The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 16, 2017
A conversation with Mari Venturino on episode 77 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. These challenges are free! (And perfect activities for team building at the end of the school year.
Neo LMS
MAY 16, 2017
Humanity has come a long way in the last centuries and even in the last decade. Technology is probably the main driver behind this journey, which is far from reaching its end. Society is galloping towards the future, yet the educational system seems like it’s walking slowly. It’s moving in the same direction, but walking. Slowly. There are many aspects of this, but let’s settle on one only: assessing student performance.
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Digital Promise
MAY 16, 2017
The 360 Filmmakers Challenge inspires the next generation of virtual reality creators by encouraging high school students to produce 360° films that make an impact. This is a story about “ Breaking Barriers ,” winner of the Complete 360° Award. “I can do this. It’s just school,” utters the student featured in Breaking Barriers, a film produced by students from Parkville High School in Parkville, Maryland.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 16, 2017
This summer, Ask a Tech Teacher is holding five Summer Learning classes : Tech-infused Teacher (Certificate edition for CEUs or grad class for college credit ). Tech-infused Class. Teach Writing with Tech. 20 Webtools in 20 Days (and the Structured Learning curriculum edition ). the Differentiated Teacher. Most award Certificates at completion, for CEUs.
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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.
Digital Promise
MAY 16, 2017
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Children with autism are often described as “visual learners” and said to “think in pictures”. Accordingly, teachers and therapists routinely prescribe picture-based communication systems in an effort to support their learning. However, the findings of a study my colleagues and I published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders contradict this notion, casting doubt on a key rationale for routinely
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. NG2. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. moving away from just using the word “grades” has been an important piece of keeping students motivated in the program.
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Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg may be a college dropout, but that’s not stopping him and Priscilla Chan from trying to help more students access higher education. Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a grant partnership with the College Board in an effort to expand access to test preparation tools for assessments such as the PSAT and SAT. No financial details were shared.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 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.read more.
Gaggle Speaks
MAY 16, 2017
Last week, our Safety Management team received a considerable number of inquiries from educators concerned about the game “Blue Whale,” which has ostensibly resulted in the death of dozens of teenagers by suicide. The concern is far-reaching. The UK Safer Internet Centre Helpline has additionally observed an uptick in calls concerning the game that is alleged to have started in Russia.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 Based on your recommendation, we went ahead and curated for you this collection of some good iPad apps you can use with your elementary students to help them with their writing. From.read more.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 16, 2017
The post Will You Still Be Teaching Next Year? appeared first on TeachThought.
ProfHacker
MAY 16, 2017
Ulrich Boser , a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress , strongly believes that learning more about learning can benefit everyone, no matter their goals or stage in life. Learning how to master new skills and relate new information to existing knowledge is especially important as technological and societal change continually alter the kinds of work we perform throughout our lifetimes.
The Principal of Change
MAY 16, 2017
I love Twitter. If you are looking for some good books to read over the summer break, take a look at this thread: What is a book that had a significant impact on your views and practices on education, but is NOT an education book? — George Couros (@gcouros) May 15, 2017. Lots of interesting suggestions there. Books I have read, books I haven’t heard of, and books that I have heard of that I have never read.
Shake Up Learning
MAY 16, 2017
The post Teach Like the Tonight Show: Internet Pop Quiz with Google Slides (Teacher Edition) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Take the Internet Pop Quiz. (Teacher Edition). Bring the fun and laughter of Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show into your classroom AND your professional development! In this post, I will show you how to use Jimmy’s Internet Pop Quiz as a model for a “Get to Know You,” game with a Googley twist!
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 16, 2017
Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). His laboratory is developing software to animate ASL avatars. Photo: John Myer. The technology behind the cooking rats in “Ratatouille” and the dancing penguins in “Happy Feet” could help bridge stubborn academic gaps between deaf and hearing students.
Educator Innovator
MAY 16, 2017
Students take to the river, building collaboration and problem-solving skills by building and sailing their own rafts, in conjunction with a critical reading of Huckleberry Finn. For Huckleberry Finn, the river is the ultimate experience of freedom. On the river he doesn’t have to answer to anyone. Yet it is on the river that Huck and his companions learn important life lessons: how to tackle tough problems, how to make decisions on their own, and the value of collaboration.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 16, 2017
An estimated 86,000 low-income high school graduates annually score high enough on ACT and SAT tests to get into the most selective universities and colleges, according to a new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. But these low-income students often end up at community colleges and regional public universities with low graduation rates , instead of more selective institutions.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 16, 2017
Socratic Expands to the Android Platform and Adds Support for 5 New Languages Last week I had a fun conversation with Christopher Pedegral, CEO of Socratic, who was animated about the exciting. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 16, 2017
Did you know that young people aged 11-15 are more likely than any other age group to experiment with tobacco? People who try smoking generally do it for the first time as a preteen or young teenager…and that means early intervention and proper education about the dangers of smoking are imperative. Right Decisions, Right Now is a youth tobacco prevention program created by Lifetime Learning Systems.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 16, 2017
A comment in The New York Times article How Google Took Over The Classroom struck a nerve for many readers. In it, Jonathan Rochelle , the director of Google’s education apps group seems to question the value of teaching all students quadratic equations and also the reluctance of some teachers to allow students to use Google when they want to learn something.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 16, 2017
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techlearning
MAY 16, 2017
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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.
EdTechTeam
MAY 16, 2017
We had a great time at the "You Don't Know Geo!" webinar last week. There was a quite a guest list including several EdTechTeamers, John Bailey from Google's GEO Education team, Donnie Piercey from the GEO Education Trainer Network , Micah Shippee who spoke about "Using Big (Globally-Big) Data to draw Inferences and Conclusions about Human Activity" and Kelly Kermode who has just launched an online course, "Creating Global Learners with Geo Tools: An Introduction" with us.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2017
IT Infrastructure & the 21st Century Classroom: Ensuring Technology Availability Tuesday, May 16, 2017 1:00 PM ET Find out how to enter a Server Room Makeover Contest Is your school district increasi.
MiddleWeb
MAY 16, 2017
Spring is in the air and kids' attention is fluttering around and beyond the room. Elizabeth Stein shares a bit of timely brain science and offers strategies to help co-teachers bring their students' attention back to class as the end of school approaches.
Learning with 'e's
MAY 16, 2017
Love what you do, and do what you love. For me, this is a great formula for a happy life, and also for a successful working life. I sometimes joke that I haven't done a day's work in 20 years. The fact is, I get paid to do what I love to do, which is teaching and research. When I was younger, my careers teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I left school.
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.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
It’s one thing when master teachers successfully implement learning games in a carefully controlled research study. But engaging students through game-based learning (GBL) means little unless the games are easy to implement and effective where they matter most—in the classroom. Games, like any other tool, should be put into place to support the learning of curriculum and the mastery of standards by our students.
Graphite Blog
MAY 16, 2017
If -- for the most part -- phonics workbooks were abandoned in favor of whole-language approaches to reading, why are educational games still honing in on single concepts? Educational technology is often viewed as a tool to support learning, not the focal point of instruction. But games can be different, and can even be the centerpiece of a classroom.
EdTech Magazine
MAY 16, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A survey offers an inside look at whether the digital divide expands into opinions.
eSchool News
MAY 16, 2017
During her keynote address at the annual ASU+GSV Summit in Utah, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos didn’t stray too far from her usual focus topics. DeVos covered a range of familiar education topics, and she also touched on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a key federal higher-education law that has languished for years during talks of reauthorization.
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