Fri.Mar 23, 2018

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40+ ideas for making technology integration meaningful

Ditch That Textbook

Almost daily teachers are bombarded with shiny new apps designed for education. It can be enough to make our heads spin. We WANT to use technology that is meaningful and manageable for ourselves and our students. We don’t want “one more thing” Technology, when used with purpose can have incredible effects on student learning. We are able […].

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Jacqui Murray on episode 235 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast 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.

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169 Tech Tip #46: Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #46: Easiest Way to Explain Right and Left.

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Social Media & Data Privacy: How can we keep our students safe online? Featuring @Mike_Allton

TeacherCast

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we take a look at the state of Social Media with our guest Mike Allton. Together, we discuss Social Media and how it is affecting parents, teachers, and students in regards to internet safety, data privacy, and tips and tricks for creating the best learning experience to our students. The post Social Media & Data Privacy: How can we keep our students safe online?

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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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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

Edsurge

Service-learning PD, Image Credit: Weaver Elementary School Last April, the entire faculty at Bettie Weaver Elementary School spent an afternoon making rice heating pads for local elderly residents, capes for foster children to help endure long hospital stays and jump ropes braided out of plastic bags that were later given to schools in Haiti by three of our teachers.

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An Excellent Resource on How to Use Google Classroom with Your Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A few weeks ago we shared with you a resource full of tips and practical ideas to help teachers make the best of Google Forms in their instruction. Today we are sharing with you another equally.read more.

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6 Ways Hotel WiFi Is About More than Providing In-Room Guest Access

SecurEdge

Today’s hospitality approach is more customer-centric than ever, because most hotel and resort operators understand the negative impact that one bad Yelp or TripAdvisor review can have on customer retention and new business. On the flip side, positive online reviews drive hospitality business. In a recent article from BigHospitality , "Over 25 percent of TripAdvisor users either stayed at hotels longer, spent more, or undertook more activities as a result of using the website.".

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4 key ways ESSA can support SEL in schools

eSchool News

Although student achievement in core subjects is commonly used to define success, more educators agree that student success also depends on learning about intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies–commonly known as social and emotional learning, or SEL. And while the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) doesn’t reference SEL specifically, it does offer opportunities to focus on school-based SEL.

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Google Sites: Copy Site Link

Teacher Tech

Copy the Link to your Google Site Something to understand when you create a Google Site (or even a Google Form) is that the link to the edit screen is not what you can share with others. If you want to direct people to your website you need to copy the published link. Link Icon […]. The post Google Sites: Copy Site Link appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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For Some Students, #DeleteFacebook Is Not Really an Option

Edsurge

I entered my junior year of high school without a Facebook account. But a few months later, that changed. My AP English Language teacher had been using a Facebook group for our class to answer students’ questions after hours. She never told anyone in my class they had to create a Facebook account, but I felt like by not having one, I was missing out on valuable information and conversations.

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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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9 Educational Games Kids Love (iPad Apps)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post we are sharing with you this collection of some good educational games curated specifically for kids and young learners. These are all games featured in iTunes App Store's kid's.read more.

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Weekend Reading: Cambridge Analytica/Facebook Edition

ProfHacker

It seems like only yesterday (ok, last week) that Jason was writing about Facebook and what it knows about us. That was before this weekend’s exposés about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook taking all your data and manipulating elections with said data. I walked into class on Monday, having thrown out the plan for the day, to talk to my students instead about the news that had broke over the weekend.

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OPINION: Kids show that they were engaged citizens long before the Parkland shooting

The Hechinger Report

Kids are people, too. This was the premise of an American television program of the same name broadcast in the late 1970s and early 1980s, targeted to children and youth. . That phrase – Kids are people, too – has particular poignancy now, amid the debates, ranging from thoughtful to inane to vitriolic, sparked by the students who survived last month’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. (National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was on Capitol Hill this week, making the case for her department’s budget. ( Her remarks.

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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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PDF Annotation Tool Promotes Critical Thinking

techlearning

Kami Versatile annotation tool helps users critically connect with content [ Study Guides Engage Kids With Humor ] Pros: Easy to upload and share files; promotes collaboration and a paperless classroom. Cons: Some features are awkward to use and will require practice; limited use on mobile devices, and the free version may frustrate some. Bottom Line: Kami is an effective way to promote student interaction with texts, authentic documents, and pictures.

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Let’s Ignite the Learning! EdTechTeam Ontario Summit Ignite Event

EdTechTeam

A couple weeks ago, I was approached by Emily Fitzpatrick , the Director of Professional Development for EdTechTeam Canada asking if I would be interested in giving an Ignite presentation at the upcoming Ontario EdTech Team Ontario Summit in Cambridge, Ontario, April 7th and 8th. For those who are unaware of what an Ignite speech is, don’t worry I didn’t know about them until that email!!

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Strategies to Plan a District Digital Learning Day

techlearning

Facilitating technology-focused professional development days takes strategic planning, follow-through, and skills. Recently, Milford and East Bridgewater School Districts collaborated on district-wide digital learning days that provided successful and impactful learning experiences for staff. Here are some strategies that came out of that experience.

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The Global Leadership Summit - Streaming Live Today from Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're in Boston today for the third annual Global Leadership Summit , hosted by ASCD and GlobalEd Events. We invite you to join us for portions of our day through a livestream broadcast on Facedbook at [link] (click on "videos" to the left or refresh if you're not seeing the live video). We will be streaming those parts of the program that are in bold in the agenda below.

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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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Review: NETGEAR ReadyNAS 424 Easily Saves Data in Educational Environments

EdTech Magazine

Review: NETGEAR ReadyNAS 424 Easily Saves Data in Educational Environments. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 03/23/2018 - 10:00. School districts need reliable storage and backup for data. Everything from student records to grades, as well as all the other files typically needed to run an organization, must be safely stored and easily accessible. For K–12 schools that don’t have huge IT staffs, the new NETGEAR ReadyNAS 424 four-bay disk array offers advanced storage technology that is all that and more.

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Building the Right Infrastructure to Support Mobile Learning

techlearning

As they go “all-in” on digital learning, schools are demanding more from their networks. The shift to personalized and inquiry-based learning not only engages students more effectively, it depends on efficient technology. First as consumers and then as educators, schools are committing to mobile technology as their preferred method of digital interaction.

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National Study Shows Significant Results on an Unprecedented Scale

MIND Research Institute

Independent education research firm WestEd recently published the largest ever national study evaluating a math edtech program. The study found significant results at schools that used ST Math , a PreK-8 visual instructional program that builds a deep conceptual understanding of math through rigorous learning and creative problem solving. For schools that implemented ST Math consistently, the results were especially significant.

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34+ Nonsense Apps, Web Tools and Resources to Wake Up the Brain Cells!

techlearning

Students can get restless about this time of year. Summer vacation is near and so is April Fool’s Day and Easter. Many students also are testing or gearing up for graduation and this can be a stressful time for both teachers and students. Humor can help you and students avoid burn-out. Humor also engages students and keeps their minds open to the learning when implemented appropriately!

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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.