Neo LMS
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Governor John Bel Edwards reported that several school districts in Louisiana were recently struck by cyberattacks. So it follows that big businesses and government aren’t the only targets of cybercriminals. With more and more students becoming digital natives, it is important that educators support and empower their understanding of good cybersecurity practices.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Schools Upgrade Networks with Future in Mind. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/22/2019 - 13:16. As the number of Merced Union High School District ’s network-supported devices grew more than twofold in just seven years , district leaders knew they needed to get prepared. The technology, a necessity for the modern classroom, is likely to increase. But would the district’s infrastructure support it all?
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The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Taylor Ryan on Episode 577 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Lots of things are labeled “STEM” these days but many of them are just rote instructions for students to follow. Is this truly STEM learning? Taylor Ryan is STEM coordinator for his school as they work to integrate STEM into every class.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 22, 2019
With the explicit support of its community, Burlingame School District (BSD) created a director of innovation position in 2017, a role I was excited to take on. BSD was motivated by the desire to evolve teaching and learning approaches that would offer increasingly relevant and interesting learning opportunities. These learning experiences would elicit deeper levels of engagement and improved outcomes for—and also beyond —academic achievement.
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EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 22, 2019
By Jessica Iovinelli. The skills necessary for 21st century society and the information age require that schools reevaluate their mission, vision and goals to reflect how they will prepare students for the demands of a world in which immediate access to droves of information has led to increased value placed on what the National Education Association calls the “Four Cs”: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 22, 2019
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Rat brains to understand Parkinson’s disease. Drones to detect plastic landmines. Social media to predict acts of terrorism. These are just a few potentially lifesaving research projects that students have undertaken in recent years at universities in New York and Maryland.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In 1995, NASA astronaut Dr. Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk. The occasion? His second space shuttle flight during a mission that included a rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. In all, Dr. Harris ended up spending more than 18 days in space over two trips, traveling more than 7 million miles. Dr. Harris is well-known as an astronaut, but throughout his career he’s also collected an impressive list of STEM credentials, including an M.D., a masters
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 22, 2019
If you’re heading off to college, finding insurance policies is probably the last thing on your list – if it’s even on your list at all. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re too young or healthy to need insurance. The harsh reality is that you never know what might happen, and it’s better to over prepare than not prepare at all.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
The most transformative idea Jenna Zucha took from her experience as a 2019 HP Teaching Fellow horrified her at first: showing her work. The English teacher at Clear Springs High in suburban Houston didn’t have a problem with sharing, per se. A passionate millennial blogger, she had, among her many forays into tech, started a classroom blog that had inspired other teachers and earned her kudos in her district.
TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text. The post Critical Reading: 50 Sentence Stems To Help Students Talk About What They Read appeared first on TeachThought.
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.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, I work at a small institution, where the professor/mentor relationship is paramount. I know how essential it is to have students come see us during office hours, but my students just aren’t coming to visit.
EdTechTeacher
OCTOBER 22, 2019
The following article was published in the most recent edition of Digital Learning Magazine in my column, “The Tech Savvy Classroom with Shawn McCusker.”. Click here for a link to the complete article published in Digital Learning Magazine. Personalized learning creates a variety of challenges for teachers. Understanding the tools that can support the creation of a personalized path for each student is a key part of making it work.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In 2015, a surprise visit from Vice President Mike Pence put Oral Roberts University's IT security under a powerful microscope. But the Secret Service was so impressed, they commended the school. “When the secret service compliments you, it makes everybody feel good, right?” says Mike Mathews, VP of Innovation and Technology at the university. “But all it would take is one newspaper report about a data violation at the school, and we'd lose everything.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Open Multiple Google Apps Files in Drive Collecting student work digitally means opening multiple digital documents. To open a file in Google Drive you must double click. Opening 20 student documents is 40 clicks! I use the Drive20 Chrome extension to make fast work of this. Drive20 Plus Chrome Extension Click Here to purchase Drive20 […]. The post Open Files Fast: Drive20 Plus appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Tess Michaels saw a need for new ways to pay for college while a graduate student at Harvard University. She and her peers would talk about how higher education proved more of a risk to students than the schools. “Students pay up front and hope it’s worth it,” says Michaels, 26. Michaels has turned that interest and anxiety into a startup to offer graduate students income share agreements—student loans paid back as a percent of future income rather than in fixed dollar payments.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Here is an updated collection of some excellent iPad apps students can use to grow and develop their vocabulary. The apps provide a wide variety of interactive games, quizzes, word puzzles, lexical.
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In each episode of the Inside Our MIND podcast, we take a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives. In our latest episode, Brian welcomes MIND’s Lead Mathematician Brandon Smith back to the show for a discussion on family engagement. Building on our previous conversations that discussed ways to promote student engagement and drive active learning, we explore the challenges that schools face when trying to
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2019
The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies that create prison-like environments and funnel children who don’t fall in line into the criminal justice system. Now, schools are investing in surveillance systems that will likely exacerbate existing disparities.
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Education Superhighway
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Today, we released our annual State of the States report: The classroom connectivity gap is closed and we are proud to announce that the classroom connectivity gap is now closed. Ninety-nine percent of America’s schools now have high-speed broadband connections capable of providing enough bandwidth to enable their students and teachers to use technology in the classroom. 46.3 million students and 2.8 million teachers in 83,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Technology has become an indispensable component in teachers toolkit and its potential to transform learning and teaching is considerably huge. The massive uptake of web technologies and the Internet.
Omega Notes
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Differentiated learning in a post-secondary environment can improve not just student engagement and retention of material but instructor responsiveness to student needs. Ed tech is a tool that can provide faculty with student analytics and insight on how students engage with material, from acquisition to expression. Instructors may then be better able to identify areas of concern with student learning, leading to a roadmap for appropriate intervention. .
ExcelinEd
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Learning to read by the end of third grade is the gateway to lifelong success. When students are not able to read by the end of third grade, their risk of falling behind grows exponentially. That’s why Ohio established a comprehensive K-3 reading policy in 2012 called the Third Grade Reading Guarantee. The Guarantee ensures a comprehensive literacy approach starting as early as Kindergarten, so all students read on grade level by the end of third grade.
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.
My Island View
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Anyone who thinks that there is one answer to all that is wrong in education is at the very least ill informed. Public education has had hundreds of years to establish practices and procedures that would ultimately slow down any progressive ideas for change. This is the Kevlar vest against any silver bullet that an insightful, forward-thinking change agent might shoot.
techlearning
OCTOBER 22, 2019
“We created Gale In Context: For Educators to make it easier for schools and districts to integrate quality digital content into the curriculum," said Paul Gazzolo, senior vice president and general manager at Gale.
MindShift
OCTOBER 22, 2019
A lot of people are concerned that American kids aren’t learning to read. And rightly so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows only about a third of fourth-graders are proficient in reading. Much of the recent debate has been a return to an old battle between advocates of phonics instruction versus those who favor a whole-language approach to teaching the building blocks of reading.
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Current employment trends and future projections all point towards continued growth in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs, as well as the need for STEM-related skills in other fields. Yet, recent math proficiency levels among American students remain low, at just 44% in fourth grade and 33% at the eighth-grade level, and the math score trend lines are not showing significant improvement.
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.
EmergingEdTech
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In many cases, cell phones in the classroom can be a hassle and a distraction. However, writing them off completely ignores the fact that they are a uniquely-suited tool for communication between. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
eSchool News
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Starting kindergarten can be a challenging time for children as many are leaving home and learning to interact with others for the first time. As such, it is important for kindergartners to receive proper support from their teachers. Now, University of Missouri College of Education researchers have found that a readiness test can predict kindergarteners’ success in school after 18 months.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In summer, Mary Tarashuk carefully prepared her literacy hope chest for 2019-20. Now, after a month of school, it has somehow morphed into a Pandora’s box. Though she is sheltering hope in this new box, she feels challenged to meet kids' needs and district time demands.
techlearning
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Today, EducationSuperHighway released its annual State of the States report, highlighting the completion of its mission to close the K-12 classroom connectivity gap.
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