Fri.Feb 10, 2017

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5 Ideas for Improving Student Writing

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode #10: Jennifer Serravallo on the 10-Minute Teacher Show From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jennifer Serravallo (@ jserravallo ) is a literacy consultant, speaker, and the author of several popular titles including the NY Times Bestselling The Reading Strategies Book , the newly-released Writing Strategies Book , and the two-time award-winning Independent Reading Assessment Series.

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TCEA 2017: A Week of Ed Tech Innovations Comes to an Inspiring Close

EdTech Magazine

By Jena Passut, Meghan Bogardus Cortez Whether you’ve been busy on the show floor or didn’t make it to Austin, we’ve got a roundup of what you may have missed.

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Character Playbook: How the NFL are Champions for Youth

EdNews Daily

The NFL, Houston Texans, United Way of Greater Houston, United Way Worldwide and Verizon have announced the Houston launch of Character Playbook , a new education initiative focused on youth character development and building healthy relationships. The interactive digital program will be implemented directly in schools throughout Houston. Character Playbook is the latest innovation in the more than 40-year partnership between the NFL and United Way.

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Does Your District Have a Solid Data Foundation?

Tom Murray

For over two years, I’ve had the opportunity to travel from coast to coast speaking and working alongside thousands of school leaders and hundreds of school district teams. Throughout the nation, I couldn’t be more impressed with the amazing educators who are working diligently for kids – every day. I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) ,

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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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19 Valentine Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Dress up the heart. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. Valentine games and puzzles. Valentine Day games and stories. Valentine Day poem generator. Valentine drag-and-drop. Valentine match.

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TCEA 2017: E-Rate Experts Urge Advocacy

EdTech Magazine

By Jena Passut With a new administration, FCC funds are safe — for now.

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Inviting Students to Learn Alongside Teachers

Kyle Pace

This past Monday, I had the privilege of facilitating a day-long workshop around YouTube and the power of video in the classroom. I had found out beforehand that my audience was going to be half teachers, half students. I had certainly worked with students before but I think this was the first time they were truly “attending” something I was leading.

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Setting, Tension, Explanation, Metaphor: A Storytelling Approach for Early STEM Learning

Edsurge

Watch a group of young children in a community garden. They’ll dig in the soil, find and play with earthworms and insects, plant seeds in patches of sunlight, and come back to watch them sprout, grow, and bear fruit. With a little help, these kids can be doing more than simply playing in the dirt. They can be learning the beginnings of environmental science and plant biology and practicing critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

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5 Educational STEM Apps for Kids

My Paperless Classroom

Here is a great list of 5 applications for students to learn about STEM topics. The post 5 Educational STEM Apps for Kids appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Google Slides: Give Me Three for Feedback

Teacher Tech

Google Slides: Give Me Three for Feedback It is not reasonable to be able to give all students high-quality feedback on multiple problems. However, the feedback loop is one of our most powerful tools for students to learn. Rather than turning in work for a grade have students turn in work for feedback. Google Slides […]. The post Google Slides: Give Me Three for Feedback appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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10 Reasons To Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 10 Reasons To Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Cemmento Addresses the Problem of Preserving Digital Annotations

ProfHacker

Here at ProfHacker, we’re interested in digital tools for annotation. Over the years our authors have covered such tools as Google SideWiki , CommentPress and digress.it , Reframe It and Diigo , Scrible , and Hypothes.is. And as the comments to this post asking “ How Do You Annotate in Your Class? ” reveal, our readers are very interested in digital tools for annotation, too.

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Friday 5 — 2.10.17

Perry Hewitt

The Met announced this week that all images of public domain artworks are available under a CC0 license. That means ~375K images are free to use and re-mix for scholarly or commercial ends. To maximize reach, the Met is working with partners like Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Pinterest, and Artstor (that’s us!). Some technology advances, like the ability to make calendars visible and grab time from others, are an assault on workplace productivity.

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The IKEA Effect in Education

My Island View

During a recent snowstorm I found myself perusing a list of recorded television shows on the DVR. While watching an episode of Bull , a show about scientific jury selection, or possibly jury manipulation, there was a term used by Dr. Bull that I had not heard before, “The IKEA Effect”. It was explained by the main character that it was a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they created.

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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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Keeping Humans and Machines in the Loop

Gaggle Speaks

In an earlier post from my colleague Derek Jedamski, we described the basic workflow of how we put machine learning to use to make online collaboration and learning a safer place for students. We finished up that post mentioning that machine learning models aren’t always correct 100% of the time, because human language is quite nuanced: e.g. a sarcastic joke can sound like a serious threat without proper context and experience.

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How School Libraries Can Help Personalize Learning

edWeb.net

With personalization becoming a growing initiative in schools, the library is a valuable asset for personalizing instruction around student needs. Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School, CT, with guest Jackie Whiting, Librarian at New Canaan High School, CT, presented in the webinar, “ Personalizing Instruction Through the Library ,” hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources.

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Tech & Learning's Best of Show @ TCEA 2017 Winners

techlearning

Tech & Learning is presenting its prestigious awards program that honors great products at TCEA 2017. The products below were selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who scoured the exhib.

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New Online Tool Aims to Help K-12 Leaders Choose Instructional Materials

Marketplace K-12

State and local K-12 school leaders wanting to vet digital and print instructional resources can access a new online tool prepared by the State Educational Technology Directors Association. The post New Online Tool Aims to Help K-12 Leaders Choose Instructional Materials appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Explore your #Chromebook with @ThingLink_edu

The Electric Educator

Thinglink is a great tool for creating interactive images and tutorials. I used it to create a Chromebook tutorial that could be used to help teachers or students learn some helpful Chromebook tips and tricks. Thanks for subscribing to my blog. I always appreciate feedback on my posts. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash).

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The Students are Paying Attention

The Principal of Change

It is always a blessing when students are able to attend professional learning opportunities for their teachers. There is a different accountability to everyone in the room when the students are watching. Any time I have students join any professional learning opportunity that I deliver, I always ask for feedback, as I am doing my best to try and support their learning, and if I am off course, then I need them to give me direction.

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9 Playhouse Options for Pretend Play Fun

Fractus Learning

Choosing toys for your kids that will hold their attention for more than a few days or even a few hours can be a challenge. But a playhouse is something that will always appeal to kids. It can be so many different things in their world; it can be a fort, a hideaway, a cozy retreat, a place to pretend, and a place to play grown-up. I have many happy memories of playing house, pioneers, or sometimes even pirates, in the playhouses of my childhood and I love watching my daughters enjoy the same typ

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Summit Up! Soundboard New Orleans

EdTechTeam

I am a conference pro! I mean, I love a good seminar, summit, workshop, conference, unconference and whatever else you call it. I guess you can say I am a lifelong learner who loves to share (my student loans definitely say that). So when I heard about EdTechTeam Summits , I said, “Bring it on!” Before my first summit, I was ready for a “two-day, hop from classroom to classroom, walk away with one or two good tips or tricks” kind of time.

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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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Design Challenge Makerspace

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. We are so fortunate to have the University of Georgia right next to our school and even more fortunate to have instructors like Gretchen Thomas who collaborate with local schools. Gretchen and I have been collaborating for about 3 years now, and each year we try some new things. We’re always looking for ways to improve the makerspace time at our school as well as the opportunities available to students.

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“You’re So Distracted You Probably (Don’t) Think This Session is about You!” - Classroom 2.0 Saturday LIVE! Show with Jason Neiffer

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Saturday, February 11, 2017 “You’re So Distracted You Probably (Don’t) Think This Session is about You!” Presenter: Jason Neiffer We are excited to welcome Jason Neiffer as our special guest presenter on Classroom 2.0 LIVE on February 11, 2017. Webinar Description: Chances are you are reading this description on a digital device: laptop, cellphone or tablet.

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How might making lead to literacy? A #WSRA17 presentation

Reading By Example

Matt Renwick. Today I facilitated a 1.5-hour session on makerspaces at the Wisconsin State Reading Association convention. The focus was on trying to answer the driving question: How might making lead to literacy? This was a true wondering. Although I had some suggestions and ideas, it was on the educators that attended to determine this. They are the kid and literacy experts.

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Kids Guide the Monster, Learn to Code

techlearning

Drag and drop visual code blocks, guide monsters through obstacles.

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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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16 Practical Strategies to Differentiate Your Instruction

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

February 10, 2017 Below is a handy infographic we created based on Marcus Guido’s article “20 Differentiated Instruction Strategies and Examples”. We have only included the first 16 strategies, the.read more.