The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 1, 2016
Find life balance and get your weekends back From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This year, I started hearing about this amazing new program. Angela Watson has a 40-hour workweek club for teachers. Many teachers are getting their lives back. Scroll down to download her free getting started guide. (I admittedly will always work more than 40 hours a week.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 1, 2016
A question I get a lot from readers is where to go for free, classroom-safe images. Photo sites are either too sparse or poorly vetted. And–while we’re on the subject of online images–it needs to be easier to add citations because otherwise, students will just skip that step. Photos for Class , brought to you by the folks at Storyboard That (a premier digital storytelling site that quickly and easily enables students to mix avatars, backgrounds, and talk bubbles to tell a story
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EdTech Magazine
JULY 1, 2016
By John Breeden II LED brightness in almost any lighting condition makes this projector a bold accessory in K–12 learning spaces.
Brilliant or Insane
JULY 1, 2016
Brilliant or Insane. Teachers spent $490 on classroom materials, on average, according to a poll of 500 teachers. Unfortunately, that’s likely a low number; most teachers spend upwards of $1,000 when all is said and done. But the education landscape is rapidly shifting. Classroom necessities are getting more expensive, and the average pay of teachers isn’t increasing at the […].
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EdTech Magazine
JULY 1, 2016
By Wylie Wong Districts take advantage of federal funds to upgrade or build out their Wi-Fi networks.
Edsurge
JULY 1, 2016
Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. Rather than measuring “seat time” for traditional credit hours, colleges and universities are tracking student progress on demonstrated capabilities. Today some 600 higher-ed institutions are developing entire CBE degree programs in career-related fields of study like biomedical sciences and criminal justice.
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Edsurge
JULY 1, 2016
For those without a Thiel Fellowship , it still pays to get a degree. A new study, " America's Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots ," from the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce has found that, for the first time, American workers with bachelor's degrees or higher—36 percent of the workforce—outnumber those with a high school diploma or less—34 percent.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 1, 2016
July 1, 2016 For those of you asking about Educational Android apps to use with students in class the chart below is a great place to start with. This is a work we have published a few months ago and.read more.
My Paperless Classroom
JULY 1, 2016
This year at ISTE, Microsoft Innovative Educators learned how to create podcasts with their students. The post Learn How @SWAY Can Teach You About Podcasting |#MIEExpert appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
RafranzDavis.com
JULY 1, 2016
For my entire academic career, aside from Educon, I have only attended events meant for educators only, which until now was perfectly normal. It was the way that we have always done it…which as we all know, is the destroyer of progress. “Idea dating” isn’t new to most of us in education, especially if we are on social media. Someone shares something…a brilliant glimpse into their classroom, a lesson, initiative, project…a moment that has reinvigorated their sc
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 1, 2016
June 1, 2016 Below is a collection of some handy academic search engines teachers and educators can use to search for and find a wide variety of academic articles, journals, documents and theses.read more.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 1, 2016
The Future Ready Librarians initiative launched at ALA and ISTE this week. We heard the buzz at AASL sessions, in the ISTE Librarians Playground , at the ISTELibrarians breakfast , and more importantly, at sessions at both conferences where others outside our little tent could hear the message. The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014.
eSchool News
JULY 1, 2016
Overworked teachers and overburdened curriculum makes improving STEM programs a challenge, but there are solutions. Knowledge has become a commodity. We live in a society today were facts are at our fingertips through ready access to the internet and search engines. To keep pace, our educational system needs to focus less on memorization of facts and more on how to use facts and how to ask the right questions.
Perry Hewitt
JULY 1, 2016
This is the year I began to rely on voice commands in the same compulsive manner that we all reach for our mobile devices. Try this helpful catalog of over 150 questions and 1,000 variations you can ask Google. My favorite Easter egg: "askew.". Just when you thought it was safe to count on your distributed content strategy, Facebook tweaks the algorithm to favor friends and family over publishers.
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.
My Paperless Classroom
JULY 1, 2016
You want to make a learning video for your students, so how do you make it less boring and more fun? This starts with the writing. You need to be able to write a script from boring points into something that is fun and easy to understand. If you are not the creative type, we […]. The post 7 Best Practices For Creating the Perfect eLearning Videos appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
RafranzDavis.com
JULY 1, 2016
I have no idea how to go back to normal. Let me rephrase that…I don’t want to. I equate this feeling to many…many years ago after visiting New Tech High and learning about PBL. …finding José Vilson , Melinda Anderson , Sabrina Stephens , Audrey Watters , Chris Lehmann , Diana Laufenberg , Zac Chase Xian Barrett. …people who have challenged me to not only talk but act…see what most don’t and use words to stimulate action.
ProfHacker
JULY 1, 2016
At least in the US, it’s the start of a long holiday weekend, and elsewhere there are things like the Euros and Brexit to distract people from the internet, alas. I wanted to share this video by Amy Herman on “Visual Intelligence,” based on her book Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life , which in turn was based on a project she used to do at the Frick Collection while she was training medical students how to look at art.
My Paperless Classroom
JULY 1, 2016
You may have read the title of this article and thought, Why would I want to build entrepreneurs in my classroom? As an MBA and former educator whose day job is now with a tech startup, I ask you, Why wouldn’t you? When you consider that many of the most successful startups began in business […]. The post How to Build Entrepreneurs in Your Classrooms by @hejames1008 appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2016
A child rides a bike on the playground at Global Connections Learning Center in Jackson. Photo: Jackie Mader. JACKSON, Miss. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders.
My Paperless Classroom
JULY 1, 2016
If you listen close enough, you may here a faint “now what?” in the distance. That is the sound of millions of post-graduates who are collectively lost after the graduation dust settles. A student’s newly-acquired degree should help identify the field in which they tend to start their career, but with an increasingly competitive job […]. The post Preparing Students For The Job Search by @trvshlvrd_rr appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Kathy Schrock
JULY 1, 2016
This post originally appeared on my Discovery Education blog, Kathy's Kathy, in April of 2016. We hear a lot of talk about the use of augmented and virtual reality in the classroom to support teaching and learning. Here is a simple explanation showcasing the difference between them. Augmented Reality One way to experiment with and learn more about augmented reality is with the use of the iPad and the app Quiver (previously known as colAR Mix).
Hack Education
JULY 1, 2016
Education Politics. Well the UK’s Brexit shitshow continues, with all sorts of machinations this past week about who’ll be the new PM. Not Brexit campaign leader Boris Johnson, apparently. Perhaps the new Prime Minister will be fellow "leave" supporter Michael Gove , who betrayed Johnson this week (or Gove’s wife did , at least). You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein.
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.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2016
JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Electric equipment, decades old, fell repeatedly, meaning constant maintenance and repair for the district’s schools in a county where 36.2 percent of citizens live in poverty, 2010-2014 U.S.
eSchool News
JULY 1, 2016
Second Avenue Learning partners with BrainPOP for trail program. As the conventions and election season draw near, a new partnership between Second Avenue Learning and BrainPOP will help provide new digital resources for educators teaching students about the election process. The partnership was announced to coincide with the recent ISTE 2016 conference in Denver.
ignitionEDU
JULY 1, 2016
I’m not one for tooting my own horn (extra funny because I am a trumpet player) but I did want to share that I got a highlighted quote in this EdSurge article. My first time!
Adjusting Course
JULY 1, 2016
So a funny thing happened a few years ago. I was sitting in church and our pastor at the time, Steve Wiens , started talking about neuroplasticity. I’ve always been a big nerd at heart, so I immediately took interest. Actually, I was totally eating the science up and loving every second of it. The truth of the matter is that Steve’s message helped me overcome some gunk in my life, and it’s a message I still carry with me when reflecting on change, innovation, and education.
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.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 1, 2016
At ISTE 2016 , this week in Denver, we saw the official release of a refreshed and aspirational set of Standards for Students focused on empowering student voice. We’ve come a long way from 1998 when our students exposure technology was largely limited to a weekly computer lab visit. ISTE describes the nearly twenty year progression of their standards as a journey from: 1998 focused on students learning to use technology, to. 2007 focused on students using technology to learn, to. 2016
eSchool News
JULY 1, 2016
Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.
Edutopia
JULY 1, 2016
Adam Bellow Education Trends Strategies for doing more with less include adequate PD around new technology, embracing mobile solutions, low-cost high tech, and expanding the ownership of school policy making.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 1, 2016
The Future Ready Librarians initiative launched at ALA and ISTE this week. We heard the buzz at AASL sessions, in the ISTE Librarians Playground , at the ISTELibrarians breakfast , and more importantly, at sessions at both conferences where others outside our little tent could hear the message. The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014.
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