EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

ICE 2019: Will K–12 Students Be Ready for the Technology of the Future? eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/27/2019 - 16:18. Looking back to 18 years ago, many would have been hard-pressed then to believe the capabilities of the technology available today. “It’s really about perspective,” said Eric Patnoudes, the director of strategic initiatives at Otus and a featured speaker at the 2019 Illinois Computing Educators conference.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Teachers are constantly engaging with others—students, parents, and colleagues—yet they are the only ones with a complete understanding of their classrooms and practices. As a result, being a teacher can be lonely. I taught at a small school. I loved my colleagues on my social studies team; we shared resources and supported each other. Still, if I wanted to integrate new ideas into my curriculum, I usually had to do a lot of the heavy lifting myself.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

David Gann on episode 449 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter David Gann, Professor of Innovation and Technology Management, shares what his research has shown about playful learning in the business world and classroom. This is a great show for those who think “play” is a bad word and to realize that play is applicable at all levels of success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One of the biggest problems facing digital natives as they grow into adults is understanding how to maneuver the vastness of the Internet ethically, safely, and to serve their needs. It sounds simple–log on, search, enjoy–but let’s equate this to a shopping mall. You enter the wide, inviting front doors, find the store with the product you need, and then must pay for it.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

ICE 2019: What Does It Take to Start an Esports Team? eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/27/2019 - 10:58. All it takes to kick off an esports team in a K–12 school or district is a dedicated internal champion, proponents advised this week at the 2019 Illinois Computing Educators conference. . “You need passion, organization, a lifelong learner,” said Joe McAllister, CDW•G learning environment advisor, while presenting on the topic at ICE’s annual event.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Empathy, the ability to understand others and feel compassion for them, is arguably the most defining human quality – setting us apart from smart machines and even other animals. Without it, we couldn’t function in social areas such as the schools, court rooms and office workplaces that are the cornerstones of our society.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“When I come to school I got hella things on my mind. Sometimes I don’t even sleep at night. I go hungry on purpose, cause I lose my appetite. I get to school and make myself angry. I was raised to live a lie. My older brother raised me, but he was doing drugs. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to talk it out. I hit myself. I may hit my best friend.

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

K-6 literacy coach and NBCT Paula Bourque brings an extra spark to quick-write activities, expanding the concept to include brief low-pressure assignments designed to ignite passion, creativity, and awareness in students and encourage them to become lifelong writers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning. Skeptics initially questioned the viability of the new model, wondering if it would provide the right levels of support, curriculum, and engagement needed to ensure student success. And while online learning has more than proven itself to be both an alternative to and complementary offering for traditional classroom instruction, some misconceptions still persist.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Augmented reality is a relatively new technology with some promising potential for education. The basic premise behind augmented reality is the extension of the physical world to include components.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Private equity firm Francisco Partners quietly announced last week that it led an investment round in Civitas Learning, an Austin, Texas-based education company best known for its predictive analytics software used in higher-ed institutions. Civitas did not disclose financial terms for its deal with Francisco Partners, which also owns Renaissance Learning and a majority stake in Discovery Education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

‘Undo Send’ is one of the excellent features we previously featured in Top Gmail Features for Teachers. Undo Send allows you to cancel a sent email immediately after it has been sent. What’s new.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! When patients arrive at a hospital with a complicated disease, they get a personalized treatment regimen designed to attack their specific illness.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In the wake of all-too-common school shootings, school and district leaders are confronted with decisions about how to prevent–or respond to–violent incidents. Some are turning to facial recognition in schools as a way to track visitors and keep schools safe. Technology is a double-edged sword, and it’s no different when applied to school security.

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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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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day 2019.  Join thousands of teachers and students celebrating DLDay in classrooms, libraries, schools, and districts across the country and mark your spot on the official DLDay map, adding to the more than 1,700 events present.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It all started with a little book called The Adventures of Joy Sun Bear : The Blue Amber of Sumatra. Creator and author Blanca Carranza wanted to share the world’s diverse cultures with students around the globe in a fun and engaging way. Now, Joy Sun Bear has grown into a positive, fun, and kid-safe online experience, whose mission is to teach students everywhere the joy of learning about the world’s diverse cultures.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Digital literacy is the ability to understand, use and interact with technology, media and digital resources in real-world situations. Jeff Meyer, Director of Education at Learning.com, during a recent edWebinar , underscored that while this generation of students is growing up using technology, they generally lack the digital literacy skills they need for success by the time they enter high school.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The Follett Challenge again is awarding $200,000 USD in products and services from Follett to the schools/districts that nominated their innovative educational programs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We're excited to announce our second Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Open Data," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 5th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Local, state and federal governments are releasing data - the public's data - in new ways. Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn and advocate for their c

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We set out to employ BYOD (bring your own devices) with augmented reality.

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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

To close out our recognition of #CTEMonth, Dr. Danielle Mezera, co-author of four of our five Career and Technical Education (CTE) Playbooks , shares one thing policymakers need to know about CTE. Check out the video below! Learn more about Career and Technical Education.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Spiral is a multiuse platform that allows teachers to create interactive learning experiences, pre-planned or on the fly.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Maybe you’ve heard of esports? It’s a $900 million industry with nearly 400 million viewers worldwide that is growing by leaps and bounds every year. You may have seen the photos of stadiums packed to the gills with crazed fans or photos of young high school- and college-aged players hoisting sparkling trophies high into the air as they pull in million-dollar prize purses.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The below lesson is only an outline meant to encourage deeper thinking about the 5E cycle.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Cambridge, MA— MIT is in the midst of a $1-billion effort to reshape how it teaches computer science, in what some say may be a model for other colleges. But the effort has has also drawn protests by some students and professors, who are questioning how well ethics will be integrated into the effort and are criticizing the influence of a controversial donor.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

. I met Ed Zigler, a Head Start founder and an extraordinary early childhood advocate, in 1993 when I joined the Clinton administration. My job as commissioner for children, youth and families, and later as assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, included overseeing the Head Start program and enacting a major Head Start expansion in the face of opposing arguments that the program didn’t work or should become a state block grant.

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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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