EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From wearables and data to VR, K–12 athletics are leveraging tech to bring about innovation.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Pioneering districts in the League of Innovative Schools are at the forefront of incorporating computer science education in K-12, leading large-scale initiatives to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curricula. Digital Promise recently started a coding working group for the League as a forum to share best practices and address challenges in implementing computer science.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By Ryan Crawley Classroom tech boosts reading fluency and comprehension.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

First and foremost: What is Codemoji? Codemoji demystifies coding and gives students hands-on experience building web pages, animations and much more. The “emoji” part of Codemoji is exactly that, a set of emojis that function and work like real HTML, CSS and JavaScript tags. Emojis are added together to build a website, and this gets the students really engaged.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As some of you may have realized by now, Dean Shareski and I have a new book out. Titled Different Schools for a Different World , it describes 6 key relevancy gaps between today’s schools and what students and society need from them: Information Literacy. If schools are to genuinely prepare graduates to compete in a technology-infused information landscape, they must stop acting as they did when learning and teaching primarily occurred in analog formats.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Designed by Freepik. In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

On Friday night America’s top TV networks put aside the battle for ratings, when all four aired the XQ Super School Live special to address the question: What needs to change with American high schools? Cameos from an all-star lineup of celebrities, and cover songs from our favorite high school movies were an added bonus to the program’s key message.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

There was a little bit of everything at Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco today. Kids played with Legos, pranced around with stuffed animals and Salesforce mascots, munched on treats, painted using Sphero robots, tinkered with portable gaming devices, made race cars and dueled with robots. The festivities had a purpose: to highlight Salesforce’s $12.2 million donation to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), marking the fifth yea

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By now, most educators are familiar with augmented reality (AR) and its application in the classroom. And as it grows in popularity, its potential in the classroom grows, too. Augmented reality overlays digital information on top of an existing environment, and the AR device market is expected to reach more than $659 million by 2018, according to an infographic that analyzes AR’s potential for the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A few weeks ago, while perusing Twitter for news stories, a few folks on the EdSurge team came across a Tweet by math blogger, former teacher and current Desmos Chief Academic Officer Dan Meyer. He had recently read an EdSurge article regarding struggles that had taken place during a Fulton County Schools’ personalized learning initiative, and in response, Meyer Tweeted the following: The genesis of the conversation.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Welcome to this second post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century Learning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. In this second post, I would like to build the idea of the Building Block I call Blended with Technology. It may just provide a whole new look at what educational technology really is and why it is important to PBL and Deeper Learning.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Texas professional learning leader Valentina Gonzalez launches her new MiddleWeb blog, The UnStoppable ELL Teacher, with a look at Culturally Responsive Teaching – what it means and why it's essential to helping English language learners succeed in American classrooms.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

September 12, 2017 After we have seen how to use Google Images to search for and locate free-to-use images, here is another handy visual to help you make the best of your Google search.read more.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

New NMC Report Provides a Rich Look at Digital Literacy Models, Exemplars, and Explorations Within Higher Education I spent a good deal of time with this excellent report this weekend, exploring the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

September 12, 2017 Google Sites is one of the best platforms teachers can use to create class websites and design portfolios. The service is free and simple to use and within few minutes you will.read more.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A recent chart from Bloomberg on the future of artificial intelligence and employment lends evidence to a point I have been making for years : teachers will not be replaced by machines. The chart compares a wide array of professions based on required education levels, average annual wages, and likelihood of automation. Sure enough, elementary and secondary teachers are among the most educated yet least paid professionals; and their likelihood of automation: practically zero.

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The Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As part of the #EduroChallenge leading up to our Micro-Credential program launch , we wanted to pay tribute to the most important educators in a student’s lives…their Parents. Nobody has more influence over a child in their lives than their parent/guardian does…and raising a child today is different. Digital Parenting is No Longer Optional.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The post [50 Educator Twitter Accounts Worth Following] appeared first on TeachThought.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The post 8 Ways to Support Digital Citizenship Skills with Google appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s NOT About Google, It’s About the LEARNING! – PART 2: Digital Citizen. I am a big fan of using Google tools to support learning, and I think they are particularly useful in helping support the ISTE Standards for Students. Digital Citizenship skills are a must for today’s modern society, but figuring out how and when to teach these skills to our students can be a chal

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The post What Is The Future Of Data In Education?* appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

When Julie Lythcott-Haims was dean of freshman at Stanford, she saw troubling behavior from some of the most accomplished students in the country. Students would involve their parents — and parents would involve themselves — in every aspect of the student’s life and school work at a time when these young adults were supposed to exercise greater independence.

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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 Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As I have voraciously read books on “change”, and have had many conversations on the topic, these are three big takeaways that I always try to focus on. Show and model change in yourself. It is easy to tell people to move forward, but it is hard, and more important work, to say, “let’s grow together” Relationships are the foundation of moving forward.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Cross-posted from edscoop.com EdTechTeam and CDI Computer Dealers have joined up to provide the Google-powered laptops along with workshops for educators. By Kate Roddy SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 1:00 PM More than half of American schools operate on Google's educational applications and tools — perhaps most notably the Chromebook — but without knowing how to use those devices effectively, many teachers and students can't take full advantage of the technology.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At Jacks Valley Elementary, a school in Douglas County School District in Nevada, educators were looking for ways to move beyond math drills and fact memorization. They wanted to equip students with tools to effectively and creatively problem solve, especially when faced with non-routine math problems like ones on state tests. They adopted ST Math to encourage students to think creatively and develop deep conceptual understanding that applied to every problem, not just a few textbook examples.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Every day kids make tough decisions -- decisions that are often complicated by digital technology. How students respond to cyberbullying or decide what to share on social media can have a powerful impact on their futures. This is why we teach digital citizenship: Students need skills to think through digital dilemmas. As we teach students to navigate online challenges, we tend to focus on rules and procedures to help guide them.

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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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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Advisory Board Company, which provides research, technology, and consulting to health care organizations and education institutions, has agreed to sell its education business to Vista Equity Partners for approximately $1.55 billion. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Classcraft, Tenka Labs, Kings Learning Raise Funds appeared first on Market Brief.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Google Slides Warm Up “I do not use Google Slides to give information, I use it to GET information.” Collaborative Google Slides is really one of my favorite favorite things to use in the classroom. Collaborative documents allow me to open up ONE digital file instead of 30. I am able to see students work […]. The post Collaborative Google Slides Bell Ringer appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Class Tech Integrate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Time management and prioritizing are two huge challenges for students (and some of us educators as well). Schools and teachers use agendas, messaging apps like Remind, Monday Folders; the list goes on and on. We know students need a variety of reminders to keep them on track, but what about tools that teach them these responsibilities for themselves.

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