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K–12 Schools Remain Vulnerable to Email Phishing Attacks

EdTech Magazine

K–12 Schools Remain Vulnerable to Email Phishing Attacks. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Wed, 10/09/2019 - 15:29. Phishing remains the leading cause of data breaches. Bogus emails that con or coerce users into disclosing key personal data are responsible for the vast majority of successful cyberattacks across the public and private sectors. K–12 education is not immune.

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Choice stories in Google Slides: How to + ideas for class

Ditch That Textbook

You come to the foot of a mountain and notice a cave. If you want to enter the cave, turn to page 56. If you want to continue up the mountain, turn to page 84. I was in LOVE with Choose Your Own Adventure stories like this as a kid. In these books, the reader […].

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Resources for Digital Citizenship Week

Ask a Tech Teacher

October 14-18, 2019 is Digital Citizenship Week. Here are resources from Ask a Tech Teacher and Structured Learning that will help you learn how to teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video).

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Choice stories in Google Slides: How to + ideas for class

Ditch That Textbook

You come to the foot of a mountain and notice a cave. If you want to enter the cave, turn to page 56. If you want to continue up the mountain, turn to page 84. I was in LOVE with Choose Your Own Adventure stories like this as a kid. In these books, the reader […]. The post Choice stories in Google Slides: How to + ideas for class appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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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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Reframing a Paradigm for Professional Development and Learning

Education Elements

How does professional development get labeled in your school or organization? Too often, I hear: boring, unproductive, compliance-driven, not based on my needs or interests. Research on professional development shows that the “drive-by” workshop model does not meet the needs of teachers. No two people learn the same way, though many leaders do not change the way they provide instruction for professional development.

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Recognizing Skills of Afterschool Professionals with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

An estimated 10.2 million children participate in afterschool programs each year. Skilled staff are key to quality afterschool programs that produce positive youth outcomes and meet a critical need for keeping kids safe during out-of-school time. The National AfterSchool Association’s Professional Credentialing System (NAAPCS) recognizes individuals for competencies that contribute to the development of high-quality programs for young people.

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Persistence Is Not Always Productive: How to Stop Students From Spinning Their Wheels

Edsurge

My first experience as an educator was teaching middle-school mathematics and science in Baltimore. As a teacher, I was interested in the content and had a deep desire to impart my knowledge and enthusiasm to my students. I also worked hard to keep my students focused and tended to run my classroom like a tight ship. Day after day, I often would say the wrong thing, or say something in the wrong way.

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My Team Has a Habit of Reading Books About Habits

Education Elements

Standing in line at Starbucks ready to order my Venti black coffee, I pull out my phone and tap on Twitter even though I just checked it one minute ago. It’s a bad habit that I have, mindlessly opening the app without thinking, and pulling down the page in hopes that it will refresh with new content. Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is drink two glasses of water with fresh lemon juice, organic apple cider vinegar, or a pinch of Himalayan salt.

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Are Early Childhood Teachers Happy and Healthy? This Research Study Will Find Out

Edsurge

“I’ve had my knees replaced. It’s some genetic, but also the work I do. I’m up and down, up and down, up and down all the time. I recently had a rib out of place so I went to therapy and was out of work for six weeks because I couldn’t lift. I think these issues are kind of normal for teachers, I guess.” That’s Ms. Sexton, an early childhood educator who has been working with infants and toddlers for thirty years.

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Teacher Tips On How to Evaluate Educational Apps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is one of our popular visuals we published a few months ago featuring some useful tips to follow when evaluating educational apps. This work is based on.

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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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Content-Area Writing Is “Thinking Written Down”

MiddleWeb

Writing in science, math and social studies is different from writing in ELA classes, says literacy consultant Lynne Dorfman. A lot of content area writing is informal – its purpose is to promote inquiry and reflection, and it can help students think in more disciplined ways.

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5 Practical Strategies to Help You Integrate Game-based Learning in Your Instruction

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is an excellent step-by-step guide from Marcus Guido to help you implement the ethos of game-based learning in your instruction. We have turned Guido's post into this visual that you can print.

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So We’ve Been Thinking: Episode 21 – Erin Woo on Mindfulness

EdTechTeacher

Erin Woo interview for episode 21… The post So We’ve Been Thinking: Episode 21 – Erin Woo on Mindfulness appeared first on EdTechTeacher.

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5G means smoother virtual reality and a chance for students to birth stars

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Do you know how a star dies? Jeremiah Triplett does. The eighth grader at Breakthrough Schools’ EPrep Cliffs Campus in Cleveland also knows how stars are born.

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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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Implementing an effective learner-centered approach for educators and students

eSchool News

Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21st century careers, and the process works best when the learner-centered approach is applied to the professional learning of teachers and administrators, as well as the education of their students. During a recent edWebinar , Katie Martin, Ph.D and Symon Hayes of Altitude Learning explained how using a learner-centered process prepares administr

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1 Thing that will Change Your Playlist

Adjusting Course

I was sitting on an airplane this week scrolling through old photos on my phone. A flood of memories filled my mind when I came across this photo. Earlier this year, my wife and I were invited to travel to a Ben Rector concert in Omaha, Nebraska to help celebrate a friend’s 40th birthday. I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but I remember being less than enthused about traveling across several states to attend a concert for a band I didn’t care about.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

Willamette University in Oregon acquired a California theological seminary — and, with it, more enrollment and new programs that can help the school lower per-student costs and improve its competitive advantage. Mergers and acquisitions are among the ways colleges are responding to financial and enrollment challenges. Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

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Education Startup Competition Sees Trends in Project-Based Learning and Products for Niche Audiences

Marketplace K-12

The Milken-Penn Graduate School of Education Business Plan Competition awarded XXXX million to ed-tech startups this year on its 10th anniversary. The post Education Startup Competition Sees Trends in Project-Based Learning and Products for Niche Audiences appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Fixing One of the Biggest Accessibility Issues: Color Contrast

techlearning

In this article you'll learn why this is important, what the standard is for color contrast, and how to make content with accessible color contrast.

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Support Struggling Readers District Wide with Assistive Tech

edWeb.net

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving. Two assistive technology teachers shared their experiences and recommendations during a recent edWebinar led by Terrie Noland, Vice President of Educator Initiatives at Learning Ally.

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Sony Electronics to Highlight End-to-end Solutions at EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

techlearning

Sony will showcase end-to-end products including network cameras, professional displays and projectors, as well as solutions that incorporate video learning, artificial intelligence (AI) technology and lecture capture capabilities.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2019

Technology Tidbits

It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps. This years list seems to have a wide variety of educational tools w/ no set pattern seen in years past. As w/ any of my previous annual top lists, all tools listed in previous end of year posts will not be eligible for this years'. Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2019 Wakelet - Wakelet lets educators easily bookmark any item on the web (i.e. article, blog, tweet, etc.) and then curate them in stunning visual ways to curate w/ others.

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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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BenQ Announces Display and Projector Classroom Solutions at EDUCAUSE 2019

techlearning

BenQ will feature its latest display solutions for higher education institutions at EDUCAUSE, Oct. 14-17, at the McCormick Place West in Chicago.

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#AskExcelinEd: What education to workforce conversations are happening at #EIE19?

ExcelinEd

Welcome to our #AskExcelinEd series on the National Summit on Education Reform (#EIE19)! Follow along for sneak peeks at the can’t-miss conversations we have planned for #EIE19 taking place in San Diego, CA November 20-21. Today, M elissa Caney , ExcelinEd’s Director of Innovation Policy, highlights three strategy sessions on a variety of education to workforce topics, as well as overcoming challenges in rural education.

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Stellar Video Communication Tool Earns High Marks From Educators

techlearning

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions.

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Planning a Station Rotation Lesson for Your Math Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Last week in Palm Springs, I had the pleasure of coaching a 9th-grade math teacher. It was exciting to work with a math teacher who was eager to try using the station rotation model in her math classroom. Math instruction tends to be linear with each lesson building on the one before. This can make it challenging for teachers, who are used to using whole group teacher-led lessons, to transition to blended learning models.

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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.

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Optoma Introduces New Line of High Brightness, Compact Laser Projectors for Professional Installations

techlearning

Optoma’s New 406 Projector Series Offers Lightweight, Compact Size

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Questioning their fairness, a record number of colleges stop requiring the SAT and ACT

The Hechinger Report

A student works on a sample SAT test during her Kaplan SAT course. Concerns over socioeconomic differences in the results, among other problems, are bringing new scrutiny to standardized admission tests, and a record number of colleges and universities have stopped requiring them. Photo: John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Julia Tomasulo took the ACT three times, hoping to get to get the best possible score when applying for colleges.

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8 resources for robotics education

eSchool News

Robotics education is gaining STEAM (pun intended) in classrooms across the nation, and for good reason–it’s engaging, hands-on, and students learn real-world concepts as they solve challenges. And as K-12 robotics education grows, so do resources for teachers to strengthen their own robotics skills and transfer that knowledge to students. Related content: The coolest K-12 robotics programs at ISTE.

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New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Vita Blanco at her graduation celebration at a friend’s home in Vancouver, Wash. Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times. A GED and a college degree, too. Vita Blanco dropped out of high school in ninth grade.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks