Thu.Nov 03, 2016

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A Holiday Flier and Greeting Card in Publisher

Ask a Tech Teacher

Two holiday projects for grades 2-8–for Thanksgiving or Christmas–in the desktop publishing tool of your choice: A flier to celebrate a holiday event. A greeting card to spread wishes for a happy holiday season. Greeting cards are easy enough for second graders–even early readers. Using MS Publisher, pick a template, add a picture to personalize, add their name–and they’re done.

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Stick with it until it becomes transparent

Ditch That Textbook

I remember when my grandma started using FaceTime for the first time. She’s in her 90s now and lives in Florida with my grandpa. (She’s the communicator of the two. He likes to listen and interject a comment occasionally while she does the talking.) I was excited that they were going to try FaceTime. Being [.].

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Brightwheel Acquires MyChild, Targets Early Education With Mobile App

Edsurge

San Francisco-based startup Brightwheel today acquired MyChild, a Lisbon company making an engagement system for parents and schools. Last year, Brightwheel raised $2.2 million in seed funding to build a free mobile application for parents to stay updated with their little ones at daycares and classrooms — everything from what they ate at snack time to what number they counted to that day.

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Standing Up for Students: A Conversation with Melissa Tomlinson @BadassTeachersA @NJEA

TeacherCast

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each and every day in your schools. The shows are hosted by Jeff Bradbury of TeacherCast.net (@TeacherCast) and Jim Boice, a field representative with NJEA (@boiceinthehood).

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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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Why Udacity and EdX Want to Trademark the Degrees of the Future—and What’s at Stake for Students

Edsurge

No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a lock on the words for the next generation of online graduate certifications. Their strategy says a lot about how today’s online programs differ from those in the past (Hint: duration and price are just one part of that). Udacity won a trademark for Nanodegree last year.

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Do's & Don'ts For Teaching English-Language Learners

Edutopia

Larry Ferlazzo English-Language Learners In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand.

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A Beautiful Visual Featuring 8 Advanced Google Drive Search Tips Teachers Should Know about

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 3, 2016 Google has recently added some new interesting search features to its Drive service allowing users to search for and find items and files easier and faster. One of these new.read more.

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Google Classroom: Collaborate with Aww Web Whiteboard

Teacher Tech

Google Classroom + Aww Web Whiteboard The collaborative whiteboard space Aww now has Google Classroom integration. This will allow your students to collaborate on a drawing space that works on any device. You can use Aww without an account, which is nice, but there are some advantages to having an account, including using Google Classroom. Google […].

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How a small district turned every student into a music composer

eSchool News

There are moments in my life when the world slows down long enough for me to have incredibly emotional experiences linked to music. Those moments are pure joy. My goal as a music educator is to facilitate opportunities for my students to connect in that very same way. I’m a music teacher for Montana’s Big Sky School District, so it’s thrilling when my students embrace powerful moments tied to music that really reach deep, and then find a way to lock into them for the rest of their lives.

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. Photo: Jamie Martines. SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. On one side of the room, students wearing special tinted glasses studied electric circuits at virtual reality stations.

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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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An Excellent Free Interactive Guide on How to Foster Students Creativity Through iPad

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 4, 2016 iPad is a versatile device with a huge potential in education. Several teachers have now embraced this relatively new mobile technology into their teaching enhancing thus their.read more.

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Learn How @Zzish Provides Real Time Formative Assessments on ALL Devices

TeacherCast

Are you looking for a quick to prepare, easy to use, real time formative assessment tool that your students are going to love? In this episode of the TeacherCast App Spotlight, I welcome Francesco Busiello on from Zzish to discuss how classrooms worldwide are being turned on to Gamification through an amazing application called Zzish. The post Learn How @Zzish Provides Real Time Formative Assessments on ALL Devices appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Open Access Week Roundup

ProfHacker

Last week, George wrote about Open Access Week. The OpenAccessWeek.org site is a great resource for all of the activities, announcement, and information, but I want to point to two resources that might be of particular interest to ProfHacker readers. The first is the oaDIO tool (for lack of a better word for what it is). From their blog post: Most papers that are free-to-read are available thanks to “ green OA ” copies posted in institutional or subject repositories.

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Chromebook: Take a Partial Screenshot

Teacher Tech

Chromebook: Take a Partial Screenshot To take a partial screenshot on a Chromebook, hold down the Control key, the Alt key and the Windows switcher key (above the 6 key). This will change the arrow into cross hairs allowing you to select a portion of the screen. A full screenshot can be taken by omitting […]. The post Chromebook: Take a Partial Screenshot appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Makerspace Materials: Stock the Staples to Ignite Imaginations

Fractus Learning

The journey of building and maintaining a makerspace in our school is never-ending. Less than one year ago, we opened the doors of our Learning Lab Makerspace to our students, who have since experienced creating, tinkering and play. While still in its infancy, our Learning Lab has gone through a major transformation into the makerspace and yet has still continued to change based on our students’ interests and needs.

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These strategies could help your district beat the homework gap

eSchool News

Efforts to bring high-speed internet to all classrooms in the country have been bolstered by advocacy groups and by President Obama’s ConnectEd initiative , but one critical area lags behind: the so-called “homework gap” caused by students’ lack of home internet access. In a time when many schools have one-to-one initiatives in place that require students to use the internet to access digital resources and complete assignments at home, the homework gap is particularly fru

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10 Tools That Can Help Students With Case Study Analysis

EmergingEdTech

Image Source A Range of Tools to Lend Efficiencies to Case Study Assignments Case study analysis is a serious work that often demands a lot of time and effort. Students need to go through a lot of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Why Late Nights Lead to Crankier, More Emotional Teens

MindShift

It’s hard for Zachary Lane to wake up in time for school every day. “I have four alarms set and it still takes me a long time to wake me up,” says Lane, a 17-year-old high school junior in Zionsville, Ind. He says he regularly gets detention for being tardy. “I get to school and I’m talked to like I’m attempting to skip school — like I’m attempting to be truant,” he says. “I feel terrible.

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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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From Student Apprentice to Published Writer

MiddleWeb

Reviewer Mary Langer Thompson believes every writing teacher needs Meigs-Kahlenberg's The Author's Apprentice, whether to expand their thinking of what writing can be or to put a year's worth of strategies and ideas into action now. Writing novels with 7th graders?!

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Preparing Students for Life After School

My Paperless Classroom

Every educator looks forward to the day their students graduate and move onward to productive and successful lives as adults. It is hoped that they take everything they have learned throughout their primary and secondary education and put it to good use in a way that makes the school proud of them. Although in many […]. The post Preparing Students for Life After School appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Ways to Go Gradeless in a School That Grades

MiddleWeb

Arguing that grades not only limit learning but can actually interfere with it, Starr Sackstein makes the case in "Hacking Assessment" for going gradeless and shows how it can be part of a traditional grading school. Teacher Marek Dzianott agrees it works well with PBL.

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A conference about what is sacred in education: 5Sigma Edu Con

iLearn Technology

There are a lot of options for professional development. Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. If you’re like me, your inbox and mailbox have a pretty consistent stream of offerings. I’m about to tell you about one more… The 5Sigma Education Conference holds a special place in my heart because it gives me the opportunity to invite you to come meet the incredible people I work with every day!

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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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Mobile Device Management – Strategies for Success

techlearning

Event status: Not started ( Register ) Date and time: Thursday, November 3, 2016 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Duration: 1 hour Description: 60% of schools use.

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Ripe for Change: Digital Media as a Tool for Innovation in Disciplinary Literacy

Reading By Example

I was winding down at the end of a school day when I saw my son at the table in my office. He found my iPad, opened up Minecraft, and started working on his world. To aid in his creations, he would reference a Minecraft guide book from time to time. I didn’t have to offer any help in setting up his world or in guiding his reading. He was motivated to understand the text because it meant he could be more successful in creating new things in Minecraft.

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4 Ways We Hold Others Back

The Principal of Change

You can’t change anyone but yourself, but you can create the conditions where change is more likely to happen for others. As I work with many educators in leadership positions, I try to focus on going beyond the content of a message, and looking at the delivery of the message. Yet there are things that I watch that hold people back from helping others moving forward, and I have been guilty of them myself.

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Ripe for Change: Digital Media as a Tool for Innovation in Disciplinary Literacy

Reading By Example

I was winding down at the end of a school day when I saw my son at the table in my office. He found my iPad, opened up Minecraft, and started working on his world. To aid in his creations, he would reference a Minecraft guide book from time to time. I didn’t have to offer any help in setting up his world or in guiding his reading. He was motivated to understand the text because it meant he could be more successful in creating new things in Minecraft.

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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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3 Books Any Aspiring Wordsmith Should Read

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 3 Books Any Aspiring Wordsmith Should Read appeared first on TeachThought.

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11 Incredible Cookie Cutters for Your Junior Masterchefs

Fractus Learning

On the subject of cookies, I think the great Cookie Monster said it best: “Om-Nom-Nom-Nom!” This is a phrase you’ll hear your kids quote often—if you get the right cookie cutters! Sure, cookies are delicious, but budding bakers can also learn a lot from making them. The cookie baking process requires concentration, collaboration and creativity. Kids see how complex tasks can be accomplished by following step-by-step guidelines.

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5 Simple Principles Can Help Engage Families

MiddleWeb

Steven M. Constantino leads school and district teams through a process of building a culture that welcomes and engages students' families, says veteran teacher Cindy Purdy. She suggests that individual teachers can also apply some of the author's key ideas.

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How One Middle School Gets Creative to Teach Digital Citizenship

Graphite Blog

When entering middle school, the typical tween may have just gotten a mobile device -- or is begging for it -- and doesn't spend a lot of time on social media. But by the time they turn from tween to teen, the average student spends an hour and 11 minutes using social media every day. That's a big change, and there's a lot to teach middle school students about responsible online behavior.

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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.