Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 17, 2019

Virtual and augmented reality have become a trend more recently due to advances in artificial intelligence. They’ve grown to be more commonly utilized tools for interpretation of ideas in a variety of fields. VR is an immersive technology experience. Though it was commonly used in the gaming industry, it’s now being applied to a variety of fields. For example, companies can make use of simulated interviews and best choose candidates for the job when recruiting and training.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

When kids first join the Maker Foundations program at Digital Harbor Foundation , a technology-focused out-of-school organization in Baltimore, they are given a pile of everyday items such as an electric toothbrush, a plastic cup, a few markers and some rubber bands. Then they are told: Build a robot that draws. “It’s sort of sad to see the panic on their faces when they realize that’s all the direction you’re giving them,” says Shawn Grimes, the Center of Excellence Managing Director at Digital

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 17, 2019

Most educators agree that, when used correctly, video increases interest, engagement, and retention. And teachers are using video in unique ways today, whether to teleconference to multiple classrooms or to stream a nature documentary in science class. Today’s streaming video platforms have many practical benefits for education. For example, because online content is accessible anywhere and anytime, it helps cut down on the academic impact of absences.

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The Jose Vilson

JUNE 17, 2019

A newspaper in the city recently reported that nine New York City councilmembers have called for NYC schools chancellor Richard Carranza’s firing, saying he’s more focused on “ethnicity instead of efficacy” and prefers to pound the pavement with his “rhetoric.” Since stepping into the role of chancellor, Carranza has intrigued observers of education reform with a bevy of questions, a series of managerial realignments, and a ramp-up of equity and cultural compe

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 17, 2019

The Ultimate Parental Guide To Protecting Your Child On The Internet is a free resource I found out about this week. It has some great tips and ideas for keeping your devices and children safe from setting limits, to parental controls, and more. It has focus points on young children and teens. This is a great resource for teachers to use with students and for schools to share with parents.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

A recent New York Times article offered a snapshot of how students in nine countries paid for their college. While it is right to seek international comparisons, the piece was misleading by relying too heavily on anecdotes and failing to give enough context about the rules of the road for higher education in the countries featured. In countries that deeply subsidize postsecondary education, admission to bachelor’s level programs is sometimes limited to students who have strong academic credentia

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Connie Carter’s latest Maine-based Operation Breaking Stereotypes project was coming to an end. Over the past four years, 15 students at the small, mostly white Maranacook Community High School had paired up with 15 kids from the large, racially diverse Lewiston High. Together they shared their stories, found common ground and saw their preconceived notions about each other shattered.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 17, 2019

Even if we don’t yet teach in a grade-less utopia, there are steps teachers can take to become more accurate and equitable in our grading policies. Cheryl Mizerny shares steps toward fairer grading: eliminate zeroes, avoid extra points, don’t grade homework, and more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

The final days are drawing near for TenMarks. Come June 30, operations at the Amazon-owned online education program will cease entirely. School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

I am currently working on a research project with partners from the University of Florida and OCLC. Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. I thought I’d share some of our preliminary findings.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Working while in college is risky. A 2018 Georgetown University study found that students who worked had lower grades and were more likely to drop out. The risk was especially high for low-income students. Other studies have found the same. The conventional advice to students is to try to work under 15 hours a week if they want to finish their degrees.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 17, 2019

Use Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets We are teachers. We look at a lot of student data. State test scores, quiz scores, grades, etc… Having the data automatically color code is super helpful. Conditional Formatting in a spreadsheet will do that for you. Highlight the Correct Answer If students are responding to questions, why not […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 17, 2019

We have curated for you below a collection of some of the most popular Google Docs tools we reviewed last year. Popularity is gauged through your interaction with these add-ons both here (in terms of.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2019

Creating makerspaces and incorporating them into schools involves more than coming up with project ideas. Typically, when schools add makerspaces, they’re also looking to shift their education goals and focus on skills beyond traditional curriculum. As Michelle Luhtala, library department chair at New Canaan High School, CT, and Bill Derry, a consultant for schools and public libraries in Connecticut, explain in their edWebinar, “ Design Models that Guide Innovative Thinking ,” for educators loo

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

A high school student repairs a car in an automotive shop class. Jobs in automotive body repair are relatively safe from automation, and they don’t require a college degree. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Caring is Christal Calhoun’s superpower. Whether she’s searching for standards-aligned curriculum or playing dress-up, the Tool Elementary School principal does whatever it takes to lift her students from struggling to successful. When she became principal in 2011, the Title I school had a 40 percent mobility rate, attendance rates were low and less than a third of students were meeting state standards.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 17, 2019

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff sits down with Tom Mullany to discuss how Tech Coaches can use Google Sites to create great looking websites. For the last 4 years, Google Sites have been transforming the way that digital lessons are presented in classrooms and along with Google Classroom making up a… The post How Can Tech Coaches Help Design Better Looking Teacher Websites?

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2019

With charter schools’ enrollment growing – the number of charter schools more than tripled from 2000 to 2015, according to the most recent data available from NCES – public, private, and charter schools find themselves competing for students. For many parents, the first impression of a school comes from its website. School and school district websites are increasingly becoming marketing tools for attracting students and setting the tone for all potential incoming students.

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Hubbli

JUNE 17, 2019

If are involved in enrollment marketing, and have been paying attention to the news over the past year, you may have seen some headlines about the largest social network, Facebook, that might make you think twice about using the platform, either personally, or as an advertising strategy. So I’m writing this article to shed some light on what is happening with the Tech Giant and relate it specifically to the context of using it as an enrollment marketing tool.

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Jamf on EdTech

JUNE 17, 2019

Jamf turned 17 on June 10! Thank you Jamf Nation for helping us hit several key milestones along the way.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 17, 2019

The post I’m Shaking Things Up at #ISTE19! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I’m gearing up for the largest edtech conference in the world, ISTE ! And, of course, I’ll be shaking things up! I’ll be running around networking, learning, and sharing, and totally out of my introverted comfort zone! I hope to see you there! I was also named an ISTE Featured Voice this year so I’ll be on some Texas-sized stages and hope that more people will be able to get into session

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Jamf on EdTech

JUNE 17, 2019

Jamf turned 17 on June 10! Thank you Jamf Nation for helping us hit several key milestones along the way.

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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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wwwatanabe

JUNE 17, 2019

“This post is week 1 of 8 in the 8 Weeks of Summer Blog Challenge for educators.” Goal: Reflection through Connection I've spent ample time reflecting, but haven't had the courage to connect and share. Thus, with the encouragement of Sheri Edwards , I will partake in this summer blogging challenge. One of the topics I'm passionate about is the importance of media literacy, with a spotlight on discerning valid and reliable sources.

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techieMusings

JUNE 17, 2019

I wanted to feature a guest blog post written by my colleague Marcie Demers. Marcie has taken such a thoughtful, reflective approach to tech integration in her classroom. I wanted to share some of her end-of-year musings here. by Marcie Demers. Last year, in my continuing quest to enhance learning and engagement in my Middle School English classroom, I discovered HyperDocs — and I am obsessed!

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techlearning

JUNE 17, 2019

GoGuardian will be donating to Coded by Kids, a local Philadelphia charity that provides young people with software development, data science and user experience design skills.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 17, 2019

Utah is seeking a new assessment vendor after too many glitches in this year's summative testing season, while Pearson landed a major contract in Tennessee and New Mexico is in the market for an assessment vendor, too. The post Tennessee, Utah Drop Questar for Assessments; Pearson Lands $93 Million TNReady Contract appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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JUNE 17, 2019

Teachers can find lesson plans and ideas for incorporating Osmo into their curricula online through their myOsmo accounts.

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Prodigy

JUNE 17, 2019

Game-based learning has become immensely popular in the education sector lately owing to their interactive nature where students engage in an online educational game to play and learn simultaneously. Take Prodigy as an example of online educational games. It’s an interactive platform that has helped over 50 million students worldwide from grade 1-8 to master […].

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techlearning

JUNE 17, 2019

Innovation is a long, difficult journey with several failures before the right solution is designed.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 17, 2019

Esports Clubs Expand Learning Opportunities for K–12 Players. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 06/17/2019 - 11:05. By any measure, esports is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. . Between 2017 and 2018, the global fan base grew 13.5 percent , to hit 380 million, according to a report from Newzoo and ESLGaming. Spending on tickets and merchandise grew 16 percent , to $95.5 million.

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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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