Thu.Dec 01, 2016

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Homework: a low return-on-investment activity

Ditch That Textbook

As teachers, we’re so used to assigning homework. Students are used to doing it. It’s what we’ve come to expect as the norm. Why do we do it? We hope that kids will improve. We hope they’ll be smarter, or more resilient, or develop positive skills that will prepare them for the future. But does it [.].

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CEO Support Groups Provide Perspective, Advice, Lessons

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Having a group of experienced company leaders to share experiences with can help you run a healthy, successful business. The post CEO Support Groups Provide Perspective, Advice, Lessons appeared first on Market Brief.

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Personalizing Student and Educator Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). The central mission of S.T.A.T. is to transform BCPS into a student-centered, personalized learning environment. To affect this change district-wide, BCPS needed to shift professional learning for educators to a more competency-based, autonomous model.

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4 Key Factors for Fantastic Formative Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Practical Advice from Research to Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Too many times the research is completely disconnected from the classroom. But in today’s show, we talk about some very practical issues for teachers. First of all, we talk about the characteristics that make effective formative assessment.

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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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Join Us for a Chat

EdTech Magazine

By Mike Patterson Online Google conference expected to draw upwards of 50,000 and span a variety of topics.

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Subscriber Special: December

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. December 1st-December 15th (ten days only): K-8 Technology Curriculum 6th Edition. get 10% off with coupon code TECHCURRICULUM6THED. get 25% off if you’re upgrading from the 4th or 5th edition (contact zeke dot rowe at structuredlearn.net for coupon code).

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Curriculum Matters When it Comes to Kindergarten Friendships

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Friendship is often described as a major outcome of early childhood inclusive classrooms that support all children, irrespective of their abilities. Friendships provide children with joy, laughter and comfort. They may also prevent later bullying and support smoother transitions into kindergarten for children with a range of disabilities.

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Who Thinks Tech Makes Learning More Fun?

Edsurge

Who thinks technology makes learning more "fun"? Surprise answer: Teachers. According to a survey of more than 20,000 students and teachers conducted by Quizlet , 83 percent of teachers--particularly those ages 32 or younger--say they believe "devices in the class" make learning more "fun" for their students. Only 63 percent of students agree. On the other hand, 69 percent of students say devices "help them learn" but a mere 40 percent of teachers say devices help them teach.

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Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids?

The Hechinger Report

Jeff Andrade-Duncan Photo: Glenda La Marr. OAKLAND, Calif. — Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students try to emulate schools for affluent white kids? In many struggling cities like Oakland, the answer has been no, both in the regular public schools, where resources often don’t exist to replicate programs offered at high-income suburban or tony private schools, but also among the crop of urban charter schools intent on making up for those resource deficits.

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What Universities Can Learn from Udacity’s ‘Gig Economy’ Service

Edsurge

Two weeks ago, Udacity launched a program to connect graduates from its programs with short-term work from potential employers. Called Blitz, the service lets companies propose a project, and then Udacity provides a cost estimate and puts together a team of alumni engineers to complete it. Once the project is finished, companies have the option to hire “Blitzers” full-time.

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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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New- Google Timelapse Allows You to Visually Track The Earth's Changes over The Last 3 Decades

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 2, 2016 Google has recently released a new update to its popular Earth Timelapse allowing users to visually track geographical changes of the planet from the year 1984 to 2016. Using.read more.

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?Overcoming Hacking and Cybercrimes — The Next Obstacle to Edtech

Edsurge

Just when many school districts were starting to feel good about their wireless coverage and internet bandwidth, they face yet another question about technology infrastructure: how good are their defenses against hacking, or what’s more formally known as “cybercrime”? Access to the identities of staff and students is one of the main attractions for hackers.

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5 Great Google Drive Templates for Creating Professionally Looking Presentations

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 1, 2016 When it comes to creating visually attractive presentations, design work can take up a tremendous amount of your time especially if you have no prior design knowledge. This is.read more.

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S'Cool Tools of the Week: The National Geographic Mars Collection and Ask, Listen, Learn

Edsurge

This week in S’Cool Tools, we've got two free tools for you, chosen by the EdSurge team. If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don’t Mix Free! It shouldn’t have to cost anything to teach students about the realities of alcohol abuse. So, last week, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (or Responsibility.org ) released this collection of videos and lesson plans to help educ

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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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We used these Google tools in our schools and saw tangible results soar

eSchool News

Authors’ Note: We’re often asked by educators, “what impact do you see with Google technology in schools?” Last year we engaged Evergreen Education Group on a journey around the world to answer that question. During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits. These case studies demonstrate the success with Google for Education through the lens of teachers, students and administrators.

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Listening to Student Voices at Academic Events

ProfHacker

We rarely ever have student voices represented at academic conferences and events, and yet, when they are there, I often hear faculty and faculty developers feeling there should be more of these. I am talking about undergraduate students, not PhD students who have careers and present at conferences in their professional capacity. I have been in several conversations recently (mostly via Virtually Connecting at OpenEd16 , OLC Accelerate and a missed conversation with David Wiley after OpenEd16 ).

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

The Hechinger Report

Amy Nalesnik, a 29-year-old pregnant mother of two, who had to find another place to put them after the day care center at her university shut down. Courtesy of Amy Nalesnik. A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. Finding an alternative presented yet another obstacle for the former hairdresser in her quest to get a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the University

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Minecraft Education Edition

My Paperless Classroom

Welcome to the TeacherCast Podcast. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Microsoft Innovative Educator Steve Isaacs, and Minecraft Education Manager Neal Manegold to discuss how Minecraft Education Education is shifting the way our students are learning in classrooms around the world. The post The Definitive Podcast About Minecraft Education Edition featuring @PlayCraftLearn @Microsoft_EDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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ISTE seeks your opinion on its Standards for Teachers

eSchool News

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE ® ) announced that it is seeking public comment on the first draft of the refreshed ISTE Standards for Teachers. More than 600 individuals from around the world provided insight into the contents of this initial draft and, by the time the second draft is released in early 2017, ISTE anticipates that thousands more will have participated in the process.

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Playing in the Sandbox

Comfortably 2.0

Remember playing in the sandbox when we were kids? Wasn't it great? I learned a myriad of lessons while playing in many a sandbox while growing up. Creativity, patience, responsibility and even good sportsmanship! I was in a Kindergarten teacher's classroom last year and she used the term "sandbox" in a whole new way. We were introducing a new app to her students.

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10 Messages Every Teacher Should Send To Parents

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 10 Messages Every Teacher Should Send To Parents appeared first on TeachThought.

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Early Registration for February 2017 Flipped Class Online Workshop is OPEN

EmergingEdTech

New Low Price for this 4 Week, Interactive, Collaborative Online Flipped Teaching and Learning Workshop! 2017 will mark the 6th year that I’ve been offering this online flipped classroom. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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What US Students See As Improvement In Higher Education by @emilyjohnson322

My Paperless Classroom

There is no need to speak about the importance of higher education as it gives a lot: comprehensive knowledge and proficient specialists in various fields. The society craves for well-rounded people as they are skilled to help the country grow. While higher education helps people obtain comprehensive knowledge, there are some areas that need improvement. […].

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9 of the Best Bird Feeders for Your Feathered Friends

Fractus Learning

Bird feeders in your back garden or at a school bring children closer to nature in a simple yet effective way and it teaches them a few important life lessons, like caring for something other than themselves, learning about different kinds of birds, what they eat and their function in the greater scheme of things. Also during school holidays you can have them build their very own feeder and decorate it or prepare specific ‘recipes’ to attract various species.

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What is Black and White and Red All Over | By @WokkaPatue #PuppetsTellJokes

My Paperless Classroom

Sam is on a mission to have YOUR students provide his EduPuppets some pretty awesome jokes. Check out his channel today at PuppetsTellJokes.com. The post What is Black and White and Red All Over | By @WokkaPatue #PuppetsTellJokes appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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It’s the Little Things—Avoiding Burnout through Teacher-Teacher Relationships

Fractus Learning

I’m currently coaching a teacher in Texas. This is her fifteenth year as a high school physics teacher, but her first in this district. As soon as I walked into her classroom it was clear to see that she was feeling a bit overwhelmed, a fact she confirmed a moment later. She is frustrated by the lack of lab equipment, the money that’s coming out of her own pocket to give her students valuable simulations in place of the labs and almost zero collaboration among her department.

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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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Heart Maps Help Kids Craft Authentic Writing

MiddleWeb

Building on her 1999 best seller, Georgia Heard shares 20 stories and templates in her new book "Heart Maps." Each map is supported by tips, genre ideas, student samples and mentor texts. Long-time devotee Linda Biondi celebrates Heard's latest accomplishment.

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Montana Tech Director Uses Compare & Connect K-12 To Get More Bandwidth For District

Education Superhighway

Tom Hering, Director of Information Technology at Great Falls Public Schools in Montana, was in a bind. “We live in a very rural state and our fiber connectivity is not comparable to what you would have in some large populous states. We were starting to [exceed] our bandwidth capacity… With our goals as a district to move towards mobile technology and online curriculum, we needed to begin focusing on [increasing bandwidth].”.

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Going Past “Knowing”

The Principal of Change

Tony Sinanis , a friend that I consider a brother, is one of the most thoughtful educators and leaders I know. He recently wrote this as a Facebook status: Maybe in our schools our focus should be on helping educators & educational leaders develop a growth mindset instead of just focusing on the kids. # edchat. Although I agree with this statement to some degree, I think it is not going far enough.

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Check Yourself: Toronto 2016

EdTechTeam

I recently had an opportunity to listen to Mr. Kevin Brookhouser's speak on the 20time Project at the Toronto GAFE Summit. His message: teachers who offer choice can meet learning goals while creating powerful experiences that lead to increased motivation, creativity and divergent critical thinking. Simple yet very profound. I wrote the following thoughts while on my plane ride home.

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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.