Sun.May 21, 2017

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Rise of the Edupreneur

A Principal's Reflections

Entrepreneurs love what they do. They do what they love, are dreamers, but they also are doers and go-getters. Entrepreneurship may be missing from your resume, but shifting your perspective will change this as you experience the rush and benefits of an entrepreneurial mindset. This exciting new trend is taking root through disruptive innovation in the workplace.

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Fidget Spinners CAN be a fantastic teaching resource!

EdTech4Beginners

With the craze of fidget spinners, sweeping through classrooms all over the world, I thought there must be a way to use them as a learning tool. Watch the short video below, to see how I am using them in my lessons: Click here to access the ‘Spin Sheets’ They are all free and editable. Please remember to ‘make a copy’ or download them – you can’t edit my master versions.

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46 Things I Wish Parents Knew

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Parents, I don’t know everything. But as your child’s teacher and as a person who has been teaching children for more than fifteen years now, there are some things I would love to tell you. So, today, I guess I will. Cathy Rubin from the global search for education asked this question.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 20 Edition)

Doug Levin

The choice by education leaders to obfuscate and excuse the trading away of our children's communications and information (about their social lives, emotions, and behaviors) in exchange for discounted school technology is neither a good deal for schools nor the only way that schools can afford technology.

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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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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

I am a strong proponent of encouraging learners of all ages to engage in reflective practice. Learners do not just receive information only at the time it is given; they absorb information in many different ways, often after the fact, through reflection. The most powerful learning often happens when students self-monitor, or reflect. Students may not always be aware of what they are learning and experiencing.

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The Times’ Reporting on Google in Education: A False Choice for a Straw Man

Teacher Tech

The Times’ Reporting on Google in Education: A False Choice for a Straw Man Guest Blog Post by Andrew Stillman Maybe because of their universality and power in shaping our lives, K-12 schooling and large tech providers like Google have at least one thing in common: they are both a honey pot for poorly-informed and […]. The post The Times’ Reporting on Google in Education: A False Choice for a Straw Man appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’ appeared first on TeachThought.

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Why Teachers Should Help Students Learn Effective Study Strategies

MindShift

For teachers, the carefully controlled conditions of education research can seem ridiculous when the reality of the classroom involves regular interruptions, absences and general chaos. Professor John Dunlosky is trying to bridge these two worlds , intentionally studying the effectiveness of strategies that lab studies indicate are promising, but that don’t require special technology or extra resources.

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The Power of the Senior Walk

Tech Helpful

It's happening at schools all over the place this time of year. It's the senior walk.or at our school the "senior run." I have seen multiple ways this plays out- with cap and gown or without- the power of the Senior Walk is obvious if you are observing it. This tradition started at our school as a prank in the high school. Seniors would band together on their last day and run through the hallways (sometimes causing destruction).

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Be Your True Self -- Inspired by VCOE Students

wwwatanabe

I believe each and every single one of us needs self-acceptance and confidence in being ourselves. I assume the starting point for self-acceptance is an honest awareness of individual strengths and areas for growth. Self-acceptance sometimes feels like welcoming a guest into my home. When I play the role of hostess, I evaluate what needs to be done -- cleaning, planning, grocery shopping, etc.

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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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Empowered or Entitled?

The Principal of Change

I am writing to understand my learning…Hopefully, I can work this out through a blog post…. In a recent workshop, I was asked an interesting question that gave me pause. “Where is the line between a student being empowered or being entitled?”. I could see where there is a perception of this line. Talking about encouraging students to follow their passions, might also be seen as avoiding some of the “hard work” of school.

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When cause of death is not suicide, but school

The Hechinger Report

Gabriel Taye should still be with us. The 8-year-old African American boy was caught on security camera on January 24, seemingly about to shake another boy’s hand. He was by the entrance of the bathroom at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati. The jerky, stop-motion footage shows him sticking out his hand. The next frame shows a little body on the floor, partially hidden, with legs sticking out.

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A simple system for deconstructing your classroom in just one day

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The end of the school year means lots of close-out tasks for the teacher, including bulletin board removal, labeling and packing away items, and cleaning out the room to prepare for summer. Problems with end-of-year close-out tasks arise when the teacher has things to do but the kids don’t. Students are perceptive—they know when we’ve given them busy work and are just trying to get them out of our hair, and we end up spending the whole day trying to keep them on-task.

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SLJ’s Innovator Basecamp

NeverEndingSearch

I am just home from Boston where I attended SLJ’s inaugural Innovator Basecamp. Don’t get me wrong. I love attending conferences where I see my dear friends, some of whom I grew up with as a baby librarian. But yesterday, when I asked how many of the participants in my morning session were new librarians, nearly every hand went up. Several of those new librarians were (afternoon) presenters and many of them are already active sharers and networkers.

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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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Teaching and Technology Tweet Wrap, w/e 05-20-17

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … a lot of content focused. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Is Differentiation Really Doable in Math Class?

MiddleWeb

Talk of differentiated instruction in large, diverse classrooms makes many secondary teachers feel defensive. Math educator Michelle Russell is no exception, but because "I know it's important" she's set out to find strategies that will better serve all her learners.

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Even If You Hate Interactive Whiteboards You'll Love #Jamboard

The Innovative Educator

I’ve written more than a dozen articles sharing why I hate interactive whiteboards. So I was a little surprised, that when I saw Google’s Jamboard, I liked it. Here's why. To understand why, we have to start with what I hate about the interactive whiteboard design. What I hate is that the board is really designed to be interactive only for the sage(s) on the stage.

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Balancing Guided Reading and Authentic Discovery

MiddleWeb

How much pre-teaching and context-building should teachers do when they teach novels from other cultural eras? How much is too much in a discovery-based classroom? Amber Chandler’s students helped her find the right balance as they experienced The Outsiders.

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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