EdTechTeam

JULY 17, 2017

We, (Dan and Amy), met serendipitously (as with most good things) at SXSWEdu Conference a few years ago when mutual friends brought us respectively in tow to an Austin Mexican food restaurant. We were instantly mesmerized and energized by each other’s ideas and anecdotes about our pedagogy and projects. Dan has long been a devotee of the design thinking approach to learning and Amy’s focus at the time was remix, multimedia storytelling, and connected learning.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 17, 2017

As a longtime advocate of project-based learning, I’ve noticed a familiar pattern. Teachers often launch into PBL planning with great enthusiasm. As their first project plans take shape, they imagine a range of benefits for their students, including a deep understanding of content and development of 21st century skills.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Are we looking for dyslexia too late? Ongoing research at Boston Children’s Hospital shows that brain imaging and a child’s family history of dyslexia, among a multifaceted array of other factors, can point to a predisposition for dyslexia well before that child ever steps foot in a kindergarten classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 17, 2017

By EdTech Staff The management tool helped the district embrace secure accessibility.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

As many of us know, modern public schools have roots in the Industrial Age; they were designed to prepare students for the 19th century workforce. Learning was sorted into disconnected subjects and compartmentalized by grades and age groups, with students sent along the proverbial conveyor belt of learning. Thanks in large part to modern standards, this model remains today, with curriculum that is a mile wide and an inch deep—and plenty of critics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 17, 2017

Welcome to the second in this series of posts promting the idea of going to SAMR and beyond. Every school I visit that is attempting to integrate technology into instruction are also having conversations on SAMR. As I have talks with these schools, I tell them that SAMR is a wonderful place to start. At the same time, if we are to look at technology integration that promotes rigor and deeper thinking, we must integrate multiple concepts together.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions, at after hour gatherings, and certainly in the vendor hall. This is simply a reflection of what is happening in the private sector. In 2015, it was reported that there was $71 billion spent globally on robotic applications, a figure that is expected to more than double by 2019.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 17, 2017

10 Mobile Google Classroom Tips The mobile app for Google Classroom is a must!! Here are 10 tips to get the most out of teaching with Google Classroom. 1) View Notifications The 3 lines in the upper left show you the Google Classroom menu. A red dot on the lines indicates that you have notifications. […]. The post 10 Mobile Google Classroom Tips appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior Karolina Espinosa will be attending Buffalo State in the fall on a Say Yes tuition scholarship. Photo: Amadou Diallo. BUFFALO, N.Y. — When 18-year-old Karolina Espinosa looks back to her freshman year at Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School, graduation seemed like a long shot. “At the time,” she said, “both of my parents were incarcerated.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 17, 2017

July 17, 2017 Below are the top 10 paid productivity apps as rated by iTunes App Store. You may want to go through them and see which ones work for you. Some of the things you can do with these apps.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 Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

John Spencer is someone I have connected with and followed for years. I have become a huge fan of his work, and I am proud to have been a part of his book “ Empower ” with AJ Juliani. He now has a Makerspace Master Course available. Here are some of the details: The Makerspace Master Course. John Spencer has designed a week-long Makerspace Mastermind Course.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 17, 2017

The post The Best Source Of Education Research Should Be Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 17, 2017

What do you think is a school principal’s first responsibility? Among the many duties that principals have, the most important is the broad task to create a positive climate that is hospitable to education. All aspects of the job, whether logistical or managerial in nature, should serve the end of creating a culture of intellectual and moral maturation and learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 17, 2017

The post A Process For Responding To Your Most Challenging Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Adjusting Course

JULY 17, 2017

I love family and I love reading. It seems only right that we combined two of my favorite things into one joyous video project! To kick-off #FamilyBookTalk , we asked some of our favorite authors join the fun. You can see their family booktalk videos HERE , and don't forget to see the booktalks other educators have created on the #FamilyBookTalk hashtag.

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MindShift

JULY 17, 2017

Mitch Resnick has been working on how to give students new avenues of creative expression for over a decade. His Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab develops Scratch , one of the most popular coding programs for kids, which is based on the seminal work of Seymour Papert, who died in 2016. When Resnick thinks about the guiding philosophy behind Scratch, he thinks of one of its users — Ipzy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

The adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates. Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma. Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the city’s Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson hope to raise a million dollars for the “ Learn.

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The 21st Century Principal

JULY 17, 2017

We've all heard this quote, or might have even used it: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." I've heard ed reformers and educators pushing change and innovation use this quote many times, and attributing to Albert Einstein. I honestly have to admit I might have done so myself. T he truth is, there's no solid evidence he ever said it.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 17, 2017

School leaders and finance officers need to speak up about the budgeting issues that cause educational inequities, one former finance chief says. The post School Finance Experts Discuss Their Work in K-12 Trenches appeared first on Market Brief.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 17, 2017

Source: Texas Education Agency Retrieved July 17, 2017 Earlier today, Kimberly Reeves sent out the following Tweet: I wish @SenLarryTaylor would fact-check himself when he says teacher to administrator ratio is 1:1. it's not true. #txlege #txed — Kimberly Reeves (@edwonkkimmy) July 17, 2017 The myth of the 1:1 public school teacher to administrator ratio strikes again.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 17, 2017

I've written here before about Bryan Alexander and his outstanding Future Trends in Technology and Education newsletter, which I've considered essential and vital reading since 2013. Bryan is one of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Sight Words-An Early Reading & Spelling Adventure.

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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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Educator Innovator

JULY 17, 2017

Nikole Collins-Puri, CEO of TechBridge Girls , explores her organization’s mission and outlines six key strategies for building makerspaces that are girl-inclusive, particularly for girls of color and girls from low-income communities. For the past 17 years, Techbridge Girls has been working to break down barriers that often keep young women, particularly those of color from low-income communities, out of STEM careers and the maker movement.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 17, 2017

Power Rangers and Power Ranger Toys are truly a blast from the past. The phenomenon started in 1993 with the release of the television show, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which told the story of five teenagers chosen […].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

There has been no shortage of compelling stories this summer involving Mississippi, education, and rural schools. Some of these stories hit on perennial summer themes, like summer school and food insecurity. Others go deep, exploring efforts by small districts to innovate, for example, or describing personal experiences with education reforms. Amidst the constant churn of political news and upbeat features on summer travel, here are five important education stories you may have missed that relat

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy. Norm Lane was a brilliant behavioral scientist who was commissioned as a Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychologist in 1963 and had retired when I first met him in 1994.

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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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JULY 17, 2017

Explore background information about Nelson Mandela and the end of the South African Apartheid.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

Districts nationwide are looking for new and innovative ways to provide training and resources for their staff, all while keeping within a limited budget. What many administrators fail to notice is that their greatest asset is already in their building. It’s the 21 st century, and school librarians are no longer just “the keepers of the books.” Librarians and media specialists are highly trained, highly versatile staff members, whose scope of responsibilities spans all students and all subjects.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2017

Extensive, versatile, no-frills review tool for serious AP students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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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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