Mon.Jul 22, 2019

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How to Do Student-led Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. It never motivated me to try harder, didn’t make me like school better, and angered me at everyone involved. Fast forward to me as a K-5 teacher. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents.

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Two Important Lessons About Digital Transformation From Outside Of K-12

The Journal

We have commented before on the Digital Transformation (DT) happening inside and outside of K-12. Well, sports fans, it’s DT time again! In this week’s blog post, then, we point out two lessons from DT outside of K-12 from which that those in K-12 might well learn.

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Take the ‘Power Pause’: Being Busy Doesn’t Equal Effective Company Leadership

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Company leaders face a barrage of notifications from email, texts, social media and more. It pays to take a pause to refocus and find balance. The post Take the ‘Power Pause’: Being Busy Doesn’t Equal Effective Company Leadership appeared first on Market Brief.

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Facilitating Student Owned Inquiry With The Right Question… Deeper Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I am convinced that the key to student engagement is the ownership of inquiry. People want to know the answer to questions… especially their own. This can be proven by watching people inquire on their cell phones when questions come up in a conversation. Now the answers and ability to find valid ones is up for debate… we can look at that in a future post.

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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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What Some School Tech Leaders Think of Your Edtech Pitch

Edsurge

Some education technology vendors are eager to get their wares in front of school and district decision-makers. But that enthusiasm is often a one-way street. School leaders like Martin Cisneros can find themselves fielding pitches at all hours while juggling day-to-day operations. His rule of thumb for aspiring vendors: “Don’t come with a solution without a problem.

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Helping Students Read By Choosing The Right Literacy Strategy

TeachThought - Learn better.

Helping Students Read By Choosing The Right Literacy Strategy contributed by Sargy Letuchy Early on in my career when I first took on the challenge of incorporating more literacy into my instruction, I was unsure of how things were going to go and concerned for my students’ success. All of my education and experience up […]. The post Helping Students Read By Choosing The Right Literacy Strategy appeared first on TeachThought.

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“Learning Styles” Are a Myth

EmergingEdTech

Image Source: www.barefoootTEFLteaher.com How often have you heard educators and others discuss Learning Styles? “I'm a visual learner” “I'm a kinesthetic learner, I have to get. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teachers Guide to Creating Classroom Websites Using Google Sites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a step by step guide to help you create a website for your class using the new Google Sites. As you probably know, the new Google Sites 'comes with a bunch of extra interesting features.

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3 creative ways to connect global learning and SEL

eSchool News

There’s a lot of conversation these days around the concepts of global learning and SEL (social-emotional learning). Both are vital approaches to helping students grow into fully engaged young people, and there are creative ways teachers can combine global learning and SEL approaches to powerful effect. Related content: How to bring global learning to your classroom.

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Teach Students to Read Like Detectives (Book Review)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This week's featured book is that authored by Frey and Fisher titled "Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text ". This is an excellent read.

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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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Just 10 commands, then keep learning

Jamf on EdTech

Scripting helps Jamf admins to get the most out of Jamf, but it can be intimidating at first. For those of you thinking “scripting terrifies me,” this blog post is for you.

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How FIRST® LEGO® League Is Teaching STEAM and Confidence.

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we speak with Kim Wierman to learn about the FIRST LEGO League. For more than 30 years, FIRST has partnered with LEGO Education to provide outstanding collaborative learning environments and student competitions that ask teams of students to use the LEGO brick to solve a real-world problem.

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Just 10 commands, then keep learning

Jamf on EdTech

Scripting helps Jamf admins to get the most out of Jamf, but it can be intimidating at first. For those of you thinking “scripting terrifies me,” this blog post is for you.

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3 Things All Tech Coaches Should Be Doing Mid-way Through The Summer Months

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. Here are 3 important things that every technology coach should be doing this summer to get prepared for the upcoming school year. The third on this list is pretty exciting! The post 3 Things All Tech Coaches Should Be Doing Mid-way Through The Summer Months appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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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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All in One Place: Helping Kids Get Organized

MiddleWeb

In a few weeks, new middle schoolers will encounter challenges unlike any they’ve seen before: a half-dozen teachers making daily assignments, new afterschool choices, more homework. How’s a kid to keep track of it all? Always-organized Frank Buck suggests consolidation.

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The new low-income big borrower of student loans

The Hechinger Report

This chart shows the fraction of student loan borrowers who default and the fraction of dollars in default by balance owed, measured in thousands of dollars. Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. It’s a staggering number: $1.5 trillion in student debt. The majority of the nearly 45 million Americans that owe it are paying it back.

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App Development with Swift Curriculum Now Available in Canvas Commons

techlearning

The App Development with Swift course integration provides lessons, teacher guides, and developer tools to help teach app coding in the classroom.

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Computer science education pays off

ExcelinEd

This post was originally published by Tampa Bay Times. Computer science education pays off. Tampa Bay Times. By Patricia Levesque , Chief Executive Officer for Excel in Ed. No matter where Florida lawmakers stand on K-12 education policy, there is one area where they can readily find common ground: expanding computer science education. Computing occupations are now the top source of all new wages in the United States, with computing jobs accounting for more than half of all projected new openi

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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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The Best Free Back to School Software 2019

techlearning

Everything for the new school year is available to download free if you know where to look.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

While the Wild West era of edtech may be over, there’s still some mystery over how schools decide what digital materials to buy. Similarly, researchers and developers have their own approaches to the sales process. In the edWebinar, “ Building Authentic Need and Research into Edtech Development,” representatives from a large school district, a small district, a developer, and the research community answered burning questions about edtech procurement.

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Announcing the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Emerging Technology," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Drones, Personalization, the Quantified Self.

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edWeb Hosts New Principal Leadership Community to Support School Leaders

edWeb.net

edWeb.net is delighted to announce the launch of Principal Leadership: Making a Difference , a free professional learning community to help principals connect and collaborate on challenges they face leading schools and driving school improvement. Collaboration with peers is one of the most powerful ways to learn about effective ideas and practices. The community will host a series of monthly edWebinars with panels of leading principals where presenters and principal attendees can discuss topics

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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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Oregon Students Allowed To Take ‘Mental Health Days’ as Excused Absences

MindShift

Oregon’s suicide rate has outpaced the national average for the past three decades. In an effort to combat stigma around mental illness, four local teen activists took matters into their own hands and championed a proposed state law. Oregon schools will now excuse student absences for mental or behavioral health reasons, as with regular sick days.

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This Video Editing Tool is Ideal for Apple Classrooms

techlearning

iMovie is an iOS app for video production that works on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

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NowComment

Technology Tidbits

NowComment is an interesting online tool for annotating that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's excellent blog. NowComment looks to be a handy feature for teachers as it lets educators comment on any part of a document including: text, images, videos, and more. It can be used to assess a student's learning, to create a backchannel for group projects, and more.

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Expanding the Reach with Digital Transformation

Think Exam

In the Digital world, where Google Analytics allows a company to track the conversion rate of each website and social platforms like Facebook Ads and Google Adwords helps in biding sales and leads. A market is forgetting the value of branding as It is the oft-ignored side of digital marketing. Basically, it is a strategy of developing results in a minute, a month or a decade.

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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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Stonly

Technology Tidbits

Stonly is an innovative new site that educators can use to create interactive step-by-step guides for their students. This is great way for teachers to introduce topics, create digital handouts, and reinforce for student's learning. Best of all, these "interactive" guides can be embedded into a site or blog and can track usage stats. Below is a brief demo.

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Strategies for adopting disruptive technology

Think Exam

Technologies have been emerging which includes cloud computing, connected devices, mobile, robotics & blockchain. Companies have been adopting it for their survival and success. Their focus was to adopt disruptive technology to improve the client’s experience and boost performance. But many of them struggle to deploy them in their business. The main objective of the organization is to transform its company by adopting new technology.

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BitDegree

Technology Tidbits

BitDegree is a nice site for online tutoring where students can go to find a tutor on a wide range of subjects (i.e. programming/coding, etc). Also, this is a great place for educators looking to earn some extra income by becoming an online tutor. I highly recommend checking out BitDegree by clicking here !!!

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Global Talent Trend for Dynamic Workplace

Think Exam

‘A good work comes with the great development’. Every employee look forward to work in a good and liberal environment. The concept of workplace is going under dramatic change. An organization wants to have a multi-generational work to facilitate the relationship between the employee and the employer. Many organizations the dynamics of the workplace for both employees and the employers.

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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