EdTech Magazine

MARCH 17, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Technology can assist administrators with getting students prepared for the future.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 17, 2017

John Sowash shares ideas on the 10-Minute Teacher Episode 35 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today John Sowash @rsowash talks formative assessment, multimedia, and the must-have apps for Chromebooks. Today he gives us five ideas to amp up our Chromebook classroom. Many of these tools and tips will work for any device that can access the Web.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MARCH 17, 2017

There are lots of ways to get funding for your startup idea or product. Don't miss out. The post Entrepreneurs Need Funding: Winning Grants, Competitions, Proposals appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively dialogue. “I go in there and do it because I have to,” says Bradley Hook, a 28-year old sophomore at City College of San Francisco, and a blogger for EdSurge Independent. He’s taking three online courses this semester, all of which require him to participate in online discussion forums as part of his grade.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 17, 2017

March 17, 2017 Here is a vey good collection of websites for high school students curated from our archives here in EdTech and mLearning in response to requests from some our readers. Categorizing.read more.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

Question: What do we learn from a study that shows a technique or technology likely has affected an educational outcome? Answer: Not nearly enough. Despite widespread criticism, the field of education research continues to emphasize statistical significance—rejecting the conclusion that chance is a plausible explanation for an observed effect—while largely neglecting questions of precision and practical importance.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 17, 2017

It’s Friday! Let’s get to those links that give you some reading material for your weekend! “ How To Tell Fake News From Real News In ‘Post-Truth’ Era ,” by Steve Inskeep: “It’s all right for Americans to be skeptical of what they read and hear. How could I say otherwise? I’m a journalist. It’s my job to question what I hear.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 17, 2017

John Maeda and team released the 2017 Design in Tech report. Observations include lessons from Chinese design tech principles and practices; the value of inclusive design; and writing as a must-have skill. The early promise of social media as proxy for inclination to purchase has not been realized. HBR explores the marketing value of social media , and highlights ways marketers can gain customer intelligence and make the most of engaged customer endorsements to drive results.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 17, 2017

We’ve long been fans of Flickr here at ProfHacker. For example, it’s where we get most of the lead images for our posts and we’ve recommended using Flickr photos to make better slides for presentations. A great feature of Flickr is the wealth of images that have been licensed for re-use — thank you, Creative Commons! — but many people will re-use the Flickr images they find without providing the necessary attribution.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 17, 2017

Librarians have been on the front lines of information literacy for years, putting them in a prime position to help youth learn to navigate a complex and growing world of digital information and news. Unfettered access to information and news is essential for learning—but it can also be a hazard when learners lack the right tools for parsing that information.

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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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Teacher Tech

MARCH 17, 2017

UCET Had the opportunity to share a new keynote at the Utah UCET conference yesterday. You can find my presentation information at alicekeeler.com/ucet17. The topic was Summon School: What If School Was More Like World of Warcraft. Let’s be honest school is a poorly designed game, what if we looked at what successful game designers to […].

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Adam Welcome

MARCH 17, 2017

There's too much planning going on. Too many meetings about the plan. Way too many conversations about what the plan can look like. Too much looking at other peoples plans. Who's going to do what and when for the plan. We don't have enough money for the plan. Let's start with the plan next year. Can someone start a Google Doc for the plan. Let's make sure we 'go slow to go fast' - What does that even mean?

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 17, 2017

Late last year, EdTechTeam launched a new program in emerging markets across Latin America - Impact Labs featuring Google for Education. The goal is to provide professional development opportunities to passionate educators that are looking to change their educational landscape in order to provide better learning experiences for their students. To date, we have launched six Impact Labs including one in Peru, Brazil, and Chile, and three in Bolivia.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2017

Students today are increasingly turning to online new sources to meet their research needs. Because of this, it is important for educators to teach students about trustworthy news sources. In “ Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes ,” hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources , Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, CT, interviewed Greg Toppo, the National Education and Demographics Reporter for USA Today , on today’s shifting trends

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 17, 2017

Makey Makey in action Some time ago I wrote a blog post on innovative teaching - where teachers take risks, stand back to let students learn for themselves, and provide challenging and engaging experiences. Well, that is exactly what some of my student teachers practised this week when we crossed over the river to spend the day in one of our local primary schools.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 17, 2017

Are you trying to figure out which typing game to use in your classroom? TypingClub and Typing.com (previously called TypingWeb) are both great options for engaging your students and tracking student data -- but which typing tool should you choose? Well, it really depends on your needs. We've identified the most important categories to compare. Scroll down for details!

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2017

I recently discovered an incredibly versatile participation tool. Spiral is a free suite of four powerful apps that promote classroom engagement and collaboration. It makes so much of what we already do so much easier and it is a must-have tool for 1:1 settings. Students may login to lessons using Google, Facebook, Clever or Edmodo. Any of the suite’s four apps, might easily stand on its own: Quickfire Carry out a quickfire formative assessment to see what the whole class is thinkin

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 17, 2017

I have decided to start blogging on a regular basis again. Over the last few years, I have moved away from blogging to focus on my academic career. However, I have decided to move back to focusing on my professional career, opening up my research for more public venues such as my blogs. So here are some things you can expect in the next few months: 1) Posts on some of the software and technology I have been testing out and using.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Well-rounded, interactive history and presidential textbook.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 17, 2017

As classrooms become more diverse and rich, educators are finding the need to ask this question with great empathy: What is it like to learn math in a different language? Thankfully, advances in research are helping educators uncover the strategies and solutions for providing ELLs equal access to rigorous learning. We now know that academic discourse and language processing is an integral component of deeper learning in any academic subject for all students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2017

Under President Trump’s proposed FY 2018 education budget, school choice would receive a massive $1.4 billion while the Education Department undergoes a $9 billion, or 13 percent, cut. Overall, the proposed education budget cuts the Education Department’s budget from $68 million to $59 billion. Within the proposed $1.4 billion school choice investment, charter schools get a $168 million boost, and $250 million is allocated toward a new private school choice program.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

The Trump Budget. This “ skinny budget ” is ridiculously cruel. More guns. Less butter. While it’s unlikely to be accepted by Congress, it does show Trump’s priorities. Secretary of Education Betsy "DeVos says Trump education budget ‘places power in the hands of parents and families’," Michigan Live reports.

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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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