Fri.Jan 01, 2021

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Public Domain Day and Happy New Year!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every year, January 1st, is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2021 : F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

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Command and control versus key principles and autonomy

Dangerously Irrelevant

In Leadership and the New Science , Margaret Wheatley noted: Scientists now describe how order and form are created not by complex controls, but by the presence of a few guiding formulas or principles repeating back on themselves through the exercise of individual freedom. The survival and growth of systems that range in size from large ecosystems down to the smallest microbial colonies are sustained by a few key principles that express the system’s overall identity combined with high leve

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EdSurge Reflects On a Year of Pandemic-Era Education Journalism

Edsurge

As 2020 fades into 2021, EdSurge journalists offer the following personal reflections about reporting on education during the coronavirus pandemic. Seeking Real Solutions By Tony Wan It has never been a better time to be in education. It has also never been a worse time to be in education. Which is it for you? The answer depends on where you are in this ecosystem.

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Books I read in December 2020

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in December 2020… Call for the Dead , John Le Carré [thriller]. A Song for the Dark Times , Ian Rankin [thriller]. Rhythm of War , Brandon Sanderson [fantasy]. Gust Front , John Ringo [sci fi]. Earthgrip , Harry Turtledove [sci fi]. Hard Sell , Piers Anthony [sci fi]. Killer Station , Martin Caidin [sci fi].

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system.

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5 of The Best Formative Assessment Tools in 2020

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Happy new year! We hope you are enjoying your time with your loved ones. In today's post I am sharing with you five of our favourite assessment tools for the year 2020. I invite you to check them out.read more.

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A Practical Tool for Creating Animated Cartoons to Use in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FlipaClipa is the first tool I review in 2021. FlipaClip is a mobile app that teachers and students can use to create educational animations of various sorts. It offers a wide variety of.read more.

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6 Ultimate Productivity Tips to Help You Build Your EDU Brand in 2021

TeacherCast

Welcome Content Creators! Click To Download This Poster. If you are reading this blog, you are probably interested in learning how to better organize your podcast, blog, website, or other content creating adventure. In this post, we are going to take a look at my 6 Ultimate Productivity Tips to help you Build Your EDU Brand. As they say, Rome wasn't built in a day and your EDU Brand certainly won't be either, but without doing these simple steps and having some simple conversations with yoursel

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Another Year, Another Journey.

Linways Technologies

As we enter 2021, we restructured our Mission and Vision. We all had that one strict teacher in school that everyone used to hate. The one who was so hard on us that we would do anything to escape her class. But at some point we realise all those hard times she put us through actually helped us move forward in life because lessons from the past bears the torch for the future. 2020 was one such strict teacher.

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7 Books To Help Address and Discuss Tough Topics With Kids

MindShift

2020 was — to borrow a phrase from a popular kid’s book — a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. And for parents, one of the year’s hardest jobs was trying to explain current events to young kids. “We are living in challenging times,” says children’s book author Matt de la Peña — and kids are taking a lot of it in. “While you and I read the news, watch the news, listen to the news — our young children are watching and reading us, and so they’re no

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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.