Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I’ll be in Japan in a mere seven days. This will be my first overseas business trip—and I’m filled with equal parts excitement and nervousness. Earlier this year, Listenwise partnered with a Japanese education company, JIEM (or EduLab in the U.S.). Not only did JIEM become a distributor of Listenwise in Asia, it also became a strategic investor. Since our partnership was formed, we’ve had many phone conversations and emails preparing for a test of our product in the Asian market.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I wrote my book, Ditch That Textbook, in 2014 and it was published in spring 2015. When that book was published, I didn’t realize that I would be part of a huge movement to equip and empower teachers. My book was published by Dave Burgess Consulting, led by Dave and Shelley Burgess. Dave wrote Teach [.].

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Written By: Stephen D. Senturia. Too often a student is reduced to tears or driven to fury by the red marks and criticisms that a teacher puts on an essay or term paper. It’s natural to feel personally attacked, even hated, since in writing that essay you put some of your personal energy out there, your own stuff, and she didn’t like it. But there’s another way to respond, one that makes lemonade out of the lemon and creates an opportunity for personal and intellectual growth.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for you for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, apps: Projects. ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset). Lesson Plan: Halloween letter for grades 2-5.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Combine an iPad with the app ‘Paper’ by FiftyThree and you get a great replacement for mini whiteboards. My class used this method in mathematics today and it worked very well. It was certainly more effective with pupils who had a stylus ( here is a link to a good one on Amazon.com ). Click here for my full tutorial on how to use the app.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “To teach is to learn twice over.” – Joseph Joubert. Goal: Reflect on your time back to school. What have your new group of learners taught you? What have been your successes? What challenges are you still facing and trying to find solutions. Write a blog post and write down your thoughts in a journal and share with at least one person.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each […]. The post Strategies for Teaming up with your educational community | @NJEA appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

What does customer relationship management have to do with improving learning outcomes? Salesforce, the San Francisco software juggernaut renowned for its CRM tools and lavish parties, is betting schools can achieve greater student success with its customer relationship management system. The publicly traded company believes the same CRM systems that businesses use to track customer data and interactions can also help schools recruit, develop relationships with students and improve graduation ra

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As teachers are faced with new instructional demands due to new standards and new technology initiatives, professional development plays a pivotal role in educators’ success. While some districts have created engaging programs that support and nurture educators, others struggle to move away from one-size-fits-all programs. When professional development is grounded in research and relies on examples of successful educator practice, everyone wins.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Co-teaching can be an incredible asset for schools with few resources or staff. But what do you do if your co-teacher lives in another state? In the summer of 2015, we (Zach, a fifth-year teacher in Memphis, Tennessee and Justin, an eighth-year teacher in Hartford, Connecticut) participated in the Hollyhock Fellowship Program , a two-year residential fellowship at the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) at Stanford University that addresses the complicated educational realities that

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Below is a collection of some good new web tools and mobile apps we have meticulously curated from the popular platform Product Hunt. The purpose is to keep you abreast of the latest releases.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

This week in S’Cool Tools, we share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. . If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Woot Math. Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. Beth’s school has high populations of special education and ELL students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Study.com is an education website that helps students in kindergarten through college excel academically and working professionals gain the skills they need to advance. With animated videos, that.read more.

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The Jose Vilson

OCTOBER 13, 2016

You’re right: I don’t look under 40. I’m an old soul and I’ve stopped trying to correct folks en masse. Audrey and Chris decided to congratulate me for still being under 40. I have enough mileage in teaching years that I might disqualify myself. But alas, I’m here. And with that, I’d like to thank the Hispanic Coalition of New York for putting me on their list and for nominating me for their Rising Star of the Year Award.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Across the country, more and more schools are implementing project-based learning and forging partnerships with businesses to help students build real-world skills to succeed in college and the workforce. Take Chicago’s Chicago Tech Academy High School for example. While ChiTech, as the school is known, aims to help students become leaders, it also seeks to increase the number of minority and low-income students pursuing STEM in college and the workforce.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2016

How does a “pop-up” math museum come to life? For the third year in a row, MIND Research Institute is holding a free, community Math Fair , complete with mathematically-inspired exhibits, performances, workshops and more. But how do we make the Math Fair happen ? Let’s take a peek behind the scenes at the Math Fair. A lot of key strategies come into play when considering the exhibit experiences for the Fair, including interactivity, mobility, accessibility, deep learning opportunities and of cou

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Following up on one aspect of Maha’s post yesterday on “fostering permeability in academia” , I wanted to point to “A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference Model: White Paper/Practical Guide,” published by the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The White Paper lays out the environmental and accessibility costs of conferences.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new Google for Education Certified Trainer Application is open, and Monica Martinez and Kate Petty from our team held a webinar to give you all the details you need to know to be prepared to apply! Presentation Slides Video Give them a peek and let us know if you have any questions! Learn more about our Trainer Bootcamps and our Mentoring program.

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 13, 2016

One of the most important things we can teach our students is to communicate ideas to others. Multimedia is a great tool to do just that. As educators, we would be negligent if we did not help our students become effective consumers and creators of multimedia. Because I believe strongly in this, I am always on the search for simple tools that allow students to communicate with words, pictures, video, and audio.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Students in the undergraduate program at California State University Northridge take notes as their classmates practice lessons they planned about phonics. Photo: Jackie Mader. Of the myriad problems facing teacher preparation, one piece of information explains a large part of the reason why the Dept. of Education’s new teacher prep regulations serve as a necessary and indeed hopeful development.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Better Video Lessons, Curriculum Management, Classroom Management, and Review with These Awesome Free Web Apps With the school year in full swing and students settling into their routines, October is. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Telecommunications giant Sprint unveiled plans this week to bring devices and wireless connectivity to 1 million impoverished high school students, in what it describes as an ambitious campaign to close the “homework gap.”. Students participating in the program will receive either a free smartphone, tablet, laptop, or “hotspot” device that offers them access to the web.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Crayons have been well-loved by children all over the world for decades. They are a universal tool for anyone and everyone who enjoys a little art therapy. Crayons are found in every classroom and almost every household with children. Because of their long time popularity, there are many more options on the market today, in addition to the wax original crayons we remember as kids.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As most parents know, kids respond emotionally to the grades they receive — and well beyond the jubilation that goes with an A+ or the despair that accompanies a D. When Jessie, an eighth-grader, got an uncharacteristically low score on a Spanish test, she felt not only embarrassed — “because I’d never done that badly before” — but lousy as well: “I didn’t feel as good about myself,” she said.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Part of several recent conversations that I’ve had with educators have focused on different levels of student engagement. We started each conversation by discussing the following matrix: The different quadrants of the matrix ask students to think about how challenging a class is and whether they love or hate it. We use this to get usable data from middle and high school students by asking them to select one quadrant that best describes each of their classes.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Jozef Jason came to the Fuller Cut barbershop for one reason: the kid’s mohawk. It’s almost second-grade picture day, and he wants to look good. He hops up onto an antique swivel chair and asks his barber for the new ‘do. “It’s high on the top and short on the bottom, and lines that go in a diagonal line where the top is gonna be,” explains the 7-year-old.

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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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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Every time I have a speaking engagement or consult, I hope the people that I serve have very high expectations of what I do. Not only do I want them to have high expectations of my work, I want to exceed their expectations. Having extremely high expectations of yourself, can be numbing and discouraging, as you tend to look at little details with a higher significance.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Edynco is a wonderful site for creating Learning Maps. This site reminds me of Prezi in that it allows educators to create a multimedia presentation that is "zoomable". These Learning Maps can contains all types of media (i.e. audio, video, images) and are ideal for "flipping" a classroom or Guided Learning. Best of all, a finished Map can be shared via a URL or embedded into a site/blog.

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ASIDE

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Source: PBS Learning Media As the national polls and the state-by-state predictions shake out in the final month of the 2016 campaign, the focus turns even more to the Electoral College as the actual arbiter of presidential glory. Somewhat enigmatic and certainly esoteric, the Electoral College stands as a tribute to the Founding Fathers' well-founded distrust of the new republic's voting population.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Otus the excellent and easy to use Learning Management System for schools has a sleek new design, that allows for easier functionality, a brighter customizable color interface, and real-time analytics and third party integration (i.e. Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets. Here is a list of their updated features. Cleaner Interface: A polished, streamlined functionality lets users more easily navigate existing features including polling for instant feedback, a real-time assessment center,

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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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