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15 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites: Color the shamrock. Color the Pot-o-gold. Color the leprechaun. Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s puzzle II. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. St. Patrick’s Day history–video.

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Collaboration Tools in Education - new partnership Dropbox and Klaxoon

Educational Technology Guy

Just like businesses, educators and students use a lot of collaboration tools in their daily work. Google for Education and Microsoft for Education are two the most popular, with apps like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. There are others, like Schoology, Edmodo and more, that are also used. Dropbox , originally a cloud file storage and sharing app, has added a number of collaboration features over the last couple of years.

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10+ tech-free ways to Ditch That Textbook

Ditch That Textbook

Technology has revolutionized the way we teach. For most of us, we can’t imagine our classrooms without it. We can find ourselves depending on technology for our lessons. And then there are times when tech fails us. Have you ever been teaching a tech-dependent lesson when the wifi goes down? Suddenly you have a block […].

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Teaching Empathy Is Powerful. This Film Made It Possible.

Edsurge

Thomas, a ninth grader in my Human Geography class, was nervous as he stood on the auditorium stage last May. He had agreed to introduce a documentary, called Bending the Arc , to more than 350 of his peers at a special mid-day screening. Throughout the school year, Thomas had shown a keen interest in global issues in class and had displayed an exceptional empathetic nature in understanding individuals from different cultures and backgrounds.

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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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4 Things All Project-Based Learning Teachers Should Do

TeachThought - Learn better.

4 Things All Project-Based Learning Teachers Should Do contributed by Lauren Ayer, M.Ed. Gone are the days when students were expected to sit passively at desks while teachers lectured endlessly, expecting children to soak up the information being thrown at them. In today’s educational environment, students are expected to collaborate, think critically, and work together […].

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This School Was Failing at Its Mission to Graduate Every Student. Then It Opened a Day Care.

Edsurge

WASHINGTON, D.C — Inside a high school in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, down several hallways lined with student artwork and college acceptance letters, is a doorway marked “day care.” Image credit: Emily Tate Flanked by two baby cribs, the door itself is covered with laminated guides promoting breastfeeding—one in English, another in Spanish—and behind it is a 3,360-square-foot, multi-room center filled with personalized cubbies, half a dozen cribs, baby bouncers, play sets, early learning

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Ringleader of Admissions Scam Also Ran a College Counseling Firm For Families in China

Edsurge

William “Rick” Singer, the man at the center of the alleged college-admissions fraud plot detailed this week by federal investigators, had a big footprint—a global one, in fact. The scale and audacity of the scheme described by prosecutors is unprecedented in U.S. higher education. Singer led a for-profit college counseling business called The Edge College & Career Network, LLC., also known as The Key, that allegedly created what he called a “side door” to college admissions by bribing athle

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5 ways to prevent cheating on your Google Form Quiz

The Electric Educator

If you are using Google Forms to give quizzes and tests in your classroom, you are likely aware that some students have figured out various ways to "game" forms to get a better grade: Open a tab to look up answers Preview your form before class to look up answers Send questions to their friends Share answers with friends Take screenshots of your the quiz questions View the HTML page source to find answers Look at a friends screen to select answers Right-click on words to check definitions and sp

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A Collection of Free Textbooks for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A couple of months ago we shared here a post featuring four important websites where teachers and educators can access digital textbooks. Today we are adding this excellent resource from Open Culture.

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6 of the coolest education grants we’ve ever heard about

eSchool News

Funding usually sits at the top of school leaders’ list of challenges, and for good reason–there’s only so much money to go around. That’s where education grants come in, and we’ve got some unique ones worth exploring. Do you have community-oriented students who have fantastic ideas to solve specific challenges? Or maybe you’re a teacher who has used a certain beloved book series in core curriculum.

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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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13 Tips to Help You Make The Best of Google My Maps in Your Instruction

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google My Maps is an excellent web tool for creating and customizing maps. Since its integration with Google Drive, users now are able to instantly create, manage and share their maps right from.

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STEAM Lessons with the OK Go Sandbox

EdTechTeam

As a music teacher, I enjoy finding ways to incorporate music into traditionally non-musical activities. Music plays a role in all of our lives because everyone can connect to it. Using music in the classroom is a great way to engage students in a variety of subjects. Naturally, I was very excited to hear that Google has sponsored a collaborative project with the alternative rock band, OK Go , and the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St.

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Conference Notes: Mid-Atlantic Conference on #PersonalizedLearning #macpl19 #caolacon19

techieMusings

I am wrapping up my first experience at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Personalized Learning. There was lots of good learning and conversations! I wanted to share some of my notes from the past couple days and also a bit about the panel presentation I was able to present. Panel Presentation: How to Design Impactful Digital Learning Experiences for Students.

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Women’s History Month Resources. (That you should use all year.)

techlearning

The National Women’s History Project aims to make excellent, user-friendly materials readily available for all areas of the K-12 curriculum.

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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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K-12 Dealmaking: Newsela Raises $50 Million; Securly Acquires TechPilot Labs

Marketplace K-12

Newsela has secured $50 million, while Securly has acquired TechPilot Labs and ACT has acquired the American College Application Campain. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Newsela Raises $50 Million; Securly Acquires TechPilot Labs appeared first on Market Brief.

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Improve the Effectiveness of Digital Instruction

edWeb.net

The principles of learning have been around for centuries while only in the last 20 to 30 years has the science of learning been studied. According to Paul W. Ownby, Senior Product Manager at Learning.com, during a recent edWebinar, the science of learning focuses on how we learn and how we can maximize the retention and storage of information in our brains.

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The ROI of Gaming

The Game Agency

March 15th, 2019. eLearning Brothers Academy Learning Series Webinar 2019 (ELBX), Stephen Baer presents “The ROI of Gaming.” . There’s a lot of buzz about game-based learning. But what exactly is it and why are companies doing it? In this webinar, we will present a variety of game-based training case studies, identifying the goals, the creative and the ROI.

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#FactFriday: 3rd Grade Reading & Student Success

ExcelinEd

It’s National Reading Month! A student’s ability to read is a critical predictor of educational and lifelong success. Learn how your state can empower every child with this life-changing skill at ExcelinEd.org. What Others Are Saying. “Reading skills impact more than report cards. Grade-level reading is a key indicator of whether children will go down a road to success or face a lifetime of challenges.” – Steve Coen, Kansas Health Foundation president and CEO.

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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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10 Quick Tips for Getting the Best Out of Feedback Studio

Turnitin

Find out how you can truly take advantage of Feedback Studio's most-loved features

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Adventure Draws Kids Into Mystery Word Town Spelling App

techlearning

Old West crime-fighting takes kids on a spelling adventure

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Is sharing caring? #OpenBlog19

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and r

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Think Fluency

Technology Tidbits

ThinkFluency is an oral reading fluency assessment app developed by a teacher for teachers. ThinkFluency replaces the tedious paper, pencil and timer assessment with an app that enables teachers to quickly assess students’ Oral Reading Fluency Rate. ThinkFluency is easy to use, provides instant results with data that is easy to download and share, and is perfect for RTI and showing student growth.

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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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Fostering Growth in a Collaborative Classroom

techlearning

Many K-12 educators find that collaboration is not a single skill but rather a combination of skills and abilities they need to drive student voice and choice to transform learning. It exposes students to a diversity of ideas and styles by fostering leadership skills and higher level thinking.