Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 1, 2018

While pursuing our teaching degrees we were introduced to various learning theorists and their insights about how people learn best. Some familiar names, included Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, and Gardner. Although understanding these theories is still important, we also need to become familiar with theories, models, and approaches, which provide us insight on how technology, social media, and the Internet impact our learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2018

Sponsored by We Are Teachers, The Allstate Foundation, and WE. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Service learning is when students learn by serving others. We Volunteer Now has fantastic resources, and they’re awarding $250 grants for 500 schools to use toward volunteer projects. Transform your school by helping students design their own project to inspire and improve their community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2018

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month, it’s again a call-out to our newsletter: Subscribe. ( [link] ). Get 10% off your next purchase. Also, we’d love to have you follow us on our social media. There, we offer how-to videos, posters, and more to all friends. Here’s where you can find us: Follow Ask a Tech Teacher (sign up in the sidebar).

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Neo LMS

MARCH 1, 2018

Ernest Hemingway once said, Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Content creation or writing is one of the most useful skills any student can learn. In school, content creation is applied in essays, journals, creative compositions, poetry and letter writing. Fashion and journalism majors are needed to create content for their blog pieces.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 1, 2018

For-profit private primary and secondary schools have proliferated in the major cities throughout China since the 1990s. The rapid expansion of the test preparation industry has been even more intense. Despite the growing private education sector, the overwhelming majority of Chinese students go through the state school system with its rigid study-to-the-test pedagogical system.The Affiliated High School of Peking University and its international education unit, the Dalton Academy, has staked ou

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Will we wander through VR stacks in the library of the future? Will the library’s computer lab become a makerspace? Those were just a couple of the questions raised on Tuesday, February 27 when the #DLNchat community got together to discuss: What Is the Role of Libraries in Digital Learning Innovation? The conversation was guided by special guest Steven Bell , Associate Librarian at Temple University Libraries, where he works with colleagues on a number of digital learning initiatives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Some say the third time's a charm. But can—or should—the cliché hold up in higher ed? Tallahassee Community College is finding out with a student-success technology known as early alerts. The idea is to gather information about a student based on factors like academic performance or attendance, and notify a professor or advisor to intervene with students who show early signs of struggle.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 1, 2018

Tie Dye Your Google Classroom Header In Google Drawing and Google Slides you can now customize the gradient to create a “tie dye” effect. Use my Google Drawing template for Google Classroom headers to create a tie dye effect! Note: this does NOT work on mobile devices. Google Drawing only works on a Chromebook, Mac […]. The post Tie Dye Your Google Classroom Header appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2018

In today's post we are sharing with you this collection of interesting iPad apps to help kids and young learners learn the basics of coding. They (apps) provide a wide variety of interactive games,read more.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Must have 7 resources.” That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating.

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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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TeacherCast

MARCH 1, 2018

The simple fact that WordPress can be a blog, newspaper, pinboard, video screen, live broadcasting CMS or an "iPad-Like" front door to a Multi-Word-Pressed Educational Universe serves as a great starting point for any educator, school, or district. The post 4 important questions to ask when considering #WordPress appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2018

Educational Windows apps are underrepresented in our reviews here in EdTech and mLearning, a limitation which we are seriously planning to address this year. Over the last few months we have received.read more.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 1, 2018

In this post, we are going to look deeply into this second question and learn how to create a digital space for your podcast to live and be found by people worldwide and most important… by Google. The post WordPress #Plugin Review: @Blubrry PowerPress – #WordPress Podcasting Made Simple! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2018

Early intervention: It’s a common mantra for any student with learning difficulties, including dyslexia. But as Terrie Noland, national director of educator engagement for Learning Ally, pointed out in a recent edWebinar, those services are not consistently available to students across the United States. In “ Dyslexia: Hidden Costs and Money-Saving Techniques for Districts ,” Noland makes a case for front-loading the funding to shrink the learning gap at an earlier age and offers cost-effective

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2018

Drew Perkins talks with the daughter of Jackie Robinson, Sharon, about her life and experiences and wisdom in addition to her educational work with Scholastic and Major League Baseball called Breaking Barriers. This program, which features an essay contest, teaches students the values and characteristics that Jackie Robinson exhibited in his life, and how to use […].

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2018

One of our recent webinars dove into personalized learning and how it can guide students to deeper engagement and deeper thinking. Differentiated instruction can not only capture students' attention and hold it, but also get them thinking conceptually and trigger those "Aha!" learning moments. Focusing on specific examples and best practices, our webinar team explored the power of implementing math software to create high impact personalized environments.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 1, 2018

I've long sung the praises of the Book Creator app. It's definitely the best way to create an e-book due to it's elegant simplicity, ability to add any kind of content (text, photos, drawings, audio, video) and share in both PDF and ePub format. In our work, creating books can be used for narrative and expository language development, social cognitive strategies, metacognitive language strategies, speech practice, repetitive line books to develop microstructure, and so much more.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 1, 2018

John Merrow weaves a narrative that explores the history of America’s failed school reform efforts and offers a vision for ridding public education of our addiction to more of the same in favor of long-term, meaningful and sustainable change, writes teacher Rita Platt.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 1, 2018

I’ve written in the past how archiving can minimize litigation costs for school districts through eDiscovery and with the ability to handle Freedom of Information requests in a timely and efficient manner. Another way email archiving can benefit schools and districts and save you money is by understanding three specific compliance rules. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 1, 2018

Drawing on her national survey of 1500 students, Heather Wolpert-Gawron's "Just Ask Us" brings their voices to the challenges of engagement. Adding teacher interviews and research, she offers a strategy-filled resource that belongs in every teacher's hands, says David Bever.

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techlearning

MARCH 1, 2018

Today, Lightspeed Systems announced a new element to its Relay student safety and filtering solution: Threat Check. Threat Check provides schools with information that can help identify high-risk behaviors and prevent school violence, self-harm, bullying, and more. Through its web filtering solutions, Lightspeed Systems has a large store of data about the typical online activities of K-12 students.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 1, 2018

As teachers, we're always trying to find new and exciting ways to make our class content more relevant and engaging for our students. Fortunately, science offers many connections with what's right outside our classroom doors. Whether we're measuring water quality, exploring experimental design, or collecting biodiversity data, moving the instruction outside onto school grounds helps my students make connections between science and the environment they live in.

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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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techlearning

MARCH 1, 2018

Can virtual reality happen without a headset? I was invited to speak at the 3 European iPads in the Classroom in Amsterdam last month about creation and collaboration on digital devices. Although my keynote topic was set months in advance, a few weeks before the event the organizer shared an opportunity to be part of session where multiple presenters would lead discussions on virtual reality in education.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 1, 2018

If you are teacher reading this right now, here is a question for you… Do you like to be micromanaged? Of course, I know the answer which is why I asked the question. Nobody wants to feel that they aren’t trusted to do their job. But here is something to think about…Can micromanaging happen upward in the hierarchy of a school? If a principal decides without input, do you feel that you as a staff should have been consulted?

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 1, 2018

On a regular basis I am asked by teachers, "but what about cheating and digital testing?" It does happen but it also happens without your testing being digital. I remember being in 9th grade Spanish class and writing the answers my vocabulary quiz on the edge of a piece of notebook paper, strategically placing that paper inside my Spanish book so I could still see the answers and placing said book under my neighbors desk so I could see it while I took the test.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 1, 2018

During this month's #NYCSchoolsTechChat we will address ways to increase school safety. #NYCSchoolTech teacher Eileen Lennon moderates with me throwing in my two cents. You can prepare for the conversation by thinking about answers to these questions: Q1 What approaches are you using to keep you and your students safe at school? #NYCSchoolsTechChat Q2 You have to Maslow before you Bloom.

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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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EdTechTeam

MARCH 1, 2018

February 22, 2018, marked the seventh annual Digital Learning Day. Digital Learning Day celebrates the use of technology and innovative practices in student learning. Many teachers, myself included, incorporate digital learning strategies on a regular basis. My students have school-issued iPads they bring to class each week. To clarify – I teach elementary band and orchestra.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2018

edWeb is 10 years old this week! It feels like such a big milestone, especially since it’s been 10 years since the dawn of the “connected educator” movement. I still remember so well when the U. S. Department of Education issued the 2010 National Education Technology Plan. The plan included the first statement I know of that officially endorsed using social networks for professional learning in education, “Social networks can be used to provide educators with career-long

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techlearning

MARCH 1, 2018

The Grand Prize winner of the 2018 Follett Challenge will be selected from among an elementary school in Anchorage, Alaska; a middle school in the Bronx, N.Y.; and a high school in Durham, N.C. In an online announcement today, organizers of the Follett Challenge unveiled the seventh annual competition’s three diverse Semifinalists, as well as the 10 People’s Choice winners.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 1, 2018

Third Grade has different challenges than every other grade, and that fact surprises me more often than I like. Class culture can be a challenge in 3rd grade, the best kids I know can turn on each other quickly. When this happens in the Makerspace I need to fix it, for the preservation of everyone's creativity and safety. Resetting Class Culture. I have found that when I put unreasonable expectations on myself, I am challenged and do some of my best work in that challenge.The expectation of the

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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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