The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2020

For synchronous classrooms From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In addition to a learning management system (LMS), students need to know how to learn in an online synchronous classroom. Educators need to establish protocols and systems for this as well. This short video is made as a student tutorial and to help educators make decisions about how they will educate students on effective online learning skills.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2020

With each passing day we learn of more schools that have temporarily shuttered in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as coronavirus. As of today, according to UNESCO , 39 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America have implemented school closures to mitigate risks of spreading the disease, with 22 of those countries closing all schools nationwide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As schools are working to blend teaching or go completely online, what about science? Isn’t science supposed to be totally hands-on? In today’s session, we interview Chris Anderson, an instructional technology coach and the executive producer of Science Around Cincy, a web series that features the scientists and engineers in the Cincinnati area.

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Education Elements

MARCH 11, 2020

As the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak spreads, more school districts have been asking us about virtual learning. This is an important topic to consider as schools have begun closing their brick and mortar doors and turned to virtual learning. This is the second in a series of articles related to virtual learning that we will publish in the upcoming weeks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2020

MTI 562: The Tech-infused Teacher. MTI 562 starts Monday, March 23, 2020 . Click to sign up. The 21st century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 11, 2020

Elearning activities can be fun AND promote quality learning. Here are lots of examples and templates to use! It's easy to feel anxious, overwhelmed and frustrated if you're asked to create elearning activities and teach remotely because of a school closure. You might be asking.What are my students going to do?How can they continue learning […].

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Every day, a new batch of colleges announces that in-person classes are closed and teaching will shift online to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. This has thrust an unprecedented number of teachers into a format for which they may have little or no training. So EdSurge asked our teaching advice columnist, Bonni Stachowiak, to offer a quick primer.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

When Danvers Public Schools in Massachusetts introduced virtual reality into classrooms, students discovered a new way of interacting with the world around them. Using Google ’s virtual reality tour creator, Google Maps Street View and VR headsets, students with disabilities were able to tour downtown Danvers at their own pace in preparation for a real-life walk around the area as part of a life skills class.

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Education Elements

MARCH 11, 2020

I had the opportunity to attend a webinar with Lynn Carter, Director of Talent Acquisition at Netflix. Many of you know Netflix as the first company to ship a DVD straight to your home (my mom still loyally queues up movies to be delivered to her Oregon home every week). In the past decade, Netflix has also gained recognition as a leader in organizational design and culture.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 11, 2020

Take Advantage of Free MinecraftEDU Offer By Steve Isaacs and Alice Keeler Make Minecraft part of your plan for distance learning. Microsoft is offering FREE Minecraft Education Edition licenses through June. Students CREATE and EXPLORE and BUILD their learning with Minecraft. This is an excellent tool for students in elementary all the way to 12th […].

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

I had the opportunity to attend a webinar with Lynn Carter, Director of Talent Acquisition at Netflix. Many of you know Netflix as the first company to ship a DVD straight to your home (my mom still loyally queues up movies to be delivered to her Oregon home every week). In the past decade, Netflix has also gained recognition as a leader in organizational design and culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they’ll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. For some schools, that’s a small leap.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 11, 2020

In yesterday’s post, we featured a number of important tips to help teachers and students become better Google searchers. In today’s post we are highlighting another equally important set of search.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Career day and field trips—two staples of American education. But organizing them can pose logistical and financial challenges for schools. Finding presenters, syncing calendars and arranging transportation are just some of the headaches that may arise. Now ways exist to beam those experiences into schools. Among them: Nepris , provider of an online tool to connect classrooms and workplaces through live and recorded video streams with a professional.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 11, 2020

The power of Google search engine lies in its hidden features. Getting precise search results requires much more than simply comping up with a random search query and hitting ‘I am feeling.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 11, 2020

Teachers have moved from the question of “Should I tech?” to “How can I integrate tech best, enhancing the learning experience without hijacking it?”. The post Assessment Trends In Education: A Vision For Assessing Today’s Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2020

By now, we are all familiar with the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, and have suddenly learned more about epidemiological terms like vectors, latency periods, and mortality rates than we ever thought we would. And if we adults are getting worried about a pandemic, it’s a safe bet that our kids are getting worried, too. At times like these, I’m reminded of the wise words of one of my childhood heroes, Mister Rogers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Alena Leonova watches for specific behaviors when she evaluates prospective tutors for her company’s tutoring service. She assumes the role of a student and judges the candidate’s response time and subject matter knowledge. She has an important job—the 300 or so tutors her company hires are its direct line of communication with about 300,000 students in the U.S. and Canada in search of help for a variety of subjects, from English to chemistry.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2020

District administrators are under immense pressure from parents to keep their children safe and are investing money in school safety initiatives. Communities have shifted from the belief that “it can’t happen here,” to doing everything they can to prevent it from happening. Twenty years ago, the concerns about student safety were about preventing classroom misbehavior, physical bullying, fighting, and drugs.

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Adjusting Course

MARCH 11, 2020

There aren’t too many things that stop me in my tracks. An incredible song, Pinkish-orange sunrises, And an educator who truly knows their students. For me, these are undeniably beautiful and exponentially powerful things. As a principal, I have the chance to see teachers who truly know their students on a regular basis. And like one of those pinkish-orange sunrises, it never gets old.

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techlearning

MARCH 11, 2020

VHS Learning (VHS, Inc.), nationwide provider of supplemental e-learning for high school students, announced its support for schools facing closure due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 11, 2020

This week on the blog I’m serializing a talk I gave for CSU Channel Islands last week as part of their Open Education Week festivities. My talk was titled, The State of Open: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. In the first installment on Monday, I explained how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical.

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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 Innovative Educator

MARCH 11, 2020

Staying connected to families is always a good idea. It becomes even more important in times of school closures. If possible, it is best to have a system already in place for family communication. Common Sense Education provides advice on how best to communicate and what tools to use to do so. Best Messaging Apps & Websites Common Sense shares apps and websites for texting, messaging, and communication that make it easier for teachers to send out assignments, reminders, and progress reports.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Since the first Africans were forcibly brought, in 1619, to the shores of what would become the United States, slavery, Jim Crow, refusing loans to people who live in certain areas in the process known as redlining, and other policies have created a dual system of access and opportunity in this country that birthed and now perpetuates growi

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s amazing to think – with all the digital tools we have at our disposal – that genuine communication is more difficult today than ever before. Yet that’s our reality, says middle grades teacher Jeremy Hyler, at school and at home, with students, parents and colleagues.

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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 Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

In China, when 50 million students and 600,000 teachers recently returned to class, they did so virtually. With schools in the world’s most populous nation closed amid the novel coronavirus pandemic , educators used the live-streaming feature on Alibaba Group’s DingTalk app to hold lessons online. “… the conversation about online learning has changed from whether or not these practices work to how quickly we can implement them.” As universities, schools and businesses in the Un

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 11, 2020

I was lucky enough to record a conversation (coming out soon) with Christina Tondevold , and she had discussed her children. Paraphrasing as best as I can from memory, she had shared that one of her children could struggle in school and sometimes become disruptive in the classroom. Yet, on the other hand, her children could sit in class, do what they had to do, but they were bored and didn’t necessarily enjoy school.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 11, 2020

Uncertainty is a fact of life for ed-tech startup leaders, but the coronavirus is presenting entrepreneurs with unique challenges. The post How One Ed-Tech Startup Is Approaching Operations Amid Swell of Coronavirus appeared first on Market Brief.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 11, 2020

You know the story of Dorothy from Kansas—how a young girl and her flawed companions set out on the yellow brick road to meet the wish-granting Wizard of Oz. Along the way, the travelers face their greatest fears and overcome issues with the road itself. But they persevere, and their journey on the yellow brick road reveals that together they have the strength, courage and intelligence necessary to reach their goals.

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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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