Thu.Aug 25, 2016

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Curriculum Changes Key in Utilizing Classroom Technology

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Technologist and mathematician Conrad Wolfram talks about best practices for tech use in K–12 education.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher’s Summer PD 2016 just ended. A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, and lab teachers–gathered virtually for three-five-week-classes that included: The Tech-infused Teacher. The Tech-infused Classroom. The Differentiated Teacher. Teach Writing with Tech. 20 Webtools in 20 Days. We talked about curriculum maps, warm-up and exit tickets, backchannel devices, building a PLN, screenshots, and screencasts.

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A Brick In The Path (Promised Lands Are Never Promises Kept)

The Jose Vilson

“Originally a biblical reference to the land of Canaan promised to the descendants of Jacob, The Promised Land represented a new physical space where the old social order would be dissolved and from which opportunity would spring. The Promised Land was geographic, political, and simultaneously corporeal and non-corporeal.” From the beginning of the book Inequality In The Promised Land : Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling , Professor R.

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“Get Out From Behind That Computer!” Why the Brain Benefits When Students Talk and Move Around

Edsurge

When I was a student, my high school English teacher was a bit quirky; she asked her students to create a dance that correlated with a “rap” about helping verbs—a rap that she had developed herself. As a group of 16-year-olds, we brainstormed dance moves that would help us memorize helping verbs, and designed a dance with content that I still remember to this day.Now that I’m a teacher, I do the same.

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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 Handy Collection of Some of The Best EdTech Tools for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

We spent sometime during the last weekend sifting through our archive of educational tools we covered in the past and decided to bring to the forefront the titles below.The aim of this multi-purpose.read more.

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Can Marketing Automation Bring College Enrollment Numbers Up?

Edsurge

Universities operate a business at the end of the day, and attracting prospective and current students and alumni are integral in keeping the school afloat. San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. From January to July 2013, Marketo had 28 such customers, according to a Marketo spokeswoman.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IRIS Connect, The Graide Network, Istation Reading

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. IRIS Connect — Written by Alfonso , a 6th grade science teacher in Washington. Alfonso has a 1:1 devices classroom, with a high population of students from low income families.

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10 Tips for Surviving and Thriving Your First Year Teaching

Edutopia

Elena Aguilar New Teachers These strategies can help you thrive in your first year and build the kind of resilience that will carry you through the many challenges teachers face.

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How to Talk Tech With the Austin Independent School District

Edsurge

Known affectionately as the “Silicon Hills,” Austin, TX has its own thriving edtech community that doesn’t receive quite as much acclaim—or scrutiny—as its California counterpart. The edtech community there follows a similar pattern. Nestled in the heart of the hills is Kevin Schwartz, CTO Austin Independent School District, who oversees technology that affects 84,000 students across 130 schools.

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Back-to-School with Design Thinking – Webinar with Beth Holland and Douglas Kiang

EdTechTeacher

August 23rd 3pm EST on EdWeb.Net. >> Watch the Webinar Recording on EdWeb. Design Thinking encourages students to engage in empathy, define problems, prototype, iterate, and solve real-world problems. Makerspaces help students foster critical thinking, open-ended creativity and iterative design. In this webinar, Beth and Douglas presented the design thinking process.

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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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Bridget Burns' Call to Edtech Entrepreneurs: 'Start With Empathy'

Edsurge

Bridget Burns sees plenty of "superheroes"—26-year-old Silicon Valley types with good intentions, yet little understanding, for how to change higher education. Burns is executive director of the University Innovation Alliance , a coalition of 11 public research universities focused on making quality college degrees accessible to a diverse body of students.

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ReadWorks – Nonprofit Provides FREE Literacy Curriculum for K-12

EdTechTeacher

Sometimes, organizations such as ReadWorks reach out to let us know about their programs. We are always happy to help spread the word about programs that benefit teachers and students for FREE. Many thanks to them for providing this post. ReadWorks was founded in 2010 to help teachers solve the nationwide crisis in reading comprehension. This national nonprofit provides teachers with open-access, research-based, and State Standard-aligned reading comprehension curriculum for grades K-12.

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Helping Gifted Kids Cope with Intensity

MiddleWeb

Gifted children's intense behaviors sometimes create challenges in the classroom. Author Christine Fonseca gives teachers, parents and students coping strategies and coaching approaches. Teacher Amy Estersohn says the book is also a good choice for PTA book clubs.

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How teacher voice can improve professional development

eSchool News

One common faculty complaint of professional development is that it doesn’t lead to improvement. Four years ago that was certainly the way many educators felt here in the Farmington Public Schools in central Connecticut. Even though providing engaging professional development is a hard challenge, we were committed to finding ways to make PD more responsive and relevant.

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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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Back-to-School Night: A New Approach

Edutopia

Maurice J. Elias Social and Emotional Learning Back-to-school night can be a time to shine light on the importance of social-emotional learning -- at both home and school.

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Google Classroom Assignment: Click On Attachment Title to Edit

Teacher Tech

Attach and Then Edit Once again Google brings about a paradigm shift in how we do work. It used to be you would edit your files and then attach them into an assignment. Not the case with Google Classroom. Reuse Post Either reuse a post or create a new assignment. IMPORTANT: Do NOT make copies […]. The post Google Classroom Assignment: Click On Attachment Title to Edit appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can Teach For America get more teachers to stick around in some of the nation’s poorest schools?

The Hechinger Report

Tim Abram, a Teach for America alumnus, says he moved on from teaching to work in public policy. Photo: Courtesy Tim Abram. JACKSON, Miss.—Tim Abram did not go to college to be a teacher. This is something he has in common with a lot of Teach for America alums. As part of an alternative teacher-licensing program designed to attract high-performing college graduates to the profession of teaching to groom their leadership skills, TFA teachers in Mississippi hardly ever start as education majors.

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Verizon app idea contest open for middle, high school students

eSchool News

Middle and high school students can win prizes and possibly have their problem-solving smartphone application idea turned into reality by entering the Verizon Innovative Learning app challenge. The contest, which is held in partnership with the Technology Student Association, is open to teams of students from nonprofit organizations and public, private and parochial schools, a news release said.

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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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Better Behavior through Improving Relationships

MiddleWeb

Psychotherapist Noah Kempler presents ways to help kids develop five core skills: understanding feelings, communication, flexibility, respect, and problem solving. Retired principal Mary Langer Thompson finds his discussion about temperament particularly valuable.

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Rediscovering Ulysses

ProfHacker

A few weeks ago, George suggested using a blogging client as a backup method. I’d actually stopped using one some time ago. It wasn’t really a conscious decision; I simply had fewer occasions for cross-posting and after my 2012 experience of a plugin gone bad , I got a lot more careful about redundant backups. George’s post piqued my curiosity, though.

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New Resource Drills Down on Blended Learning, ‘Personalized’ Ed. Practices

Marketplace K-12

Big, broad terms like “blended learning” and “personalized learning” permeate pretty much every corner of the K-12 landscape these days. A new online resource aims to make those often-abstract concepts a lot more concrete by showing district officials and other audiences what those strategies actually look like in practice. The Learning Accelerator, a nonprofit headquartered in the Silicon Valley, created the “ Blended and Personalized Learning Practices at Work 

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Hitting the Jackpot in Our Friends

MIND Research Institute

If we are lucky (and I am) we have friends who understand us, and respect and support our personal and professional goals. In our personal life, this support might manifest in celebrating milestones and successes together, sending hand-written cards of congratulations, supporting a friend’s business by buying a bajillion “amazing” products, purchasing tickets to attend a fundraising event for a cause your friend supports, donating to your friend’s marathon campaign, buying wrapping paper from th

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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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Navigating the Unfamiliar – Leading Teachers Through Change

Fractus Learning

I am what you might call a frequent flyer. I have flown in and out of many different airports for my work, and traveled internationally numerous times in the past for vacations. But none of those experiences prepared me for the frustrations I was to experience recently in the Mexico City airport. My family was traveling with me to Puerto Escondido where I was to spend the week training a school of teachers.

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S.C. districts access digital literacy tools for free

eSchool News

To empower students in school districts across South Carolina with digital literacy skills, Learning.com announced the Palmetto Digital Literacy Program (PDLP), in partnership with the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee and Department of Education. The initiative will help prepare students for college and career success by offering access to a comprehensive digital literacy skills curriculum and provide teachers and students with assessments that can identify technology challenges.

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Performance Tasks and Rubrics for MS Math

MiddleWeb

Why should we use performance tasks in math class? How do we adapt them for formative or summative assessment? How do we create effective rubrics? The authors provide answers in a step-by-step guide featuring many examples, says veteran math teacher Jan Roberts.

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How A Makerspace in Juvenile Hall Helps Young People See Their Value

MindShift

Unlike many teachers who choose to work in schools because they were good students themselves, Michelle Carlson understands what it’s like to hate school. As a kid she couldn’t see the point of any of the material she was supposed to learn, and working for good grades without a clear reason wasn’t enough to motivate her. She did eventually graduate high school and went to college because her parents told her it was an important way to gain financial independence.

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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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Tech & Learning's Stellar Service Awards 2016

techlearning

Tech & Learning is excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the T&L Stellar Service Awards. These awards were established to honor the great achievements in customer care and satisf.

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Nat and Lo Demystify YouTube

EdTechTeam

Molly Schroeder Director of Summits EdTechTeam At the Flagship California Summit in July, Nat and Lo from Google came to share their story about how they started their amazing YouTube channel where they get to tell people about all the cool things happening at Google. Their YouTube channel at Google is where they demystify the technology in our everyday lives, in the hopes that by doing so, more people can become informed, imaginative participants in technology’s future.

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On orientation attitude

NeverEndingSearch

A couple of years back, I posted a little round-up of Orientation inspiration , gathering ideas from a few friends in the field. This year I find myself collecting creative ideas for my School Library Management class from blogs and tweets coming across my network in the form of an Orientation And Getting Ready For Action playlist. I decided to reach out a bit more and solicit ideas from LM_NET and the #tlchat community in the hope that we might grow an orientation ideas playlist for the greater

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Using Arduino UNO To Teach Programming, STEM and Maker Skills

Fractus Learning

Are you looking for a fun, hands-on activity to teach basic programming and maker skills at home or in the classroom? Arduino, and specifically, Arduino UNO are an excellent tool to teach and apply basic electronics and robotics skills. What is Arduino UNO? Simply put, Arduino itself is “ an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software “ The word “Arduino” encompasses both the hardware and software.

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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.