EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2018

Google Classroom Updates K–12 Teachers Should Know. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 08/29/2018 - 12:16. Earlier this summer, at the annual ISTE conference , Google announced it would be launching a slew of new applications and updates to the company’s premiere education web service, Google Classroom, alongside the new Acer Chromebook Tab 10. After beta testing the new tools and tweaks to existing ones, Google has released its new version of Google Classroom to the public, just in time for the new schoo

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Katie Bradford and Brett Miller in Episode 348 of the 10-minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kate Bradford and Brett Miller share their secrets for student-driven Hyperdocs. Taken from their popular ISTE 2018 session , learn about the next evolution of Hyperdocs and how they’re being used in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

One of the strategies I grew to appreciate in my several decades of teaching was starting my class with a warm-up. A tangible transition between the previous class (or recess) and mine seemed to orient students to my topic and make the entire class go more smoothly. For me, because I taught what is called specials or pull-outs (I taught technology), I did this at the beginning of a class period.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 29, 2018

The average person will work more than 90,000 hours in a lifetime. For most of us, work fills the majority of our waking hours, and yet Gallup reports that seventy percent of U.S. employees are disengaged at work. The cost of employee disengagement and turnover is enormous, for both individuals and organizations. This is especially true in the field of education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

League of Legends, DOTA 2, Heroes of the Storm and—of course—Fortnite. You may recognize these as titles of popular video games, even if you aren’t strictly a “gamer.” The reality is that video games and the communities, organizations and players surrounding them have become big business—some worth potentially millions of dollars. These aren’t just games anymore; they have emerged, along with other massive titles such as Overwatch, as a phenomenon it seems everyone is racing to catch up with.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 29, 2018

The average person will work more than 90,000 hours in a lifetime. For most of us, work fills the majority of our waking hours, and yet Gallup reports that seventy percent of U.S. employees are disengaged at work. The cost of employee disengagement and turnover is enormous, for both individuals and organizations. This is especially true in the field of education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 29, 2018

How I Use Video For Assessment In My Classroom contributed by Steve Wheeler, Learning Innovations Consultant I have always believed that assessment should be primarily for the benefit of the student, not the teacher. I concede that teachers need to know how their students are progressing, and this is very much a part of the assessment […]. The post How I Use Video For Assessment In My Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, we discussed creating a common vision for a school model that meets the needs of the whole learner and mentioned that we'd be tackling this very problem at Fusion 2018 in October. With that hard work behind us, it’s now time to consider how best to implement your vision. Perhaps the most important consideration to be factored into a personalized learning plan is the amplification of student voice.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 29, 2018

A Letter Grade Isn’t A Letter Grade: Why We Should Stop Averaging Scores by Terry Heick Quick preface: Any argument rests on premises and terms, and so clarifying those premises and terms and related underlying assumptions is necessary if that argument is to be entirely understood. This makes itemized and clearly linear delineations of an argument […].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Roughly 16.5 million Americans work in the “gig economy,” based on estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A part of that workforce has long been a staple in higher education, where adjunct professors teach full-time but with few benefits. Joining them are professionals from other industries who teach at nontraditional educational programs. But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2018

Last year, my district—Roosevelt (AZ) School District—was asked by Arizona State University’s (ASU) department of innovation and entrepreneurship to pilot a new educational program for middle school students. I was initially skeptical but curious to learn about this new type of learning experience, especially given the tagline: Global Problem Solvers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

In higher education, predictive analytics often draw from data that an institution has readily available about its students: grades, attendance, online school-related activity, and even historical and demographic information. But one university is trying to incorporate unstructured data—in particular, college admission essays—to predict how likely a student will persist and graduate on time.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 29, 2018

When college application due dates press closer, high school students typically stress about recommendation letters, essays that defines their personality in 650 words or less, and some way of not only rounding up all the community service they’ve completed in the past four years, but showing how that work reflects on what type of student they hope to be at college.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 29, 2018

Teacher Emily Francis shares her immigrant journey from a childhood in Guatemala to a North Carolina classroom in an effort to help fellow teachers gain insights about their own Newcomer students "who need, from day one, sociocultural support that reaches their heart.".

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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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TeacherCast

AUGUST 29, 2018

In this episode of EdTech in the Classroom, we welcome Asmund Furuseth from Kahoot! To share the launching of a brand new Kahoot! Certification program for educators worldwide. For more information about Kahoot!, please visit www.Kahoot.com. The post Learn About Several Great Updates to Kahoot! Just In Time For Back To School Season! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2018

Are you interested in expanding your comfort zone, building relationships with your students, and boosting the culture of your classroom in the new school year? Read on! While attending EdCampFlipgrid, StuVoiceCon18, and FlipgridLive in the marvelous city of Minneapolis this summer, I raptly listened to dozens of amazing educational leaders and pioneers delivering thought-provoking statements, providing new perspectives, and offering game-changing takeaway tools and strategies for immediate impl

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 29, 2018

When college application due dates press closer, high school students typically stress about recommendation letters, essays that defines their personality in 650 words or less, and some way of not only rounding up all the community service they’ve completed in the past four years, but showing how that work reflects on what type of student… The post Tech Makes it easier for schools and students to track and report community service for college applications appeared first on The TeacherCast

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

Here is a collection of some very good mapping tools we curated from Google Earth Outreach. You can use these tools with your students to develop their geo-literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

. It’s a powerful advantage for young people: Career and technical education (CTE) prepares graduates with skills to enter the workforce directly after high school. Students can avoid the expense of higher education and get head starts on careers. Data show that about 2.79 million students participated in secondary-level CTE nationwide in 2016-17, and more than 61,000 of them were in Massachusetts.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 29, 2018

As our team goes out into the field to support school districts , we often address questions about whether we provide Internet to schools. Our answer has always been: not quite – we are not a service provider, but we collaborate with service providers to upgrade schools as a critical step in closing the connectivity gap. Take a look at how our organization differs from service providers: SUPPORT TYPE.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yesterday, the AASL Standards Crosswalk Task Force launched two eagerly anticipated crosswalk documents on the new Crosswalks page of AASL’s National School Library Standards Web Portal. In their May 31 blog post, Why Did the School Librarian Cross the Road? , AASL Standards Crosswalk Task Force chair Jay Bansbach, and AASL Standards editorial board member Kathy Mansfield explain the importance of the crosswalk efforts: Aligning school library standards to standards for other discipline

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

If anything the Internet and web technologies have instigated a massive learning revolution analogous, in its grandeur and scope, to the one that marked the 15th century especially after the.

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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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Jamf on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2018

Discover how to drastically simplify your Help Desk interactions by creating a tool that displays technical information in an easy-to-read window for end users.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Shanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler. She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate d

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 29, 2018

I’ve written before about the good folks* behind the Nimble Tents Toolkit , a set of strategies and templates for helping mobilize academic and related workers in support of urgent crises. The first project was last fall’s mapathon for Puerto Rico , and they have had more successes since. Their fierce recent work, Torn Apart / Separados visualizes data related to the deeply antidemocratic and antihuman policies being enacted in the United States by ICE.

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My Island View

AUGUST 29, 2018

If a doctor, who is faced with a patient exhibiting multiple symptoms of an unknown disease, were to address each of the symptoms rather than addressing the disease itself, he/she might find the outcome for that patient to be disastrous in the long run. The patient might have had the symptoms lessened, but the disease would eventually win out with a poor outcome for the patient.

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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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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 29, 2018

Experts Weight in on Critical Steps for Getting Those Budget Requests Approved Proper training and education are vital to success in today’s world. Everyone from students to employees need effective, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s time to journey back into the classroom for many of our teachers and students across the country. In addition to making sure you’re up to speed on what’s new in ST Math , following our social media channels helps you support your students in getting the most out of ST Math. Did you know there are over 53,000 educators using ST Math? Our online community is constantly growing to reflect that!

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techlearning

AUGUST 29, 2018

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with the science educators at D211 in Chicago's Northwest Suburbs. As part of the workshop, all teachers were challenged to work in discipline specific teams to create an outline for an NGSS aligned, 5E Learning cycle. They were too good not to share! Click on the image below to access all lesson outlines.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

Art Ingels, the father of go-karts, was a hot rodder and racing car designer at Kurtis Kraft. In 1956 he initiated one of the greatest fun activities known to man when he built the first go-kart […].

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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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