Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 8, 2018

We recently began the summer session of my new online courses. We announced a scholarship and were so moved by the personal statements and bios that we decided to award a few scholarships for the summer session. Below is the bio and an excerpt from the personal statement of Jesus Sosa, a teacher from Venezuela, who was the recipient of the Methodologies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages course scholarship.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 8, 2018

More and more schools are either installing or improving WiFi networks in schools. We still have a long way to go in many places, but the increase in access provides kids with an array of innovative learning opportunities that continue to evolve. With a pedagogy first, technology second if appropriate, approach to instructional design, educators can begin to support and enhance lessons with an array of tools.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 8, 2018

We recently began the summer session of my new online courses. We announced a scholarship and were so moved by the personal statements and bios that we decided to award a few scholarships for the summer session. Below is the bio and an excerpt from the personal statement of Jesus Sosa, a teacher from Venezuela, who was the recipient of the Methodologies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages course scholarship.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 8, 2018

Eric Hayot said: No one ever said you would get to do the job in the same way for all 40 years of your career. No one ever said that large-scale social changes wouldn’t change your working conditions. And now they have. via [link]. Yep. Time to get to work. And in much bigger ways than you’re probably thinking… Related Posts. How long has it been since you were really bothered?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 8, 2018

Today we spent sometime sifting through Windows app store and curated for you the list below. This is a collection of some great educational apps for teachers using Windows in their instruction. Some.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. — In the last decade, educators have focused on boosting literacy skills among low-income kids in the hope that all children will read well by third grade.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 8, 2018

One area of Matt Smith's teaching "that has improved tremendously since my novice days" is facilitating productive discussions. Students need to engage in active talk to process complex ideas. This won't happen until teachers master "wait time" and stop affirming too much.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 8, 2018

I have been spending a lot of time thinking about arguing and how we challenge one another. Challenging ideas is essential, especially in the context of education, but how we challenge others is as important as what we are challenging in the first place if we want to push thinking. Here are three things to think about when pushing the thinking of someone else: Assume positive intent in the other person.

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iLearn Technology

JULY 8, 2018

What it is: Recently, the good people at SAM Labs sent me an Alpha Kit to play with and review. You guys, this is such a cool product! I love that as soon as students open it up, it puts them in charge of the learning. Best of all, it encourages the learning to happen through playful trial and error. Each SAM Labs Kit comes with clever little blocks that each does something specific (think switches, light sensors, temperature sensors, DC motors, etc.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Washington D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified about her department’s budget on March 20, 2018. Photo: © Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press. Everyone in America should be concerned about recent news that the U.S. Department of Education has quietly but steadily deprioritized investigations into fraud and abuse by a number of for-profit institutions.

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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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Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

JULY 8, 2018

How to Revive & Transform Observational Assessment with Google Forms Observational Assessment Thoughtful observational assessment is among the most powerful tools a teacher can use to better understand what their students have learned, and what they need. Observational assessment is most effective when it’s an ongoing practice. Not only can teachers use it to adapt.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 8, 2018

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … another study supporting. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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iLearn Technology

JULY 8, 2018

What it is: Recently, the good people at SAM Labs sent me an Alpha Kit to play with and review. You guys, this is such a cool product! I love that as soon as students open it up, it puts them in charge of the learning. Best of all, it encourages the learning to happen through playful trial and error. Each SAM Labs Kit comes with clever little blocks that each does something specific (think switches, light sensors, temperature sensors, DC motors, etc.).

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 8, 2018

EDpuzzle the world's leading tool for "flipping" a classroom or lesson has been hard at work w/ new features and updates to make it easier and even better for teacher to integrate in their classroom. Main improvements: Main My Classes section: Cleaner and simpler design. Notifications which alerts teachers teachers to which assignments/videos requires a teachers attention.

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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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edWeb.net

JULY 8, 2018

Effective social emotional learning (SEL) requires a thorough understanding of the student population’s needs, training to integrate SEL into everyday lessons, and the instructional resources. But although educators and education advocates acknowledge the importance of SEL, the funding has lagged behind. In the edWebinar, “ Funding Social Emotional Learning: Where’s the Money?

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 8, 2018

Math Shooter ft. Professor Cat is a fun little iOS game for basic Math skills. This educational game will remind players of Galaga and Space Invaders in it's play mechanics as students try to solve equations (i.e. addition, multiplication, order of operations) and protect Professor Cat. Math Shooter has lots of replay value and is a great way to reinforce learning or introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 8, 2018

iPracticeMath is a wonderful FREE (Common Core aligned) site for Math grades K-12. I like to think of this as the "ultimate" Math resource, as students/educators can find whatever they are looking for, such as: worksheets/printables, interactive problems, detailed problem-walkthroughs, and more. Also, iPracticeMath covers a wide variety of Math problems.

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