Mon.Aug 16, 2021

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Equipment You Need for Online Tutoring

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching during the pandemic has turned the iconic job of education on its head. Should you teach at home or in school–or with a hybrid approach? How can you be effective with the new rules required to ensure safety while maximizing the students’ educational journey? Is it safe to enter the classroom? You’ve never taught remotely before–how do you do that and still meet your school’s education standards and curricula?

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5 User-Centered Strategies: Connect with your community and build a better strategic plan

Education Elements

Your favorite apps that seem to make managing life easier, social media sites that connect you to stories that resonate, shopping at your favorite store, your go-to streaming service when you need to de-stress - sometimes it feels like these things were built in a way that just ‘gets you.’. This didn’t happen by accident; this happened by design.

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Go Back To School With Flocabulary

Teacher Tech

Melody McAllister invites you to check out Flocabulary by Nearpod to ramp up your students academic vocabulary this year! The post Go Back To School With Flocabulary appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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3 ways to build better edtech processes for teaching and learning

eSchool News

The pandemic forced a significant shift from traditional classrooms to virtual and hybrid teaching environments–often before schools and districts were ready. It quickly became apparent that reliable virtual learning tools were a must-have for teachers to be productive. However, classroom technology is only valuable if it builds a positive learning environment.

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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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Here Is How to Make Your Preferred Font The Default Font in Google Docs

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After we have seen how to insert a wide variety of fonts from Google Fonts into Google Docs, I am showing you how to change Docs default font into your preferred font, a tip I learned from Online.read more.

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TEACHER VOICE: We’ll need a lot more than academics to help students recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

This year will be like no other when it comes reengaging students in learning. Educators — working with parents and the community — are now planning how to close gaps in learning to get students on grade level. But job one is to address the social, emotional and physical issues that will make academic learning more challenging if they are not met, particularly for the students who have fallen most behind.

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PROOF POINTS: When remedial education gets woven into class time

The Hechinger Report

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Should they step back or proceed ahead? Should math teachers start fourth grade, for example, by reviewing important third grade topics such as multiplication and fractions? Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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An Excerpt From Pedagogy Of The Oppressed by Paulo Freire

TeachThought - Learn better.

Paulo Freire's education philosophy saw education as an active process of intellectual, sociological, and political assimilation. The post An Excerpt From Pedagogy Of The Oppressed by Paulo Freire appeared first on TeachThought.

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Alabama Expands Use of LETRS Professional Learning Course Statewide

eSchool News

BOSTON (Aug. 16, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that all schools throughout Alabama can now boost literacy instruction via LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning. This professional learning experience provides the knowledge and tools for successfully applying the science of reading in classrooms.

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K-12 Vaccine Mandates: What Educators Need to Know

techlearning

Opposition to vaccination mandates from K-12 teachers is decreasing and a small number of school districts have already begun implementing them.

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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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Here’s why out-of-school time learning programs need federal funding

eSchool News

With the allocation of over $15 billion from the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ARPA/ESSER III) to Texas public education, including almost $3 billion for out-of-school time learning, we find it imperative that afterschool and summer programs in the Central Texas region receive the funding they need to continue providing and expanding learning recovery opportunities.

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Prepping for My Next Google Classroom

MiddleWeb

Want to keep content from last year’s digital classes while at the same time close down your prior students’ access? Follow along as NBCT Kathleen Palmieri shows how she’s organizing her files and folders to prep a fresh Google Classroom space as the new school year begins. The post Prepping for My Next Google Classroom first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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What’s New ~ August 2021

myViewBoard

Dear reader, we understand a lot of schools are on their summer break now, so if you haven’t already, why not take a moment to relax and reflect? Maybe with a glass of vino? Recently we’ve been working on some updates coming toward the end of the year, therefore not a lot of major items to report this month – so if you decide to skip reading this one, we won’t get too upset about it…but you will miss out on some cool tips and tricks.

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What is AnswerGarden and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks

techlearning

AnswerGarden is a word cloud tool that makes classroom questions and answers quick and easy to use.

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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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How Your Kids Can Have Fun Without Stressing You Out

MindShift

Admitting this makes me feel like a bad mom, but it’s the truth: I don’t enjoy “kid-friendly” places. At birthday parties, zoos and play areas, I’m either completely bored or utterly overstimulated. The noise, the lights, the chaos! After an hour or two, I’d leave, say, the children’s science museum exhausted, on edge and feeling like a small piece of my soul had died back at the snack bar after spending $10 on a slice of cheese pizza.

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Understanding – and Teaching – Critical Race Theory

techlearning

Critical race theory needs to be understood and taught in context

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Think Exam: Question Types

Think Exam

TE offers 13 Question Types This diverse range of question types is suitable for creating any sort of test and[.].

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Tech & Learning Announces New Leadership Regional Summit Series

techlearning

Our live summits are back in person this fall

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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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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Catlin Tucker

Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices. These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning.

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The Collapse of China’s Online Tutoring Industry Is Taking American Educators Down With It

Edsurge

The sky was still pitch-black when Anna Whitehead rose from bed to begin teaching for the day. It’s a routine she has grown accustomed to over the past two years—waking up around 4:40 a.m. and logging on, bleary-eyed, to teach English to a cadre of children in China. Except this time, on Aug. 5, the routine was interrupted. Whitehead, who on top of being an online English-language tutor works full-time as a high school teacher in a traditional classroom in Alabama, had received a frantic text fr

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was the end of the school day at Ashley Park PreK-8, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the yellow buses were just pulling up in front of the red brick building. The kindergartners, with their cartoon backpacks and cornrows, filed out first, followed by the first through fifth graders. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the

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K-8 or Middle School: What Works for Early Adolescents Depends on Many Factors

MindShift

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was the end of the school day at Ashley Park PreK-8, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the yellow buses were just pulling up in front of the red brick building. The kindergartners, with their cartoon backpacks and cornrows, filed out first, followed by the first through fifth graders. Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children.

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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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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Using a computer program called Pixton, they built cartoon panels, one of a girl waving goodbye to her teacher, clueless that it would be months before they were back in the classroom; another of two friends standing six feet apart