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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Q&A: Security Advocate Erich Kron on Protecting K–12 Schools from a New Phishing Scam. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 11/14/2018 - 19:24. An advanced form of phishing attack is spreading throughout K–12 schools and small colleges, leaving users vulnerable to ransomware attacks and cryptomining. According to cybersecurity company KnowBe4 , hackers have begun to impersonate senior education officials as a new phishing tactic against teachers and staff to gain access to sensitive data. .

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Have you ever felt like autumn has arrived and your desk is covered with sticky notes like leaves falling from the trees? You have sticky notes on your monitor, on your computer, on the filing cabinet, on your desk … There are stacks of sticky notes. There are stacks of stacks of sticky notes sometimes! […].

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Do you ever have trouble falling asleep because you can’t stop thinking about what you need to accomplish the next day? Maybe you’re one of those people that has your best ideas for solving a problem while washing your hair? Have you found yourself half-listening to a loved one while saying, “Let me just finish one more email…”? What do all of these experiences have in common?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Last year, I did a poll on the meaning of the word ‘turkey’ This was to demonstrate how powerful symbols are to your students and do so with an authentic use of technology to support discussion on math, language standards, and the holidays. As a summation to your discussion with students on symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, farms, or another topic, post this on your Smartscreen.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Q&A: Darrell Ashton of the D.C. OSSE Explains How Data Keeps Kids in School. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 11/14/2018 - 08:39. Big Data has become a helpful tool for educators in the K–12 sphere, especially as personalized learning continues to rise in popularity in classrooms across the country. . For the Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education , data analysis is the key to getting students who have dropped out of school to re-enter and graduate.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Enrollment in online courses is rising. But the shift to online instruction can be challenging for some instructors who have spent most of their academic careers teaching (and learning) face-to-face. At the 2018 OLC Accelerate conference in Orlando on Wednesday, Julin Sharp, director of digital education at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, discussed reasons why that transition can be daunting.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Beijing —China is a different world when it comes to education and tech. Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. To try to better understand this dynamic and fast-changing environment, thousands of entrepreneurs and education leaders from 34 countries gathered here this week for the Global Education Technology Summit.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Comic strips can be a great way to engage students in a wide variety of multimedia enriched learning activities. Using group work, you can assign each group with a writing or digital story telling.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Building social and emotional learning (SEL) skills such as empathy requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Here are two more tools to enhance teachers communication with students parents. Using these tools you will be able to engage parents in their kids learning and create a supportive class.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 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! The people designing educational technologies are far removed from the students who end up using them. Perhaps most obviously, they’re adults, often many years away from their own time in a classroom.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Design Lessons to Include Current Events This morning a teacher in New York texted me excited about finding a website that uses real data to allow people to track the fire spreading each day. This week I was working with a college student using the math program ALEKS. One of the many frustrations I had […]. The post Textbooks Do Not Update for the News appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An experiment to create an inexpensive pathway for students to attend prestigious, four-year universities ended up costing one company a lot of money. As a result, it has pivoted from its original mission and has been sold—at a fraction of the venture capital it raised. Quad Learning , a company based in Washington, D.C. best known for its “American Honors” program, has been acquired by Wellspring International Education , a student recruitment firm for universities around the world.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The post How to Create a Class Template in Google Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. What if I told you that you could create a class template inside Google Classroom? You can! I’m going to show you how to create a class template in Google Classroom that can be reused over and over again. In 2018, Google released several significant updates to Google Classroom.

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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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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Google Is Discontinuing Inbox In March 2019. Here’s What You Need To Know by Terry Heick I woke up to a push notification from Google regarding my beloved Inbox. It’s going away in March of 2019 Google recently announced that it is discontinuing support for Google Inbox in March 2019. Kind of a bummer but […]. The post Google Is Discontinuing Inbox In March 2019.

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Cycles of Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When reading the research on Curiosity , Involuntary Curiosity ​ is of particular interest to us teachers. Defined by Loewenstein (1994) as curiosity that ".arises spontaneously as a result of a curiosity inducing stimuli" , it isn't difficult see how honing the art of curating such moments is a powerful lesson planning tool. Specifically, editing a video to reveal only a specific portion of a clip is a useful technique.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A survey of educators at international private schools--a booming market for K-12 companies--reveals the pressure teachers and students face to achieve high test scores. The post International Private Schools Are Booming. New Report Probes Their Teachers’ Well-Being. appeared first on Market Brief.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Halloween at MIND Research Institute is really quite special. It could be just another ordinary work day, but our colleagues come together to make the holiday exciting, engaging and of course, filled with math! For me, the fun started before I even arrived at the office. I drove to work in my Where’s Waldo costume and entered the building with excitement, wondering what costumes I would see from my colleagues.

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Gradelink

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Are you lucky enough to be an educator? Those who teach know the drill. It’s the end of the week. You’ve spent hours perfecting your unit lessons, have relayed them to your students with all your effort and pride, like the Olympic torch traveling from hand to hand as a symbol of human achievement. And after all this hard work, how will you assess that they’ve mastered the content?

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Excerpted from The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom: Building Resilience with Compassionate Teaching © 2018 by Patricia A. Jennings. The following is from Chapter 8: “Compassion.” Used with the permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Co. By Patricia A. Jennings. Overcoming the Negativity Bias. An easy first step is to recognize and mindfully attend to positive emotional experiences in your classroom and at home.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Once again it's fall and the read-aloud rug in Mary Tarashuk's 4T classroom is drawing new kids and characters closer together. First up: Fish in a Tree's Ally Nickerson. Coming soon, another Global Read Aloud choice, Amal Unbound. Two girls with differences to share.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I’m just going to start with an unsubstantiated statement: STEAM/ STEM is used more by marketers than teachers. what they hope you don’t notice is that this label is usually just slapped on the bundled gee gaw of simple experiments that are relatively unchanged in the last 70 years. STEM club is a subscription to buzzwords. I am the STEAM coordinator for my school, and it can be challenging to find, develop, or even buy curriculum for my students to learn with.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn?

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I’m just going to start with an unsubstantiated statement: STEAM/ STEM is used more by marketers than teachers. what they hope you don’t notice is that this label is usually just slapped on the bundled gee gaw of simple experiments that are relatively unchanged in the last 70 years. I am the STEAM coordinator for… The post STEAM is Intimidating!

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

When it comes to the most popular edtech tools among teachers, some apps, websites, and games have stood the test of time, while others tend to come and go with each new year. So, what are the most popular edtech tools this year? Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers. But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn?

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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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MindShift

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Fifth-grade teacher Deirdre Brotherson has been teaching long enough that she knows how parent-teacher conferences will likely go. Parents will come in feeling uncomfortable and a little ill at ease; she’ll have a general conversation with them for 15-20 minutes; and they’ll leave. Neither party will get much useful information about the student out of the conference, although it’s a good relationship builder either way.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Me with an incredible weapon What is your weapon of choice? As an educator, what tool or technology would you never be without in the classroom or learning space? For me, it is quite simple. My one weapon of choice is a dry wipe board and some pens. If there was nothing else, I could still conduct all my lessons using a board and pen. At a push, a chalkboard would do just as well.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Attentat 1942 is a story-based game focused on uncovering a family's story of survival during World War II.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Below is a guest blog from Patricia Carbone, Technology Coordinator/5th Grade Science at Saints Simon and Jude School in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Learn more about Patricia in her bio below! Four years ago, I went to my first ISTE convention in Philadelphia. As I was walking the aisles searching for the hottest new trend, I came across a vendor who was explaining a new and different type of presentation software called Buncee.

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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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