Brilliant or Insane

MAY 8, 2016

Brilliant or Insane. I’ve ranted about the deleterious effects of traditional homework, in the past. Many education stakeholders, parents and educators alike, agree with me. Yet the crazy assignments continue to invade children’s homes daily. In this brief Hack Learning Podcast episode, I identify six typical reasons teachers assign homework, why they suck, and how to circumvent each one, inspiring […].

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User Generated Education

MAY 8, 2016

Too often marginalized populations (e.g., some populations of people of color, students from lower economic communities) are approached with a deficit model. Attempts are made to instill in these groups of students the skills to make them successful at the Eurocentric education that dominates most schools in the United States. The deficit model of education sees kids as. lacking in some way. defective. deficient. needing to be fixed. not as good as. needing to develop skills valued by mainstream

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

The world continues to change as a result of technological advances. Just a few years ago it would have been near impossible to predict some of the paradigm shifts we have experienced. It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. At this point change began to happen at a rapid pace.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2016

As many of you know, I have a daughter in the Navy and a son in the Army. I love them both and live every day worried. But through it all, I appreciate what they are doing to make America what so many need it to be. I love America. I love our military. I love my daughter and son. You don’t have to watch all of these. I got carried away on YouTube.

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 8, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 5. Driving Question: What Did I Learn From My Youthful Play? When I look back over my life and consider the lessons I've learned that have served me well, I almost always return to playing competitive games on the literal and metaphorical sandlots of my youth. In those days, we were playing for keeps. Lessons learned when we were kids became those profound lessons that affect a lifetime.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2016

Here are 11 of the best educator resources to follow on twitter if you are interested in Minecraft Education. The post Top 10 (Plus 1) @MinecraftEDU Educators To Follow | @Microsoft_EDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2016

Sam Patterson Launches New Podcast To Support STEM Education | Download and Subscribe Today. The post Learn How To Go #BeyondTheHourOfCode With @SamPatue and His New Podcast appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In the first episode of the hottest new elementary tech podcast Dr Patterson invites teachers of all tech interest and ability to join him on this journey of tech inclusion and lesson design.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 8, 2016

Despite her strong commitment to 21st century collaborative learning, Amber Chandler admits she'd "always held back from allowing my students to work together on their writing." Would everyone be engaged? Could it be graded? Then her kids showed her the way.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 8, 2016

May 8, 2016 Below is a collection of some interesting tools and mobile apps to help kids and young learners enhance their learning and boost their literacy learning in fun and engaging ways.read more.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MAY 8, 2016

Last week I had the privilege of visiting the Shireland Collegiate Academy in Birmingham, United Kingdom. I, along with Lord Jim Knight, Sir Mark Grundy, Kirsty Tonks, and their whole team, led FlipCon UK 2016. This was the first ever FlipCon (Flipped Learning Conference) in the United Kingdom. Although I was there to share my experiences with Flipped Learning to the delegates, I came away changed.

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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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MiddleWeb

MAY 8, 2016

Can supportive feedback from a diverse internet audience help students grasp the benefits of a growth mindset? History teacher Tim Kramer believes the answer is yes, after weighing his 6th graders' work during a project-driven, tech-infused Ancient Egypt unit.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 8, 2016

This week we had another successful #NYCSchoolsTechChat hosted by +Eileen Lennon.who lead a discussion of 79 Tweeps who left more than 1.7 million impressions on those who were following the conversation. You can check out the stats at the end of this post for stat details and read this tip to the success that makes her Twitter chats so wildly popular.

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MindShift

MAY 8, 2016

Is failure a positive opportunity to learn and grow, or is it a negative experience that hinders success? How parents answer that question has a big influence on how much children think they can improve their intelligence through hard work, a study says. “Parents are a really critical force in child development when you think about how motivation and mindsets develop,” says Kyla Haimovitz , a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 8, 2016

I’ve been reading the book, “The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace”, by Ron Friedman , and was struck by this part on Google’s 20% time. “With 20 percent time, there’s always another product in development. For Google the gambit has clearly been paying off: Gmail, Google News, Google Earth, and AdSense—an advertising vehicle that nets Google $10 billion in revenue a year—are just some of the products that were developed d

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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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The Daring Librarian

MAY 8, 2016

Google has quietly unveiled a super handy new way to search.and Save Google Images! I just stumbled across this and was like, Whaaat? It's super cool, but it's going to make my job trying to teach students (and teachers) NOT to just always use (and give sloppy attribution) Google Image Search instead of my beloved Flikr Creative Commons ! Gah!!! LOL When you're logged into your Gmail or Google and you go to Google Image Search, click on any image and you now see two little new buttons that say S

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EmergingEdTech

MAY 8, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … check out the new Q&A function in. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

MAY 8, 2016

Comprehensive practice tool covers a wide range of skills.

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