User Generated Education

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Background Information. I recently learned, for the first time, about Aristotle’s belief that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing). Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical, the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ).

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Recently, as part of our maths unit on shape, my class went on a Google hunt! My class were studying quadrilaterals and after teaching them the definition of each one, they had to find real life examples on Google. Here are some they found: Finally, I asked the pupils to post the results on Google Classroom, so the learning was shared: What other things could you hunt Google for in a lesson?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2016

I am typically in an aisle seat when flying. The more I fly the more I notice how picky people are when it comes to their seats. Every now and again I get asked if I would be willing to move my seat to accommodate a family member who, for whatever reasons, were reserved elsewhere on the plane. This particular week a mother asked me if I would move to her seat a few rows in front so that she could sit with her daughter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Many professions that were once the exclusive domain of men are no longer so. The percentage of women enrolled in law, medicine and physical sciences have been trending toward parity ever since the 1970s. Computer science, however, is a different story. According to data compiled by Quartz, the percentage of females enrolled in the discipline has actually declined, from nearly 40 percent in the 1980s to under 20 percent today.

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The Jose Vilson

OCTOBER 23, 2016

This weekend, I had the joy and pleasure of keynoting the ECET2MA2016 conference in Cambridge, MA. Weird wasn’t even the word. I was a Yankee fan in the middle of Red Sox town and had a Macbook in a Microsoft building. I’ve railed on a number of occasions against the founder of the company that hosted this company. Yet, a space where two or more educators are gathered is a space I need to be in.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Teaching is fundamentally about human interactions, and technology can’t replace that. I was once asked by a group of education policy makers if the flipped classroom would allow them to hire fewer teachers. They surmised that if teachers leveraged video in their classes, they could handle more students. When I heard this question, I came unglued.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 23, 2016

In a culture where we're always connected, writes digital citizenship consultant Devorah Heitner, the challenges of adolescence are intensified in ways that adults and kids themselves don't always fully grasp. Tweens and teens need a special brand of mentorship.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Edit Images in Google Drive: Pixlr Editor I frequently save images and screenshots to my Google Drive. The Chrome extension “QuickShare Screenshot” directly saves to Google Drive with no extra steps. If the screenshot needs additional edits, such as blurring out information or drawing an arrow, there are apps you can connect to Google Drive […].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 23, 2016

The post 50 Ways Google Can Help You Become A Better Teacher appeared first on TeachThought.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Author and veteran teacher educator Ann Weber outlines 3 key supervisory steps – preparation, coaching and evaluation – that can help cooperating teachers shine in their advisory roles and assure new teachers are ready to launch their careers in the middle grades.

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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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MindShift

OCTOBER 23, 2016

School librarian Mary Ann Scheuer remembers a second grader who couldn’t keep up with the class during reading time. The child was a grade-level behind in reading, and while the rest of the class could sit quietly for 30 minutes, engrossed in Horrible Harry , this child began to act out after ten frustrating minutes with the book. On Scheuer’s recommendation, the teacher introduced the student to the same story via an audiobook; he listened to the story, and then sat alone with the book to read

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … a fun project where students create a. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Cycles of Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Like many teachers, I have always struggled with making assessment meaningful for students. After reading Show Your Work by Austin Kleon I moved from student Google Doc lab reports in chemistry class to blog posts. My goal was for student to build a public archive of curated work that students can feel proud of. For the past few years student blogging has been a success.

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 23, 2016

This post is an excerpt from my new book, The Chromebook Classroom. You can download a free excerpt here ! If you like it, you can purchase from chrmbook.com or on Amazon! Teachers who use Chromebooks should adopt a common language to help their students quickly navigate ChromeOS. There are four key symbols that are found throughout the operating system that students should know and understand.

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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 Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Innovative educators love staying connected to the latest information, news, trends, and updates at great conferences that take place across the year. The frustrating part is that you can't go to every conference and even if you do, you can't attend every session you hope to. At least that's how things used to be. Today, innovative conference organizers can help address this issue by harnessing the power of technology to change that.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 23, 2016

These days, a lot of my travel is spent on the subway. I keep the Kindle app on my phone and read, or maybe listen to some audio, but often it’s too loud to hear it very well. And the subway really isn’t a good place to do deep thinking or concentrate on a text, because there are so many distractions that pull me out of my train of thought. However, I LOVE audio as a medium, that’s really the heart of why I created this podcast.

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