Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Ian Simpson is Head of Computer Science and ICT at St Louis School of Milan, Italy. He is passionate about using educational technology to improve outcomes for both students and teachers in all subject areas and in collaborating with other international educators through social media. He blogs on a fairly regular basis about Computer Science and his creation of the Hackable Classroom at [link].
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
I’ve faced myriad challenges in the last 8 months getting a new program at my school off of the ground. I’ve stood in front of a school board that accused me of designing a program aimed at skimming the best and brightest students off of the top, despite the diversity of the students enrolled. I’ve heard the rumblings and rumors by those on my campus who are not thrilled by my desire to try something new.
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EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
By David Andrade Report outlines important tech issues facing school districts.
Tom Murray
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
I’m amazingly blessed. My daughter attends an incredible public school district with dynamic leaders, and is in a first grade classroom with an amazingly talented teacher who truly loves and cares about the kids she serves. As two educators, my wife and I couldn’t ask for more for our own child. Unlike so many underserved children in our nation, our daughter has access and opportunity to whatever she needs.
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EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
“Wow! Amazing! Ohhhhhh! Wooaahhh!” These were the sounds that could be heard in my classroom when we tried Google Expeditions this week! What is it? Google Expeditions is a virtual reality tech tool that lets you and your class go on excursions around the world from the comfort of your classroom… and it’s all because of virtual reality (VR).
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
How do I stay ahead of the game consistently and constantly? This question is probably the most frequently asked question by those that are operating at their peak in any profession. Though there are many books, a lot of advice and much research conducted about human development and personal growth, very little has been published or discussed on how or what we need to do to sustain peak performance levels.
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Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
It must be hard to be a cognitive scientist. You spend considerable time meticulously conducting research, designing experiments, summarizing findings, and publishing your work, all in the noble pursuit of furthering human understanding of how the mind works. But that's not enough. In fact, that’s the easy part. The hard part: getting millions of teachers (there are 3.4 million in the U.S. alone) to.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
El Paso Independent School District is getting ready to share its story. Five middle schools in the district are part of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools’ (VILS) third cohort. This year, these schools are embarking on an exciting and challenging journey. Educators from across the district have been planning and preparing for months. They’re not only focused on leveraging new technology to enhance learning in the classroom and at home, but also the storytelling process.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Teacher Advisor with Watson Is Starting with Third-Grade Math. Teachers will have access to Teacher Advisor with Watson , a first-of-its-kind, innovative professional development tool using IBM’s Watson cognitive technology to help strengthen instructional skills and customize lessons, the American Federation of Teachers announced today. “This is the latest project in the AFT’s long-term commitment to find innovative ways to provide professional development for teachers,” said AFT President Rand
Waterford
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The Office of Innovation and Improvement ( OII ) has created a new website dedicated to early STEM education that summarizes its activities and provides convenient access to the tip sheets, archived webinars, lists of STEM commitments, and many other materials. “Research shows that early exposure to STEM has positive impacts across the entire spectrum of learning,” the OII website says. “For example, early math knowledge not only predicts later math success, it also predicts la
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.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article. For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question.” We should consider asking this question in the context of the traditional classroom.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Personalizing with technology isn’t easy—especially when the user has to adjust to the product, rather than the other way around. Take. KIPP Bay Area math teacher Tricia Dong. A few years ago, she could see that some of her fifth graders struggled with second grade math skills, while others were capable of eighth grade content on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment.
Waterford
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The Office of Innovation and Improvement ( OII ) has created a new website dedicated to early STEM education that summarizes its activities and provides convenient access to the tip sheets, archived webinars, lists of STEM commitments, and many other materials. “Research shows that early exposure to STEM has positive impacts across the entire spectrum of learning,” the OII website says. “For example, early math knowledge not only predicts later math success, it also predicts la
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Over the past year or so, the higher education industrial complex has been wringing its hands with concern over the Department of Education’s new Educational Quality through Innovation Partnerships initiative. The EQUIP program aims to allow low-income students who enroll in non-traditional training, such as coding bootcamps and alternative credentials, access to federal student aid for the first time.
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.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
When the right classroom management tools are in place, students are able to learn more as their engagement increases. Focusing on physical classroom management, behavioral management, resources for effective instruction, attendance and gradebook tools, and tools for a school-home connection can help students master classroom lessons. During an edWeb webinar , Eileen Lennon, a technology teacher at Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 in Queens, New York led an exploration of tools to help teach
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Contrasts between rich and poor are profound in Silicon Valley, where a wealthy tech elite continues to drive up the cost of living, making it unaffordable for even middle class residents. Where else do you see homeless people camped out in the shadow of private buses shuttling employees to their jobs at campuses equipped with Michelin-caliber cafeterias, volleyball courts and laundry services?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Here is another wonderful rubric for evaluating multimedia projects in your classroom. This rubric which I came across through North Carolina State University website is realized.read more.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The Los Angeles Unified School District is back in the news for its use of technology, this time for its online credit-recovery courses. In a recent editorial , the Los Angeles Times called into question the district’s record-high 75 percent graduation rate, as it said that the figure was based in part on LA Unified’s dependence on its less-than-rigorous online credit-recovery courses.
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ProfHacker
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
I’ve never been a fan of Blackboard, the monolithic learning management system that’s the standard at so many schools. I’ve always found it slow, poorly designed, and very awkward to use. Recently, however, my attitude changed (slightly) when a colleague introduced me to BB Grader, a free iPad app for Blackboard designed to make the grading process in Blackboard mobile-friendly.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
In today’s post, I am sharing with you some interesting tips I learned from Jonathan Wylie to help you record your iPad screen and create instructional screencasts and tutorials. The.read more.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Educators searching for flipped learning inspiration can now find it in a list of 100 people who are innovating and inspiring others in their pursuit of flipped instruction. The Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI), a worldwide coalition of educators, researchers, technologists, professional development providers and education leaders, published the FLGI 100, an annual list identifying the top 100 innovative people in education who are driving the adoption of the flipped classroom around th
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
I confess. I’m a little perplexed by the recent call to create a new discipline for education technology. There are already hundreds of academic conferences and academic publications and professional organizations and published studies devoted to education technology; hundreds of schools offer degrees – primarily graduate degrees – in education technology.
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.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
A new analysis from the Data Quality Campaign shows more and more states are taking steps to ensure student privacy through legislation. During the past three years, every state but Vermont has introduced at least one bill and 36 states now have at least one new student privacy law. In 2016, 14 states passed 16 laws. Most of the states that passed new student data privacy laws in 2016 had already passed a student data privacy law, a sign that states continue to refine laws to ensure they protect
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
A still from Beverly Falk’s film “Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom.”. A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. Research from neuroscience now confirms that the first years of life are critical for developing the architecture of the brain and future capacities to learn.
Marketplace K-12
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Dallas. The Every Student Succeeds Act opens doors for districts to purchase more education technology and other instructional services—and K-12 companies are lining up to help them do just that. “ESSA permits us to move from a compliance mentality to an innovative one,” said Bob Wise, the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education on a panel he led at the EdNET 2016 conference held here on Tuesday.
Gaggle Speaks
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
For eDiscovery purposes, there are specific requirements that will move you away from owning just a backup to implementing a hassle-free archiving solution as part of a smart information governance strategy. Here are four ways you can be sure that you have an archive, instead of just a backup, which can be used for eDiscovery. Identify. In an archive, critical business data is captured, indexed and searchable.
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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Education has yet to Catch up to the Wisdom Dewey Offered Long ago Generally, society’s thinking about different topics will advance incrementally, as various individuals make their contributions to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Adaptive learning in mathematics is the wave of the future,” says Spencer Hansen, principal of Centerville (UT) Junior High.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Viewing Student Work in Google Drive One of my favorite ways to assess student work through Google Classroom is to use Google Drive. Google Classroom Stream To locate student work in Google Classroom simply click on the assignment title in the Stream. Assignment Folder Below the count of students who are “Done” or “Not done” […].
TeachThought - Learn better.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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