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3 Takeaways from Virginia Beach City Public Schools’ Tech Overhaul

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From teacher preparation to pilot programs, the shift to digital has paved the way for districtwide innovation.

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Developing Global Citizens Who Champion Change

Teacher Reboot Camp

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa. More than ever we need our learners to be global citizens who help make the world a better place. This is why one of the learning missions in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom is to get students to take part in an intercultural exchange.

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Are Biometrics in K–12 Schools Really Necessary?

EdTech Magazine

By Amanda Murphy As school security increases, more high-tech options arise.

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Give Me One for Feedback

Teacher Tech

Feedback Improves Learning Feedback is powerful for learning, but how much feedback can you give? We are human beings and our time is limited. Instead of asking students to turn in their entire assignment, instead, consider having them only turn in part of the assignment. The ONE thing they want feedback on. Collaborative Google Slides […]. The post Give Me One for Feedback appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 37 Edition)

Doug Levin

I take it as a given that thanks to online advertising and the rise of information brokers that we live in a time of extreme information asymmetry , a time in which the few tools available for individuals to give or withhold consent about personal information collection and analysis are insufficient to the task – if not under existential threat.

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Empower Student Voice through Collaboration and Communication

Battelle for Kids

When my son was a 9th grader, he was on a team with a student who struggled with completing tasks. After a week, my son shared the team’s frustrations, as they felt helpless to convince the student to move past excuses and make attempts at the work. Fortunately, the teaching staff trained students on a 4-step process for how to address internal team problems.

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How Rapid Technology Change Impacts Your Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post How Rapid Technology Change Impacts Your Teaching appeared first on TeachThought.

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There’s No Such Thing As Being Bad at Math: How Neuroscience Is Changing the Equation

Edsurge

Imagine a parent telling a child, “I’m just not a reading person.” Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Now reread the same cartoon, substituting “math” for “reading.” Suddenly it doesn’t seem so absurd. But it should! As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice.

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IBM Foundation launches free online software to help K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn.

Educational Technology Guy

The IBM Foundation has launched a free, online software to transform the way K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn. The software, called Teacher Advisor with Watson , uses Watson artificial intelligence technology to help teachers instantly find math resources. Teacher Advisor then dips into its library of 1,000+ videos and lesson plans, all based on national standards and vetted by top educators.

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Here’s How to Raise a Child to be Sympathetic

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Parents and teachers might often wonder how to teach children caring toward others – more so when the world feels full of disagreement, conflict, and aggression. As development psychologists, we know that children start to pay attention to the emotions of others from an early age.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Edtech CEOs Seek to Change the ‘Adversarial Narrative’ With Public School Teachers

Edsurge

There are not too many education conferences that flip the script and let CEOs grill investors with questions. However, BMO Capital Markets’ 17th Annual Back to School Conference is the kind of event your boss’s boss attends. From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year.

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Unleashing the Potential of Every Child #MondayMotivation

The CoolCatTeacher

Tom Loud on episode 151 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tom Loud dropped out of high school because he didn’t connect with his teachers. Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways.

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Minecraft’s New Oregon Trail Experience Has Everything—Even the Dysentery

Edsurge

Remember the Oregon Trail? Of course you do, it’s the game the internet won’t let you forget. Thirty-two years after the first full-color graphic version hit the Apple II, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—the current owner of the Oregon Trail franchise—is teaming up with Microsoft on a new world that ports many of the landmarks and features of the original game into Minecraft.

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Building Digital Citizens–the Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you have questions about how to build good digital citizens, questions like: how DO you get students not to steal images from Google and how important is that? what’s the best advice to students when they face cyberbullying? how do you know if you are plagiarizing or if you’ve been plagiarized? We have a new certificate class (with 18 ECUs) called “Building Digital Citizens ” that covers thirteen of the most-common topics everyone should know about Digital Citizenship

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Is The Cognitive Load Theory The Most Important Thing A Teacher Should Know?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Is The Cognitive Load Theory The Most Important Thing A Teacher Should Know? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Here Are the 5 Finalists for the $15M XPRIZE Global Learning Challenge

Edsurge

In the course of developing tools to help children in Africa build literacy and numeracy skills, Sooinn Lee learned something herself. “We had a photo function in our tool that lets children take pictures,” she says. “But none of the children had seen a camera before, and had no concept of what to do with the feature. So we took it out.” Understanding how cultural differences inform product design was one of the lessons that the Korean-born entrepreneur picked up during the past two months.

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5 New Things You Can Do in Google Classroom This School Year

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

September , 2017 If you are using Google Classroom in your instruction, you may want to keep updated with its latest releases especially the ones launched last month. Classroom Help has this.read more.

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Five Ways to Build Confidence in Reluctant Writers

Edsurge

Lisa DiMichele has taught writing to all kinds of high schoolers—from inclusion students to honors students, from kids struggling to finish a sentence to future Faulkners. But DiMichele, an English teacher at Henry E. Lackey High School in Indian Head, Maryland, had never faced a challenge like the one she walked into this summer—a classroom full of students who had just failed ninth-grade English.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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8 Great Exit Ticket Tools to Try Out in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

September 18, 2017 In response to requests from some of our readers asking about recommendations for digital exit tools to use in class, we are re-featuring this visual we shared awhile ago. It.read more.

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School leaders reveal the common sense keys to ELL success

eSchool News

English language learners (ELLs) are not a monolithic population. They come from different countries, have different levels of English exposure at home, and have widely different educational needs. Here, two district leaders discuss their approaches to giving every ELL the best possible chance at reaching their literacy goals. Vicky B. Saldala: Seeing Bilingualism as an Asset.

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2 Lessons Worth Sharing about Teacher Coaching

MiddleWeb

Done right, teacher coaching "can create bridges between varied experiences and classroom contexts, so that teaching knowledge flows in many directions, and teaching becomes a less isolated, more connected profession." Ariel Sacks shares two lessons she learned early on.

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Should You Delete or Suspend Staff Email Accounts at Your School?

Gaggle Speaks

Teachers, administrators and other staff will take new jobs, retire and give IT departments other reasons to delete or suspend their email accounts. Fortunately, there are plenty of similarities with the two most common email systems, Office 365 and Google (G Suite), regarding how to handle a departing employee. Office 365. Typically, you’d start by disabling a user’s Active Directory account.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Should Math Students Be at the Board Working?

MiddleWeb

Math teacher Michelle Russell has come to believe that having students working at the whiteboard is a good teaching practice. Even so, she's been busy exploring advantages and disadvantages via online and student research, striving to make a good practice even better.

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Global Collaboration Day + First Ever Online Global Ed Fair

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Interested in globally-connected teaching and learning? Then you're in for an incredible treat this THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st. GLOBAL COLLABORATION DAY (GCD) GCD is an online celebration of globally connected teaching and learning by students, teachers, and organizations. On this day (and beyond), experienced global educators and professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation.

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5 questions to ask when rethinking accountability systems

eSchool News

I have a very interesting job. As an education correspondent, I conduct interviews with many of the leading voices in education. Rarely are the interviewees at a loss for words. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. David Vroonland , superintendent at Mesquite Independent School District in Texas. Mesquite ISD is a larger district, with 47 schools and over 40,000 students.

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OPINION: When it comes to the job market, these higher ed practices give business students an edge (hint: they include the liberal arts)

The Hechinger Report

The Bentley University campus in Waltham, Mass. In 2006, I traveled from Boston to Charlottesville, Virginia, to interview second-year law students at my alma mater, the University of Virginia School of Law. I found students unlike those I had met on any of my past recruiting trips. They all had arrived at law school with much broader experience in the world than had my generation.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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App of the Week: Helping students with Autism

eSchool News

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. Autism Core Skills School Edition.

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We're Moving!

EdTechTeam

We love our Blogging Community! EdTechTeam is moving from Blogger to Wordpress. You can continue to learn more about EdTech, updates, and resources in our EdTechTeam blog at edtechteam.com/blog. See you there!

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K-12 Dealmaking: Carnegie Learning Acquires Globaloria; Labster, Piper Raise Funds

Marketplace K-12

In this week’s dealmaking news, mathematics education company Carnegie Learning acquired Globaloria, a provider of computer science courses. Also, DIY computer kit provider Piper and Denmark-based Labster raised funds. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Carnegie Learning Acquires Globaloria; Labster, Piper Raise Funds appeared first on Market Brief.

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5 New Ways I Learned this Summer Without Stepping Foot in a Classroom

Fractus Learning

Oh summertime. Basking in the sun, putting my toes in the sand, water lapping at my feet. Well, that was just a dream this summer, but I did get to learn in some creative ways. Let […].

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.