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NewseumED’s Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy

Catlin Tucker

Our students are inundated with media, but how many of them are able to differentiate between a news article and an opinion piece or recognize bias in the media? I would argue this is a critical skill we need to be teaching in schools to ensure that our students develop the skills necessary to be informed consumers of media. NewseumED , a free online resource, is committed to cultivating the First Amendment and media literacy skills they believe are critical to participating in civic life.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. In recent years, education leaders have hailed curriculum choice as a low-cost way to improve student success. But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grad

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3 innovative ways to use Microsoft Edu in your classroom

Ditch That Textbook

The “Twitterverse” is filled with incredible ideas for using technology in our classrooms. We can find tons of resources for engaging our students with creative content in our classrooms: HyperDocs Slides for Interactive Notebooks 30 Google Classroom tips every teacher must know These are just a few from the Ditch That Textbook blog but there […].

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Helping Parents Prepare Their Child for State Tests

Digital Promise

Home learning environment is an important factor to ensure each student meets their potential in school and beyond. The experiences students have and the beliefs and attitudes toward tests, in-school learning, and homework held by students and their parents, as well as teachers and classmates, can influence the development of student learning in all subjects.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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What You Might Have Missed in March

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of March: 33 Resources for Read Across America Day. Teaching Basic Cybersecurity Measures To Everyday People (For Parents of Digital Natives). How Readilearn grew from one woman’s dream to an exciting education resource. How Smart Tech and IoT are Making Educational Spaces More Accessible. Humorous Look at What I Learned from my Computer.

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During Education Conference Season, Why SXSWedu Tops the Charts

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

This CEO says to take advantage of all the opportunities at conferences this season, including the type of socializing and networking found at SXSWedu. The post During Education Conference Season, Why SXSWedu Tops the Charts appeared first on Market Brief.

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If You Liked ‘Choose Your Own Adventure,’ You’ll Love These Interactive Books!

EdNews Daily

If you thought Choose Your Own Adventure Books were fun when you were little, please check out Joe Heinzen ‘ s work and the Kickstarter initiative at the link below. These books promote so many skills our kids need for the 21st-century–from problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity–just to name a few. . Please share or contribute in this exciting initiative to help launch his new books!

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Spring 2019

EdTech Magazine

Spring 2019. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 04/01/2019 - 16:01. Apr. 01. 2019.

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5 Signs It’s Time to Go Back to School

EdNews Daily

If you’re working full-time and still broke, if you have consistent issues with landing in toxic work environments, or if you’re just bored, going back to school may be the best thing you can do. You’re Working 40+ Hours A Week and You’re Still Broke. If you’re working full-time, you’re still broke, and you have an unfinished college degree, it may be time to fix that.

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Can Campus Tours in Virtual Reality Improve College Access?

Edsurge

What if high school students could tour college campuses across their state without ever leaving home? What if questions about the college application process or funding concerns could be addressed in real time at any hour of the day? These are just some of the goals of a current project at the University of North Carolina's Emerging Technologies Lab , under the direction of Steven King.

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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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When Will K-12 Classrooms Scrap Those Age-Old, Rigid Desk-Chairs?

Marketplace K-12

As sales of chair/desk combos slow, we look at what is likely to take their place in classrooms across the U.S. The post When Will K-12 Classrooms Scrap Those Age-Old, Rigid Desk-Chairs? appeared first on Market Brief.

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7 ways to drive district-wide innovation

eSchool News

When the Gresham-Barlow (OR) School District (GBSD) hired Dr. A. Katrise Perera as the superintendent in July of 2017, she set out to listen and learn from students, parents, staff, and community members how to best serve our students. Her charge to me was to do the same when she brought me on last summer as executive director of innovation and partnerships.

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The Push For STEM Education: Why It Matters

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Push For STEM Education: Why It Matters contributed by Anne David There are millions of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) jobs all over the world, and that number is growing rapidly. Companies are struggling to meet the demands of a changing workforce, and both students and working-age adults are trying to make a […].

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

The Hechinger Report

Helping her classmates get into college, student Karoline Jimenez tries to track down a fellow student so he can take the SAT in Personal Statement. Photo: Juliane Dressner. Ask people of color if they are surprised by the alleged college admissions bribery case in the news, and they will likely laugh out loud. For years, the refrain has been that rich white students can buy their ways into the college of their choice — and, given the recent scandal, it looks like the chorus was right.

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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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Art, Science, and the Role of Data in Education

Iterating Toward Openness

I was a music major as an undergraduate. BFA, Music (vocal performance), Marshall University, 1997. One of my great loves is teaching music theory. I taught a little even as an undergrad, substituting when professors were away or guest teaching about indigenous Japanese music when we studied ethnomusicology. (When the time came to apply to graduate school, I still hadn’t decided what I wanted to be when I grew up.

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Glimpse K12 Unveils New Tool to Help Schools ‘Bundle’ and Save on Tech Purchases

Edsurge

At an education conference in Alabama two years ago, Susan Patterson, superintendent of Cullman City Schools, learned about a tool that helped her figure out pockets of superfluous spending in her district. With the software, called AIM, Patterson learned that some of the licenses purchased for the 3,000-plus students in her district, located between Huntsville and Birmingham, went unused.

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4 K-12 edtech trends we’re tracking at CoSN 2019

eSchool News

CoSN 2019 kicks off in Portland, OR this week, and it brings with it rich content spanning a variety of K-12 edtech trends. eSchool News will be there, and while we’re there, we’re looking forward to taking a deeper dive into some of the biggest K-12 edtech trends and challenges facing school IT leaders and administrators. Read more: 10 K-12 edtech trends to look for this year.

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What About Teachers NOT on Twitter?

Teacher Tech

Share a Tweet Via Email The #1 users of Twitter are teachers (I have no idea where I heard that but here is something I found when searching for it). However, not all teachers are on Twitter. Twitter is a huge teacher PLN. How do you learn new things that are not the same things […]. The post What About Teachers NOT on Twitter? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Make The Best of Mindfulness in Your Teaching- 10 Good Resources

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In an inspiring read in Edutopia, author Abby Wills explains how she successfully integrated mindful practices in her classroom instruction and reflected on the positive impact of mindfulness on.

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5 Ways to Approach a Standards-Based Mindset

TeacherCast

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick welcome Kellie Ady from Schoology on the program to discuss how teachers can approach a Standards-based mindset. The post 5 Ways to Approach a Standards-Based Mindset appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Some Helpful Google Forms Tips for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As you know, Google has recently revamped several of its Drive services including Google Forms. This latter has particularly been redesigned to incorporate several of the features that were missing.

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5 Surefire Ways to Get Students to Talk in Class

MiddleWeb

Giving students tools to slice into a text and formulate specific thoughts backed with evidence has transformed NBCT Marilyn Pryle's classroom discussions. "Instead of tentative guesses from a few, we now have detailed conversations that draw the whole class in.".

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Planning for your school district’s broadband budget

Education Superhighway

Digital learning is transforming education at an unprecedented pace. From AR/VR field trips to computer science classes and online testing, there are increasingly high demands for our classrooms to be equipped with sufficient bandwidth. For our purposes here, we can think of bandwidth as the amount of data that can be delivered to each student. For example, the FCC set a minimum goal of 100 kbps of Internet bandwidth in 2014, which is now met by 98% of school districts.

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What About Teachers NOT on Twitter?

Teacher Tech

Share a Tweet Via Email The #1 users of Twitter are teachers (I have no idea where I heard that but here is something I found when searching for it). However, not all teachers are on Twitter. Twitter is a huge teacher PLN. How do you learn new things that are not the same things […]. The post What About Teachers NOT on Twitter? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (April): Cultivating Urban Literacies on Chicago’s South Side Through a Pedagogy of Spatial Justice

Educator Innovator

Our April, 2019 reading for Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN spotlights a middle school teacher’s approach to teaching through a pedagogy of spatial justice. In a piece written for Voices from the Middle , authors Andrea Vaughan, Rebecca Woodard, Nathan C. Phillips, and Kara Taylor, describe the way Taylor and her class of middle school students studied the city around them, critiqued deficit narratives about their neighborhood, and developed urban literacies to advocate for food just

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 161 Building Critical Thinking Dispositions Using Real Life Legal Cases

TeachThought - Learn better.

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 161 Building Critical Thinking Dispositions Using Real Life Legal Cases Drew Perkins talks with Colin Seale about his work as founder and CEO of ThinkLaw to help schools teach critical thinking to students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: ThinkLaw.us @thinkLawUS ThinkLaw on Facebook @ColinESeale Larchmont Charter School Listen and […].

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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5 Reasons Why the Campus Nexus Platform Remains our Chosen SIS

EmergingEdTech

After a quarter of a century, we're still with the same SIS vendor, for good reason. Next year, The College of Westchester (the school where I have overseen IT since 2008) will have been a Campus. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Indoor Party Games For Kids

Fractus Learning

If you’ve ever hosted an indoor birthday party, you know the key to success is having activities planned to keep the children occupied. (It also does wonders to keep you and other parents sane as well.) […].

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Nearpod Launches Social Emotional Learning Curriculum in Partnership with Common Sense Education

techlearning

According to a ‘Ready to Lead’ CASEL report, students who receive high-quality SEL instruction achieve, on average, 11 percentile points higher on achievement scores than students who did not receive SEL instruction.

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Moving from Classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat

Hansen's Link to Tech

For years we have been blessed with the efficiency of a universal model to communicate and collaborate via video and text within our workspaces using Google Hangouts. Having the ability to ask quick question via text or creating a specific chat group with the task to communicate or trouble shoot surrounding an event. Classic Hangouts Will Be Transitioning Soon.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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