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Theater and Library Upgrades Set the Stage for K–12 Creatives

EdTech Magazine

Theater and Library Upgrades Set the Stage for K–12 Creatives. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Mon, 07/01/2019 - 06:10. Students at Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools are preparing for careers, but not in the way that many associate with traditional vo-tech education. These students dance, direct films, create graphic design and work sound boards , among a host of other creative endeavors.

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Plagiarism Prevention: Best Practices with Urkund

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Urkund is a plagiarism prevention tool with many benefits for teachers in helping students create original work. In this blog post, I’ll share my review of this product from a company founded in 2000 and will talk about its benefits and features. Urkund is a cost-effective plagiarism prevention tool, integrates with popular LMS systems, and why it is rapidly becoming a popular tool in this area.

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8 questions that help get at deeper thinking and learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you like your answers, awesome! Keep doing that! If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Yes instead of No or Somewhat ).

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CK-12 Certified Educator Program - free resources and free PD

Educational Technology Guy

CK-12 is one of my favorite resources for educators. It contains a wide variety of materials, lesson plans, virtual labs, interactive lesson activities, digital-multimedia "flexbooks" and much more. CK-12 also has a certified educator program for teachers. It is a comprehensive program with thousands of educators around the globe. They have some great free webinars coming up from July 8-19, 2019, where you can enjoy free, fun, flexible learning.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Art of Learning, In and In Spite of School: A Conversation with Austin Kleon

Edsurge

Austin Kleon is a New York Times bestselling writer who draws. And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. It’s an approach that is intuitively connected to the evolving priorities of conscientious educators and schools around the world.

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Cyberpatriot - national youth cyber education program

Educational Technology Guy

? CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation's future. ?At the core of the program is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, the nation's largest cyber defense competition that puts high school and middle school students in charge of securing virtual networks.

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CleverPDF - 27 Powerful and Free Online PDF Tools

Educational Technology Guy

PDF files are extremely useful and ubiquitous. There are ways to view them on any device and any platform. Sometimes you need to convert a PDF file to another format or you want to convert another file to a PDF file. There are a lot of resources out there to do this. CleverPDF is one of them. CleverPDF offers 27 Powerful and Free Online PDF Tools including conversions and modifying PDF files.

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Wiley Buys ZyBooks in $56M Cash Deal to Bolster Courseware Offerings

Edsurge

Textbook publishers, once considered likely and logical buyers for education technology startups, have lost a bit of their appetite. Pearson has bowed out (but started its own investment fund ). Cengage and McGraw-Hill are merging— with each other. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt was active earlier this decade, but has cooled off. (It did make one deal this January.

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Live Total Solar Eclipse Coverage from the Exploratorium on July 2

Educational Technology Guy

On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, from 12:23 to 2:46 p.m. PDT, the Exploratorium , in partnership with NASA , will broadcast a total solar eclipse from the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. The broadcast will be available to downlink , online , in the museum's award-winning eclipse app , and onsite at the Exploratorium. Visitors to the Exploratorium can enjoy programs in both English and Spanish , a data-driven sonification by composer Wayne Grim, lectures by Exploratorium staff educators, and ot

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Ironhack Raises $4 Million to Grow Coding Bootcamps Across Europe and Latin America

Edsurge

Francesca Giordano says she learned the hard way that in some businesses, it’s who you know, not what you know. The Venezuelan graduated from the University of Miami and fought to get a work visa. She struggled to find work in her area of study, commercial graphic design. Giordano became a manager at Chipotle, living paycheck to paycheck. In early 2017, she saw an ad for a coding bootcamp, Ironhack.

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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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NASA STEM on Station - lesson resources with the International Space Station

Educational Technology Guy

NASA is an amazing resource for STEM education. They have multiple sites and programs, with multimedia and lesson resources for educators. NASA also has a speakers bureau that will provide engineers, scientists, and other professionals to speak to audiences around the country. You can also request an astronaut to come and speak to your class. It is free, but there are some conditions.

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Everything Teachers Need to Make The Best of Chromebooks in Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction, the chart below is a great resource to keep handy. The chart is based on insights collected from Chromebook Help. As is the case with Google.

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Google Classroom: Make Your OWN Grades

Teacher Tech

Which Gradebook Defines Your Classroom? I have been loathing this update since the first day that Google Classroom came out. The gradebook. Now it is here and it is available to everyone and it is terrible. How can one gradebook algorithm possibly define what unique and awesome things are going on in each teachers classroom? […]. The post Google Classroom: Make Your OWN Grades appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

NeverEndingSearch

ISTE both thrills and overwhelms me. However carefully I plan my choices, each year I am plagued by FOMO. This year, with the help of ISTE Librarians Network President Nikki Robertson, I asked our colleagues who attended the Network Breakfast to help us all out by sharing their biggest takeaways. First, know that the folks who were #NotatISTE or #NotatISTE19 and those who love them, shared quite a bit using the Twitter hashtags.

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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 Transformative Power of Personal Learning Networks in Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The featured book for this week is Richardson and Rob Mancabelli's "Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education ". This is absolutely a great.

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The Best Uses of EdTech: Giving Every Student a Voice

EmergingEdTech

One meaningful use of education technology is the ability to change how students can share their voice After 10+ years of exploring and writing about the evolving relationship between technology and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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2 ways educators are using data to solve problems

eSchool News

The chorus singing the praises of data in education has been ever-present for years now, but it’s not always clear how educators can effectively put that data to use. Should we be using data to solve problems at the individual student level, the school level, or district level? And in the final analysis, how can the constant steam of data we’re faced with help us improve teaching and learning?

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ISTE 2019 Wrap Up & Review

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. In this episode, we take a look back at the conference and share insights from both educators and edtech companies about what they see as the state of today's digital classrooms and what we can look forward to next year at ISTE 2020. The post ISTE 2019 Wrap Up & Review 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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4 Ways to Improve Digital Equity in Your Classroom

techlearning

From inconsistent homework policies to a perceived lack of empathy and understanding from their teachers, the students were coming at the digital equity issue from a whole different angle.

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Flipgrid: Exciting updates from ISTE

NeverEndingSearch

Every 45 seconds of every minute of the 2018/2019 school year, a new educator signed up for Flipgrid. During the past school year, kids shared 24 billion seconds of Flipgrid video. The student voice and video discussion tool is currently used in 180 countries by millions of students, educators, and families. Earlier this week #ISTE19 one thousand or so educators gathered at Philadelphia’s Franklin Music Hall for the Flipgrid LIVE celebration.

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How 31 Blog Posts Are Changing My Practice

MiddleWeb

Raised in rural Alberta, Canada, Brent Gilson set out to broaden his understanding of racial and cultural diversity, both to improve his teaching and to raise awareness among his mostly white middle grades students. Taking part in the #31DaysIBPOC Twitter project has been a revelation.

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Is summer learning loss real?

eSchool News

Every summer, the news is filled with stories about summer learning loss. The warnings sound dire: two months of math learning lost for most students every summer, and two to three months of reading learning lost for low-income students, according to the National Summer Learning Association. By the ninth grade, “summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two-thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low-income children and their middle-income peers,” the association says.

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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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OPINION: ‘What teachers and schools need is for the whole community to see education as its job’

The Hechinger Report

When you think about the obstacles that many students face, you might not put the weather at the top of the list. But during a typical Twin Cities cold snap in January, a family in St. Paul, Minnesota, had to deal with their children coming home to bone-chilling cold when the furnace broke down. It’s hard for children to focus on homework and studying when they’re freezing.

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The Missing Piece of Coding Education: How Do You Turn Block-Based Coders Into Text-Based Coders

techlearning

Just about any teacher who has incorporated Scratch into her classrooms knows that students love this free block-based coding language. Invented by MIT, Scratch allows users to drag-and-drop blocks that snap together to form “lines of code” that they can then run to see an output. With almost 40 million users, Scratch and its block-based coding language is the primary way students are introduced to coding in school.

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ISTE 2019 Highlights

Buncee

Did you miss out on all the ISTE fun this year? Or did you attend, but need a quick refresher on the best Buncee highlights? Let’s take a closer look at all the awesome from ISTE 2019: Educator-led Presentations. We’re always humbled by the generosity of our educators. This year we had the honor of sharing our booth with some truly awesome presenters who inspired us all with their dedication and passion for student success.

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Best of #ISTE19 Podcast from @SoundTrap. Great for Those #NotAtISTE

techlearning

Podcasts include experts discussing topics such as accessible technology, digital equity, digital portfolios, inclusive classrooms, and podcasting with students.

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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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Kicking off Summer in the Admin Console

EdTechTeam

Students are out and now is when the magic really happens. Whether it’s processing a year full of Google for Education updates or implementing new initiatives that improve processes for fall: Summer is the time to Get. Things. Done. Let’s kick off the summer in the Admin Console of your Google Domain. What kind of tasks should you do with your Google Domain during the summer?

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Web-ulous tools, part 3

Kathy Schrock

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in July 2019 and is re-posted here with permission. Every couple of years, I share my favorite online tools, as I did in November 2017 and March 2014. In this post, I am going to concentrate on tools to support Creative Commons image usage. I am not specifically going to cover the process of searching for CC images , but how to make sure attribution is included when these images are used.

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Repost: Play with Fireworks Virtually (IRL leave it to the professionals)

SpeechTechie

This post is a throwback for a free app that is still available- check it out. I'll be off for July and see you back in August. I am excited for adventures down in Cape Cod, then a visit to Shenandoah and a BIG National Parks trip from Utah to Vegas, hitting Arches, Canyonlands, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon, and Zion! Have a great July! Interactive apps have long been one of my favorite topics because they replicate world schema, and every schema has language that goes with it.

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Sphero Edu: Creative Play Inspires Young Coders

techlearning

Sphero Edu (formerly SPRK Lightning Lab) is an app that lets kids program their Sphero robots from a tablet or phone.

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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.