An Educator’s Guide to Choice, Literacy and Embracing the Internet
EdTech Magazine
MAY 31, 2017
By Taylor Kendal With the proper guidance, teachers can let students roam the web freely.
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Embed the Happiness of Educators Into Your Startup DNA
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 31, 2017
It was a Monday morning in the Spring of 2014 and my first non-engineer employee, Bonnie Savage, was starting. I wanted to get her first day right so, naturally, this being my first startup, I Googled “What are you supposed to do on someone’s first day of work?” and found a checklist. I printed it out… The post Embed the Happiness of Educators Into Your Startup DNA appeared first on Market Brief.
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UWorld’s Unique SAT Prep Site
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 31, 2017
When I first visited UWorld’s College prep site , I expected what usually is included on free SAT/ACT prep sites–questions, answers, and a lot of cheerleading. I should have known better. UWorld is a leading provider of question bank materials for professional licensing exams like USMLE, ABIM, and ABFM, considered by many to be the gold standard in test preparation.
Promoting Academic Discourse in the ESL Classroom
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 31, 2017
A conversation with Greetzel Mojica on episode 88 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Greetzel Mojica @Mojica_CJUSD talks about how she teaches academic discourse in her sixth-grade classroom. Using a recent project on volcanoes as a backdrop, we do a deep dive into how Greetzel empowers her students to give effective feedback using academic language that they are learning in school.
Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work
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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.
Preparing Teachers for a 21st Century Classroom
Battelle for Kids
MAY 31, 2017
In my role as senior adviser for schools at the British Council, I'm lucky enough to interact with educators in many different countries. It will undoubtedly come as no surprise to readers of this blog how many of those systems are considering the area of skills development.
If I was teaching Social Studies today…
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.
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Keeping Personalized Learning (the Main Thing) the Main Thing
Education Elements
MAY 31, 2017
When I reflect on how far we have come since last summer I am impressed by how much hard work everyone has done to begin to make personalized learning a reality. Our district PL council engaged in serious debate over our vision of PL, our roll out plan (cohort vs. all-in), and our areas of priority and focus. Our PL building leadership team collaborated on expectations and commitments, agreed on base model designs for PL in our classrooms, turn-key trained the core four, and started the process
8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2017
For the past 20 years, we have worked as teachers, administrators and advisors in public schools around the country. And we’ve traveled meeting with thousands of school leaders, teachers and students, listening to their experiences, both good and poor. Those experiences have sharpened our desire to prepare this generation of students to become successful citizens in a global society by putting to rest the weary industrial model of education and shifting to a more personal approach.
3 things schools must know about the rising “phigital” student
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
A major generational clash is underway, says a foremost expert, and it’s affecting all industries, including education. The clash is coming from so-called Gen Z, the first generation to be considered fully “phigital”—unwilling or unable to draw a distinction between the physical world and its digital equivalent. So what does that mean for educators?
Building a Bridge from 21st Century Learners to 21st Century Earners
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2017
Millennials are expected to change jobs or employers four times in their first ten years after college graduation. By age 40, they’ll likely have shown up for work with between 10 and 15 employers. This means that our future workforce should expect to have seasons of work, non-work, as well as periods of looking for work in between. Consider the implications this has for the nature of work in adulthood.
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.
Assessment of Mastery Does Not Have to be a Test
Teacher Tech
MAY 31, 2017
Assessing Mastery Sometimes we can think that assessment and test are synonymous, they are not. There are lots of ways to assess that a student has learned. Crowdsourced Spreadsheet I started a crowdsourced spreadsheet to collect ideas for alternative ways to assess mastery. Check out what others came up with and add your own! The post Assessment of Mastery Does Not Have to be a Test appeared first on Teacher Tech.
AmeriCorps Provides Vital Support to Nearly 12,000 Schools—So Why Cut It?
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2017
AmeriCorps member Justin Roias, who spent a year working full-time in a Providence middle school through the federally-funded City Year program, is a clear example of why national service matters. In addition to supporting his mentee Manny’s success in school, Justin formed a strong bond with the student by spending time with him outside of the classroom, playing basketball and walking the halls together.
15 Key Questions to Help You Evaluate and Select Educational Apps to Use in Your Teaching
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is one of our popular visuals we published a few months ago featuring some useful tips to follow when evaluating educational apps. This.read more.
How art can build student leadership skills
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
Creative art experiences that challenge students to observe, articulate, reimagine, and take risks help build their confidence and leadership capacity, say experts. In “ Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects ,” Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education director; Nancy Horvat, Multi-Tier Support Systems specialist, Arts Academy, PA; and Jessica Lura, director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Bullis Charter School, CA discussed how to develop leadership qualities in students through art activit
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.
BrightBytes Tried to Buy Hapara. Then a Better Offer—and a Legal Complaint—Emerged
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2017
Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. Yet a recently settled legal complaint between two education technology startups offers a glimpse at the numbers and terms involved in the negotiation process—and what happens when a deal goes awry. In March, San Francisco-based BrightBytes filed suit against Hapara , claiming the latter had breached contract terms in a Letter of Intent as BrightBytes planned to purchase all of Hapara’s assets.
How To Create A No-Zero Policy In Your Classroom
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 31, 2017
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What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired
The Hechinger Report
MAY 31, 2017
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of New Orleans teachers were summarily dismissed after the Louisiana Legislature voted to turn over all but a handful of the city’s schools to the state-run Recovery School District. The Recovery District eventually converted all of those schools into public charter schools. This decision not only fundamentally altered how the city’s schools are run but also upended a profession that launched thousands black New Orleanians into the middle class.
How To Motivate Students That Struggle
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 31, 2017
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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools
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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
International Travel: A Good Reason to Have Two Google Accounts
ProfHacker
MAY 31, 2017
We’ve heard quite a lot over the last few months about travelers being asked to unlock their mobile phones —and, in some cases, provide their social media passwords —when entering the United States. We’ve also heard tips on traveling abroad with a phone; over at The Verge , the suggestion is to delete our data before leaving the country if we really want to protect it. 1 We can then install and sign into our accounts when we get where we’re going, and repeat the pro
3 school security musts for summer kick off
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
I don’t really need to belabor the point that securing educational institutions is both incredibly challenging and crucially important; it’s a bit like describing the importance of water to a fish. Schools and universities are here for the primary purpose of education, but they often have groups devoted to healthcare, finance, retail, and research, among the other usual administrative departments like human resources and accounting.
Building educational “success” on the backs of fired black teachers
The Hechinger Report
MAY 31, 2017
A supporter of the United Teachers of New Orleans, a local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers holds a sign during a demonstration in which hundreds marched across the Mississippi River Bridge on April 1, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana for the right of displaced Hurricane Katrina evacuees to vote in the April 22 elections. Photo: Andre Perry.
10 Steps To A Successful School iPad Program
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 31, 2017
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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.
Making Learning Visible – 1st Grade Infographics
ASIDE
MAY 31, 2017
Source: ASIDE 2017 We’ve built our mission on the idea that making learning visible through design changes they way learners view content. The examples in this post by our first graders illustrate just how important design was in providing a context for their Arctic animal research. This was our youngest group to tackle creating infographics, and boy, did they do a great job.
Hall Passes, Buses, Lunch Duty: What If The Principal Could Focus On Achievement?
MindShift
MAY 31, 2017
Pankaj Rayamajhi hears something. Senioritis? The director of school logistics and operations has a kind of sixth sense about that unique Spring affliction as he roams the hallways of Columbia Heights Education Campus, a public middle and high school in Washington, D.C. Rayamajhi quickens his pace, walkie-talkie in hand, and turns a corner into a stairwell.
Help Kids Read with Skill and Passion
MiddleWeb
MAY 31, 2017
Reading Nancie Atwell and Anne Atwell Merkel’s The Reading Zone, 2nd edition, is like getting a letter from a good friend and mentor, says ELA teacher Amy Matthes. Find reading workshop case studies to help readers become passionate, skilled, and habitual.
Target Field Trip Grants
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
It’s become increasingly difficult for schools to fund learning opportunities outside the classroom. To help them out, Target launched Target Field Trip™ grants in 2007. Since then, millions of students have been able to go on a field trip. The application period opens August 1.
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.
NWEA Poised to Capture Statewide Testing Contract in Nebraska
Marketplace K-12
MAY 31, 2017
The Portland, Ore.-based testing organization is probably best known for its interim assessments, but said last year it was expanding to the statewide, summative testing market. The post NWEA Poised to Capture Statewide Testing Contract in Nebraska appeared first on Market Brief.
What NOT To Do as a Student (or Teacher) Blogger
EmergingEdTech
MAY 31, 2017
Knowing What NOT to is as Important as Knowing What TO do Blogging may sound like something that is easy to do. Taking your thoughts and putting pen to paper (or should that be fingers to keyboard?). [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
“I Am My Faith”—A Story of Language and Faith in the Classroom
Fractus Learning
MAY 31, 2017
A disclaimer to start. I tell this story because it has a moment of true beauty to it and I’m trying to do it some justice. To get to that moment though, faith and culture may […].
Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award for New Teachers
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
The Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award for New Teachers provides selected K–12 teachers (up to 25) in their first five years of teaching with funds to attend the annual National Conference on Science Education. Award recipients will be mentored, tracked, and provided with continuing opportunities for meaningful involvement with NSTA and its activities.
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.
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