Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2018

“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” Paraphrase of John Dewey’s work . One of the most important ways to end the year is by getting students to reflect on the learning journey in your class. They need to reflect on the purpose of different tasks and projects. They need understand what learning they achieved and think about how to use this learning in their future classes and life.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2018

Welcome back to our “Teacher Feature Series,” where we chat with educators who work online across borders. Today, please read about Serena Bloom’s journey with 51Talk American Academy, or now known as HAWO American Academy. Serena, please tell us all about you and your work with 51Talk/HAWO American Academy. My name is Serena Dawn Bloom, and I’m an ESL Teacher, and I hold a BS in Human Development, and AS in Business Administration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

Kayla Delzer on episode 311 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kayla Delzer motivates us to relinquish control and empower students with three powerful examples. From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom.

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 14, 2018

Scholars have long known that learning multiple languages benefits overall academic achievement. Research dating back as early as the 1960s demonstrates the positive impact of studying another language on cognitive function. The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities , a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2018

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. This college-credit class starts in one week–Monday, May 21st! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 557 and click for more information and to sign up. Click to view slideshow. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 20 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 14, 2018

You might know that I am a big proponent of PBL. I believe that as we work on helping students understand the content standards, PBL provides teachers with the how. I do hope you enjoy this content driven article. Also, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Wes McEntee works on a manufacturing machine at Vermont Technical College. Photo: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. A number of recent articles have highlighted the value of career and technical education (CTE) at the individual and system levels. It is truly wonderful to see these programs finally celebrated for all that they can do for students and communities.

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Teacher Tech

MAY 14, 2018

A Tour of Google Forms If you are new to Google Forms or are an advanced user this playlist of 57 short videos will help you know more about Google Forms. ViewSonic worked with me to create videos from making a Google Form, reviewing the settings, and even using some of the Add-ons I coded […]. The post A Complete Video Guide to Google Forms appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

“He who controls the metaphor controls the debate.” – David Gergen Among the many lessons I learned from my time working for David Gergen, an advisor to four U.S presidents and now the director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, was that metaphors matter in public life. The prevailing metaphor in a field shapes the contours of a conversation.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2018

We all know that critical thinking is a very important skill, but how do you teach students to go beyond the obvious response and use reason? In a new study from MindEdge Learning, more than half of the college students and recent graduates said they were very confident in their critical-thinking skills; however, 52 percent of them could not pass a basic, nine-question test of their digital literacy and critical-thinking skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

School districts nationwide are facing a critical teacher shortage and the situation is only expected to worsen in the next few years. This issue has many implications for student learning, but one that is often overlooked is that a shortage of qualified instructors can have a crippling effect on a school district’s ability to implement technology effectively.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2018

In any given K-12 district, you’ll find at least some teachers choosing their own edtech products. Why? If their district hasn’t shown tech leadership, there are no shortage of tempting free apps to choose from. Why not fly solo, so to speak? But that’s contrary to what districts have come to learn over time: that students and their parents benefit most when all teachers in a district are assessing and reporting on students using a common, approved set of tools and schemes.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

Last December the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality, a set of rules prohibiting broadband providers from prioritizing web traffic. In response, this Wednesday, senators will have the opportunity to vote on a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that could block the FCC’s repeal, restoring net neutrality rules.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 14, 2018

Common Sense has this wonderful section packed full of pre-made lesson plans that teachers and educators can appropriate to their own teaching situations. These lesson plans are.read more.

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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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techlearning

MAY 14, 2018

Dallas TX, May 14, 2018 – EY today announced that Richard Margolin, chief technology officer and founder of RoboKind , is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 Award in the Southwest region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 14, 2018

Tour Creator is a new tool released by Google a few days ago which allows you to create your own VR tours. Students can use it to create rich 360 experiences using their own 360 photos or images from.read more.

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ProfHacker

MAY 14, 2018

RStudio isn’t new to the ProfHacker readership. In fact, the other Ryan (the original Ryan, really) wrote on using it and is 100% the inspiration for this post. See, I like Shiny new things (that’s an in-joke joke for the R crowd). I can’t help it. I also like forward movement at the risk of failure (I think they call it “innovation” but I could just be rationalizing).

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techieMusings

MAY 14, 2018

Written with my colleague, Dr. Sara Romeyn , our Director of Humanities and Global Studies. The Class: The trimester elective, “Contemporary Global Issues,” allows students the opportunity to investigate the world and analyze current challenges and problems. Sophomores and Juniors in the class have explored a variety of contemporary crises, including the Cape Town, South Africa water shortage, the Rohingya Crisis and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

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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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Shake Up Learning

MAY 14, 2018

The post Get Google Certified This Summer! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Get Google Certified This Summer! (Video Walkthrough). Looking for the perfect summer professional learning? Look no further! The summer break is the PERFECT time to start working toward your goal of becoming Google Certified, and I can help you get there! Get Google Certified this summer!

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

This story about project-based learning was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and mea

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Tech Helpful

MAY 14, 2018

I've been fairly pumped about the Echo Dot Kids Edition coming out. My pre-ordered one came in this past week and the 10 minute video at the bottom of this post is me unboxing and digging into its capabilities. I was beyond excited about the safeguards the Echo Dot Kids Edition would offer an educational setting. I immediately asked it questions I would hope it wouldn't answer and my brief synopsis was that it did feel much safer to use with youngsters.

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

Sept. 30, 2016 was a big day for Lake Canyon Elementary. Students, teachers, and staff arrived at the Galt, California, school wearing white shirts and before long were sent to stand by one of six large cardboard boxes. After a drum roll, cannons sprayed confetti over each cluster of students. The color matched one of six new banners, like the orange one reading “Sebete” and featuring a bear meant to symbolize courage.

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MAY 14, 2018

Quick: name the highest grossing entertainment product of all time. No, it’s not Titanic or Avatar. It’s not the Beatles’ Abbey Road. It’s a video game. Grand Theft Auto V. GTA V has sold 85 million copies and grossed more than 5 Billion dollars. That’s more than double the highest grossing film of all time, Avatar, which only grossed a measly 2.7 Billion.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 14, 2018

With leadership from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, teachers regularly share classroom stories in their local media. Offering tips and lessons learned, Kevin Hodgson shows how adding educator voices to community discussions increases understanding and support.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 14, 2018

National and state high-stakes testing is part of our students’ lives for the foreseeable future. While we should continue to work with legislators, vital stakeholders, and other key policy-makers to change this practice, we need to ensure that students are best prepared for these assessments. Yet, it’s not about teaching test-taking strategies. You can only talk about “slash the trash” and “read the question carefully” so many times before students start tuning you out.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2018

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. Anti-Defamation League. What’s It Like?

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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

MAY 14, 2018

Sworkit Kids Fun, customizable workout app helps kids get fit [ Manage & Organize All Steps of Project-Based Learning ] Pros: Customizable workouts and settings, exercises are easy to learn. Cons: There isn't much there to extend the learning, and there's minimal support for teachers. Bottom Line: This app will get kids moving, jumping, and bending to increase their overal fitness through exercise.

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Hubbli

MAY 14, 2018

Keeping track of your school’s finances can be a full-time job. Transpose the wrong digits and you can open yourself up to the world of audits and endless trouble. Because your Montessori school is a small business, you must run it as such, and one of the most important tasks of operating a private school is bookkeeping. Because it’s so essential to a healthy school, bookkeeping is not one of those tasks that you can relegate to the back burner.

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techlearning

MAY 14, 2018

SETDA today announced the release of a new report: State Education Leadership for Interoperability: Leveraging Data for Academic Excellence. This report examines the current data interoperability efforts in nine states: Delaware, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. This report includes a set of use cases demonstrating how interoperability helps states and districts achieve student learning goals, as well as recommendations for states as they continu

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

We’re living and teaching in some challenging times, thanks in no small part to long-festering and deepening economic inequality. The consequences of these economic divides are felt by many, but have been particularly galvanizing for those in the early-to-mid stages of their working lives. These workers are struggling to make their stagnant wages stretch further and further to cover rising rents and crippling student debt.

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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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