Ed Tech from the Ground Up
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
In this opinion piece, Cognitive ToyBox Partnerships Manager Nikki Navta describes lessons her company has learned from the COVID experiences of two districts it's worked with closely. The post How Two School Districts Have Adapted to COVID-Era Realities appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Seemingly innocuous digital tools and features, such as text size and cursor color, can help students learn — or hamper the experience. The elementary students that Kristin Oropeza teaches sometimes have trouble locating their cursors on the screen. A built-in Chromebook feature not only makes the cursor larger, but it also draws a red circle around the object, making it easier to spot.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
If your school’s digital devices extend beyond Chromebooks and iPads, here’s a good discussion about the strengths-weaknesses of Macs and Pcs, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: Students often decide between PCs and Macs. As a teacher, you’re probably often asked for advice from students who shop for their first computers: “Should I buy a Mac or a PC?
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
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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.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
In this opinion piece, Cognitive ToyBox Partnerships Manager Nikki Navta describes lessons her company has learned from the COVID experiences of two districts it's worked with closely.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. That Broadband Gap Bar? Raised. So maybe you thought internet connectivity to schools was a done deal.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Nearly 20 million students were projected to attend an institution of higher education in the United States during the fall 2020 semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. However, due to COVID-19, colleges are experiencing a 13 percent decline in freshman enrollment as of November, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently reported.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Scribd is a platform that offers you access to a huge digital library of reading materials. If you like digital reading Scribd is defnitely a must try. It offers various collections of.read more.
EdTech4Beginners
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Believe it or not, but spelling is still important! Moreover, spelling skills are frequently used to evaluate you as a person. A few years ago, scientists from Fortunate 500 did research that proved that 85 % of resumes or cover letters were thrown away because of spelling errors. This means that even inconspicuous spelling mistakes can influence your future career!
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Last May, a 15-year-old Black girl in Michigan known only by her middle name, Grace, was put in juvenile detention for not completing her homework. Teens not turning in their homework is hardly an anomaly. Other teens are scolded, lose marks or, at worst, get detention for this offence. But Grace was incarcerated. The difference? She’s Black. Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge.
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.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Real-time polling, original instructional videos, virtual conferences, and live on-screen annotation are just a few new skills teacher Jonathan Delgado is adding to his teaching toolkit this school year. When Delgado begins his high school Spanish class at The Village School each day, he’s learning to manage many new things simultaneously in this year’s hybrid learning environment.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Hear Harvard freshman Josie Chen as she navigates her first semester remotely from her parents’ house in California. Audio story produced by Monica Braine. Josie Chen is a first-year student at Harvard, but has never set foot on campus. Like many students this year, she has opted to take her courses virtually from her parents’ home, in Oakland, California.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
The U.S. reached an important milestone several years ago—minority students now comprise the largest demographic group in our nation’s public schools. While there is great diversity within our student population, the majority of educators still do not share the same cultural experiences with the diverse students they serve. However, many effective teachers have consistently been sensitive to and culturally aware of student backgrounds.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Programs to boost parent involvement in schools were carried out in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Puebla, Chiapas and Yucatan, which have high percentages of indigenous people. Source: Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments, NBER Working Paper No. 28040, October 2020. Research has shown that students whose parents are involved in their schools are more likely to attend regularly, behave well and earn higher grades.
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.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Did you know that Microsoft PowerPoint offers a feature to record audio narration directly on the slides?! The post Adding Audio to PowerPoint appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Philly Teacher
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
The combination of three different pandemics – the coronavirus, racial injustice & economic uncertainty – has opened a gaping anxious hole in my inner being ripe for the filling. Like many people I know, I began to fill that hole with “doomscrolling” and mindless swiping through social media. Over the last few weeks, as the.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
This fall Katie Durkin’s middle schoolers developed a voluntary reading plan using a design thinking process. After modeling her own reading goals, she had students generate and pursue 'prototype' goals that helped them expand choice and voice in their reading practices.
Vizor
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. This is ideal to get right BEFORE getting the Chromebooks. Why? It’s in every party’s best interest for a smooth transition and so the students can take advantage of the devices as soon as possible.
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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
Marketplace K-12
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Frontline Education, a provider of K-12 administrative software, has acquired SuccessEd, which tracks compliance and services offered to students in special education. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Achieve3000, Frontline Education Make Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief.
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Drew Perkins talks with Maggie Kline, about her new book “Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools”. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 225 Trauma-Proofing Our Schools appeared first on TeachThought.
Jamf on EdTech
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Apple's ARM-based M1 chip heralds enormous leaps in efficiency and speed of Apple devices. It also may create challenges for developers working on a universal binary for their apps, as well as for admins when integrating these new powerhouses into their existing fleets. Jamf is here to help.
Kathy Schrock
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Although having a dedicated document camera, like IPEVO's DO-CAM which I reviewed here , there is another great solution from IPEVO that takes advantage of using your own smartphone as the document camera feed. The IPEVO Uplift is a multi-angle arm for smartphones. You simply insert your smartphone in the padded clip, and adjust the arm to any angle or orientation you want to!
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.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Montessori learning has 100 years of refinement and validation behind it. Yet, fewer than one percent of students worldwide are in what Ray Girn, CEO of Higher Ground Education , would consider an “authentic, high-fidelity Montessori program.” I think that there is an opportunity to achieve what ride-sharing apps or Airbnb have achieved: show the world another way of doing education at a sufficient scale.
N2Y
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Have you ever been in an IEP meeting when it was clear that not everyone was on the same page? Perhaps a teacher and related-service provider presented conflicting information about a child’s progress toward an IEP goal , or maybe the general education and special education teachers described behavioral concerns that the psychologist was unaware of.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. If young students say the letter R makes a /rih/ sound and M makes the /muh/ sound, there is a strong chance they might have trouble learning to read. While they studied the letters A to Z and their sounds, they probably cannot link them to actual words. The learners are likely missing the blending and decoding skills that lead to reading fluency, explained John Lant, CEO, and Cheryl Lant, Founder, 4 Weeks to Read, in
MindShift
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
When an accusation like “you don’t care” hurtles an adult’s way, the inner turmoil of adolescence can seem purely excruciating. But these reactions actually stem from a positive force, says Ronald Dahl, who founded the Center for the Developing Adolescent at the University of California, Berkeley: a unique drive to find meaning in life and relationships.
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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