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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Two education experts offer up best practices for utilizing mobile technology.

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I’m excited to tell you about a great conference you can attend in your pajamas from the comfort of your own couch! In December, you can take part in the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit. It’s an online conference that features nine presentations from educators who are doing amazing things in technology, pedagogy, inquiry and more. [.].

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

During a professional development session a while back I thought I killed someone. He didn’t respond when his name was called. He didn’t respond I tapped his shoulder. Finally, he responded when I shook him a bit harder. Lucky for me (and him) he was just asleep. But it was a wake up call to me and the way I approached delivering Professional Development.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Grade 9 Geography was in trouble. Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. The Board wanted to help teachers better engage students; to do this effectively, it needed clearer insight into teacher needs.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Google Add-Ons and Extensions provide an excellent array of research, writing and feedback tools perfect for laptop, desktop, and Chromebook users. In this multi-part series, you’ll learn some of the best Google Drive Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions for use in middle school and high school English & Language Arts, History & Social Studies, World Languages, and Science classrooms.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Paying for technology shouldn’t have to come solely out of a school or district’s already-strapped budget. For some districts, the best way to attain massive amounts of money to pay for edtech purchases or initiatives is through bonds. Take Milpitas Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area, which proposed a bond measure to pay for technology remodeling school spaces back in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Children play with musical instruments during free time at Redcliffe Children’s Centre, a public nursery school in Bristol, England. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Personalized learning is all the rage. And for good reason. Our world is rapidly changing, and students need a broader set of skills to lead the future — adaptability, goal-setting, critical thinking, problem-solving, executive functioning, collaboration.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

November 21, 2016 The nonprofit Common Sense media is a great educational platform for teachers and educators seeking to enhance their professional development growth and learn about classroom-tested.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Photo: Julienne Schaer. On the first day of school, Taylor Delhagen directs his ninth-grade students to write “tweets” about Michael Brown’s killing in Ferguson based on different depictions of events he posted around the room. When children in Classroom A and Classroom B show the same improvement on their math tests, Teachers A and B get the same evaluation score, and the assumption is that both teachers excel at the same things.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

November 21, 2016 An effective strategy to enhance your professional development growth is through attending conferences. However, given time constraints and other obligations (e,g family, work.read more.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I’m one of those humanities professors who is increasingly introducing technology-intensive assignments and activities into what would otherwise be more conventional, analog courses on writing and literature. And if you teach a large or largish class that involves in-class, hands-on work with digital tools, you would do well to come up with teaching strategies appropriate for that particular situation.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Ed-tech startups Firefly Learning and Handshake scored funds from investors. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Firefly Raises $5.6 Million; Handshake Raises $20 Million appeared first on Market Brief.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Curtis Chandler can’t help but worry a bit about the ‘video-fication’ of our students. Is academic progress being hindered by excessive and ineffective video use? He identifies best practices and several tech tools that can help make sure videos augment learning.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Pearson says the work of Barber, a one-time adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been baked into the corporation's product development and research, worldwide. The post Top Adviser to Pearson, Michael Barber, to Leave Company appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Insert Drawings into Google Apps I live for collaboration and feedback conversations instead of comments. This is what I love about using G Suite with Google Apps. Instead of scribbling comments onto a kids paper that they probably do not get a lot of learning out of, switching to inserting comments in a Google Docs, […]. The post Insert Drawings into Google Apps appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If you love the idea of working in a school environment, but you don’t fancy training to be a full-time teacher, then becoming a teaching assistant (TA) might be just the job for you. There are many reasons why you might be considering taking on this role. You may have just had a family of […]. The post 5 Great Reasons to Become a Teaching Assistant appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sign up Now to Take Part in This Award Winning Free Professional Development Opportunity The third iteration of The 12 Apps of Christmas (#12appsDIT) will start on December 1st and will run online. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Like many parents, Nicole Hambric’s two kids are very different from one another. Her older daughter is a straight A student who did well in traditional public school, but her younger daughter, Jada, never really liked school. She would do just enough to get by, but often struggled to understand lessons the first time and felt rushed by the pace of her classes.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Holding students’ attentions can be hard, especially in a large classroom where courselessons tend to be less personal. College lecture halls can often turn into vast rooms of day dreaming minds. With so many people in one room, nobody is pressured to listen or participate the same way as, say, a 20-person class. The problem […]. The post Lecture Hall Hacks to Hold Attention Spans by @racheljnt appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Fractions are a notoriously tricky part of elementary math education for many children. Too often teachers struggle to ensure students are grasping the conceptual underpinnings of this complicated topic, resorting to “tricks” that will help them learn the procedures of adding or multiplying instead. This is particularly troubling because studies have shown that students’ knowledge of sixth grade fractions is a good predictor of their math achievement in high school.

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esri

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In spring of 2016, Minnesota announced an ArcGIS Online competition for high school and middle school students across the state. From initial discussion to completion was barely three months, but they had over 200 entries from 25 schools across the state. Hearing Minnesota’s initial announcement, Arkansas created a twin event. On the strength of these successes, it’s time to take the idea up a notch.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In my book, “ The Innovator’s Mindset “, I shared “The Mantra of an Innovative Educator” Here is what I wrote: I am an educator. I am an innovator. I am an innovative educator and I will continue to ask: “What is best for learners?” With this empathetic approach, I will create and design learning experiences with that question as a starting point.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Toy trucks are a staple for children of all ages and boys and girls love to play with miniature trucks, in the playroom, in the backyard and even in the tub. Toy vehicles are great for imaginative play. Kids can play at being a trucker, a construction worker, firefighter or a farmer. They can use their toy truck to shovel dirt, transport smaller cars and dig holes in the garden (who doesn’t love that!).

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

My current cohort of computing and ICT specialists during a seminar A new breed of teachers is emerging. This next generation of educators are just as determined to make a difference as previous generations of teachers. The difference with this generation of educators though, is that they have a huge array of new technologies and tools, and they know how to use them.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Just like reading an interactive ebook is more engaging than reading a print textbook, creating a digital book is a lot more fun than writing a typical report or essay. But more important than making learning fun, creating an interactive ebook gives students who struggle with writing a better tool for sharing their ideas and demonstrating knowledge.

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District Administration

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Have you noticed how your students' eyes light up at the prospect of playing a game? Watch this Solution Showcase with Stride product specialist Bill Heuer to learn more about how digital games can help motivate your students, and transform your classroom into a place students beg to be. Date of broadcast: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 10:30am Watch Now.

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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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techlearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In this activity, students use sample statistics based on actual HDF data to unravel some cosmic mysteries.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Process. Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? This article examines four steps I undertook when teaching a first year undergraduate accounting course. First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Simple, straightforward approach to quickly creating basic animation.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The post Everything You Wanted to Know About the Google Certified Trainer Application appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Google Certified Trainer Application Requirements. As you may already know, Google updated the Google Certified Trainer program in September of 2016. You can learn about the details of these changes in my previous post: 6 Steps to Google Certified Trainer , including an infographic and explanatory video.

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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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