Tue.Sep 20, 2016

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Why we should leave behind the cookie-cutter education

Neo LMS

Whenever my mom made cookies when I was a little kid, I could barely wait for them to come out of the oven. My mom’s cookies were simply delicious. She had a magic ingredient she kept in a small recipient, and its location between two cookie-baking sessions was top secret. She always added that magic ingredient, and the cookies were always delicious because of it.

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Census Bureau Revamps Statistics Program for K–12 Students and Teachers

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Online learning program offers interactive activities and databases to teach data analytics across all grade levels.

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10 Tips About Using Images in the Classroom You Don’t Want to Miss

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are ten of the top image tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: Photos For Class–Robust, Student-safe with built in citations. Quick Search for Plagiarized Images. What Online Images are Free? Where Can I Find Kid-safe Images? 5 Image Apps for your Classroom. My Picture’s a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG. Wrap Text Around an Image. How to Move Pics Around in Documents.

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Innovation at the Secondary Level: 5 Misconceptions

Education Elements

Time and again we have seen that assumptions or misconceptions can get in the way of progress and success. Personalized learning is no exception; misconceptions about it often lead educators away from strategies and practices that could help students succeed. Sometimes, misconceptions represent more than small gaps in knowledge--they can be ingrained into industry-wide best practices, with disastrous results.

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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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Mojo Networks Introduces Mojo Enforce for the K-12 Education Marketplace and Chromebooks

Educational Technology Guy

Mojo Networks Introduces Mojo Enforce for the K-12 Education Marketplace Mojo Enforce is the First Cloud Managed WiFi Feature to Integrate Directly Into Google for Education to Automatically Enact Policies on the School’s WiFi Network This is a great option for schools to control access to their wireless networks and works with Chromebooks. Mountain View, CA, September 7, 2016 – Many K-12 schools and districts have challenges in controlling what devices connect to their WiFi networks because of

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The Promise of Blended Learning

Education Elements

As one of today’s most promising models for learning, blended learning is growing rapidly across the country. But what is blended learning, and how can educators use it to improve student outcomes? In a blended learning environment, students learn through a combination of online instruction – with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace – and instruction in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

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A Ninja’s Take on Education Policy: Interview With Linda Darling-Hammond

Edsurge

Linda Darling-Hammond is something of a ninja in education policy. She founded and currently leads the Learning Policy Institute at Stanford University, where she is a professor emeritus of education. She also founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and helped redesign the Stanford Teacher Education Program. After President Barack Obama was elected, she headed the transition team on education policy.

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Fear Of A Black Educator, Part 1

The Jose Vilson

Last night, in a fit of angst, I sent off a series of tweets: It’s hard telling kids to pledge allegiance to a flag when its representatives barely represent us. #TerenceCrutcher. — Jose Vilson (@TheJLV) September 20, 2016. Without hesitation, someone decided to reply with “ Why not move to a country where there isn’t white oppressors then?

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

Edsurge

You can’t walk around any college campus, school district or company without hearing the word “innovation.” Organizations of all sorts display front and center the innovative ideas and innovative ways they build and sell products to change teaching and learning, from Netflix-like adaptive algorithms to augmented reality experiences. Is there a limit or consensus to what innovation actually means?

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The five things no one will tell you about why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color

The Hechinger Report

“ The reason we don’t have more faculty of color among college faculty is that we don’t want them. We simply don’t want them.”. While giving a talk about Minority Serving Institutions at a recent higher education forum , I was asked a question pertaining to the lack of faculty of color at many majority institutions, especially more elite institutions.

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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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My Mixed Feelings on XQ's 'Super Schools'

Edsurge

Last week, the organizers of "XQ: The Super School Project" announced the ten winners of its competition to reimagine the American high school. Each winner took home $10 million to help turn its design into reality. I think the idea is appealing. I wholly agree with the premise that high school needs to be rethought, and that the work is best done by educators and entrepreneurs in real schools and communities, not by politicos, bureaucrats, well-fed consultants, or us self-impressed think tank

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Programming sun and rain: Students run an indoor farm at school by computer or mobile app

The Hechinger Report

Green beans and other vegetables growing in the computer-controlled climate of a hydroponic farm in an old shipping container at Boston Latin School. Students monitor and control it all, on site or with a mobile app. Photo: Chris Berdik. BOSTON – On the cramped urban campus of Boston Latin School, high-school students grow an acre’s worth of vegetables in an old shipping container that’s been transformed into a computer-controlled hydroponic farm.

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Free coding classes for girls grows, gets nod from White House

eSchool News

With a shout out from the White House, the efforts to teach computer coding to more Kanawha County girls expanded Wednesday, with plans for an initiative that started with just female students to further grow and, eventually, expand beyond women and Kanawha’s borders. Ysabel Bombardiere, the volunteer instructor for a girls coding group that started early this year at the West Virginia University Extension Service office in Kanawha City, said she’s started a new initiative, called Project Code N

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Virtual Techniques for Co-writing

ProfHacker

Over the past year, I’ve found myself involved in more collaborative writing projects. This isn’t really something that came up in my discipline in grad school, where everything I worked on was written alone. These projects are much harder to organize than my solo work: often, they span several platforms, multiple email threads, chats, and files.

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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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10 tips to retool your tech PD for the innovation age

eSchool News

Over the past 6-8 years we have seen a supersonic advancement in public schools and the way our teachers now must teach. This has hit education like a tidal wave, leaving precious little time for our teachers to process it, and especially to learn how to do it well. The consequence, in many schools, is that teachers have begun to use technology but have forced it into all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.

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What if students could study what they love, at a pace that suits their needs?

The Hechinger Report

Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. All learning should be personal – we are teaching individual students, after all – but when advocates talk about “personalized learning” they are often describing programs and teaching methods that look unlike the typical school. They envision school as a place where students have more control over their own studies; where they are not constrained by age or grade level; where children can move through subjects as fast or slowly as t

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6 Twitter Chats for Educators

Gaggle Speaks

Besides various priorities, topics and levels of interest, it can be a challenge to dedicate time just to sift through which Twitter Chats to follow and participate in. For those unaware or unsure, a Twitter Chat involves like-minded Twitter users who meet at a pre-determined time to discuss a particular topic. Users follow the chat with a specific hashtag, which is part of each Tweet.

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Personalized Learning Needed in Increasingly Diverse Classrooms, Report Says

Marketplace K-12

Educators’ ability to personalize instruction using technology is imperative as the student population becomes increasingly varied by race, achievement level and socioeconomic status. But a lack of high-quality curricula designed to support that personalized learning is stalling the effort, according to a new report. Digital Promise , a California-based nonprofit organization, calls for increased emphasis on supports and resources designed for personalized learning with this more diverse s

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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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My Top #EdTech Tools for Teaching Online AP Calculus @wacom @PearDeck @SlackHQ @EDpuzzle @OneNoteEDU @SocraticOrg #flipclass

techieMusings

I am teaching a purely online section of AP Calculus AB this school year! I am excited (and nervous) but mainly pumped for the challenge, learning, and growth that teaching in a purely online environment will bring. In this post, I want to highlight some of the tools that I am relying on to run this course. I hope that in sharing these, others will chime in with their experiences and that this might also inspire others to try similar tools in their own classroom.

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The elephant in the room

Ed Tech Now

Part two of my ten-part investigation into the purpose of education, following the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee, examines logical positivism Continue reading →

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Protecting Students in the Age of the Cell Phone by @hejames1008

My Paperless Classroom

When I left the teaching profession, cell phone technology was in its infancy. Many of them were still clamshell-shaped and few could connect to the Internet unless the contract owner was paying exorbitant fees. They were also few and far between, so much so that if I saw one in the classroom, it was still […]. The post Protecting Students in the Age of the Cell Phone by @hejames1008 appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The elephant in the room

Ed Tech Now

Part two of my ten-part investigation into the purpose of education, following the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee, examines logical positivism Continue reading →

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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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Every Cleveland Program to be Graded for Its Evidence-Based Value

Marketplace K-12

By Guest Blogger Sarah D. Sparks. Cross-posted from the Inside School Research blog. Want to see how research can play a key role in helping school leaders make better decisions on school improvement? Take a look at Cleveland metropolitan schools’ approach to academic resources. The district is in the process of reviewing every program and intervention to establish what it does, how much research backs it, and how well it works within district schools. “There is a real value of inf

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Sustaining School Innovation Year After Year

MiddleWeb

Innovation efforts never cease in today's high-stakes school environment. But effort isn't enough, say leadership experts Ron Williamson & Barbara Blackburn. Lasting change requires leaders to share ownership and invest long-term in professional learning support.

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Google Slides: Class Baseball Game Review Game

Teacher Tech

Google Slides: Class Baseball Game A lot of us play Jeopardy for a class review game. If you are looking for a different spin on that, try class baseball. The template is generic and can be applied to any subject. I played this a lot with my math classes, they loved it. Set Up I […]. The post Google Slides: Class Baseball Game Review Game appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Under pressure, groups that assess colleges promise to take a closer look at graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

The rising number of students who have dropped out of college saddled with debt has increased pressure on the groups that give colleges the official stamp of approval. Now those accreditation groups are promising to crack down by taking a closer look at graduation rates, loan repayment rates and default rates. The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions announced Wednesday that it would “pay special attention” to four-year institutions with graduation rates below 25 percent and two-colleges

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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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Google Expeditions - The Ultimate Window to the World

EdTechTeam

Ben Friesen Director of Professional Development EdTechTeam @ benjaminfriesen Google Expeditions finally launched on iOS and now you can show students the world in ways you’ve never been able to before. In two easy steps, your students can join a Google Expedition from the iPhones in their pockets or class set of iPads. As the teacher, you have a guide with background info, leveled questions, and points of interests to focus on.

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Google Sheets: Class Baseball Game Review Game

Teacher Tech

Google Sheets: Class Baseball Game A lot of us play Jeopardy for a class review game. If you are looking for a different spin on that, try class baseball. The template is generic and can be applied to any subject. I played this a lot with my math classes, they loved it. Set Up I […]. The post Google Sheets: Class Baseball Game Review Game appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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3 Ways Schools Can Be Supportive of Students’ Mental Health

MindShift

About one in five children in the United States shows signs of a mental health disorder — anything from ADHD to eating disorders to suicide. And yet, as we’ve been reporting this month , many schools aren’t prepared to work with these students. Often, there’s been too little training in recognizing the problems, the staff who are trained are overworked, and there just isn’t enough money.

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LampFree Projectors, Increasing Productivity, and Lowering Costs

techlearning

Event status: Not started ( Register ) Date and time: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Duration: 1 hour Description: Tech innovations h.

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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.