The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 1, 2017
Episode 89 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Alan November @globalearner shares an assessment idea that is gaining steam. First discovered at Harvard, it is making inroads in middle and high schools around the country. In today’s ThoughtLeader Thursday, start thinking about this new idea in assessment.
Doug Levin
JUNE 1, 2017
This week, education reporters from across the nation are gathering at the 2017 Education Writers Association National Seminar in Washington, DC. Among the topics they will focus on is technology in education (AKA "digital learning"). To that end, I suggest five story ideas for reporters interested in the topic.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 1, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Whether you’re heading to the conference or just following along online, we’ve got a rundown of what you should expect.
Tom Murray
JUNE 1, 2017
A portion of below is an excerpt from the new ASCD book, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today , and is co-written by Thomas C. Murray and Eric Sheninger. As a former technology director (Tom) and high school principal (Eric), we’ve seen some fascinating ways that students have tried to bypass the filter, have seen search terms that would make even college students blush, and have had a vast array of conversations with students about the appropriate use of digital t
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 1, 2017
I have written in the past about mysimpleshow , an easy and clever way educators can create explainer videos. Mysimpleshow is aligned with simpleshow foundation , a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the world. This summer, in cooperation with the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), they are participating in a summer volunteer program to encourage everyone to promote the United Nations 17 Global Goals in support of the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development: In collaboratio
Neo LMS
JUNE 1, 2017
Online education remains a key response to the documented shortcomings of K-12 education. There can be no doubt that the sheer volume of solutions and opportunities offered by online educational tools cannot be ignored by a society seeking to graduate better skilled, better adapted, creative, critical thinkers. The future of education is most assuredly online.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Web20Classroom
JUNE 1, 2017
For the next several weeks I’ll be sharing posts that you can use for your summer learning. School may be out for many but the learning we do as educators can last even outside the classroom. To start we will look in-depth at Twitter chats and how you can participate in real time or whenever you want. Next we will examine some ideas on how to get the most out of any conference you attend this summer or beyond.
Edsurge
JUNE 1, 2017
Want to make your teacher salary go as far as possible? Go Midwest, young Padawan. And stay far, far away from Hawaii. The great state of Michigan tops the list of states where teachers can enjoy the highest average salary—adjusted for cost of living. That adjustment is important, because as any resident of the San Francisco Bay Area who have friends elsewhere (like this correspondent) can tell you, a dollar does not go equally far everywhere in the United States.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 1, 2017
About 80 percent of school spending goes toward salaries and benefits, while purchased services and supplies make up only about 20 percent, according to federal data. The post K-12 Spending: Where the Money Goes appeared first on Market Brief.
Edsurge
JUNE 1, 2017
“It is much easier to destroy an institution’s reputation than it is to build it,” says Tressie McMillan Cottom, an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Profit complicates that at a whole other level.”. Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent dec
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
JUNE 1, 2017
Create a Header for your Google Classroom You can add your own custom header to Google Classroom. I make a lot of Google Classrooms and I was feeling like adding my Bitmoji to mix it up. To do that I had to make my own image. Template alicekeeler.com/gcheader Change the Background Color The default in […]. The post Google Classroom: Header Template appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
JUNE 1, 2017
I started my career as a librarian in the 1980’s. Back then, I learned to type catalog cards on an electric typewriter and created lessons around print resources and the Dewey Decimal system. I’ve come along way since then, moving from traditional library programming into the 21st century, with coding and robotics to match. It all began when I read an article about the “Hour of Code” initiative, a program that asks every student school-wide to participate in one hour of coding activities.
eSchool News
JUNE 1, 2017
Want to hear the story about the most embarrassing moment of my life? My students sure did. I tell that story, much to the delight of my fifth graders, to teach a way to approach plot in narrative writing. Stories are powerful instructional tools , and as humans, our brains are wired to respond to them. Storytelling, which can teach us about ourselves, about possibilities, and about culture, is such a powerful learning tool that it is even being used to teach robots.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 1, 2017
June 1, 2017 Here is an excellent step-by-step guide from Marcus Guido to help you implement the ethos of game-based learning in your instruction. We have turned Guido's post into this visual that.read more.
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
JUNE 1, 2017
Pathways in Technology Early College High School (more commonly known as P-TECH) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn opened its doors in 2011. The public high school's claim to fame was its unique model serving grades 9 to 14, offering students associate's degrees in STEM majors by the time they graduate. Backed by companies like IBM, and championed by the New York City Department of Education and even former President Barack Obama, the unique model has spread from one to 60 schools across the globe—all
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 1, 2017
Tired of using Google Search? Are you looking for something a bit different? Here are 6 alternatives for your next educational adventures. The post The 6 BEST Search Engines for Academic Research NOT Named Google appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 1, 2017
June 1, 2017 Back with another excellent resource from OER Commons. This is basically a collection featuring over 4000 free resources aligned to the Common Core. Teachers can use, share and even.read more.
eSchool News
JUNE 1, 2017
Are education and incarceration two sides of the same coin or competing industries? The short answer is ‘yes.’ They are both diametrically opposed and intrinsically linked institutions. And everything you do as an educator directly affects both. Can you be a fiscal conservative and at the same time be hard on crime, to the tune of $50 billion a year of taxpayer expense?
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TeacherCast
JUNE 1, 2017
The post Check out these great @LiveBinders to support School Leaders! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
The Principal of Change
JUNE 1, 2017
Thanks to @mrbalcom for creating this image. <rant> I recently said the above statement at a conference in Nebraska, after asking teachers, “Have you heard of the term ‘data driven’?”, to which they responded with audible groans. This isn’t the first time I have made this statement, and it will not be the last. Still, some people are bothered that I do not like the term.
MindShift
JUNE 1, 2017
If you know anything about New Orleans public schools, you probably know this: Hurricane Katrina wiped them out and almost all the schools became privately run charters. Many of those schools subscribed to the no excuses discipline model — the idea that if you crack down on slight misbehavior, you can prevent bigger issues from erupting. That was also true of Crocker College Prep, an elementary school in New Orleans.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 1, 2017
June 1, 2017 Google announced today the release of a number of interesting updates to Google Sheets. The most important of them all is the ability to visualize data using Explore. As you know,read more.
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.
MindShift
JUNE 1, 2017
Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. “I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of music, and I started to take more linguistic classes and to think about language in the brain, and music in the brain,” she says. “What was happening in our brains when we were listening to music, when we were singing?
MIND Research Institute
JUNE 1, 2017
The fourth annual K-12 Game-a-thon is well underway, and we’ve received some top-notch entries already! Check out a couple of our favorites below: Snakes by the JiJi Masters. The JiJi Masters practice their counting skills across a game board in Snakes: Math Bands by the Geometryers. The Geometryers test their knowledge with their card game, Math Bands: Elemental Math Wizards.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 1, 2017
In this episode of the Beyond the Hour of Code Podcast, we take a look at Toy Hacking with educator and author Sam Patterson. The post What exactly is Toy Hacking? A Plush Approach to Robotics and STEM for Everyone #TOYHACKING appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. How can you use toys to transform how your students learn about robotics?
Educator Innovator
JUNE 1, 2017
Using collaboration and design-thinking, LRNG Innovators Challenge grantee “Creating with Confidence” revamps AP Art to encourage students to create art with public purpose. Radwan Khatib, a junior at Warren High School in Indianapolis, had always thought of art as a solo endeavor. But this school year, the school’s two Advanced Placement art classes undertook a six-month long “design-thinking” project that led students to create two public artworks through a collaborative, pro
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JUNE 1, 2017
The post 6 Technology-Based Poetry Ideas For Students That Think They Hate Poetry appeared first on TeachThought.
Tech Helpful
JUNE 1, 2017
Today, as I was looking over the scope and sequence that ISTE has put out as plausible technology integration standards to support the ISTE student standards I found myself stuck on one standard and feeling the weight of the pros and cons stacking up equally on both sides of my brain as I wrestled with this idea: "Use digital tools such as blogs, websites and social media to crowdsource, crowdfund and mobilize a community toward a goal.
EmergingEdTech
JUNE 1, 2017
Image Source Many of us have clear memories with the exact same details of something that has never happened in reality. Whether this is a parallel reality or holodeck experience, the Mandela Effect. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Fractus Learning
JUNE 1, 2017
Today after yoga class, Stephanie, the beautiful woman who once cherished my infant son while I used the gym told me she had six relatives die in the hurricane. I stare into her high-cheek boned face […].
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