The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
10MT: Sylvia Duckworth on the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sylvia Duckworth (@ sylviaduckworth ) is a leading sketch note artist in education today. Her new book Sketchnotes for Educators: 100 Inspiring Illustrations for Lifelong Learners is a MUST BUY for every teacher and administrator.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A survey finds that students want to keep learning once they are home; here’s how digital tools can help.
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Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
On February 3, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rescinded a report issued two weeks earlier that examined the progress of E‐rate since the modernization orders of 2014 were passed. The American Library Association rightly decried this act as censorship , designed to obscure the public record. To that end, and in the public interest, I am making the January 2017 E-rate Modernization Progress Report ( DOC-343099A1.pdf ) available on this site in its entirety.
Ditch That Textbook
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Watch a video. Move definitions around to match their term. Jump to an article online. Get instant feedback to a multiple choice question. Student-centered learning lets kids get right to work and take control. It also lets the teacher connect and help with students one on one. That student-centered learning is at the heart of [.].
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Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
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Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Learn by doing — it’s a well-worn mantra, and sometimes it works. But after you’ve learned to do something, how do you learn to do it better? For teachers, who still work mostly in isolation, the risk of hitting a plateau — of doing, but not growing, or of getting stuck in a bad habit of practice — is high.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
February 7, 2017 Below is a chart we have been working on during the last few weeks. It features a number of key websites and online resources arranged into different categories. We did not.read more.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
When one thinks of community colleges, one often pictures students, both young and young-at-heart, looking to hone skills to prepare them for further schooling or career opportunities. Yet a sometimes overlooked part of that community are local companies and businesses that hope—and need—to find skilled workers. In an age of anxiety over economic and employment uncertainty, fueled in part by the fears around automation, community college leaders believe they can improve the bridge that connects
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
No matter what subject or topic an educator is teaching, sometimes the best way we can approach an instructional challenge is by taking a step back to look at the big picture of learning. In order to learn skills such as sentence fluency or multiplication, students need to develop the brain functions that will first enable them to focus on tasks and retain information.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Yet throughout the two-day gathering of entrepreneurs, researchers and educators, keynote speakers urged attendees to curb their enthusiasm, and evaluate the edtech landscape with a sense of cautious optimism.
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.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
[ Editor’s Note: This article is Part 2 of our 3-part series on information literacy. For Alan November’s Part 1 article, click here. Check back soon for Part 3.]. Nearly half of librarians in a recent survey said their libraries do not advocate for information literacy as much as they should. The ProQuest survey of 217 librarians from higher education, K-12 schools and public libraries reveals that while 83 percent said information literacy has a large impact on college graduation r
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Google Apps: Create a Copy for EACH Class If you teach multiple sections of the same class you might find yourself making a copy of a collaborative template for each class. This can be tedious. CopyDocs for Classes My Add-on script CopyDocs for Classes does the hard work for you. Simply pick the Google Docs, Sheets, […]. The post Google Apps: Create a Copy for EACH Class appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
February 6, 2017 We have been receiving several requests from some of our readers asking for educational apps to use on Android devices. The chart below is a good place to start with. This is a.read more.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
An overexcitability (OE) is a marker of giftedness and can help alert parents and teachers to giftedness in a child (Winebrenner, Brulles, 2012). Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902–1980), whose work laid the foundation of today’s OE research, established five OE categories to describe these innate intensities: emotional, imaginational, intellectual, psychomotor, and sensual.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The post When We Don’t Cultivate Our Most Gifted Students appeared first on TeachThought.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Luz Pineda, who works full-time, is a senior at California State University, Northridge. Balancing the demands of work and school has been a challenge that leaves her little time for anything else, including sleep. Photo: Courtesy of Mimi Pineda. California State University, Northridge is one of the most diverse schools in the nation. But roughly half of its students don’t graduate in six years, and many never receive a degree.
The Principal of Change
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
I had the honour to be able to keynote the “ Arts Integration Conference “, an online conference focusing on the importance of arts in education (hint…it’s very important). I was asked to prepare an online keynote discussing “ The Innovator’s Mindset “, and wanted to share it below. I focus on the importance of “innovating inside of the box”, taking advantages of the tools that we have to paint the canvas of a student’s mind, and conti
ProfHacker
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Given that it was barely two weeks ago that I recommended decluttering one’s gadgets , it might seem odd for me to keep multiple email applications on my phone, but I do. There’s a reason for that. In an effort to maintain some semblance of work-life balance , I’ve turned off all email notifications on my phone (even icon badges — I don’t want my email checking me ), and I make it a point not to check work email after early evening.
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MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Imagine an intentional, coordinated schoolwide work ethics program that’s consistent across subjects and grade levels. What a difference that could make now and in the future, says STEM expert Anne Jolly, who shares the key traits and how to begin to grow them.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Check out today's Maps Mania's blog post "News on the Map" HERE. I added the four interactive maps mentioned to our News LibGuide. Thank you for these fantastic resources! Our students will make good use of them. ( ◕‿◕ ✿ ) about.me [ Subscribe ] This post was originally published at mauilibrarian2 in Olinda.
Shake Up Learning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The post Google Teacher Tribe Podcast | Episode 3 The New Google Sites appeared first on Shake Up Learning. All About the New Google Sites in Episode 3 of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast. In this episode, Matt and I discuss the new version of Google Sites, what we like, what we don’t, and ways to use it in the classroom. We also have some Google news and updates to share, and some great resources from our blogs.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
As a mom and a daycare provider, I have purchased several different baby monitors over the last few years. I have found different features to be helpful at different times with both infants and toddlers. One of the most surprising things for me is how helpful having a baby monitor has been with toddlers, long past the age anyone would call them a baby.
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.
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Science and Social Studies assessments can be difficult for students with language difficulties. In this video you will learn how to use Voice Note and Screen Mask to help students scribe in a Google Doc with Read&Write for Google.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
This interactive map with timeline links will allow students to explore the history of Hispanic people in the Americas including South America, Central America, Mexico, California, New York, Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The rise of digital media is significantly changing how we teach and learn about history. Take a look at Twitter during an international crisis, and you'll see we now have instant access to a diversity of firsthand accounts as history is made. And with the click of a mouse, we can browse digital archives with text, images, audio, video, and other media that have been socked away in attics, art museums, and library basements for decades -- even centuries.
The Electric Educator
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Google Voice, an absolutely awesome product, has FINALLY gotten and update. The Voice mobile app (iOS and Android) got a visual update to to match Google's Material Design standard. Is this an important update? No.but yes. The update doesn't provide any [major] new functions or features, but it means that Voice is NOT DEAD! Voice has not been updated in years.
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.
SETDA Says
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), the principal membership association representing U.S. state and territorial digital learning leaders released the following statement of. read more.
IT Bill
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Vast word reference features tons of content and word games.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she couldn’t fight the feeling that as much as she loved teaching math, she also loved doing math, so she went back to get her Ph.D. in mathematics and is now a professor at the University of Hawaii.
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