Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 24, 2017
Origo Education’s award-winning Stepping Stones 2.0 K-6 math curriculum (with a separate program for pre-K) is versatile, easy-to-use, and nicely differentiated for varied learning and teaching strategies. Started in Australia and now popular in the US, it is available in English and Spanish and aligned with both Common Core State Standards and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
EdTech4Beginners
MAY 24, 2017
Teachers are very good at multi-tasking — responding to different needs of different educational levels and demands of a range of children in their classroom. Even so, it’s hard to provide one-on-one attention all the time. That’s where technological supplements, including tablets, can help. One of the best ways to maximize the use of tablets is by flipping the classroom.
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The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 24, 2017
A conversation with Carrie Willis on episode 83 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Carrie Willis @carriewillis18 talks about how kindergarteners in her STEAM lab use their iPads. They use SeeSaw portfolios, green screen videos, and more. She also talks about what the students do and what the adults do.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 24, 2017
Seeking out like-minded education partners is a way to share your resources and business more widely, and to collaborate with other ed-tech startups. The post Startup Education Partners Broaden Horizons and Missions appeared first on Market Brief.
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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.
Doug Levin
MAY 24, 2017
Does a shift in the U.S. Department of Education organizational chart presage a coming shift in the role for and priority of educational technology under Secretary DeVos?
EdTech Magazine
MAY 24, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Immersive videos bring the world into the classroom.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Doug Levin
MAY 24, 2017
An update to the official U.S. Department of Education organizational chart suggests changes underway at the Office of Educational Technology.
eSchool News
MAY 24, 2017
The brain is an experience-dependent organ. From our very earliest days, the brain begins to map itself to our world as we experience it through our senses. The mapping is vague and fuzzy at first, like a blurred photograph or an un-tuned piano. However, the more we interact with the world, the more well-defined our brain maps become until they are fine-tuned and differentiated.
Battelle for Kids
MAY 24, 2017
It’s not often that conferences lead to revelations. But that’s just what happened for me in Quebec City, last October.
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2017
In 2014, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh made a desperate appeal to the Senate to support legislation that would force businesses to more aggressively address the cybersecurity issues that. cost his university millions of dollars. His request fell on deaf ears as the bill died. We were victims of the FAFSA breach, now we are victims again with Edmodo.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 Below is a collection of some powerful apps to help you enhance your writing style. They provide you with a distraction-free environment where you can focus more on the writing task.read more.
Learning in Hand
MAY 24, 2017
Participation in Google Classroom used to be limited to those with G Suite for Education accounts. Now everyone with personal Google accounts can join and create classes. This is a big deal because it opens up Google Classroom to many more users and uses. When I read that Google Classroom was open to everyone, I was most excited by the possibility of bringing together educators from different school systems for professional learning.
Teacher Tech
MAY 24, 2017
Get Back to Teaching and Learning Guest Blog Post by Matt Miller After working with tons of schools and teachers around the United States and beyond, I’m noticing a trend. We love our technology — sometimes to a fault. Don’t get me wrong. Technology has been a huge catalyst in my own classroom and in […]. The post 5 Ways to Get Back to Solid Teaching and Learning by @jmattmiller appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2017
In her last gig at Cornell University, Jess Snyder was a study abroad initiative coordinator, helping college students plan courses and trips in Southeast Asia. But her coaching experience runs deeper than that, she tell EdSurge. “I helped with logics and training programs at Cornell, but I was also a softball coach in college.” Now, Snyder is applying her coaching and advising skills in a new setting, at Denver-based higher-ed startup Guild Education.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 24, 2017
As high school seniors preoccupy themselves with college decisions, graduation parties and summer jobs, some may be grappling with a nagging thought in the back of their minds: Am I smart enough to succeed at the University of X? That question may be even more acute for black and Latino students, whose track record of success is decidedly mixed at many institutions — particularly in areas like math and science.
My Paperless Classroom
MAY 24, 2017
In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we look at the new Google Earth, MyMaps and Google Tour Builder and share our tips for using these tools. The post What’s New in the world of Google Maps, MyMaps, and Google Earth? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we look at the new Google Earth, MyMaps and Google Tour Builder and share our tips for using these tools.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 24, 2017
May 24 , 2017 This month's New EdTech Tools post features 6 interesting applications we are publishing here for the first time. Some of the things you can do with these tools include: read more.
My Paperless Classroom
MAY 24, 2017
The integral part of your curriculum is academic writing. Assigning essays to students, you set sights on enhancing their critical thinking and brain functioning. As a teacher, you want mentees to shape opinions intelligibly and argumentatively, as well as clarify thoughts, summarize, and highlight the crucial information. The problem is, ESL/EFL students find it more […].
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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
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2017
Over the past 24 months, the Concierge team at EdSurge has listened to more than 180 school and district administrators seeking new edtech tools. We’ve taken notes, created need profiles for more than 200 instructional problems and matched those needs with more than 450 unique products from the EdSurge Index. At the same time, with support from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, we have worked steadily on a research project testing the idea of an online diagnostic tool.
MIND Research Institute
MAY 24, 2017
A Number Spiral is Born. In 1963, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam was doodling during a lecture. He was writing out positive integers (positive numbers counting by 1) in a grid where the number 1 was in the middle and the other numbers spiraled outward. Once Ulam had completed his spiral, he decided to circle all of the prime numbers and discovered an unusual pattern.
Iterating Toward Openness
MAY 24, 2017
This is just a quick note to say that if you’re following the work being done on JSON feeds (as a compliment to – or potential replacement for – RSS), I’ve activated JSON feeds on opencontent.org. If you want to try reading Iterating Toward Openness that way, you can access this new feed at [link].
eSchool News
MAY 24, 2017
As education innovation advances, so does the frustration of all parties involved in K-12 purchasing due to out-of-date processes, poor communication, and difficulties identifying new opportunities. In “ The K-12 Purchasing Renaissance ,” presented by Nicole Neal, CEO, Noodle Markets , and hosted by Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO, edWeb.net , Neal discussed not only why K-12 purchasing matters, but how the purchasing process must be improved.
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.
Marketplace K-12
MAY 24, 2017
Fifteen companies have won a combined $1.5 million in grants to support work building the academic content and effective use of data for products to help students with special needs. The post Unmet Needs in Special Ed. Are the Focus of New Ed-Tech Grants appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTechTeam
MAY 24, 2017
Congratulations! It’s nearly summer vacation. As a reward for your dedicated service, you’ve won a free cruise on the SS Salvaje. Simply click here to finalize booking ! (Seriously, click on the link and then come back to this post. I promise it’s not a scam.) We’ve all heard about Choose Your Own Adventure activities - either the wildly popular books from the 80s and 90s or using Google Forms with logic branching or Google Slides with hyperlinks among slides.
ProfHacker
MAY 24, 2017
Like many of you, I’m in a moment of rapid transition, with spring semester grades barely posted and summer classes already underway. For students who are motivated by their graduation pace, funding, or other needs, summer classes are a great way to move forward: when I was an undergraduate I regularly embraced the format. As a faculty member I have more mixed feelings, particularly with the rising popularity of online summer classes.
Gaggle Speaks
MAY 24, 2017
This is the third post in a Gaggle Speaks series on our Safety Management categories. In this post, we discuss our Violence Towards Others category. Gaggle Safety Representatives are tasked with identifying instances of violence towards others, which is differentiated from self-harm or violence towards oneself. This category includes threats of physical violence or records of past incidents, but it can include emotional violence as well.
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 24, 2017
The post Data: Children Believe Parent Device Use Is Harming Family appeared first on TeachThought.
Shake Up Learning
MAY 24, 2017
The post Augmented Reality with Google Expeditions is Coming!! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. credit: Google Expeditions Program. Google Expeditions Goes AR! Whaattt??!! Google Expeditions is super cool and allows us to take our students on virtual treks across the globe. But Google Expeditions is about to get a whole lot better! Google Expeditions with Augmented Reality is coming in the Fall of 2017.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 24, 2017
I shared with you before how much I love Kiddom as an easy tool for managing standards-based grading , and there’s a couple of new updates that you definitely need to know about if you’re spending too much time creating resources for differentiated instruction. If you’re new to Kiddom , here’s the simplest explanation: it’s a collaborative learning platform that allows teachers to plan, assess, and analyze learning all in one place. .
EmergingEdTech
MAY 24, 2017
Image Source Games for younger and older students can provide a means to keep the mind engaged and learning So many kids these days really love technology. It’s easy to hand them the iPad and let. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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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