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Every day educators teach students the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Many are familiar with the biblical verse, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Martin Luther King, Jr. MORE
Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Some you agree with; others, not so much. MORE
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The impossible, dangerous, counterproductive, or experience are perfect experiences for virtual reality. Teacher Steven Sato shares with us the kinds of virtual reality experiences that have people talking. MORE
This post is rather long. For the tl;dr, read the final two paragraphs. Football as played in America is not the same sport as the football they play in the rest of the world. Actually, that is an oversimplification, as a wide range of very different games are called “football” around the world. MORE
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The first handheld graphing calculator, the Casio fx-7000G , appeared in 1985. Since then, graphing calculators have become a common – and controversial – tool for learning mathematics. MORE
Welcome to Part Two on this series based on Computation Thinking. This second post will provide a goldmine of resources to get you started with your students. In the prior post I provided 10 ideas to promote Computational Thinking across the curriculum. You will not want to miss it! MORE
Children participating in the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship Program are more likely than their peers to enroll in college and earn a degree. This according to new research from Matthew Chingos, Tomas Monarrez and Daniel Kuehn of the Urban Institute. MORE
. Ohio State football phenom Nick Bosa is expected to be among the first picks in this year’s NFL draft. But his career trajectory is far from typical. Out of 500,000 student-athletes competing at NCAA and NAIA schools, fewer than 1.5 MORE
CUE’s 2nd annual BOLD (Blended and Online Lesson Design) Symposium is set for May 4th-5th at Sage Creek High School in Carlsbad, CA. Of the many talented educators who will be presenting and showcasing at BOLD, Jonathan Nalder is set to take the stage as one of two featured speakers. MORE
The marriage of two emerging technologies – AI and 5G – are about to remake the Internet. In this week’s blogpost we speculate on the changes these technologies and this New Internet will engender MORE
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Eight millions students from 17,000 districts and schools have the opportunity to access digital books through Sora, the new student reading app from OverDrive Education MORE
. Online college classes and degrees give working adults a lot of flexibility in furthering their educations but there’s a big policy debate over whether students are learning much. According to the most recent federal statistics from 2016, roughly one out of every three or 6.3 MORE
These days, words like bullying, isolation, suicide, peer pressure, and anxiety are more and more commonly used among students, parents, and educators. As educators, we hear these words and experience the reality of each. I’m reminded of a time when the expression, “Can’t we all just get along?” MORE
Teacher burnout can be very tricky. Sometimes it’s a slow burn that lays low for a long time and other times, it can show up in an explosion of flames. Either way, when it rears its ugly head, there are ways for you to be proactive to the signs of teacher burnout, no matter what […]. Guest Blog burnout education teacher burnout teaching MORE
215 Cell and Cell Structure is a reference app that takes kids on a virtual journey through cells MORE
By most measures, Massachusetts is one of the nation’s highest-performing states when it comes to K-12 education. It ranks first in the country on lists from Education Week and U.S. News , and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance. Yet to hear the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education tell it, there’s still a lot of work to be done. MORE
How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom. juliet.vanwage…. Mon, 02/04/2019 - 14:53. Ideas about teaching are changing, and classrooms are starting to change along with them. MORE
If I gave you a magic wand, and said you could redesign a college from scratch, what must your students learn? I argue that you need to help build problem-solvers who are adaptive, creative and entrepreneurial in their thinking. It turns out you can find programs on today’s campuses that already teach these things: entrepreneurship programs. MORE
Quickly Export Your Class Roster from Google Classroom A simple class roster is something all teachers need. Google Classroom is great but getting a simple roster of your students is not easy. MORE
Catch up on everything new in G Suite for Education from January 2019, and see great ideas and resources MORE
Dan White, the co-founder and CEO of Filament Games, an educational video game developer based in Madison, WI, knows from personal experience that kids can get a lot more out of video games than entertainment, sharpened reflexes and enviable manual dexterity. Back in the '90s he was a devotee of Civilization, a game where players run an empire from the dawn of time to the Space Age. Along that timeline you make all sorts of interesting strategic decisions about your empire,” says White. MORE
I’m on a constant search for amazing stories, and I particularly like those that tell the story of the good people can do—when given the chance. MORE
This week, Microsoft announced a brand new feature that allows users to easily transform any Word Doc into a beautiful website using SWAY. This process is pretty awesome and extremely to do and I highly recommend you try it out with your students today! MORE
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick look back on a fantastic trip to the FETC Conference. Later in the episode, we sit down for a conversation with Sam Brooks and Lance Key to discuss how their school district is personalizing learning in their school district. MORE
From high school valedictorian to game company CEO to computer science instructor, all I really needed to know, I’ve learned from video games. With lessons ranging from time management to algorithmic graph search, here are three of the games that have influenced me the most, and what I’ve learned from playing each of them. Final Fantasy Min-maxing is a resource-management term used often in terms of gaming strategy. It is the process of maximizing results while minimizing resources spent. MORE
From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” MORE
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The impossible, dangerous, counterproductive, or experience are perfect experiences for virtual reality. Teacher Steven Sato shares with us the kinds of virtual reality experiences that have people talking.
The Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The marriage of two emerging technologies – AI and 5G – are about to remake the Internet. In this week’s blogpost we speculate on the changes these technologies and this New Internet will engender
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The first handheld graphing calculator, the Casio fx-7000G , appeared in 1985. Since then, graphing calculators have become a common – and controversial – tool for learning mathematics.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Because AATT is a resource blog, we share lots of tips our group comes across in their daily teaching as well as materials shared by others we think you’d like. Some you agree with; others, not so much.
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Ditch That Textbook
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Teacher burnout can be very tricky. Sometimes it’s a slow burn that lays low for a long time and other times, it can show up in an explosion of flames. Either way, when it rears its ugly head, there are ways for you to be proactive to the signs of teacher burnout, no matter what […]. Guest Blog burnout education teacher burnout teaching
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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Welcome to Part Two on this series based on Computation Thinking. This second post will provide a goldmine of resources to get you started with your students. In the prior post I provided 10 ideas to promote Computational Thinking across the curriculum. You will not want to miss it!
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Quickly Export Your Class Roster from Google Classroom A simple class roster is something all teachers need. Google Classroom is great but getting a simple roster of your students is not easy.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
. Online college classes and degrees give working adults a lot of flexibility in furthering their educations but there’s a big policy debate over whether students are learning much. According to the most recent federal statistics from 2016, roughly one out of every three or 6.3
CUE
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
CUE’s 2nd annual BOLD (Blended and Online Lesson Design) Symposium is set for May 4th-5th at Sage Creek High School in Carlsbad, CA. Of the many talented educators who will be presenting and showcasing at BOLD, Jonathan Nalder is set to take the stage as one of two featured speakers.
This article provides teachers with a step-by-step guide on how to handle plagiarism in the classroom: it examines the definition of the term "plagiarism" and its types with examples, describes common reasons students plagiarize, and provides tips for teachers to detect and prevent plagiarism among students.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
. Ohio State football phenom Nick Bosa is expected to be among the first picks in this year’s NFL draft. But his career trajectory is far from typical. Out of 500,000 student-athletes competing at NCAA and NAIA schools, fewer than 1.5
iterating toward openness
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
This post is rather long. For the tl;dr, read the final two paragraphs. Football as played in America is not the same sport as the football they play in the rest of the world. Actually, that is an oversimplification, as a wide range of very different games are called “football” around the world.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Every day educators teach students the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Many are familiar with the biblical verse, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
By most measures, Massachusetts is one of the nation’s highest-performing states when it comes to K-12 education. It ranks first in the country on lists from Education Week and U.S. News , and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance. Yet to hear the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education tell it, there’s still a lot of work to be done.
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techlearning
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Catch up on everything new in G Suite for Education from January 2019, and see great ideas and resources
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Dan White, the co-founder and CEO of Filament Games, an educational video game developer based in Madison, WI, knows from personal experience that kids can get a lot more out of video games than entertainment, sharpened reflexes and enviable manual dexterity. Back in the '90s he was a devotee of Civilization, a game where players run an empire from the dawn of time to the Space Age. Along that timeline you make all sorts of interesting strategic decisions about your empire,” says White.
TeacherCast
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
This week, Microsoft announced a brand new feature that allows users to easily transform any Word Doc into a beautiful website using SWAY. This process is pretty awesome and extremely to do and I highly recommend you try it out with your students today!
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
If I gave you a magic wand, and said you could redesign a college from scratch, what must your students learn? I argue that you need to help build problem-solvers who are adaptive, creative and entrepreneurial in their thinking. It turns out you can find programs on today’s campuses that already teach these things: entrepreneurship programs.
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Discover how this rapid development process creates engaging, custom learning solutions on a timeline that works for you, why a strong learning culture is important, and how to showcase your Return on Learning (ROL) using data to tell the story.
TeacherCast
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick look back on a fantastic trip to the FETC Conference. Later in the episode, we sit down for a conversation with Sam Brooks and Lance Key to discuss how their school district is personalizing learning in their school district.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
From high school valedictorian to game company CEO to computer science instructor, all I really needed to know, I’ve learned from video games. With lessons ranging from time management to algorithmic graph search, here are three of the games that have influenced me the most, and what I’ve learned from playing each of them. Final Fantasy Min-maxing is a resource-management term used often in terms of gaming strategy. It is the process of maximizing results while minimizing resources spent.
EdTechTeam
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
I’m on a constant search for amazing stories, and I particularly like those that tell the story of the good people can do—when given the chance.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
These days, words like bullying, isolation, suicide, peer pressure, and anxiety are more and more commonly used among students, parents, and educators. As educators, we hear these words and experience the reality of each. I’m reminded of a time when the expression, “Can’t we all just get along?”
This E-book is designed to support educators with case studies of education technology use at school.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.”
techlearning
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Eight millions students from 17,000 districts and schools have the opportunity to access digital books through Sora, the new student reading app from OverDrive Education
ExcelinEd
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Children participating in the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship Program are more likely than their peers to enroll in college and earn a degree. This according to new research from Matthew Chingos, Tomas Monarrez and Daniel Kuehn of the Urban Institute.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Cell and Cell Structure is a reference app that takes kids on a virtual journey through cells
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