Digital Promise
MARCH 12, 2018
This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. By middle school, typical reading curriculums assume that students have the necessary literacy strategies to decode the writing in front of them. Lessons have shifted from “learning to read” to “reading to learn,” with students using texts to make sense of unknown concepts.
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 12, 2018
Day 61 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Elsa, the German who seeks the Holy Grail. Indiana Jones is trying to save her and has her hand. Yet, she is reaching for the grail. And as she reaches, at a pivotal moment, we see that she cannot have both.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MARCH 12, 2018
When an ed-tech titan starts giving away valuable tools for free, startups might think about the adage, "If you can't beat them, join them.". The post What’s a Startup to Do When a Giant Like Google Invades the Market Space? appeared first on Market Brief.
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 12, 2018
Glen Westbroek on episode 271 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thirty-three-year Presidential Award Winning science teacher Glen Westbroek believes in creating active learning experiences in his science classroom. Today we kick off science week on the 10-Minute Teacher talking about active learning, Next Generation Science Standards, and what an engaging science classroom looks like.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 12, 2018
Here’s a nice infographic on how to evaluate websites for authenticity, reliableness, and usefulness. Feel free to grab it and share: More on internet research: Citing Sources: The Infographic. Plagiarism: What it is and how to identify it. Use Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2018
“Another English teacher just switched to gym because she couldn’t do it anymore,” a teacher from Georgia recently told me. “I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” She’s not alone in her sentiments. A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2018
When I was 24, I entered into my third year of teaching. I was bright-eyed, optimistic, and excited to start out a new role that combined administration with teaching middle-school math. I felt in control of my career and my job. But about six months in, an awkward encounter left me wondering whether that sense of control was indeed as real as I thought it to be.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 12, 2018
“Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information.” by Terry Heick There is an essential–and essentially human–movement in learning–a point where something transitions from other to self. It starts with recognition–an awareness of that thing. A formula, process, skill, or idea. Then there’s analysis.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2018
Steph YoungGonzaga credits online learning with enriching her education and helping establish herself as an IT thought leader. Now she wants to pay it forward. Instructors can focus on teaching–and not on technical issues. After earning both a Masters and a Doctorate online, and following a successful twenty-year career as a corporate IT executive, YoungGonzaga recently returned to her roots.
MiddleWeb
MARCH 12, 2018
To create classrooms where vocabulary learning thrives, Valentina Gonzalez recommends an interactive word wall – a large graphic organizer displaying critical vocabulary with related ideas and visuals added by students. Great across subjects, for ELLs and everyone else!
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.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2018
As we walk towards the new Career Launch Center, Anabel Garza, principal at Reagan Early College High School in Austin, Texas, greets two young men in the hallway. They look up to see who is addressing them then look back down, walking past her without a response. Garza’s story is well-chronicled, the age-old tale of a principal trying to turn around an impoverished school with failing tests scores.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
A student in the Mississippi Delta raises his hand during class. More than 40 school districts in the state, including many in the Delta, lack qualified teachers. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2017, Mississippi identified four subjects and teaching specialties and 41 school districts as “shortage areas,” meaning there are not enough qualified teachers for those subjects or positions in elementary and secondary schools.
Teacher Tech
MARCH 12, 2018
GroupDocs Add On for Google Sheets It’s always a good day for me when I can get a little coding in. Yesterday I updated my GroupDocs Add-on for Google Sheets. This Add-on randomizes your roster and puts students into groups. It then makes a copy of a document from Google Drive for each group and […]. The post GroupDocs: Randomly Assign Groups With a Template appeared first on Teacher Tech.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ames, Iowa is more than 1,500 miles from Parkland, Florida, but the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School felt too close for comfort. School leaders in Ames had prepared students for the event of a gunman in the building by practicing lockdown drills, but they wondered whether they were doing everything they c
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.
TeacherCast
MARCH 12, 2018
Whenever anything bad happens in the world. wherever trouble can be found. the good guys always find a way to win. The post Are you prepared to save the Princess? How can you change your future with only 15 seconds? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
Fourth-graders Jorlando Vega (center) and Diego Reyes prepare to dissect a frog with the help of a Quinnipiac University med student as part of a “mini-med-school” expedition at Elm City College Prep, in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo: Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The third- and fourth-graders at Elm City College Prep, clad in protective goggles and facemasks, studied their preserved frogs with the seriousness of med students facing their first cadaver.
ProfHacker
MARCH 12, 2018
There were a lot of strong reactions to the announcement that Storify was shutting down. Many instructors, in particular, were caught unprepared, with assignments using the platform due imminently. I was left wondering what I would do with the archives and presentations I had curated over the years (!!) using Storify. As I often do, I took to Twitter to see if in the interim, anyone had come across an alternative.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.” Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 12, 2018
Learning is best done through doing, what is conventionally known as the hands-on approach to learning. What we have for you today are iPad apps that can help students engage in meaningful learning.read more.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 12, 2018
Episode 110 of the TeachThought Podcast is the 11th episode in a 12-part series on reinventing learning for the always-on generation. The series is based on the award-winning book, Reinventing Learning For The Always-On Generation: Strategies And Apps That Work. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 110 Reinventing Learning: Relevant, Engaging, and Fun Learning Experiences appeared first on TeachThought.
Marketplace K-12
MARCH 12, 2018
Chinese education companies continued to attract investors this week with a Beijing-based K-12 education platform raising $200 million in a Series E round. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chinese K-12 Education Platform Raises $200 Million; DreamBox Learning, NWEA Partner appeared first on Market Brief.
Shake Up Learning
MARCH 12, 2018
The post The Nutritional Value of Learning appeared first on Shake Up Learning. What is the Nutritional Value of Learning in Your Classroom? If someone was to peel back the label on the lessons in your classroom, what would they see listed as the “nutrition facts”? What would be the nutritional value of learning in your classroom? How are you preparing students for the future?
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.
Marketplace K-12
MARCH 12, 2018
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was chosen by the U.S. Department of Education to help promote the #GoOpen network. The post Feds Pick California Nonprofit as Partner on Open Educational Resources Project appeared first on Market Brief.
eSchool News
MARCH 12, 2018
Savvy school districts are starting to harness the cost and time-efficiency benefits that video interviewing platforms provide to make faster, cheaper, and smarter hiring decisions. The key feature of any video interviewing platform is what is referred to as the one-way, on-demand, or asynchronous, video interview. Here’s how it works: • First, the district invites candidates to complete a video interview within a given amount of time, usually three to five days. • Using their smartphone or any
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
. Career readiness. It is a phrase du jour in the education world and the impetus for conversations about 21st-century career and technical education programs. What’s often missing from the conversation, however, is the sober acknowledgment that most programs are of sub-optimal quality and inadequately delivered. Research suggests that simply taking a course or two in career and technical education for a few hours a week won’t do much for either job preparedness or academic achievement.
eSchool News
MARCH 12, 2018
A recent Mobile Beacon report analyzing mobile broadband usage by non-profit organizations, including schools, finds that schools utilizing Mobile Beacon’s 4G LTE internet service indicate that the ability to supplement and/or extend existing school networks is the greatest benefit of the service. The report, “ Creating Opportunity Through Connectivity: How Mobile Broadband for Anchor Institutions Impacts Communities ,” analyzed survey responses from Mobile Beacon’s non-profit clien
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.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
What comes to mind when you think of the SXSW Conference ? If you don’t know the acronym stands for South by Southwest, then this column may escape you completely. SXSW refers to the popular, chic annual gatherings in Austin, TX, going on right now that explore “what’s next in the worlds of film, culture, music, and technology.” But for those in the know, when you hear about SXSW attendees, do you ever think of folks coming from historically black colleges and universities?
techlearning
MARCH 12, 2018
Unicheck has launched a new plagiarism checker google docs add-on aimed at students, teachers, researchers, and writers who work outside LMS system. The service is also available in an online version. Learn more at [link].
MindShift
MARCH 12, 2018
To hear a podcast version of this story, check out the MindShift Podcast on Apple Podcasts , NPR One , Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts. . Classroom management is an essential tool for an effective teacher, but it’s not always easy to do well. Without an orderly classroom it’s hard for teachers with upward of 25 kids in their classrooms to lead effective lessons, help students who are struggling, and perhaps most important, to trust students.
techlearning
MARCH 12, 2018
Writable Smart writing platform places focus on feedback and revision Pros: Scaffolds the writing process like no other product on the market; an extensive library of assignments support all kinds of writing. Cons: Requires Google accounts, which can be an issue for some schools. Bottom Line: While there's some room for improvement, this tool is rock-solid pedagogically and can be the engine of your classroom's writing process.
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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