The CoolCatTeacher
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers on episode 202 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Children as young as four can start coding, but not in ways you might think. Today, Dr. Marina Umashchi Bers from Tufts University discusses her research findings about what works (and doesn’t) with young children in the classroom.
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Working memory, sometimes called short-term memory, is the part of your brain’s memory capacity that deals with immediate tasks. Remembering directions, where you saved the document you were just typing, or what you said you’d pick up from the store are all tasks that require effective working memory. It’s especially important for kids to develop strong working memory to help with literacy, social skills, and confidence in the classroom.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
DECEMBER 5, 2017
“In comics you see the drawing, you see words, you see rhythm, you see the story.” - Lorenzo Mattotti. Students enjoy learning with comics and creating them. Comics help students visualize their learning. I’ve gotten students to create comics to illustrate logical fallacies , summarize articles, provide instructions, and express themselves.
Doug Levin
DECEMBER 5, 2017
As quoted in: Schaffhauser, Dian. “ The Problems with FERPA and COPPA in 21st Century Learning.” T.H.E. Journal. 5 December 2017. Doug Levin, president of EdTech Strategies, suggested that the two agencies review their rules from the perspective of school student data security. Levin, who maintains the “ K-12 Cyber Incident Map ,” noted that both sets of regulations “presume that schools have the resources and knowledge to assess their own data security practices, to say nothin
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EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Schools can embrace cloud tools without compromising security.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Adam Henderson began receiving a flood of reports from across his district’s 17 schools saying their Chromebook devices were no longer working. Henderson, who is the Director of Technology Systems at Nassau County Schools in Florida, was among the many educators who experienced the issue, which caused Chromebook devices to logout of existing internet accounts and fail to reconnect.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Continuous Learning In The 21st Century Classroom contributed by Felicia Zorn Students who are nurtured in a blended learning environment develop the skills and necessities to experience college and career success. When exposed to digital, personalized instruction, students are allowed to explore and expand their talents and interests. We are forging a generation capable of […].
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 5, 2017
December 5, 2017 Blended learning is a pedagogical approach to learning and teaching that marries digitality with classroom learning activities. It is both a mode of instruction and learning that has.read more.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 5, 2017
At the University of Pennsylvania, the Graduate School of Education is located directly beside the Wharton School, the campus’ business school. As a master’s student at Penn GSE during the past year, I often considered popping in next door, attending events at Wharton or even taking electives there to explore my interest in the cross-section of education and business.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 5, 2017
According to LD Online , the formal definition of executive functioning is “a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation.”. The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers.
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.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 5, 2017
What does it really mean to prepare students for a future in coding careers? Clive Thompson, a freelance writer for Wired and The New York Times magazine, thinks the reality is not as rosy as many people think. In a popular Wired article titled, The Next Big Blue-Collar Job is Coding , Thompson criticizes pop culture and some writers, like himself, for overly romanticizing the notion of the ‘lone genius coder’—the Mark Zuckerbergs and Mr.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2017
James Lawrence, a 2017 graduate of the Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, holds wooden duck decoys he made for an art credit his senior year. Photo courtesy of Susan Johnson. James Lawrence planned to open his own welding business after his 2017 graduation from the Robert W. Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine. Last year, he spent part of his school days at the local technical center, learning welding, preparing to make his vision for his future a reality.
TeacherCast
DECEMBER 5, 2017
In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at how general education teachers can infuse Coding and Programming lessons into their curriculum and package them neatly to be distributed through Google Classroom. As educators across the world celebrate Computer Science Education Week, it’s important to remember that STEM education, Coding, and Programming […].
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Evaluating Apps for the Classroom is an excellent free short interactive eBook (15 pages) created by Apple Education to be read on iBooks. As its title indicate, this guide is meant to help.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.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2017
City Year member Shawn Wiyninger greets a student at Webster High School. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Research found that a $3.5 billion federal program meant to fix the nation’s lowest-performing schools — which focused disproportionately on high schools — did little to improve student achievement.
ProfHacker
DECEMBER 5, 2017
According to their website, Rambox is a “Free, Open Source and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.” Now, when I saw “app,” I assumed it would work on my phone, but it was not on Google Play store, so when I went to their website, I discovered it was an app for Windows, Mac and Linux.
MIND Research Institute
DECEMBER 5, 2017
At Pomona Unified School District in southern California, educators knew they needed a better way to reach all of their students when it came to math education. With a high English Language Learner (ELL) population, including many pre-kindergarten students, Pomona USD searched for a way to make math more accessible. They decided on ST Math, a visual learning program that builds a deep conceptual understanding of math.
Shake Up Learning
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The post Every Student Should Publish for the World! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Give Your Students the World! Give them a Global Audience! Part of your Dynamic Classroom Should Include Going Global! Bring the world to your students, and bring your students to the world. It’s also our job, as teachers, to give students a global audience. It is so easy now to allow students to publish their work online for the world.
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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
Gaggle Speaks
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Who is ultimately responsible for the safety of K-12 students, school districts or parents and guardians? When confronted with issues of student safety, the natural human response often consists of projecting blame upon others. “Others” might be culpable, but a better response begins with an assessment of one’s own responsibility. It’s perfectly understandable for schools and districts to shift the blame on parents and guardians.
The Principal of Change
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Writing can be a great way to release ideas stuck in your head, but it can also be overwhelming when you feel you have nothing to share at the moment. Personally, I try to blog three times a week because if I didn’t force myself to do it unless I had to, I probably would not do it at all. Pushing myself to write often and consistently has opened up ideas in my head that I didn’t necessarily know were there until I used writing as a medium to not only express my thoughts but as a tool for learnin
EdTechTeam
DECEMBER 5, 2017
I have a small group of Tier 3 fifth grade students. They’re all at different places and each one of them is a struggling reader for different reasons. One thing they had in common was not being able to articulate the differences between fiction and nonfiction. They couldn’t tell me what made something non-fiction. They could tell me fiction is “not real” and non-fiction is “real,” but if I dug any deeper, they sat silently or just shrugged their shoulders.
Marketplace K-12
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Professional development platform BetterLesson and China-based English language learning company ALO7 raised funds. The post K-12 Dealmaking: BetterLesson Raises Funds, and Instructure Makes Acquisition appeared first on Market Brief.
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.
techieMusings
DECEMBER 5, 2017
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll see that I recently tweeted that one of my new goals is to use Pear Deck to create student-paced activities with questions that ramp up in difficulty to help students discover new ideas & promote higher-order thinking skills. Since I find that having students chat their ideas out in these discovery-based activities is usually most effective, I looked to Flipgrid to assist in reaching this goal.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Beginning on September 13 th , the hacker group known as the TheDarkOverLord Solutions, the same hackers that breached Netflix’s servers, breached a Montana school district’s server and stole personal information including addresses and medical records. The hackers made contact with school officials and families making violent physical threats late on Wednesday the 13 th and the following Thursday.
EmergingEdTech
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Want a uniquely fun (and free) way to engage students in learning? Why not use comics as a way to spur student learning? In fact, I challenge you to set up an occasional 20-minute comic strip segment. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The only student test data that really matters, says education consultant Debbie Silver, is timely, diagnostic information telling educators what their students know and can or cannot do. With that data, they can plan instruction and fine-tune teaching practice.
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.
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 5, 2017
It’s one of AASL’s Shared Foundations in the new National Standards. It’s identified as a leadership area on the Future Ready Librarians Framework. But what does it look like when the school librarian really dives into digital curation? A little while back I had the opportunity to create a video on school librarians and social media curation with our Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information’s Social Media and Society Cluster.
Fractus Learning
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Growing up, our generation did not use words like ‘Google’ or ‘Siri’. We were the pioneers of the tech era. We played Oregon Trail, asked Jeeves questions for our research, and waited for hours while Napster […].
MiddleWeb
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Listening to the voice of your customers is one of the best ways for an organization to understand how best to deliver a seamless, delightful experience. But it’s no easy. The post Congrats! CX awards recognize Three, Argos, Tesco, and other U.K. companies for stellar customer experience appeared first on ForeSee.
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 5, 2017
What does the impending FCC shift away from net neutrality mean for education and technology? Yesterday I posted my interview with EDUCAUSE’s policy director. Jarret Cummings explained that organization’s position in favor of net neutrality. Today the Chronicle of Higher Education published a column by the leaders of two more education and technology organizations.
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