EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

4 Ways K–12 Can Maximize the Impact of Immersive Technology in the Classroom. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/13/2018 - 08:51. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality and 3D scanning are becoming so hot that educators across the country are beginning to roll them out for students of all ages. The problem is that, while technologies blending elements of the physical and digital worlds in simulated environments offer enormous academic value , too many institutions fall prey to what I call the “

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Last time we started to explore the top four challenges facing higher education in the US. Preferring to offer up innovative case studies from across the HE sector (rather than just discuss the issue) today’s blog will look at declining completion rates, and ways in which some universities are addressing them. The facts. The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) released a report in 2017 , demarcating the specifics of the “drop out” or (more polite phrase) completion rate problem among coll

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Learning math by building bridges or designing aircraft wings is inspiring. Chugging through the odd-numbered practice problems at the end of the chapter is not. Improving our community by collecting data and investigating the causes of local environmental challenges is inspiring. Participating in artificial, recipe-like science ‘experiments’ from a publishing company is not.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. Maybe Vocabulary.com and its spelling games come to mind next. But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Their approach is good but way down the SAMR pyramid to what can be done today, easily, in classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Andrew Sharos on episode 359 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. AP US History Teacher, Andrew Sharos, talks about how to create a collaborative environment that helps students learn and succeed in AP courses. It definitely isn’t just drill and practice, but a team experience that starts with a relationship.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Blackout poetry takes standard text (from a newspaper or magazine article … really any text you find). The artist then uses a marker and blacks out all of the words except for a select few, leaving a pithy piece of prose behind. I was first introduced to blackout poetry by Austin Kleon, author of the […].

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A year ago, the richest man in the world asked Twitter for suggestions on how he should most efficiently and charitably spend his wealth. And today, Jeff Bezos unveiled a few details about his plans – other than funding space travel , that is. His new philanthropic effort, The Day 1 Fund , will finance two initiatives: the Families Fund will work with existing organizations to address homelessness and hunger; and the Academies fund “will launch an operate a network of high-quality, f

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has his hands in e-commerce, space expeditions and carbonless energy —and now, he’s adding preschools to that list. In a tweet today, he wrote that his new “Bezos Day One Fund” will start with $2 billion behind it. The Associated Press reports that the entirety of the funds will come from Bezos—the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $150 billion.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your class instruction? The list below has you covered. These are some some popular web tools we have reviewed in multiple.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Like many school districts around the country, D.C. Everest (WI) Area School District purchased a hodgepodge of edtech devices over time to meet the needs of our growing student population, teachers, and available budgets. Four years ago, a study of inventory found that we were close to having one device per student for our K-12 district of more than 6,000 students, yet the way our tech had been purchased didn’t create an equitable environment.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Webjets is a new information management tool we discovered through a post by Larry Ferlazzo. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bad behavior is a snowball effect—it grows and grows until it can’t be stopped. If teachers don’t have a system in place for addressing that behavior from the beginning of the year, they will appear to have a lack of credibility and authority. In his recent edWebinar , Shannon Holden, assistant principal of Republic Middle School in Missouri, went over essentials for setting the school year up for success by starting out on right foot.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we meet Greg Holdsman, the creator of the new Philly Famous Podcast. Greg and I met this summer at Podcast Movement and he produces a fantastic podcast called the Philly Famous Podcast where he interviews local Philadelphians. The post How Can You Create A Podcast For Your Local Community? Just Ask the @PhillyFamousPod for Advice!

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In India, the fifth of September is celebrated as Teacher’s Day, commemorating the birth of Dr. S Radhakrishnan , the first Vice President and second President of India. Dr. Radhakrishnan was also an exemplary educator, who believed that ‘true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.’ Teachers, therefore, are not only instrumental in building knowledge networks and nurturing the growth of young learners, but more importantly, they have the power to decide the future of education.

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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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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we meet Greg Holdsman, the creator of the new Philly Famous Podcast. Greg and I met this summer at Podcast Movement and he produces a fantastic podcast called the Philly Famous Podcast where he interviews local Philadelphians. The post How Can You Create A Podcast For Your Local Community? Just Ask the @PhillyFamousPod for Advice!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the 19 months since becoming the U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos has issued a rush of announcements that remove or undermine previous rules designed to protect students from predatory corporate-run colleges and student debt-collection agencies—changes that are likely to impact low-income students disproportionately. DeVos’s actions call to mind a dark moment in American history when the fox was guarding the henhouse: the Teapot Dome scandal , when Harding administration cabinet membe

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Subscribe today! More Latinos are graduating from college than in years past, but they still lag far behind their white peers: about 32 percent graduate from college in four years compared with 45 percent of white students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Billionaire Jeff Bezos today tweeted that he will be launching "Montessori-style preschools" and supporting organizations that help homeless families with a $2 billion philanthropic fund. The post Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Announces $2 Billion Philanthropic Fund for Preschools, Homeless Families appeared first on Market Brief.

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My Island View

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I recently read a blog post about how teachers will never be replaced by technology. The author stated that technology was just a “tool for learning”. This had to be among literally hundreds, if not thousands, of similar posts and comments that I have read over the years. Since I was teaching from the early 70’s, I tended to agree with that way back then.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Pick a color, literally any color. Search engines come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Now there’s one for those of us who are lovers (or seekers) of color. Simple and elegant and particularly speedy, Picular returns results in swatches. a palette of colors associated with your search terms. Select one of the swatches and you immediately copy the RGB color code to your clipboard.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A study of more than 4,000 students from 230 randomly selected U.S. classrooms concluded that students who spent just 20 hours using MobyMax increased a full grade level more than students in the same classroom who did not use MobyMax. A study of more than 4,000 students from 230 randomly selected U.S. classrooms concluded that students who spent just 20 hours using MobyMax increased a full grade level more than students in the same classroom who did not use MobyMax.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Jonathan Cornue does an excellent job presenting standards-based grading's nuances, critical players, and the steps to transition from a traditional 100-point grading system. Teacher Julie Bernardi says the 30-step process, including checkpoints, can be a valuable guide.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ? John Dewey Learning must be authentic and meaningful in order for the content to really be understood and usable. While there are several education models that promote this idea, it is a necessity in a well-planned Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit. While memorizing and reciting facts may actually give some positive results on a test, it demonstrates only the lowest levels of learning as represented at the bottom of Bloom’s Tax

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

With commitment and hard work, school librarians can become indispensable to school success, writes Judi Moreillon. Through their support for community building, PD, inquiry learning, digital resources and more, librarians can be a vital part of leadership teams.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

There are two terms that I have seen thrown around which mean a lot more than how they are being used; learning and achievement. The reason these two come to mind is due to their direct connection to one another in the context of education. If you dig a bit, when the word “learning” is being used, it is used instead of “retention and regurgitation.” If we use the term “learning” in this way, are we focused more on the depth of knowledge, understanding, and application, or are we preparing studen

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Do you send a similar type of email to students, parents or colleagues constantly? Click here to learn more about creating "Canned Response" email templates. Curious about Curiosity? Click here for an excellent recent review of the research literature on Curiosity in The Atlantic featuring the work of Wiliams College Professor Susan Engel, best known for her lecture: The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity Interesting in bringing STEM to your life science class?

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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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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The 20 lessons in Developing Writers of Argument are perfect for teachers looking for innovative and relevant material that distinguishes argument from persuasion. ELA teacher Erin Corrigan-Smith says the engaging content can also work for cross-curricular assignments.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

WHAT: High Impact Learning Environment Webinar – What are the most common mistakes in classroom design (and how to avoid them) WHEN: Thursday, September 20, 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST REGISTER: [link] Gainesville, FL, Sept. 13, 2018– As schools work to modernize, redesign, and build new classrooms – mistakes can be costly to budgets and disrupted student learning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

To millions of parents and students, they’re magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy? More than a dozen states now offer grants, often called scholarships, promising to help qualifying students pay for some or all of their college education. In fact, that word, “promise,” shows up again and again in these programs’ official names: Nevada Promise, Oklahoma’s Promise, Oregon Promise, Tennessee Promise … you get the idea.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Discovery Education , whose Math Techbook won Techlearning's 2017 Award of Excellence , announced today it has added new digital assets to its supplemental and digital textbooks: All new Shark Week 2018 resources : Three new instructional resources from Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2018 are now live in the Science Techbook and featured in a curated content collection within Discovery Education Streaming Plus.

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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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