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Last Chance: The Tech-infused Teacher (MTI 562)

Ask a Tech Teacher

MTI 562: The Tech-infused Teacher. MTI 562 starts Monday, June 22, 2020 . Click to sign up. The 21st century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 037 – Van Meter Schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 037 is below. Thank you, Deron Durflinger , for sharing how the Van Meter Schools in Van Meter, Iowa are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities.

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Opinion: When Schools Reopen, Will Teachers Return?

EdNews Daily

By Franklin Schargel When schools reopen a significant portion of the teaching workforce, in addition to children could be a risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have indicated that 29 percent of all teachers are at higher risk because they are in the most vulnerable age group of contracting the coronavirus because they are over the age of 55 and that 92 percent of all of the deaths caused by Covid-19 virus are for people over the age of 55.

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 1

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thought I’d post a quick update on how my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice , is going. I’ve got six students in the class. We meet virtually every Monday for a couple of hours, in addition to our other activities. The students co-constructed their learning experiences with me. We are trying to approach the class through a very broad social justice lens, which means that we’re discussing a variety of different school leadership equity contexts.

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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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Q&A: Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway, on the Home Access Gap

EdTech Magazine

The homework gap, characterized by the technological barriers and disparities students face when doing schoolwork at home, is a long-standing issue in education. It impacts millions of students nationwide, particularly black and Latino students and those who come from low-income families. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, those pre-existing inequities were magnified for the most vulnerable students.

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Leadership during a crisis: Class update 1

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thought I’d post a quick update on how my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership During a Crisis , is going. I’ve got six students in the class. We meet virtually every Tuesday for a couple of hours, in addition to our other activities. The students co-constructed their learning experiences with me. We are trying to approach the class with a very broad leadership lens.

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Educational Websites to Help You Manage Your Online Teaching Classes

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your online (and also face-to-face) classroom teaching? The list below has you covered. It features a collection of some.read more.

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Middle school is often difficult. Try experiencing it under quarantine.

The Hechinger Report

Leah Hampton, an eighth grader at Falling Creek Middle School in Virginia, likes to joke that without her friends, she’d sleep through school. Seeing them was “the best part of the day,” she said. “They woke me up before my classes.”. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Her mother, Leomia Hampton, says that after classes went online in mid-March, that wasn’t far from the truth.

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STEM education and hands-on learning

eSchool News

The critical need for STEM education was apparent before our world experienced the COVID-19 outbreak, and now, STEM skills are more important than ever as we navigate through a pandemic. Our global health crisis highlights the critical role of STEM education and how strong our economy and health will be in the future. Will there be short and long term impacts to this new way of living until a vaccination or treatments can be developed?

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The Black Lives Movement In Your Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Part of teaching during the Black Lives Matter era is helping African American students know and tell their stories with wisdom and urgency and affection. The post The Black Lives Movement In Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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A Message for Education Entrepreneurs: Reclaim Mindfulness During COVID-19

Marketplace K-12

Ever have one of those days where you missed your stop on the train, or hopped on the wrong bus and quickly jumped off only to realize it was the right one? Maybe, like me, you’ve accidentally set your alarm two hours early but didn’t realize until you got to the airport and couldn’t find… The post A Message for Education Entrepreneurs: Reclaim Mindfulness During COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Top 20 Podcast Episodes

Shake Up Learning

The post The Top 20 Podcast Episodes appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I started the Shake Up Learning Show Podcast in 2018. With more than 65 episodes under my belt and more than 315,000 downloads, I thought I should share the top 20 episodes. New episodes are released every Tuesday morning and cover a variety of educational topics. You can stream episodes right here on the Shake Up Learning website.

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COVID-19: Creating a new education reality

eSchool News

With the onset of coronavirus (COVID-19), school districts, institutions of higher education, and educators are finding themselves in uncharted territory. COVID-19 hit hard and fast. And with that, so did the shift from in-school instruction to online learning, which brought to light very complicated issues and inequities. The onset of remote learning has magnified the disparity between students who have access to computers and internet and those who do not.

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15 Educational Sites and Apps for Preschoolers

techlearning

Digital resources for the youngest learners

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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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Tips for Hosting A Virtual Watch Party

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators know that it can be powerful to host a watch party with students or colleagues. However just as you would never just play a video and walk away in the classroom, the same is true when hosting a virtual watch party. To follow are some ways to ensure your watch party is a success. Send Out an Invitation Invite folks to your watch party and have a way for them to rsvp.

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Using Visual Supports as a Behavior Prevention Tool

N2Y

Special education teachers are no strangers to challenging behaviors. In fact, we know they are part of the territory. Believing in and empowering students who present unique challenges and complex needs are what we do best. Sometimes, however, behaviors can feel overwhelming, leaving us drained and unsure of what we are doing wrong. The saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is certainly the case with difficult behaviors.

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Koala Crate Dinosaur Crate Review

Fractus Learning

The Kolala crate is a monthly project-box from KiwiCo designed for the preschool crowd. If your child is aged 3 to 5 years old, this is the crate for you. We’ve had these boxes for some [.].

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New Courses, More Data, and Google Single Sign?On

N2Y

We’ve got three exciting updates to Unique Learning System! There are new social studies courses you can assign, and once they’ve been assigned, you’ll see data on student progress (and for science courses, too). Also, now you can review data for multiple courses at once within the Course Performance Report. For those who would like one fewer login to keep track of, use Google Single Sign‑On (SSO) to access your n2y account.

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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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How to make your coaching institute future ready for digital education?

Think Exam

Adopting digital methods of teaching is not just an option but a priority for coaching businesses as not doing so will bring a sharp imbalance in the academic system. COVID-19 has already altered the conventional classroom system; hence coaching centers have got no choice to lag. The post How to make your coaching institute future ready for digital education?

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Epson DC-21 Document Camera Review 2020

techlearning

The Epson DC-21 is a great way for teachers to share images and videos remotely with students.

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37 Quick & Easy Brain Breaks for Kids

Prodigy

“It’s time to do homework.” ?? This simple phrase is often dreaded by kids and parents. And it’s understandable. You want to stay involved in your child’s education, but homework only seems to lead to distraction, frustration or exhaustion (or all of the above). It might feel like a constant battle, and homework stress can lead […]. The post 37 Quick & Easy Brain Breaks for Kids appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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AVer Information Inc. USA Launches Affordable Document Camera for Distance Learning, Classroom

techlearning

M11-8M Offers Compact Design and Versatile Use

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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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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

In the last few months the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world and triggered an economic plunge in the U.S. that is now officially a recession. Even before this crisis, concerns were rising about a potential loss of jobs and the rising demand for digital skills due to technologies such as automation and AI. Now that potential is even greater, since historically recessions tend to accelerate automation and the long-term loss of jobs in routine occupations.

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Avoid these common pitfalls in your institution’s learning management.

Linways Technologies

Why using multiple tools to manage your institution’s academics when you can have the all-in-one with better results. During the transition to online classrooms and online learning management, it’s a common pitfall for most teachers to start relying on a whole bunch of tools to manage their tasks and activities. Using a mobile communication app for sharing information with students, using a cloud drive to share course contents, using a calendar app for planning classes, and creating timeta

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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

It’s always been my personal philosophy, whenever possible, to walk into tricky situations with solutions. Before walking into an administrator’s office, I usually had a proposal in my pocket. Regardless of how we return to school to school this fall, your district’s or your administrator’s plan will not fully address the specifics of your practice or your program.

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Achieve3000 Introduces Research-Based K-12 Math Solution

techlearning

While a single math textbook on algebra, geometry or elementary functions may provide a comprehensive look at its subject, it won't provide an individualized approach to the material. Nor will it respond in real time to students' difficulty with the material by providing an personalized step-wise method for solving problems.

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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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The Weekend Edition - Presentations from The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the weekend June 19 - 21 edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The next three day's sessions are below. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here. Recordings of past sessions are listed on the Recordings page. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. FRIDAY'S SESSIONS (June 19) : 12:00 PM - A Deployment Plan for the Hybrid Blended Learning Classroom with Marcia Kish, DSD Professional Development | Jeff Kish SAT