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Review: The Synology DiskStation 1019+ Offers Easier-to-Use Storage

EdTech Magazine

Review: The Synology DiskStation 1019+ Offers Easier-to-Use Storage. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 10/14/2019 - 11:44. Schools often lack a full-time computer systems administrator, and keeping up with new versions of server operating systems such as Windows Server or Linux Server requires significant training. . A network-attached storage server like the Synology DiskStation DS1019+ touts easy-to-use storage minus the ongoing maintenance and administrative costs. .

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Help Students Select the Right Summer School

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. School has just gotten back into session so it seems like an odd time of year to talk about summer school, right?

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Educational Art Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you asking about Art apps to use with young learner, below is a collection featuring some good titles to start with. These are apps curated from iTunes App Store specifically for.

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States are questioning teacher evaluation systems

eSchool News

Since the 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a large number of states have backed away from recently enacted policies that were designed to breathe new life into moribund teacher and principal evaluation systems, according to new research from the National Council on Teacher Quality. No fewer than 30 states have recently withdrawn at least one of the evaluation reforms that they adopted during a flurry of national activity between 2009 and 2015.

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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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Some of The Best Music Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some very good iPad music apps to use with elementary students and young learners. Through a variety of educational content that includes lessons, videos, and interactive.

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How to Increase Reading Comprehension With a Daily Dose of D.E.A.R.

Edsurge

DEAR. OTTER. DIRT. SQUIRT. ZYLAR? It goes by many clever (and slightly ridiculous ) names, but all of those acronyms refer to the act of reading recreationally at school. Many of the benefits of silent reading and recurring sustained silent reading (SSR) have gone under appreciated in recent years. A 2000 report by the National Reading Panel downplayed the effectiveness of SSR despite evidence to the contrary.

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Scripting basics for everyone

Jamf on EdTech

This step-by-step guide, based on Bill Smith's popular Scripting 101 for Apple Admins webinar, is written specifically for beginners.

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How To Successfully Plan Your Educational Technology Integration … Effectively

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff unpacks the key steps needed to begin planning your school district's Educational Technology Integration Plan. In this episode, you will learn why it’s important to not only clearly define your scope and sequence for creating a digital classroom but also why it’s important to give your teachers yearly benchmarks that will effectively meet the ISTE standards.

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Scripting basics for everyone

Jamf on EdTech

This step-by-step guide, based on Bill Smith's popular Scripting 101 for Apple Admins webinar, is written specifically for beginners.

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How to Get the Most Out of Informational Videos

MiddleWeb

Students love when teachers share videos as part of a lesson in any subject. But they can be vague when asked to recall the rich details or ideas that were included. Sunday Cummins, author of Close Reading of Informational Sources, has five quick lessons that can help.

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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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Educational Activities and Games with Flippity

techlearning

Educational games can be a fun way to engage students while also teaching or reviewing subject area content. These can include activities such as word searches, crossword puzzles, bingo games, flashcards, Jeopardy games, and more. There are lots of tools online that can be used to create such activities. One creative option is to use Google Sheets templates from Flippity.

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

The Hechinger Report

Student loan default rates have inched down in recent years. National Student Loan Data System. Despite all the concern about the student loan crisis in our nation, student loan default rates have been dropping. In September 2019 the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student aid released data showing two consecutive years of falling default rates.

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How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience

MindShift

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify. When I visited Maya Lin, an elementary school in Alameda, California where art is at the center of learning, third graders were in the middle of a multi-week project on climate change. Pairs of students had chosen climates around the world and researched them to learn about the weather, flora and fauna.

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BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Washington State District Adopts Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbook

techlearning

"This curriculum must prepare students to ask complex questions, read and write with a critical lens, and know how and when to take action,” said Lexi Samorano, Highline Public Schools’ Secondary Social Studies Specialist.

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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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Student Choice and Design Thinking

My Paperless Classroom

Teachers who believe in student choice know that it is just one of many guiding principles in curriculum design. Throughout my career, from HS English to Elementary Maker/STEAM, I have put Student Choice as one of my greatest goals, and I have done some of my best work in pursuit of this goal. Getting to Know Design Thinking. When I joined my current school they asked me to go to a 5-day Design Thinking Camp sponsored by The Nueva School.

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Kokomo24/7® Announces Sponsorship at EDUCAUSE, October 14-7, in Chicago

techlearning

Kokomo24/7® School Safety Cloud™ helps provide safe learning environments for students and school faculty through safety solutions designed to identify potential bullying, suicide, and other disruptive learning events.

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Student Choice and Design Thinking

My Paperless Classroom

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. Teachers who believe in student choice know that it is just one of many guiding principles in curriculum design. Throughout my career, from HS English to Elementary Maker/STEAM, I have put Student Choice as one of my greatest goals, and I have done some of my best work in pursuit of this goal. Getting to… The post Student Choice and Design Thinking appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Learning Math With Games: A Complete Guide To Transform Your Classroom

Prodigy

Since the late ’90s, video games have become very popular amongst kids and considered as one of the norms in our mainstream media today. As per Forbes, it is estimated that over one and a half billion people (20% of the total population) play video games and not so surprisingly over 60% amongst them are […]. The post Learning Math With Games: A Complete Guide To Transform Your Classroom appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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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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Visual Literacy with Wordless Books

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

I’ve been meeting with a group of students from 3rd & 4th grade to talk about our reading lives. The purpose of these groups, which are facilitated by 2 of our gifted-certified teachers, is to have a space for students to read books of their own choosing and spend time talking about those books together and sharing them with the larger reading community.

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Evergreen Photos

Technology Tidbits

Evergreen Photos is a new site for finding free stock photos that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. Also, a registered can bookmark photos too. I highly recommend checking out Evergreen Photos by clicking here !!!

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High School Vape Culture Can Be Almost As Hard To Shake As Addiction, Teens Say

MindShift

When Will tried his first vape during his sophomore year, he didn’t know what to expect. It was just something he had vaguely heard about at school. “I just sort of remember using it a bunch of times, like in a row,” he says. “And there’s this huge buzz-sensation-like head rush. And I just … didn’t really stop.” Will kept vaping nicotine addictively for the next year and a half.

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Super Teacher Worksheets for Fall and Halloween

Technology Tidbits

Be sure to check out STW for all their Halloween ideas such as: educational games, poems, 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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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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Center of Science and Industry: Bet the Farm

techlearning

Can you make it as a farmer?

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How to Keep Students Organized and Thriving in a Digital Classroom

Edsurge

A critical component of any student’s educational journey is learning how to be better organized, complete tasks independently and persevere when an assignment is difficult. We’ve all seen (or even been) that woefully disorganized student: always turning in late assignments, arriving to class empty-handed or misplacing instructional materials. We describe students like this as lacking executive function skills —working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility—and many of us tend to t

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5 TED-Ed Lessons to introduce students to robotics

eSchool News

Robotics is gaining popularity in classrooms across the country, moving from an old sci-fi concept to a way to engage students in STEM learning by solving real-world problems. One of the hurdles, though, is in finding the right resources to introduce robotics. Sometimes, it all starts with a video and a simple lesson. You can find a variety of robotics-related videos on TED-Ed Lessons.

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The Big Picture on the 2019-20 PreK-12 Market

edWeb.net

Adoptions, non-adoptions, civics, SEL, career-ready education, and the possible recession. According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. In her recent presentation “ K-12 Instructional Materials: What’s New in 2019,” she previewed results from Simba’s Publishing for the PreK-12 Market, 2019-2020 , and talked about how digital is changing—and not changing—the landscape.

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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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Digital pervasion and loss of identity

Learning with 'e's

Image from Pixabay “We are all digital now” claimed Paul Longley of University College London, in a research report (BBC News, 2006). In so doing, he identified a global digital tribe. Taking into account the fact that much of the world’s population is more than a day’s walking distance from a fixed line telephone, and even allowing for the growing trend toward mobile phone usage in developing countries, or the paucity of computers in the third world, Longley’s claim could be considered contenti

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OPINION: Let’s never see another first-grader in handcuffs

The Hechinger Report

Two first-graders in Florida are not the same children today as they were last month. Consider the distress, fear and confusion that being forcibly taken, handcuffed and driven away from your school by a police officer would cause in any 6-year-old you know. Imagine it’s your child, your grandchild. We both worked in the Obama administration, one of us as a senior policy advisor for early childhood development, and the other as a deputy assistant to the president and policy lead on criminal just