EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

By Barbara Mascareno-Shaw Tech like Microsoft's OneNote and G Suite for Education helps teachers level the playing field for ELL students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Sponsored by Capella University From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As teachers, we value education, and we want to improve what we know. But the problem for so many of us is that we have busy lives, with careers and children. While we want to improve our lives with education, we’re not ready to put everything on hold to do this.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

When you implement a new LMS in your school , you want to ensure its success. But how can you measure LMS success? An easy way to do this is by setting goals for what you want to achieve with it and measure them. Any LMS goal is connected in some way to how much and how well the system is being used in the school. The best way to control this is through training.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Lately I have been meditating. It is only somewhat by choice – we are doing a company-wide meditation challenge and I am usually up for competitions, especially when they get me out of my comfort zone. Within the course of a few days of the challenge I discovered that just sitting and breathing doesn’t work for me – I have one of those brains that doesn’t turn off.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In the wake of a recent series of small-college closings , the takeaway for small private colleges is that their days may be numbered. Since these schools are largely dependent on student tuition in a time when demographic changes mean fewer available high school graduates , they might as well be on an endangered-species list. Some fifty have closed in the last decade alone , and three have closed in the past few weeks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The recent Equifax security breach, which affected essentially every other person in the US, is just the latest example of our vulnerability in the face of cybercriminals–and further proof that we need to teach kids as early as possible that they can make good living as hackers. I’m not talking about the hackers in movies or TV shows who rob online banks or crash the stock market for fun; those aren’t hackers–they’re criminals.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Available: Free Teaching Materials On Healthy Food Choices For Children contributed by Debbie Bookstaber This post is sponsored by Hooray 4 Healthy Curriculum Physical activity and healthy food options are important for children’s brain development, fitness level, and general comfort and contentment as growing human beings. The goal isn’t to ‘eat well,’ but rather is, […].

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

I glanced at the clock for the third time in five minutes and realized I still had two hours left of my training on Canvas, our new learning management system (LMS). I was overwhelmed. As I looked around the room, it became apparent that I wasn’t the only teacher in the room whose eyes had glazed over a long time ago. It’s easy to critique a learning experience in hindsight—to make judgements like “I wish there were longer breaks,” “I wanted better feedback” or “I needed more visuals.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This post first appeared on Edutopia. Throwing items away has never been a skill of mine. That feeling of “I might use this someday” only worsened when I became a teacher and then a mother. My “keep or toss” decisions became clouded by sentimentality, and I couldn’t bring myself to throw away the precious gems my daughter created in school. But the large artifacts she brought home eventually created a storage issue, so I began taking pictures of them and getting rid of some.

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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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TeacherCast

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we discuss the love of reading with Kindergarten teacher Elizabeth Faulkner and learn how she works with students of all ability levels to match individual Lexile levels with the right book through the help of MetaMetrics. The post How to Find the Right Books for Young Readers through @MetaMetrics_Inc appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As I prepared to write this column, I relied on some pretty typical study techniques. First, as I’ve done since my student days, I generously highlighted key information in my background reading. Along the way, I took notes, many of them verbatim, which is a snap with digital copying and pasting. (Gotta love that command-C, command-V.) Then I reread my notes and highlights.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Denver Public Schools (DPS) has nearly 14,000 employees-just about as many as IKEA does in the US or Facebook does in total. DPS is among the 50 largest school districts in the country (and growing) with almost 200 schools and offices and an annual budget of more than $900 million. Within DPS is the Business Information Systems (BIS) group, an organization which provides support of Financial and HR systems at the district.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A series of. articles in Slate has upped the ante on the mounting evidence that online credit recovery has a rigor problem, even as such programs have become nearly ubiquitous across the country. As the reporter wrote, the practice of offering online credit recovery seems to be “falsely boosting graduation rates” at the expense of rigorous learning experiences for students.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

November 21, 2017 A few days ago, we shared with you this collection of pre-designed templates to help you create professionally looking forms using Google Forms. In today’s post we curated for.read more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The three Ts: Thanksgiving, turkey and tech. It’s a given we’re all thankful for the first two–spending time with family and friends and devouring a giant turkey. Now is also a time to reflect on what educational technology tools U.S. school districts are thankful for this year. 1. Chromebooks. With 1:1 initiatives increasingly being either considered or implemented across the US, school districts need an affordable and easy-to-use device for their students: enter, Chromebooks.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

November 21, 2017 Pixton Comic Maker is one of our favourite tools for creating educational comics. We have already featured it in previous posts here in EdTech and mLearning. However,read more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Edmit wants to do for college-shopping what Zillow is for homes and what Truecar is for automobiles. Startups can be smitten with analogies, so this is what Nick Ducoff, the Boston-based startup’s cofounder, aims to do: help students make financially savvier decisions about where to go to college. The tool lets users compare how much their peers are paying at different institutions.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

If the FCC weakens "net neutrality" provisions, some advocates predict that schools' access to online resources will suffer. The post FCC Chair Seeks to Overturn ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules, With Implications for K-12 appeared first on Market Brief.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At Robeson Elementary, a school in Champaign Unit 4 School District in Illinois, educators take pride in fostering a growth mindset in their students and providing them with the right tools for success. Robeson's principal, Nick Gaines, brought in ST Math to give students access to engaging, personalized instruction and encourage them to become fearless problem solvers.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Cook flickr photo by pfly shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license. My favorite tool for teaching game-making, interactive storytelling, and hypertext is Twine. I’ve talked here at ProfHacker about both Twine 1.x and Twine 2 , and it’s my go-to recommendation for most classroom needs when someone is trying to introduce technology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Nsai Temko pictured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. Photo: Aaron Warnick/PublicSource. Cyber schooling was not among my top options for the dream high school experience. It was the last resort after my mother and I discovered we could not afford to return to Orlando, Florida and it was too late to enroll in a school in the Pittsburgh area.

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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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MindShift

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s the time of year when kids are thinking about their holiday wish lists. So what’s a parent to do when a child, possibly a very young child, asks for a smartphone? We hear that smartphones can be addictive, that screen time can hurt learning , but can’t these minicomputers also teach kids about responsibility and put educational apps at their tiny fingertips?

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Non-Profit Organization Holds Hack-a-thons With Students Who Consider how to Help Other Non-Profit Causes I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Patrice Gans, founder and Executive Director of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Comfortably 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

My Dad called me the morning of August 9, 2010. He asked if I wanted to get a round of golf in before I had to head back to school, I hate to admit it now, but at the time I wasn't interested. We all know how "busy" August can be when getting ready to head back to school. Reluctantly, I took my Dad up on his offer. As we walked off the second green it started to rain.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Teacher turnover has an impact on all stakeholders in the school environment, and research shows that students struggle to perform well in schools with turnover year after year. Retaining effective staff can be a big challenge for schools and districts, as can figuring out how to solve the issues around this problem. In “ Using Data to Combat Attrition and Keep Good Teachers ,” Henry Wellington, CEO and founder of Upbeat, discussed issues that cause teacher turnover and how schools and districts

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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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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

“Tell her, daddy. She knows it’s coming,” my oldest said. Of course, it’s coming. See, there is a bumper sticker quality to some of my parenting. There are the standards. “Choose very few battles, but never […].

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

When I first began my job as an Assistive Technology Coordinator in my district back in 2008, the lines between educational tech and assistive tech were pretty crisp. I worked exclusively with students in special education classrooms who needed a way to access the curriculum or a way to communicate effectively in the classroom. I worked with my teams to match the correct tools to help close the existing barrier for identified students.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The post The Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide 2017 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Find the Perfect Gift for Every Teacher on Your List! It’s that time of the year again! It’s time to show the teachers in your life a little love. That might be a colleague, a friend, your child’s teacher, an administrator, or even something for yourself!

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It can offer rich learning and collaboration experiences.

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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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