The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2017

10MT | #23 A 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Micki Uppena From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Librarian Micki Uppena has a student centered library. In addition to a rich maker space, Micki takes us on a journey into a 21st century library where kids love to learn. She also shares with us the free, inexpensive things she’s used to make her maker space awesome!

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Administrators and educators alike have access to data that can improve business practices and learning outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2017

10MT: The 5-day a week show for busy but remarkable teachers From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thank you for your support of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. From the amazing guests to all of you listening and reviewing, thank you all so much for making this dream possible! Hear all of the past episodes of the 10-Minute Teacher Archive.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 1, 2017

Digital natives are individuals who were born during or after the surge of digital technologies (the internet, mobile devices etc.). Because the majority have been surrounded by tech from an early age, they are used to it and are usually very good at it. In addition, because technology changes so quickly, they have adapted to it and are not scared of new innovation; in fact most get very excited about it.

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Education Elements

MARCH 1, 2017

My mother’s first language is Spanish. As the daughter of an immigrant, I grew up living a life nuanced in foreign customs and cultures. Not that these nuances felt foreign to me: it was just “life” in my home. Plus, I had the privilege of living in communities that saw my family as vibrant, exciting and beautiful — not foreign or unwanted. It is because of my mixed background that I have always been intrigued by the different value sets that drive us.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2017

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. March 6th- 15th (ten days only): Get 10% off for early sign-up for Summer Online Professional Development: 20 K8 Tech Curriculum Webtools in 20 Days. Use Coupon Code: SUBSCRIBERSPECIAL. This is priced for a group of five from a school that wants to learn the tools included in their new tech curriculum.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2017

Social media’s popularity means educators have a number of avenues to develop their professional learning networks and learn from one another. Blogging gives educators a platform to share best practices, pose questions to their peers, and explore new ideas about teaching and learning. Here, we’ve gathered 9 blogs that focus on technology integration, instructional technology, school leadership, and pedagogy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Nearpod , which offers a suite of tools for teachers to create and share multimedia-rich lessons, presentations and digital activities with students, has raised $21 million in a Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners. A flurry of existing investors also chipped in, including Reach Capital, Krillion Ventures, AGP Tech, GSV Acceleration Fund, Storm Ventures, the Stanford-StartX Fund, the Knight Enterprise Fund, Arsenal Ventures, Marc Benioff, Scott Cook and his wife, Signe Ostby.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2017

March 1, 2017 Concept mapping or mind mapping is a visual representation of data in such a way that highlights connections and relationships between elements. Concept maps can be used by students to.read more.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 1, 2017

Next Steps with Google Classroom You can get up and running with Google Classroom in less than 3 minutes. Go to [link] Click on the plus icon in the upper right and choose “Create class.” Click on the plus icon in the bottom right to add an assignment. Go to the Students tab to get […]. The post Next Steps with Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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ProfHacker

MARCH 1, 2017

“My silences had not protected me, your silence will not protect you” — Audre Lorde. “There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.” — Clint Smith on Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. “the internet gives us new ways of being political actors and activists, and they are brilliant, so long as they don’t become ends in themselves.&

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 1, 2017

Learn how to engage your students in interactive and innovative learning using SMART Amp, a fantastic software package that combines digital learning with worldwide collaboration. The post How can we fully engage our students in digital learning? | @Jepson | @SMART_Tech appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Learn how to engage your students in interactive and innovative learning using SMART Amp, a fantastic software package that combines digital learning with worldwide

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Students in Montclair State University’s dual certification program work on an assignment during class. Photo: Jackie Mader. BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2017

March 1 , 2017 Google announced today a major update to its popular note taking tool Google Keep. Starting today, Google Keep is now integrated in Google Docs allowing users to easily access their.read more.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

A high-tech program designed to predict which students are at risk of failure might sound like a way to extend a helping hand. Some students don’t see it that way. They worry that the data will be used to label them before they have a chance to make their own impression on a teacher. That it will relegate them to the heap of students who are written off.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2017

The post Education & Our Strange Culture Of Bad Homework Assignments appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

It’s that time of year again. We’re breaking out our barbeque bibs, pulling out our reporter’s notebooks and heading down to Austin for SXSWedu. Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2017

March 1, 2017 For our Android fans here in EdTech and mLearning, here is a collection of some very good apps to help you with your professional growth. These are apps that provide you access to a.read more.

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techieMusings

MARCH 1, 2017

One of my biggest goals in teaching my section of Online AP Calculus this year has been finding ways to continue to hear my students “talk.” I want to hear how they are thinking through the process of solving problems. One of the things I value most about being a teacher is having the opportunity to enjoy each student’s personality and to get to know each student as an individual (and for them to feel this same connection with me).

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Hack Education

MARCH 1, 2017

I have updated my Ed-Tech Funding project with the dollars and deals from February. This past month, ed-tech startups raised $566,950,000. But there’s an asterisk by that figure as it includes $500,000,000 raised by one company, student loan provider SoFi – money that SoFi says it plans to use to “ push beyond lending.” Many ed-tech publications do not count SoFi as “ed-tech,” preferring to label it as “fintech” and thereby excluding it and other s

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2017

The post MIT Program Seeks To Engage High School Students Using Video Content appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2017

“If we don’t have enough time or resources to do everything we’re asked to do, or want to do in the classroom, what should we do?” Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Board at the nonprofit Center for College & Career Readiness, asked. With limited time and resources, teachers often have to prioritize what goes on in their classrooms. In “ Yes They Can: The Five Highest Impact Priority Practices for Classrooms ,” hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by The Center for College & Career Readiness , K

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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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Fractus Learning

MARCH 1, 2017

Recommending books to boys seems like it should be pretty straightforward. A boy needs a book to read. A parent asks an expert other—teachers/librarians/reading specialist—or book recommendations or reads blogs/articles/books touting the best books for boys. A parent gets said book(s) for the boy and shares it with him. The boy reads the book(s). But, as many parents figure out (and teachers too), recommending a book to a boy is not so straightforward, especially step 4: The boy reads the book

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techieMusings

MARCH 1, 2017

I’m excited to be attending and presenting at the 2017 NAIS Annual Conference. I started my conference journey with a workshop: The Question is the Answer: Inspire Authentic Teacher Growth Through Feedback Conversations with Lana Shea & Meredith Monk Ford. Here were some highlights: How do we support the use of questions as a pathway for growth?

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NspireD2

MARCH 1, 2017

Since 2011, the University of Central Florida has offered “BlendKit,” a free six-week online course for folks who want to learn more about blended learning. The 2017 edition launched on Monday, but there’s plenty of time to enroll. The first of five live webinars will be Monday, March 6 at 1:00 pm Eastern (US) time. In the […].

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 1, 2017

The nonprofit venture will award $1.5 million in grants in an effort to fill what it sees as a gap in the ed-tech market for products meant to serve students with special needs. The post NewSchools Venture Fund Offers Grants for Tech. Projects in Special Education appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 1, 2017

Innovations and Collaborations Provide Learning Opportunities for Kids in Need There are about a quarter of a billion children around the world who cannot read, often due to lack of resources in. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 1, 2017

I had the pleasure of attending The Fresno EdTechTeam Summit on February 4th and 5th at Washington Union High school in Fresno, CA. I attended the last Fresno Summit in 2015 and left feeling empowered! I had been waiting for another local summit for a few years and I knew attending again would lead to lots of innovative inspiration! I was giddy with excitement leading up to the weekend and didn’t mind being late to my own Super Bowl party on Sunday!

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 1, 2017

What could be wrong with giving families the right to choose a school for their child? Why shouldn't every family, not just those with means, have the right to choose. That will be among the issues discussed tonight at IQ2S Debate: Are Charter Schools Overrated. Intelligence Squared aims to restore civility, reasoned analysis, and constructive discourse to the often biased media landscape.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 1, 2017

ClassroomScreen is a nifty little site that I just found out about for creating a desktop background for your class. What makes ClassroomScreen so great as it can be used in a number of ways in the classroom for those teachers who like to display a computer screen up on a monitor/projector. It can be used to welcome students to their class to begin a day, while they are taking a test, working in group projects, and many more.

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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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