The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

A Global Search for Education Post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today students selected their Project Managers (PM’s) and Assistant Project Managers (APMs) for their app teams. They also picked their graphic designers and drew out their sitemaps. They are in the midst of an app building project that will require not only technical skills but will develop individual agency, development of new competencies and learning how students want to

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2018

2018 K–12 IT Blog Badges. Is your blog featured in EdTech magazine's 2018 50 Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs list ? Congratulations! You can share this honor with your readers by embedding one of our official Must-Read IT Blog badges on your site. They come in two different sizes: Back to the full 2018 50 Must-Read K–12 IT Blogs list. juliet.vanwage…. Mon, 04/30/2018 - 12:50.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2018

Here are the most-read posts for the month of April: How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer. Summer Tech Camp–Everything You Need. College Credit Classes in Blended Learning. 5 Great Websites to Make Spring Sparkle. How a Senior Writing Project Helped Make Coeur d’Alene a District of Choice. Tech Tip for Teachers: Cover your Webcam.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2018

May 14, 2018. phil.goldstein_6191. Mon, 04/30/2018 - 13:24. Subscriber Preheader. Follow these K-12 IT Blogs to stay on top of ed tech trends! Nonsubscriber Preheader. Stay connected with the biggest influencers in education IT with EdTech’s e-newsletter.

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APRIL 30, 2018

While increased access to the internet and computing devices has been instrumental to the growth and institutionalization of the global movement toward open educational resources (OER), technology choices (often made by educational institutions – and their vendors – on behalf of students) can serve to amplify and/or mute key features of openness.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2018

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Executive function — our ability to remember and use what we know, defeat our unproductive impulses, and switch gears and adjust to new demands — is increasingly understood as a key element not just of learning but of lifelong success.

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 30, 2018

P21 joined 21st Century Learning Exemplar Goddard School Hillsborough for an action-packed day two of Skills for Today Week. In addition to the "show" aspect where we highlighted the early learning environment in action, P21 is also proud to offer a free Framework and Guide to educators and policymakers who are considering, or are in the process, of integrating 21st century skills into their early learning programs.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 30, 2018

4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective by Terry Heick For professional development around this idea or others you read about on TeachThought, contact us. Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously […].

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 30, 2018

Open Fewer Documents One of the most effective things we can do to improve student writing is to give students feedback WHILE they are writing rather than after they submit their writing. Feedback given during the process is formative. No matter what way you cut it, the learning students receive from your feedback AFTER they […]. The post CollabEssay: Why Open 30 Docs When You Can Open One?

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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

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. They don’t get as much respect, and certainly not as much pay as the teachers they work with.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are not just important topics for school children—they are essential to our culture. These fields help the environment, revolutionize healthcare, innovate our country’s security, and ensure our global economic competitiveness. According to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. is not producing enough STEM undergraduate degrees to match the forecasted demand, creating a national workforce crisis.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 30, 2018

One of the challenges we’re facing right now at our institution is how to preserve old websites (read Kris’ last-ever DTLT post on this very issue. And we’re not the only ones; check out what the NYT is doing ). As we were working with our library, I was introduced to this took for “recording” websites, Webrecorder.io. It is an open source project by Rhizome and the New Museum , funded in part by the Andrew W.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

“I don’t think I’ll teach any differently this year. We just won’t use the Chromebooks in math class.”. —Me (at the beginning of the school year). Last school year, our school started a one-to-one Chromebook initiative for the sixth grade. That meant our incoming seventh-graders would not only have Chromebooks, they would know how to use them! What I thought would happen (aka delusions of grandeur): 1.

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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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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

The post A Hyperdoc Unit That Will Blow Your Mind! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. A Hyperdoc Unit That Will Blow Your Mind! Hyperdocs are amazing, but this is an entire Hyperdoc UNIT that will blow your mind! This Hyperdoc has it all, y’all! Designed to help students dig deeper into the book, The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. And guess what, it is VERY DYNAMIC!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

Over the past few weeks we have featured a number of web tools and mobile apps to help you better manage your tasks and to-do lists and enhance your overall productivity. In today’s post, we are.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

The post Yes, Kinder CAN Use Chromebooks! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Yes, Kinder CAN Use Chromebooks! Empower our littlest learners! The new book, Google Apps for Littles by the dynamic duo, Christine Pinto , and Alice Keeler , is all about empowering our littlest learners – YES, kinder CAN use Chromebooks and lots of other technology!

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Prodigy

APRIL 30, 2018

While just about every teacher agrees that report card comments are important, there are few who actually look forward to writing them. Why? Because every instructor knows working under tight deadlines to create upwards of 20 unique and detailed reports isn’t exactly a straightforward task. And while no one at your school knows your students […].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

CAIRO, Oct. 9, 2011 — Seventeen people were killed in clashes between security forces and Coptic Christians protesting against an attack on a church. Photo: Xinhua via ZUMA wire. In 1912, my great-grandfather donated land and money to build St. Damiana Coptic Orthodox Church in my mother’s village outside of El Fayoum, Egypt. He even had the bell from the church fashioned and imported from Italy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching is a personal endeavor. Each and every classroom we walk into is different and exudes the personality of the teacher within. Because education is so personal and teachers work extremely hard, change can sometimes be difficult to come by. Teachers care deeply about providing the best education possible for our students, but our profession involves an incredibly large volume of work.

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RafranzDavis.com

APRIL 30, 2018

Three years ago, I joined my current school district in what can only be described as my dream job in education. After walking the pavement of doing the work for kids, traveling on my own dime to learn and fully immersing myself into the life of an “edtech using connected educator”, I was finally ready to tackle the school district role of my dreams…leading our digital revolution.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching is a very challenging job and it is helpful teachers to be updated with the new ideas and resources. Teachers want to improve their teaching skills from time to time, but they are stuck with. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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techlearning

APRIL 30, 2018

Tinkercad Amazingly simple yet powerful and flexible online CAD tool [ Free Engineering Resource Helps Kids Solve Problems With Science ] Pros: Designing 3-D objects has never been easier or more rewarding. Cons: Requires an Internet connection, which could be a problem for some schools. Bottom Line: A big step forward in making 3-D design more accessible and social.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 30, 2018

There is a growing flood of poor quality work being turned in by students. How can teachers turn the tide on rushed assignments filled with errors and unclear thinking? Teacher and soon-to-be principal Rita Platt shares her strategies for encouraging excellent writing.

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Hubbli

APRIL 30, 2018

In our previous post, What is Outsourcing? How Does it Apply to a Montessori School? , we defined what outsourcing looks like in a Montessori school. We also listed the pros and cons of this common business practice to help you decide if outsourcing is right for your school. In this follow-up post, we’ll dive deeper into how outsourcing can actually help your staff become more efficient and your school more visible for marketing purposes.

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techlearning

APRIL 30, 2018

If you haven't heard, and it's likely you haven't, Microsoft launched a product called Teams in 2017 following the company's decision not to sink 8 billion dollars into the purchase of Slack. Instead, they decided to build out their Skype product and develop their own version of Slack. This is not good news for Slack. What it means is that institutions who already have O356 subscriptions will have access to Teams included in their subscription.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

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. Construct 3. What’s It Like?

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techlearning

APRIL 30, 2018

One conversation that kept popping up during our latest Tech&Learning Live event in Boston last week was the role of parents in teaching students proper behaviors when it comes to the use of devices and access to the Internet. District showings of Screenagers seems to be a consensus first step in engaging families in understanding the importance of digital citizenship.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 30, 2018

Activate Learning purchased Conceptua Math and Chinese homework app provider Knowbox raised $100 million in its latest funding round. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Activate Learning Acquires Conceptua Math; Knowbox, Enuma, Allovue Raise Funds appeared first on Market Brief.

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techlearning

APRIL 30, 2018

Cincinnati, OH ( April 30, 2018 ) — PublicSchoolWORKS is hosting its third and final School Safety Talks webinar focused on crisis prevention, preparedness and response on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 2 p.m. Eastern. During the webinar, titled “A Practical and Effective School Safety Program,” Coordinator of Safety & Security for Great Oaks Career Campuses Al Gille will provide his first-hand experience creating and sustaining a successful crisis prevention and response program.

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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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