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The 2017 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K–12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From gurus to classroom tech champions to communities, we’ve got the latest batch of top K–12 blogs.

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Effective Student-Led Parent Conferences

The CoolCatTeacher

Laura Penrod Stock interviewed on Episode 38 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Help students share their work. Give them a voice. Students can lead parent conferences. They can share a year-long portfolio of work. Here’s how. Today Laura Penrod Stock @tweetmeego coaches students to create powerful student-led conferences with their parents.

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Why I Hack My Classroom

EdNews Daily

Written By: Grace O’Shea. New York City, Summer 2011. I was excited to be joining a force of Teaching Fellows poised to tackle the opportunity gap in NYC. I began my summer school assignment feeling a healthy mix of zeal and terror. I was about to go live. The challenge? Get a group of straggling eighth graders excited about science. Room 230. I enter.

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How to Use Tech to Help Graduating Students Find Jobs

Ask a Tech Teacher

The end of the school year means graduation for seniors. If they aren’t going to college, they’re job hunting. Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, has several ideas on how to make that more efficient: As a teacher, you’re fully aware of how much the world is advancing through technology. Undoubtedly, innovation has touched many aspects of how you teach.

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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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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: The Impact of School Lunch on Student Performance

EdNews Daily

By now, it is no mystery that what people eat has an effect on their daily physical and mental health. When people keep themselves well-nourished, they can participate more fully and effectively in a wide variety of activities. Of course, nutrition has an impact on K-12 students as well, from their academic performance to their behavior in the classroom.

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6 Best Practices for Building Positive Teacher-Student Relationships

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. Chances are you didn’t need Hattie or any researcher telling you about the importance of student-teacher relationships. As a first year teacher, I somewhat smugly felt when it came to student-teacher relationships, “You either have it, or you don’t.” It seemed as if I had good relationships with my students. But was I bonding with […].

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Creating a Culture of Relearning in Your CBE Classroom

Education Elements

The biggest frustration I hear from teachers who are implementing competency-based education (CBE, also known as mastery-based education or learning) is that students' motivation drops considerably when they realize they can retake tests until they get a passing score. It seems, much to the chagrin of the teachers, some students no longer take assessments seriously.

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Joining Together to Best Serve Florida’s Adult Learners

Digital Promise

The Florida Adult and Technical Distance Education Consortium ( FATDEC ) began in 1999 with one mission: to make education easily accessible for adult learners by harnessing the emergent world of online learning. Many years and many ed-tech developments later, FATDEC has become a leader in leveraging the power of collaboration to support adult learners.

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The Web20Classroom - Untitled Article

The Web20Classroom

Steven Anderson and Shaelynn Farnsworth lay out what Connected Educators do and how it’s a always a work in progress. Educators today can no longer just walk into the classroom, shut their door and teach. In every facet of our practice there are other educators doing amazing things that we can all learn from. Through the creation of our Personal Learning Network we find smart folks we can learn, share and grow with.

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Powering Learner-Centered Teaching through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Imagine you are a new school principal in charge of planning professional development for your educators. You are working to ensure they can provide their students with engaging Deeper Learning experiences that will prepare them for success in college and career. How would you begin? What skills would you focus on? What learning activities would you provide?

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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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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

Edsurge

When Tulsi Parida joined Newsela in August 2014, she was the 19th employee at the fast-growing New York City-based startup. During her time there, the company tripled in size and she earned a promotion. Last July, however, Parida felt an itch to tackle educational needs in her native country, India. So she packed up and move to Mumbai, where she found work at Zaya.

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15 Great YouTube Channels for Social Studies Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 22, 2017 After we posted about YouTube channels for math teachers we received a couple of requests for compiling a similar list for social studies teachers. Below are some of our favourite.read more.

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From Teaching to EdTech — Lessons from Those Who’ve Made the Leap

Edsurge

Leaving the classroom to work in the edtech industry can feel like a sort of betrayal. In California, while the tech sector booms, a teacher shortage looms. Teacher turnover rates are on the rise, particularly in low-income school districts. For teachers at under-resourced schools, the world of startups, incubators, and accelerators appears at best decadent and, at worst, delusional and detrimental.

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Tynker: Teaching Coding and Programming for All Students

My Paperless Classroom

On todays episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, I welcome educator Dan Rezac from Tynker.com on to discuss STEM Education and how Tynker is offering educators a FREE professional development opportunity called the Blue Ribbon Educator Program. The post Learning About Coding and Programming. One Block at a Time with @GoTynker appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

Edsurge

A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. One of the latest is Pear Deck , which just closed a $4 million Series A round led by Growth Street Partners. Existing investors, including Village Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and AOL co-founder Steve Case also chipped in. The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2 million.

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Surprise Medical Bills: What Can You Do … and Who Should You Call? @NJEA

TeacherCast

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members. The post Surprise Medical Bills: What Can You Do … and Who Should You Call? @NJEA appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members. In this episode of the Jersey Educator Podcast we sit down with a teacher who had a very unfortunate situation with a recent hospital bill.

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Rethink Education, Southern New Hampshire University Launch $15M Edtech Seed Fund

Edsurge

Most universities take a conservative approach with their endowment funds. Not so for Southern New Hampshire University , which has partnered with Rethink Education , a venture firm based in White Plains, NY, to launch a $15 million seed fund to support early-stage edtech startups. Dubbed “Rethink Education Seed,” the fund will support about two dozen startups over the next five years.

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A Handy Infographic Featuring Some of The Best YouTube Channels for Social Studies Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 22, 2017 Here is an infographic we created for the post we published earlier today titled ' 15 Great YouTube Channels for Social Studies Teachers'. The visual features what we think are some of.read more.

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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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#LendMeALaptop

ProfHacker

My iPod Will Not Crash Your Airplane flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) . Last week, I was getting annoyed with white Americans worrying over their smartphones potentially getting searched or confiscated at US airports. Poor them. Because they’re so likely to get searched, and as a result of that search to get surveilled.

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What You Need to Know About Adding Personal Accounts to Google Classroom

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, Google announced that users will have the ability to access Google Classroom from personal accounts , as well as from accounts on entirely separate G Suite for Education domains. G Suite for Education administrators can already see updated Classroom settings that provide new controls over who can join classes. Initially, it looks like this change was made with higher education specifically in mind, due to the greater prevalence of university partnerships, abroad studentships, virtual

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Students See A New World With More Accurate Maps

MindShift

Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time. Beginning last Thursday, Boston Public Schools administrators have been sending social studies teachers in the second, seventh and 11th grades new maps for their classrooms — depictions that more accurately portray the sizes of Earth’s continents.

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10 Awesome Android Music Apps for Young Learners

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 23, 2017 Here is a collection of some very good Android music apps for kids and young learners. This collection is featured in Google Play App Store and embeds some highly rated apps in this.read more.

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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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Google Classroom: Start with Gmail and Let it Load

Teacher Tech

It’s rare for a school to have what I would describe as “Awesome Internet Speeds.” Even at my house where I have super fast internet it can lag to open a document or reply for Google Classroom. I love how I can click on a reply button in an email of Google Classroom to quickly […]. The post Google Classroom: Start with Gmail and Let it Load appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How New Tech Will Influence eLearning

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post How New Tech Will Influence eLearning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Individualized K12 professional development provides flexibility and freedom

District Administration

District-created online program gives school teachers choice to hone specific skills Tina Weaver Seeking alternatives to expensive professional development that takes teachers out of their classrooms and requires substitutes, Madison County Public Schools in Virginia developed a solution.

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New Law Designed To Inspire Female Students To Become Astronauts

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post New Law Designed To Inspire Female Students To Become Astronauts appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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State Ed-Tech Leader Sees New Demands for Modular, Organized Content

Marketplace K-12

Tracy Weeks, the executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association, talks with Marketplace K-12 about shifting state and local demands for academic content. The post State Ed-Tech Leader Sees New Demands for Modular, Organized Content appeared first on Market Brief.

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New Law Designed To Inspire Female Students To Become Astronauts

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post New Law Designed To Inspire Female Students To Become Astronauts appeared first on TeachThought.

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“Winter is Coming” — The Future of Digital Devices in the Classroom

Fractus Learning

“Winter is coming” Jon Snow wasn’t referring to our children and the use of digital devices when he repeatedly declared that ‘winter is coming’ on our TV screens. What he is saying may be true for his world, but the end is surely nigh for us in the real world too—just have one quick look at the technological invasion! Children who already spend far too much time switched on with their devices at home are now being pushed to use computers in school as well—what’s wrong with pencil and

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Using the iPad to Enhance Creative Writing in a Junior Preparatory Classroom

EdTechTeam

In a junior preparatory classroom, a great deal of our time goes to teaching children how to write in lines, form letters, write neatly, space their work correctly and introduce the concept of using grammar rules, amongst many other things. These are important skills that they need to develop. However, they can often be to the detriment of their creative writing.

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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.