EdTech Magazine

JULY 9, 2019

Virginia District Gives Its Teachers Their Own Ed Tech Conference. Professional development is key to helping teachers succeed, particularly when it comes to providing support to help them effectively integrate new classroom technologies. The Newport News Public Schools district recognized that its teachers often lacked the time and resources to attend professional conferences, so it decided to give them their own.

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Neo LMS

JULY 9, 2019

One in five 15-year-olds in the U.S. lack basic financial literacy, U.S. News reports. And although children begin forming their attitudes towards money as young as the age of six, most parents and schools don’t teach them money management (only a third of U.S. states require students to take a personal finance class in order to graduate high school).

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 9, 2019

The metrics your startup chooses to track say a lot about the kind of company you’re building, says this ed-tech CEO. Before focusing on growth metrics, consider measuring impact. The post Choose Ed-Tech Company Success Metrics That Focus on Impact, Not Just Growth appeared first on Market Brief.

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

Note: you can find and read Part 1 of this blog post series here. Despite the challenges educators face when trying to purchase edtech tools, new procurement tools have emerged that support evidence-based decision making when choosing and buying edtech products. In support of this process, Digital Promise created the Edtech Pilot Framework , which provides a multitude of free tools to help you in your edtech purchasing journey.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Years before I wrote my book, “Courageous Edventures,” and helped develop an instructional coaching model used in schools across the country, I served as a district leader supporting instructional coaches. As part of this role, I hosted visitors from across the globe who wished to see our teachers’ innovative work. After several visits I realized that, while we were proud of every teacher we worked with, we didn’t show off every classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 9, 2019

? What Is The Feynman Technique? by Terry Heick What is The Feynman Technique? In short, it’s a simple approach to self-directed learning that is based on distilling what you know. Albert Einstein is often credited with having said that (paraphrasing) “you don’t know something well if you can’t explain it to a child.” And […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 9, 2019

Scholastic Book Wizard is a great tool you can use with your students to search for and find books based on their reading level. Book Wizard allows you to search for books using :1-) reading.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. “The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful. There was a lot of fear around math and a lot of kids’ mindsets shifted to ‘I’m not good at math,’” explains Perez.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 9, 2019

Want to help middle school students improve their reading skills? Mark Weakland suggests providing direct and explicit spelling instruction. Emphasizing syllables – roots and affixes – offers lots of building blocks for students. Weakland includes differentiation tips and activity ideas.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 9, 2019

PDF is the document format of the future. It is versatile, portable (by definition) and usually works well with other document formats like Word. Specific to students, however, the most important.read more.

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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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TeacherCast

JULY 9, 2019

One of my favorite applications in the GSuite system is Google Sites. Not only do they give teachers an incredible tool for building digital lessons, but allow students to quickly create stunning online portfolios to showcase their accomplishments. They are easy to create, simple to manipulate and can be organized inside of your Google Drive to keep you well prepared for future lessons.

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techlearning

JULY 9, 2019

“Power with people leads to commitment, dedication, and ownership. Power over people leads to resentment, compliance, and buy-in. Future Ready principals know how to use their influence to share the leadership role with others.

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TeacherCast

JULY 9, 2019

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. Creating a stunning website in "New" Google Sites is pretty easy but quite often, web developers get into trouble pushing a button that might give others access to also make edits. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps needed to successfully publish your beautiful New Google Site. The post How To Correctly Publish Your New Google Sites Website appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Gradelink

JULY 9, 2019

A teacher can reach 20 to 30 students in a class period. A principal can impact the lives of up to a few thousand students during a school year. The classroom teacher has the greatest effect on student learning, but school leadership is second only to classroom teaching in its effect on student learning. Kenneth Leithwood and his colleagues have estimated that school leadership accounts for 5 percent to 7 percent of the differences in student learning and achievement between schools, and strong

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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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EdTechTeam

JULY 9, 2019

Image by Pexels from Pixabay. Librarians have a number of acronyms for making decisions about how to remove books from their collection. Each of these acronyms is designed to help them make informed, objective decisions about what to keep and what to release from the space. This practice of weeding isn’t a normal part of a teacher’s life, teacher training, or the everyday practices of most teachers, but weeding the classroom is an essential feature of designing an optimized learning space.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 9, 2019

I’m back from a whirlwind trip to the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference and Expo! And I truly mean whirlwind. ISTE is recognized globally as the most comprehensive educational technology conference in the world and draws tens of thousands of key decision-makers and influencers from across the globe each year. The 2019 event was held June 23-26 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 9, 2019

This tweet: This tweet is enough for an entire blog…It is a good reminder for working not only with students but adults as well. But also this tweet. That’s the entire post. A reminder so much can be said in a tweet. June 23, 2019 Starting from Where the Learner Thrives May 7, 2019 Defining Your Own Journey April 16, 2019 Human Disconnection March 7, 2019 The Wisdom of Those Closest To Students March 12, 2019 4 Ideas to Help Improve Teacher Well-Being.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 9, 2019

The best uses of education technology are not about the technology – they're about teaching and learning. Technology can be a powerful tool, but it's all about how its used. There have been a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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JULY 9, 2019

Here's a surprise: middle schoolers aren't very confident in the education system. That's according to Lego Education, anyway, which today announced the Spike Prime kit to help encourage middle schoolers to care about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM).

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Education Superhighway

JULY 9, 2019

Any network upgrade can be challenging, especially considering the financial investment needed to fund new infrastructure. With this in mind, Part Four of our Network Essentials blog series explores the importance of securing buy-in from district leadership and having the right team in place to create a successful upgrade plan. Effective network improvement projects are complex and require educational alignment, careful budgeting, and stakeholder management to be successful.

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2019

Demographics. Cordata Elementary School is a 400-student public school serving grades PreK-5 in the Bellingham School District in Washington. The school has the highest percentage of English Language Learners in the district at 33 percent; and 68 percent of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-priced lunch. Biggest Challenges. A few years ago, Cordata Elementary School was experiencing a high number of disciplinary referrals.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 9, 2019

The post The Problem Solving Generation [Interview with Google’s Jaime Casap] – SULS020 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Today on the show I have Jaime Casap, Google’s Chief Education Evangelist and lead advocate of the problem-solving generation. Jaime credits his less-than opportune upbringing and his luck in education for his current position.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 9, 2019

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 171 Inspiring Collective Action In Students Around Economic Challenges Drew Perkins talks with Hilary Allen, Senior Associate at Net Impact and Community Manager of the Up To Us Competition, about their work to help inspire college students to take collective action around our nation’s economic challenges. Links & Resources Mentioned In […].

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 9, 2019

Illuminate Education brings FastBridge Learning under its umbrella, while ACT acquires social-emotional learning company Mawi Learning. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Illuminate Education Acquires FastBridge Learning, ACT Acquires Mawi Learning appeared first on Market Brief.

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ExcelinEd

JULY 9, 2019

Last month, Excel in Ed and Code.org’s IT + CS Business Advisory Council released Addressing America’s Growing Demand for IT and CS: The Case for Change in K–12 Education. The new report identifies what businesses, education leaders and policymakers can do to address our nation’s information technology (IT) and computer science (CS) skills gap.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 9, 2019

Are you in the mood to make some popcorn, snuggle up on the couch and watch a movie the whole family can enjoy? Here are 9 movies that all ages can enjoy. Some are classics you […].

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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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Knowledge Avatars K-12

JULY 9, 2019

One summer, when I was in elementary school, I was terrified! You see, by the end of the school year I had not yet memorized the Times Table and I knew that I'd be entering the upcoming school year clearly disadvantaged. I imagined a disappointed teacher and my embarrassment and humiliation amongst my schoolmates. That is pretty much what happened! Come September I had some catching up to do but I was not the only student who had not mastered the Times Table or some other skill.

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Reading By Example

JULY 9, 2019

We must understand that a meeting is never just a meeting; it’s the town square of human dynamics-the place where people gather to act out their anxieties and fears, hopefully to find joy and rejuvenation in their connections. -Shane Safir. So I’m just going to go ahead and say that many meetings we as educators typically have at school are not places where people find “joy and rejuvenation in their connections.

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

JULY 9, 2019

One summer, when I was in elementary school, I was terrified! You see, by the end of the school year I had not yet memorized the Times Table and I knew that I'd be entering the upcoming school year clearly disadvantaged. I imagined a disappointed teacher and my embarrassment and humiliation amongst my schoolmates. That is pretty much what happened! Come September I had some catching up to do but I was not the only student who had not mastered the Times Table or some other skill.

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Turnitin

JULY 9, 2019

What do teachers really do during the summertime? Here are their answers.

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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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