Fri.Jul 15, 2016

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Wearables for Learning! Oh My!

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” – Anatole France. Students can experience new cultures, history, and understand the world in better ways with virtual reality, augmented reality, and wearables. Teachers are using these technologies to send learners on virtual field trips or getting students to keep track of their steps, cardio, and health with fitness bands.

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Vendors Must Hone in on Successful Models for Educator PD

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

When I was a reporter in public radio, I rarely received professional development. The only training or workshops I attended were those I got a grant for, applying on my own. Not working in education, I didn’t know how much value (and money) is placed on PD. Now as the founder of an ed-tech startup Listenwise ( new name !), I think about PD very differently.

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Differentiate with Tech–Starts July 18th!

Ask a Tech Teacher

How to Make Differentiation Fast and Easy with Tech. Starts Monday! Last chance to sign up. This Ask a Tech Teacher online class is only offered for college credit.

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Sparking Student Financial Empowerment through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Financial literacy is a skill that is important for every high school graduate to have. Students need to be able to understand the consequences and impact of their financial decisions — a skill that is critical in our economically integrated world. Teachers, parents, and students alike believe high school curriculums should offer students the opportunity to manage their own finances in order to develop financial literacy skills.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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STEAM-Focused 3D-Printing Projects to Try in Your Classroom

EdTech Magazine

By Meg Conlan Take a peek at three of the 3D-printing projects that earned kudos from MakerBot.

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Learning Out Loud: Make Online Courses Meaningful and Accessible

Edsurge

Developing critical listening and speaking skills is an essential element of a student's higher-education experience. However, verbally presenting one's ideas and listening to contributions made by student peers are not typical experiences for online students, as most activities in online classes consist of reading and writing. As online course offerings increase, institutions have an obligation to ensure faculty are empowered to teach with tools that enable students to learn out loud.

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Advice for Content-Independent Teaching

ProfHacker

I’m going to share here my personal view of what makes it possible to teach a course in a content-independent manner. These may not be the same as what and why other people do it, but it’s why and how I do it. What Do I Mean by Content-Independent? My students read for my course. So it’s not that there is zero content. But I mean that my courses (and also sometimes workshops) are not organized around a canonical body of content.

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My 3 Year Old Son - So Many Questions #digitaldad

Adam Welcome

Being a dad is the absolute best, my father would often tell me the same thing when I was a little boy - I can remember him saying it often. He even reiterated it to me when I was a young adult, seeing how proud he was to be a father of three boys made becoming a father for me even that much more enticing! I just recently wrote a blog post for the Dot Complicated website about being a Digital Dad and after our recent family trip to Europe I was reminded how important it is to be present, listen

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Friday 5 — 7.15.2016

Perry Hewitt

Pokémon fever struck this week with the release of Pokémon Go, an augmented reality app that allows players to catch virtual characters populating physical spaces. Here's how it works. Om Malik points out that the app has heightened expectations for how we can access information, acting as a kind of gateway drug for broader applications of AR. Deane Barker points out the need for rationality when planning a content management system implementation.

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Some very Good Resources to Help You Effectively Integrate Chromebooks in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 17, 2016 In yesterday’s post we talked about Google Training Centre and the different professional development opportunities it provides for teachers and educators. Today we are highlighting a.read more.

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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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3 ways innovative schools advance maker learning for all

eSchool News

In March 2016, Digital Promise and Maker Ed issued a call-to-action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers. Over 1,400 U.S. school leaders have answered the call by signing the Maker Promise. For many members of the League of Innovative Schools , a network of the nation’s most forward-thinking superintendents, this is just an acknowledgement of the work they have long championed.

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IF you use Google Sheets

Teacher Tech

IF Function in Google Sheets One of my favorite formulas for a spreadsheet is an IF function. If the value of a cell meets certain criteria, do this. Otherwise, do something else. If =IF(criteria, true, false) Examples Random Sort I like to use the formula =rand() to assign students a random number and then sort […]. The post IF you use Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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5 Great Chrome Extensions for Taking Screenshots

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 17, 2016 Below is a collection of some of our favourite Chrome extensions that you can use to take screenshots. Whether you need screenshots for a presentation or to illustrate a complex process.read more.

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Did SAS Provide Gifts to UNC System for Special Future Considerations of its EVAAS System?

The 21st Century Principal

It seems, according to an article, software giant, SAS, who already has a multi-million dollar contract with North Carolina Public Schools for its EVAAS value-added software system, provided undisclosed air travel for the UNC Board of Governors and candidate Margaret Spellings during the recent presidential search. (See WRAL's "SAS Provided Undisclosed Air Travel During UNC Presidential Search." ) This raises some interesting questions.

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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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These students are fixing school Chromebooks — and getting paid

eSchool News

The Merced Union High School District is using a new approach when it comes to fixing computers – students get to do the work and they get paid for it. District officials revealed a new Chromebook repair laboratory on Tuesday at Buhach Colony High School in Atwater where students can work. The new lab is complete with a 3-D printer, capabilities for a video-conference projection, storage and individual work stations that include computer tools, flash drives and power and USB outlets.

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4 Tips for Managing the Pokémon GO Craze in Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

As you've no doubt noticed, Pokémon GO has taken the world by storm since its release on July 5, 2016. It's getting people outside to actively explore their surroundings and giving millions their first experience with augmented reality. But it's also raising questions and concerns about whether the game's location and mapping features are compromising people's data and information and luring players into danger.

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5 Tech Tools and an Observation at CUE Rockstar Maui

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

#cuerockstar Maui! That's a wrap! #HSTE - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA PC: Michael Fricano It was so much fun to have Seabury Hall host CUE * Rockstar Maui camp this week! I was a lead learner (this is a more appropriate title for me than teacher or presenter, I think, especially in a hands-on event like CUE Rockstar), so I didn't get to attend the other sessions.

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Upcycling and the Low-Tech Makerspace

Edutopia

Mark Schreiber Maker Education Upcycling happens in a makerspace when design thinking meets hard-to-recycle junk. Inspire students to design and create cool, useful products from trash otherwise destined for landfill.

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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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Takeaways fr @Globalearner (Alan November's) Talk to #NYCSchoolsTech Leaders

The Innovative Educator

Alan November spoke to a group of leaders from New York City. Here are the takeaways and resources I collected. It's important to make thinking visible says @globalearner to #NYCSchoolsTech leaders. Prism does this. pic.twitter.com/CP4qBrmmrE — Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu) July 14, 2016 Make thinking visible. It’s not as important to know “what” a student does as it is to know “why” they do it.

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Design contest challenges students to create assistive tools

eSchool News

A new design contest, called Within Reach, is challenging students to create new assistive tools for the chance to win a 3D printer, touchscreen controller, and other prizes. Sponsored by MatterHackers and Enablingthefuture.org , the design challenge began July 11th and ends September 6th. Entries are split into two categories: youth (under 18) and adults (18 and over).

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Summer Publishing Break

ProfHacker

We hope your July is going well! For the next 2 weeks ProfHacker will be taking our annual summer break. We’ll see you again at the beginning of August. [ CC-licensed Flickr photo by Jack Gray ].

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Your midsummer ed-tech check-in

eSchool News

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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U.S. Personal Computer Market Grows Despite International Decline

Marketplace K-12

While the personal computer market around the world maintained its slump, American shipments saw growth this spring after five consecutive quarters of decline. Preliminary results from Gartner , a Connecticut-based technology research and advisory company, estimated a 1.4 percent increase in U.S. shipments in the 2nd quarter of 2016, compared to the same period last year.

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Books Teachers Share: Inspired to Join the Doodle Revolution

MindShift

Literacy specialist Shawna Coppola teaches at a small elementary school in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, where she focuses on universal instruction and supporting teachers, often stepping in to help plan a lesson or co-teach a unit. She said that an unlikely book has profoundly changed how she thinks about teaching reading and writing: Sunni Brown’s The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently.

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What’s Wrong With EdTech?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post What’s Wrong With EdTech? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Qiuzalize

Technology Tidbits

Quizalize is a great site for creating game-quizzes to assess student's learning in real-time. A educator can browse Quizalize's library of quizzes created by other users or use one of their many templates to get started. Best of all is the all NEW teacher's dashboard that allows educators to track student's progress and differentiate instruction in a fun "Gamify" way.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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 Case for Curated Curriculum

eSpark

As educators have come to realize that differentiation is an essential component of effective instruction, it’s become increasingly difficult for districts to settle upon a fixed curriculum that’s both engaging and leveled to each student’s individual needs. Rather than relying on a static curricula built on textbooks and worksheets, many districts are taking a more dynamic approach to teaching students math and reading standards and essential real world skills.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. The US Senate has voted to approve the nomination of Dr. Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress. Conservatives in Kansas are trying to rebrand public education with the label “ government schools.” Presidential Campaign Politics. Donald Trump has chosen Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Inside Higher Ed has a story on Pence’s higher ed policies.