Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

This year I’ve decided to pursue my doctorate at Pepperdine University. It is a blended program with a mix of face-to-face and online learning, which is obviously perfect for this blended learning enthusiast! My program will allow me to continue teaching and coaching, but it will present some very real challenges for me personally when it comes to balancing my various roles and responsibilities–mother, teacher, trainer, coach, speaker, and author.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2017

By Juliet Van Wagenen How do you bypass dangerous areas of a city, spotty internet and crumbling buildings to deliver education? By bus of course.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 22, 2017

There's still a lot of room to innovate in the ed-tech market. The post A Brief History of the Ed-Tech Market and Why Startups Should Pay Attention appeared first on Market Brief.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2017

By Matt Fellows Get ready for the new school year with this fun, interactive quiz!

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Education Elements

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the book Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss describes the excitement and trepidation we all feel before we embark on a new adventure. There are going to be tales of success, failure, and everything in between, but what makes this journey so special is it truly becomes your own.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

My friend Joanne was packing her youngest child off to college this month and wrestling with a modern dilemma: Is it better to buy textbooks in digital form or old-fashioned print? One of her son’s professors was recommending an online text for a business course: lighter, always accessible and seriously cheaper ($88 vs. $176 for a 164-page book). But Joanne’s instinct was that her son would “learn better” from a printed volume, free of online distractions, and with pages he could dog-ear, peruse

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Education Elements

AUGUST 22, 2017

Educators and researchers alike love to obsess over what model of blended learning a school should implement. A favorite question I get asked is: “OK, now that you’ve told us about all the blended-learning models, be honest, what’s the best one?”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

“The future of tech is female!”. “We are here to challenge the status quo!”. “Join me in this fight for equality!”. Those were just a sampling of the chants from the Rally for Women in Tech hosted this evening in New York City’s Union Square Park by Girls Who Code , a nonprofit that aims to close the gender gap in technology. As a girl who wears a hijab, it’s kind of upsetting to see the small amount of girls who wear hijabs, especially in tech companies, but we can fix it.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 22, 2017

A few years ago, I stumbled across a wonderful column where the author reflected on all of the teachers who had a profound impact on his life from kindergarten all of the way through graduate school. It reminded me of the impact of Professor Randy Pausch’s “ Last Lecture ,” where faced with months to live, Pausch delivered a memorable lesson for so many Carnegie Mellon students around living your childhood dreams.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Higher test scores. Better graduation rates. Increased lifetime earning potential. Incorporating social-emotional learning and character education into K-12 classrooms improves students’ lives—measurably. Indeed, recent research indicates there is a direct and undeniable correlation between improved student outcomes and integrating SEL and life skills—like problem-solving, collaboration, and good judgment—into existing curriculum.

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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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Education Elements

AUGUST 22, 2017

In 2017, Corcoran High School implemented a new district alternate assessment, also known as a competency test. This test was required for any student who did not score Standards Met or Standards Exceeded on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. Students who could not pass this assessment would be prohibited from participating in the graduation ceremony.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Investor pitch events are a dime a dozen, but no one does it with the flair and furor of Y Combinator. Now in its 25th Demo Day, the Silicon Valley accelerator has created a machine for turning fledgling ideas into businesses that get investors salivating—and writing checks. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 22, 2017

Yesterday my new crew of kinders logged into their @Acer CBs 4 the 1st time on their 2nd day of school! R11 device is nice! #gafe4littles [link] — Christine Pinto (@PintoBeanz11) August 20, 2017 Kinders Log In on the 2nd Day of School Guest Blog Post by Christine Pinto The new school year is HERE […]. The post Kinders Log Into Acer Chromebooks 2nd Day of School appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

The futility of a liberal-arts degree was drilled into me early on. Surrounded by friends and family who touted how their children were on their way to becoming doctors and engineers, my parents often struggled to explain why their son picked history. “Well, maybe you can be a lawyer,” their friends would say. (I had, and still have, no intention.) I am forever grateful that they never tried to steer me away.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2017

Learning shouldn’t stop when students leave for summer vacation. Rather, this extended break from the classroom is the perfect time to introduce kids to a variety of mobile apps that can continuously promote creativity and critical thinking. From kindergarten to grade 12, the vast assortment of digital offerings can meet any student’s interests, all while providing valuable lessons that will appropriately challenge each user.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years. However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 22, 2017

Students Need Help Understanding The Source and the Truth Behind News Media For centuries, it has been important for people to realize that “news” is often delivered with a specific. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2017

August , 2017 When it comes to presentations, no matter what industry you’re in, creating that first impression and providing a presentation that will win over your audience comes with its pressures.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 22, 2017

The post 12 Questions To Ask Your Students On The First Day Of School appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2017

August , 2017 Here is an excellent resource from ReadWriteThink to help students with their writing. Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing is a tool that allows your students to edit.read more.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2017

Remember the original iMac G3 desktop computers with their sleek, translucent designs in a colorful collection? Likely you saw these computers in ads, store windows or even owned one yourself. Millennials might also recall seeing these systems introduced to classrooms during elementary school, and that’s because Apple made a massive push in penetrating the education market throughout the ‘90s by exposing millions of children to this product.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

Core academic subjects have long been the top priority for districts preparing students for life after high school. Now districts are elevating social and emotional learning, as well, drawing from a large body of research showing that skills like grit and self-regulation are critical to life success. If they’re so valuable, the logic goes, schools should find concrete ways to teach them.

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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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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 22, 2017

Seventy percent of private schools in the United States serve less than 300 students, data from the National Center for Education Statistics show. The post The Private School Market Is Overwhelmingly a Small-School Market appeared first on Market Brief.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 22, 2017

The post 7 Dimensions Of Learning To Learn appeared first on TeachThought.

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MindShift

AUGUST 22, 2017

Many elementary school teachers love to teach reading and writing, but are less comfortable with science and math. It’s not a hard and fast truth, of course, but learning to read is a big focus of the early school years, so it makes sense that teachers who gravitate toward elementary school like teaching literacy. But it’s also important to expose kids to science early and get them excited about the practices that define scientific inquiry.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 22, 2017

If a classroom gets iPads, a question you will often hear immediately is, “What apps should I download?” In our concern for machines taking over education, we often do things that encourage machines to take over our teaching. I have been privy to seeing many educators use “flashcard” apps with students, not because they see it as a better process, but because they feel they need to justify iPads in their classroom by using them (the device) in some way with their studen

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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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Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 22, 2017

This infographic can be shared on your website or printed to display in your school, library or classroom. Request a high-resolution version suitable for printing by sending an email to ryoegel[at]gaggle.net.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

Andrew Moe on the campus of Swarthmore College on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Swarthmore, Pa. (submitted photo). Where does a high school senior whose parents didn’t go to college turn to understand the application process? What resources are available to a student from a remote rural area if she wants to apply to college? These questions and hundreds more like it are the ones I think about every day.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 22, 2017

EdTech is a popular buzzword, and I’m a big fan. But I’m not sure EdTech means what many people think it means. EdTech often conjures up a limiting and inaccurate vision: computers, SmartBoards, and little kids with huge VR goggles on their melons. This causes many teachers to believe they don’t have time to learn “EdTech”. Which is a big, sad, stinky pile of misconception… Because it’s easier than they think.

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Kevin Corbett

AUGUST 22, 2017

Elon Musk’s Open Letter to the United Nations Warns Against Autonomous Killer Robots “Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter states, according to a press.

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

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