EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez More students embrace technology and STEM topics if use is relevant to the world around them.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I was a mess as a soccer coach. I hadn’t played soccer myself since middle school. (Of course, in a small community where few people know much about soccer, you still get asked to coach!) But that wasn’t the issue. During one practice, I noticed something. My mouth was running constantly. I started paying attention […].

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A high school in New Jersey is preparing its students for the real world with 3D printers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Red, yellow and blue are very nice colors. But the world would be boring in just these three ones. Just try to imagine an oak tree in the summer, only with blue leaves. Green, orange, violet and brown take things to the next level, but the multitude of shades and tints make the world wonderfully colorful — or colorfully wonderful. You know what else could be consider that way?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Digital Promise hosted its fourth micro-credential event – the Symposium on the Currency of Micro-credentials – last week near Washington, D.C. Policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders attended the Symposium to engage in design challenges focused on providing educators with recognition for the micro-credentials they earn. Micro-credentials validate learning, no matter where or when it occurs and are awarded based on submitted evidence of competence.

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The Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

One can’t pick up a newspaper or a magazine these days without reading about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change the world — dramatically and fast. Maybe yes; maybe no. But in either case: Why now? Why is there this sudden shift from mobile-first to AI-first? See our blog for the two word answer!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Our students have access to a worldwide audience through their social networks. This audience can provide them knowledge, support, advice, resources, or funding. Tapping into the power of the crowd is known as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Our digital learners need to understand the role crowdsourcing and crowdfunding plays in promoting causes, startups, and innovation.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) leverage the power of multi-sector networks to support innovative teaching and learning in regions across the country. This year we embarked on a research initiative to learn more about how regional EdCluster ecosystems work, how they diffuse innovation, and how they best support the development and scale of breakthrough learning tools and practices.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

At Education Elements we are incredibly fortunate to work with so many exceptional, passionate, and extraordinarily talented people, including teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders. These amazing people are going above and beyond to transform education, and are helping to write the future through the success of their students.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Good Afternoon, Friends! This Thursday, September 21st, from 3:00-3:45 pm EST, my co-author, Eric Sheninger and I will join former Governor and Alliance for Excellent Education President, Bob Wise, for a free webinar on our new book: Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today. We can’t thank enough the thousands of school leaders who have already invested in the book and are using it as a roadmap to transform teaching and learning in their schools and classrooms.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

One of my blog posts was recently featured on Edutopia! If you haven’t checked out this great education website (founded by George Lucas), then do! It’s great! Click this link for the article – great info about teaching with 360 videos Tagged: 360 videos , edtech , education , learning , resources , teachers , teaching , teaching ideas , VR.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Blaine is a student in a suburban town. He wakes up at 7 am and brushes his teeth before wolfing down a bowl of cereal. After putting on his high-top sneakers, he races out the door to the street corner, where he waits for the school bus. As he steps on the yellow ride, Blaine panics. Did he forget his school-issued RFID badge that he has to tap so that the district can have a record of him getting picked up?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As more students head back to school, we will continue to hear about how educators can successfully incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education into curriculums from as early as Kindergarten. Whether it’s providing students with hands-on robotics tools where they can learn to code, program and design on their own, or using more in-class devices like Google Chromebooks that familiarize students with technology and problem-solving skills, there are many ways to integrate

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

If you’ve ever seen the Toy Story movies, you may remember the neighbor kid, Sid. His room is presented in horror-movie fashion, with dim lighting and discordant music, and the toys are all in pieces, as Sid dismantles them and remakes them in his own crazy way. To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

September 19, 2017 Below is a collection of some good educational science apps curated specifically for high school students. This work is based on Biology Apps collection in iTunes App Store.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The post Watching Yourself: The Potential Of Video Recording In Student Reflection appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

September 19, 2017 Looking for some good book apps to use on your Android ? The list below has you covered. It features 6 popular Android apps that will enable you to discover, access, browse.read more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Peter Thiel once complained he was promised flying cars, but had to settle for 140 characters instead. Perhaps the Silicon Valley tech billionaire should learn how to build one himself—and sign up for a class from Udacity. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week in San Francisco, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced two new “nanodegree” offerings: an introductory program for self-driving cars and, yes, another one for flying cars.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The post How to Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Maximize Google Classroom with YouTube! Did you know that YouTube works seamlessly with Google Classroom? What a fantastic way to integrate video clips, tutorials, and get students creating! Let’s dig into some strategies that will help you make the most of Google Classroom and YouTube.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The post Chance The Rapper Is Starting An Awards Show For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Popularity is a loaded word. For many adults, it evokes powerful memories of jockeying for position in high school cafeterias and hallways. These memories are salient for a reason, said Mitch Prinstein , a professor of psychology and author of “Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World.” The urge to be popular among our peers reaches its zenith in adolescence, “at just the same time we are developing a stable personality,” said Prinstein.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What if you had the opportunity to bring your margin notes to life and engage in a dynamic conversation with others each time you read a text? With Writing Our Civic Futures , a collaborative project of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus for the 2017-2018 academic year, you will have just this opportunity. Click to download a PDF flyer about Marginal Syllabus.

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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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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I try very hard to push myself to get into better shape, and I will have to admit, the struggle is real. Getting older, slowing metabolism and a lack of routine in my life from being on the road has thrown me off a healthy regimen. Not excuses, but the reality I face and that I try to deal with to get into better shape daily. That being said, I am still trying, and won’t stop.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The post TeachThought Podcast Ep. 87 Helping Questions Flourish With Recap appeared first on TeachThought.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Image Source Crowdfunding has become one of the go-to fundraising tactics for entrepreneurs and companies. It allows them to get members of a particular community or crowd to fund interesting ideas. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Business executives are looking at ways that helping districts with data can boost schools' ability to respond to requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The post Where ESSA Opens Opportunities for Companies appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Today, we released our third annual report on the state of connectivity in America’s public schools. Since EducationSuperHighway began, creating digital learning opportunities for all children has motivated us to ensure that digital equity is a nationwide reality in our education system. We have long believed that measuring progress is critical to this mission.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

More than 200 school districts with an aggregate buying power of $2.3 billion in the ed-tech market have signed a pledge on interoperability. The post District Demand Growing for Data and Content Systems That Can Share Information appeared first on Market Brief.

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Tech Helpful

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Tim Betts on episode 152 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Videos are the modern essay. If you can’t create them, you can’t start a movement, can’t sell a product, or promote an idea. Of all the things I teach, helping kids tell digital stories through video is probably one of the most important.

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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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