Tue.Apr 11, 2017

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Annotate PDFs with Kami

Catlin Tucker

Last week, my students began reading excerpts from The Sixth Extinction to complement our Environmental Unit. I shared the PDF version because our library only had a few copies of the book. When my students asked me how I wanted them to annotate the text, I said they could make annotative notes in digital notebooks since I wasn’t aware of a free tool that would allow them to easily annotate a PDF.

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Q&A: Vadim Polikov’s Startup Brings Game-Based Learning to Science Class

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez New company Legends of Learning offers 900 research-backed games to educators.

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Aurasma and Augmented Reality in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Dr. Tim Green on episode 52 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Tim Green @theedtechdoctor , Instructional Design Expert, talks today about augmented reality. Specifically he shares his favorite Augmented Reality (AR) instructional tool, Aurasma. Tim also shares a vision for the future of where augmented reality is probably taking us in education.

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Designing for accessibility in e-learning

Neo LMS

Equality and equity are two sensitive concepts. Dramatic debates can spring instantaneously based on them. At one point or another the well-known phrase from the famous novel “Animal farm” might creep into those debates. All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others. Orwell certainly knew his onions. This phrase is so true, beyond the politics surrounding it.

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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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Visit My New Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Store!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, now offers an education resource website called HMH Marketplace. This is for teachers by teachers, giving educators an attractive, easy-to-maneuver online site where they can find exactly the right lesson plans, rubrics, activities, classroom decor, and more for their unique classroom needs. It’s free to sign up, carefully managed (they went through all of my products in detail before posting them–which I appreciate), with a wide variety

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Quiz: Who's Who in K-12 Ed Tech Innovation

EdTech Magazine

By Matt Fellows You know the tech, but do you know who's behind the innovation?

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Colleges, Libraries and Presses Team Up to Publish Open Scholarship (And Rethink Model)

Edsurge

Nobody ever published scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences to get rich. But these days the question is how publishers can afford to produce them at all, especially as the main customers for those books—academic libraries—face ever-shrinking budgets, and the open-access movement has pumped up expectations that scholarship should be shared as widely and cheaply as possible.

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What We Know About Tablets and How Your Child Learns to Read

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. A recent US survey commissioned by the children’s books publisher Scholastic found that 65% of 6-11 year olds prefer to read print books even when e-books are available on tablets. In the UK, a National Literacy Survey found that children who read stories both on tablets and in print are more likely to have above-average vocabulary than those who read in printed books alone.

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A Story About The High Expectations Conversation [The Art of the Professional Insult]

The Jose Vilson

“Mr. Vilson, how do you feel about us opting out because I’m thinking about it.” “Let me tell y’all something, and this is real talk: if you have good grades and decide to opt out of this test, I ain’t mad at you …” A student grumbled, knowing he had failed almost all of his grades throughout the school year. “Now wait a minute.

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12 Tips for training older teachers to use technology

Nik Peachey

There is an assumption that persists in the educational community that more mature teachers are much more difficult and reluctant to be trained on the effective use of educational technology. To some degree, I think this assumption has been built on by the digital native vs digital immigrant myth. But as someone who has trained teachers of all ages all over the world I would say that, from my own experience, this hasn’t been the case.

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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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Beware of the Word ‘Flexible’: Architect Danish Kurani on Designing 21st Century Schools

Edsurge

“Flexible.” It’s a word that often pops up in conversations about redesigning learning environments, relating to choices in furniture or movable walls. But according to. Danish Kurani , redesigning 21st century classrooms goes much deeper than merely achieving flexibility—it involves going all the way back to considering Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

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15 Great Apps for Teaching World History

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 11, 2017 Here is a collection of some great iPad apps we compiled specifically for history teachers. We have based our selection on World History collection in iTunes App Store and have.read more.

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How to Shake the Blended Learning Blues

Edsurge

When I interviewed for my current teaching position, my school's 1:1 program was a huge selling point. The fact every student got a personal laptop represented administrators' commitment to bringing public schools into the 21st century, and to providing equal educational opportunities to all. When I entered the classroom, however, my relationship with the laptops got.complicated.

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Some Wonderful Posters Featuring Apps for Special Needs Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 11, 2017 While we were working on Android Apps Chart for students with special needs we came across this amazing resource from CALL Scotland. This is a collection of some beautiful.read more.

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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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Google Slides: Create Shapes with Polyline Tool

Teacher Tech

A useful tool for younger (and older) students to know is the Polyline tool in Google Slides. This is a type of line creation where students click to create vertices to create shapes. Learning this tool allows students to identify things in a picture. Template alicekeeler.com/polyline Polyline Tool I showed my 6 year old how to […]. The post Google Slides: Create Shapes with Polyline Tool appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Fundamental Theorems of Culinary Math

MIND Research Institute

What does math taste like? I was fortunate enough to work alongside Chef Hari Pulapaka during a taste of math event at MIND Research Institute's Deeper Learning Symposium. He walked me through the different ways that flavors balance each other out. He shared how using a hint of honey would offset some of the tanginess from the citruses. He even demonstrated how science came into the equation when determining the right temperature and time to dissolve condensed coconut milk without heating it up

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ESSA’s Flexible Accountability Measures Give PE Teachers (and Entrepreneurs) Hope

Edsurge

It’s difficult to refute the impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on America’s current educational landscape. Jeanne Allen, CEO and founder of the Center for Education Reform , reminded listeners of the law’s significance at a panel earlier this year, pointing out that before NCLB was passed, “there had never been a requirement to publish and disaggregate data down to the school level.

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Free Interactive Guides to Help You Make The Best of Mac and iPad in Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

April 11, 2017 Over the last few years Apple Education has released a number of interesting free interactive guides designed specifically for teachers and students. We have already featured some of.read more.

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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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DIAGRAM Center Provides Guidance on Accessible Images

ProfHacker

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written several posts over the years about accessibility of digital resources for all people , including people with disabilities. Right now, my campus is engaged in a 3-year plan to get all of our digital pedagogical resources to adhere to federal regulations regarding accessibility. One issue that has been the subject of many conversations is the use of images and how best to make them accessible while still fulfilling their function in teaching.

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KSU iTeach Coaches Give Back to the Community

EdTechTeam

The Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University is home of the iTeach Department. Our 30+ Instructional Technology Coaches support various districts throughout the Southeast (mainly Metropolitan Atlanta). February 23rd (Digital Learning Day) provided us with the opportunity to expand our scope and provide a Maker Camp (for FREE) to schools outside of our normal realm of support.

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5 Ways to Strengthen Student Resilience

MiddleWeb

Resilience is the ability to effectively handle pressure and to overcome failure. It's a characteristic that many of our struggling students do not bring to the classroom, yet it is one that we can teach. Barbara Blackburn shares five strategies that can help.

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Flipped Educator Interviews: Exploring Flipped Classroom Practices, Tips, Challenges

EmergingEdTech

Learn From Experienced Teachers Who Have Been Flipping Their Classrooms for Years Over at the Flipped Learning Network, we've just published our 5th Flipped Educator Spotlight Interview (and there's. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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I might actually use Android Apps on my Chromebook

The Electric Educator

I have been following the integration of Android and ChromeOS since it was merely a rumor (check out these posts ). Overall, I have been underwhelmed by the addition of Android apps on my Chromebook. Access to Android on my Chromebook has had no impact on my daily routines. until recently. On a whim, I installed the Google Classroom Android App. I rarely use it.

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The 6 Reading-Habit Initiator Personalities (Hint: Only 1 Transforms Boys into Readers)

Fractus Learning

There was a time early in my 20+ year teaching career when I didn’t plan ahead or think about what aliterate preteen/early teen boys needed from me to become self-directed readers. I truly believed that if […].

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Output or compliance?

The Principal of Change

This article from the New York Times, “ I’m Not Texting, I’m Taking Notes “, is pretty interesting. The basic premise (I suggest you read the whole article ) is that a 17 year old working at BlackBoard (a technology company), is ridiculed for using their phone during a meeting by some older adults, because it looks like he is texting, while he is actually taking notes.

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Introducing TeachThought News

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post Introducing TeachThought News appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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What Are the Traits of a Successful Ed-Tech Salesperson? Webinar Takes a Look

Marketplace K-12

EdWeek Market Brief hosts a Monday, April 24 webinar at 2 p.m. EST examining new McKinsey & Co. survey data on the characteristics of successful ed-tech salespeople. The post What Are the Traits of a Successful Ed-Tech Salesperson? Webinar Takes a Look appeared first on Market Brief.

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10 Reasons Librarians Are More Important Than Ever

Graphite Blog

It's National Library Week, and we couldn't resist paying homage to one of the most important members of the school community: librarians. Also known as library media specialists, librarians play a unique role in our schools. Often asked to take on a wide range of duties, these passionate and savvy educators deserve more than only a week of praise.

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Value, Number of Education Deals Plummets Over Most Recent Year

Marketplace K-12

The value of transactions in the education sector fell by 70 percent, from $17.75 billion to $5.32 billion, in the most recent year, a new report says. The post Value, Number of Education Deals Plummets Over Most Recent Year appeared first on Market Brief.

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Bring learning content to life with the GoConqr Media Library

GoConqr

From a diagram of the circulation system to a video of scenes from a play, some of the best learning resources on GoConqr use media to bring content to life. Now, creating engaging learning content with media on GoConqr has never been easier. We’ve created a personal Media Library for every GoConqr user, where you can store images, video, and media embeds, and easily use and reuse these across the resources you create.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.