Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

The mother I met on a May evening in 2019 at the Pittsburgh Youth Filmmakers premiere had never heard of the local student film program before that night. But after seeing a flyer for Remake Learning Days, she and her daughter attended the event and began to discover a region’s worth of creative learning opportunities like it. Across town the next day at the Citizen Science Lab, I met children and parents who were similarly enthralled as they looked through microscopes—and a new pathway into STE

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

As soon as the boxes of laptops arrived at the homes of Casa Blanca Community School students, the phone calls to school leaders began. “Now what do we do?” “How do we plug it in?” “Where is the ‘on’ button?” These were some of the questions that parents and grandparents asked Casa Blanca school leaders when the pandemic hit last year and students began to attend school from home.

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Education Elements

MARCH 31, 2021

There are 88 million opportunities in the human genome for trait variations to make us unique, but when it comes to what we seek in the workplace, neuroscience suggests most humans crave the same three things – safety, belonging, and a sense of mattering. This is hardly news; Abraham Maslow wrote about these same needs in his 1943 paper on human motivation, and a quick scan of nearly any company’s Glassdoor reviews will highlight these variables.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. They were roleplaying. Let me set the scene for you. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2021

Whiteness, meaning the institution that upholds white culture and affirms white ways of being as superior over other ways, seeks to sustain and protect itself. That’s how it survives. Identifying its tactics is a necessary skill for understanding it. Understanding it is necessary if you seek to destroy it, as I, a Dominican woman and educator, do. I do not seek to destroy white people.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Coursera’s founders and CEO rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today, as the online-learning company became a rare edtech enterprise to go public. And because it’s a pandemic, the event was online and the bell was virtual (perhaps fitting for an online-learning company). Of course, the money the company is raising is very real—nearly $520 million.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

So what do today’s students—whether they’re in K-12 or in college—need to know to be prepared for the world they’ll graduate into? That question has only become more complicated during the uncertainty of a pandemic. And it’s the topic of a new book by Stephanie Krauss, called “Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World.” Krauss brings a unique mix of perspectives to the topic.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post by Rachelle Dene Poth Spaces for Digital Portfolios! As we work to prepare students for the future, it is important that we find ways to help students focus more on the learning process rather than the end product. When we bring in learning opportunities that help students to reflect on their individual work […]. The post @Spaces_Edu for Digital Portfolios By @Rdene915 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 31, 2021

Image by Biljana Jovanovic from Pixabay Okay, can you guess what it is? What’s colorful, interactive, and useful to summarize a biology lecture? The answer: a mind map! It’s an easy and engaging. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Summer is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more months of school. Teachers and students alike wrestled with the steep learning curve of remote teaching and learning. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. The same is true for technology in the classroom.

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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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MiddleWeb

MARCH 31, 2021

“Let’s face it, adolescence isn’t plump full of safety and confidence. It’s a developmental stage in which students want and need to be connected and valued.” No wonder middle schoolers dread the “correction” approach to grammar. Jeff Anderson and Travis Leech have found a better way. The post Grammar Instruction the Safe and Social Way first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

During my 20 years as an elementary educator in North Texas, expectations for providing some tangible evidence of student learning for both teachers and parents have always been present. Paper-based activities–think the old reliable worksheets provided by your favorite educational publisher or found online–have long been a staple of teaching and learning.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

As the pandemic wanes, in-person field trips may start to resume. But over the past year many teachers also discovered that virtual field trips have a lot to offer -- from museums to the International Space Station, these online excursions can take kids places they may otherwise never get to go. For students to get the most out of virtual field trips, teachers will want to establish objectives and give kids whatever context they'll need.

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techieMusings

MARCH 31, 2021

Kami has been a wonderful tool in my classroom for a number of years now. I began using Kami when I started teaching in a purely online format, as I needed a way to easily provide feedback to my students digitally. As I have continued to use Kami over the years, and as the company has continued to roll out continued features and updates, Kami has become a tool I recommend for all classrooms.

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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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Graphite Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

There's nothing quite like a field trip: That legendary day when permission slips grant students golden tickets to an experience outside the classroom. Although virtual field trips don't physically bring kids to new locations, they make use of the web and video to amplify online learning in an experiential way. And at their best, virtual field trips can be transporting, informative, and inspiring.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2021

Do you know a teacher leader who deserves recognition for the impact they have had in their district this year? Good News! You can recognize them with a nomination for the Teacher Leader Impact Award. The award is meant to celebrate all the teachers leaders who take on all the “extra” to impact their broader school and district community.

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Reflections

MARCH 31, 2021

What if we could retrain our brains to assume the positive before we assumed the negative? Boy, I could have used that advice this weekend. After receiving the second covid vaccine shot, I was dealt some serious side effects. Some I am still dealing with but none of them I won't survive. Still, the entire time I was sick, I focused on the negative. The body aches, the fever, the shooting pains.

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MARCH 31, 2021

At Countryside High School in Clearwater, Fla., 16-year-old Sage Waite is already taking a class in cybersecurity, and she’d welcome one that’s in the works on cyber disinformation. “For the longest time, I didn’t actually know what disinformation was,” said Waite, who’s in the 11th grade. “There was always the idea that things could be wrong in what you’re hearing and what you’re being told.

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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

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 31, 2021

“The professor, who identified as a writer, wanted her students to witness the vulnerability involved in storying one’s experience.”. Our April reading for LEARN: Marginal Syllabus looks at a high school creative writing course that is the site of collaboration between a university professor and a local public high school. Latrise Johnson, a professor at the University of Alabama, has reimagined her academic role by teaching creative writing at nearby West High School in order to investigate in-

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