EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 06/12/2018 - 10:24. A lot is demanded of teachers. In addition to their daily task of educating students, teachers must also continue to learn. Traditionally, that requires educators to take courses, whether in the classroom or online. . In efforts to make time-mandated and compliance-based professional learning efficient, technology offers microcredentialing as a vehicle for educators to pursue personal growth

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking past a drug deal on your block or a beating at your school. For kids living in picket-fence suburbia, these experiences might be rare.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 12, 2018

Jacqui Murray in the #4 episode of the year so far From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. We’re counting them down!

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Doug Levin

JUNE 12, 2018

Cross-posted on the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center blog: [link]. As quoted in: Herold, Benjamin. “ Student Hackings Highlight Weak K-12 Cybersecurity.” Education Week. 12 June 2018. Doug Levin, who tracks K-12 cybersecurity breaches through his consulting firm, EdTech Strategies, said the incident highlights the mixed messages schools are giving students. “We’re telling kids that tech is the future and learning to code is where all the good jobs are ,” Levin said. “

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JUNE 12, 2018

“But, Ms. Wang, why am I in this class?” asked a 9th-grade boy on the first day of school. This was about three years ago and it was a first day of sorts for me as well. I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-ba

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2018

Last year, Adobe conducted a study of Generation Z students (ages 11-17) that found students and teachers believe creativity is critical for success in the future workforce. Based on this insight, we conducted another study this year to dig into this notion of creative problem solving: What does it mean, what are the sub-skills, and what are the gaps and barriers that exist?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 12, 2018

Here are some great resources where you can access and share educational video content. These are websites and YouTube channels that provide mind-illuminating content covering a wide spectrum of.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

For anyone who cares about student social-emotional development, this is an exciting time. Many school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs are widely used, for example. And a growing number of states are integrating social-emotional expectations into their educational standards. When these programs are well-implemented, they have academic, social, and emotional benefits.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 12, 2018

Want to learn what Ben is up to? Follow him on Twitter @Mr_Sondgeroth. While completing my undergraduate degree in history education, I recall having to submit a written reflection after completing every lesson. I also remember being somewhat annoyed at the process and questioned the purpose of reflecting back on my work after already completing a lengthy lesson plan.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well. While earning a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Singh was one of a handful of teaching assistants tasked with grading—by hand—hundreds of computer science exams throughout a semester.

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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

JUNE 12, 2018

In today's post, we are sharing with you 5 excellent Chrome extensions you can use to clip and save web content right into any of the popular cloud storage platforms you use. In this way you will be.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The college affordability crisis is a familiar story to most Americans. A simplified version often goes that state funding for higher-ed institutions has decreased dramatically over the years, which has translated into massive tuition hikes for students and their families. Sandy Baum, a fellow in the Education Policy Program at the Urban Institute, watches the issue—and its proposed solutions—closely.

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Jamf on EdTech

JUNE 12, 2018

Jamf Pro 10.5 enhances how end users interact with IT on their mobile devices, makes it easier to manage devices in the classroom, and improves workflows for organizations using iOS and Apple TV devices together. Get the details.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 12, 2018

The post Win a Copy of the Shake Up Learning Book! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Win a Copy of the Shake Up Learning Book! To kick-off our summer book study , I’m giving away 5 copies of my book! The Shake Up Learning book study starts on July 5th. Get all the details here. Fill out the form below to be entered in the contest to win a copy of Shake Up Learning!

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2018

Digital educational materials have provided many benefits for K-12 educators and students, including computer adaptive assessments to tools that allow students to collaborate and communicate 24/7. At the same time, tech programs have their own set of challenges, particularly when it comes to logging on. For years, users have needed to create and memorize a username and password for every system and app.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 12, 2018

Successful, career-minded teachers must learn how to juggle the demands of being in a classroom all day long and still maintain a satisfactory personal life. Julia Thompson, author of a bestselling survival guide for first-year teachers, tells how to achieve that balance.

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SecurEdge

JUNE 12, 2018

The Meeting’s Industry, like most industries, has changed dramatically over the last decade, as new technology has reshaped the way we communicate and share our ideas and experiences. Events like Ted Talk, Atmosphere and Comic Con, rely on fast, reliable and secure WiFi to not only meet the demands of attendees who are busy hash-tagging and live tweeting the event, but to support the presenters, event coordinators, vendors, venue hosts, and IT team who all work tirelessly to bring the event toge

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 12, 2018

If you look at schools and districts around the world, the term “innovation” is everywhere, with organizations and individuals clamoring to be deemed as such. If you have read my book or this blog for any length of time, you would know that I believe innovation, as not only a process but a way of thinking, is crucial to the work that we do in schools.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 12, 2018

Exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Enable Deep Learning, and Considering Implications for Education The field of learning has evolved drastically over the years. With the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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JUNE 12, 2018

Schools, teachers and learners struggle with challenges in many shapes and forms when it comes to digital portfolios. Digital Portfolio Challenges When I work with schools, educators, and learners around the world, I discovered that they have many of the same challenges in common. It seems to make no difference if the digital portfolio owner is a student or a professional educator.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

If you haven't already heard, TodaysMeet has closed its doors. While you can download transcripts of your past chats, you're gonna need to find a replacement tool for any future live chatting or backchanneling. We've done our research to help you narrow it down to three great options that range from TodaysMeet-style live chat to different types of live student response: Mentimeter, GoSoapBox, and Backchannel Chat.

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

Framingham, MA – The Littlejohn Coliseum at Clemson University (home of Clemson men’s and women’s basketball, in addition to occasional convocation events) was recently the subject of a massive $55-million-dollar renovation, with upgrades to seating areas, the facility’s roof, locker rooms, and more – including an overhaul of the Coliseum’s A/V systems.

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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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Graphite Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

If you haven't already heard, TodaysMeet will shut down on June 16, 2018. While you can download transcripts of your past chats, you're gonna need to find a replacement tool for any future live chatting or backchanneling. We've done our research to help you narrow it down to three great options that range from TodaysMeet-style live chat to different types of live student response: Mentimeter, GoSoapBox, and Backchannel Chat.

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

School bond dollars remain a vital component in helping schools realize their visions, whether that vision is building a new high school or growing the district’s bandwidth capacity. In 2017 alone, $46.6 billion in bonds were passed in the United States. But school leaders who have been through the process of trying to get a school bond passed in their community know that there’s no magic formula to ensure success.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 12, 2018

Two California district leaders told ed-tech providers what they expect to get the data they need as demands grow for reporting and using it. The post District Leaders Seek Interoperability to Access Data Educators Need appeared first on Market Brief.

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JUNE 12, 2018

-Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education Are Offering “Ignite My Future in School” to Cultivate Career Readiness in Students and Provide World-Class Professional Development to Educators in Southern Georgia- CORDELE, GA | NEW YORK, NY, June 12, 2018 – Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital education content and professional developmen

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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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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 12, 2018

ThinkFluency is an innovative new iOS app that lets teachers assess a student's Reading fluency in real-time. All a educator has to do after creating a account, is add students/classes, select a Reading passage or create your own, and then begin the assessment. ThinkFluency makes it super easy for the teacher to track errors by tapping a button on the screen while the student is reading.

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

Gale is introducing a new digital archive of the 19th century that gives students and researchers an inside look at how teens and young adults of the period expressed themselves and their opinions to the world. Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society provides authentic newspaper writings published by the younger generation of the 19th century.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 12, 2018

Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and have lots of activities for Father's Day such as: cards, crafts, and more. I highly recommend checking out Super Teacher Worksheets by clicking here !!!

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JUNE 12, 2018

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., June 12, 2018—A new research study titled “ Ready Efficacy: Research on Ready Program Impact” demonstrates that Curriculum Associates’ Ready Mathematics and Ready Reading instruction for Grades 3–8 meets the federal funding requirements for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Given this research, Ready qualifies as a Level 3 program demonstrating “Promising Evidence,” and schools nationwide can use Title I or school improvement funding to implement the curriculum as an

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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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