EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2019
AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 08/22/2019 - 08:25. In K–12, assistive learning can be a tricky beast to tackle. Schools have a duty to attend to all students’ needs, but it can be difficult to create a curriculum that addresses every student, especially as an increasing number of schools experience overcrowding. .
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 22, 2019
Dr. Anael Alston on Episode 549 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Anael Alston is Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Access, Equity and Community Engagement in the New York State Education Department. He talks about what works to engage young men of color in education and his journey and passion for helping all students engage in school and do their best.
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 22, 2019
“I’m not just a math teacher; I’m a teacher of the whole child,” Bethany Orr, a fourth grade teacher in North Carolina and Iredell-Statesville Schools’ 2019 Teacher of the Year, reflected after earning a learner variability micro-credential on self-regulation. Orr spent a semester digging into the research behind how learners vary and tried several strategies tied to self-regulation, a key learner variability concept, to support two of her students.
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2019
A small but growing number of colleges have created offices charged with leading innovation efforts on campus. At Southern New Hampshire University, officials call it a “sandbox.” More precisely, the university calls it the Sandbox ColLABorative , and its mission is to serve as an internal consulting group on technology and provide a space for professors to experiment.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 22, 2019
4 Keys To Sustainable School-Wide PBL by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD How can we create a sustainable PBL implementation plan? That’s the question we use to help school leaders lay the foundation for introducing and growing project-based learning in their school or district. Inherent in that question are the questions about quality that […].
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 22, 2019
The chart you see below is an updated collection of some good Android apps we curated from different sources (see links below) to help individuals with special needs make the best of.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2019
There’s a growing consensus that today’s economy is increasingly defined by the need for continuous learning. What hasn’t been worked out is who should bear the responsibility for this ongoing re-training—the employee or the employer, or some mix of the two? And what role should higher education play? The reality in the tech sector is that skills have a short shelf-life.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 22, 2019
Paste Special with Control Shift V When you copy and paste off the internet… it messes up your document. It pastes the formatting from the internet and doesn’t match what you had. Strip Formatting Normally you paste with Control V. Try also holding down the SHIFT key with that. This will match your destination formatting. […]. The post Magic Paste!!
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2019
Statistics about the higher lifetime earnings and lower rates of unemployment that come from earning a bachelor’s degree may feel like cold comfort to a college senior searching for her first professional job. Her university career center seems like a likelier source of reassurance and guidance. And yet just 62 percent of college students report having ever visited their institutions’ career centers or used their affiliated online tools, according to a 2017 Gallup survey.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 22, 2019
Here is a collection of some great iPad apps we compiled specifically for history teachers. We have based our selection on World History collection in iTunes App Store and have also added some.
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.
MIND Research Institute
AUGUST 22, 2019
What’s getting students so engaged that they’re explaining their mathematical thinking? According to our teachers, ST Math Chats provide experiences that spark rich math discussion! Earlier this year, we announced ST Math Chats as a new feature coming to ST Math®. Teachers across the country have been sharing their excitement. Liz Blose, a 5th Grade Teacher at Fogelsville Elementary in the Parkland School District was among the teachers that took to Twitter to voice her support.
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 22, 2019
One of the best-known organizations in the education testing market, the American Institutes for Research, announced Thursday it is selling off its assessment portfolio to Cambium Learning, saying it will pour the profits from the sale back into its research, evaluation, and other work. AIR has a major footprint in assessment. The nonprofit organization says… The post American Institutes for Research Sells Off Assessment Division to Cambium Learning appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTechTeam
AUGUST 22, 2019
With 1:1 technology access now the norm, classroom management around devices is another piece of the planning. We hope these top 5 tips will help you to maximize learning while minimizing distractions in your technology rich, student-centered classroom. Focus on Relationships. The beginning of any classroom management plan should start with building positive relationships with students.
eSchool News
AUGUST 22, 2019
The new school year has already started in some states, and students will return to classrooms over the next few weeks in other states. As the new year kicks off, there are a few assessment trends educators will want to track. Some assessment trends might include new perspectives on what it means to gauge student learning, rethinking the value of traditional tests and turning instead to innovative methods.
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.
EmergingEdTech
AUGUST 22, 2019
Let's Talk Student Centered Learning and Teachers Who Care. Changing the World One Student at a Time. It's been over 10 years now since I became CIO at The College of Westchester and started my first. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
eSchool News
AUGUST 22, 2019
Let students choose their favorite topics to study and then seek out the best hands-on STEM curriculum and activities that meet the students’ interests. That’s how Indiana GEAR UP officials are ensuring high student engagement within their program, according to Executive Director Dr. Virginia Bolshakova. “We surveyed our students to get feedback from them,” Bolshakova said.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 22, 2019
Creating Strong Kids Through Writing is an easy-to-use book of 20 fully resourced lessons lasting 30 minutes to help adolescents grow socially and emotionally. Consultant Anne Anderson notes the lessons are not just for ELA classes and include topics in math and science.
Nick's Picks for Educational Technology
AUGUST 22, 2019
Translate Any List of Words Instantly in Google Sheets More than a great tool for foreign language teachers, it’s a must-have resource for nearly all educators, especially since most of us teach ELL, ESL, ESOL students. Enter words in one column and use a simple formula to translate them to a different language in another. Read more. The post Automatically Translate Vocabulary Lists into Any Language appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.
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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
techlearning
AUGUST 22, 2019
Going back to school is an exciting time, and it's essential teachers create a warm and welcoming culture until the day students walk out for summer break.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 22, 2019
From the classroom to the whole school, Dr. Myles Cooley's revised Practical Guide for Mental Health and Learning Disorders will help new and veteran educators understand specific student challenges and support kids affected by them, writes educator Elizabeth OBrien.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 22, 2019
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 175 Are Good Intentions But Bad Ideas Growing Fragile Students? Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and author, about his most recent book with Greg Lukianoff, Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are […].
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 22, 2019
Literacy Strong All Year Long: Powerful Lessons for Grades 3-5 is crammed with so many literacy ideas and resources that you will want to try each one, writes teacher educator Linda Biondi. She predicts that it will be a “go to” book for the rest of your teaching life.
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.
Fractus Learning
AUGUST 22, 2019
The Magical Moving Copper Wire Experiment is a homopolar motor science project that will fascinate your 12-year old. The project requires patience. Boys will also like racing their homopolar motor batteries on tinfoil which takes a […].
techlearning
AUGUST 22, 2019
SAM Labs is a programming site where students develop engineering skills by using SAM blocks and the SAM Space app to create, modify, or enhance designs.
Turnitin
AUGUST 22, 2019
Admissions professionals weigh in on academic dishonesty and its impact on the admission process
techlearning
AUGUST 22, 2019
The meeting will focus on the technical issues districts experience.
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.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 22, 2019
Storyboard That the wonderful learning tool that educators are using in a wide variety of ways (i.e project based learning, timelines, digital storytelling, etc.) recently released a link w/ lots of ideas on how to use their site. Teachers can find lots of ideas on how to use Storyboard That for "back to school" such as: all about me posters, ice breakers, new school year storyboards and more.
Graphite Blog
AUGUST 22, 2019
What is Google Classroom? Is Google Classroom an LMS? Who can use Google Classroom? How do teachers use Google Classroom? How do I set up my Google Classroom? What is Google doing with my students' data? Should I be worried about privacy? How can Google Classroom support differentiation in the classroom? How can families and parents stay in the loop with Google Classroom?
The Principal of Change
AUGUST 22, 2019
I was listening to a student who had struggled in school share an important story. She shared that every single day she was in school, a teacher, who had never taught her at any point in her academic career, would say “hi” to her and address her by her name. What seems like a simple gesture, the student went on to say, saved her and helped her push to continue.
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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