Thu.Aug 18, 2016

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Virtual Reality in education brings the future closer

Neo LMS

Out of all the trends in e-learning right now, I have to say that I have a soft spot for Virtual Reality, or VR. The things that it allows you to do and/or see are astonishing. For example, who wouldn’t like to go and visit Mars without leaving the room? Or go inside one of Dali’s paintings ? Or jump off a building without getting hurt? Ok, maybe not everyone would like the last one, but you get the idea.

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12 ways to use Google Cardboard in your class

Ditch That Textbook

Virtual reality used to be the thing of science fiction books and movies. Now, it’s inexpensive, works with the technology we carry in our pockets, and can transform us to real and imaginary places. I remember watching Marty McFly sit at his table in “Back to the Future Part 2”, watching TV with virtual reality [.].

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Why You Shouldn’t Babysit Kids with Tablets! (And What to Do Instead)

The CoolCatTeacher

Advice about Tablets and Young Children: What Works and Warnings from an Expert. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You’ve seen it. Young children engrossed in tablet devices. But how much is too much? Today’s expert, Diane Levin, gives technology guidance to the parents and teachers of young children.

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Goal: Share Your Failure Story

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford. Goal: Share your failure story with another teacher, a new teacher or share your failure story in a blog post. Some of the most rewarding reflections from 30 Goals’ teachers are the heartfelt ones where we share our fears and failures.

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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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Haiku Deck Just Got Better: Welcome Haiku Deck Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me–and 20% of US schools–when you think of ‘online slideshow tool’, you think of Haiku Deck. And now, your favorite tool just got better. Haiku Deck Classroom offers an easy way for educators to add and manage student accounts, integrate with Google Classroom and other CMS systems, sign in through Google, share projects to a classroom gallery, and more.

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How Educators Can Foster Student Motivation

Digital Promise

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). But when students have intrinsic motives for learning, or learning because they find the activity itself interesting and gratifying, they become more likely to attach meaning to their work, explore new topics, and persist in the face of learning challenges (2,3,4,5).

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Tools of the Trade

Digital Promise

An innovative organization provides free tools and resources to make learning accessible to all students. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bring universal learning ideas to life in your classroom by creating and sharing your own educational materials. Find innovative games that teach critical thinking and math skills.

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How Can We Measure Edtech's Return on Investment?

Edsurge

One day at Stanford D.School (Institute of Design at Stanford), an Oakland team and I were building paper planes as part of a design thinking activity. We thought our goal was to build the “best” plane so that’s what we built; in actuality, the D.School wanted us to land the plane in a 2x2 target on the other side of an opague wall. When we flew all six planes over the wall, we had no idea how well we performed - did anything land in the target zone?

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NEW Google Classroom Updates for Back-to-School – From Ben Sondgeroth

EdTechTeacher

Google Classroom released an updated version this week just as many teachers head back into their own classrooms. The new updates are not a complete overhaul, but provide many new outstanding features for teachers, students, and now guardians! For Teachers: When creating a class, teachers can now designate a subject as well as a course name and subject.

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Dive into Inquiry! Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice with Trevor Mackenzie

EdTechTeam

Trevor Mackenzie Teacher Victoria, BC Canada Author of Dive into Inquiry I am so excited to share with you all a project I am tremendously proud of: Dive into Inquiry. Over my years as a teacher I’ve learned an incredible amount as I’ve taken on a more personalized approach to educating our youth. I’ve seen the enormous benefit of flipping control over learning in the classroom and fostering student agency in our curriculum.

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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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10 Useful Math Practice Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Looking for some good iPad apps to help elementary students with their Math? The list below features some of the most popular iPad apps in this category. These apps have been endorsed by a.read more.

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Elementary Success with Empathy and Design Thinking by @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

There are so many different challenges and opportunities awaiting us as the teachers and I work together to create awesome learning experiences for our students. A group of our teachers went the Neuva School's Design Thinking Institute this summer and we met today to plan the roll out, happening tomorrow. The post Elementary Success with Empathy and Design Thinking by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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5 Great Writing Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The selection we curated for you today contains some useful iPad apps to use with elementary students to help them with their writing. Some the things your kids will get to learn from these.read more.

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Google Classroom: Find the Class Code (It Moved)

Teacher Tech

Google Classroom Class Code Google Classroom had a few updates recently. One of the changes is the adding of topics to posts to the Stream. The topics are listed in the sidebar of the Stream where the class code used to be located. Student Tab The class code can now be located on the Students […]. The post Google Classroom: Find the Class Code (It Moved) 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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S’Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: FreshGrade, ScreenCastify, Quizlet Live

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Freemium — FreshGrade —Written by James , a Middle School teacher in British Columbia, Canada. James has a 1:1 classroom where students bring their own devices.

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Switching from Evernote to OneNote, part 2

ProfHacker

Last week, I explained why I made the decision to switch from Evernote to OneNote. This week, I want to give a brief overview of the how. There are some important things to keep in mind: Tags work wonderfully well in Evernote, and they’re highly customizable. OneNote has pre-defined tags. While some customization is possible, they simply don’t function the same way they do in Evernote.

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Strategies to Integrate Science and Literacy

MiddleWeb

Grounded in research, teacher experience, and purposeful techniques, Reading Science will help educators guide students to scientific literacy. Linda Biondi says the book would make an excellent group study for disciplinary teams focused on academic literacy.

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Google adds new features to Classroom, Forms, and more Copy

eSchool News

As back-to-school approaches, Google has just released a grab-bag of new features aimed at K-12 educators—mostly upgrades to existing Google products like Classroom and Expeditions— announced in a new blog post. For Classroom, Google’s still relatively new LMS, the company is adding summaries of student work that can be automatically shared with parents by teachers, who can send the summaries (or classroom announcements) daily or weekly as they choose.

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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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The Long-Term Economic Benefits of Social and Emotional Learning

Edutopia

Damon Evan Jones Social and Emotional Learning Evidence suggests that universal SEL programs for children and adolescents can offer tremendous return on investment in reducing problems, promoting competence, and improving school success.

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The Changing Focus of Flipped Learning Worldwide

Turning Learning On Its Head

Jon had a chance to chat with MT Groupo (@ mtgrupo ) CEO Sofia Temprado Aguado who is helping entire schools flip in Spain. Listen in to her advice about how to scale flipped learning. Sofia Temprado Aguado is the leader of Education Project of Group MT, one of Spain’s leading Education and Research Institute for guaranteeing access to innovative methodological practices to the Educational Community in all Spain’s territory.

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Social Marketing EDU and the Art of Learning While Doing

RafranzDavis.com

I am absolutely convinced that the internet exists for people like me. You know…the kind of people that when asked to do something will base whether or not they can do it on the availability of online instructions. I am 100% THAT person and so far, it hasn’t failed me yet. It almost did though. The other day, I was given my superintendent’s request for our district convocation surrounding integrating a social media experience for our staff.

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Creating an Ecology of Wonder

Edutopia

Stacey Goodman Arts Integration From modeling curiosity to exploring big questions, check out these five tips for using art to cultivate imagination and wonder in your classroom.

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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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Survey: K-12 gaming use has doubled in the last six years

eSchool News

Gaming is growing, that’s for sure. We read about it in survey results, we hear about game-based learning in conference sessions and during webinars, and we stumble across it in news coverage. In fact, teachers’ use of game-based environments and online apps has doubled in the last six years, according to the annual Speak Up survey released in May.

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2 podcasts you should be listening to about Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship by @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship skills are just as important for students to know as it is for Teachers to know. Here are two great podcasts discussing these important topics. The post 2 podcasts you should be listening to about Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom From edshelf

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom From edshelf appeared first on TeachThought.

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5 useful tips to get the most out of virtual field trips

eSchool News

To help educators save time, we’ve put together a quick recap on how to prepare for your next virtual field trip (VFT) and five of the best VFT’s based on their relevancy, quality of resources, and potential for student excitement. Student engagement starts with excitement, so get planning! Prepare : Like any lesson plan, consider how you can prepare your students.

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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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Listening Isn’t Cheating: How Audio Books Can Help Us Learn

MindShift

Audio books have surged in popularity in recent years, enabled by their ease of use and advancements in smart phones. Gone are the days of numbered cassettes and bulky players. Technology has created more opportunities to listen to good books. But not everyone believes listening to books is a good thing — biases in favor of reading run deep, and those who listen are often accused of “cheating.” There’s a common perception that listening doesn’t require the same amou

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Common Sense Education ramps up ‘Digital Citizenship for All’

eSchool News

Common Sense Education’s new Digital Citizenship for All campaign, part of the organization’s commitment to making digital citizenship a national priority, urges educators to take a digital citizenship pledge and model behavior for students as they use technology responsibly. The campaign is the cornerstone of Common Sense Education’s back-to-school offerings and invites teachers and administrators around the world to “Take the Digital Citizenship for All Pledge” to

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6 Super Geeky Tech Tips for the New School Year

The Daring Librarian

(A version of this post was published in NEA Today Magazine - 5 Super Geeky Tips -So honored to have been invited to write again for them! But here you get one tip extra!) Booya! As I mentioned in my last blog post 5 Ways to Reflect, & Not Regret, Teaching OR. Summer Thoughts for Fall Success , one of the BEST things about being a teacher is that every year is a do-over!

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A Sneak Peek of Our Finished Genrefication Project

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Around the Barrow Media Center we “expect the miraculous” After 15 intense days, dozens of volunteers, ten thousand genre labels and protectors, and lots of weight lifting, our collection of 10,000 books is sorted by genre. When we started this project, I tried to set a realistic goal of being done by Labor Day. However, in my heart, I wanted to be done much sooner for the sake of our readers.

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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.