Catlin Tucker
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Too many students view mistakes as a bad thing to be avoided. The truth is that mistakes are inevitable. We need to start treating these moments as opportunities to learn instead of something to be ashamed of. In this post, Sarah Dunn , a high school math teacher, shares the strategy she uses to get students thinking critically about mathematical mistakes.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
As classroom coaching grows rapidly as a form of teacher professional development, districts are increasingly outfitting schools with not just one, but multiple coaches, with each playing a different role. For example, in one school we visited as part of our research on the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP), an early-career math teacher described receiving coaching around technology use from his DLP coach, content area coaching from a district-level math specialist, day-to-day mentorship on teachin
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Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Josemaría Carazo Abolafia, is an educational researcher and teacher who lives in Spain–and doesn’t own a car! He has a Masters in Ed from Penn State University (any Nittany Lion fans out there?) and is working on his EdD. Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” Here’s his take on the use of videos in education: Multimedia content as a way to learni
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Steve Sharp talks about tools schoolcounselors can use. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter School counselors are unique. They have unique needs as they help guide students and perform duties at their school. Today, guidance counselor, Steve Sharp helps guidance counselors know the tools that can help them level up.
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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.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
After a student stood in class and said he had a bomb, word quickly spread among other students. “It was not fun for the next three hours,” recalled Mike Jolley, who at the time was a high school principal in North Carolina’s Cabarrus County Schools. Officials evacuated the school, and the student was arrested. At one point, the student said he had tried to join a terrorist organization.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Welcome to my Groundhog Day Posting. As you know this last weekend was filled with Ground Hog Day and Super Bowl, and the amazing TCEA conference is this past week. All of you in Austin… enjoy your week. If you are a fan of PBL, I think you will enjoy my story. This is a true venture into my right brain! Just saw Dan Pink at FETC! You may wonder how I connected groundhogs with 21st Century Learning.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
An analysis of 71 studies finds that peer discussions and group work boost learning. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. One of the hallmarks of so-called “progressive” schools is freedom for students to talk to each other in class. Students aren’t required to sit quietly all day, obediently listening to a teacher lecture or silently completing an assignment on their own.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
When you imagine a modern classroom, what do you see? Are there rows of forward-facing student desks? Is there a lectern or a teacher’s desk at the front of the room? Increasingly, that’s not the reality. Educational technology and emerging workforce trends are key reasons why. Instead of sitting quietly in rows of desks, students are encouraged to move around and collaborate in groups.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
By now, we’ve all heard about STEM, the acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math education. Most people have heard of STEAM, which includes arts education along with STEM and allows students to be more creative in their exploration of more technical subjects. And it’s not a far leap to assume a lot of educators are familiar with makerspaces, which offer open-ended creative spaces for students to explore these concepts as they engage in project-based learning or attempt
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Think about innovations and technology features such as touch screens, predictive text, flexible seating and voice dictation. . What do they all have in common? They all are accommodations created for people with disabilities that eventually went mainstream. Occupational therapists in special education were among the first to use flexible seating for students with disabilities, Christopher Bugaj, the assistive technology specialist for Loudon County (Va.
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.
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
As we start a new decade, EdWeek Market Brief checked in with two ed-tech CEOs to learn what they think the future holds for the industry as it serves K-12 schools. The post Khan Academy, DreamBox Learning CEOs Share Ed-Tech Future Predictions appeared first on Market Brief.
Teacher Tech
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Color Code Your Google Sheets with a Checkbox I like to joke that the greatest invention of my lifetime is checkboxes in Google Sheets. They are SO EASY! Use the Insert menu and choose checkbox. Boom! Now when you check that checkbox, you want something to happen. How about cells light up?! Highlight Range of […]. The post CHECK the Conditional Formatting appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Dunce Capital doesn’t sound like a name that a company would want on its cap table , especially one that’s in the business of making people smarter. Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. The irony of the name—a play on the dunce cap—is not lost on its managing director, John Danner. While the term today is often associated with stupidity, that was not always the case , he points out.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Kids love the learning games and toys they find inside the Rosie Bus, which is set up like a mini-preschool and comes right to the door of children in rural Kentucky who otherwise have few viable preschool options. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. MANCHESTER, Ky.— Inside Rosie Bus, a colorful minibus that crisscrosses the countryside here in eastern Kentucky, Paisley Barrett, 4, surveyed a tray filled with clear round containers.
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
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
How do colleges and universities decide which courseware to use? With so many options to review, how do you determine which are most relevant to your goals? EdSurge contacted 16 institutions working with Every Learner Everywhere , a network that supports innovation in teaching practices, to learn about their preferred procurement methods. Below are seven steps to a successful process for selecting adaptive courseware.
Jamf on EdTech
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
This year's global education technology show Bett has a lot of gadgets and flash. But do they actually impact education?
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Students need structure, but that doesn’t mean monotony. For her math classes Michelle Russell recently spent a planning day collecting activities to start the New Year. As they returned, she introduced them to a math-friendly Simon Says, some Desmos routines, and fresh card sorts.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Pixton Comic Maker is one of our favourite tools for creating educational comics. We have already featured it in previous posts here in EdTech and mLearning. However, today we want to.
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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
TeachThought - Learn better.
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Edcamp is a participant-driven approach to professional development. The result is a teacher-centered, 'bottom-up' approach to teacher improvement. The post What Is Edcamp? An Overview For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Developing an eSports curriculum that nurtures positive gaming
Educator Innovator
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Our February reading for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus explores the multiliteracies among youth of color who constructed tributes to the city of Detroit and envisioned strengths in their communities. Researchers Vaughn W. M. Watson and Alecia Beymer write about the after-school Verses Project at Detroit’s Community Music School.
TAO
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Digital assessment technology was a focus at the recent Learn Launch Across Boundaries conference. FInd out where experts predict the industry is headed.
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
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Scientists have found a clue to how autism spectrum disorder disrupts the brain’s information highways. The problem involves cells that help keep the traffic of signals moving smoothly through brain circuits, a team reported Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The team found that in both mouse and human brains affected by autism, there’s an abnormality in cells that produce a substance called myelin.
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Creativity and play are children’s work. They build confidence, encourage risk taking, and ultimately shape the soft skills young people need to negotiate school and careers. But, as children get older, their playfulness and creative spirit wane. They aren’t so keen on trying new things and are often afraid of failing when they do. In a recent edWebinar , “Building STEAM Confidence and Creativity in Middle School,” educational technology experts described how enriching ST
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
No matter how organized you are and how much you’ve planned the day, you can’t control everything and everyone. Something always happens that you didn’t expect; sometimes, it’s a small thing other times it turns your [.].
techlearning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Peerless-AV will be featuring a variety of digital signage solutions, including the SmartMount® Flat Panel Cart for 55" to 98" Displays, SmartMount® Motorized Height Adjustable Interactive Touch Panel Cart, and Outdoor Smart City Kiosk with an Xtreme™ High Bright Outdoor Display.
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.
Fractus Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
A winning combination for family fun, water, and exercise are water bouncers and water trampolines for kids…and adults too! Trampolines on land provide hours of fun, but a water trampoline—now that’s a different, daring experience. A [.].
techlearning
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Adventure 2 Learning today announced the launch of its second generation educational technology platform.
Prodigy
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
February is Black History Month — the celebration of African American history, contributions and achievements that’s recognized annually across the United States and Canada. For teachers, it’s a great opportunity to teach with intention, honoring the tradition and showing students its importance, along with the importance of black history and culture.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
At the James Baldwin School in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, Javier Mata wears whatever he wants, leaves the campus for lunch and never has homework. It’s a far cry from where he was two years ago: a competitive, college-prep high school called Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering. At Columbia Secondary, which I attend, students wear uniforms and address their teachers as “professor.” A swipe-in machine tracks attendance and punctuality.
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