EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Teaching Teachers to Put Tech Tools to Work. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 10/21/2019 - 11:34. There’s a temptation in the world of educational technology to think that if only instructors had the right tools, all their teaching troubles would go away. But Kathleen Perdisatt knows better. Technology “should be the secret sauce on a teacher’s plate,” and not another dish altogether, says Perdisatt, an educational technology teacher on special assignment at Saugus Union School District in Santa Clarita

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 21, 2019

[callout]This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.com./[/callout] Escape rooms are a fun adventure where you solve puzzles to escape from the room. To add to the adventure, you usually have a time limit. I love creating […]. The post How to create a digital escape room for your class or PD appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2019

“Not everyone plays sports or practices religion…but everyone eats!” This is the message behind “Around the Same Table,” one of nine student-produced 360? films screened at the United Nations General Assembly in September as part of MY World 360? , a partnership between Digital Promise Global, Oculus , and the UN SDG Action Campaign.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Escape rooms are a fun adventure where you solve puzzles to escape from the room. To add to the adventure, you usually have a time limit. I love creating physical escape rooms in my classroom. They are fun and they get the students up and moving in the classroom. However, there are a few drawbacks […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tara Martin on episode 576 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Tara Martin has written a book to help children (and adults) face their fears called Cannonball In! Today, we talk about a powerful metaphor and the risks of life and how sometimes we have to jump! Enjoy! Listen to Tara Martin Talk about Overcoming Fear Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When I started teaching, videos were used only for a few reasons: to teach historical events, as a prize for something students did well, or for the sub to fill the time while I was out. A lot has changed since then, most importantly, teachers now recognize that students learn in a variety of ways, only one of which is via text. Why use videos. It turns out, videos are much more than the distraction from life Hollywood would have us believe or the visual encyclopedia those educational movies of

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Whether you own a small business, run a nonprofit, or run a Fortune 500 company, you’ve most likely noticed the demands of the workforce are changing. The shift toward businesses becoming more purposeful within their own organizations, and how they interact with the world has a new calling. With word-of-mouth spreading faster than lightning, almost no industry has gone untouched by the rapid technological changes we’ve seen across the globe.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. “Oooooh! That's a scary dinosaur,” gasps the teacher Tracy McChester. Sitting on the mat, surrounded by a half-dozen toddlers and a baby, she asks the little boy what sound a dinosaur makes: “Roar!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Below is a collection of some useful iPad apps curated specifically for middle school students. These are apps students can use to learn and enrich their knowledge about a wide variety of topics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2015, East Upper and Lower Schools—formerly East High School—in Rochester, New York entered into a unique partnership between the New York State Education Department, Rochester City School District and the University of Rochester. This Educational Partnership Organization aims to curtail a trend of academic underperformance and high rates of truancy, absenteeism and dropout, which had plagued East High for a number of years.

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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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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Create a Branching Google Form Design your Google Forms to provide immediate feedback by utilizing branching options. Create multiple sections in your Form and add only one question per section that determines which section to jump to next. Answer correctly and the branching should take the student to the next question. Answer incorrectly and […].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a bit more predictable: get states to switch to its own model, of course. In lieu of administering a lengthy end-of-year high stakes test, the Portland, Ore.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff takes a look at several reasons why it's important for our teachers to be involved in their professional learning decisions. The post Are Your Teachers Involved In Their Professional Learning? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode, Jeff takes a look at several reasons why it's important for our teachers to be involved in their professional learning decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood. Leave this field empty if you're human: Aspiring educators will soon take a revised certification exam that school leaders hope will make it easier for would-be teachers to pass and will help communities facing shortages fill vacancies. .

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Below is a chart we published a few weeks ago featuring some interesting TED Ed lessons social studies teachers can use in class with their students. These are video lessons created by teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

How do you say “subsidized loan” in Spanish? . Or in Tagalog? Or in German? . Every year, students across the United States open their financial-aid letters from the colleges to which they have worked hard to be admitted. The letters are there to tell students, and their parents or guardians, how much money they are being offered to help pay for their college journey — and how much they have to pay themselves.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At Common Sense Education, the edtech reviewers have seen it all. To help teachers navigate the plethora of materials for the digital classroom, Tanner Higgin, director of Education Editorial Strategy at Common Sense Education, presented “ 50 Top Edtech Tools for the Classroom.”. Following are some of Higgin’s favorite classroom edtech tools. Free favorites. ?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Ed tech companies are benefitting from the rise of impact funds. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 million from investors. One of the investors — the MaRS Catalyst Fund — was unusual. It’s backed by the philanthropic foundation of Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and it aims to solve societal problems as it makes profits.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

We know political advertising persuades and influences. When we use campaign ads in instruction and guide students through the analysis and deconstruction process, writes media literacy expert Frank Baker, we’re helping them become better critical thinkers and viewers.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In our work, we’ve learned that when a school gains access to high-speed Internet, the entire community can see positive benefits and economic growth. That’s why we’re proud to partner with the Rural Schools Collaborative to help address school connectivity gaps, specifically in rural areas. Together, we look forward to celebrating rural educators already using the Internet to enhance instruction.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Our country has a day just for nuts.National Nut Day is 10/22. Check out this informative site that looks at the world of the peanut. This tiny legume, commonly considered a nut, had a great influence on our economy. Find out how George Washington Carver changed the economy of the South with his research on the lowly peanut.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Image credit: Tumisu, Pixabay. Feedback for learning is clearly effective. The debate is over on this topic. What I do wonder is when it is a good time to provide feedback. In theory, it is straight-forward. In practice, there is much to consider. Below is a list of possible prerequisites we need as teachers and leaders before we start doling out feedback. .

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Schools should anticipate being the focus of increased scrutiny and challenges to the accessibility of their websites.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Image from Pixabay I'm intrigued by esoteric theories, and one is the simulated universe hypothesis - you know, the idea that we might all be living in a simulated universe, similar to the Matrix movies. As I was searching through web pages on the subject today, I found a text on Crystalinks and it is fascinating: "A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

ClassTag is a messaging tool for teachers and their students' families.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Globe of Extremes is a very cool interactive globe that has "hot keys"/plots w/ interesting facts about extreme information in the world. For example, if you wanted to learn about what the highest populated city is away from an ocean or the lowest point below sea level is on earth, this would be the place to go. I highly recommend checking out the Globe of Extremes by clicking here !!!

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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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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate station rotation workshops with teachers using StudySync , I encourage them to consider designing offline discussion stations. There is value in having a small group of six to eight students discuss a text as opposed to facilitating a whole group discussion. In a small student-led discussion, every student has an opportunity to speak, they are responsible for keeping the conversation going, and they rely on each other as resources to dig deeper into the discussion questions.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Coding and robotics go hand-in-hand, and they’re becoming a more integral part of classrooms across the country. Aside from the excitement students muster when they see a robotics kit morph into a controllable arm or a tiny programmable vehicle, coding and robotics offer a little bit more than a fun classroom experience. When students participate in coding and robotics activities, they’re learning employability skills such as teamwork and collaboration, problem solving, the ability t

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MindShift

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Excerpted from Tech With Heart by Stacey Roshan, copyright 2019. Reprinted with permission by Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. By Stacey Roshan. Pencils down, time’s up. Capture all multiples of five before the timer is up. Game over! In elementary school, I felt as if I was always being timed in math. And I could never finish in time. Tests made me panic, I had to count on my fingers and toes, and my friend was always faster than me when we practiced flashcards.

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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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