Battelle for Kids

JUNE 13, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 5. Driving Question: What is the worth of real work experiences for today's students? What was once a rite of passage in our collective coming of age stories—the summer job—has succumbed under fuller employment and other socio-economic factors which remove these opportunities for young people. With the death knell of summer jobs has gone countless experiences essential to our young peoples' academic and life skills development.

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JUNE 13, 2016

The following tips will help maximize the online safety and productivity of your students. We will demystify the Google Apps for Education Admin Console , providing you with the tools to successfully optimize your school’s 1:1 program and edtech experience. Taken from Best Practices to Shape & Secure Your 1:1 Program for Chromebooks. The Google Apps cloud-based policy, simplified: Device Settings (Steps 1-3).

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Teaching for the 21st century looks a lot different. Here’s what admins — and teachers — need to know for job interviews and beyond. Not long ago, the leadership team of a school district I was working with asked me: “If you were going to hire a new teacher, what would you ask in the interview?” They were concerned that hiring teachers with the right skills now can save a district a lot of money in staff development later.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 13, 2016

Link to Slides presentation Edit Google Slides Old school thinking back when we used PowerPoint was to create copies of the presentations for back up files or to just update the presentation. Emailing a copy of PowerPoint creates a copy of the document. Any updates to the presentation by the author are not represented in […]. The post Google Classroom: Edit Slides Not Copy appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

June 13, 2016 Digital portfolios are an important part of the learning process that takes place in class. The pedagogic importance of digital portfolios is well documented in the teaching literature.read more.

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Gaggle Speaks

JUNE 13, 2016

The previous two posts on Discipline vs. Teachable Moments sought to bring meaning and distinction to these two activities. The final post in this series offers four important questions for reflection, which might help you decide the appropriate course of action, depending on the situation. What were the student’s actions? It’s important to begin by simply analyzing the actions because it’s important to ensure that you’re acting in accordance with school and district policies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

The safety needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students turned paramount Sunday when a man walked into a gay nightclub and embarked on the worst shooting in U.S. history. The symbolism of this atrocity taking place is not lost the gay community, because bars and nightclubs have long served as some of the only spaces where LGBTQ people have felt safe.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 13, 2016

This post was written in collaboration with Douglas Konopelko. It is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Although it may seem unusual to connect collaboration to the practice of personalized learning, it is important to remember that students don’t learn within a vacuum. In a personalized learning environment, teachers can help students discover what individual roles they can successfully assume when collaborating with others.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

Are rigorous, college-level classes the way to raise achievement for low-income high school students? The evidence is mixed. Recently, the International Baccalaureate foundation sent out an email proclaiming ‘yes.’ It boasted that low-income and minority students who take its courses graduate from high school and go to college at the same high rates as students from higher-income families.

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BYOT Network

JUNE 13, 2016

This post was written in collaboration with Doug Konopelko. It is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. Although it may seem unusual to connect collaboration to the practice of personalized learning, it is important to remember that students don’t learn within a vacuum. In a personalized learning environment, teachers can help students discover what individual roles they can successfully assume when collaborating with others.

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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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Fractus Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

“If you’ve even been stressed-out between the time when you woke up and when you got to class or work, raise your hand.” Move This World (MTW) starts their training sessions at schools with this prompt. When students raise their own hands and then look around to see their principal, their teachers, and other students all raising their hands, there’s a moment of belonging and validation.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 13, 2016

Five years ago, George asked the question: What fun things have you done this summer? No one has asked it since. It isn’t terrible surprising that here at ProfHacker we’ve written way more frequently on “ productivity ” than we have on “ play ” or “ fun “ But the two are linked in a lot of important ways.

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JUNE 13, 2016

More tears for more families and friends. We stare in shock, we weep, we burn with anger at senselessness. But it is not enough just to curse the darkness. In our search for answers, we must agree that only one thing could have interceded: Education … understanding the world … understanding human dignity … understanding pluralism … understanding the causes of pain and suffering, among those in our midst, or in distant lands.

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Edutopia

JUNE 13, 2016

Maurice J. Elias Social and Emotional Learning Check out these four ways that athletic experiences promote social and emotional learning and character development.

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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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Graphite Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

Often, teachers assume that some educators are more creative than others. The truth is that creativity is a skill and, like author Sir Ken Robinson says, “You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them." No doubt most educators aspire to innovate, but they do not necessarily make radical changes in their classrooms.

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Edutopia

JUNE 13, 2016

Suzie Boss PBL Planning PBL designers and facilitators: Here are two exciting resources to inspire you as you tackle project remodeling this summer.

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techlearning

JUNE 13, 2016

With Infocomm officially in the books, Tech & Learning is pleased to announce the edtech winners of NewBay Media’s Best of InfoComm awards.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 13, 2016

District’s Professional Learning Community Chooses the itslearning Platform to Gain Efficiencies, Consistency School districts around the nation are being asked to do more with less these days. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Ed. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Click here to read the full app review. Pathbrite. What’s It Like? Pathbrite is a Web-based tool that makes it easy for students to create digital portfolios. Students can showcase work, teachers can manage and assess classes, and institutions can collect data.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 13, 2016

Bryan Goodwin & Elizabeth Ross Hubbell make a compelling argument that teachers can improve their impact on student learning by using a "do-confirm" checklist based on 12 essential daily touchstones that represent current research on what works best. Pilots do!

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MindShift

JUNE 13, 2016

Getting students excited and authentically curious about a math task takes more than presenting a word problem. Some teachers are finding that a short, high-interest video or other piece of media that raises questions in kids’ minds is the best way to prime them to dive deeply into problem solving. In this Teaching Channel video of Sarah Dietz’ second grade class, she uses a video clip about cookie monster to grab her students’ interest and get them questioning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Waltham Public Schools chooses Rediker Software’s RediSite for their 10 schools and district office to meet the increasing mobile needs of parents, students and staff. Serving more than 5,500 students and 10 schools, Waltham Public Schools unveiled an improved approach to mobile communications recently by launching a district-wide responsive website from Rediker Software.

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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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Hubbli

JUNE 13, 2016

Modern technology has proven to be both a great advantage—and an equally large disadvantage—when it comes to communication between parents and your school staff. Besides always being connected via cell phones, schools can choose to text, email, Skype, FaceTime, and direct message on platforms like Facebook, WeChat, and WhatsApp, just to name a few. We’re instantly connected to parents on multiple communication levels, so we can stay in touch and get in contact at a moment’s notice.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

New collections include historical archive of The Telegraph – one of the world’s best-known newspapers, a unique collection of Chinese periodicals, and British Library Newspapers. Gale , a part of Cengage Learning, has expanded its digital historical newspaper collections with the launch of several new archives. Now available are The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000, a 145-year archive of Britain’s best-selling quality newspaper; China from Empire to Republic: Missionary, Sinology, and Li

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

Often, teachers assume that some educators are more creative than others. The truth is that creativity is a skill and, like author Sir Ken Robinson says, “You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them." No doubt most educators aspire to innovate, but they do not necessarily make radical changes in their classrooms.

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There is no box

JUNE 13, 2016

My personal gmail account is unusable. I wade through the sludge occasionally, but mostly, it’s a lost cause. I really want to try Inbox, but since it’s not available for GAFE accounts, I’m not ready to make the change only to have to go back and forth between old and new. Needless to say, I have been searching for an Inbox Zero solution almost since I started using gmail.

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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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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Just a few weeks ago Adam was talking with some Principals and one commented - “I’m surprised people are still talking about coding. Do you think it’s here to stay? Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” “Gasp!” from Adam - Why teach coding with kids? Image created by Sylvia Duckworth based on the work by Brian Aspinall It’s really everywhere!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 13, 2016

The post 14 Video Games That Tackle Important Social Issues appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: " Library as Classroom ," is this Wednesday, June 15th! There is still time to register to join us from 12:00 - 3:00pm US-Pacific Time ( click for your own time zone), or to be able to watch the recordings at your convenience. The full schedule is below. This is a free event, being held online.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

The post How to Boost Your Teacher Brand appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Image Credit: Miss Ty / Shutterstock. This post was originally published on Edsurge.com. These days, your online presence is your resume. It’s also the best way to promote your personal and professional brand. Haven’t yet jumped on the social media bandwagon? Now is the time.

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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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