The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Sponsored Post by SMART Learning Suite From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Formative assessment and game based learning make a powerful combination in the classroom. I love SMART lab, a new feature of the SMART Learning Suite. Recently, when they sponsored several of my 10-Minute Teacher episodes, I tested SMART Notebook.
Neo LMS
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Back in my school days classrooms were pretty standard: double desks with a small built-in space for your backpack, the teacher’s desk at the front, a blackboard, a country map, two or three hanging pots with leafy green plants and a waste basket. If the teacher was lucky enough to have a larger classroom then there would also be a small cabinet to store some basic stationary and teaching materials.
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Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Digital Promise and the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) at George Washington University have collaborated to develop 20 personal finance micro-credentials for educators, covering skills in credit card use, saving, and mobile financial management. Each micro-credential is aligned to personal finance national standards, all of which explore topics and situations relevant to students’ daily lives.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
10MT Episode #14 A Positive Way to Stand Against Bullying From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Bullying is so hard to handle. Often it is difficult to know what to do. Is it true? Was the student who is upset just overly sensitive? And then, those who do the bullying are often in the majority and “close ranks” so it can be almost impossible to get at the behavior.
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EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Announcing up to $1.5 Million in New Funding Opportunities for Edtech Entrepreneurs! NewSchools Venture Fund is excited to announce the launch of its next ed tech funding opportunity: the NewSchools Ignite Special Education Challenge. This challenge targets ed tech entrepreneurs with a product that supports Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade students in special education.
Ditch That Textbook
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The basic functions of Google Drive and Google Classroom are only the starting point for the innovative and creative uses one can use in the classroom. Alice Keeler, my co-author in our upcoming book Ditch That Homework, proves that again and again. Alice is one of the only people I know personally who codes for [.].
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Some of the best things about an ed-tech conference are the sessions, where attendees learn about new tools and resources, trends, and teaching strategies. But you can’t make it to every session, and sometimes it’s hard to choose when each session is compelling and relevant to your educational needs. That’s where eSchool News can help. During TCEA, our editorial team attended sessions each day.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
My Entire Math Book Is DOK 1 I taught High School math for 14 years. In looking back at the curriculum my district used, it was almost entirely DOK 1 and a little DOK 2. In other words, low critical thinking. In response to “when am I ever going to use this” we would assure students […]. The post My Entire Math Book Is DOK 1 appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
This week in S’Cool Tools, we've got two tools for you, chosen by the EdSurge team. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Refugee Libraries Toolkit Free! Refugee Libraries Toolkit : The Refugee Libraries website self-describes itself as “an attempt to reach across the library community to provide resources to better serve refugee populations.
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.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI), a worldwide coalition of educators, researchers, technologists, professional development providers and education leaders introduced its inaugural cadre of enterprise mission partners. The companies presented have agreed to support the latest research-based standards, and evolving global best practices in flipped learning.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Many students, no matter their economic situation, don’t like fretting about financial aid. As CEO of the student financial aid startup CampusLogic , Gregg Scoresby has heard plenty of these concerns. To alleviate some of their worries, he’s trying to meet students where they’re at—online and on mobile devices—and upgrade the entire student financial aid process while doing so.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
February 16, 2017 BusyTeacher is an excellent website that provides a wide variety of educational materials especially curated for language teachers. It has over 17,000 free printable worksheets.read more.
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.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Fireflies and Star Trails No. 1 by Mike Lewinski, CC BY. I love everything Rajiv is saying in his recent, excellent essay Pragmatism vs. Idealism and the Identity Crisis of OER Advocacy and I’m really looking forward to the discussion we’ll have when he presents this paper early next month. This is a critically important topic and I think he has identified all the right dots, even if I would connect them slightly differently.
Gaggle Speaks
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
While we can’t predict what the future holds for EdTech tools, we can make educated guesses as to which resources will see success in years to come. Some of the most impactful technology of the future is already available today, even if it’s not currently in your school or district. Here are some EdTech tools already making an impact and others that show a lot of promise for what lies ahead. 3D Printing.
MIND Research Institute
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Something special is going on with math education at Pinellas County Schools (PCS). Local public radio picked up this story: It’s family game night at Davis Elementary School in Clearwater, but there's not a Monopoly board or a Jenga block in sight. Instead, kids and parents are playing math games. First grader Eleanor Nartker places a purple marble inside a diagram so she can complete a pattern.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Often we wonder how can we teach children self-love? I believe that in order to teach self-love, we need to demonstrate what it is. We should walk our talk. Why? Because we teach children with every action we take. Children watch and feel everything and they know the truth about how we feel about ourselves, regardless of what we say. Children see behind the masks we put up to pretend we are happy and have it all together.
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MindShift
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
As the national attention to fake news and the debate over what to do about it continue, one place many are looking for solutions is in the classroom. Since a recent Stanford study showed that students at practically all grade levels can’t determine fake news from the real stuff, the push to teach media literacy has gained new momentum. The study showed that while students absorb media constantly, they often lack the critical thinking skills needed to tell fake news from the real stuff.
The Principal of Change
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
In a recent discussion, I was asked about “common assessments” in a classroom. The thought here is that no matter what classroom you were in, the assessments would look the same. When I asked them to clarify, I asked outright, “Do you mean that all students will take the same test?”, to which they replied, “yes.” So here is where I struggle with this concept of “common assessments” If teacher A does not work with classroom B, do they know the stu
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
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Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The software association's educational technology practice changed leaders for the second time in six months, as it re-focuses from the promise of ed-tech to its impact. The post Ed-Tech Industry Group Names Bridget Foster as New Leader appeared first on Market Brief.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
3rd day of #cooking #winterim #farmersmarket #TJs (youngest cashier) #foodtrucktour across from Costco #insideafoodtruck ❤#acaibowl for $5 #flippingcrepes #kalechips #fries and #bread #ontherack #platelunches #delicious A post shared by Linda Lindsay (@mauilibrarian2) on Feb 15, 2017 at 7:20pm PST Discovered this fabulous feature as I was tallying my mileage for our Middle School Cooking Winterim * experience this week.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
A balance board is a fun and active toy kids can enjoy both in and out of the house. But more than that, these boards help kids development important skills. Physical skills like spatial awareness, balance and coordination are developed and practiced with the use of a balance board. Studies have even shown regular use of a balance board can increase attention span and focus in children.
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Cross-Post from: sylviaduckworth.com Last week I was invited by my friends Kim Pollishuke and Jenn Casa-Todd to play a collaborative, live, on-line game of Digital Breakout EDU via Google Hangouts. The timing could not have been better for me, as a few days later, I was due to travel to Irvine, California with the EdTechTeam to facilitate, among other sessions, a session on Digital BreakoutEDU.
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.
EmergingEdTech
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The Flipped Learning Network Launches a Book Club! First up: The Innovator’s Mind Set by George Couros One great way to explore new ideas and get in some PD while also take a bit of a break is. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
techlearning
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Cleverly designed for teachers, Formative offers a flexible and attractive solution for gathering a variety of student response types and offering individualized feedback.
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Bring exploration, fact-gathering and deduction to grades 3-5 life science classes with Stewart and Chesley's "Perfect Pairs." Full of standards-based lessons aligned to fiction/nonfiction picture books. Literacy coach Pam Hamilton eager to share it with teachers.
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The Common Sense Ambassadors are an exceptional group of Common Sense Certified education leaders who share their passion and inspiration about our mission with others. Today we're spotlighting Ambassador Allison Renda. What do you do? I am a computer teacher for grades 3–5 at Broadalbin-Perth Intermediate School in upstate New York, and I also work with the district's technology director on technology integration and training.
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