Teacher Reboot Camp
AUGUST 7, 2016
Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey. Goal: Improve a lesson plan or activity to create a meaningful learning experience for your students. This can be a previous lesson you feel students have struggled with in the past or you can adapt a lesson plan you find on a website.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2016
To ban or not to ban, that is always the question when it comes to personal devices in the classroom. But rather than fight this uphill battle ( Generation Alpha is forecasted to be more technological than any previous), let's figure out how to leverage these little machines. If used intentionally, mobile devices can be an express pass to exploring beyond the walls of our schools.
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Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 7, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 7, Number 4. Driving Question: How Can A Middle School Be Structured To Foster New Digital Workplace Skills and Opportunities for 21st Century Careers? Rancho Minerva Middle School, located 45 miles North of San Diego, is a middle school on the move. It is a school with over 90% of its students living below the poverty line with nearly 3/4ths speaking a primary language other than English.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 7, 2016
Google Slides Automatic Advance For Back to School night you may want to share student work and on a rotating slideshow that automatically advances. Publish to the Web After creating a Google Slides you will want to use the File menu to publish it to the web. Note: You do NOT have to be finished […]. The post Google Slides: Create Rotating Slideshow appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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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.
techieMusings
AUGUST 7, 2016
As my flipped classroom has evolved, embedding quizzes into my video lessons has been a major component of how I run my class. Zaption was a game changer for me. It has been, hands down, my favorite edtech tool in the past year. Why? Zaption has allowed me to form deep, meaningful connections with my students. I am not trying to exaggerate; this is truly what I feel.
Turning Learning On Its Head
AUGUST 7, 2016
Scaling Flipped Learning Part 7: Teacher Buy-In. As flipped learning continues to grow, there is a greater need for flipped learning to scale beyond individual teachers flipping, to larger roll-outs with systemic planning and leadership. This post is the 7th and final post. The previous posts were: Part 1: Scaling Flipped Learning: Technological Needs at Scale.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2016
Our guest today is Gretchen Shipley, a partner at the law firm Fagen, Friedman, and Fulfrost, who often works with schools on data privacy regulations. We interviewed her for a recent article on the student privacy issues of Pokemon Go , and at the end of our interview, she started talking about some new laws that could mean big problems for schools.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 7, 2016
When I was pursuing my Masters degree in education back in the 90s, we spent time figuring out how to best set up a classroom. Traditional rows were out. Pods of four were in. But there were many other options too: the circle, the horseshoe, desks on the perimeter of the room. Teachers were thinking about what would suit their teaching style and foster the best learning.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2016
Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Photo: Kathryn Baron. SAN JOSE, Calif. — At 11 on a cool Friday morning in spring, Cindy Rivera opened the door to her preschool room and greeted 13 children by name as they rushed in, pulling a parent or grandparent by the hand behind them.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 7, 2016
Amber Chandler and her co-teaching colleague will use the One Word Challenge this fall to set the focus and tone for a cohesive classroom culture. After a trial run last January, they are confident it's the perfect way to kick off the year. Tips & slides!
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
AUGUST 7, 2016
Google Apps for Littles Workshop Friday, Christine Pinto and I held a Google Apps for Littles workshop at the ViewSonic office in Brea. Christine taught Transitional Kindergarten (TK) to 4-year-old last year and used Google Apps. In the workshop, Christine shared how 4-year-olds were able to independently log into Google Classroom along with the Google […].
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 7, 2016
With the goal of encouraging learning at school and beyond, Curtis Chandler describes two free tech tools to help get students and the school year off to a good start: Poll Everywhere will quickly spark discussion and the Remind app will keep everyone on track.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 7, 2016
The post 9 Technology Tools To Engage Students In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.
The Principal of Change
AUGUST 7, 2016
Someone asked me a question similar to this; “What do we do about kids that are distracted by devices in the classroom?” My response was, “Maybe we have to be less boring?” Although this is obviously not that simple or black and white, it is something that we have to think about. Do not think the expectation only has gone up for teachers in the classroom.
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.
EmergingEdTech
AUGUST 7, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … learn how to build a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
There is no box
AUGUST 7, 2016
It’s been almost two months since I wrote about my Inbox Zero experiment and I am happy to share that I’m consistently hitting Inbox Zero every day. It does take some work but as an added benefit, I’ve been limiting my “email processing” to 2-3 times during the day so I am not constantly stuck in email all day (I do respond in real time from my phone, however).
techlearning
AUGUST 7, 2016
Our apples, bananas, bread, and potatoes come from many parts of the world. Many of the foods we love do not grow near our town or even our country.
There is no box
AUGUST 7, 2016
It’s been almost two months since I wrote about my Inbox Zero experiment and I am happy to share that I’m consistently hitting Inbox Zero every day. It does take some work but as an added benefit, I’ve been limiting my “email processing” to 2-3 times during the day so I am not constantly stuck in email all day (I do respond in real time from my phone, however).
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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
techlearning
AUGUST 7, 2016
Portfolio tool keeps report cards from being a surprise.
A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 7, 2016
“ No two makerspaces should be exactly alike, because no two school communities are exactly alike. Properly planning your makerspace will ensure that you uncover themes that are unique and meaningful to your school. It will ensure that your space is vibrant and relevant, as well as one that is sustainable into the future. “ – Laura Fleming , author of Worlds of Making When we created our makerspace at New Milford High School many years ago we never fully realized the positive impact it would hav
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2016
As CEEAS takes over the school in the New Orleans juvenile detention center, its teachers hope to engage students lagging in classroom basics. Photo: courtesy of Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings. NEW ORLEANS — As recently as a decade ago, the Youth Study Center would have been unlikely to attract an educational pioneer to their juvenile detention facility.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
AUGUST 7, 2016
At this time of year, your to-do list is going to be a mile long, and you’re going to be working a lot of hours trying to get good systems in place for your new group of students. If you are feeling overwhelmed by all that needs to be done and exhausted not only by the long hours but also the physical labor of rearranging and setting up a classroom, please know that this is very normal, and it will get better.
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.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2016
This piece originally appeared in EdSurge Independent , our student-run, student-driven Medium publication. My time in community college was, without argument, the most socially diverse period in my life. I met people from all walks: there was the Air Force veteran in my electromagnetism class; the single mother-of-four in computer programming; the Afghan refugee in statistics.
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