A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 26, 2016
To this day I still remember the article that I read about Twitter in the Staten Island Advance one cold Sunday in March of 2009. As someone who was totally against the use of social media for both personal and professional reasons, that article was intriguing to read as it essentially reinforced my negative perception. However, as I neared the end of the piece a light bulb went on.
Dangerously Irrelevant
DECEMBER 26, 2016
The best gift that we can give our students is the gift of self-actualization. Every day, every hour, in every class and every school we should be asking ourselves, “Is this an environment in which our students are discovering and nurturing their interests, skills, and talents to become their best selves and make a positive difference in the world?”.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Teacher Tech
DECEMBER 26, 2016
10 Google Apps Tricks to Learn for 2017 1. Force a Copy When I create templates I like to share the templates in a way that prompts the user to create a copy. Notice if you go to alicekeeler.com/poo that it does not take you directly to the document but rather asks you to copy it […]. The post 10 Google Apps Tricks to Learn for 2017 appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Santa proved a little more parsimonious to U.S. edtech companies, which altogether raised an estimated $1.03 billion across 138 venture deals in 2016. Those tallies dipped from 2015, which saw 198 deals that totalled $1.45 billion. (Or, from a different perspective, U.S. edtech companies raised roughly 57 percent of what Snapchat did in its $1.8 billion Series F round.).
Advertisement
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 26, 2016
December 27, 2016 Since its release awhile ago, Google Keep has gained so much popularity among teachers and educators and within a very short period of time it established itself as one of the best.read more.
Teacher Tech
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Share a Folder in Google Drive An important skill for G Suite users is to be able to share a folder in Google Drive. Any files in the folder take on the sharing permissions of folder. This is an easy way to share multiple documents. Simply create a Google Doc in the folder or drag […]. The post Google Drive: Share a Folder appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 26, 2016
[ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on February 15th of this year, was our #4 most popular story of the year. The countdown continues tomorrow with #3, so be sure to check back!]. Popular mobile devices may come and go, but the iPad has remained a hit in the K-12 classroom. But even though they’re in schools, our work with teachers has led us to understand that while many of them would like to use iPads meaningfully in their classrooms, they can’t because of time, access, and train
Hack Education
DECEMBER 26, 2016
My latest book is now available for purchase. The Curse of the Monsters of Education Technology is the latest in my “monsters of ed-tech” series – a sequel to The Monsters of Education Technology (2014) and The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology (2015). Like those two books, this new one is a collection of all the keynotes and talks I delivered in 2016 – seven altogether.
EmergingEdTech
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. Well, I’m exhausted from days of prep to host my. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Principal of Change
DECEMBER 26, 2016
In my post, “ 4 Non-Negotiables for Schools “, I wrote that the first one was the most important: 1. They are a welcoming and warm environment. As someone who goes into schools often, I can get a feeling of the culture within a few minutes. Whether it is talking to the secretary, or seeing what is on the walls when I walk into the building, the culture permeates through all pores of the building.
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.
Graphite Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2016
I remember disagreeing with a coach in high school during a Friday night football game. I was on defense, and the running back for the opposing team got past me for a first down. My coach quickly told me that I didn't do my job correctly (in slightly different words … ), and like any 16-year-old boy who had just been criticized, I denied it.
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 26, 2016
In his history of the digital revolution, The Innovators , Walter Isaacson reveals Ada Lovelace’s significant legacy–that the humanities and technology could happily coexist as a poetical science. This particular coexistence, he notes, does not usually exist in our schools. Many people who celebrate the arts and the humanities, who applaud vigorously the tributes to their importance in our schools, will proclaim without shame (and sometimes even joke) that they don’t understand
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Before middle school students can become lovers of stories and savvy assessors of fake news and false claims, they must be creative readers who comprehend texts at high levels and empathize with characters and people, says literacy expert and advocate Laura Robb.
techlearning
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Easy-to-deliver lessons use real-world topics tweens like.
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.
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 26, 2016
More and more, state and national standards call on all educators to become "teachers of literacy." ELA teacher Kevin Hodgson shares how he and his 6th grade colleagues in science, social studies and math are figuring out what this will mean in their classrooms.
EdNews Daily
DECEMBER 26, 2016
This is the second part in our series, 4 Ways to Make Sure Your Students Feel Their Degrees Are Worth the Cost, by Pete Wheelan, CEO of InsideTrack. As students progress (or fail to), they need support in the forms of frequent feedback, updates on far they’ve come and how far they have to go, and monitoring systems to raise red flags for support staff if they get off track. 3.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 26, 2016
. During the recent presidential campaign, one of the few things the two major candidates for president agreed on was the need for increased technical education. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton said young people must be better prepared for higher salaried jobs in high demand job fields. The reason for this rare agreement is a gap emerging in the U.S. economy.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
183 
Let's personalize your content