Neo LMS
JANUARY 14, 2020
A version of this post was originally published on November 25, 2019, in Education Technology. A sense of security is something usually unseen yet it’s paramount to a great learning experience. Educators have always tried to ensure a safe learning environment for students, as a way to reduce negative outcomes and increase retention rates. Nobody can learn anything new when they feel they’re in danger, after all.
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 14, 2020
Michelle Cottrell-Williams on episode 603 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Bravery, vulnerability, acceptance of others, acceptance of yourself — these can be difficult things to teach. Today’s guest, Michelle Cottrell-Williams talks about how she teaches this in her classroom. Today’s Sponsor is Advancement Courses.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
JANUARY 14, 2020
“People can’t only design with their heads. They have to do it with their hands, too.” – Dr. Karan Watson, STEM 4 Innovation Keynote Speaker. Recently, I attended the incredible STEM 4 Innovation Conference at Texas A&M University. I would definitely recommend this conference to any educator in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education.
Waterford
JANUARY 14, 2020
Most students feel stressed at times in class, but some might be more vulnerable to stress than others. When stress builds up to severe levels for a child, they may be at risk to develop toxic stress—which can have lasting effects on their social-emotional, behavioral, and physical health. But if you can recognize signs of stress in your students, you can provide them with support to help them manage it before it overwhelms them.
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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.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JANUARY 14, 2020
“People can’t only design with their heads. They have to do it with their hands, too.” – Dr. Karan Watson, STEM 4 Innovation Keynote Speaker. Recently, I attended the incredible STEM 4 Innovation Conference at Texas A&M University. I would definitely recommend this conference to any educator in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education.
Ditch That Textbook
JANUARY 14, 2020
This post is written by Thom Gibson a middle school math & robotics teacher and advisor at Headwaters School in Austin, TX. You can connect with Thom on Twitter @GibsonEDU and catch his educational podcast Stories from the Classroom. I often ask my 7th grade Pre-Algebra students "why do you think this is right?" when […]. The post Kids blogging in math class: Why and how appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 14, 2020
Teachers, we’re well aware of just how much you have to accomplish each day in the classroom and how little time there is to get it all done. While we’re busy coming up with solutions to lighten your workload, we’ve also compiled some great advice from experts in the field to help you reclaim lost time and, in turn, better serve your students and yourself.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 14, 2020
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL, which belongs to Purdue University, has a huge.
MIND Research Institute
JANUARY 14, 2020
For many students, ST Math may be something familiar they turn to during their holiday break, whether to show off their progress to their family or have some quiet time working on a challenging problem. A yearly tradition of mine as Database Analytics Manager at MIND Research Institute is discovering how many students log into ST Math throughout Christmas day.
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
JANUARY 14, 2020
Here are four good iPad apps for music teachers. These are apps that are featured in iTunes App Store and which enable you to: learn and master several musical instruments such as piano, guitar, bass.
EmergingEdTech
JANUARY 14, 2020
Our brain is an impressive organ, capable of great feats. It is also one of the most complex structures known to man. This jelly like 1.4 kg organ contains almost 100 billion neurons and each neuron. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
techieMusings
JANUARY 14, 2020
I wanted to share some tips about using Pear Deck Vocabulary (aka: Flashcard Factory). To begin, here is a blog post I’ve previously published on Creative Ways to Use Pear Deck Vocabulary in a Variety of Classrooms. In today’s post, I want to share a video walkthrough where I take you through: the process of creating a vocabulary set in Pear Deck. launching Flashcard Factory in the classroom for students to play in teams (showing both the teacher & student view). the quality control phase wh
Shake Up Learning
JANUARY 14, 2020
The post It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s NOT about Google, y’all! It’s about the LEARNING! Ready to move the learning in your classroom from static, one-and-done activities, to more dynamic learning—Dynamic Learning with G Suite? This 4-part podcast series will show you how you can use G Suite tools to support dynamic learning experiences for your students!
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.
techlearning
JANUARY 14, 2020
After brainstorming ways to peer coach, two virtual charter school teachers use their affinity for distance learning tech and podcasting to reach fellow educators around the country.
Education Superhighway
JANUARY 14, 2020
Over the past eight years, an unprecedented coalition united behind a simple, but important, goal: to improve broadband in America’s K-12 classrooms. As a result of these efforts, 99% of students have been connected to the minimum high-speed Internet needed for digital learning. With this achievement, EducationSuperHighway will sunset on August 31, 2020 but we want to ensure state leaders, school district administrators, and the broadband community have the data they need to continue upgra
edWeb.net
JANUARY 14, 2020
For many teachers, edtech translates to visuals and video. But during the edWebinar, “ Voice Devices and Beyond in the Classroom ,” the presenters made the case for using voice technology in schools to assist with all types of activities, from practicing math to classroom management, and more important, to improve listening comprehension skills. Learning is evolving on several fronts with regards to technology.
NeverEndingSearch
JANUARY 14, 2020
It is really unconscionable that now many students have graduated from Philadephia city schools without ever experiencing a visit to a school library or learned from a school librarian. While students in nearby largely suburban schools regularly engage in information-rich learning opportunities and access to a wide variety of high-quality resources, others do not.
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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
MiddleWeb
JANUARY 14, 2020
This term Mary Tarashuk’s 4th graders will be ranging through time and cultures to expand their grasp of what the world is like beyond their suburban lives. She intends to help her future citizens, and herself, become more historically, racially, and culturally literate.
PlagiarismCheck
JANUARY 14, 2020
Where to start? Install PlagiarismCheck.org extension from Chrome web store. Once it is installed, click on the PlagiarismCheck.org icon in your browser and then Login. In the Profile go to Integrations and click on Connect to Google Classroom, to link extension with your Google Classroom account. Once Google Classroom is connected, Extension for Google Chrome will be automatically connected as well.
techlearning
JANUARY 14, 2020
HoverCam will showcase its family of classroom learning technologies in booth 2425 at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) 2020 in Miami. The company will demonstrate its Pilot X tablet-based digital teaching station, 16-megapixel Ultra 10 document camera, and ClassFusion, a comprehensive software platform for classroom management and presentation.
PlagiarismCheck
JANUARY 14, 2020
Where to start? Install PlagiarismCheck.org extension from Chrome web store. Once it is installed, click on the PlagiarismCheck.org icon in your browser and then Configure integration. In the Integrations click on Connect to Google Classroom, to link extension with your Google Classroom account. In Extension widget choose submissions you’d like to check for similarity.
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.
eSchool News
JANUARY 14, 2020
More than 100 years of research have documented the summer reading slide, the loss of skills that students experience from the end of one school year to the beginning of the next. Like musicians or athletes, if students don’t practice, they tend to lose their skills. Over the three months or so of summer, many kids experience decay in their academic abilities, especially when they don’t have opportunities to read.
PlagiarismCheck
JANUARY 14, 2020
Where to start? Install PlagiarismCheck.org extension from Chrome web store. Once it is installed, click on the PlagiarismCheck.org icon in your browser and then Configure integration. In the Integrations click on Connect to Google Classroom, to link extension with your Google Classroom account. In Extension widget choose submissions you’d like to check for similarity.
techlearning
JANUARY 14, 2020
Vernier Software & Technology has partnered with SAM Labs to teach middle school students coding and computational thinking skills through data-collection STEAM activities.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 14, 2020
Bitbox is an innovative way to teach kids (6-12 yrs old) coding/programming apps by getting presents in the mail. The way this works is simple kids open their "Bitbox" and select their material/app. Then the kids customize the code to make it their "own". Finally, finished apps are then played and shared on any mobile device. Best of all, Bitbox Computer Science concepts such as: functions, coordinates, variables, computational logic, and much much more.
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.
techlearning
JANUARY 14, 2020
Windows 7 may not be in the rear-view mirror quite yet but there is a lot you can do to keep your school’s computers safe and secure.
Technology Tidbits
JANUARY 14, 2020
Edpuzzle the world's leading digital tool for taking a video and making it your "own" has released a bunch of new updates for the current school year. New Features Live Mode - project Edpuzzle videos up on a screen and have student answer questions in real-time on their won devices easily assess and differentiate instruction Open Class - student's can join an existing class w/out having to create an account ideal for PD or El Ed students LMS Integration - Edpuzzle synce w/ most popular LMS such
techlearning
JANUARY 14, 2020
Samsung's DeX Desktop Experience software is a unique program that lets teachers and students put all their schoolwork on their phones.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JANUARY 14, 2020
Image Creative Commons. Greetings from FETC at the Miami Beach Convention Center in sunny Florida. I am excited about an upcoming Keynote on Leadership and Motivation by Daniel Pink this Wednesday. The last time I heard Pink talk, it was in regards to his book “ A Whole New Mind “ At the time, it opened my my thought process to the importance of thinking and the right brain.
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