Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2018

“Technology use must, first and foremost, be designed to support learning goals, not the other way around.”. This insight, penned by Peggy A. Ertmer and Anne T. Ottenbreit-Leftwich in their 2013 study of authentic technology-enabled learning, highlights the main challenge coaches face when trying to support teachers using technology. It’s easy to let technology take center stage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2018

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality are terms being thrown around in technology circles. But what do the mean? How are they being used in the classroom? Jaime Donally talks about these technologies in simple language and helps us understand the classroom applications of them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2018

The first week of school is different from all others. During this week, teachers and students alike spend time getting to know each other, become comfortable in the classroom where they’ll spend countless hours for the next nine months, and take time to reach a comfort level with leaving summer behind. I’ve gathered suggestions below from some of the leading education folks (like Catlin Tucker, Alice Keeler, Eric Curts, Richard Byrne, and Monica Burns), those who are all about proje

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Technology is changing the landscape of industries everywhere. From retail and agriculture to design and healthcare, societies are adapting fast to the changing times. K-12 education is no exception. Technology has paved the way for new opportunities to improve this crucial period of student growth. Curriculums have been readjusted to cater to students’ specific needs.

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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When we read maps, pack the car for holidays, assemble flat-pack furniture or cut cake into equal slices, we use spatial reasoning skills. These allow us to mentally manipulate objects or think in a way that relates to space and the position, area, and size of things within it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. But what is their legacy on campuses? MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. The crowds who showed up were, well, massive.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2018

Have a look at this study of a bull by Pablo Picasso: It starts off with intricate drawings and step by step Picasso moves from detail to just the essence of what a bull is, using just a handful of lines. Sometimes we have to ‘cut the bull’ … We have to look at the essence of what good teaching and learning looks like. Unit planning: What do you really want students to know, to understand, and be able to do ?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 21, 2018

50 Ways To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom by Terry Heick Bloom’s Taxonomy is a powerful teaching and learning tool that can help you shape nearly everything that happens in your classroom. Why you would want to do this is another conversation, though I will say that, in brief, Bloom’s places the focus […]. The post 50 Ways To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2018

Computational thinking has been trending, but what is it, really? Simply put, computational thinking is a method of reasoning that teaches students how to solve real-world, complex problems with strategies that computers use. Computational thinking and the design thinking process are frameworks for problem-solving to help address the need for 21st-century skills across our nation’s K-12 school system.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 21, 2018

How Do You Improve As A Teacher? A Little Bit Every Day by Terry Heick Your work as a teacher is a journey. And it is very much still work, but the metaphor of a journey may be a more accurate representation of its character than reducing to ‘work’ and ‘effort.’ Let me explain. Whether […]. The post How Do You Improve As A Teacher?

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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

AUGUST 21, 2018

Traditional letter grades have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Today’s parents received As, Bs, and Cs from their teachers when they were in school, and most parents expect to see similar letters on their child’s report card. Yet, for years my district— Alpine (UT) School District —struggled to justify our traditional grading model.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Investors and founders packed into the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. for startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 Demo Day. For those counting, this was the 27th version of the event, which always features a motley of startups and services: There’s Kobo360, an “Uber for trucking in Africa,” and Cambridge Glycoscience, which wants to bring the concept of “cake zero”—sweets with sugar substitutes—to the masses.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 21, 2018

While this is a topic that gets covered on education blogs with some frequency, I haven't tackled it here in a while, and it is such a vital skill. Written and oral communications are the most. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. But some things seem to stay the same—such as its ability to win new investors and capital. Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. This new money was raised as debt financing, of which Triple Point Capital contributed $20 million.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 21, 2018

Close reading is an essential survival skill specially now that we live in a data-saturated world where we are constantly bombarded by all forms of textual and non-textual stimuli. At its core, close.

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The Jose Vilson

AUGUST 21, 2018

To Dulce, Tamir, Patrick, James, Jemelleh, Kelisa, Julia, Lorena, Shana, Val, Cornelius, and the rest of us, too, A few years ago, I was in the middle of a gathering of young burgeoning educators. It was ostensibly about becoming better educators, but everyone received the messages differently. Some took the presenter to heart when she tried to impart wisdom from her decades of experience in the classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 21, 2018

The Internet and web technologies have radically transformed the information landscape levelling the ground for everyone to access, produce, and share knowledge anytime, anywhere. The world’s.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

This month the U.S. Education Department announced a proposal to remove a set of higher education regulations meant to punish college programs that turned out to be bad deals for students—specifically, ones whose graduates’ student-loan payments were higher than a specific portion their incomes. The policy, known as “gainful employment” was proposed in 2011 under the Obama administration to hold higher-ed institutions accountable to student outcomes after a string of for-profit colleges were acc

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 21, 2018

Educators often seek out vendor-provided data to learn about ed-tech tools, but they are unlikely to trust research vendors provide, a new study finds. The post Tech-Savvy Educators Often Use Vendors’ Info to Find Ed-Tech, But Doubt Their Research, Study Says appeared first on Market Brief.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 21, 2018

In my last post, I discussed how some Star Wars conversation led a group of mine to some engaging self-regulation activities incorporating movement. I always like extending themes, and observe that both watching short videos and, for some reason, watching me type into a presentation slide both get kids talking! I found a Star Wars template easily and we used this "blank space" to map out some social narratives related to play, thinking, self-talk and regulation, and social cognition after review

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 21, 2018

What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality (AR) refers to the integration of digital or computer-generated information with the real-world environment to provide an enhanced version of reality. Here, it is important to differentiate between Virtual Reality (VR) and AR. VR creates an artificial environment. AR, on the other hand, enhances the real environment for more participation, immersion, and interaction.

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SecurEdge

AUGUST 21, 2018

At least among IT professionals, it’s no big secret that public WiFi networks are not safe places. A quick search on Google, or simply skimming through your news feed or social media feed, will almost certainly turn up headlines such as “All Wi-Fi networks are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers” from the Guardian and “Why You Really Need to Stop Using Public Wi-Fi” from Harvard Business Review.

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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 Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2018

. Growing up in Texas with Nigerian-born parents, I loved movies, comic books — and science. In middle school, I participated in my first science fair. By high school, I never wanted to leave the lab. Flash forward to the present. I’m a high school chemistry teacher with 22 years of experience. When I started introducing my students to competitions for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), it was because I wanted to share this love of inquiry.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 21, 2018

Despite the success of last spring's well informed debates in her 8th grade U.S. History classes, Sarah Cooper is taking an indefinite break from the no-holds-barred, winner-takes-all style of discussion in favor of more collaborative, consensus building strategies.

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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

Today, Nearpod and New Teacher Center announce a new partnership that will provide teachers research-based professional learning opportunities. This new approach aims to provide live, connected learning experiences to teachers through a digital platform. Workshops are organized into series, including: Creating Equitable Learning Environments, Fundamentals of Play and Foundations of Social Emotional Learning. [ Back-to-School Tips: Setting a Positive Tone From Day One ] New Teacher Center, a nati

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 21, 2018

Engage , (v.) in???j: to hold the attention of; to provide occupation for. Engaged , (adj.) in???jd: Involved in activity. Engagement , (n.) in???jm?nt: the act of engaging; the state of being engaged. Source: Merriam-Webster. Unlike a lot of other education buzzwords, the debate over student engagement isn't about whether or not we want it, but more about how we can best achieve it.

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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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AUGUST 21, 2018

It is back to school time 2018 for many of us in the United States and beyond… welcome to the future! I dedicate this post to all of you wonderful educators. It is my hope that as many educators as possible read this post as they begin a new year journey… I hope you share and make this happen! (Via school emails and retweet to your friends). Please enjoy this reflective journey and send to others what I hope to be a teaching inspiration.

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Brainscape

AUGUST 21, 2018

It’s depressing how little most of us remember from school. It seems like at a certain point our brains just give up on taking in new information. There is so much to learn that it can be overwhelming. What has happened to our curiosity and creativity? What’s happened to our thirst for knowledge and learning? Here at Brainscape, we’ve set ourselves the task of helping you rediscover your natural inquisitive spirit, since knowledge comes from exposure and curiosity.

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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

Classworks® by Curriculum Advantage, Inc., an online intervention solution, released a number of upgrades for the 2018 - 2019 school year. The improvements include new activities available on any device, professional learning, and a more streamlined user experience. New instruction available on any device Classworks activities are now available to teachers and students on any device to accommodate the mix of devices found in today’s classrooms.

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Cycles of Learning

AUGUST 21, 2018

In past years I always had students create either a blog or a website to publicly share their work and curate their progress. Click here for an example. While I believe deeply in students archiving their work in a public space, after reading Show Your Work , an outstanding book by Austin Kleon, I began to put an incredible amount of pressure on myself to empower students to create beautiful space to showcase their work.

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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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