Ditch That Textbook
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re chained to your desk grading papers. It’s getting monotonous, but you feel like you need to do it because it’s important. You hand those papers back to the students, and where do they end up? Yep, the trash. (Even if you make them keep that homework in a […].
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Minecraft's Chemistry Update Gives Students Better Insights. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 02/21/2018 - 10:38. Minecraft: Education Edition users can now experience chemistry lessons like never before. Tech giant Microsoft announced an update to Minecraft earlier this year that would enable educators to use the platform to give students valuable insights into chemical properties and reactions.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
If you use the VARK model of Student Learning , you know why I’m excited about it. VARK started as a questionnaire to help students and teachers understand their best approach to learning but has since become more of a guideline for teaching and learning. The questionnaire is deliberately short (thirteen-sixteen questions, depending upon which version you take) in order to prevent student survey fatigue.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Day 45 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Out beyond complacency and comfort lies a land of opportunity. It requires that you no longer comform to the comfortable. You can’t “phone it in.” You have to work. You have to dream. You can’t settle. Everyone wants success – well, most do anyway.
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EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
#ICE18: Illinois Conference Will Prepare Educators for Modern Learning Environments. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 02/21/2018 - 10:10. In 1986, approximately 30 educators came together to form Illinois Computing Educators (ICE) , as a statewide initiative to offer professional development opportunities for teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, administrators, higher education representatives, school support staff and other stakeholders in Illinois education.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Heidi Sloan on episode 258 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Heidi Sloan is the Iditarod teacher for this year. It starts on March 3 – 18. Get free lesson plans, connect with a musher and get your kids excited. Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started.
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Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
In the three weeks since “ Tracking: EDU ” officially launched, a growing number of news outlets, associations, and organizations have highlighted the findings and significance of the work, including Boing Boing (which helpfully excerpted some of the study’s recommendations), Dark Reading , DataBreaches.net , EdScoop , EdSurge (with commentary from state officials from Connecticut and Tennessee), Education Week , FERPA|SHERPA , the IAPP , POLITICO , and T.H.E.
Education Elements
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
As the saying goes, change is hard. This is especially true for leaders introducing personalized learning into their organizations. I often have a front-row seat to the resulting backlash and chaos that stems from leaders as they help their districts make shifts toward personalizing learning for students. Frequently, there are patterns that I see across districts: teachers facing initiative fatigue, questions about why, how, and what, and concerned parents.
Battelle for Kids
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
How many times have you heard a student ask some form of the question “why do I need to learn this”? It’s sometimes difficult to come up with an answer that seems grounded in something meaningful to the student.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The College Board recently released its Advanced Placement (AP) program results for the class of 2017—and it’s largely a mixed bag, with a greater number of overall test takers but significant achievement gaps still impacting success rates. Here are some highlights: 1. Although the percentage of students taking the exam has increased over the past 10 years, going from 23.9 percent of the class of 2007 to 37.7 percent for the class of 2017, achievement between demographic groups continues to vary
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Today's post features some of the best educational websites to help your students develop strong reading skills. They (websites) provide access to a treasure trove of resources, lessons plans,read more.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
APPLETON, Wisc. — Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. On top of that, there’s a daily lunch break that comes with time for kids to get outside and move around. Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
In a rapidly changing world, educators have been forced to self-examine and come to terms with approaches that are inefficient and irrelevant–from outmoded ways of setting up classrooms to equating school success solely on standardized metrics. Innovation and transformation in schools can’t happen unless we tackle entrenched practices and mindsets in bold and specific ways.
EmergingEdTech
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Students are Likely to Have an Unprecedented Level of Flexibility and Functionality in the Mobile-Enabled Higher Ed World of Tomorrow The folks at Anagram Interactive have partenered with Radar.io to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Drew Perkins talks with a group of Fern Creek High School teachers from Louisville, KY who are engaging in a School Startup cohort attempting to rethink and redesign Deeper Learning in their classrooms and professional learning communities. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: SchoolStartup.org The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 66 Teaching Like A Rebel With KY […].
My Island View
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
If there is one thing that I am sure of as an educator it is that rapid change greatly affects both what and how we learn. If there is a second thing that I am sure of as an educator it is that the evolution of technology is the driver of rapid change throughout our culture. Both of these factors in education and our culture lead me to question if teachers are being properly prepared to teach students whose learning is affected by so many different influences?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Below is an infographic we created for the post entitled 19 Educational Websites to Enhance Students Reading Skills. Due to its length we were unable to include it in the original post. Feel free to.read more.
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
V: Switch Between Grid View and List View In Google Drive press the V key. This will toggle you between grid view and list view easily. List view shows the title of the documents in a concise list. (Tip: click Q Q quickly to adjust the comfort level of the spacing). Grid view shows a large […]. The post Google Drive: Press V appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
When some kids grow up, they stop gaming and go abroad. That metaphor might describe the journey that Kidaptive took on its way to a major fundraise. Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. And to support its work, Kidaptive has raised $19.1 million in a Series C round led by Formation 8 and Woongjin ThinkBig, a Korean publisher.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
StoryWeaver is an educational platform that draws on collaborative team work to develop ‘a rich digital repository of diverse children’s stories from Pratham Books.’ The purpose of this project is to.read more.
EdTechTeacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Book Creator has long been one of my favorite iPad apps to use with students. The versatility of the iPad app was second to none – allowing students to curate and showcase the many capabilities of the iPad. Now the clean, easy-to-use interface of the iPad app has been brought to the web and is available for students and teachers to use within the Chrome Web Browser.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
. Painting a grim picture for American higher education, Moody’s Investors Service recently changed the industry’s outlook from “stable” to “negative.”. This return to negative ratings reinforces a number of trends that bear close review. The facts are clear and inescapable. The comprehensive fee – tuition, fees, room and board – will approach $70,000 a year at a number of high sticker priced colleges and universities.
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.
EdTechTeacher
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Creating virtual reality spaces couldn’t be easier with such a student friendly platform, CoSpaces. With a well-built library of backgrounds and objects, along with the embedded coding capacity, creating dynamic virtual worlds is possible for all creators. However, the potential to create with CoSpaces is quickly amplified with a few simple additions.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
“Turn on the subtitles, Ms. Olague!” I clicked on the “CC” button underneath the YouTube video, and the closed-captioning appeared at the bottom of the screen. Suddenly, all my students were looking at the screen with wide eyes, eager to watch the video. In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language.
ProfHacker
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The year between submitting the tenure binder and a decision can feel interminably long. It’s marked with few milestones: decisions by one’s school, the college, and so on, committees meeting with months in-between of nothing. There is, of course, the ever-present threat of tenure denial: as I observed in September , after my own dossier went in, there’s a number of blog posts and essays to find catharsis in when that thought arises.
MIND Research Institute
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The gap we hear about the most is the achievement gap. Consider, though, that to bridge the achievement gap students need learning experiences that change their perceptions about math and themselves. What if students looked forward to math? What if all students could see themselves as capable and creative problem solvers? Imagine the impact on achievement.
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.
NeverEndingSearch
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
#inTLchat (in + tlchat). It seems so simple that I cannot figure out why it didn’t hit us sooner. Putting an “in” in front of the #tlchat hashtag we’ve been using forever, changes everything. It’s sticky. It’s (of course) international. And it’s already gaining global traction. Teacher librarians are the ultimate connectors and I don’t believe we have yet realized our true global powers.
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Cross-posted from Katherine Goyette’s Wonder Explore Learn. Oh, what our youngest learners can accomplish if only given the opportunity. Students arrive at school curious and eager to learn, full of wonder and questions. Provided the appropriate scaffolds, these students can use technology to not only access content to answer their myriad of questions, but also to create content to teach not only their peers but even their parents and teachers!
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Testing time can ramp up the anxiety of already stressed-out middle schoolers. During week-long testing at her school, media specialist Paige Garrison designed fun, relaxing early morning activities to give their minds and bodies a break. She shares her Week of Zen.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Today, the first live event of The Goal-Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course took place. Below is the YouTube recording and the Twitter chat of our panelists sharing tips about teacher motivation, balance, and goal-setting. Our esteemed panelists who are educators in the US, Greece, and Portugal, include Lisa Dabbs ( @TeachWithSoul ), Theodora Papapanagiotou, ( @DoraPap72 ), Nikki D Robertson ( @NikkiDRobertson ) Christina Chorianopou
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