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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For many, study of the human body starts in second grade with an introduction to what’s inside that stretchy, durable skin that coats our bodies. As students progress through school, they dig deeper into concepts of body systems, organs, cells, diseases, and the importance of good health. Whether schools classify these topics as ‘health’ or ‘science’, the importance of understanding the processes that allow us to survive can’t be overstated.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Op-Ed, By: Dr. Charles Miller, Professor at University of Minnesota, Cofounder/ Chief Design Officer of Vidku and Cofounder of Flipgrid. A new school year has begun and educators will face the task of engaging a new set of students. Cultivating an environment where students are consistently engaged with the curriculum brings a unique set of challenges with each new mix of students and level of study.

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The Jose Vilson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

[ Here’s part 1 of this series.] You’ve now watched the umpteenth version of a person receiving unwarranted capital punishment for their pigmentation. These videos autoplay on your TV screen and your social media timelines. You’re inundated with rage in the form of speeches and blogs. You’ve read up on the latest resource offered by Teaching for Change, Teaching Tolerance, and Facing History, even as America refuses to do any of these three.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Students Everywhere Are Encouraged to Contribute to the Open Ontology Project: Be a Part of the Beginning Stages of the Open Ontology Project and Help Shape Its Future. View The Open Ontology Project here: https://www.ContextU.com. Calling all students everywhere! Pierre Schwob, an inventor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, is inviting high school and college students all over the world to transform the Information Age into the Knowledge Age by providing context with The Open Ontology Project.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Any small college knows the challenge of filling an esoteric literature course with enough students to officially keep the course on record through an entire semester. But an Intro to Shakespeare course at a rural community college in Arizona wouldn’t seem to stand a chance. Professor of English Karen Hindhede is proving that it’s possible. She and her students are discussing the Bard’s greatest works in her LIT 267 Introduction to Shakespeare course at Central Arizona College (CAC)—a “rural fri

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

While the iPhone 7 has everyone buzzing, another Apple announcement caught educators’ interest–Apple introduced a new coding curriculum, Everyone Can Code, which aims to teach anyone to code with a new app called Swift Playgrounds. Swift lets users write code on the left side of their screen and see what they’re creating with it on the right.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Here is another installment from my programming podcast “Beyond the Hour of Code” This episode is about. Chapter seven of my book exploring the instructional models most useful for robot-based ELA learning in the primary grades. Robot as Actor A robot in the classroom can be a simple programmable puppet. Students can […]. The post How can we use Robots to Teach Language Arts in our primary grades?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren is one of the most celebrated classic works in the reading literature. It was first published in 1940 and then revisited and.read more.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It’s no secret that being able to access enterprise applications and other types of software online—in a 24/7/365 environment—beats having to install, maintain, and upgrade individual applications across multiple desktops and laptops. Especially when maintaining software at school, classroom, teacher, and individual student levels is such an arduous task.

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Hubbli

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Parent volunteers are the lifeblood of many schools but they should never be used to design your school website. Yes, parents help with programs and keep things running smoothly when you’re understaffed, and are all around great to have on your team. But that doesn’t mean you should use them for everything, even if they offer to do it for free. One of the few things you don’t want to skimp on is your school website, and even if you find a parent who can design you a site, you should probably sti

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Professional Development can be much more than "sit and get." In this episode, learn about the power of collaborative learning through the power of Microsoft OneNote and Office365. The post How can we use @Office365 for Professional Development in our schools? | @Microsoft_EDU @sig225 appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Professional Development can be much more than "sit and get.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And What do you do to Keep Improving When You are Already one of the Most Widely Used Education Apps Around? I knew Quizlet was popular, but when I spoke with Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach recently, I. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Google just announced that you can now do two or three column layouts in Google Docs. I think this is one of the questions that I receive most often when I’m working with teachers on using Google apps, so this is a welcome new feature! Format Menu You can enable columns in a Google Text […]. The post Columns: You Asked, You Got It appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Having accounts spread hither and yon across the internet, and the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ approach that’s too often taken toward security and privacy, there’s a pretty decent chance that at some point, a service you use will face a data breach. Heck, it might have already happened, and you didn’t know about it, either because you were too busy to notice, or maybe you’d even forgotten you have an account on that service!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The post 28 Student-Centered Instructional Strategies appeared first on TeachThought.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today, educators are confronted with many obstacles, including budget cuts, limited resources, green initiatives, and the elimination of educational programs. While everyone understands the importanc.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Heather Dowd Education Technology Coach Consultant Minnesota @heza Nearly twenty years ago, when I walked into my classroom as a young, inexperienced teacher, a building old-timer chuckled at me. “Got your bag of tricks ready, kid?” That proverbial (or was it?) bag of tricks worried me. Was I expected to start juggling bean bags? Deliver knock-knock jokes?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The post How to talk to black students about the Tulsa shooting appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

People born without sight appear to solve math problems using visual areas of the brain. A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants were asked to solve algebra problems, a team from Johns Hopkins reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “And as the equations get harder and harder, activity in these areas goes up in a blind person,” says Marina Bedny , an author of the study and an

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Photo: Imani Khayyam. RIDGELAND, Miss.—The inside of SR1 (Scientific Research), a nonprofit afterschool program serving local K-12 students, looks like a scene from the future. The walls are Orbit City sky blue and Spotify green. Technology for every purpose occupies each corner, from barndoor light panels for future photographers to compound microscopes for burgeoning scientists.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Elena Aguilar's "The Art of Coaching Teams " is a practical resource full of proactive thinking gleaned from 20 years as a teacher and coach, says instructional specialist Deserie Bradvica. For those ready to lead teams with "a focus on trust, clarity and purpose.".

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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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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Recently at a workshop, one of amazing educators in the room talked about the shift in language from a “fixed mindset” to a “growth mindset” She made this distinction: Fixed Mindset –> “I don’t know.” Growth Mindset –> “I don’t know…yet.” This belief in your ability to learn is crucial not only for our students, but also for our educators.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Sometimes important information and data needs extra protection. Google Drive allows you to set expiring (i.e. self-destruct mode) access and restrict re-shares, downloads, and copy of data from shared documents. To access these settings, share a document and click “advanced”. Important Notes: Expiring access can only be configured for viewing and commenting (not editing).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Commentary on a quote by @DavidGeurin #teachinggeek.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Kids today are practically born with technology in their hands, but when should teachers and parents help those hands graduate from tapping, dragging, and swiping to home row and touch typing? Keyboarding skills are great to have because they save time and increase efficiency. What’s more, typing can be fun! It’s like a game. The time teach children to touch type is whenever they ask to learn.

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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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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Follow these two rules and you will have a much more effective, and pleasant experience as you collaborate with your students. Always DIVIDE your Document You may have experienced the chaos of working on a shared Google Document with 15, 20, or 30 individuals - what a disaster! No one knows where to type and ends up writing on top of each other, deleting work, etc.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Warren Combs' book on using constructed responses in everyday instruction "effortlessly demonstrates the power of using short, frequent writing to learn activities that focus on standards across the curriculum," says literacy coach Laurell Parris. Great for PLCs.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In what may be the biggest feature launch since Google Wave (RIP), you can now add columns to your Google Documents! No more use of tables to fake columns! Simply go to Format > Columns to get started! This feature currently supports 1-3 columns with custom margins and a dividing line (if desired). That takes care of one of the most common complaints I hear about Google Docs.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In Hard Conversations Unpacked Jennifer Abrams offers effective strategies for engaging in difficult but necessary dialogue, helping educators grow the confidence and skills to create positive change in varied environments, says literacy specialist Lisa Maucione.

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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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