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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Students at a California middle school have become the teachers when it comes to technology.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Even the best teachers can be reluctant to use new technology in the classroom. Here are some ways to overcome that. The post 3 Tips to Move Your Ed-Tech Tool Into the Classroom appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

10MT | Jessica Gordon shares her tips on the 10-Minute Teacher Show From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can gamify your classroom. It isn’t hard. Sixth-grade teacher Jessica Gordon@ 1337teach gives us tips, ideas, and links for how to gamify our classrooms now. Game based learning can be simple and free.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Netherlands-based Digipuzzle is an online educational resource that offers hundreds of G-rated learning games for younger audiences, many in both Spanish and English. Topics include math, animals, typing, geography, spelling, letter recognition, holidays, seasons, dinosaurs, USA, other games, and more. Many of these are divided into subcategories — for example: Math includes games and counting, fractions, addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I recently did some writing for Scholastic. It was an online resource which supports children when writing metaphors. Click here for the full resource. Tagged: education , English , literacy , metaphor , online resource , teachers , teaching , writing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Jacob Beal struggled in school, and after years of failing classes, his parents made the difficult decision to pull him out of his traditional public school and put him into an online charter for his 11th grade school year. “It was a last resort, there were not many options, and he seemed to love technology,” said Beal’s mother, Jill Huennekens. But he struggled to remain engaged in the online program, and his scores sunk even lower.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

February 17, 2017 We just learned about this awesome educational resource from Google’s recent blog post “ Three Ways to Get Started with Computer Science and Computational Thinking” written by the.read more.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Here’s hoping that, this Presidents’ Day weekend, folks are able to get a holiday from the current administration, in order to get a little freer headspace, or maybe even just some work done or some sleep. Via Bonni Stachowiak , Elizabeth Dickens has a helpful overview of ways to talk about difficult/sensitive topics in class : Communicating the approach, as well as its goals and rationale, to students is also crucial.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Seniors at our school have the honor and opportunity to participate in a semester of community service. They are given different opportunities to take a look at including student aides in urban elementary schools. My senior daughter recently wrote this journal post regarding her experience on the first week of her placement. I suggested she keep this post as a reminder in college when things get tough.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

To this erstwhile language geek, the application of technology beyond a language lab (look it up, kids) is intriguing. Mondly aims to marry language learning with virtual reality to advance immersion learning. In order to build a successful product, identify friction-killing tactics to engage and delight your users. These lessons from Amazon points to different kinds of friction, and actions you can take to listen, identify, and mitigate.

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NspireD2

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I have been encouraging people to consider using Google Slides, but one caveat was that you could only insert video from YouTube. On February 8 of this year, Google announced that users of Google Slides can now embed a video saved in Google Drive into a slide. The video below from Practical Ed Tech explains how it works.

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Teacher Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Google Forms Email Notifications If you are using a Google Form that you expect infrequent submissions on, you may want an email notification when someone fills out your Form. Create This is just a fun tip. If you put /create at the end of forms.google.com it quickly creates a Google Form for you. forms.google.com/create Responses […]. The post Google Forms Email Notifications appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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SpeechTechie

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This website is 7 years old this month! Wow, another blog-iversary! I am always grateful for the connections and opportunities that have come from writing here, as well as the sense that I am doing something to help students with social and language learning issues. Thanks for reading! I'm taking off for school vacation next week, so see you in March.

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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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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Children and water can be a dangerous combination. While a body of water is inviting to a child, it only takes a moment for the child to get into trouble. So it is up to adults to put safety measures in place to protect children. Back Yard Pools. With visions of recreational fun, many adults desire a backyard swimming pool with little thought to the dangers.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

My first introduction to computers was learning programming, back in the mid 80s. But as computers got better and more useful, the killer application became desktop publishing. The ability to use a computer to lay out a page with text, images and graphics, arranging it to look good and tell a story. I originally learned to do desktop publishing for a club I belonged to, where I somehow got the job of putting together their monthly newsletter.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Toys are both a blessing and a curse. Play is an essential part of learning and childhood, but no one knows pain like a parent who has just stepped on the wrong side of a loose Lego. With every new “must-have” toy on the market, that collection continues to grow. Perhaps your child’s toys are neatly stored in a play room, or maybe they’ve taken over every corner of your living space.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Each year we looking forward to celebrating the joy of reading aloud during LitWorld’s World Read Aloud Day. This year’s official date was February 16, but we celebrated the entire week. It takes a lot of organization to pull off a week full of Skypes and Google Hangouts. Planning began back in December. Shannon Miller and I created a Google doc where people could share their World Read Aloud schedules.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Qzzr is a new free online tool for creating quizzes that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. This easy-to-use site lets users create fun quizzes that includes multimedia content. Best of all these quizzes can be embedded into a site/blog and then lets users track their stats. This might be a good way for educators to assess student learning and then differentiate instruction.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

For this year’s Break the Super Bowl advertisement remixing event, The Lamp focused on the representation of women in partnership with the #WomenNotObjects campaign. 2017 seems like a good year to start doing things differently. So, we added a theme to Break the Super Bowl: #womennotobjects. This is also the first year we held the party at an advertising agency.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Sketch Nation the simple to use mobile (iOS/Android) app/site for creating games recently updated their lesson plan ideas page. This is a great place for educators to go to find ways on how to integrate Sketch Nation into their classroom. These lesson ideas focus on a wide variety of subjects such as: Coding, History, Math, and more. Sketch Nation makes it a seamless way to introduce STEM into their classroom in a fun and engaging way.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Teen-created social tool boosts lunchtime inclusion and community.

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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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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

DragonBox Elements is an amazing mobile (iOS/Android) app that helps teach students about Geometry through Game Based Learning. The way this works is by having players travel through a magical world by solving logic based puzzles in over 100+ levels. The Euclidian concepts covered are: shapes, triangles, angles, and more. This is a very fun game designed for MS/HS aged students and has high replay value.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

*Be sure to check out their latest updates!!! **Answerables iPad app available here !!! Answerables is a wonderful new innovative site/game that is perfect for Game Based Learning (or more accurate Game Based Learning meets Learning Management System). It reminds me of Second Life but geared more toward kids w/ their fantasy/SciFi environment. The game takes place in the 3D virtual world of Answerables on a planet called Proxima, where the native Ansibles (students) encounter an alien race.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The second installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Research and The Promise of Personalized Learning ” explores advances in the learning sciences that underscore key Learner Factors that must be considered in order to better support students based on their unique learning needs. The report highlights the areas of inquiry already underway in four categories of factors that influence learner variability: Current research shows that while each of these cat

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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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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Digipuzzle is a great site for finding a wide range of free online games, activities, and puzzles. This is a great way to introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom as well as for computer "centers". Also, there is a section titled "USA" which is a nice section for finding educational games/activities for on USA history/states/capitals, etc. I highly recommend checking out Digipuzzle by clicking here !!!

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Rushton Hurley ( @rushtonh ) is a story teller. His first and latest book, Making your School Something Special , will help you tell your story, the story of your students, the story of your school, more effectively. What is it that makes your classroom, your school, your district special? Rushton argues that there are three key attributes to what makes every school special: Meaningful experiences for both teachers and students A strong, shared school culture Opportunities for professional growt

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Math Run is a new online platform game by Yogome. Yogome is a fantastic company for making beautiful looking educational apps. These apps cover a wide range of subjects such as: Math, Science, Programming, and more. Recently, they just released a web version of their games that can now be played online or any mobile device (i.e. phone/tablet). Math Run is a super fun easy-to-learn Math game, that has students jumping or ducking over numbers to select the correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

At Portland’s King Middle School, students discuss their “Four Freedoms” project based on the oil paintings of American painter Norman Rockwell. Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. Photo: Yoon S.

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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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