EdTech Magazine

MAY 25, 2018

5 Tips That Foster Collaborative Professional Learning. jena.passut_7651. Fri, 05/25/2018 - 14:29. Leveraging new technology for professional learning requires some creative thinking — and it also takes money. A few years ago, a group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that paid for notebooks and software for creating a professional development program for elementary school teachers.

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 25, 2018

Summer is a time for rejuvenation and relaxation. It’s a time to focus on our lives outside of education and recharge. It can also be an opportunity to grow as an educator. Whether it’s through professional development training, online courses (check out information on the NEW Tech to Learn course below) or tackling that pile of […].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2018

Memorial Day (May 28, 2018) is the time we remember all of those soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of American freedom. In war and peace, they made the ultimate sacrifice and because of them we are privileged to live the American Dream. Once a year, we honor them, their sacrifice, and those they left behind. Here are some activities to help students understand the import of this day: Folding the American flag.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2018

Sartell-St. Stephen Independent School District, located in central Minnesota, is one of many school districts across the country that recognized a need to dramatically evolve traditional classrooms to create a variety of specialized and flexible learning environments to meet the needs of next-century learners. Cuningham Group Architecture , in collaboration with engineering and architecture firm IIW-Minnesota, is designing a new 1,350-student high school that is scheduled to open in the fall of

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

As Maggie opened the door, a pair of first graders yelled “duck!” and luckily she did. The 7-year-olds had just launched a flying saucer and it was headed straight towards her. Maggie moved cautiously, sidestepping to avoid two students chasing down a runaway Sphero and was approached by a student about becoming a guest star in her latest stop motion movie, which was currently in production.

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Teacher Tech

MAY 25, 2018

End of the Year: Archive You made it! Another school year successfully under your belt. Before you go off and enjoy your well deserved summer vacation you may want to do a little maintenance on your Google Classroom classes. Check out this previous blog post on 3 Things to Wrap Up Google Classroom for the Summer. […]. The post Google Classroom: Archive Your Class For the Summer appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2018

Personalized learning’s rationale has strong intuitive appeal: We can all remember feeling bored, confused, frustrated, or lost in school when our classes didn’t spark our interests or address our learning needs. But an intuitive rationale doesn’t clearly translate to effective practice. For personalized learning to actually move the needle on improving student experiences and elevating student outcomes, the question of how schools and teachers personalize is just as important as why.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 25, 2018

What is Clips? Apple CLIPS is a free iOS 11 App for iPhones and iPads that makes capturing and sharing those moments of learning easier than ever. And, since its release, and my first blog so much has changed. I want to walk you through some of the updated features of Clips because Clips is remarkably user-friendly. CLIPS also allows you to access content in your camera roll and use it to compile compelling stories.

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ProfHacker

MAY 25, 2018

Here in the United States, it’s one of those three-day weekends that often stretches a day or two on either side. Here’s hoping that no matter where you are, you’re able to find a little renewal, energy, or focus this weekend. And most of all, of course, that you are able to find some joy for 90 or 120 minutes on Saturday. Oh, that reminds me: No post on Monday!

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 25, 2018

In this week’s dealmaking news, Frontline Education announced plans to acquire K-12 business information systems provider Prologic. Also, New Markets Venture Partners closed a $68 million fund focused on education technology and innovation. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Frontline Acquiring Prologic; New Markets Closes $68M Ed-Tech Fund appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Educator Innovator

MAY 25, 2018

Charlottesville students dig into the stories, told and untold, that make up their community’s history, and prepare to engage as citizens in the dialogue of the present. These last few years, a lot of history has been made in Charlottesville. This is true in the most obvious sense: the events of August 12, 2017 will be recorded in history books, perhaps as a key episode of our present era.

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techlearning

MAY 25, 2018

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” – Joseph Pulitzer When I was a child, my father only accepted homemade gifts. My sisters and I spent several days creating various publications with construction paper and markers, including magazines.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 25, 2018

We at Fractus Learning are excited to announce our first prize giveaway. These games should provide some time away from the electronic screens this summer. The details are below: Good luck! Giveaways.

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techlearning

MAY 25, 2018

There are some really interesting ways that classroom teachers can use Google Forms, Sheets, Slides, and Sites to share information. The best way to explain what I mean is to show you an example. I created a classroom reading log to track the number of books that my class read. Students fill out a Google Form each time they finish a book and that information is automatically published on our class website.

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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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Graphite Blog

MAY 25, 2018

Summer movies are known for action-packed storylines filled with high-speed chases, shoot-outs, explosions, and over-the-top fight scenes. This year is no exception with Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Incredibles 2 hitting the big screen. Of course summer movies have high entertainment value, but some can also offer valuable opportunities for out-of-school learning.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 25, 2018

Price it Right is a free Amazon Alexa skill that provides for a terrific game-based activity. The skill allows you to have multiple players or play solo against another random user (you don't directly interact with that person). Through the game, items on Amazon are described (e.g. a humidifier or 12-pack of dog food) and you are asked to speak out a price estimate.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 25, 2018

Summer movies are known for action-packed storylines filled with high-speed chases, shoot-outs, explosions, and over-the-top fight scenes. This year is no exception with Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Incredibles 2 hitting the big screen. Of course summer movies have high entertainment value, but some can also offer valuable opportunities for out-of-school learning.

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techlearning

MAY 25, 2018

Ink Blott Underground Strategic vocab game gets students digging into roots and affixes Pros: Learning progression feels natural, and the challenge is just right. Cons: Slow-paced, and students might guess their way through; there's no way to ensure students are learning the meanings of morphemes or words. Bottom Line: This is a win for building vocabulary and word attack skills, but teachers need to provide context and additional instruction to make learning last. [ Free Curriculum Focuses on M

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Reading By Example

MAY 25, 2018

As I began reading Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman, I felt as though she were sitting in the room with me. Beginning the book with an entire chapter discussing trust and building relationships, I wondered how she knew what I needed to read at that moment. For me, this school year has been unlike any other. I began my eighteenth year of teaching as a reading specialist who couldn’t wait to begin co-teaching writing in first and fourth grade.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2018

The post Become a Google Certified Trainer Online Course appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Find out all the details about the Become a Google Certified Trainer Online Course from Shake Up Learning. © Shake Up Learning 2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 25, 2018

Gerald Aungst on episode 320 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The 5 C’s of the awesome math classroom are conjecture, communication, collaboration, chaos (listen to the show and don’t be afraid), and celebration according to 25-year educator Gerald Aungst. Gerald is author of Five Principles of the Modern Mathematics Classroom and gives us an overview of what makes an incredible math classroom.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. (National) Education Politics. “ Arne Duncan Is Serious: Americans Should Boycott School,” writes The Atlantic’s Adam Harris. That is, boycott schools until gun laws are changed.

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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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