Wed.Dec 06, 2017

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Advancing Computational Thinking Across K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Thanks to the successes of campaigns like the Hour of Code and this week’s Computer Science Education Week, educators, policymakers, and families around the country are realizing the value of coding and computer science in K-12 education. But how do “code,” “computer science,” and, “computational thinking,” fit together? What is motivating their introduction into schools, and how might they change education?

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20 great podcasts for educators (and how to get them)

Ditch That Textbook

Podcasts are learning on the go: in the car, while working out or as you garden. Here are some great ones for educators. (Icons via TheNounProject.com) Podcasts are my lifeblood for generating new ideas, processing the ideas I already have and entertainment. They’re like radio shows on virtually any topic under the sun. Actually, they’re […].

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A great lesson to teach children about #FAKENEWS

EdTech4Beginners

Fake news has recently been a popular topic, and teachers need to deal with this important issue in schools. How could you teach it? Start by asking children to visit this fantastic (completely made-up) website about a ‘tree octopus’! Give the children about 10 minutes to explore the website. You could ask them to find specific information if you wish.

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9 Web Tools and Apps for Communicating More Effectively with Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull. One goal teachers often struggle with is communicating regularly with parents. Sending emails or texts to every parent is time-consuming. Additionally, English might not be their first language. The following free web tools and apps help teachers communicate with parents quickly and often will translate messages into several different languages.

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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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Have Santa Call Your Kids

Ask a Tech Teacher

DialMyCalls (an AATT sponsor) has a special Christmas offer for kids: Free Santa Calls To Your Family This Christmas. This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone call from Santa with his or her name on it!

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Is it Time for a Fifth C?

Battelle for Kids

In late November I spent three days working at the inaugural Global Education Summit in Beijing.

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When Is It Okay for Public School Officials to Attend Tech-Funded Events?

Edsurge

The education technology industry often gets flak for not seeking the perspectives of educators. So these days, companies, nonprofits and researchers make working closely with teachers and administrators as one of their main priorities. During the BMO Capital Markets’ Back to School Conference last September, CEOs and investors expressed their desire to seek input from teachers as they develop school products.

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Personalization: How A Change in Classroom Delivery Can Change the Outcome

Education Elements

School was never hard for me, it just wasn’t engaging enough for us millennials. It felt prehistoric and bland, so I often doodled and wrote poetry. I was an average student until sports became my incentive to achieve academically. This wasn’t due to lack of knowledge, but moreso a lack of interest. However, things changed once I got to college. College was the first time I was in charge of my educational path.

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Some of The Best Digital Storytelling Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Creating and sharing digital stories is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy-related activities in class. To this end, we curated for you this collection of some of our.read more.

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Google Sites: Embed a Twitter Feed

Teacher Tech

Embed in New Google Sites Finally! You can embed in Google Sites. The “Embed URL” has been changed to just “Embed.” When you double click on the page, the insert wheel now allows you the option to “Embed.” Embed When selecting “Embed” a pop up gives you the option to embed “By URL” or “Embed […].

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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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Bringing ‘Blind Auditions’ to the Job Market

Edsurge

When “The Voice” premiered in 2011, it distinguished itself from other televised singing contests by featuring a blind auditions phase. Contestants had 30 seconds to sing their hearts out while four rock-star judges sat with their backs turned to them. During that short 30-second interlude, each person had the opportunity to lure one or more judges to turn their chairs around based on voice only.

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Finally, a guide to parent engagement that works every time

eSchool News

Parent engagement in their child’s education is key to successful growth, but consistently engaging parents is at the top of the list of teacher frustration. Teachers must establish communication with parents by figuring out what works best for them and showing that they are a team when it comes to their child. Sarah M. Rich, lead teacher champion at Squiggle Park, presented creative ideas from her own experience building parent engagement in “ Finally, A Guide to Parent Engagement That Works Ev

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5 Good YouTube Channels for Learning English

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 7, 2017 Here are some good YouTube channels students can use to learn English. Language teachers can also use them with their ' ELL/ESL/EFL students to enhance their grasp of English in.read more.

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MinecraftEdu Co-Founder Counts on Lessons Learned in New Plans for Education Games

Marketplace K-12

The Finnish co-founder of MinecraftEdu is taking lessons learned from that startup and applying them to dozens of popular online games for education. The post MinecraftEdu Co-Founder Counts on Lessons Learned in New Plans for Education Games appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Coding with Chromebooks

EdTechTeam

The Hour of Code is upon us which reminds me of a question I am asked more often than I would believe, “Do my students really need to learn to code?” . I think what is really behind this question is, “If I’m not a programmer, is this really useful to me?” To which I respond a resounding “YES!” Here is why I believe it’s so important.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. The two-story, red-shuttered colonial house where Brian Stack lives in New Hampshire is not too different from the homes where he grew up just down the road and across the border in Massachusetts. But the state line does make a difference in the schools.

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4 ways to improve STEM professional development

eSchool News

In Charlotte County Public Schools (CCPS), all 10 of our elementary schools have a STEM lab. As early as kindergarten, students begin engaging in hands-on learning and exploring STEM careers. Yet, even with regular visits to the STEM lab throughout elementary school, our fifth graders struggled on the Florida Statewide Science Assessment. Another challenge was that our teachers didn’t have a defined STEM curriculum that was uniformly applied to all elementary STEM labs.

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Organize Your Mac’s Windows on the Fly with Magnet

ProfHacker

There are a few applications that I immediately install on any new (or newly refreshed) Mac. Many of these are utilities that I don’t really think much about, but that I set to launch when my computer boots up and which I use constantly, often without even noticing. One of these is TextExpander, which I wrote about in one of my first ProfHacker posts.

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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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Top 5 E-Safety Tips Most Teachers Probably Don’t Know

EmergingEdTech

Technology is ubiquitous in our world, so it just makes sense that we need to teach our kids about tech and how to use it appropriately. Given how tech-savvy most kids are these days, as a teacher. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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OPINION: Want to help college students with special needs to succeed? First, stop saying ‘disadvantage’

The Hechinger Report

When most people think about diversity, they tend to mainly consider race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and nationality. I would like to believe that as a society most people agree that strengths accompany such diversity. That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations.

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6 Strategies Everyone Forgets To Include When Delivering PD

The Innovative Educator

I've helped facilitate or organize hundreds if not thousands of professional learning opportunities. These are the strategies facilitators most often forget when delivering professional development. With a little bit work, you can ensure this doesn't happen to you. #NYCSchoolsTech educators at a learning opportunity. Use this checklist at your next learning opportunity to have a more effective event.

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Case Study—CRLS has gone LCD

techlearning

Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School ( CRLS ) is a high school divided into four Learning Communities designed to promote high levels of learning and achievement.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Dubai Private School Market Presents Opportunities for Curriculum Providers

Marketplace K-12

Private schools in the city see a growing need for U.S. standards-based curricula, said speakers at an event at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates. The post Dubai Private School Market Presents Opportunities for Curriculum Providers appeared first on Market Brief.

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Engaging Rocket Science, Brought to the Classroom

techlearning

Design and launch a rocket into space in realistic astrophysics sim.

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Teaching History with Simulations and Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Dave Harms on episode 208 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. History teacher David Harms uses simulations to teach history. Whether it is World War 1, 2, the Cold War or the American Civil War, learn how these immersive “games” teach history much more deeply than most textbooks.

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Mind-blowing Google tricks with Jake Miller (GTT033)

Ditch That Textbook

When Ohio tech integration specialist Jake Miller shares his Google tricks on social media, they’re enough to catch your eye. When he creates them in amazing animated GIF images, the amazingness is without question. In this episode of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast, you’ll get plenty of both. Jake will share some of his favorite […].

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Education Technology and the Business of Student Debt

Hack Education

This is part three of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As an education technology writer, I’m often chastised for considering student loan companies as part of my analysis. Certain folks try to explain “that’s financial tech, Audrey” as though I hadn’t realized that student loans involve money.