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Social-Emotional Learning Competencies Get a Boost from Classroom Technology

EdTech Magazine

Social-Emotional Learning Competencies Get a Boost from Classroom Technology. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 12/19/2018 - 16:59. As K–12 educators seek ways to help students develop social-emotional skills, they are finding that some of the same tools they use in modern learning environments can also facilitate collaboration, empathy and other soft skills.

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Top 5 Shows of 2018 – 10 Minute Teacher

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This week is encore week on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. We’re counting down the top shows of Season 4 of the show. (Season 4 started in July and runs through December!) I’ll keep this post updated as the shows are named! The #3 Episode of Season 8 5 Habits of Healthy Teachers Jen Burdis, teacher and American Ninja Warrior competitor shares insight on how every teacher can be healthier.

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Hackers Use AI to Reshape the Cybersecurity Landscape

EdTech Magazine

Hackers Use AI to Reshape the Cybersecurity Landscape. amy.burroughs_26341. Wed, 12/19/2018 - 17:47. Cybercriminals aren’t hobbyists: Cybercrime is a business that uses sophisticated technology , including artificial intelligence, to automate profit-making. It’s a big business, too. Bad actors rake in about $1.5 trillion a year, according to a study from the U.K.’s University of Surrey earlier this year. .

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Be proud of your pockets of innovation. AND…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Every school system has pockets of innovation. Those three forward-thinking teachers in the elementary school, that one grade-level team in the middle school, the department that’s really trying to do something different at the high school, that amazing principal over there, and so on. As school leaders we’re proud of – and point to – that cutting-edge work and rightfully so.

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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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3 Ways to Configure Windows 10 for a Distraction-Free Experience

EdTech Magazine

3 Ways to Configure Windows 10 for a Distraction-Free Experience. amy.burroughs_26341. Wed, 12/19/2018 - 08:15. Windows 10 can be a mixed blessing because of the numerous ways that it uses notifications to keeps users informed. The Windows 10 Start screen, for instance, is an evolution of the Windows 7 Start menu and Windows 8 Start screen. Users have the option to add Live Tiles, allowing apps to be launched quickly and to display information such as incoming messages and news updates.

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End-of-year Maintenance: Image and Back-up Digital Devices

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. Here’s what you’ll get: 19 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer. Update Your Online Presence. Backup and Image your computer. Today: Image and Backup Your Digital Devices. Two critical maintenance tasks that lots of people skip are: image your computer. back up your documents.

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End-of-year Maintenance: Image and Back-up Digital Devices

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. Here’s what you’ll get: 19 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer. Update Your Online Presence. Backup and Image your computer. Today: Image and Backup Your Digital Devices. Two critical maintenance tasks that lots of people skip are: image your computer. back up your documents.

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Recalibrating Our Approach To Misinformation

Edsurge

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. In the past year, many educational institutions began to address the challenge of digital misinformation. As head of a multi-institutional project that addresses these issues, I found this heartening.

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What We Talked About in 2018 - The Top 10 Blog Posts from Education Elements

Education Elements

Over the past year, we published 71 posts, and we’ll probably manage to sneak in a couple more before the year is done! Here at the Bring Your Own Thoughts blog, it’s always been our goal to create space for a wide range of perspectives and experiences so that as many educators as possible can find content which is useful and relatable to their own challenges and goals.

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Online Higher Education in India Comes Full Circle

Edsurge

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. With over 750 universities and more than 38,000 colleges today— compared to roughly 650 universities and 25,000 colleges in 2012—the country looks unsurprisingly unlikely to meet that objective.

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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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Educational Resources for Music Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a chart we have created specifically for music teachers and students. It contains some popular mobile and web-based tools. All of these apps have been featured in previous posts in the.

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Kahoot Earns a $376M Valuation After Disney Investment—and Is Looking to Acquire

Edsurge

Kahoot , an Oslo-based developer of a digital quiz tool popular with teachers, just started making money this year. But a recent investment from one of the biggest names in the entertainment business is valuing the company in the hundreds of millions. In 2017, Kahoot joined the Disney Accelerator , a program run by the venture capital arm of the media juggernaut.

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10 Helpful Google Drive Features for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Whether you are a novice or veteran Google user, the visual below provides you with 10 essential tips to help you make the best of your Drive. We have particularly focused on the following areas: how.

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Just Take It Slow, We Got So Far To Go

The Jose Vilson

On Monday, our students had a trip to the American Museum of Natural History. After a series of whip-arounds and semi-completed scavenger hunts, we entered the waiting area for the Neil deGrasse Tyson-narrated Dark Universe. Because I saw it this summer with my son, I had the utmost confidence in telling my students it would be the best movie they’ve seen on a school trip and went into a furious synopsis of what they were about to see.

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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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Schools don’t have to reinvent the wheel

The Hechinger Report

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! Schools all across the country face similar challenges: gaps in achievement, student absenteeism, diminishing student interest in school from one grade to the next, out-of-school trauma that affects the way students learn, and the list goes on.

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Make your Classroom FUN Again!

Teacher Tech

Play Like a Pirate by Quinn Rollins Reviewed by Erin Whalen In this 2016 book from Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., author Quinn Rollins takes us on a journey of bringing fun back into our classrooms through play. Each of the three sections, Toys, Games, and Superheroes, Graphic Novels, & Comic Strips, reminds us of the […]. The post Make your Classroom FUN Again!

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OPINION: Employers must do more to support foster parents

The Hechinger Report

. Foster children face myriad challenges in school. A tightly knit safety net between foster children’s home lives, their education and their future can help. However, educational efforts can falter if workplaces don’t provide the support that these children’s parents require. I learned about this firsthand when my husband and I trained to become foster parents.

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Holiday BluesThe Effect Depression Has on Students During Winter Break

Gaggle Speaks

While the holidays are typically described as a time of joy, not all of our students are necessarily sharing in the spirit of the season. The National Association on Mental Illness reports that half of all chronic mental illness begins by 14 years of age , and between Thanksgiving and the New Year, busy schedules and sky-high expectations from family and friends can lead to feelings of loneliness and depression.

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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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Ed Tech’s Role in Meeting the Growing Demand for Data Science Programs

EmergingEdTech

Image Source Demand for data scientists is accelerating. As a result of the significant increase in demand for data literate talent, academic institutions are rushing to add data science courses, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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5 reasons why our employees complete safety training online

eSchool News

School districts have many requirements to meet, and for each of these requirements, there’s a company (or multiple companies!) with an app or online program that says it will make our jobs easier. Staff safety training is no exception. While this task may not daze large districts with expansive HR departments, it can be a huge undertaking for smaller districts that have to meet all of the same requirements as large districts.

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It’s Been a Good Year for K-12 Budgets: 38 States Have Boosted Spending

Marketplace K-12

States increased overall spending on K-12 education by $10.9 billion in fiscal 2019, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. The post It’s Been a Good Year for K-12 Budgets: 38 States Have Boosted Spending appeared first on Market Brief.

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#8: 7 tips to better define personalized learning

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on May 16th of this year, was our #8 most popular story of the year. Happy holidays, and thank you for tuning into our 2018 countdown!]. Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation.

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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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Working with an originality report: false positive and false negative results

PlagiarismCheck

Academic decency is the cornerstone of an effective educational process and the default requirement of each assignment students take. Teaching students to develop their thoughts and come up with original ideas is a significant responsibility for an educator, and it is important for professors to find the balance between coaching and policing their students.

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Enhance Long-Term Student Learning

edWeb.net

Learning seems like a simple process. The information goes in (encoding), the learner attempts to commit information to memory (storage), and then the learner tries to recall the lesson (access). Even though the ability to recall and apply the knowledge is critical, teachers spend the majority of class time focused on getting the information in. During the edWebinar, “Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning,” Pooja K.

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Working with an originality report: false positive and false negative results

PlagiarismCheck

Academic decency is the cornerstone of an effective educational process and the default requirement of each assignment students take. Teaching students to develop their thoughts and come up with original ideas is a significant responsibility for an educator, and it is important for professors to find the balance between coaching and policing their students.

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TED Talks for Teachers – Volume 6

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

My sixth annual collection of TED talks for teachers features thought-provoking topics from unfounded fears about screen time to the important roles social justice can play in the classroom. Help for Kids the Education System Ignores – Victor Rios I cringe when I hear people suggest that underachieving students simply need to work harder. That.

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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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Technology Makes Accessible Possible in Inclusive Classrooms

techlearning

If you are an innovative educator, than you know that you serve students with varying abilities and learning differences.

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Teaching Literacy During the Holidays

Reading By Example

It’s that time of year…the red and green butcher paper rolls are shrinking, the Grinch makes a school visit, and concerts have replaced athletics as the main evening events. The holidays offer opportunities for celebration as well as distractions. Kids get off of their routines or the classroom curriculum is not aligned with the seasonal activities and, as a result, our plans too often take a backseat to festivities or classroom challenges.

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Today's Newsletter: Technology Fear Therapy

techlearning

60 Minutes recently posted a “groundbreaking” study about screen time and the adolescent brain.

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Integrity is the Key to Credibility

Turnitin

How two Turnitin Global Innovators are working hard to keep integrity at the core of their curriculum

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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.