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Is creativity and innovation alive in todays classrooms? Learn what “Mr Creativity” @JohnKao thinks about todays classrooms LIVE from the #ISTE18 conference.

TeacherCast

This year at the ISTE Conference, I had the opportunity to catch up with John Kao, a man dubbed "Mr. Creativity" by The Economist. John and I first met a few years back and spent some time together during an event in Seattle and I have always been fascinated by not only his point of view on todays educational landscape but by the way he is able to very clearly make sense of many of the things we take for granted every day in our classrooms. .

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A Good Chrome Extension for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Lumio is an excellent tool to use for bookmarking, curating, and clipping web content. Students can use it to highlight interesting content in a webpage, add notes to it and save it for a later.read more.

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PowerSchool Showcases the “Unified Classroom” at #ISTE18! Check out our interview with @MyPowerSchool CEO Hardeep Gulati

TeacherCast

PowerSchool CEO Hardeep Gulati and Jeff Bradbury sit down at ISTE 2018 to discuss a Unified Classroom and partnership with Microsoft Education. The post PowerSchool Showcases the “Unified Classroom” at #ISTE18! Check out our interview with @MyPowerSchool CEO Hardeep Gulati appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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What Makes Summer Camp Amazing For Students of All Ages?

My Paperless Classroom

The Perfect Summer Camp. At 2 p.m. we have 45 minutes left of work and almost every camper is busy. 2 sewing machines, a glue gun, the 3D printer, all have at least 2 kids working. We have made a giant book, 2 skirts, 3 shirts, a totally wrong pair of pants, and a bunch of new friends. I am the director of Create Innovate Play camp at Echo Horizon School in Culver City.

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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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Panopto Adds Support for Automatic Video Consolidation, Discussion Threads

techlearning

Panopto has announced new capabilities added to its education video platform. These functionalities are designed to help users more easily centralize, search and manage video content. [ Great Way for Kids to Hone Image Editing Skills ] Key features include: · An open standard for integrating video collections: The open, XML-based format provides organizations with a path to consolidate their video collections into one secure, centralized and searchable location regardless of how and where they’r

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

It is rare that things go as planned after selecting or purchasing new digital content, services, and tools. Building a culture of shared understanding and cross-departmental responsibility for how digital integration is approached is crucial to the success of any digital strategy. In a recent edWebinar , presenters from Vancouver Public Schools in Washington shared their processes for selecting and integrating digital content and resources to ensure effective implementations.

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More States Opting To ‘Robo-Grade’ Student Essays By Computer

MindShift

Here’s a little pop quiz. Multiple-choice tests are useful because: A: They’re cheap to score. B: They can be scored quickly. C: They score without human bias. D: All of the above. It would take a computer about a nano-second to mark “D” as the correct answer. That’s easy. But now, machines are also grading students’ essays.

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Re-envisioning Roles

Reading By Example

It’s easy to get caught up in the quick fix of doing the task, presenting the question that gives one quick response, and providing the immediate answer when a student approaches us. After all, we are under strict time constraints, the tests are always looming, and there’s those dang mandated curriculums to cover. Come to think of it, that’s not even factoring in the students sitting in front of us, all seeming to need our attention at the same moment.

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Here Is How to Create Educational Posters for Your Class Using Google Drawings

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

There are several web tools teachers can use to easily design educational visuals, posters and infographics to use in their instruction without the need for any graphics design knowledge. Two.read more.

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