Tue.Sep 29, 2020

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Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin Megan Padden-Shin has successfully built a tutoring and teaching company during the past two years. She talks about the challenges of building her business and how she’s now arrived at a place where she’s making more money than she did as a teacher in a traditional school.

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6 ideas for infusing choice into the math classroom

Ditch That Textbook

This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.com. I love the idea of giving students choices in the classroom. I like to give choices in topics, choices in timeline, and choices in activity when possible. Research supports the idea of […].

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Taking students seriously disrupts our comfort and threatens our sense of authority

Dangerously Irrelevant

Nicole Williams Beechum said : We know from research that students can have more robust learning experiences when what happens in school is relevant to their lives, helps them connect to a larger purpose, and is grounded in a sense of belonging. This means that the system must be responsive to their goals, interests, and sense of self and community.

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What Educators Need to know about Social Media, Online Bullying, and Hate Speech in Schools

Waterford

The Internet has revolutionized much of modern life, especially when it comes to education. There are benefits when students can learn and socialize in online spaces, but it comes with a dark side. Nearly three out of five U.S. teens say they have been harassed or bullied online. And most youth say adults aren’t doing enough to stop it.[1] Hate speech has flourished online, with racist, sexist, homophobic, and other speech sometimes leading to real-world violence or harm.

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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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Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software can Help Educators

Educational Technology Guy

Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software Can Help Educators Gain Confidence Discover the benefits of using plagiarism detection software in times of blended teaching Today, EdTech has become more popular than ever before. With traditional in-class education on a hard pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions rely more on e-learning technologies.

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Q&A: Andrew Arevalo on How Remote Learning Paves the Way for Innovation

EdTech Magazine

Editor’s Note: This Q&A is part of a series featuring educators and technology experts from our 2020 K–12 IT Influencers list , weighing in on the innovations happening in their school community and in education at large during remote learning. Pivoting to remote learning in the spring presented schools and districts with new challenges, some of which they’re still working to resolve.

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4 Practical Google Sites Templates to Use in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

If you are looking for an easy and reliable platform to create your classroom website, Google Sites is definitely one of the best options to consider. It provides you with the space and tools needed.

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Reducing Stress During Pandemic Teaching

MiddleWeb

With the stressors of COVID-19 teaching likely to be around for some time to come, educator Curtis Chandler suggests ways he and others can use research-based strategies to reduce teaching stress, hold pandemic angst at bay and bolster our capacity to serve kids well.

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Here Is A Good Google Doc Add-on To Improve Students Writing Style

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Writing Habit is a Google Docs add-on to help you with your writing. The basic philosophy behind the app is to help users build writing habits through achieving daily/weekly writing.

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OPINION: Equity in online learning is about much more than technology access

The Hechinger Report

Even before the global pandemic pushed many colleges and universities to teach students remotely, online learning had become an increasingly important part of higher education. Yet, as this spring’s pivot to online learning showed us, equity remains a significant challenge. Debate about the fairness of online learning tends to revolve around technology access.

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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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Looking for the little wins

eSchool News

Everyone has a crazy COVID story. For Brigantine, NJ Superintendent Glenn Robbins, it goes something like this—lead a school district through a global pandemic having hardly met the students, parents, or faculty. In this conversation with eSchool News , Glenn details the never-ending variables of getting back to school in 2020 and how the priority should be well-being first.

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To Cold Call or Not Cold Call? with @VictoriaTheTech

Teacher Tech

It’s all about the language. This isn’t really a strategy as much as it is a principle: lead with positive language when you cold call on somebody. The post To Cold Call or Not Cold Call? with @VictoriaTheTech appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Covid Diary: Morris School District

techlearning

The Tech & Learning COVID Diary series follows educators and administrators throughout the year as they share stories about how their districts are handling teaching and learning during the pandemic

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Why Self-Awareness in Your Employees Is a Better Indicator of Success Than Skill

Marketplace K-12

The ability for inexperienced workers at an education company to recognize what they know and what you don’t must be cultivated, explains Sara Potler LaHayne, the CEO of Move This World. The post Why Self-Awareness in Your Employees Is a Better Indicator of Success Than Skill appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Manage and run virtual coaching institutions using Linways.

Linways Technologies

We are all adapting to a life with COVID19. It is a fact and is likely to be in our lives at least for some time. Like every brand of education, the coaching and training sector is also affected heavily by the pandemic. From small-scale tuition and exam coaching institutes to larger establishments over multiple doctrines and locations are all affected alike.

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4 ways to get the most out of early childhood funding during distance learning

eSchool News

COVID-19 is leading to months of learning loss for students across the state of California. So state leaders are providing schools $5.3 billion in funding to try to address the issue moving forward. Much of that money is going to devices, software, and internet access for distance learning. The challenge for education organizations here and across the country is knowing how to deploy available funding to have the biggest effect on teaching and learning.

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17 of The Best LEGO Creator Kits

Fractus Learning

Many children and adults have fond memories of building with Legos. Legos inspire creativity in the young, imaginative makers that build with them. Lego Creator sets, in particular, encourage children to use their minds and hands to build creatively. Most sets are 3-in-1 sets, with instructions for building more than one thing with the pieces included.

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5 Shifts We Need in Education Now – SULS082

Shake Up Learning

The post 5 Shifts We Need in Education Now – SULS082 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Education is undergoing a much-needed shakeup, and there are 5 Shifts We Need Now! I strive to remain as positive as possible, but I hit a boiling point, and I’m standing up for the teachers I know in love. While I can’t express every concern in this one article, I hope that this post will help school decision-makers plan for the new normal.

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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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Learning That Works for the Learner

The Principal of Change

I was a fidgety kid in school. I always seemed to be taller than the other students in my class as I grew early. The same desks that they would sit in were often too small for me, and I remember my knees pushing at the bottom of the desk, and it always annoyed me, but not to the point that I would want a “big” desk that would look different from the others.

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JNUC 2020 Keynote: A Year Like No Other

Jamf on EdTech

The Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) Keynote highlights Apple Enterprise Management and enhanced workflows for remote work, distance learning and telehealth.

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My Teaching Philosophy: A Mindset During Uncertainty

EdTechTeam

As everything changes all around me, I’ve had time to really reflect on what it means to be a teacher, what it means to me to be a teacher, and finally, what it means to me to be a teacher in the midst of a pandemic. Everything changes every 5 minutes, and you hardly have a chance to catch your breath in the hustle and bustle of trying to figure out how we are going to be able to keep everyone SAFE, let alone LEARNING, amidst a global PANDEMIC.

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More Distance Learning Hands-On Experimenting

Cycles of Learning

Continuing with my goal of bringing more SUSTAINABLE and ACCESSIBLE hands-on labs to the distance learning setting, below is another summary of the activity that was used to follow up the one described here. I hope you find it useful in your own planning for those of you that are still 100% distance. Step 1: Play this video for students to watch individually.

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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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SpeakyReads

Technology Tidbits

SpeakyReads is an innovative learning tool for ESL students or those looking for help w/ reading and comprehension. The way this works is that books/texts are broken up into audio-paragraphs that can be used in two different modes, Reading or Dictation. Best of all, SpeakyReads lets students set their own targets and generate detailed reports for "self paced learning".

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Leading from the Fog

Adjusting Course

I'm an avid game player. Always have been. When I was growing up, my parents worried that I took board games too seriously. I can't imagine why, but. I read the Monopoly rule book for fun. I pored over the official Scrabble dictionary to increase my repertoire of obscure two-letter words to close out games. (Did you know "aa" is a type of lava and valid Scrabble word?!

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NEW RELEASE: Credentials Matter Phase 2

ExcelinEd

In 2019, Excel in Ed and Burning Glass Technologies launched Credentials Matter. This first-of-its-kind research and accompanying interactive website explored the industry-recognized credentials students earn, the credentials demanded by employers, and the impact of credential attainment on long-term student outcomes. Now we are releasing Credentials Matter Phase 2.

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Buncee for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

Buncee, one of the most versatile learning tools around for: project base learning, digital storytelling, scrapbooking, and much much more, has just released a site for remote learning. This is a great area for educators looking for ideas on how to help teach students remotely during school closures. Remember, Buncee provides a digital canvas where the uses are limitless to create projects and lessons for your students.

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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.

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5th Grade Tests and Assessments on Georgia Test Prep

Georgia Test Prep

“Am I doing everything I can to help my child prepare for the Georgia Milestone Assessment exam?” is what every Georgian parent is asking themselves. We know the teachers are doing a good job of teaching the curriculum, but we also know that just going to school isn’t enough to ace the exams. And the Georgia Milestones Assessment System is going to test your child every year to see if they are on course with national education standards.

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edWeb.net Launches edWeb Podcasts

edWeb.net

edWeb.net is excited to announce the release of selected audio recordings of professional learning presentations on edWeb podcast channels. Many informative and insightful conversations with education leaders and experts work well as podcasts and will help edWeb reach a wider audience of educators and the general public interested in leading issues in education.

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Prepare for Chromebooks Before They Arrive

Vizor

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog, we stress the urgency of preparing for Chromebooks BEFORE they arrive at your school. Back Story. Not sure if you already know but Vector Networks (parent company of VIZOR for Chromebooks ) has been in the IT industry for 30 years. As an IT software provider, we help businesses improve their organization through IT.

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Pursuing Educational Equity in Selma: Part 1

edWeb.net

By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Achieving educational equity is a moral and fiscal imperative, according to Dr. Bren Elliott, Chief School Improvement and Supports Officer for District of Columbia Public Schools. Moral because all students deserve access to the same high-quality education and opportunities, and fiscal because research shows the negative economic impact when students are left behind.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks