EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2019

Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success. Andrew.Steger_zKQu. Tue, 08/06/2019 - 12:12. In modern schools, vocational instruction — now career and technical education, or CTE — often takes students beyond the oil-stained floor beneath an automotive hoist or a shower of sparks in a welding lab. Today’s automotive repair classes likely use computers to quickly diagnose problems in vehicles that are fully loaded with cameras, monitors and other technology drivers expect.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Escape rooms or breakout boxes (which you really break into) have led to the Breakout EDU movement. If you want to get started with your breakout edu experience, here are some resources to get you started. 1. Get or Make a Breakout EDU Box You can make your own breakout Kit (see Joe Cossette’s example here ) but they are available at Amazon or at the Breakout EDU website.

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Ditch That Textbook

AUGUST 6, 2019

On August 1st, Flipgrid released an all-new camera that goes way beyond the simple recording tool it once was. The Shorts Camera can now function as a video recorder, screen recorder, interactive whiteboard, and video editing tool! And of course, it’s completely free. Want a peek at just some of the things you can do […].

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AUGUST 6, 2019

You know those shows that interview people on the street? If random persons were to guess the hours teachers work, how many of them would get it right? Their answer might not surprise teachers. Sure, you work hard in class, but after that you get so much free time. You have the whole summer off, right? It’s not hard to figure out why they think this way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2019

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get news to help their tech teaching. August: 3 Ways to Learn Digital Citizenship. so you can teach your students. Building Digital Citizens: Online college-credit 5-week class. Building Digital Citizens: Online certificate class delivered via Google Classroom (also available through Teachers Pay Teachers ).

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter BreakoutEDU is a box with locks that also can be a great educational experience. In today’s show, Lucy Manley shares how breakout boxes are becoming an exciting part of her college’s educational experiences including Freshmen orientation. Listen to Lucy Manley talk about the use of BreakoutEDU Boxes in College Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 6, 2019

By LeiLani Cauthen. Education’s digital transition seems to be taking its toll on everyone involved. Is it just growing pains, or are we sliding down a slope from which we can never ascend? Is technology the savior of education, or a pervasive evil transforming our idyllic educational institutions? The digital transition requires large investments of capital, and administrators are charged with both finding this capital and deciding how it is to be used.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. That forecast was rooted in a sense of optimism—that as digital learning tools and opportunities proliferated in schools, educators would increasingly be able to tailor their instruction to meet students’ different needs.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 6, 2019

Copying Google Classroom Classes Copies All Attachments First, a paradigm shift about Google Classroom: There are NO ATTACHMENTS! Nothing is attached. Everything is a link to Google Drive. When you “Copy attachments” you are actually copying items in your Drive and now you have confusing duplicates. Do Not Copy Class On the class tiles page […].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Keenan Robinson works out at Georgia State University’s fitness center. School advisers drew on predictive analytics to point him toward a degree in respiratory therapy. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced in partnership with American Public Media. ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 6, 2019

LiquidText is a great iPad app you can use to annotate your PDFs, gather and organize your information across all your documents and webpages. You can create your own workspace in LiquidText and.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2019

High school graduation rates have reached record highs in recent years. Yet, one matter remains clear: there’s still a lot of work to be done. More than 1.2 million students drop out each year and the graduation-rate gap between low-income students and non-low-income students reaches double digits in nearly every state. We face an unfortunate reality where students of color, with disabilities , and in lower socioeconomic brackets have fewer resources and opportunities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

“Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid.” That was a headline last week in ProPublica Illinois , and it got people talking once again about the madness around college admissions. Here’s the gist: Some pretty well-off parents in the Chicago suburbs, in some cases making six-figure incomes, had figured out a loophole in the financial aid system.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 6, 2019

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is one of our popular visuals on SAMR model we shared a few weeks ago.

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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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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 6, 2019

The National K-12 Game-a-thon challenges students to design, build, and share a game that features creative and unusual solution­­s to mathematical problems. Teams of one or more students, along with a teacher or parent in a coordinator role, invented card games, board games, apps, and outdoor games that addressed one or more mathematical topics. Throughout the process, students developed critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration skills and more.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2019

An increasing number of districts and schools across the country are exploring social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies as they seek to understand the factors that influence positive student behavior. The latest example comes from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who recently announced plans to incorporate SEL strategies into every classroom in the city to empower students to expand their growth mindset, self-efficacy, social awareness, and self-management skills.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 6, 2019

GrammarFlip took shape in my middle-school English/Language Arts classroom when I was awarded a grant to develop an online curriculum that leveraged the use of instructional videos outside of the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 6, 2019

As the school year begins, Michelle Russell has plans to take Geoff Krall’s Necessary Conditions to class. She shares the norms, structures and routines she’ll implement starting day one, from establishing guidelines for group work to assuring academic safety.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 6, 2019

Haben Girma , author of Haben: The DeafBlind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law spoke to educators at an Accessibility Expo in New York City. She explained why we should avoid phrases like special needs. Avoid the term special needs Girma explained the reason terms like "special needs" or "differently abled" should not be used is because every child (and every person) has special needs.

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Turnitin

AUGUST 6, 2019

In this post, we discuss ways in which to implement positive deterrence of plagiarism.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2019

This review of the specifications, performance and capacity of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B will help educators decide if it's the technology of choice for their innovative STEM classrooms

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myViewBoard

AUGUST 6, 2019

This August, we continue to add usability enhancements to myViewBoard so it’s easier to use. Users now have the option to display the myViewBoard UI in four new languages : Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish. When using myViewBoard with a keyboard, arrow keys can be used to ‘nudge’ selected objects to the perfect position. Additionally, pressing the left or right arrow key no longer flips pages.

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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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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2019

To be eligible to apply to the program, low-income applicants simply need to show they are participating in one of more than a dozen different government assistance programs.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 6, 2019

SmartcareOS has acquired Preschool2me, in a deal that will bring together two companies that focus on creating information- and classroom-management systems for early childhood education. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Edmentum Acquires Calvert Education; SmartcareOS Snaps Up Preschool Provider appeared first on Market Brief.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2019

Gaggle Safety for ContentKeeper integrates ContentKeeper’s Web Filtering and Security Platform for schools with the Gaggle student safety solution, which uses a combination of both artificial intelligence and trained safety experts.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 6, 2019

Once in a while, a book comes along and I am able to get so many powerful messages from it. A book that has any two pages that I could just take in that information, reflect on it and design how to put it into action. Shane Safir’s The Listening Leader is no exception. Chapter 10 is about leveraging listening routines and it is so timely for me. As a K-12 literacy coach and curriculum facilitator, I design many meetings throughout a year.

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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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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2019

These three programs will be integrated in order to facilitate the educator’s implementation of Boxlight classroom solutions.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 6, 2019

Something I have been focusing on quite a bit as of late is the idea of innovation in education being more focused on depth rather than being something new. For example, a lot of organizations (including education) are always touting being on the “cutting edge” as they are embracing the “latest and greatest” technologies or perhaps strategies.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

The degrees that immigrants (or anyone) have earned should not determine their value as humans. But all too often, alphabet soup on a resume is prized more than character traits like persistence, humility and sacrifice that help a country prosper. It’s as though, when summing up the worth of someone who wants to live in the United States, we forget that a society is forged by more than academic achievement, and that some of our best and brightest don’t have a degree to their name.

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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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