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Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 14, 2016
If you’d like to find out more about Daniel Tammet , click for my review of him. This is the most popular cartoon about Pi Day, so I had to share it: An aside: I was trying to track this image back to give proper credit. Wow was that difficult! I dragged the image, dropped it into Images.google.com and then Tineye.com.
Battelle for Kids
MARCH 14, 2016
At Katherine Smith School, we are passionate about project-based learning. Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 7. Driving Question: How can 5th graders pass a real-world final STEM exam? We also know that STEM is important enough to have a dedicated STEM teacher and lab.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 14, 2016
I enjoyed Pam Lowe’s recent post about personalized learning. She asked four important questions: Why does everyone have to learn the same thing? Why can’t learners learn what they want to learn? Can learners choose their own learning tools? Why do learners have to learn the way a teacher says?
Tom Murray
MARCH 14, 2016
As a fourth grade teacher in my previous district, I was 1 of about 30 teachers in an elementary level STEM cohort. In short, we must invest in our teachers through professional development, and by establishing cultures of ongoing learning and inquiry that expand beyond any defined professional development hours. What might this look like?
Learn what the general public and business leaders think about these programs as training/preparation for technical jobs and careers. This report from BestColleges.com explores trends in awareness and acceptance of bootcamps in the U.S.
Edthena
MARCH 14, 2016
What is your advice for other K-12 schools thinking about implementing video? What are some things that stick out about your experience using Edthena? Teachers care deeply about their work with students. They think deeply about it and they work hard to provide students the best learning opportunities they can.
MindShift
MARCH 14, 2016
Grant writes about the importance of getting kids to take risks, to embrace their own curiosity and to be confident in where their minds wander. In the book you talk about how taking risks can lead to original ideas. But the sad thing about rules is that they don’t teach kids to think for themselves.
Here they are – and what you can do about it. Do you know three of the biggest reasons families leave schools?
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SplashLearn is the fastest growing elementary school math program in the US, used by more than 440,000 teachers in about 77,000 schools across the United States. Loved by more than 30 million kids, SplashLearn is a game-based learning program that creates engaging learning experiences to nurture a generation of fearless learners.
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It isn’t possible to talk about trends in digital learning without talking about the “digital” part first. It is what everyone expects. Most articles on trends discuss mobile, augmented reality, virtual reality, LMS options, apps, and authoring software.
Speaker: Todd Theobald, Noel Gomez, Marcus Painter
Using assessment data to make informed decisions about instructional strategies. Join educators and assessment experts as they discuss the role of formative assessment in student learning, how formative practices can guide the teaching and learning cycle, and the positive impact assessment can make on your classroom.
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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.
Speaker: Joseph Clay, Business Transformation Strategist at Oracle, and Jeffrey Haynes, Director with Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Hear from Jeffrey Haynes, Director with Baker Tilly, and Joseph Clay, Oracle VP HCM Transformation, to learn everything you will need to know about the biggest trends impacting higher education HR professionals today.
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Get the facts about: The exploding market potential of virtual teaching. For every student to reach their full potential, virtual teaching apps have to ensure a great experience for every session, every time, everywhere. This infographic lays out the technology challenges that can impede teachers and students—and how they can be solved.
Speaker: Deborah Olson, Lead Strategist, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group & Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Lyra Health
Join Lyra Health’s Medical Clinical Director of Psychiatry, Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, and Deborah Olson, Genentech’s Lead Strategist for Well-Being, for a discussion about why it’s crucial for employers to provide streamlined access to disability leave requests as well as high-quality care with Lyra’s new Clinical Leave Evaluation program.
Speaker: Dan Streeter, Vice President of Learning Strategy & Development at Blue Sky eLearn
This webinar will help you evaluate the accessibility of your current learning efforts and learn about the tools needed to ensure your eLearning is in alignment with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (proposed WCAG 2.2).
Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive
How to foster an inclusive and open conversation with your workforce about AUD and SUD, including ways that your organization can help. Join this important webinar that addresses: How to identify employees at risk for - or experiencing - AUD or SUD in your workforce.
Speaker: Vic Vuchic, Chief Innovation Officer & Executive Director, Learner Variability Project
You'll discover how much more we know now about how students learn - and how we can use that knowledge to create EdTech-enabled classrooms that can meet the diverse needs of diverse students.
Speaker: Pat D'Amico, Founder and CEO of About-Face Development
Join Pat D'Amico, Founder and CEO of About-Face Development, LLC, for this illuminating discussion on how to keep the gears turning. In this session you will learn: Summarize how distance learning evolved from WW2 to today.
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