EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A recent #edtechchat explores how to engage students with the engineering design process and integrate high- and low-tech tools into a makerspace.
Neo LMS
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
In a previous post we chatted about the importance of training in order to achieve LMS success. The better training you provide to your staff, the sooner they will understand how to use the LMS and increase the school’s productivity and goals. But creating a good training isn’t always easy. You need a good team, plan the content, schedule the training, and much more.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Every year in December, Hour of Code inspires thousands — tens of thousands — of students to fall in love with problem-solving, coding, and programming. Like a favorite web-based game, students are presented with a problem (for example, get your bot to say On vacation! ) and are challenged to use the tools available to solve it. There are endless examples, from games to robots to programming.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
I stood facing 47 middle school students. Their eyes were all on me and a hush fell over the gathered audience of families, teachers and community members. For the next eight seconds, they all had one job: wait for my hands to raise. After that, their tasks were vastly different. Some played complex paradiddles on percussion instruments; some played delicate scale passages on woodwind instruments; others played bombastic fanfares on brass instruments.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
by Jennifer Rita Nichols Educators and students of today have more knowledge and tools available to them than ever before in history. Advances in technology have created a digital world where people from all wakes of life can interact and share knowledge–where the answer to almost any question imaginable is just a few clicks away, no […].
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants. The move marks a major turn for Knewton, which has raised more than $157 million in venture capital based largely on a promise to provide the high-tech engine inside online textboo
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
With edtech, specialized isn’t always better. Technology designed for educators is pushed “as if our ones and zeroes are special,” keynote speaker Clay Shirky told top librarians, publishers and administrators at the Ithaka Next Wave 2017 conference, held in New York City on Wednesday. “When you look at the way students actually work, they mostly work with tools that are general-purpose,” Shirky said.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Being well-versed in literature means to be able to use the power of imagination to support and describe the essence of the subject. This is where the task can get tricky. Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
November 30, 2017 In yesterday’s post we featured a number of interesting Android educational apps for students with special needs and today we want to draw your attention to this helpful.read more.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
From December 4th to 10th, educators and students around the world will be participating in the Hour of Code, an annual event that takes place during Computer Science Education Week, and is designed to demystify and engage educators and students in coding. What are some ways to get started with an Hour of Code? Kelly Knight, STEAM Coordinator at Riverside Presbyterian Day School, Jacksonville, FL, presented ideas and tips in “ Get Ready for Hour of Code.”. 1.
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.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Get It In Drive When you save everything to Google Drive you have access to it on your mobile device, your computer, or even a friends computer. No more “oh it’s on my other computer, I’ll get it later.” Chrome Extension The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you get things into Drive. Install […]. The post Chrome Extension: Save to Google Drive appeared first on Teacher Tech.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
This story is part of a series that looks at what makes the 2-year-old year so critical and what could be done to better support toddlers in America. The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
November 30, 2017 Below is another collection of Chromebook tools curated specifically for those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction. This list, which is partly based on a similar.read more.
MindShift
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Dayne Guest graduated from high school in 2016. He had been working construction but quit, knowing that wasn’t what he wanted do with his life. Today Guest’s options are limited because he struggles to read. When he opens a book, he sees “just a whole bunch of words, a whole bunch of letters lined up.” His mom, Pam Guest, knew something wasn’t right when Dayne was in kindergarten. “In the mornings when students came into the classroom, they would write that th
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.
Graphite Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators. If not, schools and classrooms risk everything from digital distraction to privacy violations.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Veonna King pictured in Propel Andrew Street High School. Photo: Ryan Loew/PublicSource. Every person in this world has at least one challenge to overcome. Some of those challenges may stem from your identity or other defining factors of how you go through life, like being an immigrant, gay, overweight, financially unhappy or a victim of racism. For me, my struggles are connected with being financially unstable and being a minor.
SecurEdge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
When WiFi operates at a snail’s pace or keeps dropping, users can go from Bruce Banner to the Hulk very quickly. WiFi is now demanded, expected, and required for doing just about everything, across every industry. So, how do you deploy and support a fast, secure wireless network that won’t make your end users turn green and smash things?
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Practical and conversational, the ideas in Powerful Partnerships will inspire teachers and school leaders to examine family engagement practices and build partnerships that are collaborative, interactive, and learning focused, says literacy specialist Lisa Maucione.
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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t
MIND Research Institute
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Tom Vander Ark is one of the leading voices in education today. As the CEO of Getting Smart, he is a tireless advocate for innovation in learning. He’s also a longtime supporter of MIND Research Institute, and demonstrated that support once again on Giving Tuesday, a yearly event centered around the encouragement and celebration of giving. Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation.
EdTechTeam
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
We at EdTechTeam are very thankful to have worked with so many of you in November. You brought us to nine countries! We hosted summits featuring Google for Education in Cairo , Singapore , Beirut , and Yellowknife as well as Colorado and Cincinnati, Ohio. We brought keynote speakers and customized professional development to Arizona, Louisiana, and New Jersey.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
K-12 and higher education veteran M. Scott Norton has written a book about the human resources role of principals. Retired principal Mary Langer Thompson finds the resources on school climate helpful, but disagrees that principals should take on major HR responsibilities.
Fractus Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
While I am a big fan of using technology as a tool for learning, we as parents and educators need to help our children learn how to maintain control. Here’s the sad truth: Most children today […].
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.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Science educator Alan Colburn skillfully applies the idea of learning by doing to make a very useful resource for teachers. Joyce Depenbusch praises the way he weaves in NGSS practices and provides directions for grades 3-8 activities that are easy to follow and do.
EdTechTeam
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
As educators, we love sharing our knowledge and expertise with others. If you ask teachers why they do what they do, you’ll often hear “I do it for the ‘aha’ moment.” That moment when it “clicks” for a student. One of the reasons I love doing trainings with adult learners with technology is for that “aha” moment, but it’s typically in a lower tone and with less sticky fingers.
Learning with 'e's
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Image by Jim Groom on Flickr A perennial challenge for teachers everywhere is how to engage students and keep them engaged. Wherever I travel, I hear the same stories about how students are not engaged, and how they can be so easily distracted. Recently, technology (the handheld, personal variety) has come under fire from those who claim that it is a distraction in the classroom and lecture hall.
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Vicki Davis shares on Episode 196 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can have a more thankful, joyful year all of the time. In today’s show, I share seven secrets to live a more joyful, thankful life all year long. Today’s Sponsor: Bloomz is the tool I chose for parent/teacher communication.
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.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios. It’s a place where students are more or less in control: One Stone was designed as a student led and directed non-profit that offers an independent and tuition-free education with a mission to make students better leaders and the world a better place.
ProfHacker
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Image from Unsplash user Joseph Chan. I’m somewhat taken aback when I mention Slack to someone in November of 2017 and am greeted with a blank look, followed by, "What’s that?" I forget that I live in a tech-focused world and not everyone gets excited over shiny new things like I do (if you can call a four-year-old, $5 billion dollar venture shiny and new, that is).
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