Sat.Oct 01, 2016

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Reluctant writers in your class? Engage them with Pokemon character reports.

EdTech4Beginners

I recently came across this amazing art on BoredPanda. It is an artist’s vision of the anatomy of different Pokemon characters. Here is an example: This inspired me to set a homework challenge for my students to create their own Pokemon character non-chronological reports. I hoped it would engage them! Here is the template I shared with them: *You can download the PDF by clicking here.

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A Plain English Instructional Model

More Verbs

We’ve been working hard to help Maine’s schools adopt a “More Verbs, Fewer Nouns” stance when thinking about the technology in our schools. We want schools to be sure they are focused more on what they want to do with the devices than with the devices themselves. There is no doubt that there is a lot of “noun” work that needs to happen to make the learning (the “verb” work) happen, but we want to make sure that when we talk about tools and devices

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Digital Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports | #EngChat #LitChat

TeacherCast

Are you interested in kicking your next literary adventure up a notch with your students? In this episode of the Techeducator Podcast we share our digital alternatives to traditional book reports that will get your students thinking creatively and really passionate about their favorite characters. The post Digital Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports | #EngChat #LitChat appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Advantages of a Plain English Instructional Model

More Verbs

Recently we have started to promote a Plain English Instructional Model to help promote pedagogical conversations in school and to help contextualize our conversations about education technology around learning. The primary advantage of having a plain English instructional model is that it is often more easily adapted by our staff who are strong “Joe” and “Jane Average” instructors.

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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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What Every Educator Should Remember When Working With Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

If you are an educator or a school administrator, what’s your opinion of edtech startups? Is it based on personal experience as an early adopter of new technology? Do you believe an edtech entrepreneur is just another Silicon Valley twenty-something who wants to make a billion dollars? On the flip side, what do you think edtech entrepreneurs believe about you?

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Taking Better Care of Our Devices

More Verbs

Laptops and tablets can be a terrific asset in the classroom. But repairs and maintenance can be expensive. Every school has those crazy stories about how that one time that one kid did that one thing and you can’t believe what damage it did to their device! But in general, in talking with schools across Maine, most of our damage seems to come from one of these four categories: Dropping from Desks.

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An Excellent Rubric for Science Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post I am sharing with you an excellent rubric for science teachers. This document, which is available for free download, is shared by the University of Wisconsin. The rubric.read more.

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Robots in STEM

My Paperless Classroom

Hello, I am Sam Patterson and this is Beyond The Hour of Code, a podcast dedicated to helping teachers use programming and creative self-expression in the learning experiences they design for their students. This episode is about. Chapter seven of my book exploring the instructional models most useful for robot-based learning in […]. The post What can we learn about STEM Education … FROM the Robotics?

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5 Powerful Speech to Text Apps for Chrome Users

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Speech to text technologies allow you to transcribe your speech into text in a couple of clicks. Most of the established platforms integrate this kind of technology. For instance Google has it.read more.

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First Look: Explore in Docs, Sheets, and Slides!

The Electric Educator

This past week Google announced several updates and changes to their suite of tools. The most notable was the name change - previously called Google Apps for Education, that same collection is now called G Suite for Education. In that same announcement Google rolled out a new feature called " explore " for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This feature puts computer intelligence (machine learning) to work for you making it easier to find trends in data, create a stunning presentation, and find re

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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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The 3 Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

If you haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator, don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! Taking the top spot for the first time is 6 Skills Students Today Must Develop. It includes some terrific tools to ensure these are the 21st century skills your students develop and provides a useful framework for implementing this work and having conversations about what students need for success today.

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Education as an intrinsic good

Ed Tech Now

Why many academics think that education is an intrinsic good and why they are wrong.

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Class Divide Debuts Oct. 3rd: HBO Documentary Shines Light on the Inequalities of Education

EdNews Daily

Main (Top) Photo: Joel. (Credit: Tom LeGoff/courtesy of HBO). Commentary by Robyn Shulman: I was privileged to have an early screening of this film. As a parent, educator and writer, this film hit every emotion within me. Demonstrating the inequalities and gaps in education, Class Divide will make you understand how the education system is shadowed under a rock, dividing our country by what the documentary states as classism and so much more.

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Education as an intrinsic good

Ed Tech Now

Why many academics think that education is an intrinsic good and why they are wrong.

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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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Observation and self-reflection in the classroom

Kathy Schrock

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in October 2016 and is re-posted here with permission. __ On the Discovery Education in Action page , Discovery Education has been showcasing educators from around the world as they use Discovery Education services such as Discovery Education Streaming and Techbooks to enhance teaching and advance learning in a meaningful way.