Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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?The Power of Choice: Why Online Classes Matter to Students

Edsurge

There is no lack of evidence to suggest that online classes have deeply transformed the teaching and learning landscape in higher education. In 2015, for example, nearly 30 percent of college students took at least one online class. But as more faculty are being encouraged to teach online, how often are they aware of why creating the option to take online classes supports their students’ ability to graduate?

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22 Ideas for Playful Learning Outdoors

Teacher Reboot Camp

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes. Lately, I’ve been exploring the great outdoors with my newborn, Savannah. She is so fascinated with real-world learning, such as observing her shadow, feeling dirt, observing animals, or touching plants. I’ve been an educator for over 2 decades.

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Sarasota County Schools Expand Mobile Access Without Compromising Security

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff Cisco ISE helps a Florida school district secure both enterprise and users’ own devices.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights.

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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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12 Excellent Physics Apps for High School Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 14, 2017 Here is a collection of some good educational iPad apps to help you with the teaching/learning of physics. This collection is specifically curated for high school students and teachers.read more.

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Design Thinking with Puppets in Elementary Education by @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

Last summer I looked at my boss and said, “We have to get it together for SXSWEDU! I think we should pitch Design Thinking with Puppets.” Neither one of us knew what that meant at the time, but we had 9 months to figure it out. If you don't know Design Thinking you should know […]. The post Design Thinking with Puppets in Elementary Education by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Teacher’s Response to Intervention (RTI) Guide

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 14, 2017 Response to Intervention (RTI) is a pedagogical process through which teachers get to prematurely identify and address students learning as well as behavioral needs. It’s an ongoing.read more.

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Now a Google Certified Educator

EdTechTeam

After seeing droves of people flock the EdTechTeam booth at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, I finally decided to look into what might be getting so many people excited! When I learned that EdTechTeam was educating teachers to harness the power of tools that most of us already have access to, I started to get more interested.

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Building Data Fluency - Visually And Literally

ASIDE

ASIDE 2017 In this data-rich world, our students face growing amounts of statistical content. That's why we believe teaching graphicacy is vital to the modern classroom. We develop ways to incorporate visual literacy and visual thinking in some capacity in most assignments and consistently look for ways that students can transfer content from a linear to visual format.

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Future sense

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Fosco Lucarelli on Flickr The celebrated American physicist Michio Kaku claimed that it is impossible to accurately predict the future, and he is right. When we try to predict anything, we always run up against a number of variables, and the longer time goes on, the more variables there are to consider. Astrologers tend to keep their predictions extremely vague, so they can be interpreted in many different ways.

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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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Choosing a Network Management System: Part 2 [Video]

SecurEdge

Network management systems are a critical part of every wireless system, so much so that we thought a part 2 was in order. In this week's episode, we circle back to reveal a couple more features that should come standard with any network management system.

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Struggling Mathers

Reading By Example

This past year was my 26th in this business. I spent 11 of those as a middle school language arts and social studies teacher. I spent 5 years as an instructional coach. I taught alternative ed and GED for 2.5 years. All of my working life I’d been concerned with the input side of literacy – reading. This year, I am teaching high school math.

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Build Critical Reading Skills With Useful Chrome Extension

techlearning

Useful for any classroom where critical reading is key; lets teachers break website reading into manageable sizes.

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5 ways to get the U.S. to a 90 percent high school graduation rate

eSchool News

The latest annual report in a series tracking the U.S. high school graduation rate reveals that, while the national graduation rate is 83.2 percent, the nation could miss its goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020 due to persistent equity gaps. The 2017 Building a Grad Nation report , the eighth annual update on progress and challenges in boosting high school graduation rates, reveals that only half of U.S. states are on track to reach a 90 percent high school graduation rate b

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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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Plotagon now free for educators

NeverEndingSearch

A couple of years back I was thrilled to discover Plotagon and posted about it here. Today, I was thrilled to discover that free one-year teacher licenses are now available at Plotagon Education. (Currently, students may sign up for 30-day trials.). Reminiscent of Xtranormal, Plotagon encourages writing skills as users craft professional-looking animated movies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. After rolling back for-profit higher ed regulations last week , Betsy DeVos turns her attention to dismantling civil rights as she holds a series of Title IX “ listening sessions.” More on the Department of Education’s for-profit university machinations in the for-profit section below. Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look