EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2016

By Meg Conlan Online tools give educators the ability to assess students, find and share video content, and collect multimedia presentations from students.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 27, 2016

When it comes to integrating ed-tech into middle and high school classrooms, it’s not enough to create software “that works.” Instead, creating effective personalized learning solutions is just the first step. To remain relevant and have impact on a large scale, classroom integration must retain a profound concern with how to empower schools and teachers to educate students of widely differing abilities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2016

Presentation from the panel Monday, July 27 at 8:30 am From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This morning at ISTE Tom Arnett, Jon Bergmann, Mike Gwaltney, Aaron Sams, Stephanie Sandifer, and Jerry Obermyer all did an incredible job discussing blended and flipped learning. Shell Terrell shared the session on Periscope. ( watch here ).

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2016

By Meg Conlan New functions and product releases from Google bring lessons to life in new ways, and make it easier for teachers to engage students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2016

This morning, I attended the Blended Learning Panel moderated by Vicki Davis with panelists- Thomas Arnett , Jonathan Bergmann , Mike Gwaltney , Aaron Sams , and Stephanie Sandifer. I found the panel extremely informational for anyone integrating technology and also flipped learning. Vicki Davis organized the panel to answer each topic quickly as short mini presentations which made the hour go by quickly.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 27, 2016

By Meg Conlan A panel of education experts said chief technology officers need adequate support if they hope to shift their efforts to their districts' instructional missions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2016

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. . I got this question from a colleague: I am looking for an app that classroom teachers can use to scan a classroom library and allow teachers to check books out with students.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 27, 2016

This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Over the past decade, most school budgets have remained stagnant, yet spending in educational technology has climbed to record levels, with no sign of slowing in the near future. In a report entitled, “ Technology in Education: Global Trends, Universe Spend and Market Outlook , “ FutureSource consulting projected that edtech spending worldwide will hit $19 billion dollars by 2018, up from $13 billion when measured

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 27, 2016

I was given ISTE’s Award for Outstanding Leadership this afternoon. That was fun. . Today was a great day for Iowa at ISTE. In addition to myself… . Leka DeGroot was given the Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for outstanding PK-2 educator. . Leslie Pralle Keehn was named as an Emerging Leader. . Denise Schmidt-Crawford received the Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. .

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Securly

JUNE 27, 2016

“Good design is as little design as possible” -Dieter Rams. To kick off the “Week of Innovation” –live from the ISTE floor– we are excited to unveil our brand new Dashboard! At Securly, we follow a simple rule of thumb for all product design decisions: Useful > Usable > Attractive. Useful : Does a customer find a feature useful in the way one finds an automobile useful?

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Back in February, an EdWeek Market brief reported that Amazon Education was starting to beta-test a new platform with educators, helping teachers navigate the jungles of open educational resources (or OERs, for short). Well, that platform— Amazon Inspire —has officially launched today in tandem with the ISTE conference in Denver, Colorado. A free, mostly-OER platform (see below for why it’s “mostly OER”), Amazon Inspire works like a search engine for educational videos, lesson plans and games.

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Securly

JUNE 27, 2016

Securly's new "Pause" button allows parents to shut off internet activity on school-issued devices. The post Introducing a Pause Button for Take-Home Devices appeared first on Blog.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. But apparently 10 million isn’t enough for Google. Just in time for the annual ISTE conference, Google Education is expanding its offerings in the form of three announcements, opening up products including Expeditions to anyone with a device and an interest in learning.

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Securly

JUNE 27, 2016

Securly's new "Pause" button allows parents to shut off internet activity on school-issued devices. The post Introducing a Pause Button for Take-Home Devices appeared first on Blog.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

In the daily edtech trenches, the forest is easily lost for the trees. Technological minutiae in the classroom carry such immense consequences that it can be hard to think beyond tomorrow’s software update, nevermind next year’s LMS rollout. In his opening keynote at the ISTE 2016 conference, noted physicist Dr. Michio Kaku showed educators the forest that he and others believe will encircle the classroom of the future.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” Click here for a larger version. Abstract, pure math — solving disembodied equations filled with x’s and y’s — can often seem boring. Creative math teachers commonly try to come up with concrete, real-world examples to motivate students and make math relevant to adolescents.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Check out the new Common Sense K­12 Edtech Privacy Evaluation Platform. Here’s a mismatch of a statistic: back in 2013, a Fordham Law School study found that 95 percent of districts used cloud services for various reasons, including data mining of student performance numbers—but less than 7 percent of the district-vendor contracts restricted the sale or marketing of student information by vendors.

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Edutopia

JUNE 27, 2016

Heather Wolpert-Gawron Teacher Wellness Have you moved on in order to keep from burning out? Have you changed a subject or grade you taught, or even your school? Sometimes this is the best choice.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Believe it or not, writing is a natural fit for gamification techniques. You’ve surely noticed how your class gets engaged as soon as you introduce a game into the teaching process. The students get competitive, but that’s a healthy competition you want to nurture. Have you ever thought about teaching writing through games? It’s a great strategy that helps students overcome the lack of motivation they have regarding writing assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

A recent story featured in The Hechinger Report said the residency model may be the best way to train new teachers – and that it may be too expensive. Sara Morris. We would argue that we can’t afford not to train teachers this way. The status quo of teacher training, with its costs already built into the budgets of most urban school districts, will actually cost a district more in the long run, while delivering sub-optimal results for kids.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 27, 2016

June 27, 2016 Below is a collection of some new educational web tools and mobile apps to try out in your instruction. The purpose is to keep you updated about the new releases in the EdTech.read more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

VR-enabled STEM models immerse students in a trip to space, a walk with a dinosaur, and a voyage through the inside of a shark. Lifeliqe , a learning and productivity platform for interactive 3D, VR, and AR, launched Lifeliqe Creator, a feature giving educators the power to create and publish interactive presentations and ebooks that integrate 3D models instead of 2D images.

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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.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

A major online marketplace for free and fee-based teaching resources, which also serves as a network for millions of educators globally, has announced a partnership that will bring Google’s educational resources aboard its website. Adam Frey, an executive for TES.com , said the integrated platform will help teachers better access the millions of resources previously housed in separate ecosystems.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Innovate to Educate Awards to recognize the best ed-tech innovation and commitment to making the digital classroom and personalized learning a reality. eSchool News, in partnership with Xirrus , provider of next generation, cloud-enabled Wi-Fi networks, invites K-12 schools and districts nationwide to participate in the first ever Innovate to Educate Awards program, kicking off June 27 at the ISTE 2016 conference at Xirrus Booth No. 2937.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 27, 2016

The post Did You Know You Can Search Google Drive and Gmail From Chrome? appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Did you know you can search your Google Drive from Chrome? That’s right! With this one little trick, you can search right from the search box (aka the Omnibox) in Google Chrome. If you are anything like me, you store EVERYTHING in Google Drive.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Professional learning and support tools include in-person workshops, webinars, video tutorials, grant opportunities and more. To support science and STEM teachers in delivering quality instruction to their students at the start of, and throughout, the school year, Vernier Software & Technology is offering an abundance of free professional learning resources, support tools, grant opportunities and more.

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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.

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Edutopia

JUNE 27, 2016

Mike McCarville Project-Based Learning High school students can take a class that, through a joint effort by their school district and community, lets them redesign and remodel a house.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Bangor’s plans could outline best practices for wireless initiatives in other cities. In Maine, Bangor’s plan to install free wireless internet in one of the city’s poorest areas could help impoverished students keep pace with their peers from higher-income families, Capehart officials and parents believe. Amanda Bushwood, a Capehart resident with two daughters attending Downeast School in the neighborhood, said she doesn’t have internet access at home and is concerned about what that migh

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 27, 2016

In Sarah Cooper's never-ending effort to reach beyond textbook basics, she sometimes asks students to read a selection from a scholarly journal article or popular history book. Carefully sharing a JSTOR piece on Sherman's March helped students grasp "total war.".

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

The teacher-parent communication app will be free for schools and introduces student timelines, behavior tracking, and video support. Just in time for ISTE 2016, the teacher-parent communication app Bloomz is announcing a major award and introducing new features, including offering its basic schoolwide product for free. The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) recently named Bloomz a Best Website for Teaching & Learning in the Social Networking and Communications category.

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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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