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MARCH 5, 2018

8 Steps to Create a Successful Modern Learning Space. meghan.bogardu…. Mon, 03/05/2018 - 08:46. Modern learning spaces can have a big impact on both students and teachers. However, they require holistic planning in order to be successful. In CDW’s modern learning environment engagements with numerous school districts across the country, the following best practices have emerged: SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2018

In a post of nearly two years ago (“ OERwashing: Beyond the Elephant Test “), I argued that the OER community lacked a reliable way to assess new entrants to the OER field, especially for-profit organizations, in terms of their support for openness and OER community values. At the time, I asserted that the lack of a common language and reliable approach to identifying ‘good OER actors’ was detrimental for the field, including for all those individuals, organizations, and

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 5, 2018

Where can you find inspiration for a cool lesson or activity? Does it take a “bolt of lightning” creative moment, or can you find it in your everyday life? I think it can be narrowed down to three words. Inspiration is everywhere. So, when I got together with South Carolina educators Matt Johnson and Jed […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2018

Day 55 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Abominable snowman lives. Sometimes it’s a snow woman. Frozen, this beast refuses to change. Frozen behaviors. Frozen methods. Frozen content. When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot. That is it. There is no stasis.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 5, 2018

Ruth Simmons said: the perceptions of what it takes to be a leader are often based on prototypical models that don’t have much truth in reality. People look at the institutions that I have led and they see dissimilarities. I see similarities. When people think in terms of leadership, they’re often thinking about the kind of specific skills needed for different types of enterprises.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 5, 2018

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites: Color the shamrock. Color the Pot-o-gold. Color the leprechaun. Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. St. Patrick’s Day history–video. St. Pat’s Day songs–video. Tic tac toe. Webquest for St.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In the months since launching our school and district pilot program , the Kiddom team has collectively spent thousands of hours meeting with administrators to better understand their workflows, facilitate contextualized staff workshops, and support ongoing partnerships. Our goal? To build Kiddom Academy, a platform that allows every stakeholder in a school community to be connected and informed to drive student achievement.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 5, 2018

Are You Doing Projects Or Learning Through Project-Based Learning? by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Project-based learning is not just doing projects, it’s students learning through the work of a project. In quality PBL the deeper connections and learning are established through the inquiry process as students make meaning out of an authentic challenge.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. These days, though, many MOOC platforms are courting the traditional higher-ed market they once rebuked, often by hosting fully-online masters degrees for colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

A new analysis of 60 studies on teacher coaching found that coaching can help, but not for large numbers of teachers. Photo: Alexandria Neason. Just like athletes become stronger under the guidance of a good coach, so do teachers. There are many ways to design a coaching program, but the general idea is that a veteran educator observes a teacher in the classroom and then gives constructive feedback on issues ranging from managing student misbehavior to framing open-ended questions that push stud

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 5, 2018

Establishing A Culture Of “Can” In Your Classroom by Terry Heick The long-term output of any school should be not just proficient students, but enabled learners. An “enabled” learner can grasp macro views, uncover micro details, ask questions, plan for new knowledge and transfer thinking across divergent circumstances. This doesn’t happen by content “knowledge holding,” […].

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 5, 2018

When Megan Kelly uses wordless picture books in her middle grades classroom, she's able to push her students deeper. Learn about some of the intriguing texts she uses to improve inference skills, reinforce vocabulary, inspire descriptive writing, and support ELLs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. The Educational Testing Service (ETS), a New Jersey-based nonprofit, is one of the largest high-stakes testing providers in the United States.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 5, 2018

What is the Quality of Learning? One thing I am so grateful for is learning about DOK (Depth of Knowledge.) I did not learn this in my teacher credential program and thus never gave much thought to the depth of learning my students are engaged in. I didn’t question the types of math problems in […]. The post Before Giving to Students… Critically Analyze appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

Speakers at this week’s SXSW EDU conference in Austin wasted no time before diving into taboo topics. “Looking at those two girls making out in the doorway again, I thought, why can’t I be as confident as they clearly are,” Tim Manley, a former New York City high school teacher, said in an opening keynote session, to lots of laughs, as he recounted his humbling, trying first-year teaching experience.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 5, 2018

I recently attended a workshop by Paul Prinsloo (of the University of South Africa, UNISA) at my institution. He started the workshop by telling us about his process of choosing the image for his title slide – that he chose to replace an image of Aristotle by one of a Hellinistic female scholar who lived in Alexandria, Egypt: Hypatia. He spoke about how our choices of image expresses a rhetoric, and conveys a message about our values.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 5, 2018

In the context of helping students enhance their writing skills and after we have reviewed some very good websites in this regard, we are sharing with you this curated selection of some of our.read more.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 5, 2018

The post Empower Your Students with The 4 C’s Learning Menu appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Empower Your Students with The 4 C’s Learning Menu. YOU can empower your students with this 4 C’s learning menu! If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you’ve probably noticed I’m a big fan of learning menus aka choice boards.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2018

The digital divide and the opportunity gap. These are two of the closely related and defining issues that educators and administrators are grappling with today. At DeKalb County School District in Georgia, we set out to create a plan that narrows the digital divide our students are facing at school, in the community, and at home. By providing our students with the digital technology needed for modern learning, we’ve started closing the opportunity gap caused in part by digital and technological

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Prodigy

MARCH 5, 2018

Every educator wants to improve their instruction and student learning, but it’s challenging while teaching a class or unit. This is when formative assessments come into play. You can use these evaluations to gather information about student needs, progress and comprehension, informing how you teach a skill or topic while doing so. But to be […].

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition, the goal of which is to identify technology that’s likely to impact teaching, learning, and creativity, identifies makerspaces as having “potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K–12 education” within the next year. ( www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-and-cosn-release-the-horizon-report-2017-k-12-edition/ ) And many see the 3D printer as a staple in a makerspace—a “must have,” a shiny new toy, the mark of a 21st-century school in t

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Chancellor Antwan Wilson of DCPS during a visit at the Washington Metropolitan High School. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images. Antwan Wilson, the chancellor for D.C. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson sought to bypass the extremely competitive school lottery system in order to transfer his daughter to a higher-scoring school.

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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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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Do I Have a Right? Law sim lets players practice pairing rights with amendments Pros: Time-limited play encourages mastery, and there are lots of interesting choices to make. Cons: The details of the legal process are largely skipped. Bottom Line: Standout iCivics title helps learners new to the U.S. Constitution get great practice matching amendments to individuals' rights, and have good fun doing it.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 5, 2018

Originally posted on Medium, reproduced here with permission … Kapwing is an online video editing website with a suite of tools. Thousands of teachers and students use Kapwing every day to make. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Chris Polly says discipline referrals are down 50 percent since his school shifted to actively rewarding students with Hero points for doing the right thing. As schools debate their role in developing non-academic skills -- like character and grit -- interest in Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) continues to grow. The sheer act of learning (working through a difficult concept, dealing with a poor grade, etc.) does develop a student’s personal growth.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 5, 2018

The post Shake Up Learning with the FREE QUICKSTART GUIDE! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Ready to Shake Up Learning? Get Your FREE Quickstart Guide! The Shake Up Learning book is so close to being released. I can almost taste it! I can’t wait for you to see what I have in store. To give you a taste of what’s to come, I have created a FREE, 20-page, Shake Up Learning Quickstart Guide.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

There is a growing body of research that supports what we all know intuitively—design matters. Students are affected by their learning spaces. Despite the scientific evidence, budgets are tight, and atmosphere or environment doesn’t always hold the highest priority. Fortunately, there’s a lot that can be done on a small budget for big impact. We talked with Megan Fagge of Cooper Carry about her top ten tips to create an ideal and inspirational learning space. 1 Let there be light.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 5, 2018

Global Leadership Week (GLW) is a weeklong convening of virtual and face to face events designed to celebrate leadership through global action in K20 education. It will take place March 19 - 23, 2018. GLW is an opportunity for education leaders to learn from one another and share effective principles in leadership, particularly within the context of an interconnected, global age.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Active learning encompasses many different things—from students taking ownership of their own learning and participating in activities that stimulate deeper thinking to movable classroom furniture and teachers embracing the role of facilitator. Students might learn through games, projects, debates, talking with peers, case studies, just-in-time teaching, or short demonstrations followed by class discussion.

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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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