Neo LMS
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Stories hold the key for unlocking the door towards powerful learning experiences. As a teacher, you’ll find that stories play a huge part in your students’ lives. They might be obsessing over their favorite books or TV shows, or their favorite Youtube personality. They’re looking for role models, a sense of community, and plainly enjoy stories in a variety of media.
More Verbs
OCTOBER 24, 2019
New journeys are both exciting and full of detours, breakdowns, and bumps in the road! Bethel is wonderful small town nestled in a beautiful section of Western Maine. The White Mountains raise all around us here. There is a beautiful downtown with a well stocked, but relatively small, grocery, and an old fashioned hardware store across the street (Ironically named Brooks Brothers!).
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Digital Equity: How Far Have We Come? eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 10/24/2019 - 10:55. For IT staff and administrators, the work of ensuring all students have equal access to the internet , and to technology that is now standard for modern classrooms, is complex. . First, they lead the effort to distribute digital devices such as notebooks and tablets. With those device deployments, district leaders also must ensure every school has strong Wi-Fi , software and other applicable resources to support e
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 24, 2019
I am pleased to announce that Digital Promise is partnering with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology to develop and share the 2020 National Educational Technology Plan. We are excited about the opportunity to engage with stakeholders across the country to find and include innovative practices and research that will influence how technology can and should support teaching and learning.
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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.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 24, 2019
A Love of Learning: Modern Classrooms Embrace Energy, Flexibility and Teamwork. At Rochester (N.Y.) City School District, administrators wanted to design a modern learning environment that would excite and engage students. See how they were able to turn a dream classroom into a reality through CDW's Blueprint to Design™ service. . eli.zimmerman_9856.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Mandy Froehlich on episode 579 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Take care of yourself! We often tell each other this as teachers and rightly so. I once read that teachers work the same amount of time in ten months that most people work in a year. Teaching is not for the faint of heart or weak of the back but we must rest and stay strong to be our best.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) As teachers and librarians, we know that a truly great story has transformative powers.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Check Out Alice Keeler Chrome Extensions I have been doing some updating on my Chrome extensions so I’m hoping you’ll try them out and shamelessly ask that you’ll leave a nice review ?? I’m really passionate about collaboration and feedback. I created most of these extensions to help me more effectively do that. Chrome Webstore […].
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Or at least, edited. Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. This kind of free online textbook was novel in 1999 when Rice professor Richard Baraniuk started gathering them online for students and faculty around the world to use.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Here is an updated collection of some good iPad coding apps we curated for you from iTunes App Store. These are apps you can use with your middle school students to teach them everything related to.
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.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
PowerSchool has reached an agreement to acquire Schoology, a provider of learning management systems with a sizable footprint among K-12 schools and districts. If approved, the pending acquisition would mark the latest puzzle piece that PowerSchool has purchased this decade. Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — It was nearly time to hitch on backpacks and heed the carpool announcements delivered over walkie-talkie. But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
For nearly four decades, Perry Samson didn’t see many students’ hands raised in his large lecture courses. “I just assumed I nailed class and threw chalk down and did the victory dance,” says the atmospheric science professor at the University of Michigan. “In reality, they probably had questions but were afraid to ask them.” Posing a question in front of hundreds of classmates can indeed be intimidating for anyone, perhaps even more so for students who aren’t sure they belong in the class to be
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 24, 2019
By Jeremy Vidito, Chief Financial Officer at Detroit Public Schools. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, mentors and caregivers: thank you for all of the endless hours of support you provide the young people in your lives. As a teacher, school leader, and former AmeriCorps tutor, as well as mentor to countless youth, I see the impact of your efforts every day.
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
OCTOBER 24, 2019
All of these sites are free, although some may require you to register to log in, or to provide your students with a code to access the articles.
Shake Up Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2019
The post What is G Suite for Education? | What You Need to Know! (FREE Download) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. What is G Suite for Education? Whether you are brand new to Google or a seasoned user, there are probably a few things you don’t know about G Suite for Education. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education.
Jamf on EdTech
OCTOBER 24, 2019
To help you get the most out of Jamf Now, we answer a few of the most common questions we receive from Jamf Now customers concerning iPhone and iPad security.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2019
For those of you using Mac, here is a collection of some good apps to help you boost your productivity and enhance your workflow. They will help you stay organized and get things done effectively.
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Jamf on EdTech
OCTOBER 24, 2019
To help you get the most out of Jamf Now, we answer a few of the most common questions we receive from Jamf Now customers concerning iPhone and iPad security.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Pam Koutrakos offers a goldmine of fresh ideas we can dig into as we launch our word study routines – building our repertoire so we can stay engaged with word learning all year long. Best of all, she shares good ways to assess student progress and keep track of growth.
The Principal of Change
OCTOBER 24, 2019
A teacher was sharing a story about a student in her grade one class that had struggled with reading. One thing she tried was providing a student an iPad to read texts, and because of the ability to enlarge the text, all of a sudden, the student was reading. More importantly, the student was enjoying reading. A couple of things: 1. Whatever medium a student reads on is an excellent medium.
EmergingEdTech
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Kabookey™ delivers what an interactive e-book should be. E-learning has come a long way. Rapid e-learning tools have evolved over the years, and with them, the opportunity to create. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Dina Strasser finds more poets are writing about climate change and other social justice issues. Such poems can provide alternatives to middle schoolers when themes aren’t too entangled in complex structures. She suggests some options students can "hook into easily.".
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Illinois is in a league of its own when it comes to state spending on higher education.
techlearning
OCTOBER 24, 2019
The insights gleaned from these solutions will help PBS KIDS create new solutions, content and products that help ensure every user has the best chance to learn important skills.
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Engaging students with ADHD and attention challenges—rather than just managing their behavior—should be the goal for every teacher. Teachers worry, though, that they will have to create a separate curriculum or otherwise alter how they teach. Not so, said Ezra Werb, M.Ed., Educational Therapist and author, in his edWebinar “ Engagement Strategies for Students with Attention Challenges: Lower Anxiety and Raise Confidence.
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.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Educators and parents alike will find How Many? A Counting Book a beautiful adventure in learning about how children can grapple with the complexities of mathematical reasoning in relatively simple terms using everyday objects, says history (?!) teacher Michael DiClemente.
Marketplace K-12
OCTOBER 24, 2019
HMH is reducing its workforce by the end of 2019 and spending less on content development over the next three years, the company has announced. The post Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Cut 8 Percent of Workforce appeared first on Market Brief.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 24, 2019
A new survey finds that teachers aren’t necessarily prepared to teach complex topics such as LBGTQ issues, national politics, and race. The survey from Education Week Research Center (EWRC) and instructional content platform Newsela is based on the results of a survey of 1,123 educators nationwide, including 452 teachers of grades 4-12, 483 principals, and 188 district leaders.
Turnitin
OCTOBER 24, 2019
How scaffolding ensures safety, expands access, and boosts productivity in students of all ages.
AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.
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