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APRIL 28, 2016

We have seen it happen too often. Too many schools are selecting a device for their students based mostly on either the ease of management by the tech lead or the one-time purchase price or both. We don’t believe that ease of management or one-time cost are the right prime criteria for selecting a device in schools, especially if your goal shifts from ensuring that every child has access to a device to ensuring that every child has quality learning experiences.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2016

By Meg Conlan With Microsoft pumping dollars into chatbots, the company’s founder discusses the technology’s implications for learning.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 28, 2016

Sometimes, when I get ready to write a new blog post, I have this nervous excitement in my fingertips. When that happens, I know I have something really good to share with you. Today’s one of those days. The world is changing very quickly. Technology is changing. The workforce is changing. Our students are changing, and [.].

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 28, 2016

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. People of all ages love using it to connect with friends and share experiences. As the site gets more and more popular, the uses of it are widening; it is in fact, becoming a fantastic learning tool. My students love Facebook, so I wanted to find ways to tap in to this to engage them in learning.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 28, 2016

Raising a child is not the easiest thing to do. I’m sure every parent can agree that it is exactly the opposite of easy. If parents are like superheroes when they strive to meet all the needs of their one, two, seven or ten mini humans at home, then how should we call teachers, who do the same all day — but with 15 to 30 children? Super-superheroes?

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 28, 2016

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. People of all ages love using it to connect with friends and share experiences. As the site gets more and more popular, the uses of it are widening; it is in fact, becoming a fantastic learning tool. My students love Facebook, so I wanted to find ways to tap in to this to engage them in learning.

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The Jose Vilson

APRIL 28, 2016

This next writer is still one of my favorite thinkers (not just in education) out there, and contributed the epigraph to my book This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education. Without further adieu, here’s Michael Doyle. José has been kind enough to let me share words in his space. If you look up “José” in Wikipedia , you’ll learn that “José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph.”.

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TeacherCast

APRIL 28, 2016

In this episode of the Jersey Educator Podcast, we take a look at the struggles teachers face when being involuntary transferred inside of their district. The post The Challenges and Opportunities in being Involuntarily Transferred in your District appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode, we welcome the Melanie Lemme onto the show.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Students who are part of Project REACH meet weekly to discuss study strategies and ways that autism affects them socially and academically. Photo: Rita Obeid. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. His parents figured college was the next step, but that dream was nearly cut short in his first semester. Miscommunication with a professor resulted in an argument over handing in a paper he wasn’t finished with.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 28, 2016

Many of us have favorite tools that suit our workflows well, helping us accomplish our tasks and keep track of needed bits of information. Below you’ll find a list of applications, services, and utilities that I use almost daily. Workflow. I a big fan of ToDoist , my preferred Task Manager. For the way I work, it’s a better option than Apple’s Reminders.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

Open-source software and existing devices formed the backbone of one district’s big signage upgrade. Ed. note : Author Wayne Fulton will be a panelist on DSF’s May “Hangout” discussion, “How to Leverage Signage in a K-12 Setting,” on Wednesday, May 11 at 2 p.m. EST, available free to members and nonmembers. For more information, visit the DSF website.

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Edutopia

APRIL 28, 2016

Photo credit: ©Hero Images/500px Rebecca Alber Student Engagement Here are five reasons to motivate students to read more. One reason: Reading makes you smarter and a better writer.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

April 28, 2016 YouTube is absolutely an excellent resource of educational video content to use with students in class (if it’s not blocked in your school). However, YouTube ’s experience can.read more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports positive results in Africa, U.S. For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University have been conducting a study to determine whether tablet computers loaded with literacy applications could improve the reading preparedness of young children living in economically disadvantaged communities.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

April 28, 2016 Access is one of the key elements in the process of leveraging the power of EdTech in your teaching and for your professional growth. It’s true the web is teeming with all.read more.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 28, 2016

The restorative practices advocated by authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey invite teachers "to switch their energies from rules to relationships, and provide meaningful instruction," writes reviewer and instructional coach Glenda Moyer.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

April 28, 2016 In today’s post, we want to re-highlight an interesting resource we have shared in the past called Google Tips. Since the last time we reviewed it, several new tips have been added to.read more.

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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2016

Connectivity is part of the fiber of our lives and most of us can’t imagine what we did before we had 24/7 access, much less what it must be like for the 60 million Americans without home Internet access.

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techieMusings

APRIL 28, 2016

I’m excited to share some projects that I’ve had the chance to work on with the French teacher at my school as part of their preparation for an exchange with students in Toulouse! The below was originally posted on the Bullis Tech Blog , where I highlight some of the projects that I am able to work on in my role as technology coordinator.

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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2016

With a mix of whiteboards and projectors distributed unevenly throughout its five schools, Peters Township (PA) School District knew it needed to update and establish equitable learning opportunities for all students.

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techieMusings

APRIL 28, 2016

I’m excited to share some projects that I’ve had the chance to work on with the French teacher at my school as part of their preparation for an exchange with students in Toulouse! The below was originally posted on the Bullis Tech Blog , where I highlight some of the projects that I am able to work on in my role as technology coordinator.

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Adam Welcome

APRIL 28, 2016

I can't stop thinking about this picture. I've looked at it so many times over the past week. What it says - what it explains - what it tells us about our kids - what we all can learn from the details that we can see and also those we can't - where the interest really is for kids at school. Complicated is a word that I think about often in trying to describe our education system.

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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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Edutopia

APRIL 28, 2016

Photo credit: Jon Harper Jon Harper Social and Emotional Learning Students who don't share the same language can still connect when given time, space and freedom to explore their passions and strengths through art and play.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 28, 2016

The post 28 Reasons I Can’t Attend That Meeting appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

James Harvey is executive director of the National Superintendents Roundtable. It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. But while the NAEP results reveal plenty to worry about, anxiety over the findings should focus on the inequities they reveal, not trivial score differences from year to year.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 28, 2016

Our nation spends a lot on educating its youth, yet it fails to allocate adequate resources to remove the three largest barriers to learning that innovative educators have to face day in and day out. These three barriers are responsible for the inability of teachers to update their practice and cause today’s students to remain stuck in the past once they enter school doors.

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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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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2016

Virtual Reality (VR) and its second-cousin-once-removed, augmented reality (AR), are coming to schools near you. And teachers can’t say enough positive things about the experiences their students are having with this new technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

K-12 school system saves thousands per year as it doubles internet bandwidth and achieves a 10x increase in private fiber connection speeds. Lightpath , a provider of Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area businesses, is working with Ramsey School District in New Jersey in support of a wide range of bandwidth-intensive initiatives that demand the power and flexibility of a 100 percent fiber network.

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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2016

The use of technology in schools has increased so rapidly that many education leaders today do not have first-hand experiences to draw from as they work with their teachers to integrate the latest te.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 28, 2016

Pia Hansen's Mathematics Coaching Handbook carefully explores the roles played by coaches, then goes on to describe how to approach and work with teachers. Middle grades specialist Scott Sharp also finds the appendix's many templates helpful.

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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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