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OCTOBER 26, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Kent State University researchers address the need for more knowledge and professional development.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 26, 2016

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” – W.J. Cameron. Thanksgiving is an important event that teaches us about collaboration and acceptance between two vastly different cultures and this is definitely an important history our students can benefit from. Thanksgiving provides us the opportunity to teach students about what it means to be a good citizen and humanitarian.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When I was in high school poetry was my least preferred subject. And I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the favorite student of my poetry teacher either. The reason for this was very simple: I didn’t have the necessary affinity towards poetry and I always had a hard time understanding and learning poems. Although I tried many times to memorize poems for the sake of my grades, I never truly succeeded.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 26, 2016

So you’ve got an app idea. Now you need an app developer that can make that vision a reality. How do you find a software developer who understands what you’re reaching for and what you want the app to do? Since we’ve hunted for app developers twice–once for our Communication APPtitude iPad apps and then four years later when we wanted to develop web-based apps–we’ve learned a few things along the way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #94–8 Tips for Chromebooks in Class.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I recently wrote an article for the Times Educational Supplement (TES) about 5 simple ways to engage students in maths lessons. Click here to view the full article. Tagged: edtech , education , math teachers , maths , maths lessons , teachers , teaching , teaching ideas , teaching strategies.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Tech directors are a busy lot these days. With big changes to federal funding models, pressing bandwidth needs (on campus and at home), and the everlasting conversation between IT and instruction departments, there’s a lot on their plates. Fortunately, districts appear to be meeting these challenges head-on, as evidenced by a recent panel discussion for administrators and tech directors in Dallas, hosted by the IT products vendor PCMG , called “Preparing the Next Generation of Person

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each […]. The post Education, Politics, and Music: An Interview with the Jersey Jazzman, Mark Weber | @jerseyjazzman appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With headlines like “ Virtual Reality Learns How to Get Into Classroom ,” which The Wall Street Journal ran this February, the hype cycle around VR’s potential in education has returned. This time, a medley of new players—especially technology magnates—are jumping in the fray: Facebook. has committed to pour money into developing education apps for its $600 Oculus Rift.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 26, 2016

No technology was used, but I thought I’d share anyway… the outcome looked great. It’s nearly Halloween and in my school we had to make decorations for the school. My class made creepy hands! Click to view slideshow. How do you make them? First, ask your students to get into partners. One must put on a plastic glove. Next, the other pupil gets tape (coloured sticky tape or masking tape works well) and ‘mummifies’ their partner.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Last week undergraduates at Harvard University raised concerns about the institution handing over their data to an anti-affirmative action group as part of a lawsuit. Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The good folks at Florida Virtual Campus have released the latest version of their Student Textbook Survey. There’s already been some great coverage (e.g., Phil Hill ). However, I’ve also read people saying that the results are essentially unchanged from the 2012 survey to the 2016 survey. A quick look at Table 1 on page 11 seems to justify that claim: However, inter-occular speculation is failing us here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Kristi Walton works with a student. Photo: Courtesy of Firstline. This story is part of a series looking at a shortage of black and Hispanic teachers and ideas for recruiting more to the profession. Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

October 26, 2016 Digital storytelling is one of the potent educational activities to spark students creative writing and engage reluctant writers. It allows students to have their own voice,read more.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

A new $4.9 million project will examine how stakeholders from the government and other sectors are responding to the Common Core State Standards, and how those responses are impacting classroom instruction and social disparities in academic achievement in school districts across the nation. Funding for the first phase of the five-year Common Core analysis was awarded researchers from the University of Michigan, Brown University and Stanford University from the Spencer Foundation and the William

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Why does math matter? A powerful way to answer this question is by exploring the impact of math on civilizations throughout history. At the Math Fair next Saturday in Orange County, CA, you’ll get a chance to play ancient math games from Africa and explore the math behind the historical trade of blacksmithing, to name a few hands-on experiences. Understanding the origins of mathematical concepts can help create deeper learning experiences that bring math to life.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Authorea is a new online platform for collaborative academic writing with features that will particularly appeal to scientific and technical users. We’ve written before at ProfHacker about Markdown , LaTeX , Git , version control , and collaboration ; Authorea is located at the intersection of those tools and topics. Upon creating your account, you are asked “How do you normally write documents?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The class of 1967 at Coleman High School in Greenville, Mississippi. Greenville served as The Coleman Report’s model of desegregation. Photo: Jacob Carroll. African American students are just as likely to attend segregated schools today as they were in 1966, the year the seminal study known as the Coleman Report led to the desegregation of public schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 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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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Tired old souls often argue for the world to stay the same. They argue against their better judgement. They argue even though, somewhere hidden behind the rhetoric and rage, they know they are wrong. It’s rarely the exact issue they are arguing over. It is usually a personal battle with a changing world. They are losing the reins. The next generation is moving in and, like alpha males in a pack, they do not want to step aside.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

African-American teachers scored lower on a controversial new teaching exam states are adopting to make becoming a teacher a more rigorous process. Advocates of the Stanford University-owned exam, known as edTPA, say its focus on performance in the classroom – including videos and essays based on candidates’ student teaching – will better prepare new teachers and increase teaching quality in schools that badly need it.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The post Moving Students From Consumers To Creators To Contributors appeared first on TeachThought.

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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 Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Raising money for field trips, extracurricular activities, and classroom project can be a huge hassle for parents and teachers. Every year, many schools resort to classic fundraising events such as bake sales, handmade crafts, or peddling items that no one really wants or needs. While these activities can generate some money, relying on them to produce all the funding your class or school actually needs seems to become more challenging each year.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Original Image Source … and important steps to help you get there! With the increasing cost of a post-secondary education, many students opt to delay or completely forego purchase of required. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Dr. Cedrick Gray, superintendent of Jackson Public Schools.n y Photo: Imani Khayyam. JACKSON — When Cedrick Gray took the reins as superintendent of Jackson Public Schools in 2012, he had three preliminary goals attached to his three-year, $200,000 contract. One was to increase the average ACT score to 20, and the second was to increase the graduation rate in each high school to 80 percent.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

You say ‘Barbie’ I say ‘bane of my existence’! As a mum to an adopted little girl who is not quite the spitting image of the iconic doll, I have made it my mission to keep her as unaware as possible, but to no avail. I am convinced that little girls, or a least a lot, are born with a Barbie chromosome which inherently attracts them to the perfect piece of plastic.

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When kindergarteners are collaborating to build bridges, you know the future of education is bright.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Your students go through the process of coming up with a great idea…It could quite possibly be the beginning of a business, a medical breakthrough, or maybe even change the world. But an idea can’t change the world unless people know about it. Is this something we explicitly teach in schools? Recently working with some amazingly thoughtful and forward thinking educators, we talked about simplifying a “passion project” that students were working on.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The more I collaborate with great teachers the more I am convinced that teaching is a team sport. I am lucky this year because I get to work with Megan, the STEM coordinator for the lower grades as well as 8 other problem solving roles. Megan and I share many students and we work to […]. The post Programming Robots in 2nd Grade STEM by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Valerie Ruiz Special Education Teacher Sweetwater Union High School District @mrsvruiz I almost didn't come to the GAFE Summit. I was filled with anxiety as I drove over the Coronado Bridge. I didn't know one person who was going to be there and I find technology to be scary. However, I thought of my main goal for this year and it is to face my fears.

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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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