Mon.Dec 05, 2016

article thumbnail

#BLinAction Book Club – Join the Conversation!

Catlin Tucker

Join the conversation on blended learning! After just two months, there are over 2000 readers engaged in Blended Learning in Action ! I am excited to announce the start of our #BLinAction book club discussions to help readers stay connected and share ideas about each chapter. We’ll take a deep dive into one chapter per week. The book chats will run “slowchat” style with one thought and one question posted per day throughout the week.

article thumbnail

3 Things to Celebrate in Honor of Computer Science Education Week

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez K–12 school districts have many reasons to cheer for computer science this week.

Education 295
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

15 YouTube videos all educators must see

Ditch That Textbook

Whenever I work with teachers, I always have a YouTube playlist handy. It has videos that always seem to resonate, entertain, educate or inspire. I constantly find encouragement in videos that others share. And in a world where well produced, stunning videos can be created by virtually anyone, it’s easier to find than ever. Here [.].

Video 191
article thumbnail

Improve your students’ ability and confidence in maths with DoodleMaths.

EdTech4Beginners

DoodleMaths is a maths app, perfect for use in the classroom. It is fully aligned to the UK national curriculum and aims to improve ability and confidence quickly. Learning and teaching maths has never been so simple. My students absolutely loved playing the games and quizzes. What sort of content is there on the app? Watch the video below to view a typical game / quiz: How can I use it in the classroom?

EdTech 180
article thumbnail

Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

article thumbnail

How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey ), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. Among the teachers I know who are always looking for ways to save their limited pennies, Google Forms is a run-away favorite.

Google 171
article thumbnail

Nominated For A UK Blog Award, 2017!

EdTech4Beginners

I am over the moon to have been nominated for a UK Blog Award! I’d be really grateful if you vote for EDTECH4BEGINNERS – just follow the link below (it takes less than 10 seconds). Click here to vote. Tagged: awards , blog awards , edtech , education , teaching , technology.

EdTech 116

More Trending

article thumbnail

Google Classroom: Pull Student Paragraphs and Give Feedback

Teacher Tech

Google Classroom: Pull Student Paragraphs and Give Feedback I like to joke that the “Make a copy for each student” option is really the “Make a giant pile of paperwork for yourself” option. When you ask students to use the “Create” button and create a Google Doc or you give them a template on a […]. The post Google Classroom: Pull Student Paragraphs and Give Feedback appeared first on Teacher Tech.

Google 87
article thumbnail

Code.org Brings in Serena Williams, Draymond Green to Promote Sports-Themed 'Hour of Code'

Edsurge

December 5 kicks off another annual Computer Science Week and Hour of Code , and with it, nonprofit Code.org is bringing a few more celebrities into the coding fold. This time, it’s a collection of athletes that includes basketball’s Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, tennis star Serena Williams, and soccer players Sergio Ramos and Marcelo Vieira of Real Madrid C.F.

STEM 96
article thumbnail

Digital Storytelling Wheel- Apps and Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 5, 2016 The digital storytelling wheel is a graphic we created a few months ago based on the chart below. The wheel features a number of interesting apps and web tools ideal for digital.read more.

Tools 87
article thumbnail

Missing the Boat on Our Country's Greatest Export

Edsurge

Education is not often considered an export in the U.S. A public good, yes. A public service, yes. But, when it comes to the education of international students, education is also an export. Why? Because quality education is a multiplier; the effect of which is both educated, empowered students as well as the change that those students activate in the world around them.

Trends 94
article thumbnail

Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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.

article thumbnail

A Taxonomy For Transfer: 14 Ways Learners Can Transfer What They Know

TeachThought - Learn better.

Author information. Terry Heick. Director at TeachThought. Founder & Director of TeachThought, humanist, technologist, futurist, failed philosopher, macro thinker extraordinaire. | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ |. The post A Taxonomy For Transfer: 14 Ways Learners Can Transfer What They Know appeared first on TeachThought.

article thumbnail

Google Released A New Citation Feature in Google Docs to Help You Easily Cite Your Sources

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 5, 2016 Google announced today the release of a new important feature to Explore in Google Docs. A citation feature has been added to Explore allowing users to easily cite their sources with.read more.

Google 87
article thumbnail

Is this graphic novel STEM education’s secret sauce?

eSchool News

Educators and STEM advocates are always searching for engaging ways to keep students interested in STEM–and a new graphic novel that uses computational thinking to teach students to code might be the next big thing. It’s no secret that STEM jobs, especially computer science, are growing more rapidly than the pool of qualified candidates to fill those jobs.

STEM 87
article thumbnail

Alphabetizing Books Quickly: QuickSort, Insertion Sort, and Bubble Sort

ProfHacker

Sometimes, the video that would’ve been helpful for you arrives right after you’ve completed a task. Over the past few months, I’ve been gradually relocating my books from my basement at home to my office at work, thus symbolically completing a move that’s now 3+ years old. Once I got them all to work, they were piled on my shelves, and so I needed to quickly sort them.

article thumbnail

Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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.

article thumbnail

Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

The nation’s colleges and universities will soon face a demographic reckoning: A new report projects that the total number of high school graduates will decline in the next two decades, while the percentage of lower-income and nonwhite students will increase. The Topic: Composition of future high school classes. Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them.

Report 0
article thumbnail

Appreciating What, Where and How Boys Read

Fractus Learning

Recently, I asked a boy in seventh grade, a football player and video game fanatic, how many books he had read in the last 6 months. He responded, “two books for summer reading… maybe three if comic books count.”. Then I asked him, “what would get you reading for 15–30 minutes every day, between going to football practice and playing your video games?

iPad 78
article thumbnail

3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. While these leaders are certainly needed to help us shift our thinking and culture around teaching and learning, they should not stay the only authority on a topic for long.

Edcamps 75
article thumbnail

5 Resources to Inspire Students During Computer Science Education Week by @sarah_daren

My Paperless Classroom

For many students, computer science is a daunting field. Getting them excited at school is a great way to foster the next generation of innovators in the field. Computer Science Education Week’s mission is to help educators bring that enthusiasm into the classroom with some great resources. Here are just 5 suggestions of the many […]. The post 5 Resources to Inspire Students During Computer Science Education Week by @sarah_daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Networ

article thumbnail

Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

article thumbnail

Empower students: Classroom Management in the Digital Age

EdTechTeam

I’ve had the pleasure of being in and around 1:1 classrooms for nearly 5 years. Initially I was purposeful with my planning and reflecting, and over the years I became more and more comfortable with my ability to weave the technology into my curriculum in a natural way. In order for technology to be successful in the classroom, it can’t be a special event that happens once a week.

article thumbnail

How to make a book with your students … the old fashioned way. By @SamPatue

My Paperless Classroom

There are about a million variations on this that your could call the history of publishing. My kids are going to make new folios when they fill these, and at the end of the year we can bind them all into portfolios. The post How to make a book with your students … the old fashioned way. By @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

How To 70
article thumbnail

How to Integrate Growth Mindset Messages Into Every Part of Math Class

MindShift

Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way she started to feel like it just wasn’t for her, even though she was doing well in all her classes. Thinking that she’d just chosen the wrong application for her love of math, Good switched to math education, where she first encountered the idea of stereotype threat from a guest psychology speaker.

How To 61
article thumbnail

Practical Entrepreneurship

My Paperless Classroom

In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Spotlight Series Podcast, we welcome MIE Expert Ole Johnny Devik on to the program to discuss how he is bring the world of business and marketing into the classroom. The post How do we teach our students Practical Entrepreneurship? | @Microsoft_EDU @OneNoteEDU #MIEExpert appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

article thumbnail

Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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.

article thumbnail

We need more black people rooting for tech entrepreneurs, not just football players

The Hechinger Report

View from the Superdome field before the game between Grambling State Tigers and Southern University Jaguars on November 26, 2016, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA. Grambling State Tigers won 52-30. Photo: Stephen Lew/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. The National Interest: Once a month, this column is tackling broader questions about what the country should do about gaps in achievement and opportunity, especially for boys of color, in a partnership with The Root.

article thumbnail

Using Google Slides in Language Intervention

SpeechTechie

ASHA 2016 in Philly was a whirlwind, and given a few other busy weeks following it, I am still sort of flummoxed that it has come and gone! I enjoyed presenting with Nathan Curtis and Amy Reid of Waldo County General Hospital in Maine on resources that can be used for co-engagement and co-creation in interventions both in-person and via telepractice.

Google 57
article thumbnail

Obama administration tries to smooth path back to school for jailed students

The Hechinger Report

If you’re young and caught up in the justice system, most likely you’re stuck with subpar educational opportunities too. Students in prison, jail, detention centers or correctional facilities often receive fewer days of instruction than their peers, less access to math and science classes, and more teacher absenteeism, according to federal data released Friday.

System 56
article thumbnail

K-12 Dealmaking: Eagle Eye Networks CEO Acquires LivingTree

Marketplace K-12

VoLT, a startup based in India, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from YMS Mobitech, a tech-based distribution company, according to press reports. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Eagle Eye Networks CEO Acquires LivingTree appeared first on Market Brief.

Company 57
article thumbnail

The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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.

article thumbnail

Never Hold a Learner Back Based on What You Don’t Know

The Principal of Change

Going through university to become a teacher, my goal was to become a kindergarten teacher. This was what I trained for and it is what I wanted to do. Before I was even done university, I had an interview for a kindergarten opening at a school division near to where I lived, and I was ecstatic. The interview was going great, and I felt I had the job, only to find out later that they decided to go with someone else.

Video 57
article thumbnail

In the marketplace: Measuring student progress, new digital solutions, personalized learning, and more

eSchool News

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. Check below for the latest marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. A new web-based tool will offer far greater ease and clarity for state and district leaders seeking to set learning goals and measure progress under the

article thumbnail

December App Ed Review Roundup: Grammar Apps and Websites

EmergingEdTech

Good Grammar = Better Oral and Written Communication. Bring on the Grammar Apps to Pump up This Vital Skill Set. Do your students think grammar is a drag? Do they find their grammar worksheets and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

article thumbnail

Our Stories Connect Us

Reflections

I am always struck by how much a story sticks with me. Sure, I remember parts of the research and reasons why certain strategies are better to use than others. But, words from personal experience always stick with me. At a recent PD session with an incredible facilitator, the power of a story was there. He told the group about his own schooling story (I won't give it away here as it is not mine to tell) and it just didn't seem plausible.

article thumbnail

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.