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JULY 2, 2016

SAT Scores: A New Number. Have you ever wondered how to achieve higher SAT scores? I had the pleasure to interview Shaan Patel, founder of 2400 Expert SAT Prep (renamed Prep Expert this weekend) and winner on ABC’s Shark Tank. Mark Cuban signed a deal with Shaan just in time for the release of the new SAT. Big changes abound for the new SAT, and many are beneficial for incoming college students.

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JULY 2, 2016

Chromebooks have displaced iPads as the most popular new devices shipping to U.S. schools. The $199 and up Chromebooks have gone from absolutely no market share to now taking more than a quarter of the educational market – and all in just two years. By the end of 2016, schools are predicted to have more Chromebooks than iPads distributed across their student population.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

Abdullahi Ibrahim, right, helps Zeynab Warsame fill out an evaluation form after a parent conference session in Syracuse City School District in New York. Ibrahim is a nationality worker for the district who helps interpret into and out of Somali. Photo: Tara García Mathewson. SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Dadhi Dahal first came to the United States in early 2009, the Bhutanese population in Syracuse, New York was quite small — the first refugees from Bhutan, fleeing ethnic cleansing policies in t

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 2, 2016

July 2, 2016 Book Review Template is an excellent tool from ReadWriteThink that allows students to easily create and share book reviews. As a teacher you may want to use this template to encourage.read more.

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JULY 2, 2016

In order to prepare students to apply rigorous learning to new and real-world situations, educators must provide opportunities that foster critical and creative thinking, communication and collaboration. Importance of Global Collaborations Common Core State Standards demand students to collaborate with diverse partners , thereby expanding students' global awareness.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 2, 2016

July 2, 2016 Below is a collection of some very good iPad apps that are free today. Some of the things that you can do with these apps include: save web content in PDF format and share it with.read more.

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The Electric Educator

JULY 2, 2016

The Chromebook Classroom by John R. Sowash For the past year I have been working on my first book - The Chromebook Classroom. I'm excited to announce the launch of the book and provide readers of my blog an opportunity to download a free excerpt! The Chromebook launched in 2009, and it was horrible! I was an early user of the first Chromebook, the CR-48.

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Reading By Example

JULY 2, 2016

I enjoy watching baseball. In particular, I try to catch the Milwaukee Brewers when televised and I am free. There is so much strategy involved: When to hit away, when to steal a base, when to pitch inside. Every action has a potential impact on the final outcome. Image Source: Wikipedia. Baseball is an imperfect game in which, like other sports, the participants are always striving for perfection.

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Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

Virtual reality is, once again, being heralded as a technology poised to transform education. I say “once again” because virtual reality has long been associated with such promises. VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offers the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widesp

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The 21st Century Principal

JULY 2, 2016

It seems new Secretary of Education, John King seeks to continue the same reliance on test scores and superficial ratings systems to determine how effective schools are doing that his predecessor Arne Duncan pushed. From his recent remarks, King wants to force states into using a "A-F Rating system" (or something similar) to rate the effectiveness of schools, which happens to be the same nonsensical idea that the North Carolina Legislature and North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has imposed on p

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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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