Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 16, 2017

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest concerns I hear about is the fear of what students will find online. Teachers know it’s important to teach students how to search effectively, evaluate website credibility, and cite their sources, but it can be scary when teachers are working with younger students. One way to teach these important skills, while keeping students safe online, is to create a custom search engine.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2017

By Tommy Peterson Future Ready dashboard helps schools protect sensitive data.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 16, 2017

Padlet is a superb tech tool in which a virtual ‘wall’ can be set up by a teacher and then the class can post and share ideas on it. Comments can be made and collaboration becomes simple. How does it work? Watch my YouTube video tutorial to find out the basics: How did I use it in a lesson? Recently, my class have been studying onomatopoeia as part of a unit of work on poetry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2017

One of the hardest challenges for teachers is how to engage students in core subjects such as geography. It’s about mountains and rocks and valleys that haven’t changed for thousands of years. Why is that interesting? If you aren’t a geography buff, you’re probably nodding. You know what I mean. But watch how quickly the fourteen resources below morph geography from dusty to dynamic: 2-minute Geology. 2-minute Geology is a collection of two-minute videos that address the

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JANUARY 16, 2017

By Jean Tower Framework offers up best practices to accelerate your digital transformation.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 16, 2017

As teachers, we work hard to get our students on board with what we’re doing in class. We try our best to relate everything to their lives in the real world. We help them to see the big picture. We praise them when they succeed and encourage them when they stumble. But if the students are [.].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 16, 2017

January , 2017 Video lessons are instructional videos created through a screen casting or video software. The nature of a video lesson differs according to the purpose for which it is created; it can.read more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sprint Corp. plans to give away 1 million smartphones and other connected devices and free wireless service to help high school students who don’t have internet access at home. The program, called the 1Million Project, will connect 200,000 students per year over five years. Sprint, headquartered in suburban Kansas City, said students would receive limited LTE data service and unlimited slower service as well as free phone and text service during their four high school years. “Educati

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

School and city officials surround family members of Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill at a dedication of the new school housed within a youth jail. Attendees included Ismail El-Shaakir, principal of the new Travis Hill School, New Orleans Public Schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis, Mayor Mitch Landrieu as well as family members Dorothy Hill Martin (mother) and Leroy Martin (brother).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 16, 2017

The post How Technology Can Address Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs appeared first on TeachThought.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2017

For history teacher Mariana Ramirez and English teacher Alice Im, education is viewed as engaging young people in the world, helping them speak up, ask questions, and contribute. Rather than racing to cover the content, these two spend a little time, dig a little deeper, and engage the students. GIS is a key part of this. Every school year begins with these teachers, armed with computers, the internet, and a map waiting to be enriched, guiding 11 th graders from the Math, Science, and Technology

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 16, 2017

Microlearning is all the rage these days when it comes to employee training. Companies are moving from long training sessions (that take time out of the work day) to microlearning which provides information in short bursts through digital media that can be accessed from any device at anytime. As schools get more and more tech […]. The post Utilizing Technology for Microlearning by @Sarah_Daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 16, 2017

I was recently asked the following question: How do you respond to educators who say “the idea of being called upon to develop an innovator’s mindset and to innovative scares me. I have the opportunity to work with some wickedly smart, wildly creative, and truly innovative people and I can admit that I am not at all like them. I don’t have the creativity or personality to be innovative.”.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 16, 2017

For the past few months I have been recording interviews for the Chromebook Classroom Podcast. Each episode features a conversation with a teacher, tech director, librarian, tech coach, etc. While each conversation is unique, as I was re-listening to each episode to develop the show notes, there was a common element that appeared in nearly every conversation - the importance of support for teachers.

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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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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 16, 2017

What it is: I’ve written about StackUp before here but, over the last three years, the company has grown up enough that it warrants another post! StackUp has a pretty great back story. Nick Garvin , the founder of StackUp , was fresh out of school and wanted to apply for a job at Tesla Motors. The problem? His traditional resume failed to document the thousands of hours that he spent online in self-taught learning about the automotive industry.

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Philly Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2017

Dear Senator Casey, As you gear up for the confirmation hearing of Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, I ask you to consider the deep implications of what her vision for education entails. I recently read a piece by Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, touting the ways in which DeVos has worked to improve education for all children in the states and cities where she has placed her money, influence and efforts.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 16, 2017

It was not that long ago that making a polished video required a lot of expensive equipment and detailed know-how. But the age of mobile devices has changed all that. Students are making high-quality videos with a few taps of their fingers and a little imagination. And that creates a whole new world of opportunities for education. I am a technology teacher and tech coach at St.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 16, 2017

Lego is famous for its colorful construction sets. But in recent years, it has also been busy building a Lego video games empire—and the results are spectacular. Set in the worlds of family favorite books, comics, and movies, these witty games cleverly combine storylines, action, and challenging puzzles. Players must choose the right characters and use their special skills to play their way through one tricky challenge after another.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 16, 2017

You have heard of them, right? The new ISTE Standards for Students were released at the ISTE Conference in Denver last June, and if you haven’t been incorporating these standards in your classroom, or have gotten too busy, the New Year is a great time to refresh and start implementing these standards! Empowered Learner Engaged versus Empowering students is shifting the focus from the teacher to the learner or from the teaching to the learning.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 16, 2017

Photos for Class is an excellent new site that is ideal for finding safe images for students. This search engine uses Flickr safe search as well as some built in filtering to find Creative Common licensed images. Best of all when a user clicks download the image gets cited automatically w/ the proper licensing terms. I highly recommend checking out Photos for Class by clicking here !!!

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techlearning

JANUARY 16, 2017

Learn about the parts of a story by building one of your own!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including ever

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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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JANUARY 16, 2017

Animate with fun geometry STEAM app.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 16, 2017

I heard two things that got me thinking the other day. Actually, three, but let’s do this one at a time. I have already written about being a Third Culture Person , someone who has lived in so many places that she can’t pinpoint where she is from and what defines her. I love it, truly, but I realized the other day that it is baffling to someone who has never left the place they were born, let alone lived in a different country.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 16, 2017

January 17, 2017 Here is a collection of some of the best iPad apps for learning music. The apps cover different topics related to music learning from practical tips to help you master musical.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. As the hearing to consider the nomination of Betsy DeVos begins today, my colleagues and I at New Teacher Center hope that the U.S. Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will keep America’s 50 million public school students and 3 million public school teachers at the center of its inquiry into Ms. DeVos’s philosophy and approach to her role as U.S.

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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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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 16, 2017

I love a good mash-up. It's a digital age version of synthesis. Actually, that's a little misleading - synthesis is a skill required by academics and scholars, whether technology is present or not. But a mash-up takes several ideas, formats or sources and places them together in a new form, to say something new. That's why I like it. It's creative and it's often thought provoking.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Capitol building. As Betsy Devos’s nomination for Secretary of Education is taken up today by Congress, the Center for Education would like to explain its strong support for the candidate. The Education Department needs a fresh thinker, a leader who is not beholden to any membership organization. At a time when barely 40 percent of our students can read or write or do math at even basic levels, our nation needs someone who can see beyond the day to day of a multitude of federal programs and ensu

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos pose for a photo after their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 19, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Americans of all political stripes are wary of the federal government’s meddling in education. Republicans and many Democrats ran successfully last year demanding that the Department of Education stop using billions in federal aid to skew local decision-making.

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