Neo LMS

APRIL 6, 2017

In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. I recommend you having a read of the entire post, but I also know that time is money, so I’ll give you the TL;DR version below: Competency-based education shift the focus from time to mastery of competencies/skills. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 6, 2017

Google is a behemoth. With all of its tools and apps and programs and initiatives, there’s no way to keep tabs on everything. As such, it’s easy for newer Google tools — and even some that have been around for a while — to slip through the cracks. The problem with that: there are some [.].

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Episode 49 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Sylvia Martinez @smartinez co-author of Invent to Learn talks about tinkering today. Some teachers have a misconception that kids just pick up and play with materials and learn, but it is a little bit more nuanced than that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2017

April is National Poetry Month. For thirty days, we celebrate the value and joy that poetry brings to our world. According to the Academy of American Poets , the goals are: Highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets. Introduce more Americans to the pleasures of reading poetry. Bring poets and poetry to the public in immediate and innovative ways.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

The history of computers is not just an intriguing account of amazing innovations. More importantly, it is the story of the people who helped us get there. These stories teach us lessons that go far beyond computing—tales of determination, persistence and overcoming the odds. By sharing this history with our students we can help break the stereotypes about gender and race in computing.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 6, 2017

By Jena Passut The California district tells its story of coaching toward technology innovation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 6, 2017

April 6, 2017 Besides the multitude of resources we have covering reviews of hundreds of educational apps, from time to time we create lists featuring our favourite picks from the piles. Our purpose.read more.

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 6, 2017

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is about the complexity of thinking the student is doing. Not how hard or necessarily how interesting a problem is. Vocabulary lessons can often get stuck in the trap of DOK 1, low critical thinking. Check out Dr. Norman web’s document on DOK for Language Arts. Increase the DOK for Vocab […]. The post DOK 2 Vocabulary Activity appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2017

Edtech is making is easier and more efficient to help students at every level, and to bring even the most timid of learners out of their shells. Dr. Kenneth Shore, a psychologist and Chair of a child study team for the Hamilton, New Jersey Public Schools, explains that “Low self-esteem can lessen a student’s desire to learn, his or her ability to focus, and his or her willingness to take risks.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 6, 2017

Several weeks ago, I was reading through my news feeds, and came across an interesting post at LifeHacker. That post described Library Extension , a very useful Chrome extension 1 that works with Amazon’s site (reports in the comments section of the LifeHacker post indicate that it works with the Goodreads site, too, though I’ve not tested it). You can see the extension in action in the screenshot at the top of this post.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2017

When my district, Charles City Public Schools (CCPS), created our strategic plan, we established “Community Investment in Public Schools” as one of our five core goals. As a small, rural school system with a staff of about 145 serving 719 students in two schools, we feel that strong relationships with our students’ families is essential to our students’ success.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Senior Cassandra Madrigal, 17, stands in front of Caldwell High School in her hometown of Caldwell, Idaho, holding the college-level statistics textbook for the dual-enrollment course that is inspiring her to major in statistics in college. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. CALDWELL, Idaho — Cassandra Madrigal is a high school senior and a top student, with a grade-point average of 3.94.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 6, 2017

April 6, 2017 Loom is an excellent web tool for creating quick video tutorials to share with your students or colleagues. The tool is very simple and easy to use, and most importantly, it is.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Kolodner Credit Crunch 1:Temple University in Philadelphia gives $4,000 grants to eligible students who agree to work no more than 15 hours a week off campus, in an effort to help students graduate on time. Photo: Mark Makela/Reuters via ZUMA Press. There’s at least one issue that Americans aren’t divided on – going to college has become both more necessary and less affordable for most students over the last several years.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 6, 2017

The post Fake News? New York Times Political Reporter To Host Webinar On Fact-Checking appeared first on TeachThought.

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My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s the first day of school and you’re looking out at your new elementary class. Some of the kids look nervous sitting in their little desks, wrestling with those endearing first-day jitters that will certainly melt away in a few hours. You introduce yourself and get to know their faces, noticing the little girl whose […]. The post A Brief History of Distance Learning By @faulknercreek appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 6, 2017

April 6, 2017 After we have posted about the 20 best educational iPad apps for teachers, we are introducing you to this free interactive guide to help your students boost their learning and enhance.read more.

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My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 6, 2017

A classroom brings with it a slew of different backgrounds, cultures, personalities, and abilities, and it's one of a teacher's many jobs to make sure all of these individuals find their own ways to succeed. This responsibility becomes a lot more difficult when you add mental health disorders (i.e. anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and PTSD) […].

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 6, 2017

Join us this month as we launch our partnership with Marginal Syllabus with a Hypothesis annotathon of By Any Media Necessary and a kick-off webinar with the book’s authors. Educator Innovator is very excited to announce a new partnership with Marginal Syllabus. Starting in April, Educator Innovator will host a dynamic opportunity for open learning via author partnerships, annotathons (more on these below!

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

The scene is right out of a survival horror movie. A yellow school bus unloads a group of eager young campers, ready to meet their counselors and settle in for some summer camp fun. Instead, they are greeted by a horde of groaning zombies advancing at them from an open field. The staff frantically hand out three foam Nerf darts to each incredulous camper and suggest they start running.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 6, 2017

The Financial Times noted that a brokerage's questions about the ability of Pearson to grow its presence in virtual schools caused the drop. The post Pearson Share Prices Tumble on Worries About Online Ed. Prospects appeared first on Market Brief.

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techieMusings

APRIL 6, 2017

In this post, I wanted to share how Sutori can be used to help students document their work throughout a project, to create a final presentation, or to create a timeline of events. Sutori will help students tell their story and process in a visually appealing format. Here is an example student project featured on Sutori’s site: Here is a walkthrough of Sutori I created: A Highlight of Some Key Features.

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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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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2017

I am always so impressed by the talents of our students. Our young people have so much to offer and share with the world around them. When we tap into that aptitude within our schools, we […].

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 6, 2017

Leila Christenbury and Ken Lindblom pack the voices of teachers and students, activities, stories, recommended reading, and references into the journey they lay out for new and novice ELA teachers. Forty-year veteran Linda BIondi recommends their book highly.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 6, 2017

EDUsketchers and Doodlers Join the #Sketch50 Movement ! Lindsey Blass & Cate Tolnai SAN JOSE, April 4, 2017 -- Across the world, educators and students are uniting with one simple goal: to complete and share one drawing a day. The #Sketch50 movement, while amazingly simple in it’s foundational goal, strikes on something much deeper: sketching as a means of unleashing creativity, building artistic confidence, and tapping into growth mindset.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 6, 2017

Image Source Studying Music Provides a Wonderful Opportunity to Engage Students in Critical Thinking As spring breaks around the country, festivals begin, and award musical award shows air, our. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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MiddleWeb

APRIL 6, 2017

Jennie Magiera urges teachers to launch edventures, pursuing innovations that boost student engagement, build class culture, differentiate, promote digital citizenship and more. Laura Von Staden also likes Magiera's plentiful ideas about professional learning.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 6, 2017

Hands-on games, i.e. board or card games, can be used in helpful social contexts and align with specific skills one is trying to teach. Realizing this week that my group could benefit from a solid model of how to play a particular game, I thought of shooting one with video, but realized that YouTube might be a resource. Though YouTube is not a great source of video modeling in general, it has specific material such as all kinds of brief "how to play"and review videos about commonly used games.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 6, 2017

Pre-service teacher Emmy Avery Witham didn't look forward to teaching math. But reading the 'real-world' strategies in Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had by Tracy Johnston Zager has boosted her confidence that she can help students succeed in math class.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 6, 2017

This image I saw on social media today got me thinking about creativity. In fact, it made me a little angry, just as it did Amy Burvall , who posted a commentary. You can see what is happening. This teacher is insisting on the 'proper' way to do something. In this case, it's drawing, or colouring - and it's clear to see that s/he is trying to scaffold children into a 'correct way' to do it.

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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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