EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2017

By Tommy Peterson Google, Microsoft, Adobe and others offer programs to help get teachers up to speed, and districts often pay for them.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Brainstorming is an important process students need to learn to do when innovating, creating, and problem-solving with technology. Brainstorming helps students come up with ideas, organizes ideas, and provides a roadmap for projects. We need to expose students to various types of brainstorming techniques, such as concept mapping, storyboarding, sketchnoting, sketch outlines, audio recording thoughts, etc., so they discover which techniques work best for them.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Written by Dr. Jared Scherz, TeacherCoach. When I was eleven, I went on a rock climbing expedition in Boulder Colorado. I paced nervously before the first climb, as the instructors readied the equipment. From a sharp reprimand, I was jolted out of my nervous daydream. “Don’t step on the rope.” the instructor shouted. Befuddled by this command, I wondered how a rope that was nearly as thick as my leg, could be effected by a barely 80-pound kid.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

As teachers and administrators, our goal is compliance. However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. But achieving that goal isn’t easy.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2017

As part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, Digital Promise Global is directing a network of Learning Studios designed for student-centered, experiential learning. Through HP’s commitment to refugee education and Digital Promise Global’s commitment to improving learning opportunities for all, the global network of Learning Studios is expanding to include three new sites in both Jordan and Lebanon.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Answer is Always a Spreadsheet It’s my birthday today (Oct 6) and it would make me super happy if you tried making a spreadsheet! I LOVE SPREADSHEETS! Here are some tips and suggestions for things to try. /create sheets.google.com/create A quick way to make a spreadsheet is to use sheets.google.com/create. It instantly lets you […]. The post It’s My Birthday, Make Me a Spreadsheet appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Bullying has, unfortunately, become a common term in today’s education world. All students get into the occasional squabble or call another student a name—but bullying is different. Bullying is defined by negative actions, which are intentional, repeated, negative, and show an imbalance of power between the students. We’ve come a long way in the past few decades in acknowledging bullying and confronting it as a real problem in our schools.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number of bids and RFPs from state and local governments for K-12 education has grown by 20 percent over the past year, according to an analysis by Onvia. The post Demands From K-12 Schools for Contracts Surging at State, Local Level appeared first on Market Brief.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Post by EdTechTeacher Instructor – Rosey McQuillan @romcquill. Available as a web-based tool or an iPad application, Padlet allows teachers and students to create virtual bulletin boards where collaboration, reflection, publishing and sharing of information can occur. As a synchronous learning environment, Padlet supports interaction, sharing, and collaboration in real-time or as an asynchronous learning environment allowing students to learn at their own pace and time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

October 6, 2017 StoryWars Classroom is an excellent web tool and Chrome extension you can use to engage students in creative writing projects. It provides students with a distraction free platform.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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In a district where 90 percent of students are of color, and the achievement gap is wide, a superintendent is betting that the Black Lives Matter movement can make a difference. Teachers in Rochester, New York — three quarters of whom are white – are getting cultural training and discussing anti-racist strategies. Students are talking about how racism shapes their lives.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

October 6, 2017 Showbie is an excellent educational app for teachers. We have already featured it in multiple posts in the past but with the newly released updates we thought you might.read more.

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Adjusting Course

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Our staff created a "lip sync battle" video as a reward for students. Today is the official "release day" for the video and we hope it makes students smile as much as we smiled while creating it. One thing the video doesn't show is the incredible work our entire team does to create a culture where relationships, innovation, and learning come together in such a fun and collaborative manner.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Cookie Monster is all wound up. The Count has him hold up his furry blue fingers, count them (of course), and blow on each one in turn as if he were blowing out a birthday candle. Afterward, Cookie declares, in his familiar growly voice, that he feels much better. “Hey! Me feel terrific! Me calm. Me relaxed.” You won’t be catching this scene on HBO or PBS.

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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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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Thus far, I have not seen any augmented reality apps that have struck me as super-useful. Sky Guide AR is pretty cool, but unfortunately I don’t get a lot of quality time with the night sky. Obviously it’s early days yet, and I expect there will be plenty of amazingly useful apps in the near future. (Wait–if realtime translation “counts” as AR, then I guess that’s definitely pretty useful.).

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techieMusings

OCTOBER 6, 2017

It was an honor to have a chance to write an article for EdSurge about The Must-Have Tools in my Flipped Classroom. This article is not about the screencasting tools I use to create my flipped classroom videos. Actually, my whole point in the piece is that it is not so much about the tools as it is about the data you can unlock when you find the right tools.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 6, 2017

edWeb.net and Digital Promise are working together to help all stakeholders in education—educators, researchers, and product/service providers—move forward faster with new tools and technologies, but also to ensure that there is solid evidence to support these innovations. A conversation about these issues was hosted by Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio with Susanne Nobles, Partnerships Director, and Christina Luke, Project Director of Digital Promise, and Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of ed

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SecurEdge

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Tired of trying to answer your end-users complaints about why the Wi-Fi is so slow and unreliable? It's a common issue for many businesses. You're asked to wear many hats and the last thing you want to deal with are the complexities that come with wireless. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi is a mission-critical utility that you can't shrug off as a "nice-to-have".

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Buying a mattress for your baby is no easy task. You have to make sure that everything is in order before you pull the trigger. Finding a comfortable bed for yourself is much easier than finding […].

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techlearning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

It's a resource for new ideas on teaching with technology and media.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Ivanka Trump with an op-ed in The New York Post : “Why we need to start teaching tech in Kindergarten.” (Spoiler alert: because five-year-olds need coding skills so they can get jobs. Lazy, lazy, little children.). Journalist: “Care to comment on Ivanka Trump’s announcement she’s making ed-tech a focus of her time in the WH?

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