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Tech Tip #9–Quickly Hide Your Screen

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: . Category: Keyboarding. Q: I’m updating grades at school.

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How Mimeographs Transformed Information Sharing in Schools

EdTech Magazine

Today, many teachers and students probably think nothing of copying a document. If it’s printed on a sheet of paper, off to the copy machine it goes. And in our digital era, with Chromebooks and other electronic devices in students’ hands, the cloud has taken over basic document processing in an extremely effective way — no paper necessary. But before all that, there was a device that came to define printed documents in classrooms for a generation, one hand-crank at a time: the mimeograph ma

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A ‘Shopify for Online Schools’ Raises $1.75M Led by Tiger Global

Edsurge

Silicon Valley is less of a place and more a state of mind, one that often borrows and applies ideas and successful concepts from one industry to another. It is also fond of analogies. In the most recent cohort of startups graduating from Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s famed start-up business accelerator program, at least seven companies billed themselves as a “ Shopify for X.

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Google Classroom Popsicle Sticks – Call on Students

Teacher Tech

If you use Google Classroom you can call on students randomly from within the Google Classroom App. Mobile App This works only on your phone or iPad (or using the Google Classroom android app on a Chromebook.) This currently does NOT work on the web version of Google Classroom. People Tab At the bottom of […]. The post Google Classroom Popsicle Sticks – Call on Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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How Project-Based Learning Helps Students Process Challenging Personal Experiences

Edsurge

Students who follow a project-based or a portfolio curriculum approach are typically encouraged to “learn from life.” These approaches afford students a greater latitude to explore personal experiences and beliefs in relation to what they learn at school. For many students whose lives have been upended by the pandemic and the social and racial divide roiling the nation, that charge has taken on new significance—school has become a place for processing these changes.

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Helping students with autism navigate a socially distanced classroom

eSchool News

While many educators and students are returning to the familiar classrooms left abruptly in March, teaching this upcoming year will be anything but business as usual. In a recent edWebinar , Aimee Dearmon, Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), says the disruption of routines, schedules, classroom layouts, and necessary social distancing protocols will be very difficult for our most vulnerable students with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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4 keys to teaching the science of reading in a virtual setting

eSchool News

More and more educators are being trained in the science of reading. Backed by a body of research amassed over five decades from disciplines including linguistics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, the science of reading has provided some baseline guidance for teaching all students. Of course, as is always the case in education, the implementation of evidence-based best practices is not always simple —and the school closures caused by COVID-19 have added a new complication.

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Teaching Math Virtually: Learning as We Go

MiddleWeb

With all of her math students learning online at least some of the time, Michelle Russell has struggled to “get it right.” Her six lessons learned so far include: Don’t assume they know technology basics. Mix firmness with compassion. Grow their self-sufficiency. Yours?

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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. Even kindergartners have plenty of questions about the presidential election, the pandemic and the movement to end systemic racism. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context.

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One-fifth of Americans support school reopenings

eSchool News

USA Today reports that as students across the country return to school amid the coronavirus pandemic, only one in five Americans say it’s safe right now to reopen schools and universities, according to a new survey. That is an 11 percentage point increase from the number of Americans who said the same in late-April, according to a survey from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project.

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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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4 Challenges of Hybrid Learning (and How to Overcome Them)

myViewBoard

Hybrid learning is helping to transform the way education is delivered, but it is important to understand some of the key challenges of hybrid learning too. Additionally, once these challenges are fully understood, educators need to find ways to overcome them and deliver an excellent learning experience for students who are physically present and for those who are learning remotely.

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Best Lego City Sets For Building Fun

Fractus Learning

For years, LEGO building sets have been a favorite of children and adults alike. Since LEGO’s beginning, an estimated 600 billion LEGO building parts have been produced. LEGO City building sets have gained popularity in recent years, especially for children in the six to twelve-year-old age range. These building sets feature fun and challenging building projects representing things found in the real world like police stations, lots of vehicles, and even working train sets.

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Engaging Special Needs Students Remotely with Buncee

Buncee

Teresa Liu is one of the amazing educators from high school P721K. This NYC DOE school within District 75, a special needs district serving students across New York City, started using Buncee for Schools & Districts the 2019-2020 school year as a way for students to create multimedia compositions. Since then, they adopted Buncee as a tool to engage and support their entire school community: families, students, administrators and educators.

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How Encouraging Rough Draft Thinking in Math Class Highlights the Strengths of All Students

MindShift

This is the first article in a two-part series about rough draft math, a concept that applies a process from language arts — creating, discussing and revising rough drafts — to math classrooms. In this Q&A, Amanda Jansen , a University of Delaware math education researcher, discusses how framing math as a shared exploration, rather than a set of right or wrong steps, enables more students to develop math competence and confidence.

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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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Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners: Visual Representations

N2Y

Teachers have incorporated visuals into their mathematics lessons for ages. Early elementary school teachers commonly use lines, circles, or other basic shapes to represent quantities to be combined when teaching addition. Middle elementary school teachers typically introduce the concept of multiplication with arrays and equal groups. Elementary school teachers in general use everything from counting bears to fraction tiles to help their students develop a deeper conceptual understanding of nume

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How to Manage Apps When Moving to Chrome Enterprise

techlearning

Manage your Chrome Enterprise experience better using this guide.

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What It Looks Like When Students Share and Revise Rough Drafts in Math Class 

MindShift

Excerpted from Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn by Amanda Jansen, copyright © 2020, reproduced with permission of Stenhouse Publishers. www.stenhouse.com. This is the second article in a two-part series about rough draft math. In the first post, University of Delaware professor Amanda Jansen discusses how framing math as a shared exploration enables more students to develop math competence and confidence.

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MIT Professor’s New Book Details Technology's Limitations in Education

techlearning

Technology may not change education on its own, but it certainly is part of learning’s evolution

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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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PROOF POINTS: Improving college exams during remote learning

The Hechinger Report

How do you test students during remote learning? I’ve heard about problems ranging from widespread cheating to technological glitches. So a recent study caught my attention because it may have landed upon a clever pandemic workaround that could also change the way many college professors administer exams even when we return to in-person learning. First, I have to tell you about an unusual type of test called a two-stage exam.

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