The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2020

Danny Steele helps us grow and improve From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We can build a positive school culture that includes good student relationships. From building a wall of dreams to bringing our best energy, Danny Steele encourages us to grow and connect with colleagues and students. Sponsor: Adobe I use Adobe Premiere Rush to teach digital filmmaking in my classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Twenty or 30 years ago, the role of an IT director centered on maintaining devices and networks — a facilities role. But today, particularly in K–12 education, IT leaders play a much more integral part in maintaining technology used in school and districts, as well as supporting overall academic goals. . For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, “The answer can no longer be, ‘Go ask my IT guy,’” consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technolo

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Join in some powerful student challenges! Discovery Education has two student challenges happening now. In this post, I’ll give you an overview of the Stanley Black and Decker Making for Good Student Challenge , a STEAM project for grades 9-12 in the US. I’ll also give an overview of the CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge for grades 5-8, also for students in the United States.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

When you imagine a modern classroom, what do you see? Are there rows of forward-facing student desks? Is there a lectern or a teacher’s desk at the front of the room? Increasingly, that’s not the reality. Educational technology and emerging workforce trends are key reasons why. Instead of sitting quietly in rows of desks, students are encouraged to move around and collaborate in groups.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 26, 2020

We lead busy lives and even the best leaders and the most astute decision makers are subject to “decision fatigue.” Author-educators Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn believe it is imperative for school leaders to “adopt strategies to minimize its negative impact.”.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Think about innovations and technology features such as touch screens, predictive text, flexible seating and voice dictation. . What do they all have in common? They all are accommodations created for people with disabilities that eventually went mainstream. Occupational therapists in special education were among the first to use flexible seating for students with disabilities, Christopher Bugaj, the assistive technology specialist for Loudon County (Va.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 26, 2020

“We are developing the leaders of tomorrow!” This statement has excellent intentions, but it also assumes that students can’t make a significant impact in our world today. What are some of the mindsets and actions that we can take within education to ensure that we develop our students as leaders immediately so that they can make an impact on the world that we live in right now?

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JANUARY 26, 2020

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2020

Educators today hear a lot about attending to students’ social-emotional needs and implementing “trauma-informed” practices. For some, I’m sure this sounds like jargon, but that’s not the case in the University City school district in Missouri, where I teach. “When students come in feeling crummy, they know that someone will be there to help.” Here, we have embraced the goal of “humanizing” school and returning joy to our classrooms.

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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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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2020

When policymakers and school leaders talk about improving schools, much of the focus is on test scores, teaching strategies, curriculum and other services consumed directly by students. Often less attention is paid to the culture of adult learning in a school building, but maybe it’s time that changed. Harvard researchers have been studying the impact of what they call a “growth culture” on the effectiveness and productivity of companies.

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techlearning

JANUARY 26, 2020

According to recent research, 1 in 6 students miss three weeks or more of school per year.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

Education is at a crossroads. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is chugging ahead with the 5th on the horizon. New technologies have radically changed the world that all of us live and work in across the globe. In many cases, this has been a good thing, but not always. The fact of the matter is that change isn’t coming; it is banging on the door every day.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 26, 2020

You’ve heard of “Fake it till you make it” and “Acting as if, until you actually feel it.” That’s not what we’re talking about in this episode, though I think there’s some value to that for sure. When you tell yourself affirming thoughts, it impacts your mood and can give you a confidence boost for sure. That’s not just woo-woo stuff, because think of the opposite: If you spend three minutes thinking about all your greatest failures as a teacher and replaying all of the negative interactions wit

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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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2020

This is part two of a two-part blog series. When our district began a move to standards based grading (SBG), we realized that we needed a different digital tool. In the previous blog entry , I discussed how the limitations of a traditional grading system led us to SBG, and ultimately, Empower Learning. In this entry, I give an overview on the grading features of Empower and how it integrates with our standards based learning philosophy.

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