Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When I spoke at Californa’s Better Together Teachers Summit , I talked about the power of connecting students to an authentic audience online. I emphasized the role technology can play in helping teachers to get more eyes on student work and, as a result, motivate students to do their best work. In addition to connecting students to an online audience, I also invite community members, parents, and other students into our classroom regularly.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2017

By Laura Williams Ray Technology can make teachers’ lives easier, but only if they feel capable of using it effectively.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Aaron Hogan on episode 181 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Aaron Hogan shatters myths about teaching. Empower yourself as a teacher with the knowledge you do not have to be perfect. Learn how to build collegiality and support other teachers. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring

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Battelle for Kids

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Four skills reside at the core of our Framework for 21st Century Learning : Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Creativity. These are the widely lauded 4Cs, necessary for success in college, career, and life.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #112–How to Open 2 Gmail Accounts at Once.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The systematic use of data can have a positive impact on student achievement. Here's how your startup tool can help. The post 3 Tips to Improve Your Product’s Approach to Effective Data Use appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In what no doubt feels like an ironic twist for most teachers, the concept of personalized learning has come under fire. The term has become derided as emblematic of a technological takeover of education—with the potential to sap the humanity from teaching. But teachers know personalized learning is designed to enable the sort of flexibility children deserve, and provide space to adjust the format and structure of lessons to fit each student’s needs.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Image Source As with most other industries, emerging technologies are bringing about changes in education. According to a survey conducted by Edgenuity, 91% of U.S. teachers agree that technology. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. Putting these pieces together to create a coherent school year is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Finding time to do that work is even harder. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How To Make Learning Visible: A Spectrum by Terry Heick What students say and do and create are products of thought processes that, more or less, are predictable–and of significant potential if we can make those processes visible. The idea of making learning visible isn’t new. This is an idea as old as conversation or writing–show […].

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

What role does data play in developing solutions to complex challenges in education? And how do we know which approaches in what context are effective in the classroom? Clearly, innovation without research taps creative energies but misses critical guidance for our best shot at improvement. As technology use has increased in schools, so has the breadth of innovations aimed at improving learning—for example, by personalizing to the needs of each student.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 30, 2017

7 Thinking Habits That Grow Strong Teachers by Art Costa and Bena Kallick, Institute for Habits of Mind When considering teacher quality, we are concerned not just for what we observe in the moment. We are also concerned about whether the teacher has the more enduring habits that will serve them well as they continue […]. The post 7 Thinking Habits That Grow Strong Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A pre-K student works on a writing assignment in a DC classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children’s education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible now than in the late 1990s.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Google Docs to Slides Add-on Copying and pasting content into individual slides can be tedious. There has to be a better way! Now that Google Apps Script allows us to code Google Slides I have some new templates for you to try! The Doc to Slides Add-on will allow you to take content from a […]. The post Add-on: Doc to Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Vision-setting can be a painful process. Hours may be spent on one twisting sentence. Long, awkward silences may follow periods of disagreement. Jargon can add up to something that everyone agrees to but no one really understands or finds inspiring. It doesn’t have to be this way. As Education Elements has worked with districts across the country, we’ve found a few simple guidelines can help make the visioning process invigorating and inspiring rather than routine or frustrating. 1.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2017

October , 2017 Here is a collection of some handy iPad apps to use with your kids to teach them cursive writing. ‘kids will get to learn how individual letters are combined to create words, learn how.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 30, 2017

TeachThought Podcast Ep. 91: Digital Readers Read In An F-Pattern by TeachThought Staff Episode 91 of the TeachThought Podcast is the seventh episode in a 12-part series on reinventing learning for the always-on generation. The series is based on the award-winning book, Reinventing Learning For The Always-On Generation: Strategies And Apps That Work.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2017

October 31, 2017 Typeset is a good website for research students and academics. It is an auto-formatting software that helps researchers convert their manuscripts into the journal format of.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Private equity firms can be ruthlessly quick and efficient in their quest to maximize profitability. So it’s no surprise that Hero K12 , which recently received $150 million from BV Investment Partners with explicit marching orders to buy assets, has started splurging. The Miami Lakes, Fla.-based company’s first acquisition is SchoolMint , a San Francisco-based developer of a mobile and web-based platform to help parents and districts manage the school application and enrollment process.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. The discussion was energized by an announcement made by Cengage immediately ahead of the conference, but this is a conversation that has been percolating for a while now. Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licen

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Teacher turnover has an impact on all stakeholders in the school environment, and research shows that students struggle to perform well in schools with turnover year after year. Retaining effective staff can be a big challenge for schools and districts, as can figuring out how to solve the issues around this problem. In “ Using Data to Combat Attrition and Keep Good Teachers ,” Henry Wellington, CEO and founder of Upbeat, discussed issues that cause teacher turnover and how schools and districts

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MindShift

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How can school leaders push for innovation when every year 15 to 20 percent of the teaching staff turns over, along with a similar number of students? High turnover rates make it difficult to hold on to institutional knowledge, and even worse, the rationale for systems can become murky. Schools end up continuing practices they’ve always used out of inertia; the person who implemented an idea, and who can defend its importance, may have even left.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Only one-third of school districts said they are aware of both the term “open educational resources” (OER) and its licensing, according to a report from the Babson Survey Research Group. The report, funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, found more encouraging news when it comes to OER adoption–two-thirds of participating districts are aware of at least one open full-time course curriculum alternative, and more than one-third have actively considered a

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Higher education has undergone a sea change. For most of today’s students, the iconic image of lazy afternoons on the ivy-covered quad couldn’t be further from reality. A growing portion of traditional-age students are first-generation and low-income students who often lack the support and guidance needed to successfully navigate college. More working adults are turning to college to complete the postsecondary credentials that have become a necessity in most industries.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Ed. note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education. Video Description: Every game has potential for learning.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over the past few years, we at California League of Schools (CLS) have been working hard to revamp and revitalize the attendee experience at our conferences. We have added unconference spaces, hands-on STEM sessions, and increased opportunities for attendees to interact with one another in a more social environment. With all the changes we have made and will continue to make to improve the conference experience, one thing hasn’t changed: our commitment to providing high-quality professional deve

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Political Animals. What’s It Like?

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Google Docs can make writing tasks more efficient, providing teachers and students with templates, commenting features, voice typing, and more. While 30 million U.S. students now use Docs, Curtis Chandler says many do not take full advantage of its "power-up" features.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 30, 2017

For many of us, September meant back to school and we hope you are enjoying your students and continue to learn new concepts and tools to use with them. For EdTechTeam, October brought us to eight countries. We hosted summits featuring Google for Education in Malaysia , Australia , Mexico and even a Clerical/Classified Summit for over 150 Hinton staff members in Alberta.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Volusia County Schools set into motion a 5-year technology plan in order to transition to all-digital classrooms by 2020. Comprised of nearly 50 elementary schools, more than 20 middle and high schools, and over a dozen charter schools and alternative learning facilities, the Volusia County School District has made it a priority to leverage technology in support of superior learning opportunities.

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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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