EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Keep Tech Engagement (and Effectiveness) Active. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 09/25/2019 - 10:10. The beginning of a new school year is exciting, but as the novelty fades and academic routines set in, emphasis on and commitment to new, technology-driven initiatives may wane. . This raises the question of how to ensure the related investments — whether its time, money or both — don’t go to waste, and that efforts to enhance learning with technology continue throughout the school year.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

My first presentation at a teacher conference was in 2012. My state foreign language teachers conference. I shared technology and teaching strategies I was using in my classroom. People paid attention. Clapped at the end. Told me what I had shared would help them. I was hooked. Since then, professional development has been a passion […].

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The labor market is changing rapidly. According to a recent report by McKinsey Global Institute , an overwhelming 60 percent of jobs are expected to be automated in the near future, leaving many workers across service industries — such as healthcare, retail, restaurant, hospitality, and manufacturing — uncertain about their futures. Today’s technologies make it possible for adult learners to develop skills for career advancement, but the lack of coordination across education provider

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Charles Sosnik. Whether you have kids in school, work for a school or simply watch the news, you know schools are dealing with a lot. They are going through a very difficult time, trying to modernize and keep up with the technological world around them. Schools are dealing with software complexity of it all as they transition to the digital world, yet they lack a general understanding of how to accomplish a tech-driven comprehensive redesign.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This summer I had the pleasure of working alongside my Education Elements colleagues to reflect on the incredible work our partner districts have accomplished in the past year. We had the opportunity to interview four districts, survey over 100 district leaders, and analyze thousands of data points. We also got to reflect on our own practices to see how we can improve.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In the last few weeks we shared with you a number of interesting free resources from OER Commons that you can use in your class for a wide variety of instructional materials (see resources on.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Creating and sharing digital stories is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy-related activities in class. To this end, we curated for you this collection of some of our.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Spotting a converted school bus on the road is always a cool experience. What replaced those beloved rows of seats, and how did the vision for such a project originate? Many people use a converted school bus as the foundation for a tiny house, others create traveling vacation homes, and others use a converted school bus for charitable or educational purposes.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Coding with Minecraft All 5 of my kids (ranging from ages 7 to 15) love Minecraft. To this day my 15 year old can still spend hours playing Minecraft. For many kids, Minecraft is engaging and provides a context they care about. Minecraft education edition has a library of pre-made lessons. There is even a […]. The post Coding with Minecraaft appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We are excited to bring you the very first in a series of eSchool News Guides, which are full of resources, tips, trends, and insight from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. The eSchool News Robotics Guide offers expert insight on why robotics is quickly becoming a cornerstone of classroom instruction.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI. The email, signed by Illuminate CEO Christine Willig, says customers must switch to a new system, recommending by name Aequitas, Aeries, Infinite Campus and Skyward because they “have solid integration protocols” between thei

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

My motto and philosophy for my school library is “expect the miraculous.” Inspired by my favorite author, Kate DiCamillo, I encourage students and educators to keep their eyes open to the world around them to find the miraculous things that happen all the time. But this can be especially hard for educators faced with embracing new technology every year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

While content may be king, content creators sometimes struggle to pay the bills. Cue CreatorUp , which aims to equip aspiring creative professionals with the digital media skills they need to find work. To support that effort, the startup has raised $1 million in a seed round from a group of investors that include Metallavon VC, an early-stage investment fund based in Greece, and LearnStart, the seed fund affiliated with edtech investment firm Learn Capital.

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Jamf on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Our recent webinar highlights seven tools/services that integrate well with Jamf to provide a great experience for end users and admins alike.

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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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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We can no longer avoid teaching about climate change because it’s not in our content area or curriculum guide, writes teacher leader Dina Strasser. Educators can’t shield children from “eco-anxiety,” but they can give them hope and the knowledge and skills to take action.

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Jamf on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Our recent webinar highlights seven tools/services that integrate well with Jamf to provide a great experience for end users and admins alike.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Raising the risk of poor school performance and dropping out, more than 8 million children in the United States miss 15 or more school days each year. That’s approxmately one in every six students. This hidden education crisis is even more widespread for families living with incomes below the federal poverty line, with the percentage of students missing a month or more of school nearly doubling to one in every three.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The five DigCitCommit competencies – inclusive, informed, engaged, balanced, alert – are designed to focus less on a list of DON’Ts and more on a proactive approach of DOs that challenge students to stay safe, solve problems and become a force of positivity.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This past weekend I had the honor of attending and presenting at SLJ’s 15th annual Leadership Summit in Baltimore. The focus of this year’s event was Equity and Access for All: Igniting Stakeholders for Success. Our friends at SLJ curated a truly inspiring opportunity to learn and share, gathering an impressive group of thought leaders from a variety of fields to inform our efforts to serve and include all members of our communities.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

DreamBox Learning Math is an interactive, adaptive, self-paced program that provides engaging activities for students to learn and practice skills in mathematics.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It’s uncommon: I am experiencing flow in my writing right now. Part of it is due to my confidence plus the interest in the topic I am writing about ( instructional walks ). But I should also give credit to a strategy I learned recently. In his book Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence , William Kenower shares two questions writers should ask themselves: What do I want to say?

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The phrase “Thank God for Mississippi” when discussing education is no longer applicable. The Magnolia State, which once kept other states from a last-in-line ranking, has now become a national leader in improving student learning outcomes. What has contributed to this dramatic turnaround? It’s been a commitment at every level – state, district, school and teacher – to prioritize early literacy.

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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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Faster, smarter and more interactive – a new generation of learning

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Welcome to our #AskExcelinEd series on the National Summit on Education Reform (#EIE19)! Follow along for sneak peeks at the can’t-miss conversations we have planned for #EIE19 taking place in San Diego, CA November 20-21. Today, Cara Candal , ExcelinEd’s Director of Educational Opportunity, and Sam Duell , ExcelinEd’s Charter Schools Policy Director, highlight two strategy sessions covering how states have established high-quality private education choice, as well as how charter schools

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Prodigy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The concept of mathematics is completely based on the relationship between numbers and symbols. These math symbols are used to perform different mathematical operations and represent various mathematical concepts. And though students sometimes find it challenging to use complex math symbols to solve math problems, these symbols are intended to make it easier to refer […].

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Turnitin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Some students believe that they can "beat" Turnitin by employing various tactics.

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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.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. I promised I would pose at least 3 key questions around this context. In my follow-up post, I posed a key question for teachers to answer if they wished to become successful online educators.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This article was originally published on The74million.org and is republished here with permission. By Greg Toppo. In 2013, attorneys at the California Innocence Project , weighed down by a backlog of casework, turned for help to an unusual group: humanities students at High Tech High Chula Vista, a nearby charter school. The students, all juniors, trained on a past case handled by the San Diego nonprofit, which reviews pleas from prisoners who maintain that they’re innocent.

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Turnitin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Some students believe that they can "beat" Turnitin by employing various tactics.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

AR-kid: Space is an excellent iOS app for kids ages 4 on up and uses augmented reality to teach about Space. This is done through a robot named Cosmo who narrates through 4 different aspect of space: (i.e. rocket, orbit, moon, and solar system). This is all done using augmented reality where a kid interacts w/ virtual rockets, moon landings, etc. I highly recommend checking out AR-kid: Space by clicking here !!!

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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