The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Jeff Gearhart on episode 162 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Are you studying Mars? Why not let students go live there? Jeff Gearhart is working with teachers in traditional subjects to let students immerse in the subject in Minecraft. In today’s show, learn about Minecraft EDU and how it is being used to teach.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 3, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez By revamping the data evaluation of teacher training programs, state education agencies can ensure their students are getting the best education.
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Neo LMS
OCTOBER 3, 2017
If the five senses of the human body were to compete for the Most Important Sense Award, I’m sure the eyes would get the trophy. All the other senses would be on a close second place, but vision would triumph. Perhaps it’s the direct connection with the brain, perhaps it’s the high sensitivity of the eyes… No matter the reason, we all perceive sight as a little more important than hearing, smell, taste or touch.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 3, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez In honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, here are some basics for keeping students and staff secure.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 3, 2017
In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. She believed her tormenters’ horrid insults, never thought she could find a way to stop them, and killed herself. She’s not the only one. In fact, according to the anti-bullying website NoBullying.com , 52 percent of young people report being cyberbullied and over half of them don’t report it to their parents.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Bring Deeper Conversations to the Table Guest Blog Post by John Stevens Table Talk Math Placements will be donating all proceeds to benefit the relief efforts in Puerto Rico. The placemats are erasable and reusable. How are you using the Table Talk Math Placemats that just got released? I’d love to hear from you! Pictures and messages […]. The post Bring Deeper Conversations to the Table appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. It was the early days of YouTube (then two-years old), and it was getting cheap and easy to make and post videos, so the two teachers—Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams—proposed shifting lectures to videos students would watch at home, and asking students to come to class prepared to problem solve with their peers.
The Jose Vilson
OCTOBER 3, 2017
In the last six years, few have pushed America to reconsider history the way that Ta-Nehisi Coates has. Yes, the thrust of his visions come from a specific lens of his black-male-from-Baltimore-ness, but this lens has offered many a new language by which to address the past decade and the harrowing present. The denouement of President Barack Obama's term, the ascension of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the new wave of public intellectualizing has given Coates an affirmed and awkward space
Edsurge
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Differentiating content and instruction for each individual learner was once considered the pedagogical holy grail. Yet it could be tiresome. Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with varied ways to access content, or five levels of text was what defined a master teacher. But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 3, 2017
October 3, 2017 Comic strips can be a great way to engage students in a wide variety of multimedia enriched learning activities. Using group work, you can assign each group with a writing or digital.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.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 3, 2017
What happens when a school district uses the latest in brain science to inform its edtech purchasing decisions? Students become more engaged and test scores go up, according to school district officials who shared their experiences at a brain science conference. “Brain Futures” was a two-day event that attracted high-profile neurologists, psychiatrists, and researchers from all over the country.
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Productive struggle is the kind of effortful learning that develops grit and creative problem solving. It results in students understanding content at a deeper level and applying that learning to more difficult and complex problems. It's what we want for all students. But did you know that some teaching methods could block students' potential for developing productive struggle in math?
eSchool News
OCTOBER 3, 2017
How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? It can be tempting to answer this question as former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in describing obscenity: I know it when I see it. But educators need a more concrete definition they can apply consistently across all subject areas. For Patti West-Smith, the answer is simple: Does the piece of writing do its job?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 3, 2017
October 3, 2017 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica}. A few days ago, we featured 4 good web tools to help teachers and educators make the best of their collaborative.read more.
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.
Adjusting Course
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Today's school leaders are operating in extremely complex times. Remaining silent about the challenges we face is not the kind leadership our students are counting on. The students we serve need leaders with the moral courage to lean into this work. The conversation is an important part of the work. Dr. Bill Ziegler and I are partnering with NAESP and NASSP to share a webinar designed to spur conversation and action.
NeverEndingSearch
OCTOBER 3, 2017
As school librarians, we are driven by our mission and our vision, by our national standards, by the needs and interests of our communities, and to some degree, by our own talents, passions and dispositions. We are all about inspiring learners to think, create, share and grow. We are all about becoming empowered leaders who transform teaching and learning.
Marketplace K-12
OCTOBER 3, 2017
In this week’s dealmaking news, St. Louis-based Varsity Tutors acquired UK-based First Tutors. In addition, RYB Education, a Chinese early child education provider, announced its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Varsity Tutors Acquires First Tutors; RYB Education Goes Public appeared first on Market Brief.
ProfHacker
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Typically when people talk about the rhythms of academic life, they mean the cycles of the academic calendar. Ordering books, getting a syllabus ready, midterms, graduation–these events all provide opportunities for taking stock and for constantly restarting. Against that rhythm, seasonal change can seem like something to be overcome: It’s dark out by 4pm, so how am I going to exercise?
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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Carla Savinon, now a sophomore, works on a painting in her visual arts class last spring at Boston’s Margarita Muñiz Academy, where arts are a core component of the curriculum. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Reading is reinforced when students have hands-on experience with the ideas they find in informational texts. ELA teacher Brian Cook's after-school drones program helps students explore flight, consider privacy and safety issues, and learn more about new careers.
EmergingEdTech
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Technology's expanding role in the classroom has transformed the way instructors teach and the way students learn. As online courses and blended learning environments continue to grow in popularity, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
My Paperless Classroom
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Storyboard That is always evolving. Whether it be new content (have you seen the Science or Health teacher guides yet?), new artwork (like all the awesome Norse and Egyptian gods), new features (all scenes are now Smart Scenes and many items have multiple options), we are always trying to make the product more productive for […]. The post Learn how @StoryboardThat can be used to ignite your next lesson today!
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.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 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.
Reflections
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Recently, I was able to spend time in a new program we have created for some of our most at-risk high school students. The incredible teacher invited me to sit in on part of a discussion and it was something I looked forward to all day. As we read through a document projected on the screen, two of the students began to share parts of their stories. Stories so full of tough lessons and experiences, I wondered how they were able to speak so openly about any of it.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 3, 2017
My kids love it whenever they get the chance to use technology as part of the writing process. My job is to make sure that the tech use is meaningful and purposeful - when used correctly technology can help enhance and transform my lessons, provide real-world activities, and increase student engagement. Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation.
MindShift
OCTOBER 3, 2017
The excerpt below is from the book “ Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play ” by Mitchel Resnick, published by MIT Press. . TEN TIPS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS. There’s a common misconception that the best way to encourage children’s creativity is simply to get out of the way and let them be creative.
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
OCTOBER 3, 2017
The generation of students attending college today just aren’t that impressed by traditional markers of authority—and they’re not coming to campus to gaze up at wise leaders on a pedestal (well, at least according to surveys). And that’s one reason the president of Bentley University, Gloria Cordes Larson, invites students to call her by her first name.
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