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Scaffolding Questions to Develop Deeper Understanding

A Principal's Reflections

Over the past couple of months, I have been working with a variety of schools and districts in the role of a coach. Most of this work is focused on digital pedagogy so naturally, I am focused on observing and collecting evidence to get a handle on both the level of instruction and the learning that is taking place. To allow educators to critically reflect on their practice I take many pictures of what I see, especially the types of learning activities with which students are engaged.

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The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Question Game by Sophie Wrobel, geist.avesophos.de The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks on average about 400 questions per day, and an adult hardly asks any. Our school system is structured around rewards for regurgitating the right answer, […].

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5 Great Apps to Create Beautiful Visuals for Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Integrating visuals in your instruction can help a lot with your students learning. Besides the cognitive fact that visually represented data is easily processed by the brain, there is also the fact.read more.

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Books Without Borders: A Reading Challenge Idea

MiddleWeb

How can we help students build understanding and empathy for people and cultures outside their own experience? Librarian Rita Platt launched the Books Without Borders reading challenge at her school. See how she does it. Materials and tips on acquiring books included!

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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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Check Out These Educational iPad Apps- They Are Free Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For this week’s Apps Gone Free series we curated for you this collection of interesting iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. This deal is available at least in the.read more.

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Can I give you some feedback? And other ways to not offer ideas

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note : This is the fifth installment in Jennifer Abrams’ ‘Personal Development’ column for eSchool News. In her columns, Abrams focuses on leadership skills for anyone working in a school or district. Read more about the column here.] . Have you ever heard the question, “Can I give you some feedback?” Did you want to say “No” immediately?

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Programming trends at SXSW EDU 2018

eSchool News

Over the years, SXSW EDU has facilitated thousands of key conversations within the education community by hosting thought leaders from around the world each March. As the 2018 event approaches, we are excited to share several trends recognized in this year’s upcoming program. Whether it’s a panel, workshop, talk, or one of the many session types at the conference—we look forward to the important dialogue, connections, and collaborations that will take place.

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How To Talk With Kids About Terrible Things

MindShift

For the more than 3,000 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Wednesday’s mass shooting was terrifying and life-changing. But what of the tens of millions of other children, in schools across the country, who have since heard about what happened and now struggle with their own feelings of fear, confusion and uncertainty? For their parents and teachers, we’ve put together a quick primer with help from the National Association of School Psychologists and Melissa Reeves, a f

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Video of the Week: Backchanneling with TodaysMeet

eSchool News

Ed. note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education. Video Description: Showing videos or films in your classroom?

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Digital Technologies and Education Tweet Recap, w/e 02-17-18

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap, we start off with an. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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App of the Week: LearnToMod

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. LearnToMod. What’s It Like?

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ThinkFluency

Technology Tidbits

ThinkFluency is an innovative new iOS app that lets teachers assess a student's Reading fluency in real-time. All a educator has to do after creating a account, is add students/classes, select a Reading passage or create your own, and then begin the assessment. ThinkFluency makes it super easy for the teacher to track errors by tapping a button on the screen while the student is reading.

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10 Ideas for Making Schools More Like Churches (Not Prisons!) To Address School Violence

The Innovative Educator

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Why I let 2 kids’ behavior ruin my school year (and what I wish I’d done differently)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

One year when I was teaching third grade, I had a student with autism and oppositional defiance disorder. We’ll call her Sarah for the sake of this post. knew that she was going to be in my class ahead of time and I was ready for the challenge. I don’t mind difficult situations, but I’m a planner. I like to be prepared and plan ahead.

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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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Data Interoperability: Beyond Accountability and Reporting

edWeb.net

Teacher. Classroom facilitator. Database analyst? This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability. While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report.

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Arming Educators: A Bad, Smelly Idea That Won't Go Away

The 21st Century Principal

NOTE: I originally published this post when the calls to arm educators began after Sandy Hook. It seems with every school shooting, the knee-jerk response by politicians is to once again turn to arming educators. North Carolina Republican lawmaker Larry Pittman once again renewed his "educator-call-to-arms." (See "NC Republican Wants to Arm Teachers in Response to Florida Shooting." ) For politicians who have accepted thousands of dollars from the NRA this isn't surprising; the NRA successfully