Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 10, 2020
Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. To non-Christians (or non-traditional Christians), that event signifies a rebirth of spring that is filled with joy and gifts — and chocolate! Overall, it is America’s most-popular holiday with Christmas a close second. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox.
Waterford
APRIL 10, 2020
Because teaching is such an intensive job, educators can greatly benefit from learning about and practicing self-care. Unfortunately, teachers may worry that taking care of themselves can lead to self-absorption and distract them from their students. However, despite the misleading title, self-care isn’t at all about selfishness. In fact, practicing self-care can be in the best interest of everyone in your classroom.
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EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 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.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 10, 2020
By LeiLani Cauthen Schools, Districts and companies selling to them have questions, and forebodings. There are two lines of thought: In the Fall, things will get back to normal. Then in about eighteen months, budget cuts are coming for K12 everywhere, with the exception of approximately $13.5 Billion coming in the new CARES Act stimulus. Another $7.5 Billion for governors to chose how to spend plus childcare assistance and Head Start, will smooth over some budget shortfalls in K12 in the needies
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EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 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.
EdTechTeacher
APRIL 10, 2020
A guest post by Maggie Brennan. Below are helpful tips to teach effectively to maximize learning, keep the attention of all the students, and manage various problems. This article is especially useful for teachers with little experience in online learning environments. By now you have probably given a few live online classes and are settling into a routine of what to do and how to do it.
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Edsurge
APRIL 10, 2020
Will campuses be able to reopen in the fall, and if not, what does that mean for higher education? That question feels increasingly pressing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. It has been a little over a month since the University of Washington became the first college in the U.S. to move all teaching online to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 2020
Savvy K–12 district administrators and IT staffers know to plan for when, not if, a cyber incident occurs. That planning involves having a comprehensive response strategy for mitigating the effects of ransomware or other malware. Experts also advise that, in the end, people are a key part of any cybersecurity approach. It’s important to develop a culture around cybersecurity.
Edsurge
APRIL 10, 2020
As the parent of a preschooler, and a researcher aiming to identify effective strategies to support the emotional well-being of early childhood professionals, I feel sadness, grief and confusion during this pandemic. But I also feel hope and admiration. I feel sad as I think about the last day my daughter attended her preschool this year, before everything changed.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 2020
The country saw a massive shift to remote learning in the past month as school districts were confronted with mandatory closures due to COVID-19. Many are navigating uncharted waters, especially those pushed to quickly create and implement e-learning plans for the first time. They had numerous things to consider — What technology tools should we use for virtual learning and instruction?
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.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 10, 2020
The first in the series of Emergency National Virtual Discussions was held on April 2nd. This discussion, like each in the series, was ripped from the conversations that Learning Counsel is having with both education leaders and education vendors throughout America. The discussion, hosted by Learning Counsel CEO and Publisher LeiLani Cauthen, presented solutions to the question on everyone’s mind: What do we do right now?
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 2020
Cloud computing has become a popular tool for schools in the past several years. “Every industry is being transformed by the cloud, and education is no exception,” Dan Ayoub, general manager of Microsoft Education, tells EdTech. In fact, 90 percent of K–12 school districts that responded to CoSN’s 2018 Infrastructure Survey reported using the cloud for storage, while 88 percent said they used cloud-based software systems.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 10, 2020
Global entrepreneur considered one of the founding fathers of Project Based Learning The Learning Counsel has chosen Thom Markham as a featured keynote speaker at the organization’s 2020 National Gathering, to be held November 16-18 at the Atlanta Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort in Stone Mountain GA. Considered one of the founding fathers of Project Based Learning, Thom Markham, Ph.D. is an educator, positive psychologist, and global entrepreneur dedicated to youth development and a positi
Teacher Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
Google Meet Video Conferencing now integrates with Google Classroom classes. Generate a unique meeting link for each class. Settings Cog Go to the settings cog in the upper right of your class. The ability to add a Meet will be available IF your apps admin has enabled Meet on your domain. If you would like […]. The post Now: Meet IN Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 10, 2020
By Chris Piehler, Benjamin Bachman, Leah Rodgers, Sarni Jaye, Vickie Hiebert and Kristen Plemon This week, educators and EdTech providers across the country have been sent home to work—many for the first time. PRP has been a virtual company for the better part of a decade, so we know that working from home is not just doing the same tasks in a different building.
Teacher Tech
APRIL 10, 2020
Regardless of the platform you are using for video meetings GET OUT OF FULL SCREEN MODE! Full screen is awesome if you’re just having conversations, but not so awesome if you say “Go to whiteboard.fi” and visualize a negative number. Now the students have to be on the computer doing something and not in the […]. The post Video Meeting: Get Out of Full Screen appeared first on Teacher Tech.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Higher education and summer internships usually go hand in hand, with the former a precursor to the latter. But not this summer. Take Liz Brodie’s story as an example. After a months-long application process, Brodie found out in March that she had been accepted as a Fulbright summer researcher. Brodie, a junior at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was supposed to live and work at the University of Calgary, analyzing the connection between adequate housi
Edsurge
APRIL 10, 2020
As the spread of COVID-19 forced closures of campuses across the country, college leaders have contemplated how to craft some of the most difficult messages in their careers. They have had to find words to console graduating students grieving the loss of their final months on campus. They have had to prepare stressed faculty members for radical changes in how they teach.
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eSchool News
APRIL 10, 2020
COVID-19, or the coronavirus, is causing a global crisis of historic proportions—it’s not only changing the way we work, learn, travel, and interact with each other, but also increasing online security risks for both individuals and organizations. With the coronavirus forcing millions to work and study from home and interact more online than in person, cybercrime and cyber-attacks are on the rise.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
APRIL 10, 2020
In yesterday’s post we talked a little bit about assistive technology and featured some very good Chrome extensions you can use to help students with learning disabilities. Today, we are sharing with.
techlearning
APRIL 10, 2020
Educators and parents can support remote STEAM learning though LEGO Education Bingo Boards
SpeechTechie
APRIL 10, 2020
Hi folks- Online sessions continue to go well! -Managing fear/anxiety: We read and discussed a fun, engaging book - Get Me Out of This Book: Rules and Tools for Being Brave. Here's the vid if you want to review with your child and fam- we went page by page with me reading on EPIC! Books for kids: watch the video We first talked about how we have learned about tools through Zones of Regulation®- -A Blue Zone tool perks us up if we are bored, sad, sick -A Green Zone tool keeps us in the green zone
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.
My Island View
APRIL 10, 2020
It is very difficult to give weight to anything these days except for the conditions that we are now living and dying under, especially as a New Yorker. Time does not stand still however, so we need to assess where we are in order to adjust and move forward. If this pandemic has taught me anything, this would be my lesson learned. When it comes to the American education system, I have experienced it in many ways and on many levels.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
APRIL 10, 2020
Reclipped is an excellent educational tool to use to annotate and create video snippets. It allows you to collect relevant parts from videos, add your comments and notes to them and then share them.
Cycles of Learning
APRIL 10, 2020
If you are a high school or college science teacher teaching online right now, or an educator looking for ways to promote critical thinking, spacial reason, and computation thinking in the context of service to those impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and encourage you to check out Foldit. Foldit is a multiplayer game that empowers students to learn how to manipulate, and develop, various protein structures.
Nick's Picks for Educational Technology
APRIL 10, 2020
Typing Equations Is Difficult, Equatio Makes it Easy Equatio is a dream come true for math teachers looking for an easy way to “type” mathematical expressions and equations. Until now, typing equations was a tedious task often involving knowledge of a myriad of keyboard shortcuts and requiring too many clicks to count. Equatio Chrome Extension. Read more.
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 Learning Revolution Has Begun
APRIL 10, 2020
Welcome to day five of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference, Friday, April 10th. Today's sessions are below. Log into LearningRevolution.com and click on Schedule in the main menu to see the session times and direct links for attending live. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here. Recordings, as they become available, are listed on the Recordings page.
ExcelinEd
APRIL 10, 2020
Welcome to ExcelinEd’s ongoing roundup of creative solutions states and districts are taking to meet the education needs of their students affected by school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help sharing these solutions so policymakers and state leaders can learn from each other. Please forward this information to your state leaders who are seeking solutions and send us your state’s or school district’s innovative efforts for us to amplify and share nationally. .
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
APRIL 10, 2020
Welcome to day six of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference, Saturday, April 11th. Today's sessions are below. Log into LearningRevolution.com and click on Schedule in the main menu to see the session times and direct links for attending live. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here. Recordings are listed on the Recordings page.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 10, 2020
Security- and privacy-related regulations used to be mainly specific to a single industry, such as healthcare or finance. Today they increasingly cover much wider areas, including any organization handling personal information on consumers, and many states and localities have their own regulations or pending legislation. Determining which regulations an organization must comply with, identifying the organization’s compliance requirements, and being prepared to remediate issues and produce eviden
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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