Fri.Aug 12, 2016

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Pen and Pencil Use in Classrooms Isn’t Over, Just Evolving

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Microsoft Surface Pen can facilitate a better learning experience for students.

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3 Videos Showing Deeper Learning Micro-credentials in Action

Digital Promise

Over the past few months, Digital Promise has traveled the country capturing the stories of educators who have earned Deeper Learning micro-credentials to transform teaching and learning. These 40 Deeper Learning micro-credentials were developed by Digital Promise to recognize educators who have shifted their classroom practice to encourage student success in our increasingly complex world.

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6 Steps to Transition to Digital

Teacher Tech

Transitioning to Digital When you’re moving to digital platforms and students having devices, what do you do first? Not Materials Online Your first move is NOT to just post all your documents online. Nor is it to make a bunch of videos of you teaching. Paradigm Shift Using digital materials should be more than going […]. The post 6 Steps to Transition to Digital appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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50 Beginning Of The School Year Procedures For A Stress-Free Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 50 Beginning Of The School Year Procedures For A Stress-Free Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Innovation in Education is Overrated

My Island View

As a society, we place a premium on innovators and entrepreneurs. They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. The reason for that bias is that innovators and entrepreneurs are scarce commodities. Most people are employees and not entrepreneurs. There is nothing wrong with that. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them.

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3 Good Text to Speech Tools for Struggling Readers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

We have received a few requests over the last couple of weeks to share our recommendations for text to speech tools designed specifically for struggling readers.While all text to voice converters can.read more.

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Digital Literacy: A Conversation with Dr Corinne Hyde

My Paperless Classroom

How do we overcome the mountain that incorporates Digital Literacy? Why can't we all just hop on twitter with our students? In this weeks podcast, we ask Dr. Corinne Hyde the difficult questions often never asked in our schools. The post Lets have a serious discussion about Digital Literacy | Tips Tricks and Important Strategies w/ @DrCorinneHyde appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Friday 5 — 8.12.2016

Perry Hewitt

Jasmine Friedl suggests how to make your not-so-great visual design better. More importantly, she shares the process that can help a designer get better: asking questions and guiding rather than issuing prescriptive statements. Connie Chan explains why stickers are more than just a frivolous gimmick: they are an emerging visual digital language. In messaging platforms like WeChat and Line, stickers have become trading cards, storytelling tools, and marketplaces — with potential for monetizatio

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Facebook for Schools: 4 Strategies for Success

Gaggle Speaks

Facebook is a great channel for outreach and communication, but you need to do more than share interesting posts and news stories to have success engaging with your school community. Here are a few strategies for success that are important to consider. Upload a strong cover photo. You only have a couple of seconds to grab someone’s attention and convince them to continue scrolling through your Facebook page.

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Innovation in Education is Overrated

My Island View

As a society, we place a premium on innovators and entrepreneurs. They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. The reason for that bias is that innovators and entrepreneurs are scarce commodities. Most people are employees and not entrepreneurs. There is nothing wrong with that. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them.

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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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Schools are gamifying science with this new STEM app

eSchool News

A new app that lets users upload photos of insects and animals is aiding the discovery of new species, NPR reports. Photos uploaded to the iNaturalist app are accompanied by a location, and from there, amateur and expert naturalists can examine the photos to identify the species. One of the app’s developers told NPR that making science fun and gamifying it can be challenging when a “mixed crowd” wants both technical capabilities along with open-ended exploration.

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Innovation in Education is Overrated

My Island View

As a society, we place a premium on innovators and entrepreneurs. They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. The reason for that bias is that innovators and entrepreneurs are scarce commodities. Most people are employees and not entrepreneurs. There is nothing wrong with that. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them.

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Journeying Into Genrefication: Process, Roadblocks, and Community

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Toward the end of last year, I made up my mind that the 2016-17 school year was going to have a big focus on literacy. I of course do a lot with literacy already, but I want to do more. At the close of the year, I talked with my principal about genrefication and the possibility of delaying the opening of our library at the start of the year so that we could get everything organized.

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The Friday 4: Your weekly ed-tech rewind

eSchool News

Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting news and thought-provoking developments from the past week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to browse eSchool News and read up on other news you may have missed. This week, our stories focus on one thing, which policy makers have said is a necessity, and not a luxury, in life: the internet.

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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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Introduction to RFP Builder

techlearning

Creating an RFP for a K-8 math curriculum is a complex and lengthy process. We have designed this interactive RFP tool to help district leaders get a jumpstart on creating an adaptive math curriculum.

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AnswerGarden a powerful, minimalistic feedback/brainstorming tool

NeverEndingSearch

Gathering quick feedback and initiating a brainstorm have never been easier. AnswerGarden looks like what would happen if Twitter, TodaysMeet, Padlet and Wordle and Tagxedo had a little baby app. Here’s a little introduction I pulled together. AnswerGarden rightly describes itself as a minimalistic feedback tool. It takes under 10 minutes to master.

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Curriculum Companions Start August 8th

Ask a Tech Teacher

Start date for the 2016-17 online school year: August, 8, 2016. Curriculum Companion Wikis (K-5 only) follow a tech professional as s/he teaches each lesson in the SL K-5 curriculum textbooks. Presented via video (10-15 minutes each), you can ask questions, start a discussion with other teachers using the curriculum, and access additional resources.

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Explore Geology With These 9 Cool Rock Tumbler Options

Fractus Learning

Rock tumbling is an excellent activity to introduce young scientists to geology. It’s a relatively simple process. Simply add rough rocks, grit, and water to a rock tumbler and let it do its job. To take a stone from rough to jewelry ready is a process that takes several weeks. As a result, rock tumbling can also be a lesson in patience. Most rocks require a four step smoothing process that includes the coarse grind, medium grind, fine grind, and finally, polish.

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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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Weekend Reading: End of Pokemon Summer

ProfHacker

With the close of summer comes the end of easy Pokemon hunting on campus: the imminent arrival of students means that gyms professors like me have been momentarily capturing will soon be dominated by high-level dragons. As you prepare for the oncoming semester, here are a few weekend reads: Celeste Tuong Vy recently shared her job talk on digital humanities and class design , It’s great for both the insights and the model of a job talk: I’d like to reiterate the value of making explicit r

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. “ Ugandan parliament orders Bridge Academy schools closed,” according to Education International. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open.