The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 22, 2016

Keep Your Phone from Waking You Up From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Not sleeping? You might need to turn off blue light on your phone. This week, I was interviewing John Medina, author of Brain Rules, for a future episode of Every Classroom Matters. He made the offhand comment, “blue light wreaks havoc with your brain.” We’ve known this since 2006 , This Psychology Today article can help explain why your teenager may be awake ALL

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2016

By Jon Phillips Initiatives are about more than just adopting technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2016

A screencast is a video recording of what’s happening on your computer monitor, often with annotations and/or narration. It can be simple or sophisticated, anything from a whiteboard presentation to a slideshow to a movie-like video. With Common Core’s emphasis on understanding and explaining tasks, screencasts are a great way for both students and teachers to share the required steps in completing a math problem, collaborate on close reading, or pursue any other literacy activity.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 22, 2016

Last time we co-authored a blog post, Shaelynn Farnsworth and I shared Blab. It was so much fun and such an easy app to integrate into the classroom we wanted to share another favorite of ours! Recap is a free video response app created by Swivl which allows students to reflect, respond, and demonstrate through video. Recap is easy to use as both an educator and as a student.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 22, 2016

July 17, 2016 Today’s students spend a tremendous amount of time navigating the web. Internet has become a central part of their everyday life; from socializing to doing research, digital natives are.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Online and blended learning continue to trend upward in higher education institutions across the U.S. According to a. Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 22, 2016

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. It is summer! A time to celebrate, relax, enjoy the beautiful weather, and keep learning! Summer not only allows teachers a mental break from the day-to-day routine of teaching, but is also an important time for all of us to continue our learning. While attending workshops and conferences are staples for many teachers, for others it is a busy and fast-paced season that can leave little time for focus on continuing learning.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 22, 2016

Google Classroom – Hear from Everyone Use technology to create better interactions with students, not just to be paperless. When adopting new tech, ask “How does this make learning better?” “How does this change how I interact with my students?” New is Not Hard SAMR is not a measure of difficulty. Sometimes new tasks are […].

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Edutopia

JULY 22, 2016

Judy Willis MD Brain-Based Learning As caretakers of adolescents' developing brainpower, teachers can help their students recognize inattentional blindness, embrace divergent thinking, and harness the potential of transferring their learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began allowing E-rate applicants to apply for discounts for dark fiber and self-provisioned fiber. These “smart fiber” options are seen as a way to give institutions more tools for meeting connectivity demands. Key points: Dark fiber refers to physical fiber that the school owns, leases, or IRUs (indefeasible rights of use, or permanent contractual agreements).

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 22, 2016

If you're planning to Facebook Live your next presentation at an event for others who can't be there to enjoy, you just need to follow these steps. More tips at https://live.fb.com/tips Set Facebook Live up on the presenter phone a few minutes before the session starts. This includes making sure it is fully charged and connected to the internet. Tap “What's on your mind” at the top of News Feed.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2016

Teacher preparation in Finland, Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong builds deep understanding of the content being taught in elementary schools, as well as of how young students learn and understand that content—two essential components of highly effective teaching–and this is a key element of high student performance, according to a new report. The National Center on Education and the Economy’s (NCEE) Center on International Education Benchmarking’s (CIEB) new report, Not So Elementary:

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Pssst! You wanna buy a college education? Of course you do! People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2016

Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. This week, we’re taking you on a virtual tour of some of the latest developments and trends in K-12 learning, including flipped and blended learning, marketplace updates, and flexible learning spaces and their influence on

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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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MindShift

JULY 22, 2016

Educator, blogger and author Larry Ferlazzo teaches high school English and social studies, along with English language development, to a mostly English Language Learner population at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. He also writes columns for Education Week and The New York Times Learning Network. Ferlazzo said the book that has made the biggest impact on his life is Rules for Radicals , by sociologist and community organizer Saul Alinsky.

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 22, 2016

Keeping up this weekly newsletter relies heavily on a single Chrome extension, Pocket. Throughout the week, I use the productivity tool to capture the interesting articles that fly by and read through them all on Thursday evening. Product Hunt promises that these seven Chrome extensions will similarly change your internet life. AI is coming to marketing through capabilities as diverse as website design, customer segmentation, and bots.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Education got only the briefest mention in Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention in Cleveland on Thursday. Convention Coverage. During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

Presidential Campaign Politics. On the Republican Party platform and presidential ticket: “ Trump plan would base student loans on employability,” the Hechinger Report says. “The RNC wants to make student loans competitive again. They never were,” writes Susan Dynarski. (More on private student loans in the “upgrades and downgrades” section below.). “The Republican Platform on Higher Education Is a Mess,” says New America.

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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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