EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A simplified ed tech evaluation process is on the horizon.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over the years, LearnLaunch's Across Boundaries conference has engendered conversations on everything from STEM learning to augmented reality. The 2017 conference in Boston is coming up. The post Ed-Tech Startup Conference Pushes Boundaries appeared first on Market Brief.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. This is not a matter of instructor bias; it is the lecture format itself — when used on its own without other instructional supports — that offers unfair advantages to an already privileged population.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

You might expect Turnitin ’s Vice President of New Technologies, Elijah Mayfield, to have a lifelong penchant for technology. But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. He also spent time consulting for high profile companies like CTB McGraw-Hill and College Board, which wanted to learn more about student writing.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2017

Assessment Over Evaluation in Helping New Initiatives Thrive was originally posted on his EdTechResearcher blog on EdWeek. Separating assessment from evaluation is one way that schools and educators can start having healthier conversations about change and improvement. In a recent conversation with my colleague Peter Senge about the differences between assessment and evaluation, he had this to say: “I really think the word ‘evaluation’ is wrong.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

Leading one education company is stressful enough for most people. But try doing four—simultaneously. That’s the challenge that John Katzman, one of the most recognized names in the business, has embarked on with The Noodle Companies. For over three decades Katzman has helped build popular brands including The Princeton Review and 2U. That sort of track record can earn goodwill, reputation and capital from investors.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 23, 2017

So the new semester has started: your syllabi are done, you’re learning your students’ names, and you’re getting used to your new schedule. You’ve mapped out your goals and your lesson plans for your courses, and you’ve probably set some research goals for the semester too. What’s going to help you achieve all those well-made plans?

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 23, 2017

Last week I had the pleasure of running a lab site in an Enumclaw 5th Grade class as part of my work with the district over the past couple of years. It’s a lesson that I first taught in 2009 and is still as relevant today as it was then. The students were working on opinion writing. They were writing in Google Docs which made it easy to have students peer edit with their editing partner.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 23, 2017

The post Edtech Developers, Please Leave The Pedagogy To Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 23, 2017

Google Math: Join Me In My Thinking I love using Google Slides for math. As Diana Herrington says, it causes you to slow down and think. Duplicating slides allows me to build upon my thinking rather than simply layering all steps on top of each other. Inserting a text box on each slide provides me […]. The post Google Math: Join Me In My Thinking appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 23, 2017

January 23, 2017 TinyTap is a platform that empowers teachers to create measurable educational apps without coding and share them for free, or sell them to paying subscribers and generate revenue.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 23, 2017

The post Documentary: “Decades of fixing schools has not shaken poverty’s hold.” appeared first on TeachThought.

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MindShift

JANUARY 23, 2017

Saxon Scott was 5 years old when her parents decided she could do without kindergarten. She’d sailed through a series of tests that measured her acumen, and moved directly to first grade once preschool ended. Now she’s 15 and a high school junior, and Scott thinks nothing of her relative youth. She continues to shine in the classroom, is friendly with students in her grade, and only briefly laments the fact that she won’t be driving until the end of her freshman year in college.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 23, 2017

One of the biggest errors in leadership is when people aren’t moving forward and leaders look outward first, and not inward. If you are wondering why people aren’t moving forward, ask how you are changing your leadership first, not why they aren’t changing their practice. I have seen this mistake over and over again in my travels. Administrators wonder, “Why aren’t people embracing this new idea or initiative?

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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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Kyle Pace

JANUARY 23, 2017

In my previous post , I shared some thoughts about the importance of edtech coaches to be an effective and efficient communicator. Strong communication skills, coupled with building relationships, creates a very strong foundation for success in working with teachers and students. Since many school systems use G Suite for Education already, I thought I’d keep this post under that umbrella and share a few ways you can more effectively communicate and share information with teachers and staf

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 23, 2017

I previously wrote a post on the most important archiving features for K12 schools and districts. A colleague quickly pointed out another, often overlooked, feature that can significantly help in cases of emergency, while many IT managers might not necessarily think an email backup is essential to your archive. No one likes to admit it, but email systems do go down from time to time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2017

Playgrounds, like this one at a Jackson-area daycare, are one aspect of child care centers that will be checked more frequently by the health department this year. Photo: Jackie Mader. This is the 17th article in a series investigating the child care system in Mississippi. Mississippi is doubling the number of times it inspects some child care centers in an effort to improve the care of its youngest children.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 23, 2017

The post Empowering Teachers with The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast | Listen to the First Episode! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Episode 1: Empowering Teachers. We did it! We released our very first episode of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast! I am so excited to share this with you! In this episode, you will learn what to expect from our new podcast as well as learn about your hosts Matt Miller and Kasey Bell (me), and our journey through the Google Teacher Academy.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 23, 2017

As the new Year, and a new President Here in the US, usher in a Season of Change, we ask … if it Were in Your Power, What Would you Change About School and Teaching? On Friday, January 20th, we. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 23, 2017

At any one time, we, as educators, have many demands placed on our plates. Some we solve easily, and some we just can’t fix. We torture ourselves each day trying to make something work that isn’t working. Math can be a challenge to teach to a whole group. You can never meet the needs of all with one lesson. Here’s a solution to your math struggles: math centers.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

One year ago we launched the Massachusetts Digital Connections Initiative in partnership with Governor Baker’s Office, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), and MassIT. Since the initiative launched, EducationSuperHighway and our state partners have focused our efforts on ensuring that every student in Massachusetts gets the bandwidth necessary to support digital learning in the classroom.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 23, 2017

Let me start off by saying I am not a logical thinker, nor am I strategic, and I blame my parents for this because they never introduced me to battleship games while I was growing up. The various battleship games on the market are relatively simple to play, they are a lot of fun and are a great learning tool. How? Well, I’m glad you asked. Battleship games introduce school kids to coordinates and grids in a hands-on kind of way; it helps them understand the relationship between rows and c

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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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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 23, 2017

Cram is a nice educational site for creating flashcards. Flashcards are a great way to memorize and study facts, and Cram makes it easy to create, share, or use already created flashcards. There are millions of flashcards to search through in education (i.e. K-2, Speech, Capitals, etc.) as well as other topics such as Medicine, Computers, and more. Best of all is a free mobile app (Google/iOS) for those who use Mobile Learning.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

A very tactile game with intrinsic motivation and extensive addition/subtraction practice.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 23, 2017

Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator. I highly recommend checking out Super Teacher Worksheets by clicking here !!!

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techlearning

JANUARY 23, 2017

Interested in learning about your family heritage or the background of community events?

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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 Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 23, 2017

The 2017 Global Student Conference , a student-organized event, will be held ONLINE on Saturday March 4th, 2017 , and feature keynote speakers and crowdsourced presentations by students in grades 6-12 and college. There is no cost to participate or attend. The theme for this year is "STEM + Entrepreneurship." The event provides an international forum for the presentation, discussion, and sharing of best practices in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and entrepreneurship in schools an

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Are You Making a Difference? Tell us how you lead by using technology in education.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 23, 2017

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who cared a great deal about education. Some of Feynman’s books for a popular audience are full of interesting and fun stories; hidden in the humor are some gems for educators. Background and Life. Feynman was born in Far Rockaway, New York, which is on Long Island. He went to public schools and then to MIT for his undergraduate degree and Princeton for his Ph.D.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2017

Google Drawings is a free, web-based drawing tool that allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organizational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, drawings, and more. It is included in GAFE, Google Classroom, G Suite, and Google Drive (this may vary in managed domains, depending upon whether the administrator turns on access to this tool).

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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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