Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

“I wish I could just focus on one group of students at a time.” This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly from teachers navigating the demands of the concurrent classroom. As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Many of the teachers in my life who are teaching two groups of students simultaneously–one group in the classroom and one group online–are exhausted, frustrated, and not fee

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments. Shifting to remote learning because of the pandemic also posed additional challenges for these students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As educators struggle with the best way to teach critical thinking and problem solving, coding has proven to be an effective and flexible tool. Is it time to add ‘coding’ to the essential subjects taught at every school? Here’s a thoughtful addition to that conversation: Should Coding be a Part of the Modern School’s Curriculum?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Most educators are looking to create opportunities for all students to have deeper and more meaningful learning experiences, while also adding skill acquisition and student agency. Interactive learning environments are making it possible to achieve all of this more than ever now. Real-time technology like Epic Games' Unreal Engine has emerged as a successful tool and resource to implement this type of teaching and learning.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By Charles Sosnik “A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots Is the wish of Barney and Ben Dolls that’ll talk and will go for a walk Is the hope of Janice and Jen And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again” –Michael Bublé Last March, when America closed its schools, it would have been hard to imagine that we could be just a few weeks from Christmas with no real resolution in site.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Although U.S. schools have made progress with computer science education, new research shows that fewer than half of schools are teaching computer science. 2020 State of Computer Science Education: Illuminating Disparities , co-authored by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, offers a comprehensive look at K-12 computer science education progress across the U.S.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hat tip to Ryan McKinney for finding a feature to open results from a Google Search in a new tab. I am in the habit of holding down the Control key when I click on search results. This opens the page in a new tab so I do no lose my Google Search. Rarely do […]. The post Open Search Results in a New Tab appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This is part three in a three-part series. As you read part one and part two in this series, you no doubt found a number of barriers you had already faced. Every school and district is facing the digital transition in its own unique way, and factors like lack of technology, staff training and parental wishes play a large part in the method and speed of your transition.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Regardless of what our elementary school teacher told us, we can't assume that the problem's author intended us to work from left to right. The post This Math Problem Has Gone Viral Because PEMDAS Confuses People appeared first on TeachThought.

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Sell Courses Online

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The post The 7 Best Online Community Platforms in 2020 (Includes Free Options) appeared first on Sell Courses Online. … The 7 Best Online Community Platforms in 2020 (Includes Free Options) Read the Post. The post The 7 Best Online Community Platforms in 2020 (Includes Free Options) appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Education has been upended amid COVID-19. Across the country, many schools and universities have had to shut down physical campuses and have rushed to roll out online learning. While online college classes, web-based test prep, and other internet-facilitated learning methods have become a popular option over the last decade, in-person education remained the norm until the pandemic struck.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Heather Hill, professor at Harvard, details how the MQI coaching model uses teacher videos, self-reflection, and conversation. The MQI Coaching model combines direct coaching with teacher reflection to aid mathematics teachers to improve their practice. Heather describes how creating routines with coaching cycles can release the cognitive burden off of teachers and coaches, allowing them to have a rich and purposeful dialogue about the artifacts of teaching.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in the traditional education model, there was widespread recognition that schools alone could not do everything needed to provide an equitable education for diverse students because so many factors that determine students’ success were being affected or determined outside of school.

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A computer vision technology developed by engineers has now been developed into a free mobile phone app for regular monitoring of glucose levels in people with diabetes.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The TeachThought Reader program is a way to offer a more personalized–and cluuter-free–reader experience for educators. The post Benefit #1 Of The TeachThought Reader Program: No Ads appeared first on TeachThought.

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Jamf on EdTech

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

All of Apple's newest operating systems are officially released and Jamf is proud to offer same-day support once more. Here are some great resources to aid in your upgrade efforts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students?

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Testpress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

One of the common feedback which we get from customers is that they aren't aware of the new features which are being released inside Testpress. We are addressing this going forward by documenting what new features gets released every month. There are some exciting updates in Testpress and we’ve got a lot to cover today, so let’s get started! Pop-up questions in your videos When you publish a video for your students, it is very important to ensure that your students have understood what they are

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Mahua Barve lives in Frankfurt, Germany, with her husband, a son in first grade and twin daughters in kindergarten. All three children are currently attending school full time and in person. That’s despite a coronavirus surge that has led Germany to shut down restaurants, bars, theaters, gyms, tattoo parlors and brothels (which are legal in the country) for November.

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