The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Suzie Boss on Episode 384 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. After much research, Suzie Boss shares what makes excellent project-based teaching and gives a sneak peek into her book by the same name. Project Pals has a useful classroom collaborative platform that lets you create and manage projects for your students.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Traveling to school districts across the country for sales meetings, onboarding and professional development sessions can be exhausting. Use these suggestions to find the benefits. The post 5 Ways to Make Vital Work Travel Productive and Fruitful appeared first on Market Brief.
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The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
John Larmer on Episode 385 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. John Larmer, the editor at the Buck Institute, talks about common barriers to effective project-based learning and how to overcome them. Project Pals has a useful classroom collaborative platform that lets you create and manage projects for your students.
Neo LMS
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Today’s students are truly digital natives. Not only were they born and raised surrounded by technology, but that technology was in advanced stages of development. If teachers and even university students still remember floppy disks and have used CDs frequently in their time, younger kids connected directly with the cloud. They use technology in every aspect of their lives and academic activities make no exception.
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EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
3 Ways K–12 Schools Can Guard Against Cryptomining. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 11/01/2018 - 08:56. Most malware is all about money, and last year’s rise in the value of cryptocurrencies created an incredible opportunity for malware authors. . Rather than build botnet armies that they hoped to rent to spammers or DDoS networks , they could build them to directly generate real money and cut out the middleman. .
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
For many students, school may be the most diverse setting they experience in their entire lives. And former NPR host Michele Norris is working to use that opportunity to get classrooms talking about race, and to share their “experiences, questions, hopes, dreams, laments or observations.” “You lose the opportunity if you don’t find a way to talk to each other,” she said in an interview this week.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Students at Dan D. Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. As they transition from first grade, to second, to third, their classroom devices change, too. One year they’ll use an iPad. The next, they’ll try a Kindle. After that, a Surface device, then a Chromebook. This isn’t the result of a tech director’s indecision.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
In order to fully support teachers as they mold students into tomorrow’s innovators, school leaders must create schools that empower teachers to grow and have meaningful collaboration, according to a new report from 100Kin10. Too often, the authors note, leaders assume they must choose between student learning and teacher learning, focusing on one and ignoring the other.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
How will artificial intelligence and machine learning change teaching? It’s a question that some higher education instructors have asked before, and one that two Penn State University educators sought to answer on Wednesday at this year’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. Jennifer Sparrow, the university’s senior director of teaching and learning with technology, thinks the fears that some faculty have about artificial intelligence taking their jobs echos the concern some had 20 years ago when high
MIND Research Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
During the breaks at a couple of recent professional development trainings, my colleagues and I asked teachers to share their definition of “deep conceptual learning.” Common threads ran through the individual responses. Teachers agreed that deep conceptual learning involves: Being able to transfer learning from one subject or lesson to another. Learning through trial and error.
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.
EmergingEdTech
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Today, students have more homework than the generations of students before them. They also have plenty of distractions in and out of the classroom like social media, social media marketers, online. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Today Gmail announced the release of a new set of features and improvements to its Gmail on the web. These include a brand new look for your Gmail, sophisticated security measures, more integrations.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Customized English/Language Arts Units with CommonLit.org A Guest Post by Barton Keeler So I have two daughters (grades 7 and 9) who are homeschooled by my wife who has a variety of other Independent Study students on her caseload. She, my wife, is tasked with the responsibility of creating high level, individualized lesson plans for […]. The post Creating Customizable ELA Units for Free Using Commonlit.org appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Alot of interesting things are taking place in Gmail. Besides the new powerful features introduced yesterday (e.
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.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Customized English/Language Arts Units with CommonLit.org A Guest Post by Barton Keeler So I have two daughters (grades 7 and 9) who are homeschooled by my wife who has a variety of other Independent Study students on her caseload. She, my wife, is tasked with the responsibility of creating high level, individualized lesson plans for […]. The post Creating Customizable ELA Units for Free Using Commonlit.org by @bartonkeeler appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Reading By Example
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
This is a guest post by Kathy Wade, CEO and co-founder of Learning Through Art. Her organization has developed five free resources to help caring parents, teachers, and community leaders bring the story of Chrysanthemum to their own learners. At each mention of bullying, students folded their paper hearts until there was nothing left but a tiny, crumpled paper ball in their hands.
Nick's Picks for Educational Technology
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Bitmoji – Emoji Generator Brings Personalized Fun to the Classroom Teachers love using Bitmojis for everything from personalizing posters and drawing attention to key concepts, to providing student feedback. They’ve been increasingly popular for student work too. Emoji generators have been a great way to increase engagement while students demonstrate understanding in creative ways like.
The Innovative Educator
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Join us on Thursday, November 1st at 7 p.m. to chat about professional learning networks. This month, you can join us virtually on Twitter or you can live chat with us directly at the Microsoft Flagship Store in Manhattan ( 677 5th Ave, New York, New York 10022). Your host, #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon will moderate with me throwing in my two cents.
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techlearning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
As teachers, we all have assumptions -- and likely some opinions -– about teenagers and social media. But are those assumptions correct? Well, now we have research to help us find out. This week, Common Sense is releasing its latest research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences , a deep dive into the social media habits of American teenagers.
Fractus Learning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
How Some Screen Time Can Help, Not Harm Your Child Although very convenient, “the digital babysitter” often causes alarm bells to go off in parents’ heads. It’s not uncommon to see parents give their smartphones and tablets to children […].
The Principal of Change
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
A good friend of mine and a tremendous leader reached out to me and asked me a question to share my thinking on, “What’s next?” Knowing they already do incredible work I encouraged him to not think about “What’s next?” but to focus on what they are working on now and doing it well. Too often, we get caught up thinking about the future that we lose focus on how fantastic and essential our present is currently.
The Daring Librarian
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Over the years we've had a great educational partnership with our NYC friends at Flocabulary. I'm even a proud MC Educator or Flocabulary # HipHopEd Ambassador. See? We've been using their Week in Rap news feature in our school since they landed on the hip hop education or #HipHopEd scene in 2008! Not familiar with them? Check, check, check, it out!
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.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Matthew Kay's Not Light, But Fire is a thought-provoking book that challenges teachers to move beyond typical classroom conversations to help students understand how to discuss difficult topics such as race. Teacher Laura Von Staden says the risks are worth the growth.
techlearning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
-- Discover Survey Suggests Financial Education Courses Are Helping Americans Become More Confident with their Finances -- Riverwoods, Ill. (Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018) – Fifty-nine percent of Americans ages 18-26 who have taken a financial education course believe the lessons will save them more than $10,000 over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new survey from Discover.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
After explaining design thinking, Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson detail the roles and mindsets school leaders need to adapt as they move beyond traditional thought processes and ignite positive change. Educator Brian Taylor recommends the book's strategies.
techlearning
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Lakewood, NJ , (November 1, 2018) – Achieve3000 , the leader in differentiated literacy instruction, today announced that select school districts are participating in the Florida State Achievement (FSA) Goal Tracker Project. This program is designed to motivate students and give teachers the targeted assessment data they need to help more students achieve a learning gain on Florida’s annual assessment.
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.
The Game Agency
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
EverFi & The Game Agency Win “Best of Show” at ELearning Guild’s 2018 DevLearn DemoFest for The Creation of the Compassion Project. Last week the eLearning Guild recognized EverFi, an innovative education technology company and The Game Agency, an educational software developer with the “Best of Show” award for the creation of The Compassion Project, a game-based course created to provide educators with the tools they need to teach and reinforce concepts such as compassion, empathy, and mind
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Media Literacy Week is November 5 - 9 , spearheaded by the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). I want to urge you to join the NAMLE email/membership list (free) to get information and resources around media literacy and Media Literacy Week. At the bottom of this post, you'll also find a link to a fun set of downloadable posters for Media Literacy Week.
MindShift
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Riddles are a great way to get kids thinking logically, testing predictions, using math and even collaborating. They’re fun and often quite challenging. Many riddles often sound confusing at first, forcing students to think about ways to isolate information or simplify a problem. These are useful skills for all problem solving. TED-Ed and its educator contributors have put together great animated riddles that make the presentation of the riddle fun and walk through the solutions once kids
Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
It’s November 1, which means the beginning of picture book month. We’ve been celebrating this special month since it was created back in 2011 by Dianne de Las Casas. Today, we launched our annual picture book challenge. The challenge has been a bit different each year. Some years, students have earned stamps for reading a certain number of picture books.
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