EdTech Magazine
MAY 16, 2018
Higher Education and K–12 Form Partnerships to Help Educators and Learners. jena.passut_7651. Wed, 05/16/2018 - 10:46. When K–12 schools need help, they often find it with higher education experts. And just as often, colleges benefit as much as the schools. That’s what Megan Tolin found when several schools approached her department for help with successful practices for blended learning.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 16, 2018
Carrie Pierce on episode 313 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Eighth-grade teacher Carrie Pierce uses discovery and inquiry-based learning in her classroom (and no textbooks.) Dig into how she makes math marvelous! Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 16, 2018
When a larger company wants to purchase a startup, it can be overwhelming for an entrepreneur to keep the business running smoothly. Here are some ways to make this process easier. The post Step By Step Advice to Avoid Painful Startup Acquisitions and Get Through Due Diligence appeared first on Market Brief.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 16, 2018
Daily Fitness Challenges, a Fun Sweepstakes, and a Way to Link to Parents for Healthy Lifestyle Choices From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We need promote healthy lifestyles for our students. The program fit 4Schools from Sanford Health, collaborating with WebMD is just that program. In this post, I’m going to tell you about the fit 4Schools, a daily program you can use in your classroom to boost fitness, and an awesome contest that you can enter to
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Education Elements
MAY 16, 2018
In the three-plus years since introducing Personalized Learning (PL) in individual schools within a large public school system, the Imaginarium, Denver Public Schools’ (DPS) innovation lab, has been studying the conditions that help and hinder the implementation of PL at scale.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. Now, more than two years later, New Markets is finally calling it a wrap. Its latest fund, dubbed “New Markets Education Partners II,” formally and finally closed on April 30, totalling $68 million.
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MiddleWeb
MAY 16, 2018
Teaching students to eagerly revise their first drafts is "the Mt. Everest of writing instruction," says renowned author Ruth Culham. The originator of the 6+1 Writing Traits program argues convincingly that revision must be the primary focus of the writing curriculum.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
For better or worse, another school year is winding down. For school leaders who have been hoping to kick off a new, student-centered approach to teaching, that means you have to act fast. The whole idea of student-centered, personalized learning may seem like a long and daunting task—and perhaps it is—but there is one small step that can lay the groundwork for a culture of generativity.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 16, 2018
102 Brain-Based Learning Resources For, Well, Brain-Based Teaching contributed by Sara Bass Researchers in neuroscience, psychology and education are uncovering new information about how brains learn best at an unbelievable pace. We have more insight into the brain’s learning processes than at any other moment in history, and we are poised on the brink of […].
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. When I attend professional gatherings on open education, however, instructors like myself are often the minority.
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
MAY 16, 2018
Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Now, a new report seeks to apply a common definition to personalized learning and outline best practices for educators to advocate for the practice in their districts.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 16, 2018
Comic strips can be a great way to engage students in a wide variety of multimedia enriched learning activities. Using group work, you can assign each group with a writing or digital story telling.read more.
eSchool News
MAY 16, 2018
The great thing about informal assessments is they help us gauge students’ understanding during the learning process instead of after. Informal assessment also changes teachers’ relationship to student learning. Through informal assessment, a teacher becomes a guide throughout the learning process, rather than the judge of the student’s final product.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 16, 2018
The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide by Terry Heick There’s a lot of dialogue right now about the dreaded summer slide. Lots of scary statistics, technology layers, and socioeconomic concerns. Tips, resources, ideas, and strategies to reduce the impact of students being away from the classroom all summer. This is a topic that […]. The post The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide appeared first on TeachThought.
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.
TeacherCast
MAY 16, 2018
In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we pay tribute to the anniversary of the passing of the late great Jim Henson. The post The History of Puppets in Education: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jim Henson #PuppetsEDU appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.
Teacher Tech
MAY 16, 2018
A Whiteboard Per Group Sometimes the best tech is no tech. I love technology but students should also touch other things besides a screen. They should be moving around. However, the layout of the room has a big impact on how and if students are collaborating and discussing. I’ve proven this to myself time and […]. The post Rolling Whiteboards – Get Kids Discussing appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Reading, writing and AI—that turned out to be the winning combination for startup, WriteLab. Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. (There’s an additional payment of $5 million to key employees over the next three years, assuming they stay.) WriteLab was founded in 2013 by Matthew Ramirez, then a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley and Donald McQuade, a long-time English professor at the same school.
Learning in Hand
MAY 16, 2018
The last time I posted something like this was March 17, 2006. In Wish Me Luck I wrote about informing my principal that I was leaving my school at the conclusion of the school year. I loved teaching at that school, so it was a very difficult decision to leave. It turns out I had an amazing 12 years of being self-employed. I’ve traveled to just about every state, several countries, and the Caribbean to work with teachers.
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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
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 16, 2018
Here are two more tools to enhance teachers communication with students parents. Using these tools you will be able to engage parents in their kids learning and create a supportive class.read more.
ProfHacker
MAY 16, 2018
One of the perks of working at a very large university is the extensiveness of the faculty development network: my current institution, UCF, hosts more events and workshops than anyone could possibly attend. I admit that during the school year as my workload has crept up, quicksand style, to envelop my weeks I rarely take advantage of these sorts of discussions.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2018
Writing curriculum is one of the most exciting activities in education. Ok, you’re laughing, aren’t you? I know that most educators may not believe this is true, mainly because of their past experiences developing curriculum. However, in today’s educational world, we have so many new tools and resources to make learning engaging and fun for students that building curriculum CAN actually be fun and rewarding.
Fractus Learning
MAY 16, 2018
History Of Board Games What is the first board game you can remember playing? What is your favorite board game? Is it Monopoly, Chinese Checkers, Chess, Risk, or a more ancient game like Backgammon or Snakes […].
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.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2018
BOSTON – May 15, 2018 – Mentoring Minds , national publisher of critical thinking-focused educational resources,today announced four of its rigorous, research-based resources, Total Motivation ELA and Total Motivation Math for Georgia ,and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Mastery Series for Math and English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) are winners ofthe 2018 Academics’ Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys
The Hechinger Report
MAY 16, 2018
An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. MARKS, Miss. — Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign, conceived by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a means to advocate for equality and opportunity, was launched in Mississippi, defiantly, in the weeks after his assassination. A half-century later, countless retrospectives often present the tumultuous spring of 1968 as the closing of the Civil Rights era.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2018
Two and a half years ago we had the opportunity to see Google Expeditions first hand in our schools as we were one of the few lucky districts that were chosen to participate in the pioneer program for the highly anticipated virtual reality tours. This was an awe inspiring experience for both our students and staff. Engagement couldn’t have been higher during these tours and lessons for this event.
Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous
MAY 16, 2018
I am so excited to share that this was the very first year our school was served by an amazing program called Books for Keeps. This non-profit group was founded by Melaney Smith and gives 12 new books to every student in 12 of our 14 elementary schools in Clarke County. They also serve schools outside of Athens as well. It takes a massive effort in fundraising, grant writing, and volunteer hours to make this happen in each school.
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.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2018
Misty Robotics announces the Misty II robot, a programmable and affordable personal robot made for developers, makers and STEM educators/students. With Misty II, educators and students can explore: Face/object detection and recognition (for a few students or a whole class) Computer mapping and navigation Human-computer interaction (How can you make Misty express joy or curiosity?
The Innovative Educator
MAY 16, 2018
This is the time of year when the tests are behind students and the fun begins. Teachers are free to liberate their student’s genius and allow them to Choose2Matter by engaging in work that is worthy of the world. Angela Maiers says that learners who believe they have unique abilities early on will be more likely than others to: Harness their talents more quickly Develop self-confidence and a belief that they can succeed Maintain their optimism and confidence under stress Learn to rely on themse
Tech Helpful
MAY 16, 2018
I've been at school since 6:45am. I was anxious about my morning and the lofty goals I had. It's now 10:00am and I am basking in the glory of positive completion! This morning ended a 9 week elective opportunity for students that signed up for the "Lower School Tech Team" elective. This team has worked for 9 weeks to create an Escape Room opportunity for the lower school teachers that taught them about STEAM tools.
techlearning
MAY 16, 2018
This week the #NYCSchoolsTech Team brought innovative educators a chance to hear directly from “The Big Three: Apple, Google, and Microsoft” (listed alphabetically). During this day-long event at state-of-the-art #NYCSchoolsTech center, educators from across the city came together to learn first-hand which is best for their schools. School Platform Preference #NYCSchoolsTech leader JoJo Farrell got the day started by asking educators to stand up if they were primarily: A) Apple school.
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