Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 31, 2016
Here are the top ten problem-solving tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: Tech Tip #108: Got a Tech Problem? Google It! What to do when your Computers Don’t Work. 25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix–Update. How to Teach Students to Solve Problems. I Can Solve That Problem…. Let Students Learn From Failure. Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind.
EdNews Daily
MAY 31, 2016
André Thomas, CEO of Triseum and former Head of Graphics for EA Sports Madden Football, brings gaming to new heights on university campuses combining rigorous learning and resources with state-of-the-art graphic design. New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female.
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Digital Promise
MAY 31, 2016
Houston Independent School District (HISD), the largest school district in Texas, has launched PowerUp , a district-wide initiative aimed at transforming teaching and learning. To facilitate robust opportunities for personal and authentic learning, the PowerUp Initiative has provided all high school students and teachers with 1:1 laptops and access to digital content through the HUB, a district-wide learning management system.
Battelle for Kids
MAY 31, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 18. Driving Question: What happens when fifth graders are asked to design a kindergarten playground? The inspiration for a collaborative fifth grade project struck Nina Hernandez as she watched kindergarteners at play. Ms. Hernandez, the fifth grade-writing teacher at Manzanita Elementary School, noticed that some students played on the play structures, but others did not.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
Teacher Tech
MAY 31, 2016
Google Classroom Folders Google Classroom creates in Google Drive a folder for each class and each assignment. This can make for a lot of folders after you’ve been using Google Classroom for awhile. Move The Folders Tip to create an archive folder in the Classroom folder. You can drag your past class folders into the […]. The post Google Classroom: Clean Up Your Folders appeared first on Teacher Tech.
TeacherCast
MAY 31, 2016
Learn How to Build an Online Learning Management System. The post How Can You Build An Online School? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TeacherCast
MAY 31, 2016
Instilling a love for reading is a responsibility of both parents and teachers, and the earlier some strategies can begin, the better. The post Igniting a Love of Reading – 15 Tips from Infancy Through High School by @Colen8P appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
ProfHacker
MAY 31, 2016
When we teach a class, we have a semester to get to know our students and adapt our teaching to their interests and needs. But when you are invited to present a keynote or facilitate a workshop to people you know little or nothing about, how do you ensure you are sufficiently sensitive to your audience? This kind of thing drives me nuts. I can be giving a workshop on the same topic and I would do it completely differently to faculty at my institution vs other universities in Egypt.
TeacherCast
MAY 31, 2016
Today we will be giving you not survival guides or hacks or tips how you can stay alive while in college. But the apps we will be listing below will definitely make your college life easier. The post 8 Essential Apps To Make Every College Student’s Life Easier appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 31, 2016
Roger Cook, superintendent, Taylor County School District, Kentucky. Roger Cook, a superintendent in rural central Kentucky, took a risky path to becoming a champion for academic success. By his own admission, this former high school football coach says some of his methods broke the rules. He believed his students needed personalized help to be successful in school – and in life – and took action to make that happen.
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.
TeacherCast
MAY 31, 2016
Learn How to Build an Online Learning Management System. The post Learn How to Build an Online Learning Management System appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Gaggle Speaks
MAY 31, 2016
Our team of Safety Representatives review thousands of student email messages and files each day, and they discover more inappropriate student content than any sane mind would willingly volunteer to see. The team then notifies emergency contacts and, if necessary, local law enforcement. It’s then up to administrators, counselors and sometimes teachers to take matters from there.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 31, 2016
June 1, 2016 Deep reading involves some annotating and note taking skills which ultimately facilitates our comprehension and enhances our information retention abilities. In the collection below we.read more.
EdTechTeacher
MAY 31, 2016
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. This past year, I had the benefit of being both a student and a teacher. I experienced the pressures of meeting someone else’s expectations, the demands of keeping up with assignments, and the challenge of organizing my own learning. At the same time, I continued working with other teachers who suddenly found themselves in the exact same situation but as my student.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 The selection below features seven great educational Chrome apps that you and your students can use for a variety of educational purposes. Some of the things you can do with these apps.read more.
Edutopia
MAY 31, 2016
To help combat summer learning loss, Matt Davis has curated a few fun and free education resources for students and parents to use over summer break.
NeverEndingSearch
MAY 31, 2016
Back in April, I wrote about the publication of MLA’s 8th edition and its significant shift in focus (Shifting into 8th (On MLA’s new edition). The simplified approach is a response to the increasing mobility of digital texts and to what Tim Parks calls “an element of fetishism” that has “perhaps crept into what was once a necessary academic practice.” MLA 8 shifts focus from a detailed prescriptive approach to an approach that focuses writers on having conver
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 31, 2016
The post The Two Minds Of An Educator appeared first on TeachThought.
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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. 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
Fractus Learning
MAY 31, 2016
Virtual Reality is taking big leaps out of the gaming arena and is starting to show just how impactful the technology might just be. In the below video from Stevenson University , Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric Amanda Licastro shows how she is using Google Cardboard to take her students out of the classroom, and place them firmly into the future of digital publishing.
Teacher Tech
MAY 31, 2016
Around the World Game Had an interesting Twitter chat where the game “Around the World” was brought up. In this game, the students would sit at their desks or in a circle. (My teachers always had us at our desks.) One student stood next to another student and the teacher asked a question. The first […]. The post Around the World: Fun is Not Best appeared first on Teacher Tech.
MiddleWeb
MAY 31, 2016
Jody Passanisi, an eighth grade teacher and author of "History Class Revisited," uses a three-step scaffolding process to help students raise their awareness between events currently taking place and the historical events they study in the social studies curriculum.
Teacher Tech
MAY 31, 2016
Google Apps Script Picker Google Apps Script allows you to code Google Apps such as Google Sheets spreadsheets and Google text documents. One thing I do when coding Google Apps Script is ask the user to give me the ID of a file or folder so that my code can call up or manipulate that […]. The post Google Apps Script Picker Tutorial appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 31, 2016
Too often technology adoption becomes a game of keeping up with the Joneses. Consider this. The edtech-loving, conference-attending English teacher at your school is on the cutting edge of learning. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Edthena
MAY 31, 2016
At this year’s ASCD professional development conference in Atlanta, Professor Suzanne Arnold of the University of Colorado Denver showed how video can be used with in-service teachers to accelerate their development. . “Asynchronous video coaching can extend the frequency and quality of your classroom observations with your teachers,” said Suzanne to the audience of building and district administrators.
ignitionEDU
MAY 31, 2016
I was so inspired by Alice Keeler’s recent post, Class Twitter Account: How Your Students Can Tweet , that I decided to take her idea and generate a Google Form for our soon-to-be-instituted elementary school student tech team to allow them to quickly submit tweets for consideration by our new Twitter feed. That part was easy but I also wanted to make it easy for them to see the Twitter feed as well.
Bryan Alexander
MAY 31, 2016
What is happening to America’s public higher education system? The New York Times offers a bitter article about the decline of the City University of New York ( CUNY ). It may be an unusual case, or it could serve as the proverbial canary in the coal mine. David Chen paints a devastating portrait of a group of campuses (24) that have suffered financial degradation over the past decade.
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.
Edutopia
MAY 31, 2016
Video cameras in the classroom? Teachers gladly contribute to each other's PD in a culture of safe sharing, support for best efforts, and collaborative growth mindset.
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2016
Educators who take the challenge and watch all 10 webinars between July 10, 2016 and August 10, 2016 can earn up to 15.5 hours of continuing education credit. For education leaders looking to take advantage of flexible summer schedules to earn professional development credits, PresenceLearning’s “Decathlon Challenge” webinar series will provide unlimited access to 10 free webinars starting July 10, 2016.
Graphite Blog
MAY 31, 2016
Conferences are a wonderful opportunity for professional development and networking. But maximizing what you can get from a conference takes a little legwork. Use these five tips for your next conference. 1. Plan Your Schedule. Are you the type of person who doesn't decide which sessions you'll attend until you get the printed program on the morning of the conference?
District Administration
MAY 31, 2016
Today’s rigorous standards challenge schools to prepare students for the demands of 21st century college and careers. But some student populations struggle to reach grade level and perform well on high-stakes tests. Direct Instruction (DI) programs have the power to produce higher outcomes for students in K-12 literacy and math. Date of broadcast: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10:56 am EST Watch Now Sponsored by: McGraw-Hill Education.
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