Fri.Jan 13, 2023

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Video: Two Models that May Save Education: Hybrid Logistics and Hyflex

EdNews Daily

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Horizon Room’s Open Mic series, a chance for educators to be a part of a national discussion on the most important issues facing education. Your hosts, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen and Learning Counsel Chief Academic Officer Chris McMurray, bring you a fast-moving, get-you-where-you-live agenda that gets to the heart of the issues in K-12 education today.

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Tech Tip #38 My desktop icons changed

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: My desktop icons changed. Category: Problem-solving.

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Podcast: Cybersecurity in K12

EdNews Daily

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco. They discuss the changes in K-12 education, and how the pandemic changed culture and mindset, and brought cybersecurity in education to another dimension. Click Here to Listen.

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3 ways teachers can drive student growth

eSchool News

When I ask educators if they have heard of the term “growth mindset,” many will raise their hands or nod they have. However, when I ask educators to define what it means to have a growth mindset, I often get blank stares or they struggle with putting it into words. This is one of the issues educators might be struggling with – well-researched concepts like growth mindset sound familiar, but there is little guidance on putting these concepts into practice.

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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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Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict (Part 1)

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay Conflict is an inevitable part of daily life, and it is certainly an inevitable part of school life. Despite having firmly embedded routines and daily practices, dedicated staff, supportive parents and a very visible and passionate principal, conflicts still arise in every school. Conflict that results in some kind of physical injury understandably gets the most attention, but it is thankfully a relatively rare event.

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5 reasons to use a literacy professional learning solution

eSchool News

Our school is one of just 12 “Science of Reading Spotlight Schools” in Alabama this year, but getting here wasn’t easy. Rewind the clock back to the fall of 2021 and just 15 percent of our kindergarten students were proficient in reading. A “full support school” since 2018, we were dealing with some major challenges. I stepped in as principal in 2020, and began looking for ways to solve the issues and get things on the right track.

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I come from a family of teachers. Three of my sisters are teachers (including my twin sister) and my two younger brothers are teachers as well. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around. And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. New teaching skills have have been introduced and old ones have taken back seat.

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Recognize and Remove Obstacles to Fly High in 2023

EdNews Daily

By Ross Romano What’s the greatest burden on you or your business? What might you do to control it — to remove it? How successful might you be once unburdened? Often, we reflect on our personal achievements as a year closes, and perhaps even make some goals for the next. But many times, professional reflection doesn’t go beyond the basics — financial performance, the next market to conquer, organizational shake-ups, and so on.

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Education Re-Solutions for 2023

techlearning

Synonyms for the word resolution could serve as guidance for solving education problems in the year ahead.

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An origin story and four truths about productivity

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is a repost of from my new Subtack publication, Intentional Academia. I'll be posting there every other Monday with articles about how those of us in higher education might regain some control over our work, our commitments, and our attention in order to have time and energy to get what we want out of both work and life. This coming Monday, I'll be starting a reboot of the GTD for Academics series that was first published here.

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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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Amplio Learning Named to the 2023 Global Silicon Valley 150

American Consortium for Equity in Education

List recognizing the most transformational digital learning and workforce skills companies Amplio Learning Technologies, a powerful education technology solution that combines a learning platform for special education with evidence-based curricula and programs designed to accelerate student progress and empower educators, Keep Reading Amplio Learning Named to the 2023 Global Silicon Valley 150.

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How to Make Timelines in Google Sheets

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

You can now make timelines directly within Google Sheets. Learn how in less than three minutes. View the entire video or click on any timestamp below to jump directly to that topic. Google Sheets Timeline Template If you’d like to make the setup of this activity a little easier for your students, check out this. Read more The post How to Make Timelines in Google Sheets appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.

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Eduverse Expeditions from Avantis Education Named a Winner in THE Journal’s 2022 New Product Awards

American Consortium for Equity in Education

Product earns a Platinum award in the Virtual Reality/Metaverse Software/System category THE Journal has named Avantis Education’s Eduverse Expeditions a winner in its 2022 New Product Awards. The awards program honors outstanding product development achievements of manufacturers and suppliers whose. Keep Reading Eduverse Expeditions from Avantis Education Named a Winner in THE Journal’s 2022 New Product Awards.

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With student pool shrinking, some predict a grim year of college closings

The Hechinger Report

A new wave of college closures is expected to begin this year. . The colleges won’t be closing solely because of Covid, although it did flip the entire universe of higher education on its head. But many struggling colleges have been able to keep their doors open longer than expected in part because of help from federal and state Covid relief funding.

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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.