Tue.Dec 24, 2019

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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks For Future Ready Classrooms

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Technology impacts every aspect of our students’ lives and will continue to play an important role in their lives. Teachers who integrate technology effectively help their students realize the potential we have to transform the world with our use of technology. They inspire their students to innovate, create, collaborate, and problem-solve with technology.

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Smart speakers are invading Higher Education internationally

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published on October 23, 2019 in Education Technology. We live in a smart world. Our cars are smart, our watches are smart, our phones are smart, and even our fridges are the same. Smart technology is constantly evolving and it truly was a matter of time until voice was added to the mix. Smart speakers are slowly conquering the world.

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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks For Future Ready Classrooms

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Technology impacts every aspect of our students’ lives and will continue to play an important role in their lives. Teachers who integrate technology effectively help their students realize the potential we have to transform the world with our use of technology. They inspire their students to innovate, create, collaborate, and problem-solve with technology.

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The Season For Giving

Education Elements

Just a few weeks ago I found myself in the North Pole. No, seriously, this nice Jewish girl found herself up in the North Pole because when we say Education Elements supports districts across the country, we mean it. So in the middle of November, I found myself at 101 St. Nicholas Dr., in line to meet Santa and Mrs. Santa * after spending a great day working with Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

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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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Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (Web Version)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you asking about the web version of Bloom’s Taxonomy, check out the visual below. This work, which was published awhile ago, is based on reviews of educational web tools we have done.

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#6: 5 things to avoid saying to students suffering from anxiety

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note : This story, originally published on March 14th of this year, was our #6 most popular story of the year. Happy holidays, and thank you for tuning into our 2019 countdown! ]. Currently, schools are being inundated with cases of anxiety in young adults. Although the dramatic increase in attention being paid to the illness has been beneficial to those suffering, the difficulty lies in the fact that everyone thinks they understand anxiety and how to overcome it.

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Tools to Inspire Collaborative Discussions

techlearning

The free web tools below help teachers create a safe online class where students can access learning materials, post their work, and comment on the works of others.

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Tools to Enhance Peer Collaboration

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

There are several ways teachers and educators can use the power of the web to collaborate on joint projects. In a previous post we featured some good whiteboard tools that support collaborative work.

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10 Best Toddler Step Stools for Children

Fractus Learning

The best toddler step stool is designed to make a parent’s life easier. When your toddler starts walking, the next best thing is climbing onto anything to be at the same eye-level as the grownups. Instead [.].

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Tech & Learning’s 2019 Awards of Excellence

techlearning

Tech & Learning magazine has announced the following 2019 winners of its annual Awards of Excellence contest.

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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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The Top 20 Posts of 2019

Shake Up Learning

The post The Top 20 Posts of 2019 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Here are the BEST Blog Posts of 2019! I have put together a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts from 2019. I can’t believe we are saying goodbye to another decade. To all of my readers, thank you for helping me learn and grow as an educator! I learn so much from all of you!

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Five Tech Trends That Are Predicted to Fall Somewhere in Between Success and Failure

techlearning

This list contains a variety of trends that did not meet expectations but also did not completely flop.

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“Buncee-ing” Ideas Around for Interactive Learning and Task Engagement

Buncee

Buncee is an intuitive learning platform, supporting beginning ESL students with their multimodal writing projects at Eastern Michigan University. This semester students learned to write a personal narrative on a particular topic: “A Turning Point” or “An Event that Changed My Life.” Instead of asking them to write or type their narratives, I challenged them to do something creative and interactive.

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Free Book, Notepad, and Pen for Newsletter Sign Ups

Reading By Example

My goal for the next three months is 600 sign ups total for my newsletter. As an incentive, for one reader I will be giving out a copy of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformatio n by Shane Safir (our book club selection from this past summer) along with the notebook and the pen I prefer to use when conducting instructional walks in classrooms.

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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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Making Websites Accessible

techlearning

It’s Not Just an Obligation; It’s an Opportunity

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The Answer for Schools Is Not More Technology. It’s Teachers and Human Connection.

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Danielle Arnold-Schwartz is a teacher of elementary gifted students with experience teaching grades K-9 in public school settings. A kindergarten teacher recently told me that at conference night one of her student’s parents verbally attacked her for using Chromebooks during morning meeting time.

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Higher and higher—Tech and Learning goes to college!

techlearning

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