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10 Tips to Make Learning REAL

A Principal's Reflections

Another Christmas has passed and I am continually amazed by the technologies that kids now have access to. For example, my son received a drone from my mother-in-law and has been playing with it non-stop for days now. At first, he was focused on just the basics of flying the device. After having mastered take off, landing, and balance, his focus now is on using the camera to take photos and video.

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Chance encounter leads to unlikely friendship between 4-year-old and a senior citizen.

User Generated Education

This is typically an educational blog but sometimes events in the world are so touching and significant that I need to share them out. This is one such story. Plus I think it is a great way to start the new year. A few decades ago I wrote a book of short stories. This story reminded me of one of the stories I wrote titled, Coming Out of the Dark. It was inspired by watching a man, probably around 80, playing with a toddler when I visited a San Francisco beach as well as my experiences leading an

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?Social Studies Should Teach Students for Tomorrow, Not the Past

Edsurge

Are you teaching for tomorrow? It’s a question I often ask myself and educators in my professional network. In fact, this question has become the cornerstone of my personal educational philosophy, and a guiding principle for my team of high school social studies educators at Fairfax County Public Schools. Teaching for tomorrow allows us as educators to reflect on our profession and the experiences students are having.

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In the News…2017

Tom Murray

January. Tom Murray to be Honored as Thought Leader of the Year, EdTech Round Up , Link. PR with Panache! Honors Tom Murray as Thought Leader of the Year, PR with Panche! , Link. K-12 Districts Find That Education and Awareness Are Key to Privacy Protection, Edtech K-12 Magazine , Link.

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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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8 Important Tips on How to Create Engaging Assignments in Google Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

January 1, 2017 Happy new year everybody. Our team is wishing you a year full of joy, happiness and love. Our first post for this year is on Google Classroom. We are revisiting a poster we have.read more.

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How Can Coding Teach My Students … To Be Better Students?

My Paperless Classroom

As we look ahead and make our resolutions, we shouldn't forget to look back and see where we just were and build on those skills inside our classrooms. The post How Can Coding Teach My Students … To Be Better Students? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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My #OneWord2017 - Suffer

Adam Welcome

For all of my ten plus years of blogging, this is my first #OneWord post. After reading so many inspiring and reflective blogs from educator friends I decided it was time for mine. I've already set a pretty large goal for 2017, in which I'm going to run twelve marathons this coming year, one each month. Maybe you're already wondering how my #OneWord and running a marathon every month in 2017 has any relevancy in education at all, let me explain.

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20 Inspirational Quotes to Start off 2017

The Principal of Change

Trying to get pumped up for 2017, I went a hunt for some awesome inspirational quotes on leadership, being passionate, and working for success. Personally and professionally I have many goals for 2017, and I know others do as well. As a way to be able to find this inspiration, I decided to put these quotes together for myself and others as well. Here are some awesome quotes; some are all-time favourites, and some are new to me, but quite powerful.

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Introduce myShakespeare to your students!

NeverEndingSearch

Fun fact: You may know I was an English major. You may not know that my serious focus was 16th century poetry and drama. My favorite course ever was Shakespeare’s Problem Plays. Not every student I’ve met over the years felt the same draw to Shakespeare. The play is just not every kid’s thing. The language is challenging; the relevance is obscure; and without background, the humor falls flat.

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App of the Week: Composing music

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Flat. What’s It Like? . Flat is a web-based tool for composing and creating sheet music.

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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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New Year’s Resolution: Get Fit & Smart with @GoNoodle

The Innovative Educator

Getting fit is a great resolution at any age, but the holiday season in the digital age often brings with it lots of gifts that involve sitting with a device with little movement. But technology doesn’t always = inactivity. This New Year teachers and students together can resolve to use technology to help them get and stay fit using GoNoodle. Go Noodle is used by 1 in 3 teachers who get millions of kids active every month to become their strongest, smartest, selves by running, dancing, stretchin

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Results of the 2016 National Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey

eSchool News

The Learning Counsel released the results of its third annual Survey of school and district digital curriculum strategy and transformation, sponsored by Ruckus Wireless. A total of 708 U.S. schools and districts responded to the national Survey, which showed a primary point of attention by schools now is on teacher effectiveness in the implementation of digital curriculum.

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Teaching & Technology Tweet Wrap for w/e 12-31-16

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. As we close out the year for 2016 and jump into 2017. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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A Scrooge-Free Plan for My New Year Classroom

MiddleWeb

Making the usual New Year resolutions to "do better" can bring out her "inner Scrooge" says veteran middle grades teacher Mary Tarashuk. After reflecting on nearly two decades of classroom wonder and success, she decides to opt for her "inner Frosty" instead.

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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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Bring the world into your classroom

Kathy Schrock

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in January 2017 and is re-posted here with permission. __ The overview of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) includes a three-dimensional framework that has students actively engaging in scientific and engineering practices, using these concepts across the scientific domains, and the inclusion of a focused core curriculum of instruction and assessments to ensure students attain the i

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A 5-Tray Filing System Every Teacher Needs

MiddleWeb

Now that the blizzard of late semester papers has (probably) diminished, do you feel the need for a quick fix to your class organization regimen? Author/educator Roxanna Elden avoids excessive precision in structuring a practical 5-tray process to get you started.

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I didn’t meet my reading goal (and is that okay?)

Reading By Example

2016 has come to a close. Like any year, there were events to celebrate along with a few experiences we may not care to reminisce over. One event that is somewhere in the middle for me is that fact that I didn’t achieve my reading goal. For the past two years, I have set a goal for number of books to read from January to December. In 2015 I not only met my goal but surpassed it (50/53).

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Fun Turtle Teaches Coding Basics in Colorful Game

techlearning

Unique app helps young kids learn basic coding skills, with guidance.

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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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I didn’t meet my reading goal (and is that okay?)

Reading By Example

2016 has come to a close. Like any year, there were events to celebrate along with a few experiences we may not care to reminisce over. One event that is somewhere in the middle for me is that fact that I didn’t achieve my reading goal. For the past two years, I have set a goal for number of books to read from January to December. In 2015 I not only met my goal but surpassed it (50/53).

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

With every new year comes new ideas. To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council.

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