EdTech Magazine

MARCH 27, 2018

With Drones, Students Tackle Complex Topics. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 03/27/2018 - 12:04. Three years ago, an innovative educator in Jersey City Public Schools ’ Division B introduced drones to a class of elementary students with autism. Her goal was to enhance student engagement, and the results from that experiment were encouraging. “Students stayed on task better and were more involved with learning,” says project leader Kimberly Crowley, a mathematics supervisor for the New Jersey district.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 27, 2018

We need to talk about teacher stress and workload. It’s a serious, and not very well publicized, crisis that is bleeding the education system of some of its brightest lights. The numbers speak for themselves. In the UK the National Union of Teachers surveyed over 16,000 teachers and found: 90% of teachers said they had considered giving up teaching during the last two years because of the workload. 87% said they knew one or more colleagues who had given up during the last two years because of th

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 27, 2018

The CUE Conference in Palm Springs, California, was phenomenal. More than 10,000 educators from the West Coast and beyond converged to talk about teaching, technology, and making change. The best part of a conference, of course, are the people that are there. I took advantage of that and captured some fantastic conversations for YOU on […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

Join me and other education speakers at Woodward Academy in Atlanta this summer From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. STLinATL is an exciting education conference hosted at Woodward Academy in Atlanta this summer July 26-27. I’ll be speaking along with Jay McTighe, Dr. Janet Zanida, Suzie Boss and more at this affordable conference ($295 including meals and conference attendance.).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

When I went to school, it was all about the 3Rs, desks in rows, and a teacher lecturing from the front of the room. The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

Android Apps for Education Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, running on smartphones and tablets. But, you can also use Android Apps on Chromebooks , including the new Chromebook Tab 10 Chrome OS tablet. Chrome and Android all in one! And don't forget about all of the Chrome Apps, Extensions and full websites Chromebooks and the Chromebook Tab can access.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Last week I had the extraordinary opportunity to spend time in the company of some very smart, interesting and generous university innovators when California State University Channel Islands hosted a meeting for the group, called the HAILstorm. At the end, we were asked to reflect on what we would take away from the meeting and how it might affect our practices on campus.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 27, 2018

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we sit down with Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern to discuss their new book Bring Your Teaching into Focus: The EduProtocol Field Guide available now from Dave Burgess Publishing. The post Do You Need To Bring Your Teaching into Focus? Learn about EduProtocols today with @JCorippo and @MHebern appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2018

8 Ways For Teachers To Save Time In The Classroom contributed by Lila Daniels Teachers think about a lot during the course of a school day — from planning lessons tied to the core curriculum to making sure Jimmy gets home on the right bus. One thing teachers often do not think about is saving […]. The post 8 Ways For Teachers To Save Time In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

When I first began blending digital and face-to-face learning, it was easy enough to create a flow between online learning spaces and offline learning. However, I noticed that sometimes my students were not getting as much out of the digital learning platform as I had anticipated. This was especially true when students could rush through their tasks, consuming content without real understanding or application of learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

A second grader in Mississippi explains his winning science fair project to members of his class. Credit Image: © Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMAPRESS.com. Springtime is science fair season. Thousands of kids across the country, from elementary through high school, spend weeks or months coaxing seedlings to grow, building devices to harness solar energy and carefully mixing acids and bases.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 27, 2018

At least since the death of Google Reader in 2013, the conventional wisdom has argued that social media, rather than independent websites or blogs, is the key to engaging readers. And so over the past half-decade, there’s been a genuinely Procrustean effort to fit all manner of argument and style into formats that play well on Facebook, Twitter, and the rest.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 27, 2018

Among the ways educators can support and promote acceptance of LGBTQAI+ youth is by providing access to literature that features the challenges and joys these students experience. Librarian and author Christina Dorr suggests fiction and nonfiction titles for YA readers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2018

Summer school can be a daunting time for educators. Many struggle to create a concise curriculum that effectively teaches material while meeting the shortened timeline of summer school. Some find it challenging to override the distraction of summer fun for students—especially students who struggled to concentrate during the school year. One of the main challenges that educators face is adjusting their approaches on teaching to meet the needs of summer school students whose performance during the

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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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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 27, 2018

With each episode of Inside Our MIND, we'll be taking a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives. In our latest episode, host Brian LeTendre is joined by MIND Curriculum Specialist Dan Tracy for a discussion on assessment and adaptation. Dan delves into why leveling is not the answer when it comes to personalized learning, and why adapting at the point of learning is so crucial.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple's Classroom app is one of our favourite apps we have featured in several EdTech lists in the past. In today’s post we are sharing with you a quick overview of some of the things you can do with.read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2018

As educators who love technology, we can barely contain our enthusiasm for the potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI). But AI requires massive amounts of data, so before jumping on the AI bandwagon we need to: reflect on the kinds of data that would make teaching more effective and improve learning outcomes; consider the systems that will allow us to collect and manage the data; and. create processes to share and analyze the data.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 27, 2018

If you are using Google Maps you may want to learn about these recently launched features. The first one which was released earlier today allows users from all over the world to access and.read more.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Apple makes its spring "new product" announcements in a Chicago high school in an effort to rebound from poor sales to K-12 schools over the past few years. The post Struggling to Compete in the K-12 Market, Apple Makes Big Product Announcement at a School appeared first on Market Brief.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 27, 2018

This is the first in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. Today I’m going to focus on SPARC. From their website: SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 27, 2018

Frickin Packets by @cultofpedagogy I really enjoyed reading Jennifer Gonzalez blog post “Frickin’ Packets” where she not only defined a worksheet but accurately identified paper printed activities that are not terrible. I can not speak for any teacher prep program but the one I was in, but my program never addressed the worksheet or the […].

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 27, 2018

I have a passion for digital portfolios. I think that if we look at doing them in a way that is across grades, subjects, classrooms, and a shared platform in different teacher classes, they can be transformational to a school, district, and more importantly, to the learning of our students. So I am often frustrated when the first question that I hear regarding digital portfolios is about the technology, not the learning. “What platform should we use?

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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

MARCH 27, 2018

Today, Apple held their education-focused spring event to discuss new education products and ideas. See what you may have missed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools. That means two new options for administrators to consider in selecting the best devices for their students.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 27, 2018

Students are Exploring Crytocurrencies as Learners, Investors, and Entrepreneurs Not long ago, Forbes published an article featuring former University of Michigan student, Kyle Winstanley. He was a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

MARCH 27, 2018

Toshiba America Business Solutions ’ technology initiative is enabling students, teachers and administrators at King/Drew Magnet High School of Medicine & Science in Los Angeles to print from anywhere on campus using a mobile device. [ 3D Printing For Learning ] The magnet high school’s 1,700 students as well as 120 teachers and administrators print lesson plans, study guides, tests and other educational materials from their laptops and mobile devices to Toshiba’s e-STUDIO multifunction prin

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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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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 27, 2018

Whether you are a teacher trying to figure out how to invest your limited class resource budget, or an edtech company trying to secure your place in the market, customer service is something to look at closely. Strive for zero downtime. Whatever your product or service, it needs to work all the time. Teachers do not have time to do things that do not work.

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techlearning

MARCH 27, 2018

Acer today unveiled the first education tablet running Chrome OS, the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 (D651N). The new Acer Chromebook Tab 10 is designed for Acer’s education customers and features: Easily managed with a Chrome Education license QXGA 2048 x 1536 resolution on 9.7-inch touch IPS display Wacom EMR stylus for natural writing, drawing; dock keeps it stored safely Support for Google Play to give students, teachers access to educational Android apps Planned support for Google Expeditions AR to

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Flipgrid and Recap: Video Response and Reflection for Education are both great options for reimagining class discussions and formative assessment. These tools empower students to record their ideas and demonstrate learning in a format that can easily be shared with parents and family members. While Flipgrid is focused on being a fun, social video-response platform, Recap is more of a multimedia response tool that allows for differentiation.

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techlearning

MARCH 27, 2018

Ponddy Education Inc. announces Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to tailor learning materials for students studying Chinese. AI technology is the foundation of the company’s flagship language learning product: Ponddy Chinese Smart Textbooks. Features include: [ New Personalized Learning Program Uses Writing Analysis, Adaptive Learning Technology ] Affinity Knowledge Learning System (AKLS) – This patent pending AI technology curates text into levels and then creates interactive learning mo

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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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