Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JULY 30, 2019
Esports is generating huge revenue worldwide and being adopted as varsity sports by school districts. It's a trend to watch. The post Understanding the Rising Phenomenon of Esports and Its Embrace by Schools appeared first on Market Brief.
Neo LMS
JULY 30, 2019
Look around you! Everything is constantly on the move, changing rapidly, adapting to new needs and contexts of life. But what happened to teaching and learning? These concepts seem to be stuck somewhere in time not being able to fit our reality. If we want to evolve truly and meaningfully, society should focus on how education can be revived. Teachers around the world are trying to find solutions to the one-size-fits-all approach to education by giving learners voice and choice , transforming th
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The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 30, 2019
Lauren Harris on episode 533 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Math teacher Lauren Harris had a problem. Students weren’t remembering important concepts from the previous year that she knew she had taught. How could she help students remember? Her answer is that she includes meaningful projects in her curriculum.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JULY 30, 2019
If our students get a good grade in government class but leave class as apathetic, uninvolved future citizens… we have failed. If our students pass the state reading test but never voluntarily read a book … we have failed. If our students survive math class but end up hating math … we have failed. And so on… Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase said in their amazing book, Building School 2.0 : With almost everything we teach, we are always faced with two very different challenges.
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Ditch That Textbook
JULY 30, 2019
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s so easy to let our lesson plans move down our priority list. And when that happens, our classes can lack the impact they might have otherwise. Thankfully, there’s hope. I’ve found several strategies, tips and tricks to make lesson planning more meaningful and effective. If we […].
EdNews Daily
JULY 30, 2019
By Betsy Hill. The most recent release of the Nation’s Report Card had everyone from the U.S. Secretary of Education to classroom teachers wringing their hands over the fact that student performance is essentially unchanged from previous years, with only 35 percent of fourth-graders reading proficiently, and just 40 percent performing proficiently in math.
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EdNews Daily
JULY 30, 2019
By LeiLani Cauthen. Written words are motionless and unremarkable when approached by human eyes. They lie on paper in black and white, unmoving. It’s terribly boring for children, honestly, and that’s why we have picture books. Still, we expect students to be able to read the boring stuff because some of it has concepts that must be learned in school or professional life.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2019
The office of academic innovation at the University of Michigan is staffing up in anticipation of a new initiative and a new investment to be announced this fall. The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. Over the next few years, the department plans to hire about 40 people in all, making it about 100 strong, says James DeVaney, associate vice provost for academic innovation.
EdNews Daily
JULY 30, 2019
By Franklin P. Schargel. The beginning of the school year brings lots of new things – new clothes, new friends, new schools to attend and new incidents of bullying. The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2019
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — A red staircase next to a Home Depot in an ordinary strip mall leads to an equally nondescript door. Behind it is a surprisingly airy, light-filled atrium. The tall ceilings, roof-top windows, exposed steel beams and air ducts hints at its industrial past. Built in the 1950s, the space, now called Gate 510 , first served as a Plymouth automobile plant.
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.
Marketplace K-12
JULY 30, 2019
Pearson has announced it will produce all of its college textbooks digitally, first. What does the move signal for curriculum-producers in the K-12 arena? The post Pearson Goes ‘Digital-First’ in College. What Does That Mean for K-12? appeared first on Market Brief.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2019
It started out as an informational meeting about a year ago. Yigal Kerszenbaum, who had recently joined a venture capital fund to support startups focused on helping low-skilled workers find jobs, was introducing his work to leaders from a nonprofit that shared a similar focus. That meeting with Jobs for the Future , which over the past 35-plus years has established a reputation for creating public policies and workforce development programs, proved to be fruitful.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 30, 2019
My Storybook is an excellent web tool students can use to create and share storybooks. It is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy activities. They get to build their own.
EmergingEdTech
JULY 30, 2019
The Engaging Power of Choice… Lately, I've been focusing on the relationship between education technology and student success. Just last week, this article in Campus Technology magazine stated. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
MiddleWeb
JULY 30, 2019
Being a teacher who writes is the secret to being a successful teacher of writers! To help up your game, consultant and author Stacey Shubitz suggests ways to share your own writing in class with students and offers hints on how to develop and stimulate a personal writing habit.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 30, 2019
Actively Learn is an interesting interactive reading platform teachers can use to engage students in a wide variety of literacy activities and help them develop key reading skills. Actively Learn.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 30, 2019
Last time I checked, being poor was not a crime. But earlier this month, school officials in Kingston, Pennsylvania, treated it as one. On July 9, Wyoming Valley West School District officials mailed a letter to approximately 40 parents, warning that if they did not pay their child’s debt for school meals, “the result may be your child being taken from your home and placed in foster care.”.
eSchool News
JULY 30, 2019
All educators are lifelong learners, whether they’re figuring out how to incorporate the latest edtech device into their lessons or researching bios on NBA players to help a reluctant reader. But while schools expect teachers to continue their education, most only get rewarded for getting an advanced degree like a master’s or a Ph.D. Now, organizations like Digital Promise have developed programs for educator micro-credentials, which recognize educators for acquiring new skills.
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The Principal of Change
JULY 30, 2019
Please bear with me as I try to process my thoughts through writing…This might seem like a bit of a ramble, but I am trying to work through some ideas. I read something on a picture sharing site (I cannot find the image, but this is not my idea) that has stuck with me and has been bubbling in my brain. It said something similar to, “We spend all of this money and time developing and providing mental health initiatives in the workplace yet we don’t look at the things that we do
MIND Research Institute
JULY 30, 2019
Each month here on the MIND blog we are sharing the stories of how our organization, our partners, and educators across the country are advancing the mission to mathematically equip all students to solve the world’s most challenging problems. We’re also sharing resources for educators and students, and covering some of the exciting events we’re taking part in across the country.
MindShift
JULY 30, 2019
When Elena Aguilar started her teaching career in Oakland public schools 25 years ago, she was sure there was no better job than teaching. She loved her work, but she couldn’t help noticing how many teachers left her Oakland school each year. And she started taking note of how disruptive that cycle is to the school community and to the school’s ability to implement new programs.
Gaggle Speaks
JULY 30, 2019
Digital citizenship is an area of focus for most schools across the country. The goal is to help bring a foundational knowledge and skill set to children so that they can effectively and responsibly use and interact with digital media and the internet. It also addresses the role of children being content creators who are active participants in these online community spaces.
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.
eSchool News
JULY 30, 2019
Today’s supplemental solutions don’t allow district leaders or teachers much flexibility. Much like “one size fits all” training is no longer relevant to the world’s workforce, today’s static books and online programs seldom fit the needs of any particular school district or classroom. District leaders and teachers struggle to tailor instruction, but options for building courses, modules, or lessons are very limited.
techieMusings
JULY 30, 2019
Thrilled to have this excerpt from Tech with Heart featured in EdSurge! Reaching the Quiet Kids in Class | EdSurge.
Shake Up Learning
JULY 30, 2019
The post Coding, Art, and Student-Led Innovation [student interview] – SULS023 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Today I’m talking with another amazing student guest about what she likes and dislikes in school. Ainsley McClard is going into the 7th grade next year and she chats about some amazing projects she’s been involved in, coding, art, innovation, what she thinks about the grading system, and why she started her own business!
Fractus Learning
JULY 30, 2019
LEGO’s fascinates any age and gender. LEGO theme sets were initially created more for boys than girls. In 2013 the 4th and 5th graders at Shorewood Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin, wanted to know why there were many more […].
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.
Turnitin
JULY 30, 2019
In this blog post, we share some tips on how to make your syllabus the best syllabus ever.
Reading By Example
JULY 30, 2019
Equity, or ensuring that each student has what they need to be successful in school, is a commendable goal. But is it attainable? How can we truly know if our efforts have created the conditions for every child to reach their potential? Just asking this question makes me nervous. Educators aren’t supposed to share their doubts. Yet I recall a person from the Department of Education visiting my prior district.
ExcelinEd
JULY 30, 2019
Thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., have state-level innovation or pilot programs that promote next generation learning. But, unfortunately, my home state of Arizona is not one of them. Excel in Ed and Foresight Law + Policy recently published new research that closely examines next generation learning programs in each state. Our findings indicate that innovation and pilot programs—like all education policies—look different from state to state.?
techlearning
JULY 30, 2019
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