Fri.Feb 21, 2020

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class (MTI 557)

Ask a Tech Teacher

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. vv. Starts Monday, February 24th! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 557. Click for more information and to sign up. xx. If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives.

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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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Teachers Can Transform Education if We Reinvent Professional Learning

EdNews Daily

By Thom Markham. When I propose that it’s possible for teachers to transform education, usually I get pushback like this: “Teachers aren’t known as change agents; they complain but remain compliant even while disrespecting the system in which they work; they’re trained in instruction, not activism; inevitably, they will defend and deflect rather than change and innovate.”.

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How Smart Buildings Are Helping Schools Go (and Save) Green

EdTech Magazine

The School District of Osceola County’s magnet high school NeoCity Academy , which opened in fall 2019, is arguably a modern marvel. Power comes from a solar array. Sensors monitor indoor air quality and energy use, which are managed through a building automation system. Energy-efficient LED lighting provides illumination throughout, while cameras and access control cards help ensure security.

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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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Leadership Requires Relationship Technology

EdNews Daily

By Mac Bogert. TANSTAAFL. The industrial revolutions—mid 18 th century, again in the early 19 th century— arrived on waves of new technology. The invention of the steam engine and the sewing machine transformed work, but that’s not all—the technological bounce affected everything. For instance, concentrating population to aggregate workers in England was as transformational as introducing water wheels and spinning jennies.

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SAMR Model Explained

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With the pervasive use of technology inside our classrooms, pedagogical concerns related to the effectiveness of technology in transforming education and creating optimal learning experiences come to.

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6 Educational Tools to Enhance Interactive Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here are six of our favourite interactive tools you can use with students in your class. These are all tools created and shared by ReadWriteThink. Some of the things students can do with these.

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Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

Like many of you, I've done a lot of thinking about how we can better prepare students to be thoughtful, responsible, and critical consumers and creators. While I don't have all the answers, I've come to one conclusion: Media-literacy education must deal with YouTube. According to a 2019 Common Sense study , 88% of teens use YouTube. And despite the fact that YouTube says it is only for those age 13 or older, 76% of 8- to 12-year-olds say they use the site as well.

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3 steps to rethink failure

eSchool News

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. Teens can perceive it as a judgment – final, condemning and irreversible. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process.

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How It's Done: Using Learning Space Design to Enhance Education

techlearning

If you build it, they will learn

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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 our district navigated ADA website compliance

eSchool News

When my district received a letter from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) telling us that our website was under review for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we were panicked. We had been seeing some information about ADA compliance and school websites on the news and through our state department of education, but we were just starting to explore the issue when the letter arrived.

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TCEA 2020 Best of Show Winners

techlearning

From TCEA 2020, here are the best products as selected by Tech & Learning's panel of edtech experts

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edWeb 2020 Teacher Professional Learning Survey

edWeb.net

edWeb is a professional learning network that provides teachers and all educators with free online professional learning communities and edWebinars. edWeb makes it possible for educators to participate in personalized, collaborative learning – anytime, anywhere. We’ve been conducting research on our members’ attitudes about professional development for a number of years, and began an annual Teacher Professional Learning Survey 3 years ago to benchmark changes in attitudes on a consis

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Tips for Evaluating and Implementing Formative Assessments

N2Y

As teachers, we strive to help all of our students meet learning goals and expectations. So how are we able to tell if a child is learning? As you know, we can’t wait until the end-of-unit exams or the yearly standardized tests to see what students learned. Instead, we need to be mindful of checking for learning throughout the learning experience. This periodic checking, or assessing, for learning is called formative assessment.

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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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The Power of an Outside Voice – A Reflection on Professional Learning

techlearning

Sometimes teachers need a change of voice and perspective to inspire them.

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We Love Giving You Back Valuable Time for Teaching

N2Y

We’re constantly updating our solutions to help educators focus on teaching. Recent changes to SymbolStix PRIME and Positivity add new, time-saving capabilities for customizing activities and behavior strategies. In addition, Positivity users can now symbolize text and take advantage of robust tracking and reporting. Finally, we’ve added another fun, standards-aligned game to L 3 Skills that incorporates a sport that’s recognizable and played worldwide: golf.

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#FactFriday: 25+ Resources to Advance Quality CTE Programs

ExcelinEd

States that act now to strengthen their career and technical education programs will set up their local economies, employers and students for long-term success. And Excel in Ed’s resources can help states do just that. Visit ExcelinEd.org for research , policy playbooks , model policies and videos to help you transform CTE for students in your state!

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Vote for the 2020 Barrow Peace Prize

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Each year our 2nd graders work on a project called the Barrow Peace Prize. Every student researches one of four people from black history and gathers facts from PebbleGo, Britannica, books, and a few other online resources. They use these facts to write a persuasive essay asking people to vote for their person to win the Barrow Peace Prize. The criteria for the prize is also determined by the students after learning about character traits.

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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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Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies

EdNews Daily

By Barbara Blackburn and Ron Williamson. A key facet of instructional leadership is addressing and closing the achievement gap. There are two reasons that principals should lead the charge to close the achievement gap. First, it is the right thing to do. Every single child who enters our buildings deserves the right to learn and have the opportunity to succeed.

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Why aren’t more school counselors trained in helping students apply to college?

The Hechinger Report

Felicida Barajas, a counselor at Jurupa Valley High School, is passionate about helping students get to college. She often shares her own story of navigating higher education as a first-generation student. “I knew I wanted to go to college but I didn’t know how,” she said. Photo: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. — Felicida Barajas’ office, in one of Jurupa Valley High School’s main thoroughfares, was strangely silent.

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Education’s Destruction or Salvation? The Real Truth about Artificial Intelligence

EdNews Daily

You may know what artificial intelligence (AI) is. Then again, you may only think you know. Education futurists and technology experts have been heralding its arrival in your classrooms for years. Some say it will revolutionize education, allowing for the first time, real learner personalization for every student no matter that student’s interests or abilities.

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Reimagining Internships for Adult Learners and a New Era of Work

Edsurge

By one estimate , more than 23,000 students graduated from coding bootcamps in 2019—up nearly 50 percent from the previous year. But how quickly they will land a job is unclear. Concerns over lack of experience is the top reason deterring employers from hiring a bootcamp graduate, according to a 2019 report from Hired , an online marketplace for tech jobs.

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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.