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20 easy ways to collaborate globally with your class now

Ditch That Textbook

The world is our classroom’s playground. We can see and talk to practically anyone around the world (with an Internet connection) for free. Video calls and collaborative digital tools let us connect in powerful ways. They let our students experience and learn from others in diverse locations in deep ways. Unfortunately, it’s one of the [.].

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Goal: Have a Conversation with Your Leadership

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford. Goal: Have a conversation with your leadership about implementing an idea or making a change to the school environment. Many of us have innovative ideas to improve our classrooms or school environments.

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Back-to-School Training Equips Teachers for New STEM Curriculum

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Project Lead the Way’s summer professional development prepares educators for new school year.

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A Digital Promise for Professional Development in Adult Education

Digital Promise

Just over a decade ago, June Rall, Director of the Institute for Professional Development of Adult Educators (IPDAE), was working as an executive in a major U.S. apparel company. She was at the pinnacle of corporate success, yet something was missing. A few years later, after staying home to raise her daughter, June knew she wanted to find some way to give back to the community.

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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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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

This is an important documentary series for everyone. Please share this information. FRONTLINE, POV, NOVA, TED TALKS, AMERICAN GRADUATE DAY Among the Featured Programs, with Special Reports from PBS NEWSHOUR and PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND; Funded by CPB as Part of American Graduate. Week Will Kick Off “Teach Boldly” Year-long Teacher Support Program. As a leader in educational media for children and students and a key partner with parents and educators across America, PBS today announced SPOTLIGHT EDU

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Kiddom: An Intuitive Gradebook for the Intuitive Educator | w/ @KiddomApp

TeacherCast

Kiddom is a complete gradebook system for teachers looking for additional features in their day to day classroom assessments. The post Kiddom: An Intuitive Gradebook for the Intuitive Educator | w/ @KiddomApp appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Kiddom is a complete gradebook system for teachers looking for additional features in their day to day classroom assessments.

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Google Classroom + Apple Classroom = The Complete iPad Classroom – From Ben Sondgeroth

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. When schools deliver iPads into their classrooms, teachers often respond with two questions: how do I organize my students’ digital coursework and how will my classroom management change? With the latest release of iOS 9.3, teachers now have two answers to these questions. First, Google Classroom allows teachers to organize their class content while integrating Google Drive to support workflow and student organization.

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Google Classroom: Video Playlists

Teacher Tech

Google Classroom Video Library I am so loving this new feature in Google Classroom to “Copy link” to an assignment. One use for the “Copy link” feature is to link to other Google Classroom classes. Let’s say you have a red Google Classroom class for your main announcements and you have a blue Google Classroom class […].

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The Problem Of Non-Transferable Knowledge: When Students Learn Unuseful Things

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post The Problem Of Non-Transferable Knowledge: When Students Learn Unuseful Things appeared first on TeachThought.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

The future of tech in schools isn’t suburban or urban. It’s rural. Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. But is there a place that these initiatives are taking hold more strongly than others?

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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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Kaepernick: Standing Up By Sitting Down and How Our Kids See Patriotism

The Jose Vilson

I’m shocked that I’m defending a millionaire too, but Colin Kaepernick? You did it. In my recent post on Medium , I explored San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest and what it means for our schools: They should wonder why they’re told to wait and wait to engage in learning the depth and breadth of atrocities and victories that make our country what it is today.

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Digital Natives Still Need Help Navigating Online Assessments

Edsurge

While preparing for our standardized tests, too many of us assumed that because our students are “digital natives” their transition to online testing would be seamless and they would easily adapt and excel in these new environments. But navigating mobile apps doesn’t translate into some of the required tasks for online testing environments. That’s unfortunate because there are so many gifted students who just aren’t able to get their knowledge onto the screen, to truly show what they know.

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Teachers Guide to Using The New Google Forms

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Forms is a powerful tool with huge educational potential for teachers and educators. Besides being free and easy to use, Forms works across different devices and is seamlessly integrated with.read more.

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Using Video and Audio to Share Our Scholarship

ProfHacker

[ This is a guest post by George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and an associate professor at Royal Roads University , where he teaches in the MA in Learning and Technology program , and researches networked scholarship and digital learning. He blogs at [link] and you can follow him on Twitter @veletsianos. --@JBJ].

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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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Renewable Assessments: Openness, Stigmergy, and Continuous Co-Creation

Iterating Toward Openness

Having students grade each other’s work is a time-honored tradition among faculty looking to save themselves some time and headache. In addition to appreciating the time savings, many faculty argue that participation in the peer assessment process can actually promote deeper student learning. This is absolutely true when faculty take the time necessary to design the peer assessment experience and supporting artifacts (like rubrics) well.

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These 7 keys are helping one district better prepare its students

eSchool News

In any given third-grade classroom, you can find a student who is reading at a level far beyond their age, and another who is still working on letter recognition. How does a traditional classroom teacher with 25-30 kids manage such a wide range of students? As a district leader, how do I support our teachers and ensure that they are challenging students who are at a higher level while providing struggling students with proper support?

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Montessori Meets Kaizen: Promoting Lifelong Learning

Fractus Learning

Sometimes one of those random websites that I stumble upon on the internet delivers information I’m grateful to know but wouldn’t have known to seek out. In seeking information about Montessori education, I didn’t expect to discover that a business concept called “kaizen” from Japan would stop me in my tracks, but it did. The Kaizen Institute defines “kaizen” as the practice of continuous improvement.

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Kids Deserve It

Teacher Tech

Guest post by Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome, founders of Kids Deserve It. The game of education is complex, challenging, filled with bureaucracy and red tape. It’s a tough fight, daily struggles with ups and downs that are sometimes hard to swallow. As educators, there’s a lot we can control within our environments, and there’s […]. The post Kids Deserve It appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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6 tips from personalized learning innovators leading change

eSchool News

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches.

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How to Choose Themes & Categories Parents Will Love for Your School’s Blog

Hubbli

Does the thought of constantly updating your school blog fill you with dread and intimidation? You or your administrative team may have begrudgingly taken on the task of updating the school blog with fresh content to increase engagement with potential and current parents. But if you’re pressed for time (always!) it can be a monumental challenge to come up with blog topics, write the actual content, look for pictures, post about the blog on social media… you get the idea.

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Could this new observation method boost behavioral and academic outcomes?

eSchool News

A new method of observing and measuring interactions between students and teachers could have interesting impacts on academic achievement. Research has shown that interactions between students and teaching during the school day are critical factors in students’ behavioral and academic outcomes. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri College of Education have developed a new method for observing and measuring teacher interaction with every child in a classroom.

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Manage the Common Core Through Growth Mindset

Graphite Blog

One of my favorite quotes by Confucius: "Choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life." I translate this motto into action in my classroom daily. If my students have a love for learning, they will never be stressed over assessments, projects, and coursework. “Success … nothing less!” is an idea that hangs on my classroom door for my students to see daily.

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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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App of the Week: Free STEM app all about the watershed

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. DIY Lake Science. What’s It Like?

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Why Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains

MindShift

Prior to the 1960s, scientists thought children who spoke more than one language had a handicap for learning because they had to spend too much time distinguishing between languages. With more modern brain imaging technology, researchers can now see how multilingualism actually strengthens the brain. People who speak more than one language have a higher density of gray matter that contains most of the brains neurons and synapses.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Kobe Bryant Invests in Chinese Ed. Company; Nepris, RedShelf Raise Funds

Marketplace K-12

The ed-tech market has seen a handful of new investments both in the U.S. and abroad recently. One notable deal was Nepris, an online community that brings together educators and industry professionals, raising $1 million from investors including the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. In addition, a venture-capital firm co-led by former NBA star Kobe Bryant is investing in a Chinese education platform that provides English-language lessons.

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Teaching 4th Gr. Civics This Election Year

MiddleWeb

This year, with an historic Presidential election in the making, civics studies take on a bit more relevance for Mary Tarashuk's 4th graders. As she worked on her lesson plans this summer, she uncovered fresh resources to help her met five key teaching goals.

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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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Assessment Fallout: Texas Fines ETS, Nevada Says DRC Misses Deadlines

Marketplace K-12

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are the latest to have incurred the wrath of state education officials, who blame them for problems that played out on their states’ exams. The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7 million, and

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Want to Understand Blockchain Better? Watch Don Tapscott’s TED Talk.

EmergingEdTech

(Image Source) An Easy to Understand Explanation of the “Digitized Trust” Technology Poised to Change our World in Unexpected Ways Don Tapscott is a brilliant, highly respected author. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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My #edCampSFBay 2016 Reflection

There is no box

I was reminded this weekend why I love edcamps so much. After a challenging few weeks in a new role, I was very much looking forward to a relaxing weekend of sleeping in and tinkering around the house when a calendar pop up reminded me that edCampSFBay was less than 12 hours away. I took one look at the 8am start time, quickly backwards mapped the 40 minute drive up to Notre Dame High School and figured I’d have to wake up around 6:30 to get their in time for coffee and bagels.

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Thank You, Common Sense Ambassadors!

Graphite Blog

The Common Sense Ambassador Program was created to elevate and cultivate a community of our Certified Educators as speakers, presenters, and overall ambassadors for Common Sense Education. We want to support top educators in the field who are furthering our mission to help students harness the potential of technology for learning and life. For the first year of the program, we were looking for Certified Educators who were: Passionate about teaching with technology and digital citizenship Enthusi

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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.