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APRIL 17, 2019

4 Steps to Create an Effective K–12 Drone Curriculum. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 04/17/2019 - 13:43. An increasing number of K–12 schools are bringing drones into the classroom as new use cases show how useful unmanned vehicles can be to teach science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics skills. . While students are excited at the idea of flying robots in class, teachers will need support systems to learn how to incorporate the new technology into their lesson plans.

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Education Elements

APRIL 17, 2019

For many districts and schools, choice boards, playlists, and pathways are used interchangeably to describe instructional designs that provide students with a menu of options to guide and own their learning. Yet we ask educators to use these design practices very differently. We often define other terms, like the different blended learning models, and the different levels of student compliance.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 17, 2019

What happens when a startup pivots into the education space, but the founder isn't from the K-12 world? Two years of self-education, iteration and relationship-building. The post ‘No Faking It in Education’: CEO With Silicon Valley Roots Did a Deep Dive for Educational Gaming Startup appeared first on Market Brief.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) is an educational service agency in rural southeastern Kentucky that serves 22 school districts, 134 schools, over 3,000 teachers, and more than 50,000 students. We believe that by working together, we can face the educational challenges that students, educators, and our community experience every day.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 17, 2019

State testing is an expected part of life in many states across the U.S. (and in lots of countries). At the end of the year, as mandated by law, students endure hours of testing to measure their progress. There’s a lot on the line — for teachers, for students, and for school districts. Much of […].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2019

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #12–Wrap Text around a Picture.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 17, 2019

Why Design Thinking ? How Might We Create meaningful learning environments for students? A huge question to tackle and one with countless reasonable answers. Whether classrooms embrace Project Based Learning, Inquiry Based Instruction, Personalized Learning or another other framework for a classroom experience, the intention tends to be universal.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Combined, we have worked in schools for nearly 40 years. In that time, we have been on the receiving end of the sales process for many products and services. We have heard pitches that we expected, and have also suffered through pitches that somehow snuck past our filters. Software, guest speakers, singing groups, hardware, professional development programs, online courses, observation tools, data solutions—we’ve received pitches aimed at solving almost every educational problem, real or perceiv

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 17, 2019

The World Report on Disabilities says that 15% of the population today lives with some form of disability. If you're not in that 15% today, chances are you may be In the future. That's because in the years ahead, the prevalence of those with disabilities will rise as the population ages. In fact The Institute on Disability reports that more than 1/3 of those over 65 have a disability.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

. Parents, policymakers and teachers increasingly realize that funding early childhood initiatives is vital to the nation’s future. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of 3- to 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day education programs has risen from 47 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2016. The federal investment highlights the importance of providing children with opportunities to excel.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 17, 2019

Empowering students with a voice in class means, among other things, providing them with an outlet where they can document, create, and share their learning experiences. There are several ways to do.

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 17, 2019

Filter the Classwork Page by Topic The Classwork page in Google Classroom allows you to organize your assignments by topic, but it can get quite long as the school year goes on. One of the downsides to the Classwork page is the inability to see the full assignment title and assignment description without any clicking. […]. The post NEW! Google Classroom Filter by Topic appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 17, 2019

The rise of digitality has brought with it a host of new transformative learning habits. From annotating and highlighting to searching and accessing information online, technology has definitely.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, on the west side of Indianapolis, has gotten a fair amount of attention for personalizing the professional development it gives to teachers in its virtual high school and blended learning programs.

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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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TeacherCast

APRIL 17, 2019

This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with my 5-year-old triplets, dump out a bucket of LEGO and explore with them the world of imagination. As a youngster, I loved taking a trip with my imagination and building anything that I wanted to with my LEGO sets. As a father, I am totally in love with the fact that my own children have picked up that same love of creativity and to see them light up whenever they walk into a LEGO store is pretty awesome.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence has become a ubiquitous buzzword for tech companies these days, but even though all kinds of founders and CEOs say their product is infused with AI, the meaning of the term varies from advanced machine learning to a smart spreadsheet. At the same time, there’s growing public awareness around the risks of AI. In higher education, some worry that using student data to predict their outcomes, for example, could reinforce bias bases.

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TeacherCast

APRIL 17, 2019

LEGO Education announces several new additions to their educational lineup of products including SPIKE Prime, Boomtown Build, and City Scraper designed to help students become more comfortable and confident in STEAM Subjects in Middle School. The post LEGO Education Launches New SPIKE Prime System and New LEGO League Sets appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 17, 2019

Rather than approaching differentiation as "making it easier" for some, Barbara Blackburn suggests a strategy that assures lessons will be rigorous while also giving struggling students the supports they need. Her example involves an informational reading lesson.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 17, 2019

Learning a foreign language is not an easy task. There are multiple components to learning a language which includes reading, writing, listening and speaking. Often, in a language classroom, students have ample time to do all of these, but at home, work is usually focused on the reading and writing aspect of the language. This is because there is no other person at home to practice the language with.

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APRIL 17, 2019

All resources have a free version or trial for educators and many are registration and ad free so that students don’t have to give their private information.

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Prodigy

APRIL 17, 2019

Why do children go to school? Most people would say it’s to learn the three R’s: reading, writing and ‘rithmetic. But a school culture that promotes diversity in the classroom teaches students something that’s more important: how to live and work in a society where every individual is unique. In an increasingly fragmented society, the […]. The post 7 Ways to Support Diversity in the Classroom [With Examples] appeared first on Prodigy.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 17, 2019

This coming July 5 is LGBTSTEM Day, an international day celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Science centers and museums that would like to plan events for the day, work with LGBTQIA organizations in their communities, or introduce inclusive practices in their institutions can find resources and information on the LGBTSTEM Day website and in some recorded webinar discussions fr

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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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APRIL 17, 2019

DIY Lake Science offers watershed-related activities and info for elementary and middle school students via three sections: activities, video clips, and an “Under the Lake” simulation.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Two common computer science misconceptions are that it’s just about programming and that only teachers with computer science degrees should teach it. Carrie Willis, Technology Director for Valley Preparatory School and Strategic Outreach Manager for Wonder Workshop, and Caitlin Arakawa, Kindergarten Teacher at Valley Preparatory School, dispel these misconceptions, during a recent edWebinar.

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techlearning

APRIL 17, 2019

“Whereas I used to spend time researching activities and planning agendas for my schools, I am now able to leverage the resources directly from the kit," said Heather Hurley, supervisor of personalized learning at Arlington Public Schools.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 17, 2019

Each year, the art teacher and I collaborate on a 3D design and 3D printing project to accompany her art standards in 1st grade. Blokify has been a trusty 3D design tool that has served this project well due to its simplicity on the iPad. However, this year we hit a road block. Blokify is no longer available in the app store, and this was the year that our iPads finally quit supporting its functionality.

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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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APRIL 17, 2019

IMS Global Learning Consortium's 13th annual Learning Impact Leadership Institute will be held in San Diego, California, May 20-23, 2019.

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Prodigy

APRIL 17, 2019

Your students might know their way around a numerator and denominator, but are they ready for what’s next? Suddenly, it’s time to learn how to add fractions — and your class is confused. Feeling intimidated? You’re not alone. Adding fractions may seem daunting, but it doesn’t need to be. We’ve put together a guide to help you […]. The post How to Add Fractions [+5 Awesome Activities] appeared first on Prodigy.

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techlearning

APRIL 17, 2019

The new sets for the 2019-2020 FIRST LEGO League season are based on the theme of architecture and are titled BOOMTOWN BUILD?” and CITY SHAPER?.

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SETDA Says

APRIL 17, 2019

This is a guest post written by Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Albans City School, Vermont. St. Albans City School was the 2018 Student Voices Award winner. November 4th was the first day of a unique and memorable experience for six students, two teachers, and one principal from St. Albans City School in Vermont. […].

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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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