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Review: Yamaha YVC-1000 Speakerphone Gives K–12 Collaboration an Audio Boost

EdTech Magazine

Review: Yamaha YVC-1000 Speakerphone Gives K–12 Collaboration an Audio Boost. jena.passut_7651. Tue, 05/15/2018 - 08:32. The Yamaha YVC-1000 speakerphone is designed to integrate easily into any environment, either to enhance existing communication devices or stand alone as the centerpiece of an independent system. Its ease of use, and the multiple roles it can play, make it perfect for a K–12 educational environment because connectivity and distance learning can be achieved with little or no IT

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Liz, Aly, & Walt: Ticked Off Teens Talk about Social Media and Smartphones

The CoolCatTeacher

My students speak out on episode 312 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today, three of my students take the mic. In a recent podcasting project, my students reflected on their opinions about social media. In this episode, three of my students share their views (with parent permission, of course.) What do you think?

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Robot-Enhanced Creative Writing and Storytelling (featuring Ozobot and Wonder’s Dot)

User Generated Education

There have been complaints leveraged against out of the box robots like Dash and Dot, Ozobot, Hummingbird, Sphero. The complaints usually revolve around the canned and prescriptive nature of their uses and programs, that they lack creative engagement by the younger users. I personally love the excitement my learners have using these robots. As with all tools and technologies and with creative framing, though, they can be used in creative and imaginative ways.

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Sown to Grow: Nurturing a Growth Mindset Through Reflection

The CoolCatTeacher

How Student Goal Setting and Reflection Can Be Game-Changing in the Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sown to Grow is a student-driven platform where students set goals and reflect on their learning. This tool is designed to help them own their learning and understand their progress while providing teachers with valuable feedback about how students feel about the process of learning.

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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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A new maths mastery scheme: Power Maths

EdTech4Beginners

A huge project I have been working on over the past year has been Power Maths : a new maths mastery scheme of work by Pearson. It was created in partnership with White Rose Maths and recommended by the DfE! As a ‘mastery expert’, I have written lessons, teacher guides and video scripts for the project. What is Power Maths? Are there any sample materials to look at?

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Teaching Computational Thinking: In practice

Neo LMS

In my previous post we explored what computational thinking is, and why teachers should consider teaching it in their classrooms. I observed then that many teachers will no doubt be teaching this method of problem analysis and solution discovery in their classrooms, some of whom may never have even heard of “computational thinking”. Which serves as a credit to the many teachers who continue to train their students to solve problems, using rigorous methods of examination, discovery and logic.

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As Expectations of Teachers Change, Administrators Rethink Their Observation Practices

Edsurge

Have you ever been in a classroom when a principal walks in? Planned or random, evaluative or not, the atmosphere changes. The entrance of an administrator can create tension where there was none, or it can relieve stress—but that depends on the relationship between the administrator and teacher as well as the culture and purpose of observations in a school.

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Quizziz–My New Favorite Tool

Teacher Tech

Quizizz Gamified Quizzes Guest blog post by Barton Keeler “I still don’t know how to use a semicolon,” “What’s the difference between a hyphen and a dash?” “I have no idea what parallel structure is!” Every year it’s the same. I have the students complete a survey in my English classes to find out what […].

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How AR and VR Can Inspire Innovation—and Boost College and Career Readiness

Edsurge

At 17 years old, Christine Johns sat in a university classroom surrounded by men and women who were devastated as Pittsburgh's steel industry collapsed around them. Displaced steelworkers and stay-at-home mothers found themselves desperate for an education—and the work it would help secure. We need to find ways to give our children access to current and future technologies that will allow them to fully participate in our global economy.

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20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better

TeachThought - Learn better.

20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better by Terry Heick I don’t know how your school year is going and/or ‘went’ (depending on when you’re reading this). Maybe it was amazing. Maybe you think it went amazing and it wasn’t. Maybe you think it went poorly and it […]. The post 20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching This Year So Next Year Is Better appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Making the Ethical Leap to Strengths-Based IEPs

MiddleWeb

Most educators take one of two perspectives on students with disabilities, says Elizabeth Stein. They see them with deficits or with strengths and assets. In this resource-rich post, Stein makes the case for an assets-based approach to designing accommodations and the IEP.

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Practical Pointers for YouTube

Learning in Hand

If you’re a teacher, there's a good chance that you use YouTube. Whether you send students to your own videos or someone else's, I think you’ll find many of the pointers on this page particularly handy. Click a thumbnail to see a larger version, or scroll down to read more about each pointer.

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An Alternative To Google Search That Focuses On Privacy

TeachThought - Learn better.

An Alternative To Google Search That Focuses On Privacy by TeachThought Staff DuckDuckGo isn’t new–for your web browser or iOS, but recent developments in the digital world are making it increasingly relevant. DuckDuckGo is a search engine built around the idea of search and browsing privacy–no tracking of your searches, no selling data.

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These New Web-Based AR and VR Tools Are Perfect for Chromebooks

Edsurge

Today’s most popular augmented and virtual reality applications are typically available for mobile devices, but many classrooms have moved from tablets to Chromebooks, especially at the secondary level. The shift is often about giving students access to devices to help them build research and writing skills, but it’s also about funding constraints. Chromebooks are often cheaper than other laptops and tablets like iPads, and they’re simpler to manage for district technology departments.

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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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ZoteroBib: A First Look

ProfHacker

Everyone knows, and most people love, Zotero , the reference management software developed by George Mason’s Center for History and New Media. We certainly are great admirers of it here at ProfHacker. Zotero is an excellent way to build complex collections of citations, maintain them, and turn them into publishable bibliographies. But what if you want to just quickly make a one-off bibliography for a side project?

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Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials

Edsurge

A college degree isn’t the only path to meaningful work. In fact, these days it seems like there are more kinds of credentials than ever, some with trademarked names like Nanodegrees and MicroMasters. One leading force in reinventing the credential is the Lumina Foundation, one of the largest nonprofits focused on higher education. The group has an ambitious goal to increase the number of Americans with some kind of high-quality credential.

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How Can We Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning? Featuring @MaverikEdu12 and @ASCD

TeacherCast

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we speak with ASCD Author Erik M. Francis about his book “Now That’s a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning. During our conversation, we discuss several ways that teachers can ask thought-provoking questions to their students both verbally and on assessments that allow them to provide a fully thought out answer rather than just a simple yes or no.

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Is Cyberbullying Illegal in Your State?

Gaggle Speaks

The ubiquity of social media and mobile technology has made it easy for bullies to continue their behavior on every corner of the Internet. We’ve shared some tactics that students and adults can use to prepare for and react to cyberbullying that happens on school-provided technology. Sometimes, however, these efforts don’t curtail the harassment, and the time comes to consider legal action.

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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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An Excellent Tool for Creating Interactive Video Quizzes

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

iSLCollective video quiz maker is an excellent tool for creating interactive video quizzes. Since we reviewed it few months ago, iSLCollective has introduced a number of interesting new.read more.

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How Risk-Averse Universities Take Risks with Satellite Campuses Abroad

Edsurge

Like airline pilots, college leaders aren’t known for risky behavior. On the contrary, they’re a pretty cautious bunch. But when it comes to launching satellite campuses abroad, some have been flying blind. Negotiating deals with foreign institutions, mostly in the Middle East and Asia, where 51 U.S. universities have planted college banners at 83 foreign campuses , you’d often think they lost their judgement.

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The New Librarian: How I use tech to build relationships

eSchool News

My role as a librarian at George Washington Carver Elementary in Maryland, a Title I school, started five years ago. I have watched the title “librarian” and the meaning of the word “library” change entirely over the past few years, with the role of teacher librarian melding into something that simply cannot be replaced in a learning environment. For me, it’s important to provide students with the opportunity to practice problem-solving skills to develop the self-confidence they need for a brigh

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4 Great Collaborative Tools for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

There are several ways teachers and educators can use the power of the web to collaborate on joint projects. In a previous post we featured some good whiteboard tools that support collaborative work.read more.

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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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45+ Google Tips for Teachers and Students

Shake Up Learning

The post 45+ Google Tips for Teachers and Students appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 45+ Google Tips for Teachers and Students. The Shake Up Learning community never fails to amaze me! They are always sharing new ideas, lesson plans, tips, tricks, and asking insightful questions. This week was no different. Each week I pose a new question to the Shake Up Learning community on Facebook. ( Join here !).

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Private eyes track down kids illegally enrolled in suburban schools

The Hechinger Report

Private investigator Tina Blanchette rides around on a surveillance mission. Photo: Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY. This story was produced by WHYY and reprinted with permission. On a recent weekday afternoon, Tina Blanchette is doing what a lot of moms do on weekday afternoons: waiting in a suburban parking lot for a kid to arrive. While idling in her inconspicuous, white SUV, we chat about her interests (“Game of Thrones,” audiobooks) and her three children (precocious, perpetually overscheduled).

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3 ways our district avoids data overload

eSchool News

Schools give many tests throughout the year to identify students’ skills and gaps in their learning, including universal screening, diagnostic, formative, interim, and summative assessments. These tests generate a huge amount of data meant to guide instruction—but all of this information can be overwhelming if teachers don’t have an easy way to process it.

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Make Your Own Font in 4 Easy Steps

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

Make Your Own Font in 4 Easy Steps Calligraphr Calligraphr makes it easy to make your own font from your handwriting. This free app is a great way to personalize your digital work. Unfortunately, I have the handwriting of a three year old, but I assume most of you have much better penmanship. Why not. Read more. The post Make Your Own Font in 4 Easy Steps appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.

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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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States’ Ed-Tech Directors Working to Make Student Data More Useful for Instruction

Marketplace K-12

A new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association lays the groundwork for states to plan how districts' data--once aggregated--can be used for instruction. The post States’ Ed-Tech Directors Working to Make Student Data More Useful for Instruction appeared first on Market Brief.

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Why Teens Should Understand Their Own Brains (And Why Their Teachers Should, Too!)

MindShift

A teenage brain is a fascinating, still-changing place. There’s a lot going on: social awareness, risk-taking, peer pressure; all are heightened during this period. Until relatively recently, it was thought that the brain was only actively developing during childhood, but in the last two decades, researchers have confirmed that the brain continues to develop during adolescence — a period of time that can stretch from the middle school years into early adulthood. “We were always under

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Tips & Tools to Enhance Collaboration Between Tech & Curriculum

techlearning

District and school leaders talk about the need to bridge the gap between curriculum and educational technology, but often fall short of succeeding. Too often initiatives are launched as either “tech initiatives” or a “curriculum initiatives.” The tech department is often treated as a separate entity in schools. The same is true when considering curriculum initiatives; technology is left out of the discussion.

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A big list of options for connecting globally

NeverEndingSearch

A little while back I began to collect a list of my favorite discoveries for engaging in global connections and participation for my pre-service grad students. Here’s the growing curation and below are a few highlights of the opportunities that range from simply sparking a degree of global awareness to fully emerging in meaningful projects and connections with potential for both personal and global impact. iEARN : The non-profit made of our 30,000 schools and youth organizations offers mor

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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.