Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 21, 2020

Episode 01 of Silver Lining for Learning is now available for viewing. Please visit our website to learn more about this initiative and our chief instigators. We also are looking for guest bloggers. Next week our guest will be Sugata Mitra ! Related Posts. A new adventure: Silver Lining for Learning. Time to find other employment. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2020

T here are lots of companies stepping up to help the need to move learning online. The latest is Britannica: Britannica’s LaunchPacks ® offered free of charge to all US schools. As schools across the United States close or prepare to close to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Encyclopaedia Britannica is offering all schools’ and students free access to its popular LaunchPacks ® Science and Social Studies learning content.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

Classrooms are not the only areas in schools where technology can make a difference in students’ lives. Physical education and athletics programs are starting to see the benefits of applying technology to students’ training regimens, especially in the weight room at the high school level. John Beerbower, director of strength and conditioning at McHenry Community High School District 156 in McHenry, Ill., walked IDEAcon 2020 attendees through the forward-looking program he oversees during a pre

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2020

T here are lots of companies stepping up to help the need to move learning online. The latest is Britannica: Britannica’s LaunchPacks ® offered free of charge to all US schools. As schools across the United States close or prepare to close to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Encyclopaedia Britannica is offering all schools’ and students free access to its popular LaunchPacks ® Science and Social Studies learning content.

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Personalized Learning

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

Feedback is a crucial component of teacher professional development. Classroom observations are a standard approach for assessing and improving a teacher’s instructional and classroom-management skills. The observations, whether unannounced or scheduled, typically involve an administrator physically sitting in a classroom and taking notes about a teacher’s performance for later discussion.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 21, 2020

Guest blog post by Pam Bradley Like so many of us, my school is closed due to COVID19 quarantine, leaving teachers groping for effective distance learning strategies and how to get content to students. In It Together Well, I’m still no expert, but thanks to “my people” (friends, colleagues, FaceBook teacher groups, Twitter, and even […]. The post Zooming In On Distance Learning by @4PamBradley appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 21, 2020

A working formula for a successful learning activity with kids involves three main elements: engagement, interactivity, and fun. The more of these elements a learning activity exhibits the better.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

When schools are targeted in cyberattacks, the work of mitigation and communication doesn’t rest with IT teams alone. It actually makes organizations more vulnerable if leaders beyond the IT department are not involved in cybersecurity, says Amy McLaughlin, cybersecurity project director for the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). “You cannot put all of this on one unit,” she says.

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There is no box

MARCH 21, 2020

Wow. We went from planning for schools to shutdown, to schools being shutdown, to being sheltered in place for a few weeks to being told to stay at home indefinitely. And that was all since just last week. I was going to venture out to look for bread and eggs this morning (failed at two attempts yesterday), but I’m not ready for more disappointment just yet.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

There’s no denying the importance of data in education. With the right tools, educators can pinpoint subject areas where students struggle or skills that teachers need additional training to master. In operations, data can help administrators gauge the effectiveness of technology deployments and measure efficiency indicators such as use or spending.

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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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SpeechTechie

MARCH 21, 2020

There are several great PD opportunities online this week: CSHA and SpeechTherapyPD's Teletherapy Bootcamp (Monday 3/23) SLP Telecon sponsored by SLP Toolkit, The Informed SLP, and Bjorem Speech Publications Both are free, offer ASHA CEUs, and have live viewing or playback opportunities. I'm registered for both; the agendas look very helpful for anyone figuring out how to continue to provide services within the current situation.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

There’s no denying the popularity of the global, billion-dollar esports industry. The number of frequent esports viewers is projected to reach 297 million in 2022, more than five times the number in 2012, according to Statista. The numbers are even higher when occasional viewers are factored in, bringing the total number of projected viewers to 644 million.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 21, 2020

On the day after school was declared closed, ELA teacher Brent Gilson greeted students from behind a "desk wall" as they came by to pick up personal gear and borrow books from his class library. One girl’s wonderful note inspired him to write a hopeful message of his own.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2020

The public cloud can simplify IT environments. But what happens when an enterprise’s cloud environment itself becomes maddeningly complex? As organizations across industries have increased their cloud spending and made the public cloud a more integral part of their operations, a number of inefficiencies have cropped up. The sources of these complications range from poor design to a lack of governance, and these inefficiencies can lead to negative outcomes that include cost overruns, lack of visi

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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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Philly Teacher

MARCH 21, 2020

As I sit at home with my 5 1/2 year-old and 2 year-old attempting to figure out some kind of routine and manage my own anxieties, I have been struggling not to cringe as I watch the entire country turn educating kids into a huge social and technological experiment. The approaches range widely, with some. Read More.

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MARCH 21, 2020

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