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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46. As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. But what exactly is a competency-based education system, and what role does technology play in the design and support of this system?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We have spoken before about what defines a good digital citizen , and today we will extrapolate some more on that definition to include some new emerging trends. To recap, digital citizenship encompasses the ability to operate and “be” in the online world in a responsible manner that demonstrates respect for others, as well as their rights to privacy and safety.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The start of a new school year is always busy. New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. I get so many recommendations from colleagues, trusted forums, and my Twitter feed. I recently previewed one I think you’ll like called Education Galaxy. It’s online assessment, practice, and instruction for K-6 students with a tagline: Curiously fun, amazingly effective, refreshingly affordable.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Jen Burdis on episode 370 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jen Burdis, teacher and two-time American Ninja Warrior Competitor, shares her secrets for staying healthy as a teacher. Today’s Sponsor: Advancement Courses. Donor’s Choose. From now until September 28, Advancement Courses, an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorChoose.org projects.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Within hectic lives education company leaders can avoid feeling stuck in a perpetual state of doing business and instead claim more time as their own. The post 6 Ways Education CEOs Can Set Boundaries for Success at Every Level appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Stefan Stoll isn’t your typical hype man for education technology. “Edtech is about teaching more people with fewer resources,” he complains. And that bothers Stoll, who is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, because he’s a firm believer that “the personal experience that a student has with an instructor is key to learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Colleges have been searching for new ways to make use of the massive open online courses they created ever since the fad died down several years ago. The latest idea: encourage residential students to take them—not for credit, but to fulfill prerequisites or just for personal enrichment. To understand the concept, it’s important to remember how much MOOCs have changed since they emerged about six years ago to great fanfare.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

I started my journey by going on a walk … a Digital Gallery Walk. I remember how I used to do poster sessions with my math classes. Groups of students would tear off a big sheet of poster paper from an easel pad and go to work crafting their math presentations with grape and licorice-scented markers. The posters would go up on the wall and students would take turns admiring each poster as if strolling the halls of the Louvre.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Since it started supporting third party applications, Google Classroom witnessed a surge in the integration of external applications. The main goal such an integration is to facilitate students and.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Parents are unsure of the impact technology will have on the future workforce, but half of parents in a recent survey believe their children should learn coding and computer programming. The Microsoft and YouGov survey takes a look at technology, parenting, and education. The survey finds that 60 percent of surveyed parents say they feel optimistic or hopeful about the role of technology in their child’s life as they grow older, while 30 percent say they are unsure or scared.

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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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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Providing Opportunities for Students to Explore and Develop Their Passions Through Genius Hour A Guest Blog Post by Marcia Carrillo @marciamentor I am passionate about sports! I love to play sports, watch sports, coach sports, analyze sports, and learn new sports or exercises! At what age did I realize this? Probably in 6th grade, when […]. The post Beginner’s Guide to Genius Hour: Developing Students’ Passions appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Digital equity is one of the most complex and urgent issues facing 21st-century educators. Digital equity is one of the most complex and urgent issues facing 21st-century educators. It’s an economic concern, as schools consider how they can ensure equal access for all. And it raises questions about gender and race: How can schools inspire more girls and students of color to pursue STEM?

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Providing Opportunities for Students to Explore and Develop Their Passions Through Genius Hour A Guest Blog Post by Marcia Carrillo @marciamentor I am passionate about sports! I love to play sports, watch sports, coach sports, analyze sports, and learn new sports or exercises! At what age did I realize this? Probably in 6th grade, when […]. The post Beginner’s Guide to Genius Hour: Developing Students’ Passions appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are more things in heaven and earth, wrote William Shakespeare, than are dreamt of in our philosophies (Hamlet, scene V). By altering the very structures of our experience of the world, AR, augmented reality, is reaffirming the Bard’s intuitive grasp of reality as something that exceeds far beyond the contours of human perception. The word ‘augment’ is derived from the Latin word ‘augere’, which means to add or increase.

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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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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, Jeff sits down with educator Ken Woodard to discuss how he has created a podcast featuring members of his school district to make a pretty awesome show called the Lunch Duty Podcast. The post Is It Possible For Your Entire Faculty To Create a Podcast … Together? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

From preschool through high school, LEGO® Education provides a continuum of hands-on, playful learning solutions that engage every student’s natural curiosity. These solutions help students develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, while also encouraging them to become lifelong learners. Educators can easily integrate these LEGO Education solutions, designed with lesson plans aligned to national curriculum standards, into their existing curriculum today.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, Jeff sits down with educator Ken Woodard to discuss how he has created a podcast featuring members of his school district to make a pretty awesome show called the Lunch Duty Podcast. The post Is It Possible For Your Entire Faculty To Create a Podcast … Together? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Fifty-seven percent of K-12 teachers said they lack time to use data effectively, a new survey finds. School companies need to focus on which kinds of data can help educators the most. The post Teachers’ Biggest Need With K-12 Data: More Time to Make Sense of It appeared first on Market Brief.

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Jamf on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As you may have heard, Jamf acquired Orchard & Grove, the makers of NoMAD. Have questions about what this means for you? Read this for answers to frequently asked questions.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In a workshop this past week, I discussed how it is essential to create conditions for students where students and adults find ways to learn for themselves. I believe that we can get caught into the trap of “spoon-feeding” where learners think something is not necessary to learn unless it is explicitly taught in a step-by-step process. One participant made a critical point.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 134 Equity And Authentic PBL Through #HipHopEd Drew Perkins talks with Sam Seidel about his work to improve teaching and learning with the Stanford Design School and through the lens of Hip Hop Education. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: @husslington hiphopgenius.org Stanford Design School: The K12 Lab @stanforddschool Hip Hop […].

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In each episode of the Inside Our MIND podcast, we take a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives. In our latest episode, MIND’s Lead Mathematician Brandon Smith joins Brian once again, this time for a discussion on informal learning. Brandon first explains how the achievement gap and the perception gap are symptoms of a larger problem called the experience gap.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of u

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today, we released our fourth annual State of the States report: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day and we are proud to announce that 40.7 million more students have access to high-speed Internet connections than just five years ago. So as we kick off the 2018 school year , we know that reaching the goal of connecting 99% of America’s K-12 students is well within our reach.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today, Black Girls CODE, the non-profit organization dedicated to teaching girls ages 7-17 about computer programming and technology, cut the ribbon on its redesigned New York Tech Exploration Lab that’s co-located within its existing East Coast office within Google’s New York headquarters. Along with the opening of their new tech lab, CEO Kimberly Bryant announced the organization’s new Board of Directors. [ What’s New: New Tools for Schools ] Designed to look like the inside of a computer, the

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A Simple Compound Interest Calculator by TeachThought Staff One of the foundations of financial literacy–or saving and investing, anyway–is understanding the benefits of compound interest. The big picture here is what a child ‘needs to know.’ At TeachThought, we support the prioritizing of thought over content (while realizing that they’re not mutually exclusive).

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It's that time of year! We hope you can join us as we celebrate another season of #LiteracyOLanterns. Participating is fun and easy: Pick a pumpkin and choose a favorite book. Sketch the cover (or main character) using a permanent marker. Fill in the black outline using acrylic paint.just like a paint-by-number. Post a picture to our hashtag on your favorite social media channel ( #LiteracyOLanterns ).

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Most people hate the sound of alarms. I’m one of them – it’s why I evangelize the use a light simulation alarm clock that usually wakes me up with light before the alarm goes off. But […].

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

FEATURES HOW CLASSROOM DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, AND FURNITURE CAN ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING By Craig Williams Wherever you are in the design and renovation process, I encourage you to develop a holistic approach to thinking about technology, furniture, and spatial design. SOME VITAL STATISTICS FOR EDUCATORS By Steve Baule Globally, only about 20 percent of the $9.52 billion is being invested in K–20, according to GeekWire.

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Cycles of Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

My top three strategies, ideas, or tools of the week! ​ Looking for a tangible application for leveraging VR in the classroom? Recently our school acquired a classroom set of Google Cardboard VR goggles via a generation donation from an former student. I have been struggling to find classroom applications until I came across Google Expeditions , an immersive platform that lets you go on VR trips to historical landmarks, go down to the atomic level, get up close with sharks, and even visit

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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