EdTech Magazine
MAY 18, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the tech giant announces inclusivity updates to a popular classroom product.
Digital Promise
MAY 18, 2017
The summer slide, a loss of academic progress during the summer break between school years, has been confirmed in many research studies since an early publication by White in 1906 [1]. All too often kids arrive back at school in the fall worse off in mathematics than they finished in the spring, causing teachers to give up weeks of class time, or more, to make up for that loss.
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EdNews Daily
MAY 18, 2017
Written by Rich Baxter. Education is merging with neuroscience, quantum computing, and AI , redefining what it means to be human and thus what it means to learn and to teach. Where does that put education as a human endeavor and what other factors do we need to consider in order to take full advantage of the present knowledge revolution? 1. The game changers that support 21st Century Technology and Learning are cloud computing, more connectivity, cheaper devices that enable social networks, and
Neo LMS
MAY 18, 2017
Can there be a loftier topic than the future of education? When considering that technology is playing an ever-increasing role in education, specifically the use of online learning tools, what the future of education looks like is a question many educational historians ponder. Specifically higher education institutions, and particularly those with a strong, or historic, physical presence in the form of campuses, are trying to establish what role the campus-based experience will play in the educa
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Ditch That Textbook
MAY 18, 2017
Now’s the time of year when the “what” takes center stage in many schools. Final exams — and the prep time that comes with them — ask students what they’ve learned. End of the year projects let students demonstrate what they know. The end of the school year is that cumulative, summative time of year [.].
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 18, 2017
A conversation with Trish Rubin on episode 79 of the 10-minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Trish Rubin @trishrubin teaches us the basics of building your school and personal brand. Enter the book giveaway to win a copy of the book, BrandED , that she co-authored with Eric Sheninger.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 18, 2017
May 19, 2017 A few weeks ago we started a section here in EdTech & mLearning dedicated entirely to iPad apps to use with elementary students; check it out to see the resources we have published.read more.
eSchool News
MAY 18, 2017
Every child deserves the opportunity to lead, learn, grow, and succeed. It’s only through a 360-degree approach to learning that we can provide these necessary opportunities to all children. At E.A. Cox Middle School, we are committed to a “whatever it takes” approach to success for each student entrusted to our care. In order to truly dedicate ourselves to this method, my staff and I decided two years ago to develop a three-tiered approach for our curriculum and instruction.
Marketplace K-12
MAY 18, 2017
The action, which would reverse a two-year-old policy by the agency, has angered a number of school and consumer groups, who worry it would slow the flow of valuable content to students and other internet users. The post FCC Makes First Move Toward Weakening Net Neutrality Protections appeared first on Market Brief.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 18, 2017
May 18, 2017 Bloomz is a very good tool that provides a secure and private environment where teachers and parents can connect, coordinate and communicate comfortably. As a teacher, you can create.read more.
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.
Edsurge
MAY 18, 2017
Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software. She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom.
MindShift
MAY 18, 2017
Jack Bacon was 16 and a junior in high school when his mother died. Though he felt “broken” over her death, he continued to strive in school and sports and pretended to be strong for his sister. Bacon had always been a motivated, goal-oriented student and athlete. But sometime after his mother’s death, following a period of reflection, Bacon felt newly infused with a sense of purpose.
ProfHacker
MAY 18, 2017
I don’t know how common it is for folks to have to explain Creative Commons licenses for others, but it often feels like a “continuously negotiated” thing (to use Catherine Cronin’s term ). So I recently had a conversation that went something like this, with a professor who wants to create an open textbook (the actual discussion was slightly more complex and with more people involved): Me: so what kind of license do you want on the book?
SpeechTechie
MAY 18, 2017
I have to admit I bought an Echo Dot because I hate birds. You see, we live across from a park, which is lovely except that around February all sorts of loud birds descend and ruin my life. So it's great to have a device that you can ask, "Alexa, play ocean waves," at 4:45 am and drown all that courtship out. The Echo Dot ($49.99) accesses Alexa, Amazon's "virtual personal assistant.
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
MAY 18, 2017
Teaching is a tough job at the best of times, but when you have students that suffer from serious visual impairments it makes things just that much harder. Accessibility technology has helped ease. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Principal of Change
MAY 18, 2017
In Kim Scott’s book, “Radical Candor”, she states the following: In an effort to create a positive, stress-free environment, I sidestepped the difficult but necessary part of being a boss: telling people clearly and directly when their work wasn’t good enough. I failed to create a climate in which people who weren’t getting the job done were told so in time to fix it.
Marketplace K-12
MAY 18, 2017
Between 20 percent and 40 percent of U.S. students are projected to be in charter schools by 2035, a growth in the market that creates new opportunities for K-12 companies, but also big challenges. The post Webinar to Highlight Tips for Ed. Companies on Tackling the Charter School Market appeared first on Market Brief.
The Electric Educator
MAY 18, 2017
May 17, 2017 was the opening session of Google I/O, an annual developers conference organized by Google. This is one of the signature public events that Google organizes annually and usually contains some important new products and features that are planned in the next 12 months. During the 2016 I/O conference we learned about Google Home, Android Apps for Chromebooks, and Google's VR initiatives.
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EdTechTeam
MAY 18, 2017
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was the View-Master. I’m sure you know the one. That red toy that you put a thin cardboard disk in, pull the handle on the side, and step into a new scene with each arm pull. It was like being transported to a new world. Through the View-Master’s pictures, there was an excitement that I had for learning.
MiddleWeb
MAY 18, 2017
A book to treasure! All of Jennifer Serravallo's engaging 300 lessons are fully developed and easily adaptable for differentiation. The premise of the book is to meet the students where they are and not to teach each of the skills in isolation, writes Linda Biondi.
techlearning
MAY 18, 2017
Unique site allows for exploration of multiple lessons, while the check tool allows students to evaluate credibility of news.
MiddleWeb
MAY 18, 2017
You may not be able to stem the tide of Shiny New Things coming your way, but using Woodson and Frakes' book you will be able to show which reforms are making a difference in the lives of your students and which are just passing fads, writes teacher Alex Valencic.
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.
Technology Tidbits
MAY 18, 2017
Summer is almost here and BoomWriter's Virtual Summer Camps are right around the corner and a soon to be reality for educators!!! This is an excellent solution for teachers looking to make some extra money over the summer (from the comfort of their own home) using BoomWriter's innovative collaborat ive writing tool. More info below. BoomWriter is a site that I’ve written about many times because it lets elementary, middle, and high school teachers conduct engaging nonfiction, fiction, and vocabu
Reading By Example
MAY 18, 2017
The other morning my five-year-old opened his eyes and his first words of the day were, “I loved reading books with you and daddy last night mama”. His words filled my parent and teaching heart to the brim. Words fuel me in all forms – long books, short stories, poems that make me gasp or laugh, and blogs that challenge what I thought I knew. The greatest joy in reading for me is discovering another reader, online or in person, who feels the same way.
Technology Tidbits
MAY 18, 2017
Tower Math is an excellent app for learning basic Math skills. Tower Math uses the ultra-popular "tower defense-game" format to create a fun learning environment for kids. Teachers can use this to integrate Game Based Learning into a classroom while students learn basic Math skills such as: addition, multiplication, subtraction, etc. I highly recommend checking out Tower Math by clicking here !!!
eSchool News
MAY 18, 2017
Politics is a funny beast. Being a journalist, I watch the gyrations and positioning with interest. When I was coming up in the business, I used to cover town council and school board meetings. It’s amazing; even then you could go to any town council or school board meeting anywhere and find remarkable similarities. With all the changes in the world over the last 30 plus years, politics still look the same to me.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 18, 2017
Betsy DeVos Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Trump’s full education budget cuts funding for college work-study programs in half, eliminates public-service loan forgiveness and takes away hundreds of millions of dollars that schools use for mental health services and advanced coursework in order to pay for one of his campaign promises – more school choice, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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