Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2020

I met Kiana Berkman in this traumatic time of moving teaching home through an invigorating discussion on education and how it’s changing. Kiana and her tutoring agency ( Berktree Learning Center ) were already ahead of the curve on that. I asked her to share insights on how COVID-19 is affecting her students and their passion for learning. I think you’ll like what she and her husband, Daniel (partner in the tutoring business) have to say: There is a popular saying that applies to lea

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? Is it more effective to have the players hit 15 fastballs, then 15 curve balls, then 15 change ups? Or is it better to have them hit a random assortment of 45 pitches consisting of 15 fastballs, 15 curve balls and 15 change ups? Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortm

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Katie Crook, a teacher in Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, wrote letters to her ELL students after she did not hear back from their parents through other means. She received her first response on the morning of April 9 and opened it immediately. Credit: Photo courtesy of Katie Crook. Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper an

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Like tens of thousands of other schools, Berkeley Unified School District in Northern California picked Zoom as its video-conferencing tool to support its remote instruction plan. But that came to a screeching halt after a naked adult “Zoombombed” one of its high school classes. A few days later the district switched to Google Meet, according to Ashley Boyd, whose two children—ages 9 and 12—attend school in Berkeley Unified.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 28, 2020

What is Genius Hour? It’s a learning opportunity that gives students time to pursue their passions, explore interesting ideas and create something that they choose and will be proud of. Can we engage students during the pandemic via distance learning? Yes! Here's how.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

The numbers are stark: After weeks of “sheltering in place,” U.S. unemployment has soared. A mid-March survey by HolonIQ, an education market research firm, of the impact of COVID-19 on organizations suggests that educational institutions will be hit hard : 91 percent of respondents indicated they expect to be moderately or substantially worse off in the short term.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Coding is absolutely an important skill in the 21st century education and more and more schools are emphasizing the primacy of teaching this skill to students from an early age. Due to school.read more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and the turn to emergency remote learning pose numerous issues with respect to the health and well-being of students. Research suggests that prolonged isolation and environmental stress factors could lead to significantly heightened depression and physiological problems. Related content: In a time of crisis, a reading tournament scores big.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

We know many of you out there use Windows-operated computers in their instruction. To help you make the best of technology in your teaching, we are sharing with you this updated list of.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Catherine Asiedu, left, is struggling to make up her mind about college next year while worrying about costs. With her are classmates Journey Hairston and Ania Wright, all seniors at Buffalo Seminary in upstate New York. Credit: (Photo courtesy of Catherine Asiedu). NEW YORK — Picture today’s beleaguered high school senior, stuck at home finishing classes online, stripped of graduation rituals and making college decisions amidst endless coronavirus uncertainty.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

In this post we are sharing with you this excellent resource from Google for Education which together with the previous resources we shared earlier can help you remotely teach your kids coding. CS.read more.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Over the course of about 10 chapters, players read about different tools they can use to repel an animated robot attack on a facility they’ve built.

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The Jose Vilson

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’d like to watch the video, you gotta go to them. Thanks to the 800+ of you who attended and the other 3000+ of you who’ve watched it afterward. I’m so deeply appreciative. Some thoughts about this work. Last year, I set to elevate a conversation about belonging within the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. For almost a decade, I felt like NCTM didn’t belong to me, but to other people who saw themselves as mathematicians in classrooms.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

The Discuss Education BarCamp was a gathering of educators, academicians, and education enthusiasts to discuss about teaching-learning, learning theories, and ways to improve learning. It was truly a spectacle to watch the great minds at work. We previously published the presentation of Dr. T K Mani, former principal of model engineering college. The next presentation to follow up was hosted by Dr.

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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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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 28, 2020

This is a great opportunity for students, especially as some head into slower summer months soon. This is also a good opportunity for those who may have been occupationally displaced due to the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 28, 2020

Ok, I may be veering a little too much from the "here's this useful tech" message lately by talking about feelings and stuff. But this post does have some purposes as well. Many of you know I am a huge fan of narrative as a functional, multi-point language target, and of Story Grammar Marker® in particular (also see StoryChamps (Peterson), SKILL (Gillam), EmPOWER/BrainFrames by the brilliant Bonnie Singer and Anthony Bashir, Thinking Maps, for a range of discourse development tools.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 28, 2020

A math tutoring company acquires an AI-based startup, two Indian ed-tech startups secure a combined $7.6 million in new investments, and an Irish company secures $6.5 million in a Series A round. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Math Tutoring Firm Acquires AI Ed-Tech Startup; Former U.S. Education Secretary Joins Media Literacy Company’s Advisory Board appeared first on Market Brief.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

The post Leading Through Crisis and Beyond for Teachers and Educational Leaders – SULS060 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Leading from home through a crisis is a whole new beast. We, as educators and leaders, find ourselves leading from a very unexpected place. Home. . Good leaders step up and lead through hard times, and that’s exactly what I see happening every day.

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techieMusings

APRIL 28, 2020

I wanted to compile some of the most popular Flipgrid resources I’ve created, which answer most of the FAQ’s I’ve received in the past month. I hope that these videos & tutorials can help you or any teachers you work with. Flipgrid Resources. Please feel free to reach out via email or in the comments section if I can share anything else that would help!

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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2020

How PGSD transitioned from using Google Classroom to a full remote learning program

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Cycles of Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

I am struggling to find something to write about today. Rather than force some philosophical musing, I thought the most tangible/useful thing (especially for fellow STEM educators) would be to simply list all the of tools I have used thus far and their purpose. Links lead to application examples or directly to the resource itself. Google Docs : Central location for all lesson links.

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techlearning

APRIL 28, 2020

How Mobile County Public Schools has provided online professional development and support for its schools

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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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Cycles of Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Dear Amazing Friends, Family, and Colleagues, I hope this message finds you all doing fabulous! I am writing to ask a favor of you. I am currently teaching a course called "Engineering for Social Good" to Sonoma Academy 10th-12th graders. As part of our online curriculum, students were challenged to develop and generate proposals for design ideas to serve populations that have been impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Buncee

APRIL 28, 2020

We have lots of new exciting updates for you all. Learn about some upcoming exciting initiatives such as the Hugs 4 Heroes project & the LIVE #WithHeartWhileApart Webinar with Wakelet , Flipgrid , & Buncee ! We have new stickers and animations for remote learning, Hugs for Heroes & many more. Also, we’re proud to announce that we have added new fonts to the Buncee library.

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Prodigy

APRIL 28, 2020

In the past few weeks, social distancing and isolation has become the new norm during this unfortunate COVID outbreak and right now it is the only way to ensure safety for you and your family. But social distancing and self-isolation can be really stressful, especially for children. In fact, according to the Centers For Disease […]. The post Help Children Cope With Stress During The COVID Lockdown appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 28, 2020

Welcome to the Tuesday, April 28th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The day'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 of past sessions are listed on the Recordings page.

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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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Neo LMS

APRIL 28, 2020

The concept of personalized instruction goes hand in hand with personalized learning as two sides of today’s educational process. Thus, personalization can be viewed from two perspectives: one of the teacher, and the other, of the student. These two views share common ground, but I consider it important to differentiate between the two, mainly because education is not a one-way street, so the process includes both learning and teaching, with different responsibilities attributed to both pr

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2020

Given all the options for computing in the modern day — tablets, laptops and virtual reality headsets — it might sound strange to consider that once, a single school would often share just a handful of computers. But in the early 1980s, when the first version of the IBM Personal Computer came out , the PC market looked much different and was more expensive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

In this time of pandemic, when schools and colleges have shifted teaching online, more teachers find themselves making videos for their students, who in turn are seeking out such resources on their own. For this week’s podcast, we reached out to one of the masters of making educational videos, John Green, and asked for his advice and thoughts on the state of education during this unprecedented time.

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