ are you? (ice cream flavor, planet, dinosaur). Each has just a few questions and provides an opportunity for expressing opinions, describing oneself, thinking figuratively, interpreting photo scenes, and developing vocabulary. Great for group work! I'll be adding National Geographic Kids to the Teletherapy Resource List.

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How To Delete Your Twitter Account

TeachThought - Learn better.

How do you delete your twitter account? The sequence is Settings and privacy --> Account --> Deactivate your account. Let's take a look at each step. The post How To Delete Your Twitter Account appeared first on TeachThought.

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Tap Out! Help Students Self-Assess Fast

MiddleWeb

For a fresh, fun way to quickly assess student progress, try having them “Tap Out!” in person or online. Kids can think about their efforts toward meeting a learning target, and teachers get ongoing formative assessment data, writes NBCT Rita Platt. Lots of tips and tools!

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 217 A Closer Look At Critical Race Theory And White Fragility

TeachThought - Learn better.

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 217 A Closer Look At Critical Race Theory And White Fragility Drew Perkins talks with Rod Graham, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University, to discuss Critical Theory, White Fragility, and postmodernism in the context of education. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: roderickgraham.com @roderickgraham Facebook: […].

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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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Time to get real with equity

eSchool News

For Todd Dugan, superintendent of Bunker Hill CUSD #8, a small, remote district in southern Illinois, issues surrounding back-to-school COVID-19 style are not abstract but all too real. Some of the district’s biggest priorities include: Rural struggles–and successes–as COVID hit. Address learning loss that comes with inequity. As school resumes, freedom of choice.

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Getting a college degree was their dream. Then their school suddenly closed

The Hechinger Report

DETROIT — Three years later, Michael Stone can still picture the pride he would have seen on his mother’s face as he sat down at the piano for his senior recital at Marygrove College. This story also appeared in NBC News. He can still imagine his little brothers and sisters — all 15 of them — watching with admiration as he played that capstone performance.

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How to Stay Physically, but Not Emotionally, Distant with Kindergarten and Pre-K Students

MindShift

If this were a normal summer, Katy Phinney and her colleagues would be organizing their Pre-K classrooms for the new school year, choosing classroom themes and wall décor. Instead, Phinney is worried about what Pre-K will look like if and when students return to classrooms. “My biggest concern is teachers needing to balance the importance of safety procedures with creating a welcoming and loving environment for our students,” says Phinney, the Pre-K program director in Richardson Independent Sch

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Spark Learning Masterclass: Part II Recording

Cycles of Learning

Click here to access the second of three recordings for my "Spark Learning" Masterclass. This session explored research and strategies related to student exploration once curiosity has been sparked.

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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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Seneca Learning

Technology Tidbits

Seneca Learning is a wonderful site that student's can use for Remote Learning, especially w/ most schools starting off the school year online. All a user has to do is type in a subject/course they are looking for (i.e. Chemistry, Biology, etc.) and then start. These courses are interactive and provides, images, videos, and more. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators to track and monitor student progress.

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Learning Revolution Shows This Week: 2 x "Thrive in EDU," "Connected Classroom," "Exceptional Learners," and "REINVENTING.SCHOOL" #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We have five Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" is on hiatus, "Thrive in EDU" is doing two again this week!). Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site. TUESDAY'S SHOW (August 4th) : 10:30 AM - ThriveinEDU - "Inite the S.H.I.N.E. in Your Students" with Host Rachelle Poth and Special Guest LaVonna Roth.

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Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs

The Hechinger Report

Dozens of colleges and universities nationwide started 2020 already under financial stress. They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. This story also appeared in NBC News. Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and

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OPINION: The dire need for significant federal investment in U.S. colleges and their students

The Hechinger Report

The coronavirus pandemic has upended U.S. higher education. While colleges grapple with how to continue operations in the upcoming academic year, students are facing unprecedented struggles, difficult choices and limited options. Millions of workers — many of whom are supporting students, or are students themselves — have lost jobs and incomes, and they are seeing their savings dwindle.

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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