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8 Ways to Engage Every Learner [Free Webinar on Demand]

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As we prepare for school, learning the current best practices and edtech apps is a great way to get excited (and save time.) On Wednesday, July 28th at 11 am CDT (noon Eastern) and 4 pm UTC Pear Fair Back to School 2021 will kick-off. During the conference, I’m presenting a new presentation “8 Ways to Engage Every Learner.” The conference is free and you can register and see the schedule now.

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Networks Evolve to Support a Changing World

EdTech Magazine

Organizations have become more reliant on networking to help achieve both critical and aspirational objectives as they have struggled to maintain control, visibility and security amid a massive shift to remote work. These types of challenges are now not unusual, nor are they likely to be temporary. They have become the norm — defining features of the future of work, an environment which is decidedly a hybrid of both remote and in-person models.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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Magically Convert Google Docs to Slides

Teacher Tech

Like magic take any of your Google Docs and convert them to Google Slides!! This is going to be your new favorite Google Add-on. The post Magically Convert Google Docs to Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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5 must-haves for school makerspaces

eSchool News

School makerspaces have emerged as centers of creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and more. These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. These days, school libraries often include makerspaces and librarians are becoming well-versed in the coding, robotics, engineering, and tinkering skills necessary to help students bring their ideas to fruition.

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Free Educational Resources to Teach Students about Media Literacy

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Project Look Sharp is a platform that offers a wide variety of educational media literacy resources to "help K-16 educators enhance students’ critical thinking, metacognition, and civic engagement.read more.

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A Powerful Accessibility and Dyslexia Tool to Use with Your Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Helperbird is a good tool for students especially for those learners with Dyslexia and ADHD. It is a powerful extension that combines a number of features including dyslexia fonts, text to speech.read more.

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The Messy Business of Gradual Release (GRR)

MiddleWeb

Letting Go Is Messy will explore ins and outs of gradually releasing responsibility. Join literacy coaches Sunday Cummins and Julie Webb as they blog about strategies to help teachers make the critical decisions necessary to nurture each student’s sense of agency and identity. The post The Messy Business of Gradual Release (GRR) first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Pace of Mergers and Acquisitions in Education Market Jumps, New Analysis Finds

Marketplace K-12

K-12 media and tech overtook professional learning services as the education market segment with the highest activity, as acquisitions totaled nearly $20 billion in the first half of 2021. The post Pace of Mergers and Acquisitions in Education Market Jumps, New Analysis Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

In my last post , I shared news of the School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? , or SLIDE research project. The study emphasizes a critical equity issue: our most vulnerable students are those most impacted by a declining numbers of school librarians. I recently chatted with project director, Deb Kachel to dig a little deeper into what the study means and her hopes for its impact and 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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What is self-citation and what does it have to do with academic integrity?

Turnitin

?Self-citation is an act of academic integrity but when it is driven by the impact factor calculation, it may venture into self-promotion

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How I ditched my teacher desk—and why you might want to get rid of yours, too

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Meagan Kimm. . What is something that teachers don’t have enough of? Time? Money? Support? Yes, to all the above, but today’s topic is about something else we are often lacking … space. Teaching comes with a lot of stuff. You have textbooks and their accompanying teacher’s editions, math manipulatives, art supplies, and a years’ worth of tissue boxes to store.

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Best Free Virtual Labs

techlearning

Virtual labs are not just a pandemic thing.

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Everyone Should Wear A Mask In Schools, Vaccinated Or Not, U.S. Pediatricians Say

MindShift

The American Academy of Pediatrics released updated guidance for schools Monday, recommending that all students over 2 years old, along with staff, wear masks, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The new AAP guidance comes less than two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its own recommendations , calling for indoor mask-wearing for unvaccinated students ages 2 and up, as well as staff.

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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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18 Insightful “Long Reads” You May Have Missed

MiddleWeb

By John Norton & Susan Curtis MiddleWeb Co-Editors “No way I have time for that!” Did the sheer exhaustion of teaching well in the school year just past force you to skip over some of our “good but... The post 18 Insightful “Long Reads” You May Have Missed first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The College Program Attracting — and Retaining — Black Male Teachers

Edsurge

When Alphonso Richard Jr. walked into his first teacher education course at Clemson University, he experienced a shock. “Being in a class where you’re the only male, I didn’t know where to sit,” he says. “Girls were looking like, ‘Oh my goodness, is that a guy in here?’” Compounding the confusion: Most women in the room were white, and Richard is Black.

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7 Good Chrome Extensions for Students with Dyslexia

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post I am sharing with you this collection of Chrome extensions to help particularly students with dyslexia enhance their reading skills. The tools bring added functionalities to Chrome.read more.

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