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AUGUST 3, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The College Board hopes its new program will bring women and minorities into the fold.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2016

#StaplesforStudents Twitter Party with $2,000 in Give aways From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tonight Erin Klein and I are hosting a Twitter party with @Staples and @DonorsChoose. We’ll be using the #StaplesforStudents hashtag. We’ll give away $2,000 in prizes to some lucky members of the chat.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 3, 2016

Every time I see friends or family members, they ask, “How’s the business going?”. And every time, I struggle to answer. It was easy to talk about work when I was a reporter. After all, I could simply describe the stories I was covering—like the future of a nuclear power plant, or a trend of drug overdoses. However, as the founder of Listenwise , my ed-tech startup, there are so many facets to my role it’s hard to give a short, comprehensible answer to this question.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 3, 2016

Guest article written by: Bob McDonald. . Year after year, educational institutions continue to pour funding into digital technologies, updating classrooms and curriculums for a heavily digitized 21st-century. While it often seems that each new semester brings another digital arts endowment or emerging technologies grant, very few of these investments focus on actually updating campus-wide technological frameworks.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 3, 2016

"Preaching to the choir (or the converted - for secular appeal)!” This phrase sums up the amazing experience of sharing our district’s story amongst a room full of skillful professionals working on the same mission in education. It was exhilarating to learn as much as we were able to share, if not more, at Education Elements' Personalized Learning Summit in San Francisco.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Are students using mobile technology in their daily lives? Undoubtedly yes. Are they using similar tech for learning in the classroom? Not really, according to recent research based on classroom observations. The new study, conducted by the accreditation organization AdvancEd, put observers inside U.S. and international classrooms for about 140,000 observations during a three-year period.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2016

As educators, we often refer to ‘Wait Time’ as the time between when you ask a question and when you expect an answer. Cast out a question to your class and if you don’t provide wait time, then when the first student begins to answer (takes a bite), all your other students are ‘off the hook’ and no longer need to think (or follow your lure).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need. Keep in mind that most teacher-prep programs do not incorporate digital citizenship alongside the other elements of teacher education.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 3, 2016

How do we write student-centered lesson plans? Get started by writing your lesson plans always from the perspective of the student. What are the students DOING? Do your students mention “teacher is” or “I am”? Clearly, you are doing something, but how can you reword this from the perspective of what the students are doing? […].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Math and metacognition took the spotlight last week at Stanford’s Center for Education Research. On July 29, the latest class at the university’s Learning, Design and Technology Program presented their thesis projects. Five of the 16 projects on display explored ways to teach students how to think about their own thinking and learning, commonly dubbed “metacognition.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 3, 2016

The post Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge appeared first on TeachThought.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new open-access book came across my social media feed a couple of months ago, The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities. The book itself is a great resource for those looking to get started with digital humanities approaches to doing media studies. What I didn’t realize was that the book is a part of a larger project, which has produced a cool tool, the Arclight app.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 3, 2016

In today’s post, we are introducing you to a collection of important add-ons to use on your Google Sheets to create smarter spreadsheets with beautiful designs and more sophisticated functionalities.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. Around 5 million children in U.S. schools are learning English as a new language, about one in ten students. English learners represent the fastest-growing student group nationwide. More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 3, 2016

As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus.read more.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

According to over 70 education IT specialists, current LMS functionality is great for administrative tasks, but doesn’t provide support for the new learning approaches in today’s schools. The next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE), says a report by EDUCAUSE, will need a “Lego” approach, where components are built that allow individuals and institutions the opportunity to construct learning environments tailored to their requirement and goals.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Last fall the Department of Education announced a pilot project to open up financial aid to students in unaccredited education programs, such as coding bootcamps. Bootcamps and universities that have teamed up to submit proposals for the “Educational Quality through Innovative Partnerships” (EQUIP) program are still waiting for the green light from the department.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. For instance, tools enabling digital credentialing help students display their learning accomplishments in ways that colleges and prospective employers appreciate, while online learning platforms and online resources make it easier for teachers to organize materials, find digital teac

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Students in Kelly McCarthy’s first-grade classroom end the period with a vocabulary word game. Photo: Emmanuel Felton. SYRACUSE, N.Y. — There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Year after year, regardless of whether the city’s students fare better or worse on state tests, they declare victory — claiming the top spot among New York’s big city districts.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 3, 2016

Think of something you’re really good at. Something that is important in your career and something you are proud of. It could be your ability to manage a classroom well. It could be that you have found the key to get children to begin reading. Maybe you are great at making videos. Whatever that thing is, take a minute to think about how you learned to be good at this thing.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 3, 2016

Each unit of Heather Wolpert-Gawron's latest Project Based Learning book is filled with innovative ideas and detailed steps to implement rich PBL units. Sandy Wisneski, lead teacher in a PBL school, says the book's guides and resources will engage students.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 3, 2016

[ This is a guest post by Nabeel Siddiqui, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at The College of William & Mary, where his research focuses on personal computers and the intersection of the public/private sphere. You can find him online here.--JBJ ]. It’s safe to conclude the ProfHacker staff are fans of David Allen’s Getting Things Done.

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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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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 3, 2016

There’s nothing like fresh school supplies for the classroom to get you excited about the new school year. However, a limited budget can sometimes dampen your spirits a little. The good thing is that Staples , one of the largest office supplies chains in the country, understands this dilemma and offers four ways for teachers to save money while refreshing their stock of school supplies. 1.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 3, 2016

By Guest Blogger Sarah Sparks. Cross-posted from the Inside School Research blog. Seymour Papert, an education technology and artificial intelligence research pioneer whose theories augured both today’s digital learning and maker-education movements, died this week at his home in Maine. He was 88. Papert was an expert and groundbreaking researcher in both artificial intelligence and child development, and he was a passionate advocate of using educational technology creatively to push stu

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 3, 2016

With a focus on digital safety, you can rest easy knowing your young scholars are safe, engaged and excited to learn. Here are a few ways to keep everyone safe while learning with technology in the classroom. The post Your Crash Course on Digital Safety in the Classroom appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Edutopia

AUGUST 3, 2016

Joshua Block Education Equity To create equity in their schools, educators must seek to validate and acknowledge students, expose and reveal the unseen, encourage questioning, and facilitate reflection.

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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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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many people these days spend too much of their time clicking on things they simply don’t need to. Did you know there are several ways to access your gmail messages? In this video, we will take a look at the three simplest ways to access your important email messages. The post Intro to Gmail: 3 Great Ways to Save Time when accessing your Gmail account appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Edutopia

AUGUST 3, 2016

Matthew James Friday Literacy Postcards may seem like relics of the snail-mail age, but they can still provide an exciting, fascinating entree into literacy for new readers and writers.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 3, 2016

Augmented reality (AR) is education, version 3.0. Imagine students walking on the surface of Mars inside their classroom, or creating artwork that can dance. Educators can use AR to create strong learning experiences for their students. Through AR, this is all possible. Augmented Reality: An Overview. Augmented reality places a layer of digital information on top of the real, physical world.

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 3, 2016

Are you really making the most of your email application? Learn why Gmail Labs can be your new best friend when attempting to achieve #INBOXZERO. The post 9 Gmail Labs Features You Should Be Using Today! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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