Education Elements
JUNE 17, 2020
In times of uncertainty, organizations tend to shift their focus to getting results, maintaining order, and ensuring safety. While these actions make sense to counteract the challenges of complexity, it is in fact a culture of learning that allows organizations to increase agility and heighten their ability to navigate uncharted waters.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 17, 2020
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: How to Open a Program Maximized. Category: Internet.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
Cyberattacks continue to plague the education sector, and they’re only intensifying. Since 2016, there have been 855 cyber incidents publicly disclosed by U.S. schools and districts, according to data from the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. There were 348 in 2019 alone, nearly three times the number in 2018. With the increased use of technology for teaching, learning and continuing school operations in today’s remote environment, schools have also become more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 17, 2020
I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 035 is below. Thank you, Melissa Agudelo , for sharing how the San Diego Met in San Diego, California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
Cyberattacks continue to plague the education sector, and they’re only intensifying. Since 2016, there have been 855 cyber incidents publicly disclosed by U.S. schools and districts, according to data from the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. There were 348 in 2019 alone, nearly three times the number in 2018. With the increased use of technology for teaching, learning and continuing school operations in today’s remote environment, schools have also become more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2020
MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into
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Education Elements
JUNE 17, 2020
Research matters! When developing your Continuity of Learning (CoL) plans there are many things that feel logical and natural. In looking at historical data from recent studies surrounding remote/virtual learning, there are several elements that, at face value, seem both natural and logical, but in reality, may not be in your students’ best interest.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
Students could lose up to five months of their potential reading growth by next school year due to school closures during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study by educational nonprofits Successful Practices Network and the Center for College & Career Readiness. Researchers relied on real-time student reading data from 1.6 million students across 1,364 districts using Achieve3000 Literacy, a reading comprehension platform that measures and forecasts Lexile levels, to predict learni
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2020
More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. The report is part of the Education Blockchain Initiative , organized by the American Council on Education and supported by $2 million from the U.S.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
A new Google for Education feature saves educators and students time and energy while ensuring the integrity of student work. What Are Originality Reports and How Do They Work? Google’s originality reports do the heavy lifting of identifying unattributed citations, finding sources and identifying plagiarism — intentional or unintentional — by automatically searching the web for matching text results.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 17, 2020
Kahoot! announced today the release of a new service called Kahoot! Academy which is "a worldwide knowledge platform, community, and marketplace for educators and publishers." Kahoot! Academy.read more.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
The infusion of educational technology into K–12 classrooms fueled debates about students and screen time. A divide emerged, with some wealthier parents seeking reduced screen time while other parents and educators dealt with concerns about students having basic access to devices and internet as well as other related issues of equity. That conversation shifted when most of the nation’s schools began implementing remote learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 17, 2020
Math and English teachers have found videoconferencing and document collaboration tools the most useful instructional options during COVID-19. The post Zoom and Google Docs Win Out for Remote Teaching, Survey of Educators Finds appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
CDW•G and Clarity Innovations introduced a new cybersecurity resource hub at CoSN2020, the Consortium for School Networking’s annual conference, in May. Called K–12 Blueprint Security , the toolkit was designed to help IT leaders get buy-in for stronger cybersecurity programs. It features a plethora of materials — from a security self-assessment checklist to an overview of data privacy and security regulations IT decision-makers and district leaders should be familiar with.
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
JUNE 17, 2020
Author and Educator, Alexes Terry uses her personal story to illustrate the power of building relationships with students to meet their deep social, emotional, cultural, and learning needs. The post Real Love: Teaching Strategies For Reaching Students Who See No Way Out appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
There is no greater power than that of a creative mind bolstered by a strong foundation of learning. That is what we believe at St. Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2020
The major motion picture “ Just Mercy ” tells the true story of an innocent African American man condemned to death by a system built on false assumptions and racial bias. The film is garnering increased attention amidst the nation’s outrage over a history of murders and threats visited on African Americans, outside of any semblance of due process.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 17, 2020
Cybersecurity is a pressing concern for virtually every organization in today’s digital world. From simplistic phishing attacks to malware developed by sophisticated nation-state actors, organizations face an unprecedented array of threats and growing concern over the potential impact a security incident might have on their operations. Leaders see other firms suffer from reputational damage after breaches of personally identifiable information involving their customers and employees.
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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
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 17, 2020
With the increased demand on online education, major tech companies have upped the ante by releasing new tools with advanced features designed particularly to facilitate remote learning. Microsoft.read more.
eSchool News
JUNE 17, 2020
When your brain veers to all that’s bad, that’s where thoughts tend to stay. Anxiety and stress take over. Peace eludes us. These are trained responses to unpleasantness. We don’t just ride out the storm; we dive into it head-on and suffer the consequences. If we could resort to mindfulness to calm ourselves, navigating the waves of life would be easier.
Turnitin
JUNE 17, 2020
How emergency remote learning fell short with regard to the digital divide and inequities and what we can do to improve in subsequent terms. ?
eSchool News
JUNE 17, 2020
I love the smell of the ink on the page. I cherish the way paper feels to the touch. I enjoy reflecting on the moment in time, I read a book as it sits on my shelf. Each of us has heard adults opine on why they prefer to read print books. I’ve even had friends tell me that listening to an audiobook doesn’t count as reading because you’re not sitting down to consume the words in a traditional manner.
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.
Cycles of Learning
JUNE 17, 2020
Since concluding emergency/triage distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have spent the first two weeks of the summer facilitating online professional development for various schools and districts as they prepare for the inevitable integration of some form of distance learning in the fall. In preparation for keynote presentations and breakout sessions, I forced myself to create a simplified model of the online teaching structure that I implemented in my own classes.
eSchool News
JUNE 17, 2020
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you’d know Zoom’s video conferencing software isn’t as safe as we all previously thought. But did you know that locking your meetings and disabling your audio and video can help keep your information more secure and private? With the recent increase in remote learning, you’re probably wondering, “Is my child’s information safe?
MiddleWeb
JUNE 17, 2020
We enjoy publishing MiddleWeb articles that team a school-based teacher and a school-focused author/consultant who share classroom strategies they’ve been developing together. We’ve chosen 10 examples from our trove of guest articles to showcase the power of these team-ups.
Adjusting Course
JUNE 17, 2020
If you were to ask ten different hiring administrators their best advice on preparing for an interview, you'd probably get ten different answers. It reminds me a little bit of anytime I'm on the golf course and somebody tries to tell me "all the things" I need to do to improve my golf swing! I don't know about you, but it's easier for me to think about a few key things before I take a swing at something.
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.
Fractus Learning
JUNE 17, 2020
One of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages was English Franciscan friar and philosopher William of Ockham. Ockham was the village in the English county of Surrey, where he was born. By misspelling Ockham, [.].
Reading By Example
JUNE 17, 2020
Can I be real here for a moment? I teach first graders. It isn’t often that I have paused to note that these amazing human beings are going to grow up and become parents. I’m striving hard to ensure they can read and write at grade level and know their math facts fluently. Add to that the tremendous pressure of new mandates, initiatives, curriculum and the expectation of covering “xyz” between September and June…whew!
ExcelinEd
JUNE 17, 2020
States can jumpstart college-learning in high school. College acceleration opportunities like Advanced Placement, Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education, College Level Examination Program, dual credit, early college high school and International Baccalaureate can help high school students prepare for college-level work while they earn valuable college credit or work toward a postsecondary credential.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 17, 2020
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and have lots of activities for Father's Day such as: cards, crafts, and more. I highly recommend checking out Super Teacher Worksheets by clicking here !!!
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