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3 Leadership Tips for Tech Adoption

EdTech Magazine

By Steven LoCascio, Rafael Iona Innovation in K–12 education needs to be driven by innovative leaders.

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20 Websites and 3 Posters to Teach Mouse Skills

Ask a Tech Teacher

Many of my most popular articles are about mouse skills. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers visit Ask a Tech Teacher to find resources for teaching students how to use a mouse. No surprise because using a mouse correctly is one of the most important pre-keyboarding skills. Holding it is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break.

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Educators Use Skype to Foster Empathy Toward Other Cultures

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Videoconferencing tools make global classrooms.

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Teaching makers: unraveling the maker movement

Neo LMS

A confession: This is one of my favorite topics. I think that hands-on experimentation, design, invention and creating is one of the most stimulating things you can engage students in, and I lap up anything I can on the thriving maker movement. For teachers this is not new. Teachers have been puzzling out how to make practical their lessons for eons: making rocket ships from matchsticks, paper mâché solar systems, cabinets in Woodshop and Beef Wellington in Home Ec.

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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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My Personalized Learning Approach Isn’t About Tech. It’s About Dignity.

Edsurge

“You won’t last a week at that school. Those kids will eat you alive! You’ll end up sliding your key under your classroom door at midnight and quitting without telling anyone!”. These were the words I heard as HR stamped my papers to complete my hiring. I know what they saw: A soft-spoken, middle-aged white woman who had nothing in common with the 2,800 students at an inner-city minority-majority high school in Utah.

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32 Educational Websites Organized by Content Area

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

September 14, 2017 Now that you are settled back in your classrooms ready to start a new school year you probably have already made plans on how and what technology to use in your teaching. The.read more.

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A Very Good Creative Book Maker for Young Learners

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

September 14, 2017 Scribble Press is an excellent creativity app that is now free for a limited period of time. Scribble press allows young learners to create their own story books and share them.read more.

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What Writing Is & Is Not

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post What Writing Is & Is Not appeared first on TeachThought.

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STUDENT VOICES: DACA students worry about ‘really tough times’ ahead

The Hechinger Report

Following President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, some of America’s 800,000 young adults brought to the United States illegally as children may be deported beginning in March 2018. As Washington continues to debate the issue, The Hechinger Report spoke with four DACA recipients about how this new reality affects their lives and education goals.

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Quality Feedback Begins with Good Assessment

MiddleWeb

Challenging Learning Through Feedback is an inspiring book that links feedback to a strong, ongoing classroom assessment process. Thanks to the authors, says teacher-librarian Rita Platt, the quality of her own formative assessments and feedback has improved.

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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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Questions of Compliance or Empowerment?

The Principal of Change

This visual is from a great post by Katie Martin titled, “ Creating a Learning Orientation Versus a Performance Orientation “: Two things here that are quite powerful. In my 2010 post, “ What Makes a Master Teacher “, I talk about the difference between “Learning Goals” and “Performance Goals”, and list that criteria for a “master teacher”: 6.

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Smoke and mirrors

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Sarah Joy on Flickr Hidden away in the heart of the ancient Barbican area of Plymouth, England are the authentic Mayflower Steps. You probably know the story. In 1620, a little ship set sail from the South Devon port and launched out across the great Atlantic Ocean, carrying a contingent of around one hundred Pilgrims - mainly Puritan folk - and abut thirty crew.

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Do education policy makers believe in science?

eSchool News

John Hattie is an education researcher who changed the way we think about what works in the classroom. His meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), analyzed 50,000 studies of more than 80 million students. This seminal work, with its 2011 and 2015 updates, shined the light on the importance of visible learning and taught us what interventions were most effective in education.

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22 killer keyboard shortcuts (and a challenge!) for busy educators

Ditch That Textbook

Hunting and clicking is so slow. If you’re navigating your computer, laptop or Chromebook primarily by using your mouse or touchpad, you’re squandering valuable minutes every day. The antidote: keyboard shortcuts. In a simple experiment, TheKeyCuts blog found that more than 10 minutes a day can be saved with keyboard shortcuts. Over a year, that can […].

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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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How to assess your district’s digital readiness

eSchool News

How do you know if your school system is high performing in its use of technology? What are your strengths and weaknesses? While there are many free, self-assessments, how do you get a rigorous, outside expert assessment? A first step is for districts to learn about CoSN’s new Digital Leap Success Matrix (Matrix) which outlines the practices needed to be a successful digital school system.

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Task Card Series Can Boost Reading Skills

MiddleWeb

K-8 literacy coach Amber Bartlein reports The 100 Task Card series is set to become a staple in the classrooms she works with, for use during small group instruction, intervention and enrichment time, or to provide quick, focused practice on a specific literacy skill.

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This law could help states prioritize science education

eSchool News

States have a new opportunity to emphasize science education and achievement–once largely ignored during the NCLB era–under new federal policies. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states opportunities to create new educational goals and strategies, and states can set clear-cut goals for science achievement and leverage existing policies to meet those goals, according to a new brief from Achieve.

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Why Talk About Mistakes in Math Class?

MiddleWeb

Why talk about mistakes in math class? Nancy C. Anderson has the answer in her book "What's Right About Wrong Answers." Resource teacher Kimberly Mueller says Anderson's activities can help students learn how to analyze their mistakes and develop a growth mindset.

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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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Organize yourself (and maybe others) via Google Keep

SpeechTechie

In the last few weeks, I started back to work after summer vacation and began my regular consults at several schools. I am focusing on taking better notes--and organizing them. Notes are of course a way we can keep data on students, but providing consultation through a private practice motivates me to provide the best services possible, which in turn means not forgetting nuggets of information that could/should turn into action items for me.

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[VIDEO] Wi-Fi Minute: Why Managing Your Wireless Network is So Challenging!

SecurEdge

Without proper management of your newly upgraded or freshly deployed wireless network, the chance that you'll run into performance problems is almost guaranteed — even if you're network was designed and configured correctly. But managing your wireless network after it's been deployed can be difficult. In this week's episode, Danny reveals the four reasons why Wi-Fi management is so challenging today.

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MissionU Welcomes Its First Class and an $8.5M Series A Round

Edsurge

Just a week after welcoming its first cohort of 30 students to class, startup university MissionU is opening its doors to a few other guests: education-minded investors. The company announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round led by FirstMark Capital. Existing investors First Round Capital, University Ventures, Box Group, Rethink Education and Learn Capital also participated, along with new investors John Doerr and Omidyar Network.

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4 Ways to Use Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps in the Classroom

Graphite Blog

Are you curious about using augmented or virtual reality in your classroom? If you've already tried it out, are you looking for more app and lesson plan ideas? Either way, we've got you covered. Start with the Google Cardboard headset (it's only $15), and whether you're using iOS, Android, Chromebooks, or iPads, we've curated an assortment of apps and lesson plans to try out with your students.

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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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15 Culturally-Responsive Teaching Strategies and Examples + Downloadable List

Prodigy

No single teaching approach will engage each student at once, but building a strategy to consistently deliver culturally-responsive lessons will help you appeal to diverse learners with distinct backgrounds. Rooted in differentiated instruction principles, culturally-responsive pedagogy aims to link content — from delivery to assessment — with students’ ancestral and contemporary cultures.

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The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” The full slide deck is available here. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class today. I’m really honored to be here at the beginning of the semester, as I’m not-so-secretly hoping this gives me a great deal of power and influence to sow some seeds of skepticism about the promises you all often hear – perhaps not in this class, to be fai