Turning Learning On Its Head

AUGUST 5, 2022

Mastery Learning is hard work - really hard work! I believe that the most important part of having a successful Mastery Learning class is how it is structured and communicated to students. Students need to be bought into the idea, and they need to take ownership of their learning. This will mark my fourth year implementing mastery at my school. Even though I wrote the book on Mastery Learning, I still have room to grow and improve.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Students are active participants in their own learning these days, with flipped and asynchronous classroom styles appearing in K–12 districts this year. One way for educators to blend active, engaging lessons with the necessity of teaching digital skills is through the use of touch-screen devices. Laptops with built-in touch-screen capabilities give K–12 students all the powerful benefits of traditional laptops with the added precision of a touch-responsive design.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark As the new school year begins, it is important to review some recent research about sleep and cognition. New information makes it even more clear how important sleep is to learning and memory, brain health, alertness and much more. One misconception about sleep is that our brains essentially go offline and simply get a break from the work we ask them to do during the day.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

The fortunes of Online Program Management companies, or OPMs, are falling fast these days. These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. Wiley posted an 8 percent drop in university partner enrollment for its OPM segment, Pearson lost its biggest OPM customer (Arizona State University) and reported falling enrollments (1 percent) and revenue (2 percent), Coursera saw a 4 p

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Personalized Learning

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

By Brooklin Trover Everyone knows the RTI Triangle with the red/yellow/green shading because it basically appears on every type of instructional resource. Unfortunately, the prominence of the triangle itself hasn’t been enough to provide educators with a deeper understanding of its intention. And, worse, those three branded colors have led many educators to place their students into three static groups and to teach three different “levels” of students.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

AUGUST 5, 2022

How to Schedule Assignments for Multiple Classes in Google Classroom by using the built in features in Google Classroom. The post How to Schedule Assignments for Multiple Classes in Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

BERKELEY, Calif. — When she transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, JoLynn Kelly split a bunk bed in a tiny loft apartment — and the $2,800 a month it cost to rent. This story also appeared in USA Today. “I had to get a loan just for that,” said Kelly, now a senior who plans to become a math teacher. After racking up $16,800 in debt, she finally moved out and now commutes from her parents’ house, 30 minutes away on the rare occasions when there isn’t traffic.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 5, 2022

Membean is a vocabulary website that provides differentiated and personalized vocabulary instruction to students of all ages and abilities including ELLs and students with dyslexia. Students are engaged in training sessions where they get introduced to new words that they learn using different pathways. Besides learning about the word's pronunciation, students also practice the new vocabulary through sample sentences, visual representations, explanations, and definitions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 5, 2022

When I came to Union Hill School about seven years ago, we were not performing at the level we wanted to in terms of state assessments. With some hard work and a sense of urgency, we made a lot of progress in those first few years, but then the pandemic struck. I told my teachers at the beginning, “We’re back at square one,” and today we can still feel the lost ground due to the last couple years.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 5, 2022

Bryan likes to tell his children – unlike a diamond , what you do on the internet remains intact forever. The web doesn’t care – it’ll keep track of your actions, both good and bad. Whatever you do online is available for the world to see. Ask your children: What is the digital legacy you will leave behind? What are you doing online today that will impact your future?

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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

AUGUST 5, 2022

Even before COVID-19, reading scores among U.S. students had been declining for the first time in a decade, something that jeopardizes a generation’s achievement and mobility. As this trend was taking place nationally, more immigrant families were moving to Midwestern communities, including my home in Louisville, Kentucky. While many cities across the country may find themselves unable to accommodate this influx of learners, here at Newcomer Academy, we have built a curriculum and infrastructure

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Jamf on EdTech

AUGUST 5, 2022

Many well-meaning products and practices for monitoring students’ internet use end up collecting sensitive information about them. Some even put the information to questionable use. How do we keep students safe from inappropriate and harmful content and create a safe and trusting learning environment, without invading their privacy or negatively impacting their education?

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techlearning

AUGUST 5, 2022

Here’s everything you need to know about Google Classroom add-ons, a new feature from Google.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakehol

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 5, 2022

Learning new vocabulary is now easier than any time before and this is all thanks to the Internet. With a single click, users can access a wide variety of resources to help them enrich and improve their vocabulary. Vocabulary is key to language learning and a strong grasp of vocabulary is a prerequisite especially for improving one's writing style and speaking skills.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 5, 2022

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Keep these tips top of mind during your edtech search: Just because tools are pretty doesn’t mean they correlate to academic achievement. Student engagement with a product does not equal learning. Research should inform any edtech selection. Good advice, but not easy to do. It’s difficult for teachers and school and district leaders to identify effective edtech that meets the broad needs of diverse students, explained educators and technology experts in

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco launched a study to track the effects of being denied an abortion on women who sought to end their pregnancies. For five years, they monitored the socioeconomic and health-related outcomes of around 1,000 women who tried to attain an abortion between 2008 and 2010; some received abortions, while others were turned away because their pregnancies were just over a clinic’s gestational limit.

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