Teacher Reboot Camp
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Getting students to care about seeking and spreading the truth is one of the key topics in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions. How do we motivate our students to spend a few extra minutes evaluating all the information they consume with a critical eye? Annotation is the key to helping learners evaluate what they read online.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended learning and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that teachers and leaders from around the country were deploying on the ground.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 27, 2017
With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. population age 3 and over used the Internet. 94% of youth ages 12-17 who have Internet access say they use the Internet for school research and 78% say they believe the Internet helps them with schoolwork. 41% of online teens say they use email and instant messaging to contact teachers
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The time to plan for 2018 funding is now. Here’s how you can get started.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2017
“Dad, I want a narwhal cake for my birthday.” “A narwhal cake?” “Yes, a narwhal cake.” I have a ten year old who knows exactly what he wants. “So you want a cake with a picture of a narwhal on it? The whale with the unicorn horn?” “First of all, there is no evidence that unicorns exist. Second, it’s not a horn; it’s a tooth. Third, I don’t want a cake with a picture of a narwhal on it, I want a narwhal cake.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2017
October 28, 2017 The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL, which belongs to Purdue.read more.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Marketplace K-12
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Kevin Chavous has been named president of academics, poilcy, and schools at K12 Inc., a company with a presence in virtual education and other areas. The post K12 Inc. Taps School Choice Advocate Kevin Chavous for Leadership Post appeared first on Market Brief.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. His first class was on internet history, technology and security. His passion for open access courses is rooted in his belief that the internet has an important role to play in education. But while Severance—who’s better known by some as Dr.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Some Twitter Tips The number one users of Twitter are educators! I don’t use Twitter like Facebook and I don’t follow people who do. One of the best things you can do for yourself as an educator is to create a Twitter handle just for teaching and tweet about teaching. Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck.com to […]. The post Twitter Tip: Exclude Tweets in Your Search appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Formative assessment is an form of evaluation that happen anytime during a lesson regardless of content area. Unlike summative assessment whose goal is to assess students overall learning.read more.
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.
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Happy Halloween from JiJi and MIND Research Institute! In case a JiJi jack-o-lantern stencil and spooky ST Math games were not enough for your Halloween classrooom celebration, here's a free halloween math activity! See the directions below on how to adjust the math concepts for concepts in grades three through six. Paco Monster Math Activity. You may recognize Paco Monster from the pre-k and kindergarten games Quantity Sort and Order Sort.
ProfHacker
OCTOBER 27, 2017
One of my favorite places to go for all things free and open-access is Open Culture. I learn about all kinds of resources that I can bring to my students and into my own work (and maybe download some cool coloring books while I’m at it). Anyway, recently the site featured the free and open-source storyboarding program Storyboarder. It’s a really simple yet powerful tool, available for Mac, Windows, or Linux, to create basic storyboards and animation for a visual project.
The Principal of Change
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Sitting in on a presentation recently, the presenters shared the importance of reflection in practice, and how it is crucial to moving forward. I agreed 100% with this notion and had talked about the importance of reflection often in this space (my blog/portfolio). Having the opportunity to ask questions to the group, I asked them if they create time for the educators they serve to have time for reflection within their school day.
The 21st Century Principal
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Over the years, as the waves of new reform efforts, federal policy initiatives, and latest educational fads have ebbed and flowed, all of them have been met by critics who questioned their efficacy and their logic. I've been one of those critics myself. What has always fascinated me was the defense of these sometimes reform measures. Take value-added measures for example.
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.
EdTechTeam
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Is there a digital divide in our schools? This is an important question that has to be addressed by the leaders in school districts throughout the nation. Before we get into the importance of the digital divide in schools, what is the digital divide? A digital divide is a gap between different demographics and regions in the world that have access to technology and those who doesn’t.
SecurEdge
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Large-scale, enterprise-grade wireless networks are both complex and costly to design, install and manage over-time. Fortunately, there is a solution to these technical and budgetary challenges and it's called Wi-Fi as a Service. In this week's episode, we reveal one of the main reasons why businesses should consider purchasing their wireless networks with a subscription.
SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Amazon's devices powered by Alexa provide great listening and social practice, as I mentioned in a previous post. This week I played the Haunted House skill* with a few groups, and though it wasn't perfect (some choices loop back to a conclusion you've already heard), it is free, engaged my students and helped us work on a few skills and strategies: -The game is a choose-your-own-adventure style activity where a walkthrough of a "Haunted" House is narrated and you are provided with choices, ther
Reflections
OCTOBER 27, 2017
When schools first began the move to all things Google, I challenged myself to try new tools from the suite through the lens of leadership. I tried to model the use of different apps and was even able to find a way to use Google Classroom in my work as a Principal. I also used (and continue to use) Blogger frequently to publish my reflections and observations as a leader.
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techlearning
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Explore outstanding new math and language additions to PBS KIDS family.
Technology Tidbits
OCTOBER 27, 2017
EDpuzzle the amazing simple to use site that educators everywhere are using to "flip" a classroom and differentiate instruction has recently release their "online" curriculum for teachers. Educators can now access all video-lessons and questions for the whole school year and search for them by subject or grade level. This is a great way to easily gage student learning in a wide range of subjects and save educators a bunch of time.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. ATLANTA — School had already let out for the day, but the teachers at Hollis Innovation Academy in northwest Atlanta were gathered around tables in the library, laptops open, strategizing.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 27, 2017
(National) Education Politics. “Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. “The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The White House announced Thursday that President Trump would nominate Kenneth L. Marcus , president and general counsel of the Louis D.
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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