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169 Tech Tip #18 How to Activate a Link

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: How to Activate a Link. Category: Internet.

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How a Database of 6 Million Syllabi Could Spawn a New Measure of Scholarly Impact

Edsurge

What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see which authors are making the most impact? A project run out of Columbia University is working to do just that. It’s called the Open Syllabus Project , and this week its leaders released a new version of their tool that analyzes assignment lists from more than six million syllabi.

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College students are increasingly forgoing summers off to save money, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

Christelle Etienne is taking courses this summer in anatomy and physiology at Montgomery College to stay on track to graduate on time from Towson University. “There are so many classes I have to take,” she says. Photo: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. SILVER SPRING, Md. — Towson University student Christelle Etienne isn’t whiling away these long, lazy days of summer lounging by the pool or hanging out with friends from high school.

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8 Good iPad Math Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Looking for some very good iPad math apps to use with young learners ? The updated visual below has you covered. It features some of the popular titles to utilize with your kids to teach them basics.

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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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5 strategies for developing digital literacy in a generation that takes tech for granted

eSchool News

It’s commonplace to be impressed when we hear of excellent test scores and educational backgrounds from top institutes, no matter the type of degree or accolades. However, preparing our kids with test-taking strategies and admission into the best universities is not enough–and will be an extinct ideology with the changing demands of society and global economy.

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Here Is A Good Tool to Generate Forms from Google Docs

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

GFormIt is an excellent Google Docs add-on to use for auto-generating forms from your Google documents. We have tried it multiple times and it worked perfectly well but its only limitation is that it.

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#BLC19: Some of my Notes & Highlights

techieMusings

Another Building Learning Communities Conference in the books! What I enjoy most about the conference is the format, people, energy, and the way the conference gets me thinking. I’m going to share some of my notes in this post in case you who are interested in scrolling through… or for those of you who are at BLC with me who want to compare highlights :).

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What model of Blended Learning should an Educator choose?

Think Exam

Blended or hybrid learning are the terms given to the new age classroom education that hasn’t lost the importance of conventional methods but only made it more enhanced with the integration of technology. When traditional learning is fused along with online instructions then it creates an environment of blended learning. The post What model of Blended Learning should an Educator choose?

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Screen-Savvy Parenting

Fractus Learning

The research and studies are in…we have to be smarter than our technology. Parenting in the digital age can be challenging and confusing. The American Academy of Pediatrics–informed by dozens of studies on screen time and […].

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SDGs in Action: Promoting Awareness of Sustainable Development Worldwide

techlearning

Each of the SDGs includes explanatory videos, facts and figures, targets, and ideas of how people can help.

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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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Now Starring In Children’s Cartoons: Authentic Indigenous Characters

MindShift

For decades, animated children’s stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people. There was Disney’s Pocahontas , which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story with Captain John Smith. Crystal Echo Hawk, CEO of the media watchdog group IllumiNative, says it was a false narrative about a girl who in reality was “taken by force and sexually assaulted.” There was Tiger Lily in the classic film Peter Pan , the princess of the “Picc

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Otus

Technology Tidbits

Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more. The sleek new design, allows for easier functionality, a brighter customizable color interface, and real-time analytics and third party integration (i.e. Khan Academy), and of course Otus Worksheets, Here is a list of some of their features.

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#FactFriday: 400,000+ people made the moon landing possible

ExcelinEd

NASA needs astronauts, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, IT specialists, writers, technicians and many others working together to accomplish its lofty vision to discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity. Learn how this work begins in K-12 classrooms. What Others Are Saying. Finn: Apollo moon landing marked a ‘giant leap’ for mankind — and education.

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