Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

According to Ken Montgomery, Executive Director of Design Tech High School (“d.tech”), a charter school in Northern California, “The world is going to change quickly and unpredictably, so the best thing that we can do for kids is give them a mindset and skillset that whatever the world is like, they can succeed and find their path.”. To meet this goal, Montgomery and his team created a design thinking curriculum, where students learn how to first understand a problem and end-user, then brainstor

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Students learn valuable lessons and help their communities through creation.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A version of this post was originally published in July 2017 on Teach Secondary. Student performance is not only affected by their own physical or psychological factors, but the learning environment as well. The space where children do most of their learning activities is, in its traditional form, rather rigorous and stiff. As a result, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to meet the diverse learning needs of young people – and also of teachers – in such a setting.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Schools and districts need to remember that creating the architecture to allow them to collect and use data effectively is not a simple process. The post In a School’s Digital Data House, the ‘Plumbing’ to Make Connections May Be Complicated appeared first on Market Brief.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I’ve taught high school English Language Arts (ELA) and history for six years at Juab School District in central Utah. It’s incredible to look back at where I started as a new teacher and see how much my pedagogy and practice have changed since then. One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. When my district started to explore this approach five years ago, we knew that before we could even begin to understand how to implement competency-based lea

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

When teachers used digital educational games in the classroom, students raised test scores by more than half a letter grade in only three weeks, according to a study from researchers at Vanderbilt University and partners at Legends of Learning , a research-driven educational game platform. The new research, published by the Journal of the Learning Sciences , demonstrates the benefits of game-based learning for students when compared to students who had no access to such games. “ Substantial Inte

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2017

October 19, 2017 Mobile learning is a relatively recent learning trend that has seen the light due to the widespread of Internet-enabled mobile devices and the rise of what is known as ‘Apps.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As libraries work to scan their collections, they tread carefully around books published after 1923 and likely to still be under copyright. But researchers at the Internet Archive and Tulane University say they’ve found a legal way to scan and make available many in-copyright works published between 1923 and 1941, which will come as welcome news to those who want to dive into a digital copy of a book like In Love With a T-Man , a 1937 pulp novel by Rob Eden.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Can a Whiteboard be considered Educational Technology? Find out how you can bring "Unplugged EdTech" into your next classroom activity with mcSquares. | TeacherCast Podcast #163. The post Let’s Cut The Tech for a Minute. and talk about Whiteboards with @mc_Squares appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Can a Whiteboard be considered Educational Technology?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

What’s a typical day like for the director of learning at Slack, the fast-growing messaging app that aims to eliminate the need for e-mail? These days, it involves spending time thinking about Choose Your Own Adventure books. That title belongs to Kristen Swanson, whose job is to develop trainings for its employees and to help explain the messaging tool to customers around the globe.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2017

October 20, 2017 Screencastify is one of the best screen recording tools you can use on your Chrome. We have been using it for the last couple of years and has always proved its efficacy.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A whopping 98 percent of U.S. kids live in a house with some form of a mobile device—and those smartphones and tablets are gobbling up a greater portion of kids' screen time than ever. That’s one of the key findings in a just-released Common Sense Media survey tracking media habits among children aged 0-8, which also found a narrowing but significant digital divide among lower-income households, and the first signs that virtual reality and internet-connected toys are finding their way into Ameri

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How should an entire district begin teaching digital citizenship? To begin with, creativity, flexibility and strong goals are a must. In “ Roadmap to Districtwide Digital Citizenship Adoption ,” Theresa Ellington, instructional technology manager at Life Schools Charter School in Texas, explained how she was able to implement a digital citizenship curriculum throughout the Title I district with limited time and no money, and shared lessons learned from the district’s first year using a digital c

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Starting in fall 2018, all first year students at The Ohio State University will receive iPad Pros. It’s part of a larger collaboration between Ohio State and Apple, which also seeks to “integrate learning technology throughout the university experience,” an iOS design laboratory and opportunities for students to learn coding skills to make the ready for a career in the “app economy.

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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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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Star Documents in Your Google Drive Is your Google Drive a mess? Now that we have students doing digital work it gets extra muddy as our Google Drive also is full of student work with the same titles as our original documents. Star Anything You Will Come Back To One simple way to find things […]. The post Google Drive: Star Your Documents appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 19, 2017

McGraw-Hill Education has tried to make a big shift into digital products and adaptive learning. The post McGraw-Hill Education CEO David Levin Resigns appeared first on Market Brief.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There were lots of amazing takeaways from #OpenEd17 for me. One set of takeaways has to do with opportunities to make the conference a more effective vehicle for advancing the work of open education. I wrote about that yesterday. Over the coming days and weeks I’ll post more thoughts prompted by conversations at the conference, starting below.

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SecurEdge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

When you were a kid, didn’t you hate it when adults said things like, “Sometimes you have to learn the hard way”—and they were right? Riding on the handlebars of a friend’s bike down a very steep hill while your friend pedaled furiously might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but one busted lip and lots of bruises later, you had (hopefully) learned a valuable lesson about bike safety.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Email’s one of those things we all have to deal with, whether we like it or not. It’s such a part of our day-to-day work lives that we’ve written quite a lot here over the years about it. For quite a while I’ve been using Airmail , in large part because it’s very capable of handling multiple email accounts. It also enables scheduling of emails, without the need to use a service like Boomerang or Right Inbox (neither of which works with all email accounts).

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The content and publishing giant has a new executive leadership team to respond to demands in the K-12 marketplace. The post Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches New Leadership Team appeared first on Market Brief.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It’s not your imagination: Tiny tots are spending dramatically more time with tiny screens. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, just released new numbers on media use by children 8 and under. The nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes with children now have a mobile device — such as a tablet or smartphone.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Why do you write? Even if you don’t fancy yourself much of a writer, think of all the ways you might practice writing—across a range of platforms and mediums—from day to day. Writing can be expressive, explanatory, creative, or matter of fact. It can inspire, inform, and entertain. Writing looks like a journal entry, a poem, an Instagram story, a confessional video, a tweet!

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In an awesome conversation last night with Patrick Larkin and Katie Martin , Patrick was sharing some of the things that they have done in their district in the previous several years. One of the stories that resonated with me was how when they moved forward with going one-to-one, they asked students for feedback on what they were going to use. Too often, the adults make those decisions for students and sometimes, with vendors.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Attractive interface, comprehensive lesson range, and controls for teachers.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Storyboard That the wonderful resource that educators everywhere are using for a variety of educational purposes (i.e. timelines, digital storytelling, project based learning, etc), has just release their latest bundle for Halloween. These activities cover a wide range of topics from story starters, holiday cards, monsters, safety tips, and more. Storyboard That is an excellent learning tool w/ educational portal, where teachers can manage, track, differentiate instruction, and assess student ac

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Less than half of the students in America are proficient in math and m ost students would rather eat broccoli than do math problems. ( Click to tweet ). Yet we are asking more of our students than ever before. The Standards for Mathematical Practice raise expectations for our students, asking them to understand concepts, make connections and communicate their reasoning.

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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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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Mysimpleshow is an excellent site for educators and students to make videos/presentations. This is done through a easy-to-use interface where a user selects a template and then creates a script for their project/story. The mysimpleshow engine does the rest and creates a beautiful looking video. This is great for creating explainer videos to introduce a topic, assess student understating, and even for blended/flipped learning.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 19, 2017

"i Know it just keeps getting bigger and better! Currently, there are more than 22,000 interactive math questions live on the site! Sign up for a free account, and you'll see why iKnowit.com is the next best thing for your classroom!" Be sure to check out this excellent site for grades K-5th for interactive Math practice in these fun engaging games/exercises.

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