Ditch That Textbook
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
The best way to know how an idea will fly in the classroom is to try it in the classroom. Planning and theory will only tell us so much until we try it out. That goes for technology use in the classroom, too. Teachers have been using long-established models for solid classroom tech use for [.].
The Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
The Chromebooks are coming! The Chromebooks are coming! So, what is a K-12 teacher supposed to do with those Chromebooks? In this week’s blog post we review “The Chromebook Classroom”a recently published book by John Sowash. Our opinion? Sowash has hit a homerun!
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Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
As students’ math scores remain stagnant , education leaders are exploring ed-tech tools as a way to provide targeted support in essential math skills. But with more than 150 products to choose from, many district decision-makers say they need a way to quickly and effectively determine which products are high-quality and best meet their goals. To respond to this need, we worked with six League of Innovative Schools districts in spring 2016 to run pilots of two middle school math products: Math
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
I took a Classroom 2.0 Live webinar last year on rolling out the Hour of Code in the classroom. There were so many great things about that webinar, but one I’ll share today is why teachers DON’T participate in Hour of Code. Here are what the webinar participants said: How about you? Why are you NOT doing Hour of Code? Stay tuned for these Hour of Code articles on how to present coding in your classroom: Hour of Code: What is it?
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
November 15, 2016 Class Messenger is a good tool that facilitates communication between teachers, students and parents. This tool , designed specifically for k-12, is also available as iOS and.read more.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
HyperDocs Are More Than A Digital Worksheet Guest blog post by Lisa Highfill HyperDocs are digital lessons that you give to students for engaging, inquiry-based learning; but beware, they can easily be a digital worksheet depending on the lesson design and content you include. It is important to remember that when exploring HyperDocs online, often […].
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Education Superhighway
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Today we released the full version of Compare & Connect K-12 , an online tool that helps school district technology directors, superintendents and state leaders view broadband services and bandwidth information for school districts across the country. By creating transparency for K-12 broadband speeds and pricing, Compare & Connect K-12 empowers school leaders to make smart network purchasing decisions and get the most bandwidth for their broadband budgets and allows state leaders to qui
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Two student at Greenville’s Em Boyd Elementary, work on a science project on an iPad. Districts across Mississippi, like Greenville and Columbus, have adopted technology programs in classrooms. Photo: Jackie Mader. When Philip Hickman took over the role of superintendent in 2014 in the Columbus Municipal School District in east Mississippi, technology was almost nonexistent.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
A teacher’s job, and we do so imperfectly, is to help students learn how to become productive and engaged members of society. To help them navigate through noise and opinion to truth, to help them learn to care for others. America is hurting after this 2016 election and there is plenty of blame and bad […]. The post Advice to American Teachers Post Election by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Fractus Learning
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Impact Brain Development. Cyrus Loves Texture. Parents, teachers and caregivers can impact brain development among typical and atypical children by providing rich sensory experiences. Research tells us that multi-sensory environments impact brain development. The study of the brain and how it works is amazing. At birth, the brain is still a work in progress.
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.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
To be a good writer one must constantly work on his skills. However, it is not bad news. Considering the abundance of technologies that can help you make it a fun and entertaining activity, you will have no problems advancing your skills as a writer. Even if you are not really good with technologies, we […]. The post 10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing by @Sophia_Clark89 appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Author information. Drew Perkins. TeachThought's Director of Professional Development, formerly with the Buck Institute for Education and the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning after 15 years of classroom teaching. Passionate about the leading of learning through inquiry, I have been called a professional thought stretcher due to my love for questioning. |.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
As flipped classroom has been gaining momentum over the last decade, many teachers have included new technology into their daily routine. There is a variety of tools that make flipped teaching easier. These usually fall into generic categories like video creation and hosting, interactions, learning management systems (LMS) and so forth. Apparently, a flipped video […].
EmergingEdTech
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Calling all Educators: Join the #CollaborationNation Over the past few decades, we have seen an ongoing increase in collaborative teamwork skills as a job requirement in job descriptions (Plucker, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
As technology development occurs at an increasingly exponential rate, we have seen our society shift from analog to digital, physical to electronic, and nowhere is this more evident than in the way we educate the generations to come. The classroom is changing at a rapid pace like we’ve never seen as teachers are forced to […]. The post Classroom Innovation: The Technology-Driven Future of Education by @sarah_daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
MindShift
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Early in his career Dr. Robert Brooks became the principal of a school in a locked-door unit at McLean Psychiatric Hospital. He and his staff of teachers worked with children and adolescents who were severely disturbed and whose behavior showed their turmoil. Within the first few months, Brooks felt demoralized and dreaded work each day. “I had a very negative mindset,” Brooks said at a Learning and the Brain conference on mindsets in San Francisco.
Comfortably 2.0
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
I had a teacher thank me today. I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary so it caught me a bit off-guard. She said, “thank you for liberating me.” I didn’t have a clue as to what she was talking about so I leaned in to ask her for more details.
Fractus Learning
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
From the time they are born children use sensory play to learn about the world around them. From the beginning of their lives, children want to see, hear, touch, smell and taste everything they encounter. The search for sensory input is the reason you spend so much of a child’s first year pulling things out of their mouths. Playing with sensory toys helps promote learning through the senses.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
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Marketplace K-12
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Chinese app provider Knowbox raised $15 million while HarukaEdu, a technology solutions provider based in Jakarta, raised $2.2 million. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Knowbox Raises $15 Million, HarukaEdu Takes in $2.2 Million appeared first on Market Brief.
esri
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Want to do a simple crowdsourcing activity? Want to engage students in an exploration of areas around school, across the state, or spanning the country, using both demographic and landscape data? Want to make it an activity based on your students’ choices? Want to use the analysis powers in an ArcGIS Online Organization? Try the “ Community Round Mile.” By dropping a point, creating a circle of a certain distance around it, and enriching that buffer with particular data, you ca
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Tuesday, November 15th, is day three of the seventh annual Global Education Conference. We are ready for another great day of sessions and keynotes! IMPORTANT NOTES: Simple instructions on joining the conference for newcomers: [link]. We are partnering with Chrome Warrior and using their gamification platform to provide an enhanced professional development experience for Global Education Conference attendees.
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.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Google launches a new secure way of signing into your Gmail by creating a 2-Step verification system. But. Should we let our students try this feature out? The post Google Launches 2-Step Verification to Secure User Accounts. Should Schools Try This? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Today Ms. Skinner’s 1st grade class had the great fortune to Skype with Anne Marie Pace to celebrate her new picture book, Pigloo. This book began when Anne Marie was in 1st grade, and now it is a beautiful picture book for our readers to explore. Pigloo dreams of going on an exploration to the north pole, and thanks to some snow, his sister, and some imagination, he is able to make his dreams come true.
Graphite Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as gratitude requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Character Lab , gratitude is: appreciation of the benefits we receive from others and the desire to reciprocate.
Education Superhighway
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Today we released the full version of Compare & Connect K-12 , an online tool that helps school district technology directors, superintendents and state leaders view broadband services and bandwidth information for school districts across the country. By creating transparency for K-12 broadband speeds and pricing, Compare & Connect K-12 empowers school leaders to make smart network purchasing decisions and get the most bandwidth for their broadband budgets and allows state leaders to qui
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.
Graphite Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as gratitude requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Character Lab , gratitude is: appreciation of the benefits we receive from others and the desire to reciprocate.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
To provide the best possible teaching and learning environment, school leaders need to provide their teachers with professional learning opportunities that are personalized and engaging. This is not an easy task when there are so many areas to cover, very little time, and limited funds. edWeb.net is free and can help school leaders provide teachers with personalized PD that meets teachers’ needs and interests, and promotes collaborative learning with peers.
Mark Smithers
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
This video was first posted on the DLDSC blog [link]. This presentation was given at the RMIT University Learning and Teaching Conference 2016 held on the 24th and 25th of October in Melbourne. The presentation describes some of the key concepts involved in designing and creating a next generation digital learning environment. Once you start the video you can navigate the interactive transcript below to skip to the parts that you think might be vaguely interesting.
The Principal of Change
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Leadership can happen from any position. We know this. But what is the impact when we focus on viewing leadership this way and ensuring that every member of the school community has ownership on the direction moving forward? This is why this question is crucial; how do we move from “pockets” of innovation, to a “culture” of innovation?
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