EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2018

How to Deal with the Crumbling Educational Infrastructure. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 12/12/2018 - 13:33. Ten years ago, if you walked into a K–12 classroom, the focus — at least at first glance — was on the teacher. To collaborate, students rearranged their desks into a circle. Today, however, that’s shifting. As we move toward a student-focused classroom, collaboration requires more than rearranging the desks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Greg Beutler is the Director of Techscool.org , a school devoted to teaching kids this fundamental skill through the lens of robotics, coding, competitions, and more. The school’s tagline is Learn to code; Code to learn.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you a district or campus leader who struggles to find highly qualified or highly talented teachers? Do you find yourself losing out to other districts when it comes to attracting the best and brightest? Do you have a plan in place to recruit and retain those fantastic teachers who can not only impact student learning but help build the dynamic and innovative culture you desire in your district or on your campus?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Greg Beutler is the Director of Techscool.org , a school devoted to teaching kids this fundamental skill through the lens of robotics, coding, competitions, and more. The school’s tagline is Learn to code; Code to learn.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. So if games are fun, and learning should be fun, doesn’t it behoove the education and gaming industries to join forces? That question has spurred the creation of many companies, conferences and other collaborative educational gaming efforts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In the spring of 2013, after attending several conferences and beginning research for my dissertation, I set out to flip some of the aspects of my classroom. The term “flipping your classroom,” coined by Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams more than a decade ago, has become a flexible term used to describe a number of different teaching techniques for turning instruction on its head.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Efforts to equip students for college and career readiness are beginning earlier and earlier in the classroom. A 2015 Gallup poll of one million students in the U.S. found that only half reported feeling engaged in school, and one-fifth feel actively disengaged. These statistics show a disconcerting lapse among curriculum, students, and the reasoning behind why we teach what we teach.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you haven't already seen it, here is one of our popular visuals on Bloom's digital taxonomy. It features a number of key educational web tools to digitally operationalize Bloom's thinking.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

An effective Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) throughout a school serves every student while it helps identify and support those with learning disabilities. To demonstrate, teacher educators Barbara Blackburn and Bradley Witzel share four instructional strategies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Google Earth Tour Builder is an excellent tool to use with students in class to create virtual tours and explore places from all around the world. You can design a tour of any location you want, you.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

. Teaching is the hardest job I’ve ever had. Keeping teachers in the classroom might be the second most difficult. I began my educational career as a fourth-grade teacher in the Compton Unified School District in Southern California and, like most new educators, the first months were a struggle to master the topics and basic classroom skills. As I gained experience and improved, helping 35 students learn every day was still a challenge that was rewarding and fun and exhausting — often all in

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Dr. Shannon Doak

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Many people think it is not possible to code on a Chromebook. This post sets out to prove this thought wrong. Because there are various levels of coding. I will begin by discussing applications that work on a Chromebook for younger children, then older students and finally for adults and those who want to code for a living. Clearing the Myth. You can code on a Chromebook.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Most of an average student’s waking hours are spent somewhere other than school. That means out-of-school activities offer a powerful opportunity to either mitigate or exacerbate gaps in student achievement.

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Perry Hewitt

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Almost every event I attend — whether it’s within the marketing, technology, or social entrepreneurship communities — raises both the inevitability and the risks of artificial intelligence. There’s a lot of excitement and trepidation, and early consideration about where the responsibility for ethical AI resides. A new Pew report captures some of those perspectives, and I shared ways humans and AI might evolve together in the next decade through the lens of AI in the home

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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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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the beginning of this school year, our Creative Technology teachers were hoping to find some new lessons to infuse digital learning into our existing projects – specifically, we were looking for a new way to teach spreadsheets that would be engaging and relevant for students at the middle school level. The Applied Digital Skills curriculum from Google seemed like a great, free option and luckily, Brittany from Google, Chicago was able to give us more insight into the lessons and answer

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SecurEdge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Early on in my career, I had the good fortune to be part of two very well-funded programs that supported both higher education and K-12 technology adoption.

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EmergingEdTech

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Tambellini Group is a leading market research and advisory firm for higher education. They've been sharing insights and ideas through their Top of Mind blog for years, and more recently, they've. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I tend to miss class from time to time. I hate missing class.  I love nothing more than being with my 9th grade Biology students and 10th grade Honors Chemistry students helping them to negotiate the complexities, and beautiful intricacies of science. Teaching is my hobby.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The European Parliament voted to restrict public aid flowing to big, commercial private education companies in the developing world. The post European Leaders Look to Ban Foreign Aid for Commercial Private Schools appeared first on Market Brief.

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techieMusings

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A huge thank you to Alice Keeler for another opportunity to write a guest post on her very amazing blog – Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler. In my guest post: Increase Student Engagement with Pear Deck , I share: an overview of what it looks like to run a Pear Deck session (from the teacher end and the student view). an explanation of the various response types. how to fully utilize Pear Deck features such as the automatic timer, various layout options, and Takeaways for after class review/reflect

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 12, 2018

“I never know what I don’t know until I attend edWebinars!” If you get some down time over the holidays, it’s a great time to catch up on some of the most popular edWebinars of 2018! This year we hosted over 285 edWebinars on a wide range of timely topics for early childhood educators, librarians, teachers, and administrators.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s one thing to have a belief in an approach for teaching or leading. It’s another thing to apply those beliefs to our practices. The distance between beliefs and practices is a group’s willingness to embrace failure as an opportunity for collective learning. Today, I facilitated a professional learning session with teachers about reading comprehension.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Teaching STEAM requires that I learn every day. Somedays, I need to be smarter than I really am. Long ago, I learned that these demanding brain moments can be eased with the right amount of caffeine. Looking for the right amount of caffeine has lead me on a tour of so many delicious sources. At schools, the communal coffee urn has been retired for a couple of K-cup machines and a water filtering machine.

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techlearning

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A recent study shows social media may be more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Teaching STEAM requires that I learn every day. Somedays, I need to be smarter than I really am. Long ago, I learned that these demanding brain moments can be eased with the right amount of caffeine. Looking for the right amount of caffeine has lead me on a tour of so many delicious sources. At… The post You Can’t Spell STEAM without TEA appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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techlearning

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cool tool teaches kids to observe, identify, classify living things

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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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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Project Pals is a innovative all-in-one collaborative learning platform ideal for project based learning that K-12 teachers are using for any subject or curriculum. Through the Project Pals platform educators will track, monitor, and guide student progress while students work collaboratively. This is all done through a easy-to-use visual interface that helps students organize and collaborate on their projects.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

4 Factors to Consider When Debating Cell Phones in Schools Hilary Bird is a digital journalist who writes about the things that fascinate her the most: relationships, technology, and how they impact each other. As more and more people become more and more reliant on their tech devices, Hilary wants to help them stay safe and understand how these devices will reshape the way we communicate.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Many American teenagers try to put in a full day of school, homework, after-school activities, sports and college prep on too little sleep. As evidence grows that chronic sleep deprivation puts teens at risk for physical and mental health problems, there is increasing pressure on school districts around the country to consider a later start time. In Seattle, school and city officials recently made the shift.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cameron Russell, left, is a freshman at the University of Michigan from rural Crowley, Louisiana. His mentor as part of a special program for first-generation students is Elijah Taylor, a senior who grew up in Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and

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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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