The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 31, 2020
Dr. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl from the National Writing Project Teaches Us How From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Writing has a powerful place in our classrooms right now. Dr. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talks about the types of writing, research about writing, and how we can teach writing in the unique spaces and places we find ourselves this Fall 2020 in schools everywhere.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 31, 2020
Here’s a great list of age-appropriate, safe websites that will inspire 4th graders whether they’re in your classroom or at home: Coffee shop- -the economics of running a business. Everfi.com –finances for K-12. Learning Games from BrainPop. Virtual weather, machines and surgery –clever, mind-expanding games; some are free, others fee so look for ‘free’ under the ‘games’ tab.
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
After Pembroke Public Schools in Massachusetts shut down amid the coronavirus outbreak in March, teacher Elizabeth Emmons started each weekday checking in with her kindergartners via Google Meet. She and her co-teacher watched sleepy children appear on screen, one by one. Some, propped in bed with their tablets, had clearly just woken up. She emailed and texted links to parents to help them log in to the call.
Edsurge
AUGUST 31, 2020
Even before the pandemic, teachers were feeling burnt out and demoralized. For many, it seems the sudden changes in recent months—prolonged school closures, emergency distance learning and the politicization of school reopenings—have only pushed them closer to a breaking point. In a recent survey of 1,200 educators conducted by Teachers Pay Teachers, an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original education resources, 47 percent said they had considered making a major job-related chan
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
Setting up a classroom looks vastly different for many educators this fall with continued remote learning in place. Instead of decorating bulletin boards and planning seating arrangements, most are figuring out how to provide engaging, meaningful learning experiences for their students online. The unexpected shift to remote learning in the spring revealed that many educators are not prepared to teach online.
Edsurge
AUGUST 31, 2020
When Course Hero raised $10 million in early February, the amount seemed curiously small for $1.1 billion “ unicorn ” valuation valuation it got. As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. Last week, Course Hero secured an additional $70 million in an extension of its Series B round, courtesy of some of the biggest names in the financial sector—TPG, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and GSV.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 31, 2020
Minecraft is the perfect tool for remote learning or face to face to engage students in learning activities. Now, Minecraft: Education Edition is available on the Chromebook! To get started your school will need FREE Microsoft accounts for the students. Visit education.minecraft.net/chromebook for more information. Playlist Minecraft: Education Edition I have started a YouTube playlist […].
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
As school districts plan for reopening, many are considering purchasing technologies that can detect elevated temperatures. While it’s not guaranteed to determine whether someone has a COVID-19 infection, temperature screening does have its benefits. Given the ongoing debate about temperature checks and the number of solutions on the market, school leaders will need to be familiar with the technology behind it.
eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2020
It’s been proven that parent engagement in their child’s education creates positive academic and social-emotional effects. When COVID-19 prompted school closures across the world, diligent family involvement became critical to students’ social, emotional, and academic well-being. At Galena Park Independent School District (ISD) near Houston, we recognize the importance and value of consistent communication between home and school.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
There is no shortage of challenges in K–12 education, especially given the enormous changes brought about by COVID-19 and other recent world events. Amid the chaos related to physically closing schools, rewriting significant portions of curricula, dealing with frustrated parents and setting up virtual classrooms, the impact of cybersecurity has only increased in significance.
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.
eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2020
Today’s educational environment requires that teachers become not only content and pedagogical experts, but also technology experts. This reality has become even more clear with the COVID-19 pandemic, as local, state and national-level educators and leaders grapple with how to open schools, pivot to online instruction or develop some middle ground. In the new frontier of education, we now understand how important digital content is to virtual learning.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
Online and blended learning have long been recognized as innovative ways to teach K–12 students. With the current pandemic, they quickly became the new norm in education. Covid-19 upended the traditional model of teaching in brick-and-mortar schools, pushing educators to explore other avenues of delivering meaningful learning experiences to students.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 31, 2020
Michelle Russell has found the first 10 days of teaching her hybrid classes even more exhausting than her first year in the classroom. But she’s learning fast how to help her math students adjust to a new reality – and to find the time and support she needs to prosper.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
As educators dive into remote learning this fall, many will lean heavily on IT staffers for help. Some, however, will have additional tech support — from the very same students they’re planning to teach. Student-run IT help desks , where trained students address tech-related questions from teachers and others in their school communities, were popping up in districts across the country before the coronavirus pandemic set in.
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.
Vizor
AUGUST 31, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, we took the Chromebook Training from Google. The Chromebook Training highlights what makes Chromebooks different and why it’s great for students. In this blog, we will review the benefits of Chromebooks and why they are a good option for the Education Sector. 1. Almost a Laptop. Google describes Chromebooks as web-connecting.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
When K–12 leaders implement expanded remote learning — whether at the start of the school year or as needed throughout the semester — teacher training will be crucial. The quick-fix tech training many schools offered in the spring will not provide the quality online teaching students need. The scramble to implement remote learning in March left many educators with no option but to learn, apply and teach with unfamiliar virtual tools.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 31, 2020
As America take steps to come to terms with systemic racism, we are seeing Confederate monuments taken down across the South, along with Christopher Columbus statues in the North and Midwest. There are proposals to rename public schools, streets and military bases named for Confederate soldiers and sympathizers, and questions being raised about memorials that honor Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
In the struggle to implement expanded remote learning, educators are also finding opportunities. Out of necessity, they are integrating more technology into instruction. They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students.
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eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2020
Pinna , the only on-demand audio entertainment service developed and curated exclusively for kids 3-12, today announced the availability of the first weekly podcast installment of TIME for Kids Explains , the result of its partnership with TIME for Kids, the publication that has provided quality, trusted journalism to millions of students for 25 years.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
The first day of classes at Ponca City Public Schools in Oklahoma was set to start last Wednesday. Then they had a change of plans: A ransomware attack hit the school district’s servers the weekend before, pushing them to delay their opening to August 24. The district’s learning management system, PowerSchool, suffered the attack. While no student, personnel or financial information was compromised, all their data was encrypted by the ransomware, says Superintendent Shelley Arrott in a video an
Kathy Schrock
AUGUST 31, 2020
IPEVO is always coming up with useful, low-cost ways to help teachers support teaching and learning. From the early days of the Point-to-View (P2V) small document camera to their current line of powerful document cameras, IPEVO's new Mirror-Cam is a game-changer! It utilizes your webcam and your keyboard area to project an object, books, or papers to your computer.
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 31, 2020
International private schools have become a vibrant market for education companies in recent years, and in one key region, the Middle East, their enrollment has declined during the pandemic, a new report finds. The post International Private Schools in Key Region Taking a Hit, and Reorganizing Due to COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.
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.
techlearning
AUGUST 31, 2020
Get the most out of Remind as a teacher using the communication tool for your students.
MindShift
AUGUST 31, 2020
For Melissa Malzkuhn, the best part of creating storybook apps in American Sign Language and English is seeing children’s reactions. “They retell the stories, or they pick up a sign or phrase, or they repeat something they find funny. It’s incredible, always incredible and uplifting when you see kids learning, absorbing and enjoying,” she said.
Vizor
AUGUST 31, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, we took the Chromebook Training from Google. The Chromebook Training highlights what makes Chromebooks different and why it’s great for students. In this blog, we will review the benefits of Chromebooks and why they are a good option for the Education Sector. In case you need access to the Chromebooks Training. 1. Almost a Laptop.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 31, 2020
Quick Rubric is the wonderful site for creating rubrics from the creators of Storyboard That. This is far and away the easiest site I've seen for creating a beautiful rubric where a user can add a row or a column w/ a tap of an arrow button. Everything inside of the rubric is customizable (i.e. from the heading tocustomizing points) and a user can save/print out as many rubrics as they need.
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.
ExcelinEd
AUGUST 31, 2020
I am deeply concerned for the countless Florida students and their families who need access to in-person learning. Over the last few weeks, I have talked with several parents who are worried their children won’t have access to the in-person instruction they need to be successful. That fear is now closer to reality because the teacher’s union recently sued the state – and won – to keep schools from opening five days a week.
Edsurge
AUGUST 31, 2020
Gail Schlachter was a legendary librarian who built one of the earliest databases of financial aid opportunities. Many people loved her. Many more loved her work. It began in the late 1970s, when Schlachter published a book of college scholarships for women. Then one for people of color. Then one for people with disabilities. Schlachter transformed her research into a company, which became a life, which became a legacy.
eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2020
Whether the 2020-21 school year is starting in the classroom or remotely, Follett is ensuring elementary and middle school students won’t be missing out on one of their favorite back-to-school traditions: the book fair. With Follett Book eFairs , events can be held 100 percent virtually with schools choosing the dates that work best for them, students are empowered to select the books they wish to read, and families are afforded the opportunity to conveniently purchase books online.
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