The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2019

Mandy Froehlich of episode 455 of the 10-Minute Teacher Mandy Froehlich gives teachers advice on how to achieve a balance between their classroom and personal life. It is difficult but these ideas can help. Listen to the Show Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Mandy Froehlich – Bio As Submitted Mandy Froehlich is the Director of Innovation and Technology for the Ripon Area School District in Ripon, Wisconsin where she supports and encourages educators to c

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2019

Here are the most-read posts for the month of February: My Favorite 5 Tech Tools for Teacher-Authors. Questions Parents Ask. 18 Valentine Sites For Students. How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. The Easy Way to Teach Internet Skills. Engineers Week — A Must for High School. Purpose Driven Learning: Myths, Problems, and Education Applications.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Not long ago, school computer labs were a mainstay of the education environment. Today, not so much. In fact, they’ve become downright controversial. Their very existence is at the root of the controversy. Many schools provide a computing device for every student. Those that haven’t yet achieved this, aspire to. Budgets are tight. Time is a limited resource.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 7, 2019

Fotor is an online photo editor and design maker with some very impressive features. There is a free version and pro upgrade available. Here are some of its key features: *Powerful photo editing and portrait retouching tools make image editing a breeze * Thousands of professionally-designed templates for social networks, blogs, ads, print materials and more * Frequently updated icons, stickers, fonts and other graphic elements to choose from * Free export with high-quality and no watermark * HTM

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2019

University of Massachusetts president Marty Meehan made a splash this week by announcing plans to build a large-scale online college for adult learners that aims to compete with giants like Arizona State University and Southern New Hampshire University. But the announcement fails to mention that the University of Massachusetts already runs an extensive online-learning operation, known as UMassOnline , which was started in 2001 and currently serves more than 20,000 students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2019

How A Simple Checklist Can Improve Learning by TeachThought Staff From reminding us of what to pack for a trip to helping doctors perform surgery, checklists are crucial for projects that require sequential steps or a series of tasks. As Atul Gawande points out in his book ‘Checklist Manifesto‘ (affiliate link), checklists break down complex […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 7, 2019

Game-based learning is a learning trend with an increasing attraction in today’s classrooms. At its core, game-based learning deploys learning principles incorporated in the gaming industry in.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2019

Educator micro-credentials are gaining more mainstream acceptance, but it’s important to ensure the process surrounding micro-credentials is grounded in rigorous research, according to a new whitepaper from Digital Promise. The whitepaper highlights Digital Promise’s micro-credentialing framework and takes a close look at the processes involved in producing educator micro-credentials.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 7, 2019

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we sit down with Richard Byrne, Jarrod Bormann, and Super Joe Pardo to about how they have built successful educational brands. . The post What Does It Take To Create A Successful Educational Brand For Yourself? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 7, 2019

I have previously mentioned here and here that coding activities, though designed for computer science and educational initiatives such as Hour of Code, have a lot of language underpinnings. They are engaging contexts to have students practice following directions, learn vocabulary, and use causal and conditional language in their verbal (or written) interactions.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 7, 2019

Clarisketch is an interesting app that enables you to create animated sketches by combining speech, drawing and photos.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 7, 2019

In my first experience at a data meeting I was working with my grade level team and we were challenged to identify deficiencies in our instruction by analyzing our students summative data. Our work was well intended, yet like many data teams just starting off, or not guided well, we spent too much time discussing what we thought our students struggled with most, rather than identifying the standards by analyzing real-time data results and making a plan.

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techlearning

MARCH 7, 2019

In an effort to help my students craft a clear dialogue, or writing a message, I decided to try podcasting.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 7, 2019

Students don’t always fully understand the impact of their digital footprint, so it’s vital that educators set boundaries—especially when dealing with school-issued devices. In a district where students are in a 1:1 environment, how can educators ensure that they are behaving appropriately online every moment of every day? This was the challenge faced by Desert Sands Unified School District (DSUSD) in La Quinta, CA, where all students from second through twelfth grades take their device home eac

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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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techlearning

MARCH 7, 2019

PreK-12 educators who are interested in recognition for their media literacy skills can earn certification by completing 8 free micro-credentials.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2019

Photo by Pedro Figueras on Pexels In my last post I wrote about smartphones and other personal devices, and their tendency to distract us by diverting our attention. This is a continuation. Distractions in the workplace are common. They interrupt the flow of work. An email pops up on your desktop screen asking for your 'urgent' attention, Facebook messenger pings on your smartphone telling you someone has responded to your earlier status update.

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techlearning

MARCH 7, 2019

Company to Demonstrate Classroom Management Software, Digital Podiums, and Document Camera Family

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING, participated to a live event for Digital Learning Day 2019. The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Phill and Graham had a wonderful conversation on the topic of e-learning and explored six key digital learning trends that are reshaping the EdTech landscape.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Provider of hands-on STEM solutions partners with top edtech brands

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2019

When Zuri Gordon received several thick envelopes in the mail saying she got into highly-selective colleges, she hoped her family would be thrilled. But that’s not how it played out. “My mother would not care—she would say, ‘You’re not going to go there, we can’t afford that,’” Gordon told an audience at SXSW EDU this week, adding that "now I can see she was trying to protect me from getting my hopes up because they knew that they couldn't afford that.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Contribute kid research to stellar crowdsourced field guide

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 7, 2019

Digital Citizenship Toolbox Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with third graders about digital citizenship. I love talking about digital citizenship with elementary students because it is such an easy age to influence them to be good digital citizens. This year I changed by “Digital Citizenship Toolbox” to have items that compliment the 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship.

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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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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 7, 2019

After surveying our entire school, analyzing data, setting goals, meeting with vendors, creating consideration lists, and narrowing down orders to meet their budget, the hard work of our student book budget team has paid off. All books from our 3 vendors have arrived and it’s time to get these books out into the hands of readers. The book budget team met to unpack the books.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2019

When Americans tuned in to watch last Sunday’s segment of 60 Minutes, they learned that the vast gender gap in the tech industry is shrinking, thanks to “one group that may have a chance to finally crack the code,” as the correspondent put it. The group heralded throughout the 12-minute piece as the one equipped to correct the long-standing gender disparity in computing was Code.org , a nonprofit organization that has introduced tens of millions of students nationwide to coding.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 7, 2019

Recently, I wrote this post on “ Personalized Learning Opportunities For Students is a Team Effort ,” and asked for feedback and thoughts from educators on how to best empower educators to serve the individual needs of their students. I received some great ideas in the comments as well as through email. I received this email from Jeffrey and they made a great point: You ask, at the end of your message, what supports would teachers need to make this a reality?

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