Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 1, 2020

Students rarely recognize how much progress they are making over the course of a semester or school year. Their school days tend to be a blur of information, assignments, and activities. However, if students do not appreciate their growth over time, it may be harder to understand the value of the work they are doing or stay motivated. I encourage teachers to dedicate class time to an exercise that requires students to compare two pieces of work from two different moments in time using the Google

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Education Elements

JANUARY 1, 2020

What is the definition of innovation? It turns out that most people can’t agree. I’m not surprised! It’s one of those words we use so much, but we rarely pause to think about what it really means.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 1, 2020

20/20 vision is a term for visual acuity in which the numerator refers to distance and the denominator refers to size. Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision. Vision is all about clarity. 20/20 vision is perfect, high-definition clarity. The question is: How clear is your vision? Specifically, how clear is your vision [for your learners’] futures?

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 1, 2020

Sketchnotes can capture your attention -- and capture an idea visually. They're a great way to communicate ideas. Here are 30 education sketchnotes to give you ideas and inspiration.When I scroll Twitter for new teaching ideas, a good sketchnote can stop me in my tracks. Maybe it's the color. Maybe it's how busy the image is. Maybe it's […]. The post 30+ education sketchnotes for inspiration, ideas appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks. A lot has changed over the last decade, but it’s interesting to look at things that haven’t changed too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start the school year with all students “looping” into the rhythm of their classroom routines, with teachers already having a handle on every student’s strengths, struggles and home issues? A scenario in which teachers have the opportunity to go back and re-teach a hard-to-grasp skill that students completely understood last year?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2020

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2020. Social-emotional learning will remain a big focus, along with edtech driving personalized learning experiences and the growing potential of artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Related content: Innovation tips from pioneering schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 1, 2020

In today's post we are sharing with you 9 meticulously selected websites to help young learners with their homework. We tried to include websites that provide generic (not subject-specific) resources.

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techieMusings

JANUARY 1, 2020

This will be my third year doing the #OneWord challenge. The word I choose for this year is EMBRACE. But before I dive into why I chose this word for the year ahead, let me first reflect back. For 2018, my word was Focus. I still love this word, or my interpretation of it, and it’s a goal that needs to remain a constant in my life. For me, it’s all about focusing on the here and now, the present, and stopping the multitasking madness.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 1, 2020

For those of you using Android, here is a collection of some of the best Google Apps you may want to try out in your instruction. Almost all of these apps are free. Some of the things you can do with.

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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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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 1, 2020

For the last three years, I have shared some of my favorite quotes from the past year that have inspired me or made me think deeper about a subject. I wanted to provide some for this year as well. Have an amazing year and beyond!! 2017 | 2018 | 2019. “Students should have rich, relevant, and authentic experiences at school, across the board.

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Learning in Hand

JANUARY 1, 2020

Twitter Analytics and Instagram Insights show me data about my social media posts. I like to end each year by sharing which posts earned the most retweets and likes. Reviewing my top postings helps me see what resonated during 2018. You are welcome to follow my posts on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook. My top tweets from each month of 2019 ?? Wow!

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

Happy holidays and welcome to 2020! Hope you enjoyed some well deserved time off during winter break. I have often talked in Edtech Elixirs how digital tools should help us serve an academic objective. For our district, the need for effective standards based grading (SBG) began a search for a transformative digital tool. In this blog entry -- the first of a two part series -- I discuss how the limitations of a traditional grading system led us to SBG, and ultimately, Empower Learning.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2020

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in January 2020 and is re-posted here with permission. _ There are hundreds of visual models of the design thinking process on the Web. They all include similar components as illustrated below. MrJanzen1984. 2 August 2016. [link] Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International The first step in the design thinking process, empathizing, requires students to identify a problem or proc

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2020

Keylin González lives in Tecate, Mexico, and like many young ladies her age, she’s trying to stand out in a sea of students. She turned to language as a way to shine. González is part of the inaugural class receiving the Global Seal of Biliteracy in Baja, California, which recognizes dual-language proficiency. “I felt very important and it is very valuable since I feel I can function in both languages,” said González.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 1, 2020

Image from NASA Universe on Flickr Comets are generally quite spectacular. It's quite thrilling, but also quite rare to gaze up into the night sky and see a comet tail in the sky. Some comets are more thrilling than others, but there's one that is so boring I very nearly didn't complete this blog post, falling asleep twice during its writing (It was three times, I counted - Editor).

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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 1, 2020

Happy New Year! I hope this holiday season is bringing you and your family much joy and happiness. As we close the door on a fruitful year and look ahead to 2020, I want you to know how grateful Excel in Ed is for all you have achieved for students in 2019 in states across the nation. Thanks to your partnership and support of our work, more than 600,000 children are newly benefitting from student-centered policies.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 1, 2020

Literacy Leaders: Join us tonight for a 30 minute discussion around this question at readbyexample.substack.com.

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Adjusting Course

JANUARY 1, 2020

Most of us have encountered a person, team, or organizational culture that is not achieving to its fullest potential. I’m not only talking about people or teams commonly referred to as “toxic.” I’m also thinking about teams that could improve incrementally and even those teams awaiting their next big breakthrough together. Interestingly enough, whether we’re serving on a dream team or enduring a toxic situation, we’re all probably facing some of the same inconvenient truths (or half-truths) abou

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2020

We are excited to bring you the latest in the eSchool News Guides series. eSchool News Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. The January Guide, the eSchool News Multimedia Presentation Systems Guide , offers insight on the best multimedia learning tools and resources educators can use in the classroom to engage students, improve classroom climate, and create welcoming classr

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