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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The popular world-building game is reviving a classic classroom video game.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“I believe there’s a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble… ” – May Parker, Spider-Man II. Every student should experience a hero moment when they are challenged to accomplish a grand feat to improve the lives of others. All students should be presented with missions that require them to be brave and step out of their comfort zones in order for them to build resilience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #69–Instead of Emailing, Share.

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Designing and planning your first (or second or third) project can definitely be a challenging prospect. It takes time and intention to figure out how to expand learning beyond the walls of the classroom, involve experts in the field, and mimic the work adults do in the world outside of school. Choosing the right content around which to build a project is essential in order for deeper learning to occur.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The reasons why teachers use technology in their classroom are simple. It saves them thousands of steps to the copying machine, the hassle with it and the paper costs. Furthermore, students love to have access to iPads and fun apps. However, it’s not easy to set up a digital classroom by yourself. Getting to know those apps takes time. And there are so many!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. The next day, our neighborhood found an asbestos-ridden shell of a building where once stood the heart of the neighborhood. The community rallied to rebuild, and the community group in charge of redevelopment asked me to build a new school on the ashes of the former shopping center.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Even before it began, my school knew this year would be different. This marks my 12th year of teaching and my third at YES Prep Northbrook Middle School in Houston, a public charter school in a predominately Hispanic community. After receiving a Verizon grant earlier this year, our school was planning on introducing one-to-one iPads for students and differentiated professional development for our staff.

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techieMusings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Pear Deck has released a super exciting update that I’m so excited to share — integration with Google Slides! All you have to do is install the Pear Deck add-on and then you’ll be able to add in the interactive question types available through Pear Deck right within Google Slides! This is brand new. As in, Google just released Add-ons within Google Slides this afternoon (you’ve been able to use Add-ons with Docs & Spreadsheets, but not Slides… until now).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At Banks County Schools, a rural school district in the mountains of northeast Georgia, it feels like we’re at the end and also the beginning of a very exciting journey. With around 2,850 students in pre-k to grade 12, technology plays an increasingly important role in learning outcomes across all age groups. While we launched a district-wide 1:1 initiative this year, our journey actually began four years ago when we kicked off discussions about supplementing our aging hardware which, at the tim

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty by Lynette Guastaferro, Executive Director at Teaching Matters How did we create a reading program for students with unique leads? Good question. We saw a need for a reading program for students in poverty, so through combination of teacher empowerment and a focus on […]. The post How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

September 27, 2017 Stop motion animation is a cinematographic technique that consists of animating a set of static pictures or objects through placing them in separate frames then combining them.read more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria, the typical student experience could take place anywhere. As an “open distance learning” institution, students attending Unisa receive a course textbook and a study guide to direct them through course materials. If learning takes place online, students may use a learning management system (LMS) to log into their courses, and even watch live video lectures.

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

From the Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey, we learned that 51% of parents of middle school students are worried about their children’s safety online, including being harassed or bullied on school-provided online collaboration tools, whereas in 2007 only 32% of parents expressed this concern. Here’s some help for parents who want to know how they can partner with their local schools to keep their children safe online.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

New York and New Jersey are among the 10 best states for teachers, according to a new analysis that ranks states in terms of teacher friendliness. The new ranking from WalletHub reveals that teachers in some states face tougher battles when it comes to salary, class size and per-pupil spending. Teaching isn’t an easy job–the nation’s classroom teachers are often overworked, left without important resources and funding, and dip into their own pockets to purchase necessary items

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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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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In this episode, we tackle several strategies for creating a seamless presentation with helpful resources for an audience of all backgrounds. The post What Makes Great Professional Development? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode, we tackle several strategies for creating a seamless presentation with helpful resources for an audience of all backgrounds.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important critics of the way big media crowd out “everyday” voices in order to control knowledge and “manufacture consent.” So it is surprising that the MIT linguist dismisses much of our new digital communications produced from the bottom-up as “superficial, shallow, evanescent.” We have heard this critique […].

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

File photo Photo: Jamie Martines. Mental illness is an issue that affects the lives of Americans regardless of their ethnicity, race, income or geographic location. But some groups encounter environmental stressors including trauma that have a negative impact on their overall well being. In a previous opinion essay for the Hechinger Report, I highlighted the steps Baltimore is taking to combat community mental health challenges; noting that the barriers members of the African American community

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

For its first 10 years, Quizlet was humming along just fine. The bootstrapped, San Francisco-based company claimed it was profitable thanks to its free popular digital flashcards, for which users could pay an annual subscription to get additional features. Then—and now—it ranked among the top 25 most popular U.S. websites, according to Quantcast. Then in 2015, the company took a gamble: It raised $12 million for its first round of outside investment.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

September 27, 2017 Here are some good app recommendations for both teachers and students. These are music apps curated specifically for high schoolers. Students can use them to improve their.read more.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Regarding numeracy, U.S. adults at each of the three recorded levels of education attainment had lower results than averages for the rest of the developed world. American adults ages 16-65 without a high school diploma had an average score of 204 points. U.S. adults who were high school graduates scored an average of 243. Finally, Americans with at least an associate’s degree averaged a numeracy score of 287 points.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

There’s an old adage that says “if a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”. In this video, Constance Seibert shares how the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed hosted by the Friday Institute helped her better understand the different ways her students learn. The course focuses on three constructs of learning that educators can use to better understand and support students’ learning needs: working memory, executive function, and motivation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Student Voices. What do kids really think about school? How would they change it? Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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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.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I had the opportunity to visit Facebook to learn how other school districts and businesses were using Workplace : Facebook's answer to connecting whole organizations with familiar tools like chat, Facebook Live, and groups, so they can turn ideas into action. While it comes with a price tag for businesses, it happens to be free for education institutions.

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EdTechnocation.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

iOS 11 has dropped and with it comes some amazing new features that will surely benefit you and your students in the iPad classroom. Dig in to this blog post for a free downloadable and printable poster of 7 of my favorite new iOS 11 features. I've also shared some ideas and sample use cases as well as quick video tutorials for each new feature! Get your FREE Poster!

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

All of This Amazing Technology Comes With Ethical Considerations we Should all be Aware of … The exponential growth of information technology brings with it a developing set of ethical. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As traditional sources of funding decrease, securing grants is a reasonable supplement to established funding although competition can be stiff. You can improve the odds of winning grants with these successful strategies and best practices.

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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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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At Common Sense, we often hear from parents who want to get their school or community involved in a discussion of how media, tech, and the digital world are impacting kids. But many parents don't know where to begin. Well, now you can help parents get started! Connecting Families is a three-part program that offers everything you need to get families in your school or community involved in raising great digital citizens.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Quizster is a innovative site/app that I just found out about for assessing and grading students work. All a student has to do is snap a photo of their work and send it via the free mobile (iOS/Android) to their teacher. The teacher can then annotate, comment, and grade using Quizster and respond instantly to the student. All information then gets backed up to the cloud and helps decrease the frequency of lost homework.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Aaron Marvel on episode 158 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Aaron Marvel talks about research schools. Modeled like a “teaching hospital” – these schools have researchers and educators working hand-in-hand. Learn how they work, why more schools don’t use them, and common mistakes schools make as they implement this model.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Charming political campaign sim mixes data analysis and civics.

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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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