A Principal's Reflections

MAY 7, 2017

The following post is adapted from BrandED: Tell Your Story, Build Relationships, and Empower Learning. Branding matters in the changing world of learning, fueled by powerful digital resources (Sheninger, 2014). It’s time to make a choice – define or be defined. Telling a powerful school story and reaching an audience have never been more possible than in today’s digital world, and never more necessary for a leader to embrace in a new world of competition and choice.

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Doug Levin

MAY 7, 2017

We have a choice to make about the future of instructional materials in a digital age. As physical books are replaced by digital replicas and - increasingly - by interactive software, do we continue to believe that public school instructional materials should be subject to public inspection?

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Teacher Tech

MAY 7, 2017

I have been loving using Google Sites to create tutorials. The autosizing of pictures, the easy insertion of items from Google Drive, mixing text with video and images, and other features that just make the process easier. Along the way I’ve discovered some hidden features of Google Sites that you might like to try! 7 […]. The post 7 Hidden Tips for Google Sites appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 7, 2017

May 7, 2017 Here are 12 iPad apps students can use on their iPad to access, browse and search for information on any topic they want, from learning about stats and facts on specific countries.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 7, 2017

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 7, 2017

May 7, 2017 One Tomato is an excellent time management app to use on your iPad. With a simple and intuitive interface, One Tomato is designed to help you make the best of your time. It is based on.read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 7, 2017

May 7, 2017 Here 4 interesting iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. The first one is a time management app that allows you to track your daily activities. PhotoViva is.read more.

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EmergingEdTech

MAY 7, 2017

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week's wrap is a rich one, packed with nuggets of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techieMusings

MAY 7, 2017

When I first began flipping my math classroom in 2010, the ability to screencast, upload to the web, and have students be able to watch lectures at their own pace was exciting and innovative. Though that was a step in the direction to a more personalized, student-centered classroom, tech tools that have emerged in the past four years have truly revolutionized what is possible.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 7, 2017

I’ve written A LOT about behavior management: creating a strong, positive classroom culture and being proactive, as well as what to do about extreme student behaviors and how to undo your classroom management mistakes. I’ve talked about how to avoid getting discouraged by these kinds of behaviors, and how to not give up on apathetic kids. But I haven’t addressed practical responses in the moment to student attitudes: How should you respond to the little things students do that are r

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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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MiddleWeb

MAY 7, 2017

As summer approaches, finding a balance between post-testing fluff and demanding, multi-week projects can be a challenge. Middle school teacher Cheryl Mizerny shares a bevy of her own classroom-tested activities that are brief, enjoyable and likely to spur learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2017

For students who arrived in the U.S. before their 16 th birthday, the federal program that provides benefits to undocumented young people has been invaluable. But the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), has faced uncertainty since President Trump took office. This uncertainty underscores the need for. University staff, administrators and faculty to create infrastructures to support their undocumented students.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 7, 2017

At EduCon, a group of EduColor folks sat around a table at a Chinese restaurant. This idea comforted me. Generations of activists, from veterans of the teaching activism game to an infant with her fist raised. We sat there, saddened by those who couldn’t join us, excited at possibilities for resistance, and united under this thing we call a movement.

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