Wed.Mar 28, 2018

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Inspiring Students to Take Action through Service Learning

Digital Promise

Schools around the country have embraced the value of service learning for developing and nurturing students’ civic values and attitudes, as well as building academic competencies. Service learning provides authentic education experiences where students can both learn and apply their learning in real world contexts and intrinsically motivates students by allowing them to select projects they care about.

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FREE updated ebook: 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook 2.0

Ditch That Textbook

Could you use some practical new ideas for teaching that you can use tomorrow? Want to find ways to save time for what matters most? You’ve come to the right place. I have put together 101 of my best practical ideas to “Ditch That Textbook” in a free 19-page ebook! Use the link at the […].

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K–12 Data Centers Move Toward Modular Designs

EdTech Magazine

K–12 Data Centers Move Toward Modular Designs. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 03/28/2018 - 14:05. Growing school districts have always dealt with the space limitations of their physical grounds and structures. Lately, however, this challenge has evolved: Whereas once the concern involved ­too-crowded classrooms, now it’s also about the need for new technologies — and where to keep the infrastructure required to make things run.

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Innovations in School District Procurement

Education Elements

Three years ago, I received a call from an excited district leader who wanted to chat about student data (of all things)! He dreamt of building a digital “learning ecosystem,” (think instruction/LMS, assessment, IEPs, grading, attendance, transportation, etc.) to serve as the information backbone for his district’s vision to personalize the learning environment for every student.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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Inside the $29M DonorsChoose Gift That's Making Teachers Very Happy

Edsurge

On Tuesday night, Chicago teacher Amani Ghusein stayed up late to watch TV. She had heard there might be a special announcement relating to one of her favorite education websites, DonorsChoose.org, and was curious to know more. She was glad she did. I was not expecting that. Funding every project? That's beyond amazing. Amani Ghusein Ghusein, who teaches science to grades 3 through 8 at Dawes Elementary School, caught the surprise announcement made on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that

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Innovations in School District Procurement Services

Education Elements

Three years ago, I received a call from an excited district leader who wanted to chat about student data (of all things)! He dreamt of building a digital “learning ecosystem,” (think instruction/LMS, assessment, IEPs, grading, attendance, transportation, etc.) to serve as the information backbone for his district’s vision to personalize the learning environment for every student.

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5 Unique Ways to Use Google Classroom – From Mason Mason

EdTechTeacher

This post is from EdTechTeacher Instructor Mason Mason follow him on Twitter @EdTechMason. When I was a high school English teacher, we were using a proprietary learning management system (LMS) that was not user-friendly. My team and I were searching for something to replace our clunky LMS, and even though Google Classroom is not a full-fledged LMS (yet), its ease of use, and ability to distribute, collect, and organize content quickly became our go-to resource.

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30 Of The Best Apps For Group Project-Based Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

30 Of The Best Apps For Group Project-Based Learning Project-based learning is a matter of identifying needs and opportunities (using an app like flipboard), gathering potential resources (using an app like pinterest), collecting notes and artifacts (with an app like Evernote), concept-mapping potential scale or angles for the project (using an app like simplemind), assigning […].

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Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’

Edsurge

A red carpet and a self-driving car were just a few of the things attendees saw on Tuesday at Intersect, the third annual conference put on by online learning provider Udacity. Amid the futuristic glitz and glamour, the company announced plans to roll out a new set of short-term series of online courses, called Nanodegrees, all in part of the company’s growing push towards jobs-training.

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10 Productivity Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

TeacherCast

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we bring 3 Instructional Technology Coaches on to discuss their Top 10 Tips for staying productive and efficient in their school districts. The post 10 Productivity Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

Edsurge

For years, Stephanie Anagnoson worked in academic publishing. But it wasn’t until her current gig, serving as an instructor for a course on water supply and demand in California, that she got her feet wet with open educational resources. “Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson.

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Two Excellent Drawing Tools to Use with Students in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you asking about simple yet effective drawing tools to use with students in class, the ones figured below are a great place to start with. They provide you with a clutter-free canvas.read more.

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5 Levers That Can Unlock Smarter Demand for Education Technology

Edsurge

When Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn published “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008, the current wave of education technology was still finding its footing. The book posited two predictions. First, online learning would grow rapidly in K-12 schools. But scale was not the endgame. Second, and arguably more crucial, was the opportunity ahead: with the right incentives in place, technology could scale with an eye toward optimizing for individual learners’ academic outcomes.

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7 grants for STEM and technology

eSchool News

School leaders consistently identify high costs and shrinking budgets as a top barrier to implementing new technology tools and programs. And while budget woes won’t improve overnight, schools and districts can boost their available funds with grants that are targeted to different areas of need. Want to support science teachers or encourage engineering?

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Teacher's Periodic Table of Educational iPad Apps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

If you haven’t seen it yet, The Periodic Table of Educational iPad Apps is a visual we created last year featuring some of our favourite educational iPad apps we have reviewed and recommend for.read more.

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Learning How to COACH: Why Being a ‘Curator’ Can Change Your Campus

The PL2C Blog

One of the fundamental skills for being a good instructional coach is being able to provide the right resource at the right time for the teacher(s) you’re working with. It takes time, emotional labor, tremendous patience, and a keen ear to understand what your “coachee” needs. And this all assumes you already have a repository of quality resources from which to pull and that you won’t have to say, “hold on, let me Google it.”.

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Accessibility, Audio Texts, and the Persistence of Print

ProfHacker

[ This is a guest post by Michelle Morgan, who is Assistant Director of Educational Technology at Yale University and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Connecticut College. Her scholarly work focuses on the circulation of ideas about race, sex, and gender via visual and material culture; her work for Yale's Center for Teaching and Learning supports the university's accessibility initiatives.

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Showing #OpenGratitude for: OpenStax

Iterating Toward Openness

This is another post in my series of posts showing gratitude and appreciation for members of the open education community. Today I’m going to focus on OpenStax. From their website: OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and our library since scaled to more than 20 books for college and AP courses used by hundreds of thousands of students.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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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OPINION: Teaching social and emotional skills is easy when students already have them — what about those who don’t?

The Hechinger Report

A kindergarten class eagerly awaits the chance to correct a sentence in the morning lesson. Photo: Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report. Conversations among educators and policymakers about how to incorporate social and emotional skills into classrooms often do not address the need to support students who require extra help with these skills. This is short-sighted and likely to reduce the effectiveness of classroom lessons and school-wide interventions.

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Apple MDM essentials: Part 1

Jamf on EdTech

In part one of our Apple mobile device management (MDM) essentials series, we examine how the MDM framework is structured and the role of Apple’s Push Notification Service.

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Integrity, credibility and plagiarism

Learning with 'e's

Image by TilerX on Flickr I was in the audience at a recent conference when a keynote speaker (who will remain nameless) presented several of my images and ideas in his slideshow. The first was credited to me, and it was nice that he mentioned me as he was talking about the slide. The following half a dozen or so slides were also from one of my presentations, but I was annoyed to see that my name and the Creative Commons licence I always apply to my slides had been removed.

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Jamf listed as Leader in MDM by G2 Crowd

Jamf on EdTech

We are humbled to announce that G2 Crowd has acknowledged Jamf Pro as a Leader in Mobile Device Management (MDM).

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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ASCD #Empower18 TAKEAWAYS

Tech Helpful

I had the marvelous opportunity of attending the ASCD Empower18 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts this week. It was my first time to attend an ASCD conference and I found it to be the bougie of large educational conferences. With keynotes like Jill Biden, Manny Scott, and Col. Colin Powell- the level of importance placed on the attendee feels superb.Walking around and see the the expertise level of those sharing in the breakout sessions was amazing and made it very hard to choose where to atte

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K-12 Dealmaking: Permission Click, Eupheus Learning Raise Funds

Marketplace K-12

Education companies including Canada-based Permission Click and Eupheus, an Indian ed-tech startup, raised funds from the investment community. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Permission Click, Eupheus Learning Raise Funds appeared first on Market Brief.

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8 benefits of cloud-printing solutions

eSchool News

It has been nearly 600 years since the printing press was invented. With this much history behinds us, why is printing across all the schools in a district so challenging? There needs to be a better and easier way, as printing is an essential element for any education ecosystem. A quick history of printing. Behind the click of the “print” button to the actual printer output is a complicated infrastructure that can wreak havoc if not set up properly.

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Have Students Collaborate on Maps with Google My Maps

EdTechTeam

Mapping is a necessary skill in any social studies classroom. As a teacher, I’ve found that when it comes to mapping, collaboration is tough. Giving a map to a group for collaboration usually means one-two students doing the work of mapping, while the remaining two-three students sit idly and have side conversations. This problem makes collaborative mapping difficult to do as a learning activity.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Online Charter Schools: 3 Reasons Why They Fail And What Could Be Done About It

EmergingEdTech

Some Students Have Thrived, But These Charters Are Failing At Scale “I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds” – Talulah Riley. Did you. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Gaggle Releases New Student Safety Solutions for Google Hangouts and Canvas

techlearning

Gaggle announced today the release of an add-on to its Safety Management for G Suite solution and support for the Canvas learning management system. School districts that use G Suite for Education from Google now can safely allow their students to use Hangouts. Gaggle’s algorithms reveal potentially harmful content in Hangouts Chat, and trained professionals evaluate suspicious content, alerting school officials of unsafe situations even contacting local law enforcement when time is of the essen

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Why It’s Time to Rethink School Science Fairs

MindShift

Springtime is science fair season. Thousands of kids across the country, from elementary through high school, spend weeks or months coaxing seedlings to grow, building devices to harness solar energy and carefully mixing acids and bases. Often, as was certainly the case for me as an eighth grader in suburban Pennsylvania, the result is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise.

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QwertyTown is the Place for Learning Keyboarding, Digital Citizenship

techlearning

QwertyTown Fabulous keyboarding lessons entice kids with social rewards [ Encourage Writing and Strengthen Skills with Today's App ] Pros: A thorough keyboarding curriculum, along with social communication and competitive features, keep students' interest. Cons: The color system makes it difficult to tell when students make a typing mistake, and there's little flexibility for individualized instruction.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.