Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math. by Dennis Pierce. Like many U.S. school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Thanks to its cost, accessibility and innovation, school districts are embracing cloud to boost student outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A post sponsored by TeacherVision From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Social emotional learning is a hot topic these days. Some states are trying to write SEL into their state standards. Truly, when many of us read about emotional intelligence many years ago, we started discussing social emotional learning.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

By David Hutchins CoSN report highlights the challenges preventing districts from ensuring digital equity.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD), a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , is a suburban district in Wisconsin leading some of the most advanced competency-based education (CBE) efforts in the country. KMSD knows that innovation and change, however, are not sustainable without systemic buy-in at all levels. Superintendent Pat Deklotz and Assistant Superintendent Theresa Ewald have worked with their team to create a culture that empowers teachers and students to be thou

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ed-tech startups need to be patient as their education customers work out the kinds of a new school year. The post The Start of School Means Chaos for Your Education Customers appeared first on Market Brief.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Screenshot Student Work When reviewing student work, it can be helpful to have a visual of what you were looking at. Since you have the student work open, why not take a screenshot (or video) of it?! When leaving feedback students are then able to see exactly what you are seeing to match what you […]. The post If You Look At Student Work Take a Screenshot appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Christine Pinto in episode 142 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This Ed Tech Tool Tuesday is a “GAFE for Littles” episode. Kindergarteners making web pages – and more – on their Chromebooks! Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. The beginning of the school year is an opportune time for educators to create a classroom culture that celebrates difference, says Katherine Boles , who directs the Learning and Teaching program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This time of year is full of hope. Kids are excited for school and hoping they will get the best teachers and be with their best friends. Teachers are excited and hoping that this year their students will achieve great things and be more engaged than the year before. And leaders are hoping that the hard work that they are putting in against their strategic plans and initiatives will pay off with successful students and satisfied staff.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Every good athlete needs a coach to help them improve their practice, from student athletes to superstars like LeBron James and Serena Williams. This same principle can—and should—be applied to our teachers. Teacher effectiveness is an essential factor to ensure that each student is achieving their highest potential in school. In my suburban Chicago district, Maine Township High School District 207, each and every one of our teachers receives coaching on a regular basis.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to this first post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century LEarning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. In this first post, I would like to build the idea of why Authenticity is so important in any deeper learning experience. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow… on Twitter at mjgormans.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This past week a triad of education surveys ushered the start of the new school year. For those covering education technology, these annual forecasts mark the passing of time. They offer a pulse check on the latest hopes and fears (along with tips for headlines and SEO). They’re as consistent as a ticking clock—but never quite as precise. The General Public.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

September 5, 2017 Below is a chart we have been working on for the last couple of days. It features a number of key resources to try out in this new school year. We arranged these resources into four.read more.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For educators across the country, it’s time to get back at it. Summer is over, and if we are not yet back in school teaching, we are sorting through class rosters, getting our first week planned, and tying up the hundreds of loose ends that need to be addressed before we welcome our students back to school. However, for many of educators, the end of summer signals not a return to work, but rather a continuation of our efforts to support the success of all students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The post No, Your Brain Isn’t Divided By Creativity And Logic appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Whatever peace and quiet educators may have expected over Labor Day weekend were rattled by a Saturday morning New York Times story: “ Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.” The piece from Natasha Singer examines the murky relationship between edtech developers and the educators who tout their products. At issue is whether “ambassador” programs and other branding efforts, wherein companies give teachers T-shirts, gift cards and other perks, constitute ethical violatio

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In this episode, we discuss the transformation from classroom teacher to educational leadership and how you can safely navigate through the heard of issues surrounding starting a new school year. | Techeducator Podcast Episode 164. The post Are you ready to Release your Leadership Brilliance? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I am a firm believer in developing and maintaining authentic relationships. It is important to have that with the families of students because if their parents don’t trust you, I feel that their child(ren) won’t either. Rita Pierson, my favorite educator, said, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.” Be honest, would you want to sit and listen to someone you don’t like?

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Cloud-based backup provider Crashplan (which we mentioned in Do You Have a Backup Plan? announced in August that it would no longer offer subscriptions designed for home or personal use. Current users’ plans would continue to run for a little over a year, until October 2018 when the Home version of their product would be shuttered completely. (Crashplan will continue to offer their Small Business package.).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

People walk to a Harris County Sheriff air boat while escaping a flooded neighborhood during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Floodwaters have breached a levee south of the city of Houston, officials said Tuesday, urging residents to leave the area immediately. Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images). Hurricane Harvey spared our town, about four hours from Houston and near the Mexican border.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Reading through and pondering the reactions to what was apparently a wonderful ALTC keynote by Bonnie Stewart, I find myself reflecting on the ways my thinking about “open” is influenced by the ideas of negative liberty and positive liberty. This is certainly not the only lens through which I see open, but I do feel like it is a useful one.

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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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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

How can co-teachers honor the strengths and needs of each learner and assure everyone becomes an important contributor to the classroom learning experience? Elizabeth Stein believes the process begins by creating a framework that makes every student's thinking visible.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Profits from slavery and related industries helped fund some of the most prestigious schools in the Northeast, including Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. And in many southern states — including the University of Virginia — enslaved people built college campuses and served faculty and students.

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The Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The Day 2 #EduroChallenge as we start school is all about getting excited about learning. There are moments when I’m not excited about learning until I’m in the learning process…and then once that happens I’m all in. Take learning how to ski for example. I didn’t want to learn to ski. I mean I wanted to ski but I didn’t want to have to go through the learning process.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What it is: I adore the DragonBox math apps ! I was first introduced to DragonBox through their Algebra app. The app takes away all math anxiety by teaching algebraic concepts without numbers or algorithms. It is genius! You can read my review of that app here. DragonBox Numbers is for kids who are new to numbers, counting, addition, and subtraction.

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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 Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Sometimes we need a little nudge to do the things we know are good for us. Like blogging…I know it’s good for me, I always mean to do it, but doing it…that’s the hard part. I think that’s in part why at Eduro Learning we decided to do a 21-day challenge to start the school year off with. Not only to challenge others, but ourselves to be more reflective as this new school year gets under way here in America.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The post 2017 Library Of Congress Literacy Awards Announced appeared first on TeachThought.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Image source: Chicago Sunday Tribune Back in 1959, when television was still monochrome, and movie films ruled the entertainment industry, people were already dreaming about how we could capture the moving image for home use. Video recorders were very much in their infancy. The first commercially available video recording device wasn't available until 1956, and the more affordable home video cassette recorders (VCRs) such as VHS and Betamax would not be seen in homes for at least another two dec

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GoConqr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library”. ~ Albert Einstein. The new GoConqr Library. Since we launched GoConqr, users have been busy creating engaging online learning material – so much that we have over 8 million resources and courses in our online learning library! While you can’t have too much of a good thing, we realised that some of our members wanted an easier way to sort through the engaging content created by other members – you want to find con

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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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