Neo LMS

AUGUST 11, 2016

When I started school, there were seven first-grade classes, and about 30 students in each one. We were all about the same age, some shy, some way too active, some nervous, but in our minds we were all the same: classmates, equal. By the time I started second grade, my class was missing a few students. Where did they go? Apparently, the school decided to create a special, eighth class, by selecting a few students with the lowest academic results from the other seven.

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Ditch That Textbook

AUGUST 11, 2016

Attention economy is a term that many in business are paying attention to. There’s lots of noise in media and in our everyday lives. Organizations are doing whatever they can to get people’s attention. Social media marketing. Billboards. Emails. Advertising in unique locations. (The ads they stick above urinals in the men’s room are a [.].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

What does it mean to be human in a digital age? Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." “Maybe my mama hugged me extra when I was a baby.” That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.

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Edutopia

AUGUST 11, 2016

Heather Wolpert-Gawron Inquiry-Based Learning Teachers use inquiry-based learning to combat the “dunno” -- a chronic problem in student engagement. Check out these four steps for creating inquiry-based curriculum.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Blended learning. Personalized learning. Competency- and project-based learning. All of these terms can easily be written off as buzzwords in education. Skeptics say that there is very little data to support the idea that these new models are better than traditional models. And they’re right – there is a real dearth of data that we can point to that fully captures what those of us on the ground know about what is working for our students.

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The Jose Vilson

AUGUST 11, 2016

Confession: this is the first summer I haven’t thought about my school all summer. Not once. It’s been amazing. I love my students and I love my job, and I also gave them almost every ounce of me. Thus, even with all the stress I’ve had making it through July, I still see the benefits of having myself at 100%. I see them on Facebook every so often, and wonder whether they’re enjoying themselves somewhere, reaping the fruits of their youth.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2016

Key takeaways: A blended learning program in D.C. began in 2012 is freeing up time for more project-based learning by pairing ELA and math software with individualized lessons. Both national and local grants are providing much of the funding. A training program is helping teachers rethink lessons for blended learning. One school has seen an 11-point increase in its math proficiency rate and a 4.5-point increase in reading.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2016

This post first appeared on EdTech Researcher. Several weeks ago, I had the privilege of being an observer at NAATE – The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education. They use a rigorous curriculum based on the Harvard Business School case method to create whole school change through School Leader and Teacher Leader learning and development.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2016

Two long-awaited high schools are opening this week in Baton Rouge, offering different pathways to college and the working world. Opening Monday is Cristo Rey Baton Rouge Franciscan High School, the newest member of a Chicago-based network of 32 Catholic schools in 21 states and the network’s first in Louisiana. Supporters have been working for more than two years to bring Cristo Rey to Baton Rouge.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2016

Text to speech technology was initially used on computers to provide help for those with visual impairments. Now with the advance of technology and the widespread of mobile gadgets, text to speech.read more.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2016

Office Depot, Inc. announced the opening of a new STEM wing at Lovejoy High School, located in Lucas, Texas. The STEM wing was unveiled at Learning @ Lovejoy , a nine-day professional development conference with more than 50 sessions for every subject area, level and role within K-12 education. The nearly 28,000 square foot addition features 12 classrooms, two engineering labs, five computer labs and one think tank incubator space, geared toward teaching science, technology, engineering and math

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Edutopia

AUGUST 11, 2016

Elena Aguilar School Leadership Whether you’re a teacher leader, an instructional coach, or an administrator, here are six things you can do to retain teachers who are new to your school or to the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Knightdale, N.C. — It was just a dumb fight. Two boys, both juniors, stood in the hallway discussing a classic teenage hypothetical: whether one of them could win in a fight against another student. But when one of the teens, Scott, said he didn’t think his friend could win, things turned personal. About This Series. “Set To Stun” is the second in a series of stories about police in schools.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 11, 2016

In "The Educator and the Oligarch," says teacher-reviewer Elisa Waingort, education activist Anthony Cody has written an informative, highly referenced work that traces the relationship of Bill Gates to the gradual privatization of public education in the U.S.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 11, 2016

With online learning becoming an increasingly more popular choice of education method amongst students of all levels, you can be guaranteed that at some point during your teaching career, you may need to discuss the various benefits and drawbacks of online learning and help a student to choose the best option when it comes to the array of online learning courses which are on offer.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 11, 2016

The post Using Project-Based Learning To Flip Bloom’s Taxonomy For Deeper Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Zahava Stadler. Saturday, Aug. 13, marks one year since the Washington State Supreme Court decided that if the state legislature refused to properly fund public education, there would be consequences. It issued a fine— $100,000 for every day of inaction, or $36.5 million for the year — that has gone unpaid ever since. Thirty-six and a half million dollars is a lot of money in public education.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

AUGUST 11, 2016

Jon had a chance to visit with Dr. Cathy Box ( @cathybox ), an expert on formative assessments who shares how she sees flipped classrooms promoting active learning. Listen in. Jon had a chance to visit with Dr. Cathy Box ( @cathybox ), an expert on formative assessments who shares how she sees flipped classrooms promoting active learning. Listen in.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 11, 2016

One of the amazing things about my job, is the ability to learn from so many amazing individuals. Donna DeSiato is one of those leaders. The vision for education, as well as the moves they are making to make that a reality, show the importance of leadership and bringing people together. The “system” is always made up of individuals, and those individuals coming together can make a significant difference.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 11, 2016

In Relationships That Work, authors Adam Sáenz and Jeremy Dew invite readers to write and reflect about the best ways to work with kids, parents and colleagues to help students learn. Math teacher Anthony Purcell found the counselors' advice helpful.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. The studies include research on K-12 schools and higher ed, both blended learning and online, and show results ranging from mixed to negative. A deeper look into these reports gives a sense that, even as computers become ubiquitous in classrooms, there’s a lot we still don’t know — or at least that we’re not doing to make them effect

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 11, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull-Sypnieski’s guide to implementing the common core with ELLs is a comprehensive "incredibly user-friendly" resource that projects care and respect for teachers, students, and the education profession as a whole, says teacher Rita Platt.

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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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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 11, 2016

Baking and cooking are fun activities all parents and teachers can do with their kids. Even the youngest kids can mix up the ingredients to make some buns or biscuits, and with a bit of parental guidance, everyone will be eating some delicious treats in less than an hour. Baking games are a fun way to combine learning and play. Kids learn quickly through play, and if the game is really good, they will want to play it repeatedly.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 11, 2016

Leadership at the Education Technology Industry Network is changing this week, as Karen Billings retires and Chris Lohse takes the reins as senior vice president and managing director of the 200-member organization. Billings has been at the helm of the ed-tech division of the Software & Information and Industry Association or SIIA, for 14 years, overseeing its growth as a proliferation of new companies representing a range of new types of products emerged in the industry.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 11, 2016

I always want to be available to my students when they need me, but sometimes they need more than I can give. I remember one student who had trouble remembering assignments, so we worked out a system where she'd write things down in a planner, and I'd sign it each day. It worked great -- except on the days when she misplaced the planner. I could count on a phone call from her mom on those days, often a few times a week.

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techlearning

AUGUST 11, 2016

Connect with kids and parents using quick, easy text or image updates.

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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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ProfHacker

AUGUST 11, 2016

Last month, Jason alerted readers to Evernote’s recent price hike. It’s a hefty increase (for Premium users, from $49.99/year to $69.99). I’m a longtime user of Evernote, and have found it very powerful for organizing information and locating it quickly. (I took the time a few years ago to go through my notes, winnow them, and organize them using the system Michael Hyatt describes in this post from a couple of years ago.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 11, 2016

Group Brainstorm a Topic with Google Sheets When asking students to brainstorm a spreadsheet is a great tool to capture their ideas. If students are working in small groups to brainstorm a topic or idea, put all the groups into a single Google Sheets spreadsheet to make it easier to collaborate and share across groups. […]. The post Group Brainstorm a Topic with Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdTech4Beginners

AUGUST 11, 2016

Procrastination is something we all battle with. It stops us getting the things done that we want to get done and it stops us achieving the things we want to achieve. It is particularly pervasive in college students with 80%-95% engaging in procrastination. In a wider context, 15% to 20% of the general public are also chronically affected by procrastination.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Now shuttered, this portion of J.V. Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. — In 2007, when U.S. Senator Barack Obama was running for president, he visited the public schools here in flat, sandy Dillon County, part of South Carolina’s so-called “Corridor of Shame,” a poor region that stretches from north to south along Interstate 95.

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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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