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JULY 13, 2016

By Meg Conlan Educators from around the web offer ideas for incorporating Pokémon GO into the classroom.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2016

In my work with Cell-Ed and Avasant Foundation, I have seen adult learners study basic literacy, English, citizenship, and workforce skills at all hours of the day and night. Juggling long and often irregular work schedules, they study on the bus, while waiting in lines, and on work breaks between mopping floors, milking cows, picking fruit, and caring for others.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Take a minute to ruminate on your own K-12 academic experience. Was it a pleasant experience that left you with a love for lifelong learning? Or was it an exercise in drudgery that left you wishing every Monday was Friday? I used to see this imbalance every day. When I was a first-year teacher to thirty 6th graders, I was excited and fully expecting the students to share my enthusiasm—but my students were there for safety, a hot meal, to see friends, and to have shelter for the day.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 13, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 5. Thirteen-year old Mustapha and his family were forced to leave their home in Aleppo, Syria last year. The family had faced a difficult decision after the Syrian war began: stay and risk being killed or flee and leave everything behind. Mustapha recalls, "We were always afraid. There was always war where we lived." The family decided to leave in search of safety in Europe.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2016

Recognizing that transformation, especially digital transformation, is complex and sometimes “messy,” Digital Promise is launching a second cohort of our Leadership Coaching program to support K-12 leaders working towards transforming learning in their districts through technology. Superintendents and chief technology officers from the League of Innovative Schools serve as coaches and support participating districts’ ongoing digital transformations by providing expertise and technical assistance

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Education Elements

JULY 13, 2016

At Education Elements we try to walk the walk of personalized learning. We strive to make our workshops interactive, upbeat, and fun. We create space for spirited large and small group discussion, and we honor time for quiet individual processing and reflection. We believe teachers should be designers of their classrooms. We want school teams to build connections at our workshops.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 13, 2016

July 17, 2016 Google Cast for Education is a new Chrome app from Google to help teachers and students wirelessly share their computer screens from one Chrome browser to another. The app is still in.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

If you’ve been hearing a lot lately about design, there’s a good reason. Design as a discipline has found a full seat at the table of private enterprise as a driver of business value and competitive edge. Recent mergers and acquisitions activity underscores the growing recognition of the critical role of design in innovation, strategy, and business development.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 13, 2016

Pokémon Go is taking over the world as ‘trainers’ of multiple generations hunt for Pokémon at landmarks and favorite spots in your hometown. Released last week on iOS and Android, players in a virtual reality world hunt for Pokémon, seek out items at Pokéstops and battle each other at Gyms. Pokémon Go pulls data from Google Maps and player-submitted photos of local landmarks to place Pokémon and items at various locations, encouraging players to visit those places to pick up items and battle.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

“We educators do the work not just in the classroom, but also with our feet and voices. We move in unison with our folks on the street.”. —Jose Vilson. On July 10, New York teacher and. #EduColor founder Jose Vilson tweeted the above message after noticing that more of his fellow educators were endeavoring to be more “socially aware and vocal about oppression,” whether they were teachers of color or otherwise.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 13, 2016

July 3, 2016 Google Forms has recently introduced a new powerful feature that allows teachers to auto-grade multiple choice and checkbox questions. Grading students' quizzes has always been one of.read more.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

All too often, the connection between teachers and technology tools falls flat. Pioneering schools and educators search for technology to support teacher-led instruction, only to find that existing technologies do not meet teachers’ needs. The alternative to off-the-shelf technology is build-it-yourself, but most schools find they lack the scale, revenue sources or expertise to support a software development department.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 13, 2016

With 184 lessons building on Writers Workshop principles, Stacey Shubitz provides guidance in mentor-text-based literacy instruction that can result in independent and proficient writers. Linda Biondi expects Craft Moves to be part of teachers' "go-to book" collections.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Sure, that sounds like a total click bait headline. But weirdly enough, it’s not. For the past 15 years, technology entrepreneurs, investors and others have gathered in Aspen, CO in the summer, drawn to a conference convened by Fortune magazine called Brainstorm Tech. Attendees revel in the chance to dip a toe into the jetstream of technology. (Here’s Fortune’s coverage.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2016

As an educator and as a black woman from the Bronx, I do not know how to begin to process the state-sanctioned murders of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — or the killing of five Dallas police officers. I worry about my family and me. I worry about our safety obsessively. I worry about whether the world will nurture me, us, as we mourn the many lives we have lost this year.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

If you’ve never attended a FlipCon, you may have missed your chance. The seminal conference for the flipped learning movement, known formally as the Annual Flipped Learning Conference, is entering its ninth and final year as an in-person event, owing — somewhat fittingly — to dramatic shifts in online learning and communication, similar to the ones that birthed the movement in the first place.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

This is the transcript of the talk I gave today at the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island. You can find the slides here. Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. Last summer, when I gave a keynote at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, I talked about “ teaching machines and Turing machines ,” tracing some of the origins of artificial intelligence and scrutinizing the work that those of us in education ̵

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RafranzDavis.com

JULY 13, 2016

Yesterday, I along with a few of my Educolor/POCEdtech colleagues received an email from MJ of Edsurge asking for our opinion about their plans to publish a libguide, basically story with resources, about the most recent shootings and wait for it…black oppression. I can see this as a topic of great need since they cross published a brilliant medium post by Mandela Schumacher-Hodge describing how her white boss talked about race at work and to her/their credit, perhaps they took it to he

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

They’re used to charge, secure, store, and distribute tablets, laptops, and mobile devices—and in schools that aren’t using one-to-one take-home initiatives, they’ve become a mainstay. Carts, those waist-high metal cabinets on wheels, often hold dozens of devices, perfect for classrooms that need technology on the go. The elementary English teacher who is using a blended learning approach in her classroom, for example, has come to rely on that cart of fully-charged iPads or Chromebooks that’s ro

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 13, 2016

The post 5 Barriers To More Authentic Teaching And Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edutopia

JULY 13, 2016

Maurice J. Elias Social and Emotional Learning The spirit of Special Olympics needs emulation so that doors are more widely open for all -- in schools and social institutions.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

Singapore Math publisher Marshall Cavendish Education has introduced a new, professional development webinar series for teachers of grades K-5 scheduled throughout August. These Back-2-School with Math professional development math webinars give teachers confidence and inspiration as they learn math strategies on planning a successful school year for students, and parent involvement using Mathematical Practice Standards.

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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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EmergingEdTech

JULY 13, 2016

Being Aware of These Online Learning Challenges can Help Educators Create Better Experiences for Their Students Have you noticed that e-learning has been developing rapidly? Its progress influences. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2016

Getting a message from a friend on Facebook, she had mentioned Daniel Pink’s book “Drive” , and it reminded me of how much his Ted Talk really made an impact on my learning and thinking. There are some really good Ted Talks (or TedX Talks), but to be honest, there are only a few that really changed my thinking. Dan Pink led me to really rethink the notion of awards in school, and I wrote about it extensively.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 13, 2016

STEM expert Anne Jolly shares the 9-step process she uses to write a quality lesson that includes some or all of the elements found in the Engineering Design Process (EDP). Included: free downloads of six STEM lesson-writing tools she developed for her new book.

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ProfHacker

JULY 13, 2016

Getting comfortable with the command line is one of those little things that can open up a world of functionality on your computer. Lincoln Mullen started an occasional series, The ProfHacker Guide to the Command Line , which included posts on “Getting Comfortable on the Command Line” , and many more. But sometimes you’re just getting started with the command line, and you’re pretty sure there’s probably a way to do a particular task, but you’re now sure how t

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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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MindShift

JULY 13, 2016

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course , most commonly English or math. The stark number of students not prepared for college work presents a two-fold dilemma for community colleges, one that is both financial and self-defeating, eating at the very purpose of community colleges’ existence.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 13, 2016

I hope you'll join us for our fourth monthly #NYCSchoolsTechChat taking place today, Wednesday, July 13th at 4 pm. The topic is "Summer Learning." It will be led by Twitter Chat Queen , @eileen_lennon ( @NYCSchools) with me, @InnovativeEdu ( @NYCSchools ) and @TaliCSM ( @CommonSenseEd ) serving as trusted co-hosts. The chat will serve as an opportunity to share how you learn best, where you learn best, and some great links for where to learn more this summer.

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Adjusting Course

JULY 13, 2016

For the interactive version of this video in TouchCast click HERE. Teaching the YouTube Generation without providing kids the opportunity to create content would be absurd. However, connecting kids to meaningful learning experiences that include other learners around the world is not always associated with traditional practice (unless you count pen pals).

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Fractus Learning

JULY 13, 2016

Technology. It’s reshaping nearly every facet of our lives. From commerce to agriculture, communication, the media, trade and travel: our world is being remade by the digital age. The future of education is altering too: tech is affecting not only the ways in which education can be delivered (and learning experiences enhanced, personalised and made more immersive), but the objective of education itself is up for review.

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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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