Sun.Sep 24, 2017

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How Do Your Students Share Their Knowledge with Others? #EdtechMissions

Teacher Reboot Camp

I invite you to share your ideas, tips, and resources for this week’s #EdtechMissions chat on Flipgrid , an easy to use video response web tool and app. Click here (code: 04c535) to record your response to this week’s topic, “Students as Teachers.” It’s free and takes less than 2 minutes to share! We have 2 guiding questions.

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To Innovate or Not to Innovate

A Principal's Reflections

Innovation has been a hot topic of discussion for the past couple of years even though it is not a new or novel concept. New ideas leading to improvements have been occurring since the beginning of time. All one has to do is take a look at the evolution of the human species to see how important innovation has been leading to society as we now know it.

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C is for Centered on Students: The ABC’s of PBL … Building Blocks to Transform Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century Learning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. In this third post, I feel it is important to stress the importance of a student centered classroom. It is only when we get our students to own the learning, that really great things can happen. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow… on Twitter at mjgormans.

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Google Apps: New Toolbar Icons

Teacher Tech

Toolbar Icons in Google Apps G Suite is always updating and adding new features and upgrading interfaces. I like to say that the essential tech skill for students is “adaptability.” When given a new tech tool do they sit and wait for someone to show them what to do or can they figure it out […]. The post Google Apps: New Toolbar Icons appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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9 Essential Digital Skills for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

September 24, 2017 In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st.read more.

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The Secret Sauce to Choosing Edtech? Find Tools By Fit, Not Feature

Edsurge

Finding and selecting edtech products can be a lot like grocery shopping for your family. Walk in when you’re starving without a list and you’ll likely pick the items with the most attractive packaging, a suggestion from your seemingly healthy friend who only eats foods that start with the letter ‘P’, items that you’ve seen in commercials, or those that simply happen to be at eye-level.

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Financial Literacy: A Subject Most Students Would #Love2Learn But Never Do

The Innovative Educator

The book inspired by the card may be found here. The Freakonomics podcast here and the show on NPR here. It’s no wonder Harold Pollack’s photo of the infamous index card with all the financial advice anyone would ever need, went viral. Americans have a thirst for quick advice on making sound financial decisions. That’s because, when it comes to personal finance, Americans are woefully under-prepared.

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Paper Airplanes Become a Versatile Teaching Tool

MiddleWeb

As she introduces the idea of symbolism with their first read-aloud of the year, Mary Tarashuk finds a new way to teach her fourth graders about choices. She's calling this discovery “harnessing the power of paper airplanes.” It's a great formative assessment tool, too.

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Visualizing The Effects Of A Nuclear War

ASIDE

Source: Shadow Peace Coming off a summer of the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the election, the riots and deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the elevated nuclear threats from North Korea, it’s hard to believe that we’ve had constant turmoil since the presidential election almost one year ago. The most dangerous of all this unrest is the nuclear threat.

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Starting from Scratch: Spoken History Poems

MiddleWeb

History teacher Sarah Cooper is enthusiastically barreling into the year with a totally untried project. It asks eighth graders to research a current issue in the news that they're passionate about, then write and film their own spoken word poem. What could go wrong?

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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An LMS for Everyone?

Tech Helpful

Recently our school has been in the process of not only trying to decide if an LMS (learning management system) is important to implement school wide but also what LMS meets the needs of the community as a whole. Through this process over the last 5 years we have implemented in both large and small ways 4 different LMS solutions- Moodle, Edify, Google Classroom, and Canvas.

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Teaching & Technology Tweet Wrap, w/e 09-23-17

EmergingEdTech

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 … George Couros reminds us. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Join the New Facebook Education Group!

EdTechnocation.com

There's a brand spankin' new Facebook Education Group and a revitalized Facebook Education page! Learn what it's all about and how to join within. Want to be a part of a fast growing community of educators asking important questions, sharing resources, and having great conversations around the education field? Join the new Facebook Education Group !

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Geographia

techlearning

Pick a continent and begin exploring for World Tourism Day on 9/27!

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

Student Voices. What do kids really think about school? How would they change it? Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Kids Create, Share Original Artwork with Drawp

techlearning

Blank canvas will help kids express themselves creatively.

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