Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. I’ve taught in person, online, and in blended learning environments. The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2021

Dr. Rachael George shares advice on how to help kids now From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students are returning to school and teachers and administrators know a learning gap is there. What do we do about it? How do we close the gap without stressing everyone out? Turnaround principal Rachael George tells us how.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2021

Here are the most-read posts for the month of February. 100th Day of School — Make it about Learning. #WorldReadAloudDay February 5. 5 (free) Tech Problem Solving Posters. Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology. Math Word Problems. Random Acts of Kindness Day. How Will You Celebrate? Inspire Kids to Pursue an IT Degree. How Fast Should Kids Type. Tech Tip #31: 10 Best Keyboarding Hints.

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Education Elements

MARCH 1, 2021

Time is weird right now. Hours can feel like months, weeks can feel like days, and a year into a global pandemic feels both like an eon and a few seconds at the same time. Regardless of how we perceive time or how much time has actually elapsed since school days shifted from 3D to 2D learning, we know that our students have coped with this complex time in a myriad of ways.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 1, 2021

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in February 2021… Critical Race Theory (3rd ed.), Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic [legal]. Fatemarked , David Estes [fantasy]. Truthmarked , David Estes [fantasy]. Soulmarked , David Estes [fantasy] . Kingdoms and Chaos , Kel Kade [fantasy]. Buddhist Boot Camp , Timber Hawkeye [spiritual]. Hope you’re reading something fun too!

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

Education technology has exploded in the last decade. And with the onset of COVID-19, technology integration in schools has only accelerated. We are not short on technology products or solutions. All students need to have the ability to access their teachers and their lessons. Yet, Samsung—long the leader in digital displays—believes that education needs smart and sensible solutions that truly transform teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 1, 2021

The popular Book Creator app has recently introduced a new interesting feature called templates to help teachers and students design professional looking books in few easy steps. There are now two.read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2021

Instead of the usual hustle and bustle through bright and crowded exhibit hall aisles, trade shows kept exhibitors and attendees at home this year and took a virtual approach to showcasing new edtech tools and trends. During FETC and TCEA in late January and early February, virtual attendees attended presentations and engaging keynotes –and also had the chance to explore the online exhibit hall full of new edtech tools, products, and solutions to help educators as COVID learning approaches

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2021

There’s a really terrific conversation happening on the cc-openedu listserv. It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. Dr. Chuck contributed over the weekend, and his contribution provides a great opportunity for me to respond with the first substantive post since I changed the name of the blog.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

As we sift through the consequences of the pandemic for our children, educators and education researchers are likely going to be learning lessons about our school system for years to come. One truth has already been made clear: learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. That may sound like a prosaic observation, but the pandemic has put it front and center in a visceral way by bringing teachers , via Zoom, into all the places children are learning—none of which are classrooms.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2021

As 2020 came to a close, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that ST Math is freely available to all Texans through TEA's Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL 3.0) initiative. All Texans can sign up to receive free access to ST Math for K-5 through December 2023 at www.stmath.com/texas. Since free access was announced in December 2020, over one million students from 1,500 schools across 240 districts have signed up for ST Math.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 1, 2021

As school leaders navigate challenging times, roadside assistance from higher-ups can be invaluable. Award-winning middle school principal Jessica Cabeen shares five practices she's developed to make sure the paths of communication and support stay open now and in the future. The post Roadside Assistance from the District Office first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Insight Education Group

MARCH 1, 2021

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate headlines, we need no reminder about the pandemic’s impact on our daily lives. Routines have been upended, gatherings canceled, and—for many parents of school-age children—in-person schooling has been disrupted. As it turns out as of the fall 2020 semester, between 40% and 60% of students have been enrolled in districts that offer only remote learning.

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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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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 1, 2021

Games to Learn English is a great site for ESL/ELL students looking to learn English in a fun and engaging way. This is done through educational games such as: Fast English, Perfect Tense, and Monster Phrases. Also, Games to Learn English works w/ Google Classroom and lets teachers create homework assignments and track student accounts. I highly recommend checking out Games to Learn English by clicking here !!!

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

MARCH 1, 2021

Engineers demonstrate how a testing strategy they call 'distanced online testing' can effectively reduce students' ability to receive help from one another in order to score higher on a test taken at individual homes during social distancing.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 1, 2021

Mobile Permissions is the excellent free site the educators are using to easily send "digital" permission slips for FREE. Recently, they launched a new feature which lets educators send permission slips "on demand" which is ideal for when teachers need immediate permission of a parent/guardian and don't have time to wait for a form to be returned. Also, this is a perfect tool to use w/ Remote Learning due to the closures of school from the worldwide pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

There are approximately 3,700 higher ed institutions in the U.S. There are about 1,329,900 teachers employed by these institutions. Add in roughly 144,880 administrators , and that means nearly 1.5 million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. Around the world there were 4.20 billion active social media users at the start of 2021, according to DataReportal.com.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 1, 2021

Be sure to check out STW for all their St. Patrick's Day ideas such as: educational games, word searches, activities, and more!!! Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.

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MindShift

MARCH 1, 2021

Back when school was in person, Josh Secrett was always tired. “I used to come home and just lay down and go to sleep for like hours,” the eighth-grader says. “Wake up for dinner, go to bed.” Josh’s mom, Sharnissa Secrett, says teachers at his Portland, Ore., school would sometimes discipline Josh for small things, like talking when he wasn’t supposed to.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 1, 2021

Peanuts in the Classroom is a wonderful site for educational resources and lesson plans ages 4-13 yrs old. These resources are PDF's, printables, and worksheets that covers ares such as : STEM, Space, Social Studies, Language Arts, and more. I highly recommend checking out Peanuts in the Classroom by clicking here !!!

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 1, 2021

Conversation with the authors streaming on Facebook , March 2, 4p PT/7p ET. “…(W)e find it appropriate to deem Tamika and Malia both dreamers and visionaries, recognizing the criticality, creativity, and multimodal literacy skills that Black adolescent girls must have to make futures that resist deficit images of Black women and girls.”. Our March reading for LEARN: Marginal Syllabus describes the career dreams and future goals of Tamika and Malia.

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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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