EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Thanks to tools from tech giants such as Microsoft, students with disabilities are flourishing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Lisa Scumpieru on episode 187 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Lisa Scumpieru, 10th-grade Literature Teacher, gives us a crash course in Hyperdocs. She shares lesson plans, ideas, and tips for getting started quickly without hassle. Got 5 minutes? That is all it takes to enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The e-learning industry is booming and the technology that made this possible is constantly evolving. Wherever you turn, there’s something new that ed-tech people talk about, from big initiatives like BYOD programs to smaller things like new educational apps and even updated LMS features. Educational institutions that have embraced e-learning many years ago and opted for a school LMS to create learning materials for students, oversee their progress and better manage their learning process now sp

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Last month I attended the annual Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference at University of California, Irvine. DML 2017 was packed with interesting studies and perspectives from education, media and technology researchers from around the world. My schedule of sessions focused on what researchers have learned about games and learning. These four themes emerged from my experience of the conference: The role of failure in games (and the contrast of the experience of failure in traditional educat

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Panorama Education ’s first product was a survey tool that let students speak up about their learning environment. Kids could let teachers and administrators know how they really felt about things like safety and school climate. It turns out these insights are only a sliver of the data the company wants to surface and share with educators and parents.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This Is The Future And Reading Is Different Than You Remember by Terry Heick If one thing changes, everything changes. Reading, for example—it has changed because writing has changed. Writing has changed because the barriers to and means of publishing have changed. Publishing has changed because technology changed, which itself changed because technology begets technology […].

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TeacherCast

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at creative things you can do in your Social Studies classroom that bring Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication to your students. These examples can be adapted to students of all grade levels and many of them involve coding and programming skills… something you […].

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

By the time John Deasy resigned his post as superintendent of the L.A. school district, he had become a polarizing figure. In. an article in The New York Times covering his resignation, Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot charter schools, put it this way: "The bitterness that had developed between Mr. Deasy and his critics impeded healthy discussion." Barr went on to ask “can we actually move forward without the extremes dominating the debate?”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

November 7, 2017 Here is a very good coding tool we are adding to our coding resources here in EdTech and mLearning. Dystopia 2153 is a new project from TEACH Magazine that enables students to learn.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A teacher helps a student who is otherwise working independently on his laptop. Three different districts. Three different time zones. Three different paths to the same general goal — personalized learning. Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

November 7, 2017 Google released yesterday a new interesting feature that will make it super easy for you to insert images into your Google Drive's documents, presentations or drawings. You now.read more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A growing body of research confirms that school culture significantly influences student learning. Indeed, it’s in the culture that classrooms build their success. Yet, too many schools accept pockets of excellence. Why is it acceptable for some classrooms to implement best practices for students while others are allowed to opt out? Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Whether or not preschool teachers offer science lessons and activities in their classrooms depends largely on how comfortable they are in the topic, according to new research from Michigan State University.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On November 3, 2017, California’s Governor Jerry Brown announced the California Broadband for Education Initiative , a collaboration between, the California Department of Education, the K-12 High Speed Network, and EducationSuperHighway. The Governor’s announcement echoes his earlier sentiment from our State of the States Report , where he noted that “connecting the classrooms of America to high-speed broadband throws open the doors to the world and enriches our children’s educ

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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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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Leaders of the new venture capital firm Brighteye Ventures talk about what they want from companies, and what they see coming in the European ed-tech space. The post New Venture Capital Firm Bullish on Future of Europe’s Ed-Tech Market appeared first on Market Brief.

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We are living in a golden age of visual communication, and not just because of all the video-streaming services and photo-sharing tools we have at our disposal. In education, compelling visual. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techieMusings

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

At my school, to support teacher professional development on campus, we are given time to meet cross-divisionally in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). For the past year, I have been working with a group of colleagues in the Productivity Hacks PLC. One of our primary goals in this PLC is to think about not only what we are doing to boost personal productivity but, very importantly, the message we are sending students and how we are helping them manage work and stay organized.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Most high school teachers are familiar with students who obsess over every missed point on an assignment. It’s annoying; and many teachers wish students were more focused on the process of learning and their own growth, instead of the final grade. But putting the process front and center can feel difficult in a results-oriented school. While most teachers can’t entirely move away from grades , they can use simple strategies that require students to reflect on their progress, evaluate their work

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Back in January, we heard rumblings of a new cloud-based operating system (OS) in the works from Microsoft, which was referred to at the time as Windows 10 Cloud. However, these rumblings remained speculative—up until Microsoft’s Education event in New York City on May 2. There, Microsoft unveiled two brand new products: a new Surface laptop and a new OS called Windows 10 S.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Recently, I have started my own “podcasting” experience by sharing my #thoughtsfromthecar. I drive quite a bit to events, so I just turn on the voice memos app on my phone, and start talking. Although there are lots of bumbling through ideas, it is meant to be just informal. On my most recent episode , I shared the importance of being able to communicate great ideas out to others.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Here are two universal truths: 1)Kids are going to be asking for video games, apps, or other programs for Christmas this year. 2)Most parents would like their kids to grow up to be ‘creators’ rather than […].

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

El pasado 18 y 19 de octubre tuvo lugar el evento de Bett Latin America en Ciudad de México. Un evento en donde más de 120 ponentes mundiales presentaron historias de éxito en educación, casos de estudios, así como también propuestas novedosas por lo líderes de la tecnología educativa. A lo largo de dos días, más de 800 miembros de la comunidad educativa incluyendo destacados funcionarios gubernamentales, escuelas privadas, públicas e internacionales así como también empresas de tecnología de m

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Comprehensive lessons, quizzes offer solid content and whimsical style.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Night Zoopkeeper is a new free site for students to help their Writing skills through fun interactive lessons. Best of all, the educational portal allows educators to: assign lessons, track student progress, and assess their work in real-time. This makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction and implement project based learning in their classroom.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Sheets Add-on: Bathroom Sign Out One of the early projects I coded was a bathroom sign out sheet for Google Sheets. I was surprised how many people liked the spreadsheet. Since I first coded the bathroom spreadsheet, Google Apps as added Add-ons. I have updated the sign out sheet to be an Add-on with some new […]. The post Bathroom Sign Out Sheet appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The post Interactive Learning Menus (Choice Boards) with G Suite – FREE Templates appeared first on Shake Up Learning. (updated on 11-7-17). Differentiate with Learning Menus and Choice Boards. I love learning menus, and it is one of my favorite ways to incorporate student choice and to differentiate learning. And with digital tools like G Suite for Education, it’s super easy to make menus interactive, digital, and more dynamic!

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

My students learn nine different types of essay forms in one semester. Instead, of getting them to write essays for each form, I try to introduce them to types of writing activities we do now, which emulate these forms. I think it’s important for students to learn the different types of writing forms and the processes associated with them so they can apply them to creating videos, infographics, multimedia presentations, podcasts, and other digital creations.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

For school districts, it’s important to communicate with your community. (In fact, we’ve already shared seven ways to do so. ) One of those seven is a critical step for districts looking to spread the word of their good work: engaging with local broadcast and print media. We’ve all seen segments on the evening news or read stories in the newspaper – but what work leads up to those moments?

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