Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 1, 2017
With the new school year, comes new students and a steep technology learning curve. My goal is to make learning how to use technology fun and engaging. Given how many tools we use, that’s no small feat! Many of my incoming 9th-grade students have never used the Google Suite prior to my class. I could spend 10 minutes walking them through Google Docs and explaining the functionality, but I’d lose their interest immediately.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 1, 2017
Episode 117 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Teryl Magee @teryl_magee gives us five ways to use Flipgrid. She shares essential tips on how to use Flipgrid. This fun video tool is a great way to engage students at the beginning of school. She also uses this for professional development for teachers when she’s preparing to meet them on-site.
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Neo LMS
AUGUST 1, 2017
Most people today live in a world of projects. No matter what we do for a living, work projects are everywhere. We need to do research and planning, work in teams, constantly adapt to feedback, all while trying to find the best solutions and keep within budgets. And even life outside of work is full of projects. Whenever we need to bake a cake, plant a flower, paint a room, repair something around the house or organize a birthday party, we still need to do research and planning, communicate and
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
In my most recent school role, I was tasked with leading our school’s transition to personalized learning. Our staff saw incredible potential in using technology in thoughtful ways to meet the needs of every student. We installed carts, purchased softwares, held numerous professional development sessions, and even hired consultants to help—all with the intent of serving the individual, diverse needs of each and every student.
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Teacher Tech
AUGUST 1, 2017
View Individual Student Work in Google Classroom I get asked this a lot “Alice, can you see all the work one student has done in Google Classroom?” YOU CAN NOW! Students Tab Click on the Students tab in Google Classroom to view your class roster. Click on any students name to view their work. Work […]. The post NEW! Google Classroom: Individual Student View appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
August is often a sleepy month, when many are focused on enjoying the last bit of summer before the busy fall season begins. But we’re hoping teams of educators and entrepreneurs with bold ideas in education will step away from their vacations to seize a great opportunity from NewSchools Venture Fund. A venture philanthropy, NewSchools raises funds from donors and reinvests them in people who want to reimagine learning.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
Scholars want peers to find—and cite—their research, and these days that increasingly happens on social media. The old adage ‘publish or perish’ could soon go digital as ‘clicks or canned.’ Several platforms have emerged over the past decade, offering researchers the chance to share their work and connect with other scholars. But some of those services have a bad rap from academics who say commercial sites lack the integrity of institutional repositories run by traditional universities.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 1, 2017
Rearrange the Class Tiles in Google Classroom You asked for it and the Google Classroom team listened! You can now rearrange the tiles on the Google Classroom home screen. Simply drag and rearrange. The post NEW! Google Classroom: Rearrange the Class Tiles appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
“Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally—and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. That’s a problem, says John Reyes, director of educational technology for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The lack of precision about what the term means—whether it’s about tailoring instruction for individual students or the technology that enables it—leads to confusion and inappropriate assumptions.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 1, 2017
August 1, 2017 Here is a list of some useful iPad apps we have been working on over the last few days. We tried to come up with what think are 20 educational apps perfect for every classroom. We were.read more.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 1, 2017
The post How To Respond When Students Say ‘I Can’t Do This’ appeared first on TeachThought.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 1, 2017
August 1, 2017 Here is a collection of some of the best iPad apps for learning music. The apps cover different topics related to music learning from practical tips to help you master musical.read more.
ProfHacker
AUGUST 1, 2017
This is a guest post by Carol Jackson , the digital content strategist at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and lead producer, with Alison Jones and Karen Kemp, of the school's podcast_ Ways & Means Show. She also produces the podcast Policy 360. In the last two years, we launched two podcasts at our school, the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
eSchool News
AUGUST 1, 2017
With the high-school graduation season over, it’s time for grads and parents alike to celebrate and relax a bit – and maybe enjoy a long summer before recently minted graduates start college or a new job. But here is something to contemplate (hopefully not too strenuously) over the coming summer weeks and months: What is the next learning step in the graduate’s preparation for a future career?
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.
Gaggle Speaks
AUGUST 1, 2017
If you have a place in K-12 education, you’ve likely heard of the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System). Canvas makes teaching and learning (and implementation and adoption and customer support and student success and bragging to your non-Canvas-using-peers) easier. Canvas features collaborative workspaces, course management, discussion forums, eportfolios, analytics and reporting, quizzes, video and audio messaging, calendars and much more.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2017
Middle school students at Summit Denali work with a teacher in a small group. Photo: Nichole Dobo/The Hechinger Report. A California-born charter school network is starting a new program to home-grow teachers rooted in their approach to education. Summit Public Schools – widely known for its partnership with Facebook to develop a flexible academic program that allows teachers and students to work on custom-fit lessons at their own pace – will soon begin certifying teachers.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 1, 2017
Teachers are always looking for more engaging ways to help students demonstrate their understanding of a concept. Author and engagement expert Barbara Blackburn looks at five cool ways that students can "show you what they know” without giving them a test.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2017
WASHINGTON — Pssst: America’s colleges and universities know a way to stop, and even reverse, their big annual increases in tuition. They have a plan up their sleeves to make sure all of their financial aid goes to the students who need it the most. All they want is for you to trust them. And an exemption from federal antitrust laws that ban consultation about prices and discounts among competitors in any industry.
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My Paperless Classroom
AUGUST 1, 2017
The new ScreenFlow version 7 is a complete video recording and editing solution for anyone in creating instructional tutorials for their students. The post @Telestream Launches Screenflow Version 7. Read our full review of this great screencasting and video editing application. appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Education Superhighway
AUGUST 1, 2017
Building out the infrastructure to support high-speed Internet access requires multi-layered collaboration between state and district leaders, school administrators, and service providers. A recent victory for Arkansas’ public school system shows that these collaborations can yield tangible and meaningful results, particularly for rural communities.
Cycles of Learning
AUGUST 1, 2017
"Show Your Work!" by Austin Kleon was a very important book for me as an educator. Albeit short, and a bit polarizing, the book reminded me that it sharing the process of my work, not just products, and encouraging my students to do the same , can be a very powerful process if curated strategically. Not all work is worth sharing, however an attitude of curating the journey towards a final product can yield excellent feedback and subsequently empower one's learning community.
Educator Innovator
AUGUST 1, 2017
Three 2014 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees share how their work has progressed, relaying both tremendous successes and ongoing challenges. Since we last checked in with Liberty Elementary, a 2014 LRNG Innovator Challenge grant recipient , the garden project has grown, now reaching all the way to the 6th grade. Exciting and notable volunteer support for the program means that the available offerings for ageless, gradeless passion projects has grown tremendously.
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.
EmergingEdTech
AUGUST 1, 2017
Teachers are writing blog posts exploring a new question or topic every other week, and then getting together on alternate Wednesday evening's for a Twitter chat to connect, share, and learn more! [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
EdTechTeam
AUGUST 1, 2017
This was our busiest July so far with 64 events and we had the privilege of working with over 5000 educators! We are so lucky to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing teachers, students and administrators around the globe. If you want to work with EdTechTeam , please fill out our request form. Someone from our Team will contact you and set up a meeting to talk through a plan for your school or district.
Education Superhighway
AUGUST 1, 2017
Building out the infrastructure to support high-speed Internet access requires multi-layered collaboration between state and district leaders, school administrators, and service providers. A recent victory for Arkansas’ public school system shows that these collaborations can yield tangible and meaningful results, particularly for rural communities.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2017
Photo: U.S. Military Academy. We receive dozens of letters to the editor every month. Readers react to our stories positively and critically and we welcome their feedback. Here’s a sampling of letters from the past month, lightly edited for grammar and typos. Have something to say? Write us a letter (use the form at the bottom of any story) and it may be featured in a future post.
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.
Graphite Blog
AUGUST 1, 2017
Summer camps give kids the chance to unplug and enjoy life’s simple pleasures, like swimming in a lake or roasting marshmallows over a campfire. Campers escape the school-year pressures of homework and grades and instead embrace childhood, playing games for the sake of having fun. But while summer camp is a break from school, it’s not a break from learning.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 1, 2017
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for educators looking for printables, worksheets, puzzles, activities, and much much more. W/ back to school right around the corner this is a fantastic place for teachers to go looking for ideas/printables such as: desk tags, games/puzzles, calendars, etc etc. Also, all items are labeled if they are aligned to Common Core Standards and there are even generators/wizards for users to create their very own worksheets/puzzles/etc.
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
Not everyone is built for one method of education. Kiaha Raigoza. Virtual schools—a fiercely debated topic. Some, like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the American Legislative Exchange Council, are in favor. Others, including researchers like Columbia University professor Aaron Pallas, have pushed back. In fact, last January, Pallas called out DeVos for presenting misleading graduation rates quoted from K12 Inc. while presenting her case for virtual school expansion.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 1, 2017
Kids'n'Code is a fun free iPad app for kids 6-8 years old learning the basics concepts of programming and coding. This is done by controlling robots and trying to solve simple puzzles. Users of Scratch will feel right at home as Kids'n'Code focuses on such skills as: algebra, geometry, logic and more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Kids'n'Code by clicking here !!!
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