Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We are excited, proud, and humbled to partner with Vista Challenge High School to develop an XQ Super School ! It is one of the 10 chosen Super Schools and a member of our League of Innovative Schools. Redesigning a large traditional district school, Vista Challenge High School will work to develop creators, inventors, powerful thinkers and innovators — students who learn and grow and take action to solve real-world problems through exploration, analysis, debate, imagination, and risk-taking.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

By Eric Patnoudes K–12 district leaders must learn to work across departments for the good of educating students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Use technology to help you teach math From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Use the real world to teach without the mess of physical manipulatives. In brief, virtual math manipulatives are powerful tools for math teachers everywhere. On the whole, many teachers don’t understand how to use them. So, today, you’ll get a simple tour of virtual math manipulatives from expert David Wees.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It never fails. At some point, if you use technology in the classroom, it’s going to burn you. The projector won’t turn on. The Internet will go down. The website you’re using will display strange errors — for everyone. The power will go out. Everyone has their stories. Suddenly, you’ll feel out of control … [.].

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. But how can ed tech developers make sure their products deliver on this promise? Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. To find out how learning products can incorporate these elements, we spoke with Michelle Riconscente, president of Designs for Learning, Inc. , a consulting compa

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Seattle-based software company Ranku announced today its acquisition by academic publishing company John Wiley & Sons. Ranku offers a recruitment platform using predictive analytics to help colleges increase online degree enrollment. In 2013, co-founders and childhood friends Kim Taylor and Cecilia Retelle started Ranku out of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, raising $500,000 in seed funding led by Mark Cuban, GSV and Microsoft Ventures.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Everyone is going back to school. That includes White House and U.S. Department of Education officials, who are on an “ Opportunity Across America ” back-to-school bus tour. Their goal: to celebrate the progress in making technology more accessible in our nation’s schools over the last several years through the efforts of the ConnectED and Future Ready Schools initiatives.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we look at how Camtasia can be used as a perfect screencasting tool for your classroom. Join Jeff, Josh, Sam, and Jeff as we discuss all things video production. The post How can a Screencast be used in the classroom? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we look at how Camtasia can be used as a perfect screencasting tool for your classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This week in S’Cool Tools, we 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. MasteryConnect : . Written by Federico , the Dean of Innovation at a high school in Florida. Federico’s school has a 1:1 device environment and uses project-based learning elements.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

After writing about iPad apps for elementary teachers, we are sharing with you today a list designed specifically for our colleagues teaching in high school. Of course there are tons of good.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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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Coding is a skill that anyone can learn, and it's a huge part of many different career paths. Knowing basic coding skills will be essential in the future, and teaching kids to code in the classroom can make a huge difference in their cognitive abilities and future opportunities. The post What is the value of teaching Coding to our young students? | By @sarah_daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

What are you passionate about? What do you want to do more than anything in the world? Well I hope you said what you are doing right now. This is not always the case. Some people hate what they are doing. They may hate it because it pays too little, but being a teacher doesn’t make me very wealthy and I love what I’m doing. More importantly, people may hate their job because they would rather be doing something else.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

An open educational resources provider is attempting to bring its free and shareable materials into schools on a large scale, with ambitions to compete directly with commercial publishers for big K-12 contracts. Open Up Resources, a nonprofit that until recently was called the K-12 OER Collaborative, says it will offer openly licensed materials to school districts, and predicts it will achieve savings from what those systems would normally pay for commercial materials.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Education is increasingly mobile, and if you have access to mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, chances are you’re using apps for learning, classroom management, personal organization, and more. But not all apps are created equal. Some don’t live up to the hype, others claim to offer educational benefits but fall short, and others offer paltry features for free before moving to in-app purchases.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Minority teachers are being driven out of schools by poor working conditions at rates higher than their non-minority colleagues, which only undermines years of recruitment efforts that have targeted minority teachers. That is the major finding of Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013, a new report by the California-based Learning Policy Institute (LPI).

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Welcome to the TeacherCast Podcast. In this episode, Jeff sits down with speaker, author, and "Serial Innovator" John Kao, founder of EdgeMakers.com. In this episode, John and Jeff discuss how creativity can be fostered in every child by developing a strong interest and love for Music Education. Join Jeff and John on September 24th for "Hack the Classroom" Presented by Microsoft Education LIVE from 8-10AM PST.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chantal Fulgencio, third from right, with East Stroudsburg University President Marcia Welsh; Welsh’s chief of staff, Miguel Barbosa; and fellow interns in the office of Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Hughes (not pictured). Photo: Chantal Fulgencio. Chantal Fulgencio had the bad timing to start as a freshman in the fall of 2012 at public East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Does Your Lesson Plan Include Search? When is the last time you were in a social situation that someone did not look something up? Looking things up is part of the culture. One way that technology changes what we do in the classroom is to take advantage of Search. Lesson Planning Include a section in […]. The post Does Your Lesson Plan Include Search?

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Peter Hyman School Climate Here are five tips that can make assemblies engaging, participative, and reflective of your school's values, content, and pedagogies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. BROOKLYN, N.Y.—If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Or at least that was the ideal world imagined by a group of Brooklyn middle schoolers this year. Their dreams might be closer to coming true after their middle school, Brooklyn LAB, won $10 million to design a new high school on Wednesday.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Ahmet Ahmet Arts Integration Successful arts integration includes approaching your Curriculum like an artist, a rich process for a rich product, cultivating artist-researchers, and combining content with art.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

(Image Source) The Essence of Plagiarism Checkers: Similar or Different? Plagiarism detection may not be a fun, ‘sexy’ edtech topic, but it is a reality we have to live with these days. I. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Back in June of 2013, I wrote a brief post about Haiku Deck , which at the time was simply a free iPad app for creating and showing presentations. In the last 3 years, Haiku Deck has evolved to include web-hosted presentations (and the ability to create presentation through a web-based interface). Unfortunately, if you want to be able to create more than 3 presentations you’ll now have to pay.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Emelina Minero Place-Based Learning At School 21, the combination of teaching wellbeing, oracy (speaking skills), and project-based learning empowers students to create exceptional work that makes a real-world difference.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Teacher John Hunter's book reveals the intricacies and impact of his famed (thanks to a top 100 TEDTalk) World Peace Game, a multi-layered challenge where students collaborate to solve 50 complex problems. Kevin Hodgson appreciates Hunter's openness to inquiry.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Jess Hughes Professional Development Use this innovative, six-step approach of structured yet welcoming group discussion to invite thoughtful classroom, department, and schoolwide feedback.

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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 15, 2016

In addition to its value to schools and districts, STEM by Design will help classroom teachers make integrated STEM lessons a reality. Its step-by-step approach leaps beyond mere discussion to a real plan of action, says state science coordinator Kathy Renfrew.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Oli de Botton Student Voice School 21 believes oracy is as important as reading and writing, and the research supports it. From Harkness discussions to talk-rich assemblies, learn how you can integrate oracy at your school.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Forming a community classroom should be one of our biggest goals as educators. This is one of the reasons that I have continued to strive for the “ in home ” education feeling even though my preschool is in a big building with many students. Children learn better in an environment where they feel emotionally secure and form genuine relationships with teachers and other students.

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Edutopia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Ahmet Ahmet Teaching Strategies Create a culture of critique and redrafting in your classroom by adapting the seven-step Audience Response protocol to your subject matter and students' needs.

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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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