Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Vicki Davis is a teacher, author, podcaster, tweeter, blogger, international presenter, and so much more. I admire her podcasts and posts so was honored when she invited me to chat with her on her podcast, the 10-Minute Teacher. The topic is one dear to my heart: How to use technology to teach writing in creative ways. Click the image below to access her post where you can listen to the podcast or read the transcript–whichever works better for you.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Day 20 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The trees grew long and tall in the protected biodome. Scientists marveled at their beauty, rapid growth, and height. There was only one problem. The trees were weak. They were weak because there was no wind in the biodome. The biodome was protective, so no storm ever battered these trees.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 23, 2018

The benefits of a second round through an ed-tech accelerator are exponential. The post Accelerating Your Startup More Than Once Boosts Learning and Success appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Micah Brown on episode 237 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Virtual Valentines are an incredible global project in February. If you want to join a group of teachers doing Virtual Valentines, you’ll want to listen to the show and sign up by February 2. Also, learn about other projects throughout the year and how teachers design these projects to meet standards.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2018

Oregon School District Comes Through Data Center Disaster with New Plan. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:26. Thanks to a continuity of operations plan, Beaverton School District officials are now ready for anything. Video ID. 1353495978. video type. Case Study. CDW VV2 Strategy. Data Center. CDW Segment. K-12. Customer Focused. True. Jan. 23. 2018.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 23, 2018

Do you know the fable about the gardener and the butterfly? One day a gardener comes across a butterfly cocoon, hanging from a leaf. The sunlight is directly behind the cocoon, and the gardener can clearly see the shape of the young butterfly within. He notices it is squirming and moving, he perceives the butterfly to be struggling to emerge. After another couple of minutes, feeling sorry for the creature, he carefully makes a small tear in the delicate housing of the cocoon, hoping to ease the

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

To date, educators have enjoyed most of Google’s G Suite for Education applications—which include Site, Mail and Classroom—for free. Those tools will continue to be available gratis, but Google is seeking to generate more revenue from its education offerings. That’s why the company’s announcing new add-on tools for school administrators that come at a price.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2018

By Amy Brown Here's a simple primer for those attending FETC this year.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 23, 2018

6 Golden Rules For Engaging Students by TeachThought Staff If the mind of a student isn’t engaged, understanding and content mastery don’t stand a chance; If the mind and heart together aren’t engaged, long-term retention and transfer of understanding and content mastery are unlikely as well. The accompanying graphic does a good job of representing both […].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Huyen Le and her daughter Katelynn Trinh. Through “nudges” via texts, Le gets reminded of activities to do with Katelynn that enhance her learning. Photo: Courtesy of Huyen Le. Tending toddlers can require endless reserves of energy. Just ask Huyen Le, supervisor of a family resource center in San Jose, California. After a full day’s work managing children’s reading programs and parenting workshops, she returns home to her own two-year-old daughter, Katelynn.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Many colleges these days are experimenting with short-form online degrees to try to reach new audiences and offer new options, often at a lower cost. And new upstart providers are also getting into the mix, including coding bootcamps and startups like Udacity, which offers unaccredited nanodegrees. These trends raise a host of questions about the future of credentialing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tiana Young is a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where a racist Facebook post from a student in the alt-right group Turning Point left the African-American community shaken and frustrated by the school’s lack of public response. Photo: Stuart Miller for The Hechinger Report. TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was not Tiana Young’s first choice for college, even though Young wants to dual major in aeronautical and mechanical engineering, and the private university i

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 23, 2018

The visual below is based on the post we published earlier today titled 'Some of The Best Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers'. The post features over 20 web tools together with their.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

As classrooms becoming increasingly digital, the role of teachers is bound to change. Stock photo/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Advances in technology have meant a world of change in schools.

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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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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 23, 2018

Try These 5 Keyboard Shortcuts I recommend you learn one keyboard shortcut a week. Here are 5 lesser known shortcuts to get you through the next 5 weeks. Chromebook Shortcuts Control Shift Windows Switcher key: Take a partial screenshot. Hold down the Ctrl key and the Shift key. Press the key which looks like a […]. The post 5 Keyboard Shortcuts to Try appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

2U said yesterday that it had formed a partnership with shared workspace company, WeWork. Any of the 13,000 students enrolled in the graduate degree programs that 2U hosts will be able to use the WeWork offices for free. It’s the second deal cut by 2U chief executive, Chip Paucek, within the last 18 months, and it’s one he hopes will give a boost to both 2U students--and to his company.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 23, 2018

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we take a look at 5 things you and your students can do with video in the first few weeks of school. Our guest today is 8th-grade technology teacher Bruce Reicher from New Jersey and together, we break down how to use video in your curriculum, different types of equipment you might be interested in using, our favorite apps, and the all important question, "how do you create live morning announcements for your school?".

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 23, 2018

There are different assessment types teachers use to inform and guide their instruction, of particular important to us in today’s post is the one called formative assessment. Unlike pre-assessment.read more.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 23, 2018

Welcome to the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education 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… The post The Maker Movement: Learning How To Bring Maker Spaces Into Your Classrooms appeared first on TeacherCast.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2018

Lately, technology additions in classrooms have focused on providing each student with his or her own laptop; for many schools, it’s become the new normal to issue every student a Chromebook. This has been a great step forward in advancing how students learn, with more interactive content on Google Classroom, video materials, and document sharing. At the same time, the screen-focused atmosphere has stunted the growth of small-group collaboration in classrooms.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

This is the first post in our 3-part series discussing techniques teachers can use to unleash their students’ full potential. As the number of new international schools continues to grow, schools are tasked with redefining student success with metrics that go beyond test scores, and focus more on qualitative competition. This post will focus on the importance of reorienting education from knowledge acquisition to skill mastery, making what students learn at school more relevant to their lives ou

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MindShift

JANUARY 23, 2018

Excerpted from THE DEEPEST WELL: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris. Copyright © 2018 by Nadine Burke Harris. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. [Dr. Vincent] Felitti suspected that he might have glimpsed a hidden relationship between histories of abuse and obesity.

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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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techieMusings

JANUARY 23, 2018

I am excited to be at the FETC Conference this week. There are so many awesome friends I’m looking forward to catching up with and the expo hall is always amazing – I know I’ll learn so much from the vendors! While at FETC, I’ll have two sharing opportunities. I wanted to share the resources I’ve put together for those presentations. You can find my full poster here: Leveraging Technology to Build Strong Relationships in Online Teaching (featuring Pear Deck, Flipgrid, Zoom, and Socratic) .

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 23, 2018

It was a blessing to be able to connect with Jam Gamble on her podcast (coming out soon) talking about speaking this morning. Jam is one of those people that just has a way of making you feel better about yourself only by being in her presence, which is a fantastic (and rare) gift to have. One of the things that we talked about is the connection between being a good teacher and a good speaker.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 23, 2018

Middle grade students crave role models and great stories. Author visits provide both in a very tangible way. Learn how media specialist & NBCT Christina Dorr arranges a steady stream of tween and young adult novelists through her school and read 10 tips for doing it yourself!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2018

Today’s K-12 schools are facing a complex web of needs, technologies, and regulations. Digital transformation has led to an expectation by students and faculty of constant connectivity to their school’s web assets. In response, schools have been incorporating programs that allow for more devices and a more web-focused curriculum. These services are critical, but they come at a great cost.

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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.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2018

What will it take to bridge the digital divide? That’s the question that inspires us at EducationSuperHighway, and it’s one that, for years, students, teachers, school district leaders and policymakers nationwide have been trying to answer. And although there are many mechanisms in place to accomplish that goal, none has been nearly as instrumental as the FCC’s E-rate program.

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MindShift

JANUARY 23, 2018

Tending toddlers can require endless reserves of energy. Just ask Huyen Le, supervisor of a family resource center in San Jose, California. After a full day’s work managing children’s reading programs and parenting workshops, she returns home to her own two-year-old daughter, Katelynn. “We do a lot in our center. Sometimes, I forget to do it with my kid at home,” Le says.

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Edthena

JANUARY 23, 2018

In a world where recording and uploading a social network video, a 60-minute classroom video needs to be as easy to capture and upload as a 60-second Snap. Today we’re getting one step closer. We’ve developed a one-click video record and upload solution for Google Chrome to support professional development for teachers. The new video tool runs inside the web browser many teachers use and on the devices they already have.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 23, 2018

A district technology leader attending the FETC conference this week explains how he chooses among Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products. The post District Tech Chief Weighs Options in Choosing Among K-12 Tech Titans appeared first on Market Brief.

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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