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Building a Startup Business Backwards: Why It Can Work

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

At Communication APPtitude we developed our product before our business plan. For us, it worked. The post Building a Startup Business Backwards: Why It Can Work appeared first on Market Brief.

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FETC 2017: New Technology for 21st Century Learners Takes Center Stage

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A keynote focusing on incredible innovations paired with a number of tech debuts showcases exciting updates to education.

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10 ways to collaborate digitally + visually in class

Ditch That Textbook

In my own high school Spanish classes, this happened all the time. We talked in class. I wrote and drew notes on the board, creating a great summary of our discussion. Guess what the students wanted to do at the end of class. Yep, you guessed it: take a picture of the whiteboard. I’m not [.].

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What is Google Keep and Why Use it in Your Classroom?

Ask a Tech Teacher

My daughter just bought her first house (though it went on hold several times as the Navy threatened/offered to move her). We wanted a simple way to share a ToDo list that would be available on phones, iPads, and computers, and would auto-update with our ideas. I looked at a variety of options, but found something wrong with each of them. Until I found Google Keep.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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5 practical tips for BYOD equity

Neo LMS

My high school building is a really old one. The institution itself is hundreds of years old but the building as well passed the three hundred year mark quite some time ago. Its classrooms, furniture and sometimes creaky floor oozes history and heritage. Walking through the hallways and sitting in its amphitheater feels like a field trip to Hogwarts.

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Leveraging Public TV on Behalf of Adult Learners

Digital Promise

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a PBS member station widely recognized as a leader in developing digital learning opportunities for adult basic skills and workplace education. By pairing their extensive network of partnerships with their willingness to continually experiment to develop more effective digital learning opportunities, KET is a true Beacon for adult learning.

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Chrome Extension: AnyoneCanView

Teacher Tech

Chrome Extension: AnyoneCanView I like to think that I’m really really good with using Google Apps. I know that when you create a new document it is by default private. You have to click on the blue Share button and change the sharing permissions to “Anyone with the link can view.” This takes several steps. […]. The post Chrome Extension: AnyoneCanView appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EXCLUSIVE: They’re here–robots are teaching your children

eSchool News

Unbeknownst to parents, all first-grade classes in a suburban Los Angeles elementary school were successfully taught by teacher robots during the 2015-2016 school year. Only one parent was in on the secret. John Miller*, whose family moved to the area from Silicon Valley and whose son Jack enrolled as a new first-grade student last school year, first approached the district superintendent three years ago with a radical idea. “We’ve been working on some super cool artificial intellige

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Free Downloadable Poster Featuring The Four Levels of Reading

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January , 2017 How to Read a Book is one of the classic books on reading written by Mortimer and Van Doren. It offers a number of key strategies to enhance readers comprehension skills and help them.read more.

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5 Ways To Supercharge Your 3D Printing Program

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 5 Ways To Supercharge Your 3D Printing Program appeared first on TeachThought.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Edsurge

This material was created by David Wiley and you can download, edit and share it for free under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license from the original post on his blog. Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. The bulk of my concern was expressed in these two paragraphs: Open education currently has no response to the coming wave of diagnostic, adaptive products coming from the publishers.

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5 of education’s alternative facts

eSchool News

There are many alternative facts I choose to believe in my personal life; for instance, the salad I eat for dinner cancels out the cheesesteak I had for lunch; or the sale is so good I can’t afford not to buy a singing Margaritaville machine; or I’m completely up for going to a bar instead of sitting at home reading in my pajamas. It seems that we all have these alternative facts we tell ourselves instead of the truth, and education is no different.

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Silicon Schools Step Up

Edsurge

Promises--delivered. That was the theme of the Wednesday evening reception for more than 200 people at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, aimed at celebrating the work of Bay area schools delivering personalized learning programs, funded by the Silicon Schools Fund. Back in 2012 , educator Brian Greenberg and philanthropist John Fisher, started the nonprofit with $12 million, and a big goal of funding 25 schools devoted to personalized learning throughout the San Francisco Bay area.

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Profiles in Success: Bruce School Makes Math Accessible to ELLs and Sees Higher Achievement

MIND Research Institute

2011 was a challenging year for Massachusetts' Lawrence Public School District. Classified as a turnaround district and taken over by the state, they focused their attention on those schools needing the most improvement. Bruce School was one of them. With English language learners (ELLs) representing a full third of their students, math educators set about looking for solutions to help all students, including those facing language barriers, to build a stronger conceptual understanding of the con

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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S'Cool Tools of the Week: MySimpleShow, Edthena App for Chromebooks

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we've got two free 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. Edthena Chromebook App License: Edthena Chromebook App —Edthena, an online professional development and video coaching platform, has just released an app for Chromebooks.

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Productivity-Talk Here at the End of All Things

ProfHacker

People always say that one of the great things about academe is its familiar rhythm–the academic calendar, which has its moments of stress, can also be weirdly comforting. It’s also makes it sensible for blogging–it’s easy to know when it’s recommendation season , or when people are likely to be grading , or when a note about starting the semester by committing to self-care might be helpful.

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98 $2,000 Scholarships Available For Aspiring World Travelers

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 98 $2,000 Scholarships Available For Aspiring World Travelers appeared first on TeachThought.

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2 Key Questions to Guide Your PD for Principals

Insight Education Group

This post is excerpted from the recent eSchool News article How Our Leadership Academies Are Creating Better School Principals by Linda Mulvey, the Chief Academic Officer for the Syracuse City School District in New York. Like many other urban school systems, Syracuse City School District (SCSD) has faced a number of challenges. Retaining teachers past their third year of teaching, too many competing initiatives that were unaligned to larger goals, and—most pressing—low academic performance amon

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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#FETC Keynote: Breaking Down Barriers to High-Impact Instruction w/ @mikemeechin

techieMusings

Some highlights from Michael Meechin’s keynote this morning: Our schools are full of diverse learners – how are we meeting that diversity of learning style/need? @mikemeechin #FETC. — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) January 26, 2017. We’re living in a tech-infused world, learning/info is at our fingertips 24/7. How is this shifting our teaching mindset?

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Private International Schools Surge, and Digital-Content Needs Come Into Focus

Marketplace K-12

International schools grapple with some of the same tensions that frustrate U.S. public schools trying to make use of ed-tech, a new survey finds. The post Private International Schools Surge, and Digital-Content Needs Come Into Focus appeared first on Market Brief.

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Creating Schools that are #FutureReady with @thomascmurray @FutureReady #FETC

techieMusings

Some highlights from Tom Murray’s session: Get these websites down: https://t.co/IIXwcGv9vy & Future Ready Handouts: https://t.co/HIHUlwzSt0 via @thomascmurray #FETC. — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) January 26, 2017. We must be asking the question – are we getting our return on instruction (not just return on investment) @thomascmurray #FETC. — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) January 26, 2017.

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At Age 6, Girls Are Less Likely to Identify Females As ‘Really, Really Smart’

MindShift

Girls in the first few years of elementary school are less likely than boys to say that their own gender is “really, really smart,” and less likely to opt into a game described as being for super-smart kids, research finds. The study , which appears Thursday in Science , comes amid a push to figure out why women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Schools Can Evaluate Their Own Ed-Tech With ‘Rapid Cycle’ Coaching Tool

Marketplace K-12

A free, online "rapid-cycle" ed-tech evaluation tool is being used by more schools to conduct tests on the effectiveness of the ed-tech they use. The post Schools Can Evaluate Their Own Ed-Tech With ‘Rapid Cycle’ Coaching Tool appeared first on Market Brief.

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7 Mickey Mouse Games for Disney Family Fun

Fractus Learning

Mickey Mouse has been delighting children of all ages for generations. I was a fan of Mickey Mouse and all of his friends when I was a child. In fact, I still am. And now I get to watch my daughters enjoy the magic of Mickey though his newest kids’ show, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The show is great for toddlers and preschoolers; it’s interesting, educational, and sweet.

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2017 Student Book Budgets: Surveys and Vendors

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our 2017 student book budget group is hard at work making purchasing decisions for the 2016-17 school year. This year’s group is made up of 4th & 5th graders who applied to be in the group, and they meet during lunch and/or recess time a few times per week to spend a budget on books requested by students. This money sometimes comes from grants, but this year’s budget is from profits at our fall book fair.

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Welcome Acer as an EdTechTeam Diamond Partner!

EdTechTeam

I will never forget my first computer. I can remember unwrapping it on Christmas morning and excitedly connecting it and turning it on. The new plastic smell still brings back those memories of pajamas and the satisfying experience of removing the plastic covering the monitor screen. Many years later I had a similar experience when I opened my first Chromebook.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Personalized learning supports a diverse student body

edWeb.net

The research shows that diversity in today’s students is greater than ever before. In fact, a conservative 30-40% of students may require an alternate learning path or support during their learning. Personalized learning comes into play with such a high level of learner diversity. Superintendent of the Vista Unified School District, CA, Dr. Devin Vodicka and Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Promise Vic Vuchic made the case for personalized learning in the edWeb.net webinar, “ Making Learning

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A Practical Resource for School-Based Leaders

MiddleWeb

Principals and other school based leaders will find succinct, useful discussions of building level concerns in Williamson and Blackburn's The Principalship from A-Z. Educational leadership professor Margaret Jones-Carey also recommends the book's online resources.

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Library 2.017: EXPERTISE, COMPETENCIES, AND CAREERS

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're excited to announce our first of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This event is being organized in partnership with the American Library Association and will feature ALA president Julie Todaro as moderator for the opening panel and the closing keynote speaker.

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Civic Engagement with Project Based Learning

MiddleWeb

PBL is an excellent vehicle for civic engagement, Zemelman's From Inquiry to Action will help teachers prepare students to become global, responsible, and respectful, says teacher Linda Biondi. Its stories from the classroom and research show what is achievable.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.