Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

“The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.”- Blaise Pascal. People around the world celebrate Valentine’s Day! It’s a holiday that inspires our learners to let friends, family members, and loved ones know how much they care about them by sending cute cards and sweets. However, you can also inspire students to learn grammar, math, geography, science, and more with the 14 Valentine’s Day inspired activities below.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Marc Prensky said: Let’s admit that the real reason we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would “vote with their attention,” just as adults “vote with their feet” by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling. Why shouldn’t our students have the same option with their education when educators fail to deliver compelling content?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Education is one of the key sectors that has hugely benefited from the influx of web technologies and digital media. New forms of learning and teaching have seen the light while old ones have.read more.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Will Richardson said: More than, what, 90% of what we currently teach and talk about … is quickly forgotten once the next topic in the pacing guide comes up. Climate change, literacy, fake news, #metoo, what it means to be a citizen in a democracy, racism, income gaps, privacy, future jobs, AI, cryptocurrency… We can make that list of things that really matter today (or probably will matter in the future) a mile long.

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Personalized Learning

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

What does it mean to make learning personal? It’s no secret that teachers take their jobs personally. It’s how they build relationships with students and their families. It’s why they hone and tailor their craft to meet each child’s unique needs, strengths and interests. But don’t just take our word for it. For the past three years, we’ve asked educators from every state to share, in their own words, how they make learning personal.

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Teacher Tech

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Do It In Google Slides Rather than using a Google Doc can I encourage you to consider Google Slides instead? What can you do in a Google Doc that you can not do in Google Slides? I think Slides kicks it up a notch. If a student needs help on question #7 you need to […]. The post Google Slides to Link Help and Feedback appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

KeepVid Video Converter is a software program that allows you to convert media files from and to different formats. The process is simple and easy. You can either user the online converter directly.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Welcome to the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members, for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an educational support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students each and every day in your… The post Social Movements and the Classroom: A Conversation with TJ Whitaker appeared first on TeacherCast.

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My Island View

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

I recently attended FETC, which is considered to be an annual, premiere, national education conference. The vendor floor consisted of hundreds of companies hawking their wares to an audience of educators, many of whom are recipients of an education that was limited in its exposure to the advantages of today’s technology. That will probably always be true of educators, when we consider the rapid rate of change that occurs in technology on an ongoing basis.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

As our upper school teachers start the process of using Canvas at our school, the tech department has started meeting with them to help them create their courses. Our CTO found a really great Canvas "how to" course in the Commons area of Canvas and we are having our teachers go through these modules and submit assignments throughout the process. The wonderful thing about this is that the process actually leads to the creation of their own courses at the same time.

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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.

Training

SpeechTechie

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Some years ago at the ASHA Convention, I saw in the program a poster entitled "A Cat In Therapy: Cute, but Effective?" I thought this title intriguing and at the same time, funny, and I was sad to have not been able to locate the poster. Fiete Cats AR ($1.99) gives you the opportunity to test this proposition out. AR--Augmented Reality-- is technology that overlays digital content over our world, often through the camera.

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Reflections

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

After nearly 26 years in this field, I still feel like a novice. As a teacher, I always wondered if I was doing my best. I moved into administration and realized the work I had been so quick to evaluate as a teacher was even harder to do as an administrator. I've had the honor of serving in positions in many different levels and know that each has its benefits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Day 30 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. They thought the painting was worthless. No one liked it. So, it had been sitting in Mom’s basement for years. Ned, Roger and Steven Landau thought the painting was creepy but decided not to sell it at the garage sale because they thought it might be worth a few hundred dollars.

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