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Why I #LoveTeaching – Vicki Davis

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As part of #LoveTeaching week, I recorded some thoughts on why I love teaching. But I also have to share some of my heart about teaching, our future, and all of the amazing things our profession does for the future. Please share your story for #LoveTeaching week too! Today’s sponsor: Advancement Courses.

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5 Ways to Boost Middle School Science with Challenge Based Learning

Digital Promise

Science teachers are often encouraged to let go of some control to allow students to have a significant degree of choice and autonomy over their learning. But how can educators give up this control while being intentional about learning taking place in their classrooms? We’ve gathered five insights about effective Challenge Based Learning (CBL) in middle school science, informed by 18 teachers who participated in the Challenge Based Science Learning Project, a project funded by the William and F

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How to Know You Make a Difference #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this heartwarming episode, Christie shares one of the stories of how she knows she is making a difference. She also shares encouragement for the days when teachers fall short. For 21 years, Christie Thompson has loved teaching. She’s a guidance counselor and teacher of the year for her school this year in Texas.

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

The potential impact of Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom can’t be overstated. It has become the most exciting education device in a decade, enticing students to become engaged in pretty much any topic that includes a VR overlay. As a learning tool, it’s affordable, inclusive, and worth the moderate learning curve required to get it up and running.

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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.

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20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers

Ditch That Textbook

This post is by Paula Martínez, the creator of Slides Mania. Paula has a 9 to 5 job that has nothing to do with design or creativity or education! Making presentation templates has become a fun hobby that allows her to express her creativity. This led to SlidesMania being born. You can connect with Paula […]. The post 20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Best Practices for Ensuring Data Security in the Cloud

EdTech Magazine

Cloud solutions offer virtually limitless potential to educators. From interactive learning management systems to parent communication portals, cloud-based technologies provide state-of-the-art educational tools without the large investments required to build and maintain technical infrastructure. It’s no surprise that schools and districts around the nation are quickly embracing these tools as the future of educational technology.

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Product Spotlight: Fortigate Fortinet 60E Gives Schools High-Level Security

EdTech Magazine

Common security concerns for K–12 districts, particularly the frequent targeting for cyberattacks, are generally not balanced by increased budgets for defensive technology or talent. And although smaller facilities have become front-line targets, many regional and satellite schools must make do with shared IT resources and personnel. The Fortinet FortiGate 60E security appliance is a good choice for providing cybersecurity protection to smaller schools and regional offices without the need f

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Teacher Leaders Creating Change in Kenai

Education Elements

The team was sitting together after the final workshop for the final wave of schools jovially enjoying the moment with a sense of accomplishment. We did it. Teams and plans are in place and the momentum is palpable. As we focused on the task for the next hour we had set aside for strategic planning, the question surfaced immediately… What now? The flood gates opened and the previous celebratory moment became distant somehow as we stood staring at the warp speed status…warp 8, warp 9.

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Protect Parent Communications with Security Tools and Education

EdTech Magazine

When an employee of the Clinton Public School District in Mississippi was doxxed, leaving the employee’s private information vulnerable to public misuse, the district took action. But one of those actions — suspending all social media — left stakeholders frustrated. “Losing social media in the middle of the school year had a significant impact on our communication efforts,” says Sandi Beason, public information officer for the district.

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I Have Found My People – at the National Leadership Institutes!

Education Elements

“I found my people!” “This is like church!” “I feel so energized!” “Can we do this in our district?” These are just a few of the exclamations we heard at our National Leadership Institutes in 2019. We envisioned these events as a place to bring together leaders from across the country focused on similar problems of practice, but never imagined the depth of collaboration, learning, and friendship that would result.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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How to Find the Right Fit for Desktop Management

EdTech Magazine

K–12 IT leaders constantly deal with end-user laptop and desktop computers: hardware and operating system upgrades, software and security updates, user support and training. Both virtual desktop infrastructure and Desktop as a Service promise to help reduce the burden on IT managers. But which is right, and when? VDI resurrects the idea of mainframe computing: the device on the user’s desk serves as a remote display for an application that is running elsewhere.

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How This Teacher Brings Census Data to Life in the Classroom

Edsurge

Steve Kahlfeldt wants his students to grasp how the census impacts them right now, not in some far-off future. For example, the data determines how much funding Title I students receive for hot lunch programs, how much their families must pay in registration fees and whether there will be resources for after-school activities. That money also impacts staffing and resources for at-risk and special needs students.

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Best Practices for Ensuring Data Security in the Cloud

EdTech Magazine

Cloud solutions offer virtually limitless potential to educators. From interactive learning management systems to parent communication portals, cloud-based technologies provide state-of-the-art educational tools without the large investments required to build and maintain technical infrastructure. It’s no surprise that schools and districts around the nation are quickly embracing these tools as the future of educational technology.

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New Certification Rewards Education Products Backed by Research

Edsurge

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Black college presidents matter; we should lead from the top

The Hechinger Report

On February 12, Darryll Pines, the longstanding dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, was appointed president of the entire university. Over the course of more than 20 years at College Park, Pines rose through the ranks as a professor and administrator, building a distinguished academic and administrative track record that certainly warrants the appointment.

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5 Important Google Classroom Features for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a useful visual we published awhile ago featuring some of the new features added to Google Classroom during the second half of this year. To stay updated of the latest releases in Google.

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Diary of a Small College’s Fight For Survival

Edsurge

An experimental college in Vermont is among the many small colleges fighting for survival. Last summer we interviewed the new president of Goddard College , Bernard Bull, about his plans to turn it around. Things weren’t pretty. The college, which has fewer than 500 students, most of whom participate in its signature “limited-residency program” where they do most of their studying away from the campus, was facing a budget deficit and had just been put on probation by its accreditor.

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Problem Learning Reads for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

PBL is a student centred and process-oriented approach. It puts a premium on the process leading to understanding. Its main objective is to prepare students for real world scenarios where.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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OPINION: Five lessons on how states can invest in high-quality child care and early education

The Hechinger Report

Louisiana and Mississippi are fundamentally changing their thinking about the early years and serving their youngest learners as they face similar challenges, including poverty and educational struggles. “It comes down to making sure that public systems focus and act on something that parents and other caregivers understand: What happens in the early years matters so much to everything that will happen later.” Starting the process with learners from birth to age 5 is one of the most

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A Movie Microcosm on Culture

Adjusting Course

When I was in high school (and probably part of college) my friends and I had this thing. And when I say “thing” I mean contest. The contest involved a ritual we would follow before going to the movies. First, we'd stop at a gas station to load up on an obscene amount of food. Next, we’d drive to the local movie theater to buy tickets while simultaneously trying to sneak the previously purchased food inside.

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6 Research-Backed Study Techniques

EmergingEdTech

Study Wisely. Use Techniques that are Proven. Being in academia is no easy task. Whether you’re a student or an educator, managing your time to study or plan classes can be difficult. Developing time. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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3 Questions to Consider to Help Get Out of a Rut

The Principal of Change

Ever read a sentence or two, and it just stopped you in your tracks? . This quote from Seth Godin’s blog did just that for me: “Ruts don’t dig themselves. Most of the time, we’re in a rut because that’s precisely where we put ourselves.” Yup. Sometimes it is easy to feel lost professionally and personally, but in just reading this statement, here are a few questions I have been thinking about: 1.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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2020 JNUC session proposals now open

Jamf on EdTech

Have a story of Apple and Jamf success that you want to share at the 2020 Jamf Nation User Conference? Let us hear it!

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How to Create an Effective Coaching Calendar

EdTechTeam

Instructional coaching can be chaotic. You have weekly teacher meetings, classroom visits, required paperwork and some of you may also have “other duties as assigned” on your campuses. We know that time management is a crucial skill for being a successful instructional coach. Keeping an up-to-date calendar will be essential in helping to manage your time effectively.

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Promoting Inclusion With Peer Support Arrangements

N2Y

Is your school or district providing opportunities for inclusion in compliance with IDEA? Are you looking for strategies to better integrate unique learners into the general education setting? Consider developing peer support arrangements between students with significant disabilities and their general education peers. Our expert shares evidence‑based practices that provide opportunities for both groups to build rich relationships, develop strong social values, and discover new skills and

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Massachusetts District Chooses Discovery Education Experience

techlearning

Massachusetts’ Andover Public Schools (APS) announce the selection of Discovery Education Experience to support child-centered learning in K-12 classrooms districtwide.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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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Encouraging Community

Kyle Pace

Hey Google, “Define community.” I feel like we are at a time in education where now more than ever, we need to be encouraging each other to find belonging in a professional community. We have communities within our neighborhoods, our places of worship, book clubs, sports teams, the list can go on and on. How much are we not only encouraging but providing time for teachers, administrators, and other staff members to participate in a professional community to learn with?

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Top 20 Sites and Apps for Creating Timelines

techlearning

Digital tools for K-12 students that are ideal for creating timelines.

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Expediting curriculum mapping in an under-resourced district

eSchool News

In our small, rural district in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, we face a number of challenges including a high rate of poverty, a rather pronounced teacher shortage, and a limited budget. Given these challenges, education technology is a resource we can’t afford to go without. For instance, just 18 months ago, we had no central place where our curriculum was housed, revised, or accessible to students or to the public.

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Puget Sound Organizations Partner to Deliver Free Technology Education for Refugees

techlearning

Coding Dojo today announces a partnership with Jewish Family Service and Community Credit Lab to provide free computer programming education for local refugees.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks