Sat.Dec 30, 2017

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How To Become An Edupreneur: The Top 5 Voices You Need To Follow

EdNews Daily

An edupreneur is an entrepreneur who works within in the education sector. Edupreneurs are usually mission-driven and live for bringing to light positive impact. They can be found building new education organizations and businesses, developing the latest edtech tools, running new schools, and giving keynote speeches around the world. They lead with a 21st-century education mindset and are known globally inside and outside of the classroom.

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Who is the Right Customer: Decisions for Managing Customer Surveys

Teacher Reboot Camp

Who is the Right Customer: Decisions for Managing Customer Surveys Lynn Hunsaker. Collecting customer feedback can be trickier than it sounds, as you navigate through decisions for sample selection, timing, frequency, numeric rating and open-ended questions, and so forth. Among your decision criteria, a frequent request of your stakeholders may be: “please interview the ‘right’ customers”.

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Creating A High-Performance Culture

The CoolCatTeacher

In his book, The Responsible Leader , Tim Richardson explains that to create a high-performance culture , you need to plan and prepare for the following moments to ensure the conversations surrounding them are both meaningful and intentional: recruitment and induction of new team members performance management discussions promotion interviews and talent management discussions coaching discussions customer sales presentations handling customer complaints and problems briefings to the press, analy

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Why We Must Embrace Benevolent Friction in Education Technology

Edsurge

Benevolent friction—the concept of being soft on people but hard on ideas—is an approach to constructive engagement and innovation that I’ve long embraced and brought to DreamBox Learning over seven years ago. We find that benevolent friction is a catalyst for thoughtful and candid dialogue that leads to creative ideation. It’s in our DNA and has made us stronger as individual contributors, team members, and devoted shepherds of our customers’ experiences.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Google Classroom: Emoji Feedback

Teacher Tech

Leave Student’s Emoji’s for Feedback I think many of us wish Google Classroom allowed us as teachers to add attachments or pictures to student assignments (leave feedback!). One hack I have for this is to ask students to create a Google Drawing I can leave Bitmoji’s and other feedback on. Obviously, that has its drawbacks. […].

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12 of The Best Books for School Leaders

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Successful school leaders are those who inspire, innovate, motivate, empower and create engaging school culture conducive to meaningful learning. They are always forward thinking and embrace.read more.

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Success Quotes from History’s Greatest Entrepreneurs

SpeechTechie

While there’s an abundance of contemporary entrepreneurs worth quoting, I’ve long had a fascination with legendary entrepreneurs who built many of the early cornerstone industries of the 20th century and earlier. From Henry Ford to Ray Kroc and Coco Chanel to Estee Lauder, they all faced enormous odds in not only creating new business models.

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Bookcast Episode #2

Adjusting Course

Bookcast is back and kids are buzzing about the books they're reading. Episode #2 featured some incredible students having authentic conversations about all things literacy. This episode also contained December's Principal Read-Aloud choice and a sneak preview of our school's next "Build-a-Book" LEGO wall title. (We're so inspired by what our students are creating!

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The Stories We Were Told in 2017 about Education Technology

Hack Education

I wouldn’t say these are all the stories about education technology we were told this year. But these are the ones I decided to analyze: Education Technology and Fake News. Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel. Education Technology and the Business of Student Debt. Education Technology and the Power of Platforms. The Weaponization of Education Data.

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Creating More Value Than You Capture

EmergingEdTech

As an aspiring consultant, it is easy to see what you stand to gain from this career choice: high salary, high status, strong networking opportunities, and attractive exit options. But a more productive question might be, what do you plan to contribute? With the arrival of the internet, we entered an age of hyper competition where firms (and individuals) are able to provide much more value than ever before.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Creating A Mindful Life In A Distracted World

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Our eye is intently focused on the finish line, while life is happening now. This “now” is flying by at lightning speed. The post Creating A Mindful Life In A Distracted World appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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The Importance of “Sales” in Education

The Principal of Change

I am embarrassed to admit it, but I do like the clickbaity type titles more often than I should. When I saw the title, “ The 1 Interview Question All Great Bosses Ask to Hire for Potential (Hint: Mark Cuban Says It’s the Secret to Success) ,” I was interested in reading it just because I thought it would be something that was either common sense or ridiculous.