A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 12, 2016
Recently I was able to enjoy some time home with my family after what had been a brutal stretch on the road speaking and presenting. My wonderful wife had been holding the fort down in my absence so I was ready and willing to help her out in any way that I could. Thus, she asked if I could take our daughter to cheer practice the entire week and I immediately obliged.
EdTech4Beginners
JUNE 12, 2016
I recently wrote an article for the Times Educational Supplement (TES). It was about my experience of technophobia as a teacher and how I overcame it. Click here to view the full article. Have you experienced technophobia? Let me know by commenting below. Tagged: edtech , education , learning , teaching , technology , technophobia , TES.
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Battelle for Kids
JUNE 12, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 4. Driving Question: How can we leverage real-world work to prepare students for the workforce? Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost. Whose responsibility is it to help students explore their career options? Who can best help each find his or her road to travel by?
MiddleWeb
JUNE 12, 2016
Each school year Cheryl Mizerny's 6th graders explore three whole novels as a class. In this post, she shares the 10 techniques she's developed to maximize the experience, including "reading like writers" and applying fiction's life lessons to their own world.
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The Jose Vilson
JUNE 12, 2016
I’m not at a loss for words. I’m at a loss for the right words. I’m looking for words that might heal. I’m looking for more than a proclamation, more than #NotOneMore. I want to be told that our elected officials will do more than just pray. I want to let these perfect words embrace my mind and heart. I then want to express these words to the 145 students I’m seeing tomorrow, all of whom have seen massacres happen across the country with little to no action.
TeacherCast
JUNE 12, 2016
In this episode we welcome Jaime Valente and Willis Dunbar of the Teaneck Community Charter Education Association. Jaime is a music teacher and the local association president, and Willis is a 5th and 6th grade social studies teacher. The post #NJEA Members Making a Difference in NJ’s Public Charter Schools appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 12, 2016
So, your PLN is raving about a new product or program that has made teaching and learning better than ever and you want to bring this to your classroom too. Since you work for a school though, it’s not 100% up to you. You need buy in and support from your principal to allow you to move forward. That’s not always easy, unless you know the following secrets to success shared by former @NYCSchools Principal Jason Levy ( @Levy_Jason ), who now advises principals and superintendents on how to develop
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 12, 2016
June 12, 2016 Mozilla Learning Network provides a wide range of web literacy materials to help educators and teachers incorporate the digital skills of the 21st century learning. It offers free.read more.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 12, 2016
I love Chromebooks because they make the work of dedicated programmers available to kids in classrooms all over the world. In Episode 6 of Beyond the hour of Code,I talk about the power of Scratch and a couple other web-based programming platforms When I first heard about Scratch, I thought it was just about making […]. The post Programming for Creative Self-expression on Chromebooks by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 12, 2016
June 12, 2016 After we have reviewed a number of important Google Scholar tips, today we are sharing with you this equally important functionality provided by Google Scholar called ‘Library’. Google.read more.
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
JUNE 12, 2016
PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. PowerSchool Purchases Haiku Learning: The K-12 education solutions provider acquired Haiku Learning , provider of a cloud-based learning management and classroom collaboration solution designed to meet the needs of K-12 educators.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 12, 2016
June 12, 2016 Below is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: creating and managing to-dos, reminders and notes; design.read more.
Teacher Tech
JUNE 12, 2016
A Twitter chat is usually exactly 1 hour with a structured set of questions. This is a great way to engage with other educators and have a dialog around different topics. I have a guide to participating in a Twitter chat. If you are looking for Twitter chats check out bit.ly/educhatcalendar. Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck to […]. The post Twitter Chat Strategy: Put it at the End appeared first on Teacher Tech.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 12, 2016
Are you thinking of making the shift from your current email to Gmail? Are you trying to figure out how Outlook features translate in the Google world? I need to make a confession at the top of this post. I am NOT a big fan of Gmail. I honestly don’t get it. It’s big and […]. The post 7 Steps to Becoming a Gmail Power User appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.
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
JUNE 12, 2016
President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Sept. 8, 2003. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite. Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy.
My Paperless Classroom
JUNE 12, 2016
This week I am thrilled to present a very special edition of Educational Podcasting Today. In this episode, Jason Tucker from WPBlab and WPWater Cooler and I shared a live Blab session where we each had an opportunity to discuss our philosophies on WordPress, Podcasting, and running a digital media network. The post What Happens When @WPBlab and @TeacherCast Interview Each Other?
Learning with 'e's
JUNE 12, 2016
I presented this latest version of my digital literacies model at the 2016 Solstice Conference hosted by Edge Hill University. The components in the model are by no means exhaustive - I acknowledge there are many more literacies, some of which are emergent due to new technologies and services. What I have attempted here is to represent what I consider to be the most important, or most regularly observed literacies and try to place them in context.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2016
The urgency of protecting LGBTQ youth has now been revealed. It is eerily prescient that two days before Sunday’s terror attack aimed at the gay community in Orlando, Florida, black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, sexually questioning and queer young adults gathered in Washington, D.C. for the first Summit on African American LGBTQ Youth. The youth who attended that summit had to have shuddered with feelings of vulnerability Sunday.
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MiddleWeb
JUNE 12, 2016
As product placement ads invade more of our visual space, educators can use the trend as a hook to engage students in critical thinking about what it means to be media literate. Expert Frank Baker uses the NBA's 2016-17 plans for jersey advertising as an example.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JUNE 12, 2016
The post 5 Smart Ways To Use Digital Images In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.
EmergingEdTech
JUNE 12, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … teachers can try the Minecraft. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Principal of Change
JUNE 12, 2016
“Grades do not tell the story of a child.” Most educators, parents, and human beings would agree with this statement. Yet how are we helping change this narrative, and encouraging and empowering students to tell their own story? The beautiful thing about this time in the world is that it is becoming so much easier to make this happen, but it is also becoming more important.
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.
techlearning
JUNE 12, 2016
Augmented reality transforms paper blocks in chemical-reaction sim.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
JUNE 12, 2016
We all know that building rapport is critical for strong classroom management. But how exactly do you DO that? Today, I’ve invited teacher Richard James Rogers (author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know ) to share strategies and examples from real classrooms. . Have you ever noticed that some teachers just seem to be admired and well-liked by their students?
Turning Learning On Its Head
JUNE 12, 2016
A 2014 study indicates that 46% of U.S. principals expect that new teachers to the profession should already know how to flip a class upon graduation from a teacher training program. There is also a growing body of research which demonstrates that flipped learning is showing significant growth in student achievement, satisfaction, and teacher satisfaction. .
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