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Current Research and 4 Trauma-Informed Principles to Help Students Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Eric Rossen from NASP shares From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Current Research and 4 Trauma-Informed Principles to Help Students Now with Dr Eric Rossen Students experiencing the coronavirus crisis are experiencing trauma. So are teachers and parents. In today’s show, learn the ten principles to help us encourage and help others as we work through this crisis together with Dr.

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Remote Learning Calls for More Coordinated Cybersecurity

EdTech Magazine

The new school year had barely begun for some K–12 districts before cybercriminals struck. In early September, several ransomware attacks against schools made headlines. The attacks halted online learning or forced officials to postpone the first day of classes — costly setbacks that compound ongoing challenges with remote learning. Security experts are reporting an increase in the frequency of cyber incidents such as ransomware attacks, which have plagued not only schools but also businesses

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Halloween Projects, Websites, Apps, Books, and a Costume

Ask a Tech Teacher

Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps: Websites and Apps. 30-day Halloween fitness challeng e. Build a Jack-o-lantern (in Google Slides).

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Building Stronger Data Systems for the Future

Digital Promise

Over the past few months, district and charter leaders from 11 districts participating in Digital Promise’s Data Ready 2021 cohort have created actionable data interoperability implementation plans centered on a high-need use case anchored in secure data use, data management, and data integration. Every use case is unique and informed by each district’s distinct needs and context.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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4 Troubleshooting Tips for Smooth Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When school districts started to reopen with online and hybrid learning this fall, familiar issues emerged. In some schools, students and teachers couldn’t log in to their learning management systems. Videoconferencing platforms crashed for many. Internet connections at home and in school buildings failed. Device shortages and cyberattacks prevailed, even pushing some districts to delay reopening.

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Let’s Make Math Education Relevant for Real Life

Edsurge

Over a decade ago, I learned about a pioneering course at Cabrillo College in California. In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination against immigrants, learned statistical methods to analyze that data, and presented their findings to their local community. This social justice approach struck me as an effective and relevant way to teach mathematical concepts.

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What the Edtech Industry Should Know About the Worst Parts of Remote Learning

Edsurge

The first time my mom interacted with an iPad was this August, when her 5-year-old grandson—my nephew—brought it home from school. Gus is a kindergartener, and his parents don’t have the luxury of being able to work from home, so my recently retired mother has become his education supervisor. She didn’t have a Gmail account, let alone familiarity with Google Classroom.

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K–12 Schools Build Culture and Community Around Data

EdTech Magazine

As data transforms educational processes, it’s easy to forget what the alternative looks like. Without data — and a culture that facilitates data-driven insights — decisions may be based on opinion, assumption or speculation. Data supports decision-making by ensuring that insights are accurate and actionable, says Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger, president and CEO of the Data Quality Campaign, a nonprofit organization that advocates for data policy and use.

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4 Keys to Helping Students Annotate Texts

MiddleWeb

Are your students’ annotated texts hard to make sense of? Do they underline entire sections of a source and write very few comments? This can be a huge impediment to meaningful learning for some kids. Sunday Cummins offers 4 keys to sharpening their annotation skills.

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How to Ensure Data Remains Safe in the Age of Ransomware

EdTech Magazine

Whether you are a teacher, parent, student or IT professional, you have witnessed the extraordinary transition the education sector has recently undergone. Despite schools having already facilitated distance, digital and remote learning for some years now, there is no doubt that the global lockdown has acted as a catalyst for further rapid and momentous change.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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The new role of the school CIO

eSchool News

This year’s return to school stands in stark contrast to every school year that’s come before. The usual excitement that marks a new fall semester and the typical scenes of students gathered together in schoolyards, hallways and classrooms was mostly absent as 55 million students took to their seats from home. With no precedent in modern history to guide administrators, schools and parents scrambled to adapt to teaching and learning within this new environment and adjustments continue.

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Useful Websites to Teach Kids Coding

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Coding is becoming one of the essential skills in today's education. More and more schools are offering computing programmes of study for students at a younger age. Coding, as Discovery Education.

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Google Classroom App: 3 Dots

Teacher Tech

The Google Classroom app for your phone is a must. When you open the app you see tiles of your Google Classroom classes. The post Google Classroom App: 3 Dots appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Teaching Critical Thinking with Education Technology

EmergingEdTech

Image Source: Julia M Cameron from Pexels Advanced technology is now available to students at a moment's notice. From smartphones to augmented reality, education is embracing the use of technology at. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right. The actual drop in the number of undergraduate college students is large but community colleges are experiencing the biggest student exodus.

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What Do School Districts See As Their Biggest Social-Emotional Learning Needs?

Marketplace K-12

Helping parents cope with the pressures of remote learning is one of districts' top social-emotional priorities, a new EdWeek Market Brief special report finds. The post What Do School Districts See As Their Biggest Social-Emotional Learning Needs? appeared first on Market Brief.

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Parents plead for better online instruction

eSchool News

The majority of America’s public school students are learning exclusively online, according to a new national poll of their parents — and most of those parents want school officials to focus on improving that experience, Chalkbeat reports. The poll, released by the National Parents Union, a group that backs school choice and a comprehensive educational response to the pandemic, paints one of the most complete pictures to date of parents’ feelings about this school year.

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Who’s ready for JNUC 2021?

Jamf on EdTech

The health and well-being of our customers, employees and communities will always be top priority. As such, we've decided to make the 2021 Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) a virtual event. Read on for more details.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Degrees of Freedom… 3DoF vs 6DoF

Veative

Degrees of Freedom… 3DoF vs 6DoF With more and more being written about VR, we can sometimes get mired in not fully understanding the jargon. Today, […]. The post Degrees of Freedom… 3DoF vs 6DoF appeared first on Veative Labs.

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Helpful Digital Textbooks to Promote Inquiry Based Learning in Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post I am sharing with you this collection of digital curricular materials created by Discovery Education (DE) for use with students. These are basically four textbooks (Techbooks as DE.

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Restoring learning at scale in a remote environment

eSchool News

Disruption in learning caused by COVID-19 is the reality that school districts face this school year. K-12 education is evolving from a brick-and-mortar learning environment to learning both in person and online. While this shift is challenging to say the least, it is an opportunity for school districts to use technology to engage, personalize, and challenge students.

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Divide and conquer: A new formula to minimize mathematics anxiety

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

Mathematics -- it's the subject some kids love to hate. Yet despite its lack of popularity, mathematics is critical for a STEM-capable workforce and vital for current and future productivity. New research finds that boosting student confidence in mathematics is pivotal to greater engagement with the subject.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Class Solver Reduces COVID-19 Outbreaks through Class List Management

eSchool News

Class Solver the most flexible program for creating and managing class lists, has developed an algorithm that’s been proven to reduce COVID-19 outbreaks in schools by 36 percent. The feature builds upon Class Solver’s ability to customize and create class lists based on factors including behavior, academic performance, special needs and parent requests.

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Top Resources for Instructional Coaches and Teachers – October 2020

Edthena

It’s October, and just because we may be in some spooky times call doesn’t mean we need spooky articles. This is all treat and no trick. Here are some recommended resources for instructional coaches and teachers that will lead to less a haunted virtual or live classroom this year. The list of articles includes material on student choice, designing virtual professional learning activities , and lessons learned from the distribution of funds from the CARES Act.

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Deledao announces innovative Zoom and Meet bombing solution

eSchool News

Providing added safety measures and control of K12 distance and hybrid learning instructional models, Silicon Valley based-Deledao ( www.deledao.com ), has announced a powerful new feature to its industry-recognized AI filtering capabilities. With this feature, school districts and parents will now be able to safeguard online instruction occurring via videoconferencing platforms by mitigating bombing of pornographic and related inappropriate images and video.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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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Schell Games’ Virtual Reality Educational Tool HistoryMaker VR Now Available For Free

eSchool News

With a majority of schools participating in distance learning this year, Schell Games announced its virtual reality education tool HistoryMaker VR is now available for free on Steam for all to use. HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way. This innovative application allows learners to display their knowledge of history, civics, and social studies, while offering educators and parents a new way to improve student

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A Celebration of Write Out 2020

Educator Innovator

On October 20, 2020, the National Day on Writing, 3rd graders in San Diego went outside to sit in their “pandemic-abandoned” school garden to write. Weeds had overtaken the garden but they could still find hearty vegetables, smell a mix of fragrances, hear a range of sounds from humans to animals, and imagine themselves at the beach or in a heaven. They wrote about these experiences and their teacher and San Diego Area Writing Project leader Kim Douillard shared their writing with us online.

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CVS Health and Discovery Education Team Up for Substance Misuse Prevention Day of Learning

eSchool News

CVS Health and Discovery Education are coming together to present a Day of Learning on October 27, 2020. This event occurs during Red Ribbon Week, the largest drug-use prevention campaign in the nation, and will debut to communities across the United States the newly announced Dose of Knowledge digital education resources. Dose of Knowledge , part of CVS Health’s Pharmacists Teach program focused on substance misuse education, offers a suite of no-cost digital resources focusing on the facts ab

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Registration Is Open!

ExcelinEd

Ignite Ideas. Inspire Change. Transform Education. Registration is now open for ExcelinEd’s EdPalooza on December 1-3, 2020. This year’s unique virtual event is for everyone who believes now is the time to retool education—and wants to get it right! EdPalooza is your can’t-miss opportunity to engage with the foremost thought leaders and practitioners in K-12 education on topics that matter most—from the latest policy trends and innovations to emerging and proven solutions for today’s educati

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks