The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

An Interview and Demo Interview with Nira Sheleg From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers who want to upload “packets” and make them easy for self grading will find a friend in Wizer.me. Also, those who believe in differentiated instruction, multiple ways of asking (and answering questions) like text, voice, and video, and the ability for teachers to share with each other will love Wizer.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 15, 2020

Microsoft Teams Education is your classroom management hub if your students use Microsoft tools. Learn how to manage Teams like a pro. If your school is using Microsoft, then Microsoft Teams Education can be your go-to communication hub. It keeps you organized. It helps you get messages out. It manages your students' assignments. Access it from […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students can sense and even internalize the emotions their teachers are feeling, especially stress, depression, and worry. Not only do we need to help kids stay physically healthy, but we also need to help them stay emotionally healthy. SEL expert Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl unpacks the concepts of stress contagion, the importance of routines, co-rumination and other SEL topics to help us better help today’s studen

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2020

Articles on #CoronaVirus you won’t want to miss: Resources You Need During #COVID19. Teaching Online During #COVID19. Teaching Online During #COVID19–More from my Inbox. #CoronaVirus–This Week’s Inbox. Teaching During #CoronaVirus–An Old Strategy That’s Perfect. 10 Tips for Teaching Remotely. #coronaviruseducation. #coronavirus.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research says that when students are engaged in service-learning, their immune system, heart rate and sense of well-being improves dramatically. Children are happiest when they feel a sense of purpose. Here are ten tips to help kids experience these positive benefits — even while stuck at home.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

District leaders have a lot to think about when it comes to implementing and navigating remote learning during school closures. But they must not forget about how crucial it is to have cybersecurity measures in place before rolling out their e-learning plans. Schools are already increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Since 2016, there have been more than 800 cybersecurity-related incidents affecting U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

As schools stay closed across the country, many students and educators are adapting to a new reality of remote learning. School districts that moved the majority of instruction online had to address existing challenges — from the lack of device and internet access to looming cyberthreats on sensitive data. They also had to acknowledge and bridge the gap between teachers and technology to ensure its success.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

In the year 2020, amid a global pandemic, millions of American students are struggling to get online to do their schoolwork and communicate with others. There was already plenty of pressure on these students to perform well in school, and now there is extra anxiety because of COVID-19. With no guaranteed end in sight, we need Congress to take swift and decisive action to empower the federal E-rate funding program to support off-campus learning devices and connectivity, delivered via secure inter

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

As schools stay closed across the country, many students and educators are adapting to a new reality of remote learning. School districts that moved the majority of instruction online had to address existing challenges — from the lack of device and internet access to looming cyberthreats on sensitive data. They also had to acknowledge and bridge the gap between teachers and technology to ensure its success.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

The College Board says it is preparing to offer digital versions of the SAT test in students’ homes later this year, “in the unlikely event” that schools remain closed through the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We will be ready if we have to be,” said David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, which oversees the widely-used SAT college-entrance exam as well as the Advanced Placement (AP) program, during an online press briefing on Wednesday.

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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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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

At Danvers Public Schools in Massachusetts, students with special needs are using immersive technology to learn and practice important life skills. When school psychologists reported that some students felt anxious about visiting new places that came with unfamiliar sensory experiences, the district purchased a 360-degree camera to create virtual tours of various locations — from the district’s middle school to the city’s downtown area.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Like many of her college-going peers, Katelyn Perryman submitted her application for federal financial aid last fall. And like everyone else, the Howard University sophomore could not have anticipated the calamity that a pandemic would unleash several months later. With nearly 17 million people applying for unemployment benefits in recent weeks—many of them students and their parents—financial hardship has taken on a new, unprecedented scale.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 15, 2020

At Danvers Public Schools in Massachusetts, students with special needs are using immersive technology to learn and practice important life skills. When school psychologists reported that some students felt anxious about visiting new places that came with unfamiliar sensory experiences, the district purchased a 360-degree camera to create virtual tours of various locations — from the district’s middle school to the city’s downtown area.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 15, 2020

A key chapter of Whole: What Teachers Need to Help Students Thrive is available to download at no cost as a resource for educators and parents in this turbulent time Dallas, TX (April 15, 2020) —The Mindshift Collaborative—a group of classroom teachers, principals, and researchers—has partnered with the non-profit Center for College and Career Readiness and MeTEOR Education to release an impactful book based on three years of field research.

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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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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

A post by Avra Robinson. When I was a little girl, my parents constantly encouraged me to be creative during play. My mom and dad were both educators, and as such, they suggested constructive activities that rescued me from the inevitable boredom of the endless days of summer break. Now, as an educator looking back decades later, I realize that they were helping me take ordinary activities and discover ways to encourage creativity and learning through play.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

School closures under COVID-19 presented a big problem for the biology faculty at Moraine Valley Community College, located in the Chicago suburbs. The challenge: how students can complete lab work without access to a science lab. Illinois suspended in-person classes in March, potentially disrupting everything from graduations to financial aid disbursements.

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 15, 2020

“If it is low critical thinking, a robot should grade it.” Teaching critical thinking is hard and time consuming. So you have to give something up so you can spend time working with students on a feedback loop on higher critical thinking tasks. Tip: Make the WHOLE THING SELF GRADING Sure, you can mix up […]. The post SELF GRADING – Google Form appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

One of my colleagues is known for regularly reminding us that a crisis is a terrible opportunity to waste. The COVID-19 crisis has forced districts to redefine the manner in which they are delivering education. In the best-case scenario, district leaders had a week to develop and roll out an eLearning strategy to students. Most teachers had a weekend to prep, and sent their students home without a defined plan or resources to help parents who became teachers overnight.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 15, 2020

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your class instruction? The list below has you covered. These are some some popular web tools we have reviewed in multiple.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

Google Calendar Appointment Slots X Google Meet. by Greg Kulowiec. At a time when teachers and students are connecting remotely due to school closings, synchronous video check-ins are becoming an increasingly normal part of the school day. However, whole group meetings can be challenging for teachers to manage and might not allow for the individual connection that we are hoping to create with synchronous video.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 15, 2020

News reading is an important literacy practice that, among other things, helps students become responsible citizens, raises their critical media awareness, and connects them to the global world. News.

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APRIL 15, 2020

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

In many houses, it’s pure survival mode, as Americans assume the dual roles of parent and teacher, all while juggling career, home and health after 47 states have closed their schools , affecting more than 55 million students. My newsfeed is filled with posts by parents scrambling to find activities to keep their children busy, or counting down the hours to bedtime, or breaking into the alcohol.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2020

The Center For Reinventing Public Education is collecting information on how school districts are working to educate more than 9 million students remotely. The post New Database Catalogs Remote Learning Approaches in 82 Districts Closed by Coronavirus appeared first on Market Brief.

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Adjusting Course

APRIL 15, 2020

The #30SecondBookTalk is back and better than ever! This year we’re opening things up like never before and everyone is invited to join the fun. Here are a few reasons we’re so excited to start the collaboration with you (and your virtual classroom) now. CONNECT: Stories are powerful connectors and so is sharing your love of reading. Finding ways to meaningfully connect with one another is important.

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techlearning

APRIL 15, 2020

Thanks to the CARES Act, $16.5 billion is set to go directly to state and local education agencies. Here's what that means to K-12 school districts.

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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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MiddleWeb

APRIL 15, 2020

Design thinking allows students to own the knowledge they’re acquiring by connecting content in meaningful ways to their homes, the activities they engage in, their reasons for learning, their transformative life experiences, and their special attributes. Dr. Lindsay Portnoy explains.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 15, 2020

I'm long past processing that April School Vacation Week isn't happening. We all have bigger fish to fry, right? But here in MA it is always a rite of spring that brings the Marathon and some momentum leading up to the end of the school year.all that unclear as well. However, we can simulate. Some of you know I am a Google Earth nerd, from way back when it was an application to download and you had to take a two-day class to understand it.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 15, 2020

Sometimes I write to share my learning, and sometimes I write to learn. Today I am writing to process my thoughts so bear with me. I keep thinking about this memory from my childhood. When I was probably somewhere between 8-10 years old, I remember my older brother (Alec), and I fell asleep on the floor in our parents’ room. The only reason I remember this one time, in particular, is that Alec woke up, looked at me, and started screaming.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2020

BrightFish Reading is offering FREE access to their online instruction during school closures. You can sign up for your account and get full access to BrightFish Reading until the end of the school year. BrightFish Reading provides online, research-based instruction for below-level readers in grades 2 through high school. Students get scaffolded instruction in fluency, vocabulary and comprehension strategies while building independent reading skills.

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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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