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Technology Helps Keep a Close Eye on Students

EdTech Magazine

Technology Helps Keep a Close Eye on Students. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:19. The Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has brought the heart-wrenching issue of school safety to the forefront again. Congress and several state legislatures are introducing measures that would beef up security in schools , not only with teacher and student training and physical improvements to school grounds, but by using federal and state funds to purchase alarm sys

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Fighting the battle of copy/paste cheating

Ditch That Textbook

It was a simple activity. One that I thought my students would have no trouble completing. In my Spanish 3 class, I had asked them to find some facts about an artist from the Hispanic world and write a paragraph about that person. One paragraph. In Spanish. No big deal, right? The activity ended up […].

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Ask An Educator: Teachers Talk Motivation, Goals, and Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

At Digital Promise, we aim to tell compelling stories about how technology can support powerful learning. For micro-credentials, this means capturing the experiences of educators on the ground who are engaging with these competency-based tools to increase student engagement and drive improvement. The Ask An Educator podcast captures these stories directly from the educators, exploring why they became teachers, what their professional goals are, and how micro-credentials helped them get there.

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Check out this brilliant online safety website from Google

EdTech4Beginners

Google has recently produced a fantastic website. It is fun, interactive and covers everything involving internet safety! It’s called Interland and is completely free. Watch my walk-through video below on how it works, and how you could use it in your classroom: Check out the full website here: [link]. Finally, there is also a teacher guide, with loads of lesson ideas: [link].

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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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Personalized Learning: Lessons to Get the Message Right

Education Elements

Interest in personalized learning continues to surge all across the country. However, not everyone understands what personalized learning looks like or the changes it will necessitate, and people are often wary of what they don’t understand. So how we talk about personalized learning can either engage families or push them away.

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Spring 2018

EdTech Magazine

Spring 2018. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 04/04/2018 - 12:07. Apr. 04. 2018.

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Patterns of Innovation Celebrates Learning- P21 Style

Battelle for Kids

Nearly 200 educators from around the world joined P21 member organizations and Exemplar schools for our inaugural Patterns of Innovation conference last week at New Technology High School in Napa.

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Data is Good—But Not Enough—to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO

Edsurge

Sonja Brookins Santelises, the CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, sent a message to the teachers, principals, system leaders and non-profit professionals in the audience at her keynote on Wednesday: improvement science must be used in the context of a community’s individuals. It’s not about “fairy dust” or “easy answers.” But first, a primer on “improvement science,” a phrase oft repeated at 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, going on this week in San Francisco.

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10 Tips For Getting Started With Mindfulness In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

10 Tips For Getting Started With Mindfulness In The Classroom by Kelly April Tyrrell and TeachThought Staff ed note: this post has been updated from previous publishing While the scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the Waisman Center aren’t yet ready to issue evidence-based mindfulness curriculum practices, Flook and CIHM […].

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Why I Had to Develop a Unique Learner Profile to Meet the Needs of My Students

Edsurge

As a special education teacher, I work with students who struggle academically. Many of them have a low tolerance for frustration—but the same kid who gives up after trying a math problem once will watch Super Mario fall into a hole a dozen times and try again a thirteenth time to get it right. Why is that? And why isn’t learning the same way? This may sound like some trite aphorism, but every learner is unique.

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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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@VybeSoftware Offers Students a FREE Opportunity to create Apps on the App Store and Google Play!

TeacherCast

In this episode of EdTech in the Classroom, we learn how every student can have access to a FREE Coding and Programming Curriculum through DevKit, a fantastic application from Vybe Software. . The post @VybeSoftware Offers Students a FREE Opportunity to create Apps on the App Store and Google Play! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Padlet’s Price Update Riles Teachers and Raises Questions About Sustainability of ‘Freemium’ Models

Edsurge

Over the years, many educators took to Padlet , a free digital bulletin board where teachers and students could post messages, images, videos and links to online resources. But the San Francisco-based company’s sudden switch to a new pricing plan has upset teachers who had become used to a generous, mostly free product. For many educators, it’s a lesson that certain free things are too good to last.

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Review: Learn why @WeVideo is the Best Audio and Video Editing Solution for Podcasters and Classroom Teachers Today!

TeacherCast

In this episode of EdTech in the Classroom, we welcome John Klein and Dr Nathan Lang from WeVideo on the podcast to discuss the importance of using video in the classroom to achieve curricular goals. The post Review: Learn why @WeVideo is the Best Audio and Video Editing Solution for Podcasters and Classroom Teachers Today! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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A Collection of Some Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some helpful resources to use in your social studies class. We have arrnaged these resources into three main categories: websites which you can access across different.read more.

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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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Teacher Leadership As A Flawed Endeavor [Medium]

The Jose Vilson

Teacher leadership almost always looks good on paper. Truly, I would love this model to win from an individual and collective perspective. It's tiring watching the same set of people who aren't "on the ground" get opportunities to speak, travel, and present their ideas. It's equally exhausting hearing representatives of our school systems say we lack morale and conviction about our daily work while stunting our growth as professionals for reasonable or petty reasons.

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Wishing for the Wrong Things

Adjusting Course

Have you ever had a conversation with another educator who was passionate about their work? Okay.that was an obvious question, but this next part might be more challenging. Have you ever thought about the assumptions that underly your passions as an educator? My wife and I have three pretty spectacular kids. Every once in a while they come to us with problems they want help with.

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Teacher Leadership As A Flawed Endeavor [Medium]

The Jose Vilson

Teacher leadership almost always looks good on paper. Truly, I would love this model to win from an individual and collective perspective. It's tiring watching the same set of people who aren't "on the ground" get opportunities to speak, travel, and present their ideas. It's equally exhausting hearing representatives of our school systems say we lack morale and conviction about our daily work while stunting our growth as professionals for reasonable or petty reasons.

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Innovation Does Not Happen in Isolation

The Principal of Change

In “ The Innovator’s Mindset ,” I share the following eight characteristics: What is important to understand regarding these characteristics is that none of them make you innovative in isolation. It is their combinations that lead to new and better solutions. If I am “observant” and understand the world around me, yet “create” nothing, what would be solved?

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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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Two ‘Hotspots’ in Education Procurement Identified for 2018

Marketplace K-12

An analysis found that districts have stepped up their purchasing to support special needs students, and for digital learning tools--the two fastest-growing segments of the education sector. The post Two ‘Hotspots’ in Education Procurement Identified for 2018 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Get Google Certified this Summer!

The Electric Educator

Becoming Google Certified changed my life. And I am not exaggerating! Being Google Certified gave me a unique purpose in the classroom (I was a HS science teacher), introduced me to new people and ideas, gave me the insight to publish my first book, and allows me to financially support my family while helping improve education. None of these things are guaranteed, but I can trace them all back to the 2009 Google Teacher Academy in Boulder, Colorado.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

techlearning

MORE BETTER WRITING Third Grade Students at Milton Public Schools use FlipGrid to record book reviews. Edtech tools are helping educators everywhere discover new possibilities for writing instruction. Teachers are happier. They’re reading student work that’s more thoughtful, properly revised, and well researched, and they’re able to give efficient, effective feedback to each student.

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Open Learner Patchbook

ProfHacker

Last August, Lee wrote about the Open Faculty Patchbook , "a community patchwork of ‘chapters’ … about pedagogy for teaching & learning in college." More recently, in her post about laptop bans , Lee referenced the Open Learner Patchbook , so I thought I would take a look. Launched by Terry Greene ( @greeneterry ), The Open Learner Patchbook "About" page describes the site as a "space … to house the stories of how learners learn in higher ed." The intent i

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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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Make Learning Stick – Ditch Ineffective Practices

Teacher Tech

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Jennifer Gonzalez (@cultofpedagogy) does it again with a brilliant blog post on improving learning. Previously I shared her post on Worksheet Packets where she identifies what a worksheet is and alternative ideas to using packets. We are all guilty of doing what was done to us as […]. The post Make Learning Stick – Ditch Ineffective Practices appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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A FAMILY OF DYSLEXICS TRANSFORM ED THROUGH STRUCTURED LITERACY AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

techlearning

It wasn’t until Eric Price, assistant principal at West Jordan Middle School in Utah, realized his daughter had dyslexia that he identified dyslexia as the cause of his own struggles. His wife Jennifer, currently the vice president of Decoding Dyslexia Utah, benefitted as a child from her mother’s perseverance to get her tested. “In the 1980s everyone was hesitant to give her a ‘label’ or use the ‘D’ word, but they found a tutor that used structured literacy intervention,” Price says.

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The power of online communities for teachers

eSchool News

This may be surprising to some, but teaching can be a lonely profession many days. While teachers are surrounded by people, there’s often little time for collaboration or discussion with peers. My days are filled with exciting moments of discovery with students, of course, but also the challenge of sneaking in a lunch or prep period. It’s easy to get to the end of the day or week and realize I’ve had little interaction with the adults in my building.

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25 Education Ideas That Don’t Work

MiddleWeb

English teacher David Slater identifies school reform ideas that he believes are wrong-headed or frequently misapplied, leading to ineffective education across the country. Retired educator Mary Langer Thompson agrees with some of his solutions but finds others lacking.

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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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5 biggest data center mistakes (and how to fix them)

eSchool News

Behold, the school district data center. To the untrained eye, it’s just a room full of servers, racks, cables, power supplies, storage devices, and whatever other components happen to be lying around. But it’s so much more than that. It’s the backbone of your entire technology infrastructure. If even the smallest thing goes wrong, you could very well lose access to the network and systems you rely on to keep your district functioning.

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FOUR TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL LEARNING INITIATIVE

techlearning

Karl Steinkamp, Dalat International’s Head of School is joined by Xuan You, director of global programs andservices for the non-profit, The Virtual High School. Here at Dalat International School, we believe that online learning is a vital component of a student’s education—so much so that, before our students can graduate, they must take at least one of their high-school courses online.

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Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder? Try Forest Bathing

MindShift

There is a paradox with living as a human nowadays. A 2014 article from the United Nations states that about 54 percent of the human population lives in urban areas (more by now), a proportion that is projected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. By 2045, the report says, more than six billion people will crowd cities. People flock to cities for obvious reasons, all very understandable: more job opportunities; more choices; more culture and cultural diversity; larger communities.

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10 Sites for Keyboarding & Typing

techlearning

Keyboarding or Typing is one the first and most vital skills for students to learn for technology literacy. This skill is the building block for using a computer and one that starts as early KDG if not sooner. Also, this is a nice skill/unit to teach in using "centers or blocks", free time, or even summer school. ABCya - A fun site/app for kids trying to learn how to type in games such as: Alpha Munchies, Cup Stack Typing, and Jump Key.

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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.