EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2017

By Amy Brown No matter the acronym, allow students to hone critical thinking and literacy skills.

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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We (Cori and Matt) are betting that comics are a memorable part of your childhood, whether they were the color comic strips in the Sunday newspaper or comic books. If not, then it was probably animated comics — cartoons! They’re visual. They’re colorful. Adults and children alike flock to animated movies at theaters when they’re […].

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In a year when public education faced many challenges, superintendents and district leaders in the League of Innovative Schools persisted in creating cutting-edge, transformative educational opportunities for their students. In 2017, we welcomed 13 new districts to the League. Working with 11 districts, we launched the Competency-based Education Toolkit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Chuck Poole on episode 213 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Chuck Poole shares five ways to be an unforgettable teacher or an unforgettable coach. He also gives us links to some free cards he shares with students and parents. Get inspired by some fantastic advice on reaching students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. Here’s what you’ll get: Update Your Online Presence. Backup and Image your computer. 19 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer. A note: The links won’t work until the articles publish! Today: 19 Steps to a Speedier Computer.

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Doug Levin

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As interviewed by The Texas Standard, the national daily news show of Texas ( Ransomware Attack Leads to Breach Affecting 700 Students in 39 Texas School Districts ).

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2017

By David Geer Use these tips to make sure your school district retires its old tech responsibly.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re a military family, which means my five-year-old has already lived in four states. By my calculation, he has experienced seven different daycare, preschool and elementary school classrooms. While the classrooms centers, teacher ratios and playground equipment may be different, every center but one made the same comment to us during registration: “And, of course, we don’t do any screen time.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2017

What do third graders in Pakistan and Arkansas have in common? They’re about to find out. I’m excited to introduce Empatico , a free, online tool that recently launched with the bold vision of enabling more than one million students to discover how their peers around the world live. Along the way, students will explore similarities and differences with curiosity and kindness, while practicing communication and leadership skills needed to succeed in an interdependent world.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As we prepare to transition to 2018, it’s a great time to take a step back, reflect on the year, and express our sincere gratitude. This year has been a meaningful one for Education Elements; we have expanded our reach, developed new offerings, and, most importantly, learned so much from working alongside passionate educators and students.

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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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Battelle for Kids

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As the year winds down we naturally begin to reflect on the experiences that shaped our organization over the last 12 months. Those thoughts in turn shape our plans for the new year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. It’s true they stopped making headlines a while ago, but they have hardly abated. They may, however, need a change of name, just as we rename mature caterpillars “butterflies” or “moths.” Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2017

December 21, 2017 A few days ago we published on our Facebook page this beautiful visual featuring some interesting tips to help you spot fake news. The visual is created by IFLA and is available for.read more.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

A Connecticut school district announced this week that it is suspending the use of the Summit Learning Platform , an online educational tool that "helps students set and track goals, learn content at their own pace and complete deeper learning projects,” according to its website. A letter signed on December 18by Jeff Solan, the superintendent of schools at Cheshire Public Schools, cited “issues with content in the platform and a substantial degree of misunderstanding and misinformation within t

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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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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Code Font in Google Sites This may seem strange but really there is nothing to look at here. The purpose of this blog post is to clear up some confusion about the option to “Code font” in new Google Sites rather than to give you a tip on what to do. Basically “Code font” is […]. The post Google Sites: Code Font appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s Success Academy, set the tone for this year’s NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some “unpopular perspectives” on edtech. Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I think there is a tendency to see edtech as the savior of American education.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Transformation often indicates innovation. It is the visionaries and changemakers that make the greatest impact on our world. At MIND, we continue to change in order to meet the needs of the students and educators that we serve. As education and technology transform, so do we. And as we transform, so do our ST Math schools, teachers and students. In 2017, we expanded our reach to more than 1,200,000 students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Twas the night before Christmas, in the office (quite late). All the other employees had left by seven (or eight). Only one soul was left, with her head in a binder: Mary, an online instructional course designer. Her screen bathed her face in a pale blue glow. While out in the street it was starting to snow. And her eyes had a sorrow none ever had seen.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 20, 2017

INNOVATION: The place where NEED and PASSION intersect under an umbrella of CREATIVITY It is my opinion that Jesus was the ultimate innovator. Out of wine at a wedding? No problem, let me turn some water into wine for this shindig. Too many people to feed? No problem, give me a few loaves and fishes and I'll feed this crowd. The masses won't listen to me?

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Schools and districts usually simply accept the fact that they are bound by antiquated rules, policies, and purchasing requirements that keep children stuck in the past. However, to prepare modern learners, districts must update outdated policies and purchasing practices by thinking short term. This was one of the key takeaways from a group of innovative district leaders who came together from around the country to explore important issues at the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in Phoenix,

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 20, 2017

“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau …” – Dan Rather. For the most part, I make it a point to blog about 4 times a month on Teacher Reboot Camp. However, you might notice a new post nearly daily from the end of November to December. These posts are part of my December Advent Calendar of Digital Goodies, which you can find below.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Faculty members who teach face-to-face may imagine that last week’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission to dismantle net neutrality doesn’t touch them, since their instruction is exclusively on campus, not plugged in to the web. Unfortunately, they’re mistaken. Online or off, teaching and doing research in today’s immersive digital environment makes it almost impossible for anyone—even technophobes—to hide from the web.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This is part nine of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” “ We Need to Rethink How We Educate Kids to Tackle the Jobs of the Future.” It’s a core refrain in “ the innovation gospel ,” one of those arguments that certain pundits and politicians really lean into. You hear it all the time, accompanied by a standard set of justifications about the pressing need to reform education: something about the " factory model of education ;

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