Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Another year has flown by and stores everywhere are yet again full of school supplies, one more useful (or eccentric) than others. The back-to-school season is a stressful season, for students, parents and teachers alike. But stress is a part of life and back-to-school stress is supposed to be worth it: educated kids will turn into smart adults who’ll ensure everyone’s future.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Q&A with VR Innovator Kris Hupp on the Best Ways to Bring Tech to Schools. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/06/2018 - 09:45. As the director of technology and instructional innovation at a small school district in Pennsylvania, Kris Hupp has a better than average handle on how virtual reality can shake up and shape K–12 education. That’s because Hupp and his colleagues at the Cornell School District outside Pittsburgh worked with experts at Carnegie Mellon University to bring VR to 600 students t
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Physical computing means using creating or using devices, like robots, and getting them to interact in with the world around them. The post Physical Computing Is Heading to Education: What You Need to Know appeared first on Market Brief.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Recently I shared some stories of youth using technology in amazing, empowered ways with a group of educators. One of them asked me: So you believe that students should be on computers all the time in school? I was taken aback for a second. It’s an enormous leap from ‘technology can empower students in interesting ways’ to ‘technology should be used in instruction all of the time every day.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
The first week of school is different from all others. During this week, teachers and students alike spend time getting to know each other, become comfortable in the classroom where they’ll spend countless hours for the next nine months, and take time to reach a comfort level with leaving summer behind. I’ve gathered suggestions below from some of the leading education folks, those who are all about project-based learning rather than the application of pedagogy, to share with you.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming book, “Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School,” back in 1995, students were free to move about campus during lunch and other free periods and a culture of trust prevailed.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Seth Godin said: Useful modern education is not the work of rote. When you tell someone the answer and then give them a test to see if they remember what you told them, that’s not education, it’s incented memorization. via [link]. Related Posts. The hidden cost of an achievement-oriented curriculum. Why are we teaching the stuff we’re teaching?
Ditch That Textbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
I’ll bet you’ve been there before. Seated at your desk. Staring at a blank page in your lesson plan book. Or looking at a blank document on your screen, the cursor blinking as if it’s mocking you for being stuck. Trying to come up with great teaching ideas is tough! It’s especially tough when you […].
EdTechTeacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
With the start of the new school year, Book Creator for iOS has launched an incredible update to an already versatile app. Students and teachers can now add just about ANYTHING into a book. In addition to creating multimedia books with text, drawings, photos, audio, and video, you can now add Google Maps, YouTube videos, web-based content, and even existing files directly into your project: PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
As college students head back to school, electric scooter companies want to help them get to class. Colleges and universities are among the latest points of interest for e-scooter operators, which have taken major cities across the country by storm after deploying the dockless scooters—sometimes unannounced. They’ve developed a reputation for littering streets, creating safety hazards, and even threatening to call the police on riders who don’t pay.
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.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Great ways to start the school year: 1. Our WiM tasks. [link] 2. Free student online class that sig increases maths achievement: [link] 3. 4 boosting messages video: [link] 4. Our new, free algebra lessons:[link] pic.twitter.com/tWet1owNP4 — Jo Boaler (@joboaler) September 5, 2018 Or as Jo Boaler would say… Maths A tweet from Stanford Math […].
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Grinnell College, halfway between Des Moines and Iowa City. First-year students here attend a mandatory career advising program before their classes even start. Photo: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report. GRINNELL, Iowa — The bleary-eyed 18-year-olds shuffling into a nondescript classroom wearing flip-flops, shorts and T-shirts glanced enviously out the windows at their classmates tossing Frisbees on the grassy quad.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Quick Capture is a great Chrome extension you can use to take screenshots of your current page. We have been experimenting with it for awhile now and we found it way better than the other tools we.
TeachThought - Learn better.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
How To Help Students Find More Time To Read by TeachThought Staff How can you find more time to read? Better yet, how can you help students find more time to read? Below, I’ve collected a few strategies. The big idea here is mindset and tone—the mindset of the reader and the general tone of how […]. The post How To Help Students Find More Time To Read appeared first on TeachThought.
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.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Since Purdue University purchased for-profit Kaplan University last year to create what is now Purdue University Global, faculty members have raised questions and concerns about how these two very different models of higher education would fit together. On Thursday, Purdue University Global decided to end a practice that had drawn particular ire from Purdue faculty and from national faculty groups, saying that it would no longer require Purdue Global professors to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Students line up with their books for library in a kindergarten class in Maine. This school’s demographic make-up has changed dramatically in the past decade, over 70 percent of its students are English Language Learners. Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images. NEW YORK — This time of year, social media feeds are teeming with back-to-school pictures.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
A few months ago, Google made it possible for third party developers to create and share add-ons to be used on Google Slides after it was exclusive to only Docs and Sheets. Since then Slides.
Fractus Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Technology and education is a winning combination that truly helps teachers. These teaching tools streamline the process, help to manage the different aspects of teaching, and create teaching materials that would almost be impossible to do […].
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eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). The first step is to know how to access OER resources. However, access itself isn’t enough and the sheer volume of materials can be overwhelming. The second challenge is knowing how to curate or organize the materials you find into useful groups.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Private equity’s pursuit to acquire puzzle pieces to build comprehensive educational technology platforms shows no sign of slowing down. The latest move comes from CIP Capital , a New York City-based private equity firm that is investing an undisclosed sum in Carnegie Learning. As a result of the deal, Carnegie will be merging with New Mountain Learning (which is owned by CIP), and the combined operations will continue under the Carnegie Learning name.
Shake Up Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
The post How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides (FREE Template) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. You may have heard me refer to Google Slides as the Swiss Army Knife of G Suite. It seems there is always a new way to use it in the classroom and go BEYOND using tools as digital substitutes. In this guest post by Micah Shippee , you can learn How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides!
The Principal of Change
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
I received an email from a teacher the other day that was quite frustrated. They had shared (paraphrasing), that although they were encouraged to be “innovative” in their practice and each had received a copy of my book to promote this from their administrators, they felt that the leadership practice in their organization was more focused on micromanagement than they were on forward-thinking practices themselves.
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.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Great ways to start the school year: 1. Our WiM tasks. [link] 2. Free student online class that sig increases maths achievement: [link] 3. 4 boosting messages video: [link] 4. Our new, free algebra lessons:[link] pic.twitter.com/tWet1owNP4 — Jo Boaler (@joboaler) September 5, 2018 Or as Jo Boaler would say… Maths A tweet from Stanford Math […].
The Innovative Educator
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
J oin us tonight (Thursday) as we discuss #edtech certification programs and how NYC uses them to support our growth. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon moderates with me throwing in my two cents. You can prepare for the conversation by thinking about answers to these questions: Q1 Why would you pursue an #edtech certification? #NYCSchoolsTechChat Q2 How does/could your school/district utilize certified #EdTech teachers?
Dr. Shannon Doak
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
I have been thinking recently about leadership at schools, specifically in the area of educational technology. Often when people ask me what I do for work, I tell them that I assist teachers and students use educational technology to improve learning. I mention the definition from AECT that educational technology “is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.”
Nick's Picks for Educational Technology
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Enhance Learning Through Creative Engagement with Stop Motion Video Few approaches to digital storytelling have been as popular among students as stop motion video. Students can make a high-quality stop-motion animation, or stop-motion video with very simple tools, including Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, iMovie, etc. The basic idea is to take a series of photos.
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.
MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Sarah Cooper's Creating Citizens is brimming with insight on how to connect current events to history, writes social studies teacher Joanne Bell. Cooper offers fresh ideas, higher order skills, and excellent implementation tips, all applicable to any period of history.
MIND Research Institute
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
According to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) , only 40% of fourth graders are considered proficient in math -- a number that hasn’t changed since 2015. By eighth grade, only 34% of students are considered proficient, and the numbers don’t get better from there. So how can we make a difference? Because true math understanding is a web of interconnected concepts ( what we call schemas ) rather than standalone facts, it’s crucial that students build rock-solid foundation
MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
With its introduction to engineering design, thoroughly developed projects, teacher's guide and more, Hands-On Engineering will likely prove a favorite with middle grades teachers. Gail Morris plans to make it a go-to resource as she integrates more STEM into her business and career classes.
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
PBS Kids: Plum Landing Web games, outside adventures offer in-depth tour of Earth’s ecosystems Pros: Hands-on investigations help kids explore the world around them and build scientific understanding. Cons: Alignment to the Next Generation of Science Standards leaves a bit to be desired. Bottom Line: Student-directed investigations and outdoor extension activities elevate Plum Landing beyond just a companion site for the TV show. [ Great Sound, Graphics Draw Kids Into Disaster Sim ] Read more he
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