Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I was excited in August when Google Classroom got an upgrade. The feature I was most excited about was the Google Classroom comment bank. Two year ago, I decided I was all done taking grading home and moved all feedback and assessment into my classroom , so I was hopeful the comment bank would make giving real-time feedback in class even easier. The comment bank is a nice addition, but teachers still have to copy and paste the comments into the document OR create a comment, type the hashtag symb

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I recently read a report that said schools in the UK spend £900mn per year on educational technology. It shows that clearly, EdTech is becoming an integral part of our classroom learning. Our regular classrooms are steadily transforming into ‘tech classrooms’, with an integration of learning apps like Kahoot, interactive boards, inexpensive VR devices like Google Cardboard and Class VR , voice operated devices, online flashcards , virtual assistants, etc., into our curriculum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Julia Bamba on Episode 383 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Julia Bamba leads a personalized high school. After three years, they are graduating their first senior class. Learn about their successes and lessons from this revolutionary approach to learning being piloted in many districts.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Kimberly Sheppard is a personalized learning coach for Henry County Schools in Georgia. In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades. Today, more than three million students pursue higher education fully online, representing a $20-billion market. While online students are still only about 15 percent of all higher education enrollment in the U.S., it’s an area that is likely to continue to grow and make up a larger piece of the overall pie, given growing interest from students, more of

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Imagine: Jimmy starts high school and has difficulty with math. Although he does well in other subjects, he has low motivation in class and forgets when homework is due. Despite the teacher’s best efforts to encourage him and give him extra help, the student continues to struggle. As the semester continues, the teacher runs out of ideas for helping Jimmy and he falls farther and farther behind his classmates.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As advocates of the ‘learning-by-doing’ approach in education, we strongly believe that students learn best when they are engaged in authentic learning activities. Learning by doing is actually the.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The number of colleges running efforts to help professors shift from published textbooks to low-cost online materials known as OER is growing rapidly. That was one key finding in the latest Campus Computing Survey , one of the largest annual surveys of college technology leaders in the U.S., which was released today. Nearly two thirds of colleges in the survey—64 percent—reported campus programs to “encourage faculty to use OER content for their courses.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Are the Students Learning or Is the Teacher? A Guest Post by Erin Whalen I have had the privilege of hearing Alice speak several times now, and while I have learned a LOT from her, there is one particular phrase that has really made me stop and think about my own practices. It’s sort of […]. The post Who’s Doing the Learning? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A few days ago, a discussion thread was posted on Product Hunt on the topic of to-do apps that can track both habits and tasks. A number of apps were suggested but our favourite apps which we highly.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Collaborative talk is imperative to sense-making in science as students investigate complex concepts, think deeply about their discoveries, and then build the explanations that provide evidence of their understanding. Science coach Kathy Renfrew shares the why and how.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Google Slides and Google Draw are two powerful publication and graphic design tools, but when combined together the results are absolutely explosive for student creativity and expression. Traditionally, Google Slides has been used as a presentation tool, a rotating slideshow of images and facts relating to a specific topic. It has proven its ability to effectively communicate information and be a “go to” display tool for student research projects.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Reading League , a Central New York nonprofit organization that trains educators on evidence-based practices to improve reading instruction, has received a grant of $4 million to expand its programs nationally. Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation has awarded the three-year grant, along with a $5 million pledge for an endowment fund. The Reading League will use the grant to expand its mission of increasing the awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-based reading instruction to improve liter

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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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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Giving Student Choice Increases Their Motivation and Buy-in Students thrive when their work coincides with their interests. The great benefit of doing research projects is that it provides the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Although you might not recognize the name, you most likely will recognize the look. Mondrian Art is an abstract form of art that uses a creative layout of squares and rectangles, often filled in with primary colors. This style of painting was popularized by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian during the early 1900's. In addition to influencing art, the Mondrian look has shown up in fashion , architecture , advertising , design , and more.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Millennial expert Gabrielle Bosché spoke to attendees at the 2018 #GovTechLive forum to share advice for those wanting to retain millennial staff. If you're an innovative educator you care about this because these are your colleagues (or yourself) aged 22 - 37 in 2018. Three programs that will increase retention: 1) Onboarding: How are you making your new millennial hires feel a part of something they want to stick with?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Despite educators’ genuine enthusiasm, competency-based education may be slow to spread to U.S. schools due to sizable barriers, according to a report published Oct. 22. The report, “ Show What You Know: A Landscape Analysis of Competency-Based Education ,” features an overview of the current status of competency-based education in the U.S. produced by Getting Smart and reflections from XQ on some of the more complex transition issues.

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SecurEdge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

When you think about the 2,827 public and private, four-year degree granting education institutions in the United States, that’s a lot of students, faculty, and staff! To be more precise, there are 19.9 million students attending American colleges and universities.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

When I’m searching for an answer to a question – big or small – I often head over to Google. If the first search term I type in doesn’t send me in the direction I was hoping, I head back to the top of the screen and try typing in something different. Now we often do this without thinking; it’s become a natural way we navigate online spaces. But these simple steps involve a set of problem-solving and vocabulary skills that students need in order to successfully navigate the digital world.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Earlier this month, MIND Research Institute partnered with the Global Math Project to share and bring visual math games to Global Math Week. Global Math Project is a movement to bring to life the joy of mathematics all across the world. Global Math Week is one way the project is reaching out to millions of students. During Global Math Week this year (10/10-10/17), over 5 million educators and students experienced a different kind of math lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ‘s education supplement, Learning. . Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Bard College has opened a micro-college, offering associates degrees earned by attending classes at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza.

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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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My Island View

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a recent #Edchat discussion we discussed whether or not schools should encourage teachers to use technology to reach out in communication with parents. I really did not think this would still be a relevant discussion in light of how we have all grown dependent on technology for communication, but evidently there are places where it is not yet fully endorsed.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I am currently editing a manuscript of mine. I have never been good at editing my own writing, ever, as you can probably tell from all of the typos, sentence fragments, and run-ons in my blog posts. I enjoy vomiting words and then hitting publish, just because I don’t want to edit them. It brings me absolutely no joy. Of course, as the stakes get higher, I want my writing to not just be good enough , but potentially great.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Photo by Florencia Viadana on Unsplash. When is the last time you led a conversation with students about reading habits and you shared, “You know, I just haven’t had time to read lately.”? I know; some of us might have to get rid of our perpetual “read 20 minutes a day” assignment for our students. Or, add – ish after “20” or “day” We may have to update that “What Real Readers Do” anchor chart with statements like “

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 30, 2018

“The best leaders are lifelong learners; they take measures to create organizations that foster and inspire learning throughout. The most effective leaders are those who realize it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts most.” . ? John Wooden. Two organizations. Both have success. Both highlight high achievement in traditional metrics. One is satisfied and asks, “Why fix what ain’t broke?

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

AnyFlip is a cool tool that will convert your PDFs into cool-looking flipbooks. Once you sign up, you can get your online flipbook by simply uploading your pdf on the website. You don’t need to know any coding to be able to do that. Once you publish it, you can share it online, or embed on your website and your blog. [ SAFE YOUTUBE ] We can use this tool for the booklets or the newsletters that we are sharing with the students or the parents.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Marijuana, it seems, is not a performance-enhancing drug. That is, at least, not among young people, and not when the activity is learning. A study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry finds that when adolescents stop using marijuana – even for just one week – their verbal learning and memory improves. The study contributes to growing evidence that marijuana use in adolescents is associated with reduced neurocognitive functioning.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A new survey tool is designed to give school leaders better insight into how their school’s use of time aligns with school-wide priorities. The School Time Assessment from UnlockingTime.org (an initiative of scheduling software developer Abl and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which launched this summer ) has been piloted in a number of schools and districts, and is launching for free tomorrow to help schools better leverage their class schedules to support student outcomes. [ What’s Ne

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One of the 21st-century literacy skills for students according to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts.” What this means is that students need to be given the chance to create more than just written text. One of the easiest ways to enable students to create in the video format is to have them create screencasts.

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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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