Catlin Tucker

MARCH 3, 2020

Spring is testing season. Students sit through lengthy state-mandated tests, and many high school students are preparing to take the SAT. It can be an exhausting and stressful time for them. Years ago, I recorded a collection of 30+ SAT vocabulary videos to help my students prepare for the SAT. I know many families cannot afford SAT preparation courses or tutors, so I wanted to create resources and practice activities that would build students’ confidence as they prepared to take the SAT.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter If you’re using the Google Suite for Education, Google App Scripts can save you time. Alice Keeler talks about how she programs Google App scripts, some add ons she’s made, and some you can use to help improve what you’re doing in your classroom! Today’s Sponsor – Free Classroom Management Webinar: On Monday, March 16 at 8 pm learn from classroom management expert Linda Kardamis how to r

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2020

Teachers around the nation are being called to integrate computational thinking into their classrooms to prepare all students to thrive in a computational world. To do this, teachers need meaningful professional learning experiences and resources to integrate computational thinking in equitable, authentic, and sustainable ways. Computational thinking leverages problem-solving processes used by computer scientists (e.g., abstraction, problem decomposition) in application to data practices, algori

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Waterford

MARCH 3, 2020

Here’s a fast fact: over 60% of all misunderstandings come from poor listening and only 1% from poor reading.[11] If you don’t currently teach your students specifically how to listen, it may be time to add activities to your curriculum that strengthen this skill. The benefits of strong listening skills may begin in class, but they extend through all aspects of your student’s academic and personal lives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Open educational resources have gone global and may help make learning more accessible, equitable and inclusive around the world. So says the new Educause Horizon report , which identifies technologies and trends that are changing higher education. This year’s forecast was created by nearly five dozen higher education experts, a third of them from institutions outside of the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

There’s a plethora of options for K–12 teachers to earn certifications that can help them hone their craft, give them a professional edge and positively impact their students’ learning. Take educational technology certifications , for example, which many educators attain not only to keep up with the latest digital tools and learn how to integrate them in the classroom, but also to connect with others for ideas and support in tech-driven teaching strategies.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

Professional development can be a challenge at many schools. Educators are pulled in a million directions during the school week, and PD often becomes an afterthought among a pile of other responsibilities including grading homework, planning lessons and attending staff meetings. Nonetheless, it still needs to get done. Taking a page from her own experience as an elementary school teacher, Stefanie Crawford, an instructional coach at Dunlap Community Unit School District 323 in Peoria, Ill., h

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

How can teachers keep any racial or cultural bias they might have out of their classrooms—and make sure every student feels equally valued? That’s a question more educators and education leaders are asking these days. It’s part of a growing awareness that teachers need to be more intentional in how they design classroom activities, and how they talk and act to make sure they reach all students—even ones who don’t look like them or who come from very different backgrounds.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

How is higher education responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak? (If you’re new to this blog, I’ve been tracking the virus since it appeared in January, as part of my broader project of studying the future of higher education. You can find all of my posts about the topic here.). The virus continues to spread. I won’t summarize that here today, because of time, but you can find more from these sources.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

MyBuddy, an artificial intelligence-powered English tutoring app, features a friendly robot that guides children through speaking exercises. And this week, it found a new pal in Edwin, a developer of an eponymous chatbot that also uses AI to provide language instruction. They’re so cozy, in fact, that the two companies have merged, and MyBuddy.ai will become the brand for the combined entity.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is another of our popular posts published in 2017. This is a step by step guide to help teachers create class websites using the new Google Sites. Teachers will particularly learn how to add.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 3, 2020

A post by EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord. Recently I had a conversation with a school director of technology who was wondering how to help teachers identify “entry points” for innovation in their classroom. It made me think of conversations I had on this topic years ago with Dr. Justin Reich of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab in a run-up to a book we were writing together.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 3, 2020

This post is by Holy McRae, a principal at The Learnershop Academy in Tyler, TX. You can connect with Holly through email at hmcrae@theleadershipacademytyler.com Have you ever been required to present on certain topics to students or staff? Can you remember the dread you felt -- especially if you wanted to at least keep them conscious? I […]. The post Stakeholders: Every educator’s secret weapon appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 3, 2020

Do You Waste Your Time Giving Feedback? Feedback is effective for learning. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development basically says you can only get yourself so far and you need someone to push you further. This is what we do as teachers, we help kids get further. This means we can not just accept their initial […]. The post Giving Feedback Wastes Your Time appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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

MARCH 3, 2020

Spring arrives a day early this year, and testing season won’t be far behind. No matter a teacher's opinion of standardized testing, most will be engulfed in the annual ritual soon. Curtis Chandler distills strategies to help teachers and students cope successfully.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2020

In the age of technology, it’s important to use the plethora of apps, online tools, and learning platforms to our advantage, and not just use technology for technology’s sake. Many companies realize the importance of learning and collaboration, and have developed systems that help promote this, as well as education as a whole. Here are a number of online tools that can benefit both students and teachers, either in the classroom or in their own personal lives.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 3, 2020

The post The Power of Student Entrepreneurship – SULS052 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Have you ever struggled with creating engaging activities for your students that provide hands-on learning and real-world knowledge? Chris Aviles joins me to chat about the power of student entrepreneurship and how you can use it in the classroom. His students are creating businesses, raising money, and using that money to help change the world.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s March, so I suppose it makes sense to talk basketball. And I thought it might be just the right time to reimagine a post I wrote several years back. I confess that my knowledge of the game is limited to my experience watching my son Matt from the bleachers. Here’s what I do understand. Matty always played point guard. He’s fast, but he was never the fastest kid on the court.

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techlearning

MARCH 3, 2020

Throughout the K-12 learning landscape, assessment practices are changing to embrace assessment for learning, not assessment of learning. Consistent with 21st-century learning and the benefits brought on by better assessment tools, assessment is becoming more student-centric, offering educators the insights that will help them determine the best instructional next-steps and how to make learning more personal for the individual student.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 3, 2020

For those of you interested in learning about the history of marketing operations, the visual below from Wrike has you covered. It provides a quick overview of the evolution of the marketing.

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Turnitin

MARCH 3, 2020

?From motivations to expectations, here are five learning characteristics instructors need to know about their students as they plan their course.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2020

CTOs juggle countless district challenges – they have many high-profile systems, implementations, and changes they manage each year. At times, some of the biggest headaches are the low-priority projects that are complex by nature and time-consuming, but that also have a large reach in our districts. Technology leaders from across the nation shared and discussed some of these district challenges at CoSN’s 2019 conference ( Editor’s note : Stay tuned for coverage of CoSN’s 2020 c

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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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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 3, 2020

Each month on the MIND blog, we share stories of how our organization, our partners, and educators across the country are advancing the mission to mathematically equip all students to solve the world’s most challenging problems. We also share resources for educators and students, and cover some of the exciting events we take part in across the country.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

How is higher education responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak? (If you’re new to this blog, I’ve been tracking the virus since it appeared in January, as part of my broader project of studying the future of higher education. You can find all of my posts about the topic here.). The virus continues to spread. I won’t summarize that here today, because of time, but you can find more from these sources.

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MindShift

MARCH 3, 2020

As a young math student, Rachel Eng memorized formulas and theorems, but she never learned about the mathematicians who developed them. Nor did she hear about the controversies and dramas that surrounded their ideas. If math had a history, she never encountered it. “It gave me a sense that math was a really abstract subject with no grounding,” said Eng, who is now a teacher.

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Turnitin

MARCH 3, 2020

?From motivations to expectations, here are five learning characteristics instructors need to know about their students as they plan their course.

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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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Neo LMS

MARCH 3, 2020

During the spring, I notice that sometimes we need to create some different learning opportunities for our students, to keep pushing through strong to the end of the school year. It is a good time to try some new ideas and engage students more in learning through choices in how to show what they know. Finding time to explore what is out there and getting started can be a challenge sometimes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

“Messy.” That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students. By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s one thing when the school Wi-Fi goes down or a projector won’t connect to a laptop. School IT teams are adept at handling those everyday classroom emergencies. But what about a fire or a weather-related crisis — or worse? Districts will depend on IT to help facilitate evacuations and reunifications. What’s the first step to take? Being able to communicate.

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Sell Courses Online

MARCH 3, 2020

The post LearnWorlds Review (2020) – Is It the Right Option for Your Courses? appeared first on Sell Courses Online. If you’re reading this review, you’re interested in using LearnWorlds for your online courses and are wondering whether it is the best option for you or not.LearnWorlds offers some very unique features for course creation and engagement and this is the main reason why it has gained in popularity in the already crowded online course … LearnWorlds Review (2020) – I

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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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