EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

By Steven W. Anderson By using digital tools, teachers can promote more interactivity and community outreach.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Traditional lesson plan books have their limitations. Being paper-based, they’re not searchable and they’re not easily shareable. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to search quickly for a specific lesson plan instead of flipping back page by page? How about being able to share lesson plans with others without making photocopies? You can use [.].

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Every child deserves a champion; an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be.” – Rita f. Pierson. Goal: Be another teacher or your student’s champion in the next coming weeks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve written about Nepris before–a transformative cloud-based platform that connects STEAM subject experts with teachers and classes. This month, they’re offering a great group of back-to-school tools that will help you organize your expert presentations and share out the details: Share an update in your activity feed right from your teacher dashboard by typing it into the box at the top of your screen. xx. xx.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Is free curriculum content like a free beer or a free puppy? I heard this question six years ago after it was raised at a major publishing conference. Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. Foremost, most of it wasn’t very good, so there was a high cost to finding anything of real value.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. Educators love to share their successes, learn from the success of other schools and districts, and they also love to share lessons they learned along their journey. eSchool Media and Xirrus have teamed up on the Innovate to Educate Awards to give a national platform for educators to share what they’re most proud of in the

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The Jose Vilson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

“Vilson, tu si ere malo!” It was the most random comment. For whatever reason, middle school students crack me up. Perhaps a large part of their being necessitates testing limits within the first few days of getting to know a teacher. Perhaps they insist that the first two days don’t mean much, so giving anything more than the usual rules speech or index card distribution is doing too much.

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

[ This post is co-authored with Steve Greenlaw. Steve is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mary Washington, where he is still learning to teach after 30+ years in higher ed. He blogs at [link] and tweets at @sgreenla. For context, we both teach at liberal arts institutions so our class sizes are usually between 15-35 students. ]. It started with a blogpost Maha wrote about how we often reproduce marginality in open online spaces.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Learning cultures have no doubt shifted for students in most K-12 public schools. With new one-to-one initiatives, blended learning, online courses, project-based learning, one could argue that students are now more prepared than ever before for the 21st century. But what about teachers? How are teachers learning to operate as professionals in the 21st century?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Once in awhile we curate a list of what we call veteran EdTech websites that have tremendously contributed to the enhancement of teaching and learning. Of course, there are tons of other websites and.read more.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore. Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. But after a year of looking, she still didn’t have a job. Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Looking for some good audio note taking apps to use on your iPad? The collection below has you covered. These are four of our favourite apps for recording audio notes on the go. Check them out.read more.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Listening To My Own Advice Guest Post by Denis Sheeran (@mathDenisNJ) Just over a month ago my book, Instant Relevance, Using Today’s Experiences to Teach Tomorrow’s Lessons, was published by Dave Burgess Consulting. Since then, I’ve had an amazing opportunity to connect with countless educators who are also passionate about finding ways to connect the […].

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

This is the 2nd video in a 3 part series on curriculum design for my PreK-6 makerspace The kids will be in the classroom before I finish producing this podcast- but what will we be doing? This pre-week each grade level team met with me to discuss what we would be learning and how we would […]. The post How can we create a curriculum for our Maker Spaces?

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

High School design team members check out ideas written on post-it notes during a brainstorming session. Photo: Courtesy of Will Eden. Editor’s note: For more than a year, The Hechinger Report has been spending time in high schools across the U.S. trying to learn what can be done to improve dismal graduation rates, along with looking at efforts to get more teenagers invested and interested in school.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The presidential debates offer a unique portal to explore topics that are critically important in developing students' media literacy skills and preparing them for responsible citizenship. Experts Frank W. Baker and Karen Zill provide an in-depth teaching guide.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In August 2015, I was in a training organized by folks at the Washington Education Association, called, “Innovate! Passion and Bravery in Teaching.” I was feeling it. Each presenter got me more excited and thinking about the upcoming school year. During one of the sessions, a presenter began talking about how to grade innovative projects. […].

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In this week’s dealmaking news, Indian educational app provider BYJU’S raised funds from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; in addition, Frontline Education acquired Excent. BYJU’S Raises $50 Million: BYJU’S , which touts itself as India’s largest ed-tech company and provides test-preparation tools and video classes for kids, has raised $50 million in a round co-led by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sequoia Capital, along with Sofina, Lightspeed Ventures & Times Internet Ltd, according to a

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Rachel J. Pierson K-6 STEM Teacher JWP Schools Janesville, MN @RPiersonEdu When Google made the announcement about Hangouts last month, The Verge picked a sensational headline that read, “ Google is Killing Hangouts on Air in September.” Understandably, this caused many people to panic that a favorite source of live streaming would be retired. (RIP Google Reader, Wave, and Buzz.

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

How parents and your entire community perceive your schools is tremendously important. Parents have influence over the overall point of view of the community, government and even their children who attend a school. Here are five ways you can use your website to foster a positive perception of your school climate. Keep all of your pages, events and images up-to-date, especially the information on the homepage of the website.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Learn why it is vital for edtech companies to have close contact with those who are in the classrooms day in and day out | TeacherCast. The post It’s Important To Reach Out To EdTech Companies … It Helps Your Students | @KiddomApp appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. ClassDojo. What’s It Like?

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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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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Pre-K and Kindergarten are lively years in the classroom. Not only are students full of energy, curiosity, and wonder at every discovery, but the teaching itself is infused with interactive opportunities. Painting, drawing, song and dance, and colorful, engaging experiments are all typical and encouraged methods at these grade levels. While students are learning traditional methods of output gauges, such as reading and writing, their success is measured through more creative methods.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Today we joined Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin as she announced the Oklahoma Connect and Learn Initiative , a coordinated effort to bring high-speed broadband and digital learning opportunities to schools across the state. As part of the initiative, Oklahoma is partnering with interested school districts and telecommunications service providers to increase the number of schools with fiber optic connections, improve the capacity and affordability of those connections, and ensure Oklahoma classroom

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Want Students to Watch Videos but Concerned About Distractions and Inappropriate Content? SafeShare.tv = Problem Solved. Video is an increasingly important element in the teaching tool set, but we. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

More than a hundred years ago Maria Montessori began to attract attention for her approach to educating children that aimed to build off the natural curiosity and impulse to learn innate in humans. Today thousands of Montessori schools exist around the world, and the philosophy has remained a darling of progressive educators. But Montessori’s direct work and many of her writings pertain to educating young children up through elementary school, so it is harder to find high schools, especially pub

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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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Hubbli

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

How much of your day do you spend on scheduling issues? If you’re like most teams in school administration, your staff is probably busy setting and rescheduling appointments for your directors, teachers, parents, and students all the time. These hours spent creating, updating, and reminding staff members about important meetings is a real drag on the limited manpower hours most school admin teams have.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Educational toys have come on in leaps and bounds in recent years, with LeapFrog leading the charge. Their huge range of interactive high-tech toys are designed to develop young children’s key learning skills from phonics, reading, and writing right through to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), problem-solving, and social skills. LeapFrog has scores of educational kids’ computer systems, toys, books, and games to choose from.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The post In Defense Of Absolute Literacy appeared first on TeachThought.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

This is a great interactive game that allows players to guide three different threatened shark species to food and away from danger.

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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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