Mon.Jan 18, 2021

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Edtech Trends From 2020 And Beyond

Ask a Tech Teacher

Hi there, my name is Roman Zhidkov, a happy contributor to Ask a Tech Teacher. I’m the CTO of a tech company and for more than five years I have been busy with teaching programming courses and sharing my expertise with novice specialists. I can tell from experience that it’s a prerequisite for a teacher to follow trends due to the fast-changing market and nuances of working with young professionals with a progressive mindset.

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OPINION: Why it’s time for a new generation of HBCU grads to become national leaders

The Hechinger Report

Sen. Kamala Harris gave the 2017 commencement address at her alma mater Howard University in Washington, D.C. Credit: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images. With his historic win in Georgia to become the state’s first Black senator, the Rev. Raphael Warnock reinforced a narrative building over the past few years: A new generation of leaders has emerged from the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.

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6 Essential EdTech Tools for Teachers in 2021

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The current pandemic has definitely created 'new realities' for us teachers and educators, as is the case for everybody else. It has shaped the way we teach in transformative ways, to say the least.read more.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” Some racked up considerably more hours. A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence. Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher

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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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A Wonderful Tool to Help You Reduce Eye Strain Caused by Long Exposure to Digital Screen

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Flux is a tool I come across while I was reading Shawn Stevenson's book Sleep Smarter (Amazon affiliate link). Shawn mentions it among the tools he recommended to help people reduce the mental and.read more.

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Why a multiscreen classroom is the next big thing

eSchool News

Hybrid-remote learning provides the flexibility and freedom schools, parents, and students need in the current pandemic. However, moving a traditional classroom that’s built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application.

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PowerSchool and VIZOR for Chromebooks Partnership

Vizor

Reading Time: 2 minutes Partnerships in the education industry are always a good sign. Helping schools and students focus on education while vendors are streamlining processes in the background. PowerSchool is a known name in the industry for various products including their student information system. VIZOR for Chromebooks is an up-and-coming Chromebook management system.

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Best Tablets For Teachers

techlearning

The ultimate tablets for use by teachers in class and for remote learning.

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3 ways our school support students’ mental health during COVID

eSchool News

While COVID-19 has brought health concerns for people of all ages, it has especially brought concern for children’s emotional well-being and students’ mental health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken steps to educate the public on social, emotional, and mental well-being as trauma at a developmental stage could have long-term consequences.

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Student Survey Says: “Please Listen to Us”

MiddleWeb

On her first day back Michelle Russell surveyed her students, looking for ways to improve her online teaching and – most of all – to find out how they’re doing in these difficult times. Some of their answers surprised her, and she’ll be more aware and proactive going forward. The post Student Survey Says: “Please Listen to Us” first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Edu-pal

Technology Tidbits

Edu-pal is a new Chrome extension that lets educators create polls and quizzes in Google Meet. This is done through a very user friendly interface as long as both users (students/teachers) the extension and using Google Meet through their browser. Once a poll or quiz is created students see the question and then can answer them in real-time making it easy for teachers to assess student learning.

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Students returning home may have caused 9,400 secondary COVID-19 infections across UK

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

A new statistical model suggests that an infected student returning home for Christmas would, on average, have infected just less than one other household member.

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GamiLab

Technology Tidbits

GamiLab is a fantastic new site for creating educational games. GamiLab lets teachers or students create educational games from scratch or customizing already created content. Also, these games can contain videos, text, flashcards, etc. and can be used for Remote Learning. Best of all, there are two "main" game styles such as King of the Mountain and Biker Race mode which is a great way to easily test student's learning.

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‘I’ve Tried Everything’: Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis

MindShift

A bag of Doritos, that’s all Princess wanted. Her mom calls her Princess, but her real name is Lindsey. She’s 17 and lives with her mom, Sandra, a nurse, outside of Atlanta. On May 17, 2020, a Sunday, Lindsey decided she didn’t want breakfast; she wanted Doritos. So she left home and walked to Family Dollar, taking her pants off on the way, while her mom followed on the phone with police.

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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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TeachVid

Technology Tidbits

TeachVid is an amazing online tool for learning foreign languages. TeachVid reminds me a tad like EDpuzzle where educators use interactive videos to assess student's learning. Also, educators can create a "virtual" classroom and create assignments that contain: videos, worksheets, etc. Finally, TeachVid makes it easy to flip a classroom or lesson and let student's learn at their own pace.

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Part 1… The Center: Free Blended and eLearning PBL Gold Standards Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to a series of posts I am very excited to share on PBL and Blended/eLearning. As I reflect, PBL has always been blended. Our challenge is… how to break down the classroom walls even more with the technology we have today. In this series, I will look at each of PBLWork’s Gold Standards. I will provide a short explaination and some free resources examples!

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RecordCast

Technology Tidbits

RecordCast is an excellent free online tool for creating screencasts. This is done through a very easy-to-use online video editor where a user can record either the whole screen or just a section and then edit it (i.e. Screenflow). The video editor lets users add text, images, music, and more to create a beautiful looking finished product. Finally, finished videos can then be shared or embedded making it ideal to introduce a topic or even remote learning.

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SchoolTube: A Complete Audio, Video, and Screencasting Tutorial for K12 Classrooms

TeacherCast

Is your school district looking for a solution that allows teachers to create dynamic and personalized hybrid lessons? What about a fantastic and FREE application that allows teachers to create video tutorials and share them with students in a COPPA and ADA compliant environment? In today's EdTech in the Classroom video, we take a look at SchoolTube, a complete video solution for K-12 classrooms.

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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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Projector Screen

Technology Tidbits

Projector Screen is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen Store by clicking here !!! *Projector Screen is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

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SchoolTube: A Complete Audio, Video, and Screencasting Tutorial for K12 Classrooms

TeacherCast

Is your school district looking for a solution that allows teachers to create dynamic and personalized hybrid lessons? What about a fantastic and FREE application that allows teachers to create video tutorials and share them with students in a COPPA and ADA compliant environment? In today's EdTech in the Classroom video, we take a look at SchoolTube, a complete video solution for K-12 classrooms.

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NameCoach

Technology Tidbits

NameCoach is a wonderful web service that educators are using to learn student's names and pronounce them correctly. This is especially useful w/ school starting up and teachers want to learn the correct way to pronounce their student's names. The way this works is simple as a teacher creates a name/web page and then has the student's speak their names.

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The Remote Route to Literacy Development

edWeb.net

By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Your school has made headway on literacy development. Students are reading more and thinking critically about what they write. And then there’s, well, a pandemic. Teaching and learning move out of the classroom into the virtual world, putting literacy gains at risk. How do you continue developing your students’ reading and writing skills from afar?

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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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Chronicle Cloud

Technology Tidbits

Chronicle Cloud is an innovative educational all-in-one iOS app for teachers. Educators can use Chronicle Cloud in a number of different ways such as: assessing (using their "traffic light" system), note-taking, providing feedback, and much much more. Also, being on the "cloud" teachers can collaborate and share best "teaching" practices in an easy way.

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Izzit

Technology Tidbits

Izzit.org is a nice site for students to find educational resources and videos. These resources can be searched by grade level or subject. Best of all, there is a wide range of teacher tools such as: quizzes, lesson plans, activities for students, and more. I highly recommend checking out Izzit.org by clicking here !!!