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How Early Is Too Early to Teach Computer Science?

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Good news for parents concerned about kids getting too much screen time: It's possible to teach computer science concepts to very young kids without using computers at all. The post How Early Is Too Early to Teach Computer Science? appeared first on Market Brief.

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5 things you might not know about Kahoot!

Ditch That Textbook

When I do presentations and workshops with teachers all over the United States and beyond, hands go up all over the room when I ask if they’re familiar with Kahoot! It launched in August 2013 and has taken off like a rocket. In May 2017, it had 50 million monthly active users. In March 2017, […].

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5 Free Tech Tools to Try in Your Social Studies Lessons [ENCORE]

The CoolCatTeacher

The top Edtech Tool Tuesday of 2018 (so far) with Richard Byrne From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, was a history teacher. It shows. In today’s show, he talks about top free tech tools to try in social studies lessons. This is one to share with your history department.

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The juice that makes Flipgrid even better (#DitchPod wrap-up)

Ditch That Textbook

Educators have incorporated Flipgrid video discussions into their classes all over the world. Flipgrid Fever is a real thing and students are responding. There’s a way to help students have more success with their Flipgrid videos, though. I recently dug into Erik Palmer’s Well Spoken, a book encouraging teachers to support students in developing their […].

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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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Making the Most of the Moment

The CoolCatTeacher

Day 68 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There are times you go. You just do. So, after spending the weekend between the hospital and helping take care of family, I was “worn slap out” as we say here in the Southern US. However, my son has state literary competition tomorrow and I wanted to go.

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Tech That Won’t Survive 2018

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s an interesting article on what tech may go away by 2019. This is from Steven Wesley, guest blogger for Ask a Tech Teacher and ESL teacher, with intimate knowledge of tech used in the classroom. I think you’ll enjoy his thoughts: Technology has permeated every pore of our lives today, and education has been no exception. There are so many useful educational tools and apps out there which can help teachers connect with their students in a much better way.

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8 Great Citation Generators for Academics and Student Researchers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you working in academia, research students, and anyone else keen on learning how to properly cite sources in different styles, the tools below are definitely worth your attention. These.read more.

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YOUTUBE, TOILETS AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR TEACHERS

Battelle for Kids

Last year Google News Lab collaborated with designer Xaquín G.V. on a website called How To Fix a Toilet and Other Things We Can’t Do Without Search.

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Y Combinator’s Newest Batch of Education Technology Startups

Edsurge

There were all the usual trappings of a startup demo day. Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. But Y Combinator’s event this week also came with heavy machinery and special snacks. Outside the Computer History Museum, where its 26th demo day was held, an autonomous tractor drove in circles next to a massive 3D printer assembling an office pod.

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31 Surprising Facts About Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

31 Surprising Facts About Learning (That Challenge The Academic Approach) Have you checked your assumptions about student learning at the door? People in general, hold onto beliefs that are shaped by early experiences, the media, and faulty influences. The following list is a compilation of research that may surprise you. Video games, e-books, playtime, and […].

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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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Ditching the Weekly Bell Schedule to Create Flexibility for At-Risk Students

Edsurge

As I walk through campus on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Mateo, a 7th grader at Taos Academy Charter School, is in the middle of his culinary arts class. He stops making egg rolls for just a moment to tell me how much he likes his STEM-Arts classes. “They help me learn by using my hands,” he says. “That’s one of the ways I learn best.” Taos Academy Charter School, which serves 225 students in grades 5-12, uses a blended learning model to improve student outcomes across diverse measures such as stu

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The New Librarian: How I created a makerspace

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note : Welcome to our new series, The New Librarian. In this series, we will be profiling innovative and award-winning library media specialists who will share their favorite tools, lessons, and advice. If you are or know a librarian we should include, send a note to eullman@eschoolmedia.com.] . As an elementary educator for most of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a variety of learners—from inner-city students in North Carolina to university-level students in Chicag

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Collaborative Higher Ed Partnerships Are the Key to Student Success

Edsurge

As the labor market becomes increasingly dependent on skilled workers who have at least some education beyond high school—whether that means an associate or bachelor’s degree, or a professional credential—student success in college is as important as it has ever been. Regrettably, though, large numbers of students in the United States do not have access to higher education opportunities.

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How can STEM Education Can Transform the Environment of Tomorrow?

TeacherCast

When it comes to STEM education, the first thing that comes to mind should be environmental health. That’s because environmental and STEM education go hand in hand. The post How can STEM Education Can Transform the Environment of Tomorrow? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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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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Mute YouTube

Teacher Tech

Stop YouTube from Autoplaying I love YouTube, You love YouTube, We all love YouTube… but not the presenter when we fire up YouTube at a PD session. It’s legit! I wanted to look up something the presenter referenced but then the video starts blaring and I’m sheepishly trying to reduce the volume on my computer. […]. The post Mute YouTube appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Worried about enrollment and judged on success, some colleges boost support

The Hechinger Report

Student Amalia Lewis-Miller at the Cuyahoga Community College Eastern campus, where a special program helped her finish on time. The program is being eliminated. The monotony of working retail had finally gotten to Amalia Lewis-Miller by 2015, when she decided to go to college. After five years of clocking in at Home Depot, she was 27 and earning $12 an hour.

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Multistate Initiative Will Help Elementary Teachers Integrate Coding and Robotics into the Classroom

techlearning

Nonprofits in eight states are first to partner with developer of popular educational robots; Wonder Workshop initiative will provide teachers with professional development to support state-of-the-art coding and robotics education. Wonder Workshop , creator of the popular Dash, Dot, and Cue robots now used in over 15,000 elementary and middle schools in the US, today announced the Teach Wonder initiative, a collaboration with state-based nonprofit partners designed to give every educator the kno

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Can freeing struggling schools from red tape help them improve?

The Hechinger Report

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. This story was produced by EdNC , an online, daily, independent newspaper, and reprinted with permission. Emily Alejo, 9, had a choice to make. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. Would she choose volleyball, music, yoga, newspaper, Harry Potter crafts or something else?

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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5 ways to buoy early science learning at home

eSchool News

More parents would focus on science-related activities with their young children if they knew how to actually engage in such activities, according to a new survey. The survey from Education Development Center (EDC) and SRI International includes data from more than 1,400 parents of young children ages 3 to 6—many of whom (63 percent) are from low-income households.

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Q&A With STRATUP: A Multi Player Role Playing Business Simulation Game

EmergingEdTech

The folks at STRATUP reached out recently to discuss their multi-player business simulation application. I had some questions and they answered them. Join me for this dialogue with Sandeep Rambhatla, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Relationships, Risk-Taking, and Innovation

The Principal of Change

I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “ Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out ,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What mattered most: Trust. So what was the most important factor contributing to a team’s effectiveness? It was psychological safety. Simply put, psychological safety refers to an individual’s perception of taking a risk, and the response his or her teammates will have to taking tha

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Creating a Culture of Belonging for the Tech Loving Student

Tech Helpful

In the last few years our school has really stepped up our STEM/STEAM game. In this midst of creating opportunities for robotics, circuitry, design thinking competitions and coding, something unique has happened that we weren't expecting.we have empowered a new demographic at our school. Do you remember the iconic 1985 movie The Breakfast Club? Even in the trailer the BRAIN was left out of the introduction.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

Online work has become a classroom staple for students around the country, but hundreds of thousands are still locked out because of inadequate internet connections. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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Seeing School Tragedy through a Pax Lens

MiddleWeb

How do we help our learners apply fiction to real life challenges like school shootings? Maybe, writes Mary Tarashuk, by sharing our own experiences and helping them see that, as Pax's author says, "Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.".

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What Do You Do With All Your Photos?

techlearning

Many teachers are good at taking lots of photos of their students and their learning. Besides posting to social media, what other things do you do with those images? — Dean Shareski (@shareski) March 8, 2018 I’m always curious about what people do with their photos either personally or professionally. Abundance doesn’t always translate to usefulness.

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DigitalCitizenship.com 2018 Online Conference - Seeking Your Input!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I are organizing a online/virtual 2018 Digital Citizenship Conference , and we are asking for input on topics, speakers, resources, and best times to hold the event. Let us know what you think, and join the DigitalCitizenship.com network to be kept updated on the event and all developments (you can also fill out the survey there as well).

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Multistate Initiative Aims to Help K-12 Teachers Integrate Coding and Robotics into Classroom

techlearning

Wonder Workshop , creator of Dash, Dot, and Cue robots, today announced the Teach Wonder initiative, a collaboration with state-based nonprofit partners designed to give every educator the knowledge and skills needed to bring state-of-the-art coding and robotics experiences into the classroom. Launched in partnership with the Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine (ACTEM), Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU), mindSpark Learning , New York State Association for Computers and T

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The Forgotten Students

Edsurge

I’m working currently on a book about why people choose college. In the course of the research, I’ve listened to hundreds of students tell their story about how they made the college—or any postsecondary education—decision. Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. They left for a multitude of reasons, from family needs and responsibilities to medical and financial hardship, as well as a lack of purpose for being at college in the first place.

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Class Tech Tips: 10 Tips for Using Social Media to Tell Your School’s Story

techlearning

From Instagram to Twitter, social media has a powerful way of connecting users from around the world. But how can you start using social media platforms to tell your school’s story in local and global ways? As you think about all of the wonderful things happening at your school this year, you have stories, images and quotes to share from every corner of your building.

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Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

The post Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers appeared first on Shake Up Learning. My Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers! As a digital learning coach and consultant with more than ten years working in instructional technology, I have learned quite a few ways to help teachers integrate technology. I have compiled my Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers into this handy infographic, which you can download below.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.