Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

One of the primary roles that a teacher plays in an online class is the facilitation of learning. Facilitation is the teacher’s ability to clearly communicate learning objectives and support learners as they make progress toward those objectives. When teachers are working with students online, their role as facilitator encompasses their interactions with students in conferences, the feedback they give students on their work, and their ability to assist students in making meaning in online discus

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2020

How I celebrated my Quarantine Birthday With Joy! From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This past year, I turned 50, lost 50 pounds, and ran a half marathon. So much has happened recently. Challenges, ups and downs, and joys. We all have them and so do I. However, the discipline to lose the weight and to run 19.3 miles in 2 days has prepared me for this time in which we live.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2020

Schools across the country rapidly shifted to remote learning due to COVID-19-related closures. Students and teachers at Verizon Innovative Learning Schools —where every student receives a device that comes equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom—had the advantage of already knowing how to use learning apps. In our new video below, which was filmed several months before remote learning became a reality, educators at Madrid Neighborhood School in Phoenix, Arizona

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 4, 2020

Stories draw us in. They capture our attention. When we use powerful elements of storytelling in our instruction, it can transform learning. This post is adapted from a chapter in the original manuscript for my book, Tech Like a PIRATE. The chapter didn't make the final draft of the book because of space constraints. However, […]. The post Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Education Elements

MAY 4, 2020

While the author of the quote isn’t certain (many attribute it to acclaimed management consultant Peter Drucker), the saying “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is commonplace in organizational management circles. I don’t know about you, but breakfast has been the last thing on my mind these past few weeks and months because I feel like there’s barely enough time to grab a quick snack in between phone calls, Zoom meetings, and responding to emails.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2020

When it comes to remote learning, keeping students engaged outside of the classroom can be tough. Teachers may find it challenging to provide hands-on activities to go with their lesson plans, maintain consistent interaction with their students and foster creativity and collaboration from a distance. Many students are feeling the same way today as their schools shift to an online learning environment due to the national pandemic.

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 4, 2020

You don’t see storytelling in a math class that often. But Missouri math teacher Mandi Tolen’s class isn’t the traditional type you’ve seen for decades in schools. Here's how she does it. ?This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.com […].

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2020

Next-generation education emphasizes the “Four C’s of learning” — critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity — which have become cornerstone skills for learners of all ages. In K–12 schools, integrating technology into the curriculum can bring those skills to life and transform the way students learn. “Technology is a real enabler and accelerator for the four C’s,” says Helen Soulé, executive director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills , in a Common Sense Education

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Throughout the last six weeks, I cannot count how many times I’ve heard people sing the praises of teachers. For parents, stepping into the shoes of an educator has created a whole new level of appreciation for how hard teachers’ jobs are. The increased admiration is largely due to the role parents are now having to play as stewards of their child’s education.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 4, 2020

Community Online Event Uses Cardboard to Bring People Together While Apart Two Bit Circus Foundation , a nonprofit educational organization, today announced plans for the first virtual Cardboard Challenge, an online version of the original event started by Imagination.org, designed to encourage the worldwide STEAM community to come together in these uncertain times to embrace creativity and inspire the next generation of inventors.

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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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Education Elements

MAY 4, 2020

There is a strange contrast between moments during this time. I wake up with the sun, hearing the birds chirping and families playing with their young children outside. Then, during my near-daily walk around my neighborhood, I offer a timid hello to those I pass. Our eyes meet, and I see the corner of their eyes turn up while the rest of their face is obscured by a mask.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 4, 2020

Students to Recognize Teachers Going the Extra Mile for Home Learning with Brainly’s ‘Online Educator of the Year’ Awards Students can award the best online educators now through May 8, and the winning teacher in each category will receive $1,000 towards classroom resources The coronavirus pandemic has forced students and educators to adapt, essentially overnight, to the new reality of distance learning and instruction from afar.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 4, 2020

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” ? John Dewey. it is especially important this years to say… Happy 2020 Teacher Appreciation Week! The amazing work that teachers have been doing at meeting student needs has really been apparent during the Cornavirus. Keep in mind that educators have been doing this all along!

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

In spite of the difficult circumstances brought on by COVID-19, educators continue to wake up every day and teach their students, albeit from their homes instead of in classrooms, and remotely instead of face-to-face. For many teachers, a tough, sometimes thankless job has become even more complicated. But they forge ahead, thinking first—and always—of their students.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, the shift to distanced teaching and learning has been hard for many educators and students alike. This is, after all, new and unprecedented times for all involved. So how can coaches and instructional leaders support teachers as they navigate this new way of teaching during extraordinary circumstances? The same way they always have: through high-quality professional development.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2020

What’s A Feedback Loop In Learning? A Definition For Teachers. by Terry Heick. A feedback loop in learning is a cause-effect sequence where data (often in the form of an ‘event’) is responded to based on recognition of an outcome and that data is used to inform future decisions is similar or analogous situations. In everyday life, feedback loops for each of us occur naturally–usually in the form, ‘When I do X, Y happens.’ That’s a kind of feedback loop in the learning process.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2020

As of March 29, 2020, school closures due to COVID-19 have impacted at least 124,000 U.S. public and private schools and affected at least 55.1 million students, according to Education Week. In a recent edWebinar , Dr. Justin Aglio, Director of Academic Achievement and District Innovation for the Montour School District in Pennsylvania, expressed that while we have prepared for school closures due to weather and disasters, school districts have found themselves in an unprecedented reality.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 4, 2020

Microsoft Academic (MA) is another great educational resource we add to our list of academic search engines. Unlike mainstream search engines that are keyword-based, MA uses a different search.read more.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education have terminated their merger efforts, marking the end of a contested and protracted plan first announced a year ago. The decision, announced this morning, was “unanimously approved” by the boards of directors of both companies. Neither party expects to owe any deal termination fees to each other. On a conference call, Cengage CEO Michael Hansen attributed the cancellation to a lengthy regulatory review process with the U.S.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 4, 2020

Words are a low-risk point from which to launch Students with Interrupted Formal Education on their schooling journey. One of the best ways to teach words is with the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM), a multi-step process to teach vocabulary. Tan Huynh shows how.

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Turnitin

MAY 4, 2020

?How Turnitin's partnership with NewsGuard helps to develop digital citizens who produce research and writing with integrity, across every subject area.?

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Jamf on EdTech

MAY 4, 2020

Jamf Pro 10.21 will improve your management workflows and enhance day-to-day life including better policy deferral, continued restyling of the user interface and more.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

As a former English teacher, I know how important it is to build strong relationships with students and their families. In communities across our country, the general consensus is that this relationship is critical to student success. However, an equally important yet often-overlooked relationship is the bond between teachers. The coronavirus has shown each of us how vital the teacher-to-teacher connection truly is.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 4, 2020

You may not have time to incorporate this into today's sessions, but there's some generalizable ideas here anyway. May the 4th is of course the punny/meme-y Star Wars "holiday" when we can wish everyone all The Force. Using topics of interest to our students is motivating, especially in tough times, and can incorporate many goals around language. LEGO clips (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, Adventures, others) are widely available on YouTube and frequently wordless, thus tapping interpretation

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 4, 2020

Members of the future American workforce could see losses of earnings that add up to trillions of dollars, depending on how long coronavirus-related school closures persist. The post Economists Expect Huge Future Earnings Loss for Students Missing School Due to COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 4, 2020

This blog post is sponsored by Acer Education, a partner of EdTechTeam. Social emotional learning (SEL) is the “process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”1. This blog seeks to offer potential solutions and suggest how community members can take supportive action in sustaining connections that are essential to our vitality

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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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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 4, 2020

For the school districts that aren’t reopening buildings this spring, many teachers are being given just 2-4 hours to go back to their rooms one final time. Some teachers have a bit longer, but the main goal is the same: prepare students’ materials to be returned to them, and prepare the room for summer cleaning. . Obviously there isn’t a proven system for shutting down a classroom like this, because it’s never been done before!

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Educator Innovator

MAY 4, 2020

Our May reading for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus describes what happens when educators and youth partner together to explore historically situated views of adolescence. This article details the ways in which one educator, Rachel (a pseudonym), redesigned her AP English curriculum to support students in reading a variety of texts using a “Youth Lens” (Petrone, Sarigianides, & Lewis, 2004).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2020

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 208 The Power of Inquiry in Times of Uncertainty. Drew Perkins talks with Sarah Westbrook of the Right Question Institute and author Warren Berger as part of a Zoom discussion about inquiry teaching and learning in uncertain times with almost 500 participants adding their comment and questions in the chat section. This is the archived audio, to view the video and review chat notes please visit wegrowteachers.com/covidresources.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2020

When U.S. schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matter of weeks in large school districts. The kind of change that typically takes years to implement in school systems happened practically overnight.

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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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