Mon.Apr 04, 2022

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VR in Education: Potential and Barriers for Effective Use

techlearning

Children’s use of virtual reality (VR) seemed to increase during lockdown but was most effective when incorporated with supporting materials that contextualized the VR experience.

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Students with Disabilities Develop Technology Skills to Expand Career Options

EdTech Magazine

At San Andreas High School in San Bernardino, Calif., students use advanced sensors and software to manage and monitor a state-of-the-art hydroponic growing facility and greenhouse. They document their processes using smartphones, tablets and video editing software. They package, market and track their products using QR codes and use web development tools to sell the greens to local restaurants.

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Virtual Museum Tours: Ready to Take Kids on a Field Trip?

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For those of you who want to go on virtual museum tours, the Museums for Digital Learning may have the perfect answer for you. The list of museums is long and growing and is a joy to see. For years, as educators, we've had to cobble together our own resources. But, now, we have museum-created resources around topics and objects.

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CoSN2022: Excitement Builds for the In-Person Event Highlighting Digital Innovation

EdTech Magazine

After two years of online-only experiences, attendees can come together in person for the Consortium of School Networking’s 2022 conference in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-13. CoSN2022, which will also offer a selection of uniquely virtual sessions, will feature panels and workshops that evoke this year’s conference theme: “Amplifying the Power of One.

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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.

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National Library Week April 3-9

Ask a Tech Teacher

National Library Week is April 3-9, 2022. It allows us to promote our local libraries and their workers. Find more about here at the American Library Association. Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you: For Children. Aesop for Children –collection of fables. Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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Personalizing Learning: Getting it Right

Education Elements

I can’t remember how many times I have been asked “Am I doing it right?” I’ve heard this question so many times in my support of over 150 schools as they implement personalized learning that I no longer count. Teachers and leaders want to know, am I “doing” personalized learning right.

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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

Edsurge

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. Because my work as CEO of the national Breakthrough Collaborative involves middle-schoolers with college aspirations and college students who aspire to become advocates and teachers, I’m always inclined to take the optimistic view.

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What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid. The post What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs? appeared first on TeachThought.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

Edsurge

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. Until very recently, data available to the public about liberal arts graduates’ salaries and industries were relatively limited.

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3 ways educators can leverage videos

eSchool News

As Covid-19’s Omicron variant is pushing some school districts back into distance learning, teachers may be frustrated at the return of video meetings. However, imagine if video wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is today. I contend that video technology helped to save education during the pandemic, and therefore should not be abandoned. As years of research from Harvard University has shown, the benefits of capturing and sharing videos to support preservice teachers, new teachers, and instructional coa

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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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Why This Large Illinois District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

Edsurge

Spread across more than 40 individual buildings, Rockford Public Schools is the third largest school district in Illinois. As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. After 22 years as a classroom teacher, plus time spent as an instructional coach and curriculum designer, Uram took on this new position just three years ago, when i

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How UX classroom design empowers students

eSchool News

It’s the last day of summer break. You walk the halls, ducking your head into classrooms as you go. Each room looks ready for the year: inspiring quotes on walls, names on desks, chairs perfectly arranged. Every room except one, that is. This particular room has boxes of books, containers of art supplies, and furniture pushed against the wall. You smile and move on, never doubting that this room will be one of the most creative, functional, and beloved rooms in just a few short days.

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Esports, Equity, and Innovation Explored at the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in California

techlearning

Tech & Learning’s Leadership Summit covered a wide variety of topics, from esports to data privacy, and recognized the winners of the California Tech & Learning Innovative Leader Awards

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Fight Photomath – Use Graspable Math

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Join me to learn about how Graspable Math can help with transforming your math class. Students are cheating with Photomath, let's look at some alternatives! The post Fight Photomath – Use Graspable Math appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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edWeb Wins EdTech Award for Professional Development Learning Solution

edWeb.net

The EdTech Awards for 2022 were just announced, and edWeb has won the award for Professional Development Learning Solution out of a field of 20 Finalists. edWeb is also a Finalist in two other categories: Online Courses/MOOC Solution and EdTech Company Setting a Trend. edWeb.net Founder and CEO, Lisa Schmucki , is a Finalist for the Visionary Award.

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This Award-Winning ESOL Teacher Wrote a Book With Her Students

techlearning

Dr. Claudia Martinez, who wrote a book with her students at North Tattnall Middle School in Georgia, recently received the award for Best Example of Teacher & Student Well-Being at Tech & Learning’s Innovative Leader Awards in Atlanta.

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SamCart Courses Review (2022) – Is the Platform Any Good?

Sell Courses Online

… SamCart Courses Review (2022) – Is the Platform Any Good? Read the Post.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Support Student Healing and Restoration

techlearning

Supporting student healing and restoration is critical as we continue to work through the trauma of the past few years

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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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6 Cool Tools Help Us Know Where Kids Are

MiddleWeb

One of the few silver linings to teaching in the pandemic has been a boost in teachers’ familiarity with and use of some pretty incredible tools, each designed to make it simple to gather evidence of learning with ease and efficiency. Curtis Chandler shares six favorites. The post 6 Cool Tools Help Us Know Where Kids Are first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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If we build it, will they come? Lessons from creating the #NASPA22 Discord Community

Josie Ahlquist

Since leaving on-campus roles almost ten years ago, I have learned that part of my job as a consultant and executive coach is aiding organizations and leaders through the process of change and experimentation. So to no surprise, I found myself in a similar role serving on the conference leadership committee (CLC) for the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference, offering both a place-based experience in.

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How Student Tech Teams are Creating New Leaders

Digital Promise

When Renee Dawson, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Crawford W. Long Middle School in Atlanta, met John*, an eighth grader with learning and speech disabilities, they bonded immediately. Long had just joined the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program, and Dawson was recruiting members for her new student tech team. Student tech teams are an integral part of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative.

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Saying Goodbye to My Sweet Buddy

techieMusings

15 years ago, a 2 year old toy poodle named Buddy came into my life. I never could have imagined that this tiny pup could possibly have such a huge heart and show me such tender love and affection every single day for 15 years. I am so incredibly lucky to have been Buddy’s mama. As I write this, I am absolutely drenched in tears. Buddy has crossed the Rainbow Bridge and is running free again alongside his friends who passed before him.

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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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PROOF POINTS: Education official sounds alarm bell about high school classes

The Hechinger Report

Mark Schneider is a veteran numbers guy who has spent a career crunching education data about things like post-college earnings, graduation rates and charter schools. He once served as the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, an agency that Schneider now oversees as the director of the Institute of Education Sciences, which is the research and data arm of the Department of Education.