The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Episode 378 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today I’ve reflected on the things I’ve learned and will teach as a result of experiencing disaster.Things are challenging for many of us without power, but we’re learning and pulling together. Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online professional development courses for K-12 teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The California Department of Education encourages you to recognize October 15-19, 2018 as Digital Citizenship Week. Here are resources from Ask a Tech Teacher and Structured Learning that will help you learn how to teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video).

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2018

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Week 3. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 10/17/2018 - 11:14. Ask the Experts: What Cybersecurity Aspect Is Crucial for K–12 Leaders? . More on How to Get All of the K–12 Community Involved in Maintaining Cybersecurity. Security. As New Threats Loom, K–12 IT Admins Must Adapt Security Strategies. Security. CoSN 2018: Cybersecurity Threats Prompt Districts to Increase User Education.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Many times, we don’t have to totally redesign our lesson plans to get the most out of the technology we have available to us. A little upgrade can make a big difference. And even though technology won’t make your lesson sing by itself, it can unlock some pretty powerful teaching and learning. You can find […].

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Personalized Learning. Two words that at the same time inspire hearts and minds, and leave our pragmatic minds wandering. If you are anything like the educators and leaders in the schools and districts we at iTeach support, you are already a ‘believer’ in the promise of a learning experience that is personalized. You might even have your own working definition for what it looks like in your instance, and that definition may well be informed by the good work of organizations like Education Elemen

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then some investors are betting that pictures of words could be worth millions of dollars. Specifically, $11 million—which is what Mrs. Wordsmith , a London-based education startup, has raised in its Series A round. The deal was led by Trustbridge Partners, and previous investors Reach Capital and Kindred Venture Capital returned to contribute to this round.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Curriculum Associates has been around for about five decades, and has reinvented itself throughout the years. The privately-held education company used to focus on making print instructional materials for K-12 schools. But eventually, it started incorporating technology in its offerings. Today, there are six million current active users on i-Ready, the company’s flagship digital product.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Aboubacar Konate graduated second in his class from high school, took Advanced Placement classes, speaks four languages and played three sports. “College was my dream and my goal,” he says. But private colleges offered the aspiring engineer little financial aid, so he went to a public university and now works as an engineer in Boston. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Augmented reality technologies are transforming the way we live, learn and interact with each other. They are creating limitless learning possibilities and are empowering learners with the.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! In Peter Nilsson’s classes, students use computers to help them analyze text. Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Educators universally agree that equity should be one of the top priorities in every school and in every district across the country. Addressing equity issues is more difficult for some districts than others due to factors such as funding, parental involvement, and policy. According to new Speak Up data from Project Tomorrow, 43 percent of school site administrators say implementing digital content is an effective tool for ensuring equity across classrooms, throughout the school, and within thei

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Codesters is another excellent website we are adding to our collection of coding resources. Codesters provides students with an easy and simple editor where they can engage in creative coding.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Sitting on my mat, in a room full of seventh graders, I said to myself, “Something is wrong.” It was too quiet, too calm. As I led the group through our opening rounds of sun salutations, I was unable to shake the thought, but when I opened my eyes it suddenly occurred to me that the room was silent because everyone was engaged in the movement and breathwork that I was leading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Now imagine that this protest continues for several years in a row and that it takes place in multiple locations simultaneously. Wouldn’t you want to know what parents are protesting and why? New York state is the epicenter of what is known as the “Opt Out” movement.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2018

For the last 20 years, Laura Fleming has been a classroom teacher and media specialist. She’s also an adjunct professor, the founder of Worlds of Making, LLC, and Hands-On Coding, LLC, and the best-selling author of Worlds of Learning: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School as well as The Kickstart Guide to Making Great Makerspaces.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Preschool teacher Kayla Pinto works with a 4-year-old student at the Somerville YMCA in Somerville, Massachusetts. Pinto is working toward a bachelor’s degree, with the support of state programs that aim to increase college access for early childhood educators. Suzanne Bouffard for The Hechinger Report. Kayla Pinto knew she had found her calling from the first day she taught preschool at the YMCA in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In each episode of the Inside Our MIND podcast, we take a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives. In our latest episode, Brian welcomes Director of ST Math Content Ki Karou back to the show for a discussion on conceptual understanding. Ki gives an overview of the difference between procedural and conceptual learning, and how schemas are the foundation of conceptual understanding.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With the workplace pressure most teachers experience, it's crucial to prioritize tasks so you can accomplish everything you need to do. Julia Thompson's 5-step process can help you move forward, meet goals, and reduce your stress levels to achieve a work-life balance.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

The foundation, which plans to support programs in public and private schools, said it expects to reach 25 percent of the nation's youth with its SEL offerings by 2022. The post Money Is Flowing to Social-Emotional Learning: Allstate Foundation Dedicates $45 Million appeared first on Market Brief.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff sits down with Pam Moran to discuss her 43 years of being in education. Learn not only how to create a positive and innovative culture in your school district but also why it’s important to have the ability to create teachable moments when things don’t go as planned in the classroom. The post How Do We Create Teachable Moments from our Most Vulnerable of Times in the Classroom?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Real or fake? Biased or unbiased? Trustworthy or untrustworthy? During a recent trip through different parts of Texas, I got the chance to lead several teacher conversations around these three questions. We worked together to share strategies and resources designed around creating knowledgeable, thinking, and active citizens. With a specific goal of training our kids to be effective consumers of online information.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Teacher's “present” often, but presenting outside of the classroom is a different situation. Educators AND students can use these tips to help make the most of these opportunities! It’s. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If you have Facebook on your phone, you may have noticed that videos automatically play. If you are not connected to WiFi this eats up your data. Here's what my data looks like: When talking with some colleagues we were discussing this and found out how to stop that from happening. Here's how: Step 1 - Go to "Settings" Step 2 - Go to "Media and Contacts" Step 3 - "Choose when videos autoplay" I like the videos so I selected "On Wi-Fi connections" but you may want to select "Never autoplay videos

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techieMusings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A couple years back, I kept hearing this question among many of the teachers I work with: how do we encourage proofreading? That led me to thinking: how are we helping students with this task and what technology can we offer to help students be better proofreaders? When I say how can technology help us I am not talking about auto-correct. Auto-correct happens automagically and most times we are not even aware that it is happening in the background.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Today, Mastercard and Scholastic announced plans to help raise awareness of STEM-opportunities among all students, reaching 20,000 classrooms, including 300,000 girls nationwide through hands-on, in-class materials. The free materials are based on Mastercard’s Girls4Tech program, which provides schools and community organizations with resources to equip young girls with the skills they need as future professionals in STEM fields. [ Girl Scouts, Discovery Education Launch Initiative to Inspire Gi

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We are thrilled to announce The Virtual — a free, global, online summit that educators can attend in their PJs ! Integrating the theme CREATE , EdTechTeam is getting messy and mixing it up to unveil new and ever-evolving content on the most relevant topics and learning principles in the classroom today, including mindfulness, accessibility, creativity, and personalized learning.

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

-- Rishab Jain Named America’s Top Young Scientist for his Pancreatic Cancer Deep Learning System Invention in the 2018 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge -- Silver Spring, Md. and St. Paul, Minn. (October 17, 2018) – Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) and 3M (@3M) have named 13-year-old Rishab Jain the winner of the 2018 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge (#YoungScientist).

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Searching for the perfect gift for the kid who has everything? Want something out-of-the-box? Foldable? …Buildable? …Throwable? We’ve compiled a list of seven cool toys that’ll be sure to surprise and delight anyone, even the picky […].

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) and 3M (@3M) have named 13-year-old Rishab Jain the winner of the 2018 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge (#YoungScientist). Rishab created an algorithm to make pancreatic cancer treatment more effective by using artificial intelligence to accurately locate and track the pancreas in real-time during MRI radiotherapy.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Our school is currently examining our beliefs about reading instruction. Faculty members respond with either “agree” or “disagree” to over twenty related statements. Examples include: “Leveling books in the classroom library is a good idea,” and “Students need to do lots of independent reading of self-selected texts.” (These statements come from Regie Routman’s book Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success.)

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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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