EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2018

By Marie Bjerede Taking the digital leap requires broadband access, proper funding and the right people on board.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 2, 2018

I teach college freshmen and soon will meet a new batch of learners. Students who take my class are preparing themselves for their official Freshman English class. This means my students didn’t receive strong scores on their reading and writing exams. I believe reading, writing, and learning is tied to engagement and interest. Everyone can read, write, and learn and likes to but many need don’t like to do any of this in school.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 2, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. In an ELA classroom’s scramble to cover all requirements — novels and short stories, grammar and vocabulary, expository and creative writing — poetry can get pushed to the sidelines. Teachers and students alike can assume poetry is dense, bewildering, and unnecessary.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Social media has been around for some time now. Twitter launched 11 years ago, LinkedIn 14 years ago, Facebook 13 years ago — and you know what? They are still as relevant as ever. Companies across the globe continue to use social media as a vital part of their marketing strategy — creating content to connect and engage their audience. Marketers have found their stride on social media, and B2B activity on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms has increased significantly in the past year.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. January 1st-15th: Spend $28 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Martin Luther King Day Bundle. Click to view slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 18 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2018

[Instead of just challenge-based learning , how about challenge-based leadership?]. Sir Ken Robinson said in Creative Schools : Human achievement in every field is driven by the desire to explore, to test and prod, to see what happens, to question how things work, and to wonder why and ask, what if? Young children have a ready appetite to explore whatever draws their interest.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2018

Technology changes quickly, with educators and administrators often racing to catch up. Sometimes the bigger the school district, the longer it can take to make what happens inside classrooms as engaging as what students encounter outside our doors. But just as chalkboards have given way to interactive whiteboards, so can your school system bring all aspects of teaching and learning into the digital age.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

January 2, 2018 Here is another of our popular visuals we published in 2017. The visual features some good educational web tools and websites to help you in your teaching. We arranged these resources.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Students at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school in New York City, have an elective class that mixes students from all high-school grades and encourages them to talk about issues like the purpose and meaning of life. Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images. It’s 12:15 p.m. on a Tuesday in December and 30 students gather for an unusual class at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school located in one of the country’s poorest Congressional distr

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2018

Whether you want to build a bridge, explore the sea, or simply try to identify new markets, you will only be as good as the data you use. This means it must be complete, in context, trusted and easily accessible to drive insights.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 3. Let’s define it this way: reproducibility is when your experiment or data analysis can be reliably repeated. It isn’t replicability , which we can define as reproducing an experiment and subsequent analysis and getting qualitatively similar results with the new data. (These aren’t universally accepted definitions, but they are common, and enough to get us started).

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 2, 2018

The arrival of a new calendar year can bring many to consider purchasing items to aid in wellness. If you are doing so, I’d like to recommend the FitBit Alta HR , particularly for its usefulness in academia. Here at ProfHacker, we’ve covered such wearables before: Natalie wrote about her month with the Fitbit Flex and then spent two months with the Basis ; Anastasia reviewed the Pebble Smartwatch and then considered the Garmin Forerunner 235.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2018

Female students say they feel less equipped to tackle future careers because they haven’t necessarily learned about the new technologies shaping those future career fields, according to a new survey. The Quizlet survey polled more than 1,000 Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 to ask them about their familiarity with the future of work and how they are learning about it in school.

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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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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 2, 2018

We all want happy classrooms where true learning is at the heart of everything we do. A great way to move toward that goal is to build your classroom “brand,” says teacher-librarian Rita Platt. She describes her own brand development and offers tips to develop yours.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 2, 2018

On September 30, the world will celebrate International Podcast Day. Learn how you and your students can participate in educational podcasting. The post Celebrate International Podcast Day With Your Students This Year appeared first on TeacherCast. On September 20, 2015, the world will celebrate International Podcast Day. Learn how you and your students can participate in educational podcasting.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

January 2, 2018 The power of Google search engine lies in its hidden features. Getting precise search results requires much more than simply comping up with a random search query and hitting ‘I.read more.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 2, 2018

The Foos Studio brings programming into the game design. With The Foos, students can not only learn about game design but how to create dynamic content playable in the world. The post “The Foos” – Programming for Pre-Readers” appeared first on TeacherCast. The Foos Studio brings programming into the game design. With The Foos, students can not only learn about game design but how to create dynamic content playable in the world.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2018

Cost remains the biggest hurdle for schools trying to increase broadband connectivity speeds for students, according to CoSN’s 2017 Annual Infrastructure Survey. The majority of school districts–85 percent, to be exact–meet the Federal Communications Commission’s short-term goal for broadband connectivity of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students, according to the survey.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 2, 2018

Welcome to a new podcast series, the Jersey Educator Podcast, sponsored by the New Jersey Education Association. 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… The post What Can We Learn From Our Student Education Association Chapters?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

A new early-release program in Colorado helps prisoners convicted as teenagers adjust to the world they missed 20-plus years ago. Since 2005, the United States Supreme Court has battled tirelessly to reduce the brutal mandatory sentences of minors by courts and as a result the sentencing of life without parole for juveniles was made unconstitutional in 2012.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 2, 2018

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we talk to Steve Stewart from YouCanPodcastToo.com and learn how you can use Audacity to podcast for FREE! The post Learning How To Edit Your Podcasts Using Audacity appeared first on TeacherCast. In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we talk to Steve Stewart from YouCanPodcastToo.com and learn how you can use Audacity to podcast for FREE!

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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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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 2, 2018

We all know that Google Docs is a powerful word processing tool and one of the main core applications of Google. It allows students the opportunity collaborate in live time from any device, and from any location, in addition to constantly making learning visible. Google Docs is probably one of the most used G-Suite apps in the educational domain and one that offers many features above and beyond our old traditional ways of digitizing text.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 2, 2018

What it is: DOGO News is a great place for kids to learn about current events, read non-fiction articles, and access customized content that you curate. DOGO features thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, this is the leading online source of current events for students, teachers, and schools! DOGO Teachers allows you to create a special page for your students.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

The post The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The FREE, Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library Has Arrived! New for 2018, the Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library of FREE Downloads ! I’ve been blogging since 2014, and I’ve always tried to create free and useful resources for educators.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 2, 2018

Our experts in the Jan. 11 webinar will cover data analytics, the convergence of curriculum and assessment, expansion of personalized learning, the early childhood education market, and more. The post What Will 2018 Bring to the K-12 Market? Webinar Tells You What to Expect appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Cycles of Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unlike teaching chemistry where I can quickly leverage a myriad of different demonstrations and video clips to generate student inquiry around a topic of study, I find it difficult to do the same thing in my Biology classes. Last year I decided to take a different approach to 9th grade Biology class and leverage my family background in medicine (I come from a family of Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacists) and emphasize medicine, physiology and disease as a way to frame certain topics and build curio

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

Westport Fuel Systems Inc. has entered into a development and supply agreement with Tata Motors Limited for their 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder natural gas spark-ignited commercial vehicle engine family to meet the Indian Government’s new Bharat Stage VI (BS-VI) emission standards, scheduled to take effect in April 2020. Westport Fuel Systems has been working with Tata Motors since 2012 and has partnered to develop and launch their current BS-IV certified natural gas spark-ignited engines for commer

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Steve Dembo on episode 222 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes the best tools have been around awhile. Steve Dembo @ teach42 talks about the tried and true tools that teachers should still use. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

Ed and Gayle Novak. Last week, our family dined for the last time at The Broker, a Denver restaurant founded 46 years ago by my father-in-law, Ed Novak. Dozens of family members joined us from across the country to honor Ed and the legacy of his restaurant. Several toasts and tributes were offered to Ed during dinner, none as moving as this one: Several years ago, The Broker participated in a local radio promotion.

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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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