Ditch That Textbook
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Chromebooks are packed with some pretty amazing features that make them unique digital devices for students. In a Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit video presentation, I shared some of my favorite tips for making the most of Chromebooks in the classroom — for students and for YOU! The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit is a FREE […].
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 20, 2018
DialMyCalls (an AATT sponsor) has a special Christmas offer for kids: Free Santa Calls To Your Family This Christmas. This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone call from Santa with his or her name on it!
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Digital Promise
DECEMBER 20, 2018
2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). With our renewed focus on designing, validating, and scaling effective innovation to advance equity and excellence for every student, we have had an exciting year that included launching new tools and programs, welcoming new members, hosting convenings, and sharing stories.
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 20, 2018
DialMyCalls (an AATT sponsor) has a special Christmas offer for kids: Free Santa Calls To Your Family This Christmas. This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone call from Santa with his or her name on it!
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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.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Did you know that Santa believes in Project Based Learning? It’s true… in fact, I have worked quite hard at finding evidence that supports this conclusion. Upon further reflection, it occurred to me that not only does Santa believe in PBL, he practices many of its positive attributes at his workshop. By now you are thinking… what is this connection?
Edsurge
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Bitcoin is volatile. Even so, a growing number of colleges are exploring how the technology behind cryptocurrencies could change the way students communicate their academic accomplishments to employers. That technology is called blockchain , and it's a way to maintain digital records that can't be tampered with. So what are colleges already doing to experiment with blockchain?
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Earlier this week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative named Sandra Liu Huang as its head of education, filling a vacancy created when Jim Sheldon, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. Unlike Sheldon, Liu Huang’s background isn’t in education philanthropy, nonprofits or government. After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development,
TeachThought - Learn better.
DECEMBER 20, 2018
3 Group Work Strategies That Help Hold All Students Accountable by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD We love and encourage collaborative work between students (and teachers) and this is a staple in project-based learning to be sure. it can be a powerful tool to build capacity and skills in a number of ways but […]. The post 3 Group Work Strategies That Help Hold All Students Accountable appeared first on TeachThought.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Critical thinking is a much needed skill especially in this era which is fraught with digital distractions and infomania. As a cognitive competence, critical thinking embraces several.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 20, 2018
At Colonial (DE) School District , we’ve been focused on retaining teachers through various leadership development and empowerment programs for a few years. As the programs have matured, we’ve learned plenty about empowering our best educators this year. In addition to our existing leadership development programs, we’ve also launched a non-evaluative teacher observation and mentorship program.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Here is a collection of some very good tools you can use in class with students to create beautiful presentations and slideshows. All of these tools are web-based and do not require any.
Jamf on EdTech
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The Jamf podcast gives you an inside look at the people, teams and processes that make Jamf what it is. See what episodes we launched in 2018 and what you can expect in 2019.
Linways Technologies
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Most of the jobs that today’s students will do in the future does not even exist yet. If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. The internet rose quickly from being an interesting curiosity to defining each and every aspect of our lives.
Marketplace K-12
DECEMBER 20, 2018
What were the biggest news stories about the K-12 market in 2018? Check out Marketplace K-12's 10 most popular blog posts over the past year. The post Top Posts of 2018 Focus on Big Education Companies and Popularity of Digital Tools appeared first on Market Brief.
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.
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 20, 2018
In the 2nd edition of Visual-Spatial Learners, Alexandra Shires Golon looks at the needs of these often bright but disengaged students. Golon explains the brain science underlying student learning and offers extensive tools for differentiation, says teacher Joanne Bell.
techlearning
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Writing is a process, not a one-and-done event. When a student is writing their first draft, it is important that they simply get their ideas out, mistakes and all. After that brain dump, now comes the work of editing and revising.
MIND Research Institute
DECEMBER 20, 2018
2018 was quite the year for MIND Research Institute! As we celebrated two decades of working to transform education, we also rejoiced over new partnerships, awards, resources and ways to showcase our mission. Here are just a few highlights from our Annual Report. Students in schools across 47 states continued to find success through the visual instructional approach of ST Math.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 20, 2018
[ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on June 29th of this year, was our #7 most popular story of the year. Happy holidays, and thank you for tuning into our 2018 countdown!]. Creativity, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital competencies were just a few of the many trends at ISTE 2018. This year’s conference was one of the largest, with packed sessions and presentations, and 18,540 attendees–a new attendee record.
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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
The Principal of Change
DECEMBER 20, 2018
As a basketball fan, and also a fan of human beings, I loved this read, “ My Dad’s Friendship With Charles Barkley. ” It is an excellent story of what seems to be an unlikely friendship, but as you read it, you realize how much the relationship makes sense because of the shared bonds between two people. The part in the story where the daughter asks Charles Barkley, one of the most famous basketball players ever, why he hung out with her dad, is so powerful yet so simple: ̵
techlearning
DECEMBER 20, 2018
ASSISTments provides online homework with the added optional perk of help in the form of hints, videos, links, and more embedded in each question.
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Sharing Your Education Expertise with the World helps educators contribute their professional know-how to the larger education community. NBCT Rita Platt reports it is packed with great tips and resources for educators to widen spheres of influence and accelerate careers.
Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Our 2018-19 student book budget team is hard at work creating consideration lists of books for purchase. So far, they have created an interest survey, surveyed numerous students in our school, and set purchasing goals. I sent their goals to vendors and setup some appointments for vendors to meet with the team. Our first vendor was Gret from Gumdrop Books.
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.
Technology Tidbits
DECEMBER 20, 2018
It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps. Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. As w/ any of my previous annual top lists, all tools listed in previous posts will not be eligible for this years'. Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018 YO Teach! - With Today's Meet shutting down this year, Palms created a very user friendly tool for creating a "backchannel" that can be used in any number of ways in education.
MindShift
DECEMBER 20, 2018
It’s the time of year when schoolchildren and, let’s be honest, sometimes their parents, face a big decision: what gift to give their teacher for the holidays. There’s the old standby, an apple on the desk. Gift cards are also convenient; and homemade cookies can earn bonus points. But many students get far more creative. In November, the NPR Ed team asked teachers around the country to share their stories of memorable gifts from students.
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 20, 2018
I write to you today from a desk littered with notebooks and bits of paper — and I’m a tech blogger. The main reasons my desk is piled with paper: I’ve yet to process my receipts into the requisite shoebox. I have been unable (despite many attempts) to use “productivity apps” as swiftly and effectively as paper — my current favourite format being the Bullet Journal.
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