EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2017

By Amanda Murphy Technology used to support traditional therapy can assist school counselors.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Coding and computer science have yet to make their way into every school curriculum in the U.S. But the country isn’t short on initiatives—such as Google’s Code Next program or the White House’s Obama era Computer Science For All campaign—which aim to change that. And while these programs attempt to arm students will the ability to code, they sometimes overlook a critical skill that developers, computer science scholars and tech recruiters say is key to landing a job in their field: writing.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In today’s #EdtechMissions chat we shared ideas for teaching students how to use web tools and apps to research more effectively. In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions , I discuss the importance of motivating our learners to do more than just use Google and Wikipedia for research. These can be starting points, but learners need to seek the truth and unbiased information.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Rushton Hurley on episode 166 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Rushton Hurley, author of Making Your Teaching Something Special: 50 Ways to Become a Better Teacher , gives us ideas to build rapport, review for tests, and improve our teaching that will help us be better teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Two Webcasts from Turnitin You Won’t Want to Miss! Learn how to protect your academic integrity and improve writing achievement. Sign up now. What Is Contract Cheating & What Can We Do About It? Tuesday, October 10 , at 12:00 pm Pacific ( 3:00 pm Eastern)When students arrange for others to complete their academic work for them, they undermine the very purpose of the academic assessment and defraud the public with credentials that don’t represent their knowledge and abilities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Montana is called Big Sky Country for a reason. It’s a state filled with vast open spaces between the mountains, plains, rivers, and ranches. Nearly half the population lives in rural communities, including Dixon where I serve as principal. As a result, there are many challenges to keeping continuity and consistency across students’ educational experiences and to ensuring equity.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Children are at risk for being bullied now more than ever before; due to their constant use of technology for socializing and gaming. Beyond the fact that many children will confront bullying face-to-face while at school, cyber bullying is quickly becoming a serious issue for parents to try and monitor. According to a national study , over 24,000 Childline counselling sessions took place in 2016/17 as a result of bullying in the UK.

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Battelle for Kids

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Education has seen major shifts in the past decade. Rather than providing students all the information they need to learn, teachers now take on more of a facilitator role, guiding students to think and locate the information they need for themselves. Moreover, the careers that students are being prepared to enter are changing. As educators, we are challenged to prepare students for careers in a global economy by providing engaging and authentic lessons that tap into important 21st Century skills

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I guess I might as well start this series with my soapbox message- the importance that educators continue to be learners and what that looks like in the digital age. If anyone sees the importance of this as much as I do, we immediately become fast friends. Below is the excerpt from the ISTE Standards for Educators that describes this standard: Empowered Professional Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practice

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2017

25 Alternatives To ‘I Don’t Know’ & ‘I Can’t’ by TeachThought Staff At the core of a growth mindset is the willingness to change. While you might want to ‘change’ (e.g., improve), changing your own thinking patterns has to precede any behavioral change (e.g., growth), and language is a big part of that.

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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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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I Accept Late Work for Full Credit I saw this blog post posted on Twitter titled “I accept late work for full credit.” I really appreciated many of the points Dr. O’Malley presented. “If it is worth doing, its worth doing late” What is our purpose for teaching? It is so the students will learn. […]. The post Let’s Value the Learning appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Remember the days of Oregon Trail ? How about Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego ? While learning games have been around for decades, technological advancements are creating an entirely more modern gaming experience—one where quality mirrors the digital literacy expectations of today’s student, one that entices the student to play and play again, and one that aligns a game’s outcomes with the goals of the course.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2017

October , 2017 Google Forms has recently released a bunch of new interesting features to help you create better forms. We have gone through these updates and selected the ones below. These are.read more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Almost 10 percent of students in US public schools are English language learners (ELLs), and that percentage is growing every year. One of the biggest challenges today’s teachers face is helping ELLs develop the literacy skills they need to keep pace with their peers. An essential first step in that process is getting their attention in class. Here, two educators discuss how they use the engaging powers of the emerging 3D technology, augmented reality (AR), to do just that.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

If you haven’t noticed, with the launch of our new website earlier this month, we’ve renamed our popular case studies to Success Stories. The goal of Gaggle Success Stories is to give our incredible school district partners the opportunity to tell you how we help keep their students safe or save time and money with K-12 solutions such as Gaggle Archiving & Backup.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Recently, Google Slides added some amazing new features that are total game changers in the way that lessons can be created and professional development can be organized. The post How can New Google Slides features be used in your school? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Recently, Google Slides added some amazing new features that are total game changers in the way that lessons can be created and professional development can be organized.

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techieMusings

OCTOBER 9, 2017

For the past year, I have been doing research with some of my colleagues on productivity strategies. A group of us formed a PLC, and we are continuing our work this year. One of our primary goals in this PLC is to think about not only what we are doing to boost personal productivity but, very importantly, the message we are sending students and how we are helping them manage work and stay organized.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2017

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. Planboard. What’s It Like?

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 9, 2017

When you or your students are reading online for information, a typical web page can look a lot like this: Reading online can be complicated by all of the extraneous elements we find on web pages. There is a tool that can help make reading for information online a less distracting task. It is called Mercury Reader, and it is an extension that can be used in your Chrome web browser.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Listening to one of my favorite motivational speakers, Eric Thomas , and he made the simple distinction between the idea of “I got to” as opposed to “I get to” It was subtle but a major shift for me as I thought about my context. I am blessed to be able to speak and reach educators all over the world, and although some days are tougher than others, there is not a day that I am not grateful for the work that I do.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 9, 2017

On Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. Eastern, EdWeek Market Brief will host a webinar breaking down what K-12 companies need to know about the adult education market. The post Inside the Adult Ed. Market: A Webinar on What K-12 Providers Need to Know appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

As a special bonus for registering (free) for the Library 2.017 Makerspaces mini-conference , you also can attend live and/or watch the recording of a special 90-minute live Webinar with the folks from Fayetteville Free Library on "STEAM and Making at the FFL." The Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 10th, from 1:00 - 2:30 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. October is National Fire Prevention Month, with Fire Prevention Week happening October 8-14. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has fantastic resources to help educate children on preventing fires. In addition to fire prevention week materials, they are also launching a brand new safety app for kids.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

We hope you will consider registering (free) for the third and final of our Library 2.017 mini-conferences this year. "Makerspaces" will be held online on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). You can attend the mini-conference live or you can watch the recordings at any time afterwards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. Photo: Kyle Spencer. Growth mindset theory, the idea that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the education world by storm in the past decade as a way of motivating students academically.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The post How to Get Google Certified! (Video Presentation) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Who’s Ready to Get Google Certified? I get a lot of questions about Google Certification! I put together a YouTube video presentation to help educators understand all of the Google Certification options. In this video, I will give you an overview of each of the five options for Google Certification as well as give you additional resources, links, and infographics to help you dig deeper.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Questions that were posted ahead of a two-day conference on free speech at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. GAMBIER, Ohio — Walking into the only dining hall on Kenyon College’s campus last year, students passed a cardboard sign reading: “No more respectful differences.”. The message in paint was clear — different opinions are not welcome at this small liberal arts campus, no matter if they are hateful or respectful.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Connected learning scholar Mimi Ito explores lessons learned from a successful long-distance collaboration to create innovative STEM learning experiences for elementary students. A little over a year ago, Mahad Ibrahim reached out to me about Connected Camps, an organization I’m leading with Katie Salen that offers online learning programs and mentorship in Minecraft.

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