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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course [Part 3]

Neo LMS

In this final post of the mini series we’ll explore the technologies available to help turn your face-to-face (F2F) class into an online course. The first post dealt with the preparatory planning steps that are essential to creating an online course and the second post dealt with the two most popular instructional design models , to help you model the flow and scope of the course.

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A simple but powerful website, perfect for geography lessons

EdTech4Beginners

Recently, there has been a lot of talk online about the world map as we know it; not being entirely accurate. Read more about this by clicking here. How can we explain this to our pupils? I looked online and stumbled upon this fantastic website. It is called Thetruesize.com and it allows you to directly compare the sizes of different countries. Have a look at my video guide, to see how effective it is: Feel free to share any other great geography websites in the comments below Tagged: edtech

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Happy Fourth of July!

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s America’s birthday and I’m celebrating. I have an Army son heading off overseas and a Navy daughter doing her thing stateside. I’m toasting both of them today and all of America’s warriors, God be with you. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Advances in Technology Foster Collaboration Between Students and Teachers

EdTech Magazine

By Heather B. Hayes Cloud technologies and one-to-one initiatives boost engagement and learning.

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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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?What Kids Need to Succeed: Thinking Beyond What Techies Tell Us

Edsurge

As someone who worked in education, moved into edtech, then returned back to the classroom, I was interested to hear Mary Jo Madda’s recent podcast on what Google, Twitter, and Pinterest think kids need to succeed. The advice these tech employees share, like encouraging growth mindset and building strong writing skills, are not wrong. On the contrary, these are skills students (and adults) need in order to lead successful careers and lives.

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12 Excellent iPad Apps for 1:1 Classrooms

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 4, 2017 If you are lucky enough to be teaching in a 1:1 classroom below is a collection of very good iPad apps for you to check out. These are apps to help you and your students make the best of.read more.

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6 Educational Chrome Extensions That Work Offline

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 4, 2017 Today we spent sometime going through the apps in Chrome Store and selected for you the collection below. These are all extensions that work offline so you can access and use them even.read more.

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Give Your Students The Gift of Digital Literacy this year with @learningdotcom

My Paperless Classroom

Learn how your students can take advantage of award winning self-paced digital citizenship and digital literacy lessons with Learning.com today! The post Give Your Students The Gift of Digital Literacy this year with @learningdotcom appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Learn how your students can take advantage of award winning self-paced digital citizenship and digital literacy lessons with Learning.com today!

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Want To Teach Your Kids Self-Control? Learn From A Cameroonian Farmer

MindShift

In the the 1960s, a Stanford psychologist ran an experiment to study children’s self-control. It’s called the marshmallow test. And it’s super simple. Kids ages 3 to 5 choose a treat — an Oreo cookie, a pretzel stick or a marshmallow. Then researchers give the child brief instructions: You can eat the treat now, but if you can wait for me to return, you’ll get two treats.

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The best ideas from last-chance high schools are reforming American education

The Hechinger Report

Alternative schools for at-risk students – the ones who have been expelled, have dropped out, or just can’t make it in a regular high school – used to operate at the margins. But now, educational experiments started in last-chance high schools are transforming mainstream schools. In this video, step inside a school for lost kids in Boston that is pioneering what’s next for American education.

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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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Google Partner PD Hours- June 2017

EdTechTeam

Wow! Over 7,000 hours is what we spent working with educators during the month of June and we loved every minute of it! With 25 Google Certified Trainers on staff and another 150 or so as consultants, EdTechTeam is available to provide your school or district with the best G Suite professional development available. With 7,000 hours in June alone, you may want to check out or revisit our programs.

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Improve Classroom Environment & Gamify Learning with Classcraft

The Innovative Educator

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Sean Arnold who has had some of the greatest success as a teacher using games for instruction (especially working with students who struggle with traditional lecture-based learning models). Now nearly three decades into the research, the impact of digital games for learning robustly shows the benefits. There are games that are even becoming FDA approved for treatments (see Project EVO for ADHD and the like and Sea Hero Quest for Alzheimer’s ).

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Faster Feedback: Create Editing Shortcuts in Google Docs

Catlin Tucker

Since I published “ Stop Taking Grading Home ,” I’ve had a ton of teachers ask me how I am able to give feedback on Google Docs so quickly. I give real-time feedback to ~8 students in a 25-minute station. It definitely helps that I am a skilled typist. I also keep the scope of my feedback narrow, so I am not trying to correct everything in one real-time editing station.

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Tired Edtech Trends That Teachers Wish Would Retire: From the Floor of ISTE 2017

Edsurge

On the floor of the ISTE conference, it’s easy to meet educators and administrators from all over the country (and the world at large). You can discuss edtech implementation strategies, hear about favorite tools, and get to know those practices that teachers are excited to bring back to their students. But while EdSurge paced the ISTE floor on June 25-28 in San Antonio, Texas, we decided to ask a slightly different question: What edtech trends, products, and buzzwords do you wish would retire—fo

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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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Trump touts rural broadband internet access in $1 trillion infrastructure plan

eSchool News

Rural communities’ broadband internet access has become a key part of President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure proposal, which would promote high-speed internet access across rural America, including schools, classrooms and libraries. Schools’ access to high-speed broadband internet is not a new topic of debate, however–for years, policymakers and ed-tech stakeholder groups have advocated for more funding and better infrastructure to help schools establish reli

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Swedish Startup Hopes to Replace Resumes With ‘Gamified’ Job Matching System

Edsurge

Has the resume outlived its usefulness? Niklas Jungegard thinks so. Jungegard, an entrepreneur based in Sweden, leads a company called Sqore, which runs a platform meant to provide a better way than resumes to match applicants and employers, and students with educational opportunities. The platform uses a “gamified” approach, full of quizzes that give users a chance to demonstrate skills and share their interests and goals.

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