Thu.May 17, 2018

article thumbnail

Ann Oro: Developing A Digital Citizenship Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Ann Oro on episode 314 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Ann Oro helped her diocese develop curriculum standards for digital citizenship by grade level. Ann also talks about the fifth-grade course piloted by Seton Hall in two of her schools. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

article thumbnail

DOs and DON’Ts of teaching digital citizenship

Neo LMS

Teaching digital citizenship can be a polarizing activity. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, as digital natives, students seldom feel at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding online activities and behavior – leaving teachers often times adrift on a shifting sea of uncertainty. Secondly, today’s generation of over-sharers may have a fundamentally different perspective of online behavior than do teachers (assumably from a prior generation).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New Wi-Fi Standard Will Boost Campus Connection Speeds

EdTech Magazine

New Wi-Fi Standard Will Boost Campus Connection Speeds. jena.passut_7651. Thu, 05/17/2018 - 16:23. There’s a new Wi-Fi standard in town, and it could be a game changer for K–12 school districts. Network World calls 802.11ax “the next big thing” that actually lives up to its hype. . SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

Data 193
article thumbnail

Cute Video on Keyboarding

Ask a Tech Teacher

From Kidztype , a 1.5-minute video on the essence of keyboarding. Enjoy! –Full disclosure: Kidztype is an Ask a Tech Teacher sponsor. More keyboarding: Keyboarding 101. Touch Typing Basics from KidzType. My Students Think Hunt-and-Peck is Good Enough. What do I do? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

Video 153
article thumbnail

Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

article thumbnail

It’s 2018 – Do You Know Where Your Personalized Learners Are?

Education Elements

Personalized learning, like so much of what we value most in our schools, should be aligned to the particular educational needs of individual learners – that’s what it’s all about. Success depends on the ways schools support teachers: providing them with effective professional development focused on making the plan work; embracing their iterations and experiments as they work to continually improve their practices; and ultimately putting them in the position to succeed in targeting instruction,

Outcomes 176
article thumbnail

Teachers Guide to Using QR Codes in Instruction

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is a handy visual featuring 10 easy ways to help you integrate the power of QR codes in your instruction. We have also included a list of.read more.

98

More Trending

article thumbnail

10 Essential G Suite Skills

Teacher Tech

New to G Suite, What is Essential G Suite is a productivity collaboration suite. It consists of Google Apps such as Gmail (your school may disable this), Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Google Classroom, and more! Here are 10 things you want to be able to do if you are using G Suite. 1. […]. The post 10 Essential G Suite Skills appeared first on Teacher Tech.

Google 97
article thumbnail

How Districts Can Inform EdTech Companies to Make Better Products

Education Elements

Innovation often requires leading, not following, in technology advancement. I was involved in two important decisions in 2007 while serving as the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Maine Township High School District 20 in Illinois. First, needing a new Director of Technology to help us advance technology into an essential role to improve learning, I hired a talented young man named Dr.

Company 104
article thumbnail

Some of The Best EdTech Websites for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

If you haven't already seen it, here is a handy visual featuring some of the best educational websites to try out in your instruction. based on our previous reviews, we selected a number of our.read more.

EdTech 95
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: One Company’s Journey to Becoming a More Responsive Organization

Education Elements

I have led several companies but the workplace and teams today are uniquely more interconnected than they were in past organizations. So three years ago I decided I needed a new approach to how I organized our team and approach at Education Elements , the education consulting company I founded in 2010.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How to Plan an AWESOME Book Study!

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Plan an AWESOME Book Study! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. How to Plan an AWESOME Book Study! Book studies are a great way to level up your professional learning! I get a lot of questions about different ways to run book studies for educators, how to choose a book, what tools to use, and how to keep your group engaged. So I decided to put this post together, How to Plan an Awesome Book Study, to help guide you along the way.

Study 94
article thumbnail

With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves

The Hechinger Report

Sweet Briar College in Virginia. The liberal arts college was saved from closing only by the intervention of alumni and others. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images. WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise that much of the conversation at gatherings of university officials these days is about how to prove the value of the liberal arts, once at the core of higher education and now among its most embattled branches.

Study 83
article thumbnail

The Brief Life of a College Alternative: MissionU Will Cease Operations After Sale to WeWork

Edsurge

Traditional colleges don’t open, or close, very often. But in the world of experimental higher education, new entities can pop up quickly, and can shut down with little fanfare. That seems to be the story of MissionU, which was billed as a one-year alternative to a traditional college when it opened just last year. It was even featured on The Today Show and on CNN as a promising alternative to the four-year higher-ed model at a time of rising student debt.

Company 68
article thumbnail

Have a Favorite Twitter Client? It’s Probably About to Break

ProfHacker

One of the things that’s great about social media is how hellbent all the companies seem on destroying themselves, usually in the name of “engagement,” but usually in the spirit of “we have no idea how our users use this service.” Consider Facebook: Users would like a place to post cute photos of family members and pets, and brag about big milestones.

Twitter 74
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Why Virtual Reality is needed in Education

Veative

This blog addresses an important issue: Do we really need Virtual Reality in education? Shift from Memorizing To Higher Order Thinking. VR-based immersive and experiential learning has the potential to create a deeper level of engagement with target topics, in a distraction free environment. Such an environment creates chances for focus and attention on a topic or idea, which should positively affect retention rates of the subject matter.

article thumbnail

Engage All Learners in the Essentials of Literacy

MiddleWeb

In Literacy Essentials, Regie Routman delivers a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that will challenge and inspire educators on their professional journeys as they seek to provide empowering instruction to all their learners, writes literacy coach Pam Hamilton.

article thumbnail

The unseen obstacles facing undocumented college students

The Hechinger Report

Undocumented students already have a hard road to get through college. Just 5 to 10 percent of the 65,000 undocumented students who graduate from high school continue on to college. Out of that group, just 1 to 3 percent earn a diploma, according to the United We Dream Network. In some ways, they’re like lots of students who have to juggle money concerns and family pressures.

Meeting 71
article thumbnail

Gartner Peer Insights recognizes Jamf as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Client Management Tools

Jamf on EdTech

We’re humbled to announce that Jamf users have spoken and shared why Jamf is the client management provider they choose and trust. Read the full details.

Tools 72
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Managed Network Services: An IT Guy's Best Friend

SecurEdge

Who do we call when we forget our passwords or our screens freeze? Or when Rick from accounting accidentally clicks on that questionable spam email and compromises the security of the entire network?

66
article thumbnail

Do you make these common classroom-management mistakes?

eSchool News

The dunce cap, a ruler on the knuckles, kneeling on rice: Modern teachers wouldn’t think of using these methods to correct students’ behavior. But for all the progress that schools have made in understanding and implementing effective discipline, teachers can still fall into bad habits that sabotage their own efforts to stay in command. In his recent edWebinar “ Classroom Management Mistakes That Undermine Your Authority ,” Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missour

article thumbnail

5 Tools to Teach Coding to Late Elementary Students

techlearning

Let's talk about computer science. It's an area where we need more and more people that know what they are doing. To get those people, we are going to have to teach it in schools, and thankfully many schools and states are moving that way. I think coding is best taught as we would teach a world language. The younger we start students, the better off they will be.

article thumbnail

It’s time to develop an anti-cyberbullying policy; here’s how

eSchool News

As technology continues to permeate our lives inside and outside the classroom, educators, administrators, and students should work together to prevent the development of a cyberbullying culture. Research indicates that cyberbullying is detrimental to students and, in some cases, has been proven to be the cause of self-harm and suicide. Educators and parents need to find ways to actively engage our students and make sure they feel safe in their school community.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Alarm, Inform and Inspire: Using @WeVideo to Create PSAs about the @UN #GlobalGoals for Sustainable Development @GlobalGoalsUN with @BullisHGS

techieMusings

Written with my colleague, Dr. Sara Romeyn , our Director of Humanities and Global Studies. Students in Dr. Romeyn’s trimester elective, Contemporary Global Issues, were recently tasked with the job of investigating one of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. After conducting research, students were asked to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) of approximately four minutes in length that would provide information about the issue, explain the importance of the goal, and p

Laptops 50
article thumbnail

Speaking for me

Learning with 'e's

Image from Learning Technologies Conference One of the delights of working in academia is that you get to travel. For some it is a chore, and for others it is a necessary part of the role of being an academic. For me, although the travel itself can be boring, seeing other parts of the world, making new friends and experiencing fascinating new cultures is quite wonderful.

article thumbnail

15 Ideas to Ensure That Project Based Learning is Grounded in Content And Standards

techlearning

15 Ideas To Ensure That Project Based Learning Is Grounded In Content And Standards It is important that Project Based Learning provides students with wonderful opportunities that allow them to take part in a culture focused on rich activities and experiences. It promotes those important 21st-century skills while balancing this acquisition with important content knowledge and standards.

article thumbnail

Come Explore, Learn, Share, Connect at the 2018 FlipTech Conference (June 29 & 30 in New Jersey)!

EmergingEdTech

Finish the School Year and get a Jump on the Fall With a Fun, Interactive Exploration of Flipped Learning and Education Technology! I'm really excited about this upcoming FlipTech conference. It's. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

National KidWind Challenge Champions Announced in Windy City

techlearning

(Chicago, IL) May 14, 2018 – To give students in grades 4-12 the opportunity to showcase their knowledge of renewable energy concepts and engineering prowess, KidWind , the international leader of clean energy education, hosted the 2018 National KidWind Challenge at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WINDPOWER 2018 Conference & Exhibition in Chicago last week.

article thumbnail

Great Podcast Episodes for Students and Teachers

Graphite Blog

This article is part of Common Sense Education's Teacher Voices series, which provides a platform for diverse perspectives on teaching in the digital age. All ideas expressed are the writer's own. There are lots of teachers out there who love listening to podcasts and want to share that passion with their students. But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

article thumbnail

Top Pick Biology Site Supports Inquiry-Based Lessons

techlearning

Wisconsin Fast Plants Easiest way to use plants in K-12 science classrooms Pros: Teachers will find this site exceedingly helpful in making sure that students get the most out of a plant-based inquiry experience in the classroom. Cons: Most resources are only useful to teachers who purchase the plants and other supporting materials. Bottom Line: Detailed resource and support website for those teaching science through plants. [ Free Resource Supports Young Scientists' Research & Learning ] Re

EdTech 40
article thumbnail

Great Podcast Episodes for Students and Teachers

Graphite Blog

"Teacher Voices": This article is part of a series of from-the-classroom perspectives. There are lots of teachers out there who love listening to podcasts and want to share that passion with their students. But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom. That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habi

article thumbnail

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.