Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 8, 2016
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. In 1996, I joined an internship to design educational activities and exhibits to open the Witte Museum’s Science Treehouse. The internship taught me valuable lessons in organizing engaging field trips, summer camps, and camp-ins with student learning and safety at the forefront.
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 8, 2016
Unique Ideas to Make a Difference Any Time in the School Year From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Every school year needs an epic ending. It doesn’t have to be hard. Don’t just walk out of your classroom at the end of the year. Make memories! In today’s show we learn five ways to end the school year and make it memorable.
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Education Elements
JUNE 8, 2016
When I gave up control of my classroom, true learning started taking place. Giving up control felt liberating and inspiring. I handed the baton of teaching to my students. I was no longer the focus of the lesson. Student’s voices traveled through our classroom with excitement and engagement. I happily took the role of facilitating and the words of my students amazed me.
Tom Murray
JUNE 8, 2016
This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Having worked with almost 500 school districts and 3,000 school leaders over the past year, I’ve often been asked, “What type of devices should we buy?” The problem with this question, is that quite often this is the leading question – the initial area that the district is investigating.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 8, 2016
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Battelle for Kids
JUNE 8, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 3. Driving Question: How can we leverage real-world work to prepare students for the workforce? "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet" — Shift Happens. It's difficult to imagine life before mobile technology.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 8, 2016
By Steve Zurier Researchers develop 5D glass disc storage media that can survive billions of years.
Education Elements
JUNE 8, 2016
The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. Seventeen plus years ago when I joined the Foundation as its executive director, the mission was much different. It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level.
Teacher Tech
JUNE 8, 2016
Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt A fun way for students to learn math vocabulary is to ask them to go on a vocabulary scavenger hunt. Students go out on campus and take pictures that represent the “math in the wild.” Template alicekeeler.com/vocabscavengerhunt Vocab Have students create slides using the template of vocabulary from the unit. Students will […].
EmergingEdTech
JUNE 8, 2016
Curriculum Embedded Performance Assessment Should Lie at the Center of Teaching, Learning, and Accountability Yesterday we began exploring the white paper, “Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
The Jose Vilson
JUNE 8, 2016
In my latest article at the Progressive, I write about my visit to the US Department of Education for their first-ever Teacher Diversity Summit : William A. Smith calls this “racial fatigue”— the mental and physical weariness of having to navigate personal and professional spaces that often favor white people. The educational subset of racial fatigue often posits educators of color as both the problem and solution to improving failing (read: failed) schools.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 8, 2016
June 8, 2016 Social media is becoming a key player in the educational sector. It is redefining the learning landscape in unprecedented ways. Old modes of learning that were once prevalent in the.read more.
eSchool News
JUNE 8, 2016
Think ransoms are only paid out to rescue victims of kidnappings? Think again. Imagine walking into your office one morning and finding some (or all) of your district’s computer files “padlocked” and inaccessible. In the corner, a masked man is standing with his hand out, demanding an $8,000-$10,000 ransom payment. When he gets the money, he’ll hand over the key to the padlock.
ProfHacker
JUNE 8, 2016
In December, I posted about the MLA’s open review process for a new collection, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments. To kick off the summer, the editors–Katherine Harris, Rebecca Frost Davis, Jentery Sayers, and Matt Gold–have released a fresh batch of keywords, open for review until July 1. They include: George Williams on “Access” ; Diane K.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 8, 2016
June 9, 2016 Recap is a good video response system we are adding to the list of popular formative assessment tools for teachers. Recap allows both teachers and parents to keep track of students.read more.
eSchool News
JUNE 8, 2016
Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. A research study from the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University demonstrates a link between an adaptive learning program and improvement in mathematics achievement for students in grades 3-5. The study examined Dreambox Learning and the individual test scores of nearly 3,000 students in grades 3-5 during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years in two districts, Howard Count
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 8, 2016
June 8, 2016 Print My Cal is an excellent web tool that allows you to edit and print beautiful Google calendars. We have been tinkering with it for sometime now and we found it really interesting.read more.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 8, 2016
Anthony Salcito tells the Content in Context 2016 audience about global challenges in education. Philadelphia. Learning has been transformed globally by new ways of using technology outside classrooms—but schools and education systems mostly have remained stagnant in how they use digital applications for teaching and learning, Anthony Salcito, Microsoft’s vice president for worldwide education, told publishing executives gathered here Tuesday.
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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
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 8, 2016
According to the researcher William Bradford, 65% of the world population are visual learners, meaning that most of us need images, graphs, or videos in order to improve our skills more efficiently. The post How Can You Improve Educational Process by Adding Visuals? appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Hack Education
JUNE 8, 2016
"With or without aversive contingencies, it is easy to 'lose our pigeon' and the student never becomes a reader" -- B. F. Skinner, The Technology of Teaching. I’m a bit tardy on writing up my thoughts on the “rebranding,” if you will, of Hack Education – namely, the addition of new logos drawn by the wonderful Bryan Mathers. Bryan and I had a couple of chats via Skype in order to help him design the imagery that I wanted.
Edutopia
JUNE 8, 2016
Amy Williams Social Media Given the stresses associated with social media, parents must self-educate on what their teens are using, monitor when necessary, and maintain an ongoing dialogue.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 8, 2016
Philadelphia. U.S.-based producers of academic content who are trying to sell in international markets need a lot of preparation and research before they make their move. But they also need to be smart enough to recognize intractable roadblocks and red flags—and to know when the conditions in a foreign country just aren’t right for their product. Those were some of the takeaways put forward by a panel of company officials and business representatives at the Association of American Publishers Pre
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.
Edutopia
JUNE 8, 2016
José Vilson Education Equity Jose Vilson of EduColor, a movement and platform for educational equity and justice, discusses strategies for elevating the voices of public school advocates of color.
MindShift
JUNE 8, 2016
Mia Buljan remembers the specific moment eight years ago when she realized she had to give kids more space to grapple with a problem on their own. She was filming a student working on a math problem with her iPhone (something she does regularly so she can review her strategies and plan next steps). “At that time I thought my job was to be super helpful,” she said, “like ask some pointed questions, or give some suggestions of where he might go next.”.
techlearning
JUNE 8, 2016
Although educators differ in their opinions regarding how many tests are useful, they all agree that ongoing assessments are essential for determining gaps in student skills. As hard as it is to beli.
eSchool News
JUNE 8, 2016
New interactive displays target increased classroom engagement. BenQ America Corp. , provider of education technology solutions, announced additions to its RP Series of Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs). The new displays are designed with a range of innovative features and capabilities to smoothly transition any classroom to fully immersive active learning environments. “BenQ’s new RP Series IFPs are sized to engage the entire class and enable free flow and easy access to information,&#
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.
Fractus Learning
JUNE 8, 2016
Most kids have a creative streak. They like nothing better than to sit down with a pile of paper and some pencils. Even very young children enjoy scribbling with pens, crayons and colored pencils. Being creative feeds a child’s imagination and stimulates the right side of the brain, which is the part we use for intuition, emotional perception and creativity.
eSchool News
JUNE 8, 2016
150 middle school students nationwide receive scholarships; schools receive matching grants for math education initiatives. Raytheon Company awarded $300,000 in scholarships and grants to middle school students and their schools as part of its MathMovesU program, an initiative designed to engage middle school students in math and science. Each of the 150 middle school students from across the United States will receive a $1,000 MathMovesU Middle School Scholarship to be used for a mathematics, s
Fractus Learning
JUNE 8, 2016
This post originally appeared on the Open Classroom Consulting blog. Ever wondered why your students will spend hours immersed in the virtual world of a video game, but have zero attention span when it comes to your lessons? Or why the teachers in your school will show up for happy hour at the local bar but wouldn’t be caught dead in your after-school PD workshops?
eSchool News
JUNE 8, 2016
The LS series of ultra-short throw laser projectors introduced at InfoComm 2016 feature high brightness and enhanced color and sound technologies. ViewSonic Corp. , a provider of visual solution products, introduced its new line of laser phosphor-based projectors for a bright and immersive experience for home entertainment, education, and business applications.
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