EdTech Magazine

MARCH 23, 2017

By Jessica Leigh Brown Connected classrooms can help track people and things digitally, experts say.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2017

The importance of assessing student strengths and growth in areas that matter is a topic of frequent conversation among superintendents in our League of Innovative Schools. When standardized tests weigh so heavily on school districts’ consciousness, there is often little remaining energy or incentive to challenge the status quo. The omnipresent question is, how do we measure student progress and achievement on development we care about?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2017

Using the cloud to store, share, and collaborate in the classroom is relatively new. A decade ago, accessing schoolwork from home was just about impossible. Now, it’s easy through sites like Google Drive and OneDrive. Mary Davis, a guest writer for Ask a Tech Teacher, specializes in cloud computing. Here are her thoughts on how cloud computing is transforming today’s education: Cloud computing technology is certainly having its moment these days.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 23, 2017

In a recent blog post, I suggested that what we consider “safe teaching” might be risky teaching after all. In this post, I talked about how all the traditional, overused teaching techniques — lectures, worksheets, etc. — are easy for students to ignore. And when they’re ignoring instruction, there might as well be no instruction [.].

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 23, 2017

Everyone loves a good meme! Here’s 10 to make your Friday a little more enjoyable. Share your funny memes below ! Tagged: edtech , education , meme , tech , technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2017

Episode 39 of the 10-Minute Teacher Show From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Eric Sheninger @E_Sheninger challenges us to move to the next level with digital technologies. We can’t use tech because it is “cool and new.” It must improve learning. If it doesn’t improve learning, why are we spending the money?

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 23, 2017

Getting students high-quality feedback can be tricky. There are many methods for getting students back information from a rubric, here is one more way. TemplateTab Plus Template alicekeeler.com/templatetabplus Paste roster of students into the first column. Design a rubric or other graphic organizer on the 2nd tab. Use the TemplateTab menu to run TemplateTab.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

No technology can replace high-quality teachers. But what happens when high-quality STEM teachers become hard to find, and what happens when STEM teacher applicant pools dry up? And how can the U.S. extend critical STEM learning opportunities to its youngest students? Students today need more STEM learning opportunities inside classrooms and outside of school.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 23, 2017

March 23, 2017 Google has finally opened Google Classroom for users without G Suite for Education accounts. With this new update, every teacher and student can benefit from the various Google.read more.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 23, 2017

We’ve written about Twitter a lot here at ProfHacker. One of the best ways to archive tweets, particularly around a particular search term or hashtag is Martin Hawksey’s TAGS archive , which George recently wrote about. But the TAGS archive works best if you already know you want to archive a hashtag or search term; the archives can only go as far back as the Twitter API will allow, which isn’t all the way back.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

On this week's episode of the TechEducator Podcast we welcome the Microsoft Office 365 team on to share exciting features in Word, Powerpoint and Excel. The post What’s New In Office365 in 2017? Featuring @MicrosoftEDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 23, 2017

The post 25 Of The Most Important Books About Racism & Being Black In America appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 23, 2017

March 23, 2017 Apple has recently acquired the popular automation app Workflow making it available for free in iTunes App Store (regular price $3,99). Workflow is a powerful application that allows.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 23, 2017

The post Apple Introduces Clips: A New Way To Create Expressive Videos On iOS appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2017

Growing up in a hungry household in the first couple of years of life can hurt how well a child performs in school years later, according to a new study. An estimated 13.1 million children live in homes with insufficient food, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Many of those children experience hunger during their first few years of life, or their parents are hungry and stressed out about food during those years – the most crucial time for a child’

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 23, 2017

The post Apple Introduces Clips: A New Way To Create Expressive Videos On iOS appeared first on TeachThought.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 23, 2017

Google Earth has always been a great, though not exactly user-friendly, tool for making maps that can target language. Consider the way that certain novels your students have to tackle require an understanding of setting and shifts in setting. Or their 4th grade year and the focus on places they have never been, like 50 States and National Parks. A "virtual field trip" can be great for giving them some experiential hooks on which to hang all this narrative and expository language.

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techieMusings

MARCH 23, 2017

I am really excited to share a sneak peek inside my classroom with all of you who read this blog! Wacom developed the video embedded below to highlight how educators can use their technology to enhance teaching and learning. In my classroom, my students have used Intuos tablets for warm-up activities for the last several years (more details of how we are using the tablets can be found here and here ).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

As educators, we are constantly evolving. Our jobs require us to seek out solutions that will help our students reach new heights so they can get the most out of the hours they spend in school. Among the many solutions we have tried, one has proven transformational: teachers across schools learning from one another. Related: Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 23, 2017

Just over a year I ago I went to my first EdTechTeam Summit in Boulder, Colorado. I walked away extremely overwhelmed, exhausted, but inspired how G Suite for Edu tools could redefine my classroom. Fast forward to January 2017 and I was sitting on a plane to Las Vegas about to present at my fourth EdTechTeam Summit. Donny rocking Saturday morning Keynote I find a lot of inspiration going to EdTechTeam Summits !

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 23, 2017

The first time that I was asked to teach a workshop it was on the subject of science. The conference organizer said, “let’s get young minds wired for science by introducing the need for a science […].

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 23, 2017

Todd Stanley's units of study address the need of today's students both to problem solve and present findings to an audience. Jennifer Wirtz implemented a well resourced Oral Presentation unit and will use more of the easily adapted projects with her 7th graders.

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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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techlearning

MARCH 23, 2017

Encourage collaborative, student-centered learning with this useful platform.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 23, 2017

Cathie E. West packs her book with key concepts and skills, charts to help explain these, engagement strategies and step-by-step activities, all to help achieve teacher – and subsequently student – engagement. Literacy coach Janice Rustico finds it a keeper.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 23, 2017

Learning environments differ widely. At an extreme, the physical learning environments in places such as refugee camps, village schools in rural Africa and large inner-city schools are learning environments physically compromised by external factors, resulting in a learner’s physical, social or emotional well-being not being at an optimum. The concept of a safe learning environment is well-worth examining, specifically in the context of online safety.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 23, 2017

In "Read Talk Write" Laura Robb provides strategies that can grow students' ability to have rich, accountable conversations, leading to productive, engaging writing. Reviewer Linda Biondi especially appreciates the mentor texts, detailed lessons, and reproducibles.

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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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The Principal of Change

MARCH 23, 2017

Just thinking… My daughter just turned 7 months old. Watching her grow up has been fascinating, and when I FaceTime her on the road, she reaches out now, trying to touch my face. It melts me every single time. As I was looking at her, I was overcome with the idea of how when I was a kid, I could only dream of a day that we had “video phones”; she will never know anything different.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 23, 2017

March 24, 2017 Is social media addiction similar to other types of addiction? The answer according to the data in an infographic shared by FIX is not scientifically settled yet. However,read more.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Rynon Reyes, who will go to college in the fall tuition-free, at an after-school meeting of the STEM club at his high school in San Marcos, California. Photo: Peggy Peattie. SAN MARCOS, Calif. — Like many American high school seniors, Rynon Reyes is looking ahead to college with a mix of apprehension and excitement. But there’s one thing he doesn’t have to worry about: tuition.

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