Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Ask a Tech Teacher is a small group of tech-ed teachers with a big goal: provide free and affordable resources to anyone, anywhere that integrate technology into education. It’s an ambitious goal and we rely on donations from readers like you to make that happen. About this time of each year, when several of our larger bills come due, we give a shout out for help.
Dangerously Irrelevant
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Seth Godin and Tom Peters on blogging. Yeah, this is pretty much why I blog (and maybe why you should too)… No related posts.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 2, 2016
It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, eight hopeful startups took the stage to show off their ideas and the progress they’ve made under the wings of one of Silicon Valley’s originals. Now in its second year, the four-month accelerator program offers selected companies up to $100,000 from Intel Capital—in exchange for up to six percent of equity—and provides access to GSVlabs , weekly workshop
eSchool News
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Every year in December, students and teachers have a chance to participate in nationwide computer science and coding activities during Computer Science Education Week. Computer Science Education Week, running from Dec. 5-11, is sponsored by the Computing in the Core coalition and is organized by Code.org. This year, the event is even more significant–after intensive work, Code.org and partners launched the K-12 Computer Science Framework to help more students access programming opportuniti
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 2, 2016
December 2, 2016 Effective integration of technology in education is a two-fold process that consists of two main stages. The first stage is theoretical and aims at providing pedagogically sound.read more.
Marketplace K-12
DECEMBER 2, 2016
The money will go towards providing a mix of software, curriculum, and professional development for teachers of computer science. The post Tech Giant Oracle Makes Billion-Dollar Pledge for Coding Education in Europe appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Just in time for Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code , Microsoft Corp. and Code.org have unveiled the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a coding tutorial for students and educators. The Hour of Code is an annual global campaign held during Computer Science Education Week, which this year runs Dec. 5–11. The new web-based tutorial, available for free at [link] , helps novice coders to create and share their own simple “Minecraft” game, and is designed to empower anyone to begin le
Teacher Tech
DECEMBER 2, 2016
New Google Sites + Google Classroom New Google Sites is finally out! This is a great option for creating a class website and sharing resources. Since New Sites is essentially a new product it does not have all the features of Classic Google Sites, but be assured more features are coming. What I particularly like […]. The post New Google Sites + Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Perry Hewitt
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Thanks to the 200+ readers who filled in the survey. Great feedback on areas of digital to cover, and I am equally impressed that the most common write-in entry was for NYC food and drink recommendations — see below. Your experience of email is starting to look a lot like your experience of the web. Animation and interactivity are providing rich new email functionality for communications ranging from standard retail to product education.
Comfortably 2.0
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Need to kick the creativity up a notch in your classroom? Check out four of my favorite animation apps. They are easy to use and I guarantee that your students will creating with them. There are so may ways that you can easily integrate these animation apps into your existing curriculum. Tellagami is an oldie but a goodie!
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.
Fractus Learning
DECEMBER 2, 2016
About thirty years ago, I ran a battered women’s shelter after receiving a degree in counseling. I was trained in a university that revered Carl Rogers; I went on to work in a place where my clients had a desperate need for Rogers’ core conditions for therapy: empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence. Family Violence. Victims of family abuse often are fragile.
Gaggle Speaks
DECEMBER 2, 2016
As a school district leader, the safety of your students is a top priority. So when you attend a national conference that focuses on solving the educational challenges of today’s schools , where you learn about a company that helps keeps students safe when they’re using G Suite for Education or Office 365, you can’t help but get excited.
Fractus Learning
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Has your family got a budding Bono or Beyoncé just bursting to rock the mic? With a kids karaoke machine, you might find that your home is housing the next American Idol! A kids karaoke machine can nurture musical talent, but there are a range of other benefits, too. As your children learn, practice and perform songs, they boost their reading, memory, concentration, confidence and social skills.
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Okay, this one may not be for school, but it sure is handy and I will use it to death. I just discovered Google Photo’s new PhotoScan app. If, like me, you’ve got thousands of family photos in albums in your basement or attic, this may be the perfect holiday activity for the gang. The free scanner app, available from Google Play or at the App Store , allows you to scan and save print photos using your phone’s camera.
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.
ASIDE
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Source: ASIDE 2016 Interactive mapping techniques invite students to connect with content to visualize information beyond mere location. Mapping challenges learners to think, develop literacy skills, and understand the complexity of global issues. It enables learners to seek new ways to look at information through a lens of inquiry-based analysis. Fresh perspectives on traditional maps can help students classify the images they encounter and can assist them in developing their own visualizations
edWeb.net
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Todd Nesloney, Principal of Webb Elementary in Navasota, TX, dreams of an environment where children are excited to come to school every day, rather than excited to leave. In a school with a population that is 85% minority and almost 90% free-and-reduced lunch, how do the staff at Webb Elementary approach their students and what are some of the innovative programs behind the school’s success?
District Administration
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Making complex data more accessible and informative In the Madison Metropolitan School District, the Research & Program Evaluation Office provides rigorous and high-quality research and analysis to support district priorities. By using data dashboards to create accessible, easy-to-understand visualizations of a wide variety of district information, the office has helped administrators understand what's working, what's not working and why, improving strategic decision making.
ProfHacker
DECEMBER 2, 2016
I am terrified of fire. I still wake up from nightmares of burning, and when I was a kid, I used to wake from these nightmares and have to go through the entire house ensuring that nothing, in fact, was at risk of catching fire. In response, I learned all I could about fire, particularly how to do a pretty good campfire. I know how to get it started (with a reliable match or lighter; I’m not that fancy), know how to keep it going, know how to effectively put it out.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 2, 2016
This is part two of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that the
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