The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

A Global Search for Education, Cathy Rubin, Post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How much time should a student spend at school? In the age of electronic media, a school could be everywhere, or it could possibly be nowhere. Either scenario is alarming. This month’s question from Cathy Rubin’s Global Search for Education is “How much time should a student spend at school?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of September (this year, September 3rd). It was originally organized to celebrate various labor associations’ strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. It is largely a day of rest in modern times. Many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Oskar Cymerman on Episode 351 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Oskar Cymerman, author of Crush School Student Guide: Learn Faster, Study Smarter, Remember More, and Make School Easier , shares nontraditional memory techniques that we can use to help kids learn and remember.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Searching for educational technology (edtech) can be overwhelming. The number of products available is daunting: for example, Apple’s App Store contains more than 80,000 educational apps. And for educators, the decision has high-stakes implications for budgets and student learning. To assist in their search, some educators turn to online edtech product summaries.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

I have been in education for 18 years and my strongest belief is that all children deserve a fresh start when they begin each school year. My classroom is a safe environment where students feel it’s acceptable to try, even if they’re not going to be successful the first time–and that certainly applies to STEM education. Since the spring of 2014, I’ve worked with Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools in technology integration.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Anyone can doodle, writes Dr. Susan Daniels. When students doodle to represent concepts and ideas, they synthesize information and encode it in memory for easy recall and retrieval. It's a well-researched strategy that can be used across grade levels and subject areas.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Grid View and List View in Google Keep Google Keep (keep.google.com) is a note app, like Post-it ®? notes. Make sure you have the Google Keep app on your phone. Handy when you want to make a bulleted list, to do list, or take a picture of where you parked. Google Keep also integrates with […]. The post Google Keep: Toggle List View appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds. Source: YouTube. My first year of teaching, I did almost everything wrong. They tell you to be yourself. Here was my first mistake: I didn’t want to be myself. I wanted to be Michelle Pfeiffer. Or, more specifically, Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds. In the 1995 movie, Pfeiffer plays urban high school teacher LouAnne Johnson , who breezes into class and finds what makes her urban students tick by teaching them karate.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we welcome Kerry Gallagher, Sean Hackbarth, and Michael Krauszer on the program to discuss the many things that happen in the first month of being a Tech Coach. For so many of us, the first month is filled with excitement but also misery when things don't go so well. What is important is that we all learn how to get our first few staff encounters to be positive ones so that we have a fantastic program that is built on relationships and not just on tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Annotating is a great way to capture and record your thoughts as you interact with a reading material which can be a text document, a web page, a PDF, an image or even a video. It offers you a deeper.

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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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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we welcome Kerry Gallagher, Sean Hackbarth, and Michael Krauszer on the program to discuss the many things that happen in the first month of being a Tech Coach. For so many of us, the first month is filled with excitement but also misery when things don't go so well. What is important is that we all learn how to get our first few staff encounters to be positive ones so that we have a fantastic program that is built on relationships and not just on tech.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

When I was little I dreamed of traveling to space and touching the stars. My father would wake us up in the middle of the night to hike through the woods or walk along the dirt […].

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The NAEP scores released in April set off a flurry of headlines about the sobering state of achievement gaps across the nation. The general consensus? Despite pockets of promise and slight declines in gaps by race, achievement data reveal that gaps by income have remained relatively flat, or uneven at best. The news for young people on the wrong side of these gaps, however, may be worse.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

It is not unusual for costly graphing calculators to be a part of back-to-school lists. The arguments go something like this. We need students to have a separate non-computer graphing calculator to know they really know how to use a graphing calculator. Wait, what world are we preparing our kids for? The only business place in the world in the 21st century where you'd see graphing calculators being used to do work is Texas Instruments.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Number Line, by the Math Learning Center Virtual number line is clean and pretty but not terribly useful Pros: Organizes and presents number-line exercises in a very clear, distinct way with nice colors, annotations, and equation entry tools. Cons: It's hard to think of where it would work better than old-fashioned hand-drawn number lines. Bottom Line: If you need a cleaner way to show number lines or you like the app's number-hiding tool, this could be useful.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Walking through the woods alone can be a scary prospect for a kid, but not for 7-year-old Matthew of Portland, Oregon. He doesn’t have much of a backyard at his condo, so the woods behind his house essentially serve the same purpose. He spends hours out there: swinging on a tire swing, tromping across the ravine to a friend’s house, and using garden shears to cut a path.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Skyscraper Day is 9/3. Celebrate the world's tallest buildings with this graphical timeline that showcases all the buildings from 1890-2004. [ Physical Science: Radio Waves ] Courtesy of Knovation.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash. For too long, I have deleted all of the blog updates that come through my email. I “subscribe” to other educators and thought leaders who post frequently on their site. Yet it has become my habit to Select All when these updates show up in my inbox and promptly delete. This practice has become a habit, a ritual that in reflection seems silly.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Badaboom is a new "game based" learning tool that I just found out about from the amazing educator and friend, Naomi Harm. Badaboom bills itself as an alternative to Kahoot, where educators can make quizzes/games and then have students answer them in a "game" setting. These quizzes can be multiple choice, have multiple answers, and even have written or drawn responses.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The post 7 Ways to Rethink Digital Assignments appeared first on Shake Up Learning. If you really want to transition your classroom from static teaching to Dynamic Learning, you have to rethink traditional assignments and the use of digital tools. In this post, I share 7 Ways to Rethink Digital Assignments. Dynamic Learning is all about going BEYOND traditional assignments and traditional learning, even BEYOND what was previously possible.

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