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How We Began Online Learning Successfully

The CoolCatTeacher

Reflections from the trenches From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we began distance learning, I started writing and reflecting. I wrote this piece back in March as this began and in the hustle and bustle, I didn’t publish it. I just forgot it was there. However, as I read this, I am inspired and coming full circle that we have more work to do and I also think this reflection is part of the journey and is worth sharing.

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Tech Tip #21 How to Make a Small Window Big

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: How to Make a Small Window Big. Category: Internet.

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Reimagining Learning for All Students through Universal Design

Education Elements

“There has to be a better way!” I remember a character on a movie or TV show I watched as a youngster constantly repeating this phrase and it’s been ingrained in my mind ever since. There’s a chance I’m making this up and such a character with this common refrain does not in fact exist, but go with me for a second. Searching for a better way to do things has fueled my work and my passion for design — not “capital D design” but design in a more general sense.

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Virtual Discussion: Social Distancing Tech for Hybrid Schools

EdNews Daily

One of the most difficult aspects of our return to physical school is the question of proper social distancing. Even with a hybrid model of learning, the implications of student safety are massive, as is the planning needed to accomplish it. In this episode of the Learning Counsel’s Dawn of New Strategies series, school, district and BOCES leaders grapple with the tech needed to pull it off.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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How Are Schools Reopening in the Fall?

EdTech Magazine

The return to school won’t be business as usual this year. Across the country, many school districts are still weighing their options for how to reopen schools amid continuing coronavirus concerns. In May, the CDC released back-to-school guidance on maintaining healthy environments and operations, such as installing physical barriers in areas where it’s difficult to maintain a safe distance from other people and implementing staggered schedules for students.

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Lessons on Return Planning: From District Leaders for District Leaders

Education Elements

A bank teller, Jeff Bezos, and a Starbucks barista walk into a.school district reopening planning session. No, really. These may seem like disconnected personas, but in their book, Primed to Perform, authors Neel Doshi and Lindsey McGregor use all three real-life stories to explain how organizations should prepare their employees in planning a response to uncommon and changing situations.

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Teachers Are Suddenly The Frontlines In the Fight Against COVID

TeachThought - Learn better.

Should schools open this fall? An even better question would be, "What is the best way to educate children during a pandemic?". The post Teachers Are Suddenly The Frontlines In the Fight Against COVID appeared first on TeachThought.

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Schools and the Space-Time Continuum

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen It’s almost Fall, and the clock is ticking. Talk of time and space are swirling all around us, and confusion is rampant. As you know, some states aren’t really open yet and others are closing down. And in the education biz, it feels like the wild West out there. There are discussions happening everywhere about how to really pull this hybrid learning model off.

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Five reasons re-opening will not be enough to save many child care centers

The Hechinger Report

Children at Pyrena Hui’s child care center in San Francisco, California, participate in an art activity. Credit: Pyrena Hui. America’s child care providers, who care for roughly 12 million children under age 5 every day, have been devastated by the coronavirus crisis. Called on simultaneously to serve the children of essential workers and prohibited from serving other children, many centers saw their income plummet.

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For District Leaders: Amplify Your Leadership Voice in the Midst of Covid-19 Challenges

EdNews Daily

By Bob Riefstahl As a district leader, adjusting the way you communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic can significantly improve your effectiveness. Just like your teachers, students and parents, as a district leader you have been forced to find new ways to effectively communicate. Public meetings have been kept to a minimum, and one-on-one communication is now a rarity.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Educators Like Their Curricula More When the Training Is Good, Survey Finds

Edsurge

What do educators think about the quality of the curriculum they teach? It depends—mostly on the training they received. That was the driving takeaway from a recent survey of more than 2,100 teachers, the results of which were released today. The K-12 curriculum market is “incredibly diverse,” says Jeff Seaman, director of Bay View Analytics (formerly known as Babson Survey Research Group), which conducted the survey.

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4 Great Story Book Maker Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As an academic activity, creating story books engages students in meaningful social learning activities that target a wide variety of literacy skills. There are tons of story maker apps out there.read more.

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Access to Ed-Tech Tools Has Jumped 90 Percent Since School Closures

Marketplace K-12

The use of learning management and communications tools, and virtual curriculum, have soared since the coronavirus forced lessons to go online. The post Access to Ed-Tech Tools Has Jumped 90 Percent Since School Closures appeared first on Market Brief.

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Two Very Good Tools to Add Sticky Notes to Your Gmail Emails

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you using Gmail, the extensions below are definitely worth trying out. They will help you enhance your productivity and transform your emailing experience. The apps allow you to add.read more.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks for Teachers

techlearning

Microsoft Teams for school use can make education more engaging and effective, when also using these tips.

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Using Facebook Communties to Empower Parents in the New School Year by @Mjmcalliwrites

Teacher Tech

What do the best parties and Facebook communities have in common? When people feel invited and included by a host who truly values them, new relationships form and old relationships grow deeper. The post Using Facebook Communties to Empower Parents in the New School Year by @Mjmcalliwrites appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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5 ways esports is impacting education right now

eSchool News

More than 70 percent of schools are considering starting an esports program, citing an opportunity to improve the campus experience for students and foster STEM learning, according to a survey from Extreme Networks and eCampus News. The report, which surveyed 281 technical and administrative leaders across K-12 and higher education, found that 1 in 5 schools already have an esports program, and 71 percent are considering or might consider adding a program in the future.

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Effective Anti-Racist Education Requires More Diverse Teachers, More Training

MindShift

In the wake of ongoing protests for racial justice , young people in America are demanding change from their schools. Petitions are circulating all over the country in support of creating anti-racist education. One petition, written by alumni of Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Ariz., calls on the district to “review and advance its curriculum, goals, and objectives as they related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.” “Education is the most valuable tool

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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How gamification can improve schoolwide behavior

eSchool News

Now that online games have become so popular among K-12 students, school and district administrators can use gamification techniques to create a positive school climate and encourage positive behavior by individual students who have differing needs. Shawn Young, co-founder and CEO of Classcraft, explained during a recent edWebinar how gamification techniques can be combined with research-based approaches such as Response to Intervention (RTI), to create engaging and systematic Positive Behavior

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The Best Stroller Fans To Keep Your Baby Cool in 2020

Fractus Learning

Have you tried hand-fanning your baby and pushing a baby stroller at the same time? If you have, you understand how hard that is – and you get the value of having a clip-on stroller fan. [.].

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We Are Repeating The Discrimination Experiment Every Day, Says Educator Jane Elliott

MindShift

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous “blue eyes/brown eyes exercise.” As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, Elliott first conducted the anti-racism experiment on her all-white third-grade classroom, the day after the civil rights leader was killed.

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#AskExcelinEd: How can students continue learning this summer?

ExcelinEd

It’s National Summer Learning Week! Ordinarily, the “summer learning slide” can result in months of learning loss for students while students are out school. However, with early school closures due to COVID-19, students are projected to return to school this fall with only 70% of the learning gains in reading and less than 50% of the learning gains in math , compared to typical school years.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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What Our Children Need to Put Their Best Foot Forward: Some Ideas to Address Social Isolation, Missed Curriculum, and a Pattern of Negative Interactions #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. – William Glasser. While reading Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3 , I have been struck by the discourse and scenarios shared. They inspire me to imagine classrooms everywhere that reflect the themes of respect and trust that are conveyed in this book. .

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President Pressures Schools to Re-Open

techlearning

Education leaders pushed to bring back all students when school year begins

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Discover Effective Practices for Online Learning

The Innovative Educator

Teachers across the globe made a rapid transition to online learning in 2020. In many cases this happened with little advance support or guidance, and as a result, not everyone made a smooth transition to teaching this way. Fortunately, there are some practices you can put in place to teach effectively online in the future, whether students are learning face-to-face or remotely.

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Would You Consider Opening Your Own (Micro) School? [Sponsored]

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[This is a sponsored advertisement through Steve Hargadon's Learning Revolution programs. You will receive $50 off by using the coupon code "STEVE" if you decide to work with Mara and the Microschool program.] If you're a teacher, librarian, or parent and you've ever been concerned that: kids spend way too much time at a desk; teachers are underpaid and over-worked; learning should be more like play and less like a job; the big system of education is currently broken; school may not be the same

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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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Easing the Burden of Labor Compliance and Grant Tracking

eSchool News

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42 Distance Learning and Inspiring Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Over the past months, many educators have been sharing resources, best practices, and more about distance learning. I’ve compiled many of the items from this blog, the podcast, and other places to share the hottest items in case you missed them. Summer Learning 20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer – a blog post I wrote on twenty concepts to help you this summer along with links to some suggest

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SEL Skills Are More Vital Than Ever. Here’s How to Choose the Right Tools.

Edsurge

In January, our team published a report on social-emotional learning research that has taken on new importance during the past few months. Written in partnership with New Schools Venture Fund, the report sought out practices that lead to positive outcomes for students learning skills, such as goal setting, relationship building and independence. Since this paper was originally published, the worldwide spread of COVID-19 has changed the educational landscape into an entirely different space—one t

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OPINION: The pressure is building to have learners back in school this fall — here’s how it can work

The Hechinger Report

The debate about reopening schools this fall has exploded across the nation with new pressure from the Trump administration, which has threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that don’t fully open for in-person classes. This comes on the heels of a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which in no uncertain terms called on school leaders to make plans with “with a goal of having students physically present in school.”.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks