Wed.Oct 18, 2017

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What is the Missing Step in Your District’s Strategic Plan?

Education Elements

All districts have strategic plans. For many districts, they are the most expensive document created in a given year. Getting to a final draft usually takes several months or more and requires the time of many staff and community members. There are committees, meetings, surveys, reviews, discussions and multiple rounds of revision.

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A Teenage Bullying Story

The CoolCatTeacher

Sarah Beeghley on episode 173 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sarah Beeghley @the-geeky_girl has been called by a US Senator to tell her story as part of anti-bullying legislation. Hear her story or triumph and advice to teachers. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and

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Add At Least One C

Teacher Tech

Does Your Lesson Have At Least One C? In planning activities for our students, the first place to start is to ensure that the activity has at least one C, and that C is not clipart. Collaborate The first thing I plan for when designing a lesson is “How will my students collaborate.” G Suite […]. The post Add At Least One C appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Top 10 Ways to Make your Projects More Authentic

Battelle for Kids

Each spring, similar versions of the same snarky joke make their way around Twitter: “Every tax season I thank my math teacher for spending so much time in high school on the Pythagorean Theorem!” This is the slightly more mature version of the teenage complaint that teachers are all too familiar with–”When will I ever use this in real life?”.

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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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169 Tech Tip #98: 13 Tips for Email Etiquette

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #98–13 Tips for Email Etiquette.

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10 Tips for Flawless Windows 10 Experience

EdTech Magazine

By Russell Smith Our Microsoft MVP details how to make the most of the latest OS version.

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Eggciting ideas!

EdTech4Beginners

As part of my school’s STEAM week, my class have been doing some egg investigations! We explored: The structure. The make-up of the shell. The strength. Here’s an activity card I created with some experiment ideas: *Click the link to download the high quality PDF: Teaching Ideas For Experiments With Eggs. Have a go and let me know how your class get on Tagged: education , egg experiments , egg investigations , learning , science , steam , stem , teaching , teaching ideas.

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Is the Five-Paragraph Essay Dead?

Edsurge

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. He contends that the five-paragraph essay may be dead in the literal sense because instructors of college composition classes don’t assign it, but he believes its structure is still around.

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10 Next-Level Classroom Applications for Using Google My Maps

EdTechTeacher

Google My Maps offers teachers and students across disciplines an ability to bring map-making into the classroom. For an in-depth look at how to create a Google My Map, please check out my previous post: Bring Map Making to Any Classroom using Google My Maps. If you are ready to discover how maps can assist in expanding learning for your students, then read on!

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From Purpose To Platform: 4 Best Practices For Teaching With Video

TeachThought - Learn better.

From Purpose To Platform: 4 Best Practices For Teaching With Video contributed by Emily Merritt, letsrecap.com Video can be a powerful strategy for teaching and learning. In the last 10 years, we’ve seen it revolutionize instruction (Khan academy, MOOC’s), creative class projects (iMovie), teacher video coaching (Swivl), assessment and now it’s starting to change moderated education […].

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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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10 Practical Strategies to Foster A Growth Mindset Culture in Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

October 19, 2017 Below is a handy visual we created based on Marcus post. It features 10 practical strategies you can use to foster a growth-mindset culture in your class. These include: avoid.read more.

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Why Should Students Study Abroad?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Why Should Students Study Abroad? About 3 years ago, Teach Thought was included at the table for the first White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship. We gathered in the shared belief that what is learned in the classroom only goes so far; there’s a whole world out there that […]. The post Why Should Students Study Abroad?

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New Google Calendar Has Been Released

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

October 18, 2017 Google has recently released a new revamped version of Google Calendar on the web. The new Calendar comes with a bunch of interesting features that will help you manage your time and.read more.

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TeachThought Podcast: Ep. 90: Digital Readers Read Differently

TeachThought - Learn better.

TeachThought Podcast: Ep. 90: Digital Readers Read Differently by TeachThought Staff Episode 90 of the TeachThought Podcast is the sixth episode in a 12-part series on reinventing learning for the always-on generation. The series is based on the award-winning book, Reinventing Learning For The Always-On Generation: Strategies And Apps That Work. In this series, Ryan Schaaf takes a […].

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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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Aligning Student Safety to Your Risk Management Initiatives

Gaggle Speaks

Risk is everywhere in our lives. For K-12 schools, risk management solutions include worker’s compensation and personal liability, background checks for criminal records and proper insurance coverages. Since the 1990s, more focus has been placed on safety drills, surveillance, building security and other tactics due to onsite student assaults. About 75 percent of the assault claims made to United Educators: Prevention and Protection for Education were of a sexual nature.

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The Hour of Code: 3 Student Driven Activities for your School in 2017

My Paperless Classroom

As most students have already begun learning about Computer Science, these three activities can be easily brought into any curriculum or subject area. The post The Hour of Code: 3 Student Driven Activities for your School in 2017 appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at three ways you can prepare your students for this years HOUR of CODE. .

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Identifying wolves among sheep in the age of student cyberbullying

eSchool News

It’s sad news when research centers can’t agree on whether cyberbullying affects one-in-three, one-in-four, or one-in-five teens. It isn’t the specific number that’s important; it’s the fact that the number never goes below 20 percent. Imagine being in a classroom of 25 people, knowing that this classroom is not “normal” unless at least five of those students are being bullied.

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Improving the Open Education Conference

Iterating Toward Openness

This morning I sent the following email to the 2,253 subscribers to the Open Education Conference mailing list. I extend the same invitation to you. My apologies in advance for the length of this email, but I hope you’ll agree the subject warrants it. The work of the open education community is so important that we must leverage every resource available to better support student learning and success.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Itch Makes Scratch a Better Teaching Tool

techlearning

Here you'll find resources for teaching with Scratch and a complete management tool to support student learning.

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OPINION: Not every black person’s story invokes urban poverty and dire need

The Hechinger Report

Backpacks hang from the wall in a New Orleans school. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. I was startled by a particular statistic: Ninety percent of African Americans fall into a category she frames as “not poor.

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edWeb.net Approved by the New York State Dept. of Education as a Sponsor of CTLE Professional Learning

edWeb.net

edWeb.net , a free professional learning network, has been recognized by the New York State Education Department as an approved sponsor of CTLE for Professional Classroom Teachers, School Leaders, and Level III Teaching Assistants. Teachers in New York State can now use edWeb.net’s free professional learning edWebinars and CE certificates towards their professional development. edWeb is listed as an approved sponsor on the New York State Education Department’s website.

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Butterfly UP

Fractus Learning

The words resonated with me as a friend and I were discussing how hard it can be to embrace our true selves. It is easy to lose sight of who we are when we are constantly […].

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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.

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KQED Youth Media Challenge: How Are You Stepping Up?

Educator Innovator

KQED and the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)’s Youth Media Challenge asks teens to create video, audio, or writing sharing how they’ve stepped up to take action on an issue they’re passionate about. Do you have a story about how you’ve ‘stepped up’ to take action on an issue you’re passionate about? Whether a big action or small, we want to hear about it!

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Helping Kids Rediscover the Power of Reading

MiddleWeb

In Disrupting Thinking, Kylene Beers and Robert Probst argue that educators must help students become empowered readers who read out of personal desire, not just for school work. The authors' well supported argument uses a "Book-Head-Heart" framework, says Kevin Hodgson.

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What Makes an Immersive Educational Game More than Just a Game?

EmergingEdTech

Research, Collaboration, and Thorough Testing are Essential to Designing the Highest Quality Gamified Learning Experiences Think back to some of your very first educational experiences. It's highly. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Google Movies: Fast, Fun, Easy Way to Capture & Celebrate Learning

The Innovative Educator

Part of providing an effective learning opportunity includes capturing and celebrating the learning. There are numerous ways to do this. Lately, my favorite is Google Movies because it is a fast, fun, and easy way to document events. Here's what you do. During the event: Take photos Record videos After the event: Go to Google Assistant on your phone Tap "Movie" Select photos and videos you want to feature Tap "Create" Viola!

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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.

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Great Resource for Multimedia Expression & Sharing

techlearning

Great interactive and sharing features let users present information with text, images, and multimedia elements.

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6 musts when selecting an A+ identity and access management solution

eSchool News

Summer is over, and most schools and colleges are back in session. As with every year, the biggest challenge for IT departments presents itself during the lead-up to the first day of class and the first couple of weeks that follow. Unlike other industries, the education sector has specific identity and access management (IAM) needs. Provisioning accounts for new students and teachers, de-provisioning accounts of students and staff who have left, providing users secure access to the right resourc

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K-12 Policy Updates: Mandatory Fall Reading for Every Education Entrepreneur

Edsurge

Last week, the Department of Education (ED) published Secretary Betsy DeVos’s “ proposed priorities and definitions ” in the Federal Register. The document, which is open for public comment until mid-November, lays out her vision for American education, and the requirements and priorities that ED will apply to all competitive funding going forward. It’s a document that will serve as a road map for state and local education policy for the next four years (at least), so it’s worth reading.