ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Quick Take: Learn about assistive technology in special education. Get examples of how interactive digital whiteboards can aid students with impairments and disabilities. Assistive technology in special education can bring much-needed help to teachers who have students with disabilities or providing special education services. Implementing assistive technology cannot fix all the issues students may have but it can help students cope with their impairments and aid teachers in providing the best l

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Here are some signs that you may be missing opportunities with your school’s technology integration efforts: Your LMS is primarily used as a document management system. Lots of Kahoots but not much student creation. Many conversations about responsible and appropriate use, not many conversations about empowered use. Teachers are the primary users of technology.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Quick Take: UK schools are facing a shortage of teachers and many are planning to quit soon. Find out more on how to keep teachers in the classroom by improving teachers’ work-life balance. Many potential teachers may need to rethink their career choice if they knew about a typical teacher's work-life balance. The Department of Education reports a steep increase in the number of children enrolling in state schools in the next decade.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Have you ever played a game where someone begins a story then the next person adds to it, the next adds a little more and so on? Add and pass is a fun collaborative writing activity. Students must take what their classmates created and add something to it. It’s almost like improv, where actors must […].

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Schools face increasing challenges as technology becomes integral to education. Efficient device management is essential for maximizing technology use and safeguarding investments. Our article discusses the importance of tracking devices, outlines current challenges, and suggests modern solutions that go beyond traditional methods like Excel. Learn how advanced tracking systems can streamline operations, improve maintenance, and offer real-time updates for better resource allocation.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Thwart Tech-Savvy Quiz Takers with Locked Mode. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 09/04/2019 - 15:13. For educators who like to create their own assessments, platforms like Google Forms have been a godsend. . Unfortunately, these technologies also come with their own challenges. How do you ensure reliable results while limiting online distractions and cheating?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. economy. But in his submitted draft every source in his bibliography—and I do mean every—leaned toward one political bias, and sometimes quite heavily.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education. Called “Changing the Equation: Empowering Adult Learners with Edtech,” it’s the culmination of three years of research commissioned by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education through its Power in Numbers in

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Bamboo Paper is an excellent notebook app you can use for sketching, drawing, or taking notes. It provides a number of interesting features that makes writing/drawing experience on it resembles the.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. The acquisition will cost Chegg about $80 million in cash for Thinkful, with possible additional payments of up to $20 million in cash or stock based on performance, according to a statement Wednesday. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Schools are experiencing a dramatic shift from how they’ve been run and structured for over a century. Leaders must establish direction, influence others, and initiate sustainable change as they navigate the ever-evolving landscape of education. Such leadership requires a dynamic combination of positive mindset, influential behaviors, and effective skills.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This is a quick post to share with you this interesting resource we came across awhile ago. This is a collection of more than 60 free math textbooks, or what is conventionally known as open.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

How much is $170 million? At first glance, it seems like a hefty fine—and it’s what the Federal Trade Commission ordered Google to pay as a settlement over complaints that YouTube had violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, or COPPA. But is it really all that much? In April 2018, privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint stating that YouTube had been illegally collecting personal data about minors who use its service without their parents’ consent, and used that information for a

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Summer is almost officially over, and now that September has claimed its place on our calendars, educators have been busy preparing and organizing and welcoming students back to school–and that means ensuring tech tools and digital resources are ready to go. District administrators, principals, and teachers are prepping for full classrooms and full schedules.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Elementary education in the 19th century was just about teaching children some basic learning, usually the ability to read. When the 20th century came, the education system changed and was centered. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Teachers and literacy coaches have to realize there really are middle level students who refuse to read a book, says ELA teacher Jeremy Hyler. “As we look for answers, we have to first understand students today read differently and communicate differently than we did.”.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A new report looks at how the Every Student Succeeds Act's mandate for evidence in school-turnaround strategies are playing out in five school districts. The post Finding ‘Evidence’-Backed ESSA Strategies a Challenge for Districts, Report Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Quick Take: A waning of an era. Adobe Flash end of life in 2020 is soon arriving. Learn how it happened and how it will affect educators. 1. History of Flash. 2. Why Flash is dying. 3. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom. What does the Adobe Flash end of life mean for educators? For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Todoist is a cross-platform productivity app and website where students and teachers can manage tasks, calendar items, and individual or team projects.

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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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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Quick Take: Take a closer look at the Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: 1. What will happen. 2. Dangers to teachers & other users of Flash. 3. 5 R’s Strategy to transition. Adobe will retire its crown jewel Adobe Flash in 2020. The once ubiquitous Flash Player found in 98% of all Internet-connected desktops around the world will fade into its golden years at the end of 2020.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Employee training is expensive and, unfortunately, the return on investment (ROI) doesn’t often exist. In 2016, the Association for Talent Development (ATD) estimated that companies spent an average of $1,273 per employee on training. However, Eduardo Salas, a professor of organizational psychology at the University of Central Florida, has found that without “practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” learners lose 90% of the skills they learn in those training programs.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This school year I have decided to streamline the process, adding instructions, embedded video, and rubrics to the slide template students will work in.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

By Kendal Rolley. Looking around my seventh-grade Language Arts classroom at the start of another school year, I saw the same range of reactions that we are all familiar with as teachers. Some students were obviously eager to get started, returning from the break with a desire to start the year off in a positive way. Others were less confident, and had evidently approached the end of the summer holiday with a sense of dread.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Catch up on everything new in G Suite for Education from August 2019, and see great ideas and resources!

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In honor of Labor Day earlier this week, we are diving into our blog archives to revisit a post on XQ Institute’s report High School & the Future of Work. This continues to be a topic of conversation across America, and many states are beginning to implement some of the following policy solutions to better prepare students for successful careers. .

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

During our vacation in the Dells recently, my kids expressed interest in the elevated ropes course at the resort. “Did you want me to join you?” My question was half-hearted; I don’t enjoy heights but I thought I should at least offer. “Did you want to?” they asked me. I could tell by their tone of voice that they did, in fact, want me to balance on ropes with them twenty feet up in the air.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A version of this article first appeared on Robert Talbert’s blog. Getting into my rental car in Detroit last week, I decided to check my email before hitting the road to head home. It was Friday before the first day of classes, and as the newly-installed chair of the Mathematics Department , I'd taken a bit of a risk in spending the day away from the department, because the Friday before classes start is the witching hour: the time when major catastrophes-in-progress tend to come over the horiz

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Two years ago, we set out to better understand how technology coaching could move us closer to bridging the digital use divide in the classroom. The Dynamic Learning Project is a classroom-based coaching program in which participating teachers are coached to use technology to support student engagement and promote the development of agency, as well as skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Call to mind some of the dominant narratives about school innovation and chances are a fairly predictable picture emerges. It’s not hard to conjure up a charter school launched anew in California or perhaps Chicago with students working through personalized learning playlists in colorful and modular furniture—and plenty of technology. But that’s hardly the full story.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As New York City public school students head back to school this week, the days when officers in the city’s police department could arrest students for minor misbehavior may finally be over. After more than two decades in which the New York Police Department (NYPD) had near-total discretion, the department signed a policy in June that limits the responsibilities of police officers in New York City public schools.

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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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