Digital Promise

JANUARY 2, 2020

Districts are increasingly investing in coaching programs to improve teacher practice and student outcomes. However, merely providing schools with the funding for a coaching position is not enough. To maximize the return on the investment of coaching, our research on the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) shows that districts need to ensure that they are taking an active role in eliminating barriers to effective coaching and fostering a culture that encourages teachers to innovate their practice.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools re-envisioned what career-focused education could look like. That effort began in the early 1990s and spurred a systemwide resurgence in career and technical education. The district now offers 16 career clusters, exposing students to a variety of technologies, from medical manikins to VEX robotics and 3D design tools such as Autodesk. .

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s a brand new year, which means the rows of dates on your desk or digital calendar may be pleasingly empty. We’re here to tempt you to fill in just a few of those vacant boxes. There are dozens of higher education technology conferences already planned for this first year of the new decade, and you may find one (or many of them) useful for professional development, networking or simply learning about new ideas.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since many boys do not read teacher-privileged literary fiction texts at home, many of them classify themselves as non-readers. The post 4 Ideas For Motivating Adolescent Male Readers appeared first on TeachThought.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 2, 2020

Time for a Wi-Fi network upgrade. In May 2013 a tornado devastated the community of Moore, Oklahoma. One of the sites badly damaged was Moore Public Schools’ (MPS) technology center – the technology hub for 24,000 students and 36 instructional buildings across the district. The district’s technology director, Jun Kim, knew the internal Wi-Fi network needed an upgrade even before the tornado.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2020

Here are two more tools to enhance teachers communication with students parents. Using these tools you will be able to engage parents in their kids learning and create a supportive class.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2020

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are one of the many ways students can challenge themselves and become college or career ready. Last year, our county implemented an Advanced Learning for All initiative to increase students’ readiness and overall preparation for life after they receive their high school diploma. Our high school currently offers 19 AP courses.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2020

On Writing; A Memoire of The Craft (contains Amazon affiliate link) is an excellent guide from Stephen King to help beginner writers understand what it takes to build a strong and effective.

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Buncee

JANUARY 2, 2020

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 students to write or type their narratives, I challenged them to do something creative and interactive.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2020

Now that online games have become so popular among K-12 students, school and district administrators can use gamification techniques to create a positive school climate and encourage positive behavior by individual students who have differing needs. Shawn Young, co-founder and CEO of Classcraft, explained during a recent edWebinar how gamification techniques can be combined with research-based approaches such as Response to Intervention (RTI), to create engaging and systematic Positive Behavior

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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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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 2, 2020

Principal Rita Platt is learning to sign, both to communicate with a new student and to renew her empathy for the hard work we ask students to do every day. She also has a fresh appreciation for learning targets. “Seeing the purpose of our work is critical to motivation.”.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 2, 2020

Streaks is an award-winning app (Apple Design Awards) that allows you to keep track of up to 12 good habits/intentions and simply mark on the calendar when you have completed the task (e.g. read for 15 min). The app is designed for the "don't break the chain" concept, but you can indicate how often you intend the habit to be completed so that you still construct a streak.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 2, 2020

When we give in and teach students to “write for the test,” Brent Gilson says, we force them into a writing box that many kids come to hate. Learn how he’s reinventing his writing instruction so students discover their truth, expressed through their own words and ideas.

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MindShift

JANUARY 2, 2020

As a college student, Katy Milkman played tennis and loved going to the gym. But when she started graduate school, her exercise routine started to flunk. “At the end of a long day of classes, I was exhausted,” Milkman says. “Frankly, the last thing I wanted to do was drag myself to the gym. What I really wanted to do was watch TV or read Harry Potter.” What got her back to regular workouts was something she calls “temptation bundling.” She resolved to indulge

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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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Turnitin

JANUARY 2, 2020

As you begin 2020 and reflect on this past year, here are the top 10 Turnitin posts of 2019.

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techlearning

JANUARY 2, 2020

Google finally added the ability to generate tours with some pretty sweet features.

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Turnitin

JANUARY 2, 2020

As you begin 2020 and reflect on this past year, here are the top 10 Turnitin posts of 2019.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

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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

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, Mrs. Grace Adkins, my 90 something-year-old mentor, took time to eat lunch with me at Dairy Queen in Camilla. She’s been on the podcast before. Mrs. Adkins is still directing the learning lab at my old school and alma mater, and she is still fighting for kids.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. In that video, Karl imagines he is the commencement speaker for the Arapahoe High School (AHS) Class of 2020, reflecting back on the past 13 years of schooling for that cohort. In the video, Karl envisioned a number of possibilities : AHS launches a 21st century learning initiative that is focused on preparing learners, workers, and successful contributors to the global community.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today’s educators are challenged with keeping students engaged in their learning to help them build the knowledge and employability skills they’ll need to be successful. But how do teachers accomplish this tall task and make learning irresistible? The answer lies in the effective use of multimedia learning tools. Technology on its own cannot engage students, but when multimedia learning tools are used by a highly-trained teacher, classrooms come alive and students become entirely imm

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Before authoring the book “Most Likely to Succeed,” and producing the popular documentary of the same name, Ted Dintersmith made his name as a venture capitalist. Now retired, he’s devoted to education philanthropy, and supporting schools that reimagine teaching and learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2020

We’re less than a year away from the 2020 presidential election; last week we saw seven Democratic presidential candidates participate in a forum dedicated to education issues held in Pittsburgh. If you follow my column, you were well-prepped on the issues they discussed. If you didn’t tune in, here’s a primer on the educational issues at stake in this election, the policy actions of the current administration, and what I think of candidates’ proposals.

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