EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Administrators at the School District of Palm Beach County have been working for years to develop a workforce of educators who not only are eager to innovate in the classroom but who also are skilled enough to coach and support their peers. A key part of that effort is the district’s Teaching with Technology Trailblazer program, which launched in 2017 and has included 700 to 800 teachers each year, says Adam Miller, director of educational technology.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit 32 degrees. That would herald the opening of winter shelters where homeless students and their families could be housed. “We were in the support area before. Now we’re dealing with survival,” says Blackwell, the district’s homeless and foster care liaison who oversees homeless services at 120 schools and 15 shelters as well as

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

With the rush to virtual schooling, districts nationwide have been looking for ways to expand student connectivity. Officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., called in the cavalry to help. The School District of Palm Beach County is driving the creation of a civic Wi-Fi mesh network that will bring broadband to some 25,000 students. To make it happen, district leaders are working in partnership with local government, nonprofits, vendors and other stakeholders.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Spiral is a great formative assessment tool to use in your instruction. The tool, brought to my attention by a tween from Megan Mongelli, is a simple and easy to use and does not require any.read more.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

“We think college should be affordable and low risk. Everybody should get to go. That’s the DNA of StraighterLine ,” says Chief Learning Officer Dr. Amy Smith. We think college should be affordable and low risk. Everybody should get to go. - Dr. Amy Smith, Chief Learning Officer, StraighterLine There are 36 million Americans who have some college credit but no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I first met 7-month-old Kiernan, he was the spitting image of his big brother, Keller, on whom I’d performed cochlear implant surgery for his hearing years earlier. The boys’ parents and I were hopeful that their similarities would also extend to the incredible post-surgery outcomes Keller had achieved. When the world of spoken language was opened up to him, Keller went on to speak and read above grade level.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented disruption to schools, bringing a fractured landscape of reopened classrooms, distance learning, and hybrid models that combine both. While it’s tough to find silver linings in the pandemic, I think there may be one for the American education system: an opportunity not only to better leverage digitization to ensure the best outcomes for students, but to reimagine many aspects of pedagogy entirely.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 11, 2021

Posted by Erin Whalen Are you an educator who strives to be better each day? The type of teacher who is always seeking new ideas? Maybe you’re the only teacher in your school for your grade level or content area and need colleagues beyond those four walls? Enter Twitter. Twitter is FREE! Twitter is free […]. The post Twitter 101 for Educators – Getting Started appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Project-based learning can engage and encourage students to be curious, explore career paths, and find real-world relevance

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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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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 11, 2021

1. Flipgrid 2. Formative 3. EquatIO 4. Quizizz 5. Adobe Spark 6. PhET Simulations [link] 7. Mentimeter 8. Classcraft 9. Pear Deck 10. Newsela. The post 10 EdTech Tools to Try for 2018 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

While the news about vaccines is promising, many students will continue to learn from home for more months to come. A big question then is how do we create and host energizing environments to sustain learning? Tara Lash and Sunday Cummins came up with this "club" strategy.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Knowing where to look is the first step in how to find an education grant

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MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2021

When now Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris was “accused” of being “too ambitious” on the campaign trail, it spurred her niece, activist and author Meena Harris, into action. “It really just stopped me in my tracks. … I had had enough,” Harris says. So she wrote a children’s book called Ambitious Girl, in the hope that no young woman in the next generation would have her dreams characterized as a liability. “I was thinking about my kids ̷

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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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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 11, 2021

We’ve been working from home for 10 months now, and while we may have created a new sense of routine and productivity, many teams struggle to recreate the organic moments of collision between colleagues. Conversations over coffee and check-ins in the elevator are the kinds of in-person interactions that build a sense of teamwork and… The post Making Time for Play appeared first on Market Brief.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Get the best laptop for students to use in class and for remote learning.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

What it is: BombBomb is an email service that lets you record and embed video directly in your email. That is a totally oversimplified explanation because BombBomb does SO much more. This is one of those pieces of technology that has been life-saving for me during the pandemic and one that I will continue using forevermore! In addition to easily adding video to your email, you can add images, button-type navigation, build and send forms right in BombBomb, and even create automations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. They include all the ebooks, videos, and other resources required so you don’t spend any more than what is required to register for the class. Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

“Virtual” learning may be on the upswing—corporate VR learning, that is. Teachers are paying out of pocket for edtech tools while using more of them. And educators want to know what actually worked in remote instruction. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Is That Avatar Annoyed or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me? A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2021

As our world continues to become more connected through technology, today’s students have boundless access to a wealth of information. But, to effectively leverage these resources, students need to be able to make meaning of them. According to educator Thomas Hoerr, the very notion of intelligence has changed. We no longer rely on the limits of our single mind to access the information resources we need to solve problems.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 11, 2021

The post 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom – SULS092 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Drawings is a hidden treasure! In this post and episode, I will give you 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom. Let’s explore ways to tap into the 4 C’s and get students creating with Google Drawings. At first glance, it can be easy to dismiss the Google Drawing tool.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

Two new studies on whether to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandemic come to strikingly similar conclusions: it’s not a simple yes or no. Instead, there are public health thresholds that can indicate when in-person classes are safe. The similarity in the results is striking considering that the research teams used different data and took different approaches to crunching the numbers.

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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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JANUARY 11, 2021

I wasn’t supposed to ever forget the day because it was my son’s ninth birthday. In the middle of a pandemic, we still thought it best to keep this tradition. On the news, anchors kept reiterating that the day’s proceedings wouldn’t normally get this much attention if not for the president’s consistent obfuscation about the proceedings.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

ADELPHI, Maryland. — Cuando Nando estaba en cuarto grado, las pandillas de El Salvador asesinaron a su hermano mayor. Su madre vivía aterrorizada por su seguridad, por lo que Nando dejó de ir a la escuela y permaneció dentro de la casa durante años. This story also appeared in El Tiempo Latino. “Era como estar preso”, dijo. La familia de Nando tenía dificultades para comprar comida.

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