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Inspire Learning Beyond Your Classroom Walls by Setting Up a Virtual Learning Community

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community. The free web tools below help teachers create a safe online class where students can access learning materials, post their work, and comment on the works of others.

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Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

To meet state and national requirements (and receive critical funding), schools must be open a minimum number of days each year. When dramatic weather hits — be it snow or violent storms or another emergency — it becomes impossible to reach the classroom. That means lesson plans aren’t completed, assessments aren’t taken, and kids don’t learn.

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Smart Technologies Could Benefit Education – or Could Make Our Problems Worse

EdNews Daily

By Katherine Prince. Editor’s note: This is part three in a series. If you missed them, you can read part one and part two. Not long ago, states and school districts were implementing one-to-one initiatives designed to make a computer or iPad available to every child. Then, flipped classrooms and blended learning introduced compelling ways of leveraging digital tools to maximize instructional time and student-teacher interactions.

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50 Examples Of Analogies For Critical Thinking

TeachThought - Learn better.

By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it's almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding. The post 50 Examples Of Analogies For Critical Thinking appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Effective Intervention for Students with Dyslexia

EdNews Daily

By Suzanne Carreker. Dyslexia affects an estimated 15-20 percent of the U.S. population. But it is often called “the hidden disability” because impacted students are often competent or even exceptional in areas other than reading. Students with dyslexia can be highly intelligent, highly verbal, exhibit above-average listening comprehension skills or vocabulary, so their reading difficulties tend to be unexpected.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

In the education technology industry, we see an abundance of press covering venture-backed startups and their funding rounds, acquisitions and other noteworthy milestones. On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. In a way, it makes sense.

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Some Helpful Books on Autism for Teachers and Parents

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a collection of some popular books on autism. Get to explore the autistic world from multiple perspectives and learn more about the inner emotional life of autistic individuals. Some of these.

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Google Just Released An Inspirational Video Summarizing Search In 2019

TeachThought - Learn better.

Google just released their trends in search for 2019 video and it's really quite good. The post Google Just Released An Inspirational Video Summarizing Search In 2019 appeared first on TeachThought.

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5 steps to building a future-ready K-12 network

eSchool News

Any investment you make in your network infrastructure should be driven by the learning objectives you’ve set. Creating a plan for your network upgrade begins with understanding how your network will be used over the next 3–5 years to advance teaching, learning, and school administration. Setting goals should be a community-wide process, with input from students, teachers, parents, and administrative staff.

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4 Common Ways Students Avoid Plagiarism Detection

TeachThought - Learn better.

Students who get creative in the wrong way sometimes present a paper in the form of an image so that an instructor cannot run it through anti-plagiarism software. The post 4 Common Ways Students Avoid Plagiarism Detection appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Personalized learning: A 50-year-old “trend” worth exploring

eSchool News

Any teacher who has spent more than a few years in the profession will be exposed to a variety of educational trends. Innovative interventions, burgeoning buzzwords, and ambiguous acronyms are often touted as the next best thing, only to be replaced a short time later with a new trend. For this reason, it’s easy to become disillusioned about implementing a change in pedagogy; why work to make room for something new when it’s likely to disappear in a short time?

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Lifelong Learning with Social Bookmarking Tools and Apps

techlearning

Social bookmarking helps students visualize and personalize their learning in boards, magazines, or walls!

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How mentorship (and video) help new teachers grow

eSchool News

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to become the coordinator of professional development and induction at Turlock Unified School District. I leapt at the chance! In my 20 years with the district, I had served mostly as a high school English teacher, with four years as an instructional coach. In those four years, I learned a tremendous amount and returned to the classroom a much stronger teacher.

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Teach Math With Prodigy: Effective & Interactive Math Learning

Prodigy

From implementing traditional methods of teaching to adopting new and improved game-based learning as an interactive approach, the education system has evolved a lot over the past decade. In fact, according to a survey conducted by The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, more than 74% of teachers from KG to 8th grade have reported using some […]. The post Teach Math With Prodigy: Effective & Interactive Math Learning appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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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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Code for Life: Free Coding Platform Includes Wealth of Lesson Plans

techlearning

Code for Life is a versatile platform for learning and teaching coding.

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Teacher Gifts: Prodigy’s Holiday Guide [Top 25 Survey Results]

Prodigy

Your child’s teacher deserves a great gift this holiday season. But when wedged between all your holiday errands and your busy schedule, planning teacher gifts can be overwhelming — and can become even worse when you’re trying to get something they’ll actually love. So what kind of gifts do teachers want? We surveyed close to […]. The post Teacher Gifts: Prodigy’s Holiday Guide [Top 25 Survey Results] appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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#FactFriday: It’s Computer Science Education Week!

ExcelinEd

We’re celebrating Computer Science Education Week ! Computer science education offers students countless opportunities. Yet not everyone has the chance to access this critical subject. Learn how your state can expand access to high-quality computer science education to unlock lifelong opportunities for students at ExcelinEd.org/ITCS and Advocacy/Code.org.

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Put to the test—3 Image Editing Apps for Tablets

techlearning

Photoshop Express, SnapSeed and Moldiv shoot it out

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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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Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 3)

EdNews Daily

By Ryan Schaaf. In my previous article, Learning for the Always-On Generation, readers were introduced to several learning attributes of the digital generations. Thanks in large part to digital bombardment; the pervasive exposure to television, smartphones, computers, gaming consoles, and tablets regularly, today’s students are neurologically wired differently and prefer to learn using different methods and tools than learners of the past.

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As cities dole out billions in subsidies to developers, teachers ask: What about us?

The Hechinger Report

Hilario Dominguez, a special education teacher, in his classroom at Peter Cooper Elementary Dual Language Academy on the first day back at school after the strike. Photo: Sophie Kasakove for The Hechinger Report. CHICAGO — When Hilario Dominguez looks around his school, he sees dilapidated bathrooms, students taking recess in the parking lot, and sick kids going through the day without care because there’s a nurse on staff just one day a week.

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Are FREE Apps Putting Your School and Students at Risk?

EdNews Daily

By Art Willer. For the classroom teacher, the word FREE is a breath of fresh air, especially when it comes to stretching chronically inadequate budgets for learning resources. FREE means one less thing you have to convince the principal or the school budget committee to buy. What a relief! Unfortunately, there are several problems with FREE, especially when it comes to apps we use in the classroom.

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Helpful Tools for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, below is one of our popular infographics we published last year featuring important web tools and apps to help you in each of the 7 steps of the research.

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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.