The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 28, 2018
A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The hair on my arm prickled up like porcupine quills, but there was no breeze. It was a discussion about a digital literacy issue at the U.S. Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. Suddenly, information literacy became real — and urgent.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 28, 2018
ISTE 2018: Cisco Uses Animation to Inspire Students to Enact Global Change. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 06/28/2018 - 14:56. Edgar Ochoa’s middle-schoolers in the Roosevelt Elementary School District in Phoenix took their science, technology, engineering and math learning to the next level when they became Global Problem Solvers and tackled serious issues in their community and beyond.
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Neo LMS
JUNE 28, 2018
When the words Virtual Reality are mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a gamer wearing a headset. However, the applications of VR have moved far beyond gaming and entertainment. In the educational sector, VR provides meaningful and novel ways to connect with both students and teachers. It can stimulate real-world environments to enable experiential learning.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
Baby Savvy and I were excited to catch up with our good friend, Barbara Bray ( @bbray27 ), at the ISTE Conference. Barbara Bray is helping educators and learners of all ages define their why. In the following interview, she talks about her podcast, passion for defining why, and her inspirational journey from nurse to educator. Barbara Bray is taking part in my new book series, EdSheroes: Women Transforming Education with their Resilience.
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Digital Promise
JUNE 28, 2018
For many middle school teachers, taking part in a one-to-one initiative, where every student has a digital device for learning, has led to an existential search. In a technology-driven, student-centered learning environment, what does it mean to be a teacher? Back when many teachers were in training, the role of the teacher was clear: to impart facts to students.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
At the ISTE conference, I spent some time at the LEGO Education booth playing with some of the incredible hands-on learning toys for students of all ages. In the interviews below you will discover ways LEGO helps students learn to code, design, build, and collaborate. You will also discover how you can take part in the new Master Educator Community Program.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
Baby Savvy and I were excited to catch up with our good friend, Barbara Bray ( @bbray27 ), at the ISTE Conference. Barbara Bray is helping educators and learners of all ages define their why. In the following interview, she talks about her podcast, passion for defining why, and her inspirational journey from nurse to educator. Barbara Bray is taking part in my new book series, EdSheroes: Women Transforming Education with their Resilience.
Teacher Tech
JUNE 28, 2018
Change From a Date Format We’ve all been there. We type a value into a cell in a spreadsheet that is NOT a date, but it formats it as a date. How do you make it stop being a date? Format Menu Click on the cell (or range of cells) that is giving you funky […]. The post Google Sheets: When It Thinks It’s a Date appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
At the ISTE conference, I spent some time at the LEGO Education booth playing with some of the incredible hands-on learning toys for students of all ages. In the interviews below you will discover ways LEGO helps students learn to code, design, build, and collaborate. You will also discover how you can take part in the new Master Educator Community Program.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 28, 2018
Here is a collection of some very good iPad apps students can use in their classroom projects. The apps, which are curated from Apple's Real World Learning collection, are geared towards enhancing a.read more.
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.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
Buncee is one of my favorite creation tools for learners, which is why I spent a lot of time with the Buncee team at the recent ISTE conference. Below, I’ve embedded my presentation, Community Building Activities with Buncee , and an interview with baby Savvy and Buncee Bryan, who she absolutely adores. Click here to access my Buncee lesson ideas and free templates you can copy and edit and also share with students for them to copy and edit!
Hack Education
JUNE 28, 2018
It’s official. I signed the book contract late last night: the MIT University Press has agreed to publish Teaching Machines. I’m over-the-moon thrilled (particularly as I’ll have a great editor), although to be honest, I’m also feeling quite overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do. I have been talking about this book idea for a very long time now, and within the last six months it has finally become a lot more “real” – something that probably woul
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 28, 2018
Buncee is one of my favorite creation tools for learners, which is why I spent a lot of time with the Buncee team at the recent ISTE conference. Below, I’ve embedded my presentation, Community Building Activities with Buncee , and an interview with baby Savvy and Buncee Bryan, who she absolutely adores. Click here to access my Buncee lesson ideas and free templates you can copy and edit and also share with students for them to copy and edit!
eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2018
As schools across the country close for summer, teachers are, understandably, breathing a sigh of relief. But the learning doesn’t stop just because students leave classrooms. Summer is one of the most popular times for teachers to engage in professional learning. Without the daily demands of a classroom full of children, teachers can focus on instructional approaches they’d like to strengthen or can experiment with different digital resources or tools.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 28, 2018
Google Forms is an important tool teachers can use to create, edit and share surveys, forms, and quizzes. If you are using or planning to start integrating Forms in your instruction the chart.
eSchool News
JUNE 28, 2018
There are lots of teachers who love listening to podcasts and want to share that passion with their students. But many aren’t sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom. That’s how I got started. I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn’t sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students’ reading habits.
SecurEdge
JUNE 28, 2018
It’s getting harder to bring shoppers into brick-and-mortar stores. Malls and storefronts are closing left and right as e-commerce eats their lunch. Discussions and business analysis of the state of retail include words like “apocalypse,” “decline,” and “meltdown.”.
MiddleWeb
JUNE 28, 2018
Offering 365 ways to teach and challenge all learners, Paula Kluth's Universal Design Daily provides many fresh and tried and true ideas for incorporating UDL into the classroom, says special education teacher Stacy Thorpe. A great resource to share with coworkers.
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EmergingEdTech
JUNE 28, 2018
An interactive presentation should be a memorable one. It encourages your audience to sit up straight and pay attention to what you are saying. On the other hand, a bored audience, just passively. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Fractus Learning
JUNE 28, 2018
I’ve been getting many congratulatory messages on LinkedIn to mark the three year anniversary of my consulting business. This milestone has given me a reason to reflect on the past three years and all that I’ve […].
The Principal of Change
JUNE 28, 2018
There was an interesting conversation between two participants in a workshop that I was facilitating that I have been thinking about a lot over the last 24 hours. One participant asked the following question (paraphrased): “What do you do if you have someone in your organization that has great leadership skills, but they are leading people away from your vision of what you are trying to achieve?
techlearning
JUNE 28, 2018
During one of my many conversations at ISTE this week, I had the pleasure of meeting Edgar Ochoa, a history teacher at the Roosevelt Elementary School District, and Christa Tropin, a STEM teacher at the Tempe Elementary School District. These two inspiring educators discussed their work with the Global Problem Solvers: The Series, a new Cisco corporate social responsibility educational initiative.
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.
MiddleWeb
JUNE 28, 2018
Leafing through Regie Routman’s Literacy Essentials feels not so much like reading a book as like talking with a master teacher, or maybe wading in and out of a calm ocean, writes teacher Sarah Cooper, who finds it a compendium of wisdom about teaching and about life.
techlearning
JUNE 28, 2018
This week I’m excited to share lots of favorites at ISTE’s annual conference. From favorite open-ended creation tools to formative assessment tips, it will be an action-packed week! It seemed like the perfect time to share a must-try combo for educators. So I’ve put together a list of ways Adobe Spark and Nearpod are a fantastic pair of EdTech tools!
NeverEndingSearch
JUNE 28, 2018
I am an unabashed lover of the Artstor database and I was thrilled to discover a recent Artstor blog announcement sharing that more that one million images, videos, documents, and audio files from public institutional collections are now freely available without a login. You don’t need to be a subscriber. Simply visit [link]. . All this lovely new discoverability is possible because contributing institutions make their content available via JSTOR Forum , a tool facilitates the catalogin
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 28, 2018
Anthony Kennedy. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement augurs fast and profound on-the-ground changes in a long list of policy areas that directly touch citizens’ lives. Among these, no doubt, is the use of affirmative action in higher education. Kennedy famously abandoned his long-standing skepticism about affirmative-action programs – for example in his 1989 concurrence in City of Richmond v Croson — to cast the deciding vote in 2016 in Fisher v.
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.
NeverEndingSearch
JUNE 28, 2018
I am just back from ISTE in Chicago where I shared in some very interesting developments and experiences. 1. Following input and feedback from more than 1300 educators from the US and around the world, ISTE released its new Standards for Education Leaders , formerly known as the ISTE Standards for Administrators. According to the official press release, These standards target the competencies and mindset required for leaders to leverage technology to transform how we learn, teach and lead.
techlearning
JUNE 28, 2018
There are those apps and tools that you know are magic as soon as you see them. They may do something no one has ever thought of, or they come up with a smart way to solve a problem. Seesaw was just that app for me. [ 5 Tools to Teach Coding to Late Elementary Students ] Seesaw is a portfolio app. It allows kids to put all their work in one place and add reflections easily.
MindShift
JUNE 28, 2018
Adapted from Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games by Matthew Farber published by Peter Lang. Professor Karen Schrier, Founding Director of the Games & Emerging Media program at Maris College, developed the Ethics, Practice, and Implementation Categorization (EPIC) Framework in 2015 for the use of use video games in ethics education, proposing seven educational goals, and 12 strategies for ethics games.
techlearning
JUNE 28, 2018
Smithsonian Science Education Center has been named a Best Professional Development Website by Common Sense Education Smithsonian Science Education Center Teacher-geared site outlines steps for innovative science instruction [ Wacky Machines Offer Problem-Solving Fun ] Pros: "Good Thinking" videos addressing student misconceptions and education best practices are absolute gems; watch and learn.
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