EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A combination of grants and donations will support computer science education for underserved students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Randy Zeigenfuss on episode 178 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Superintendent Randy Ziegenfuss talks about secrets of transformational district leadership. Encouraging innovation. The role of principals. The mistakes many districts make in transformational change. The importance of the district team.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Evaluation. Judgement. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” 1. …very little of the work we give students in school provides them with a sense that they are making a contribution to anything other than their own educational progress toward graduation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration?

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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.

Personalized Learning

Education Elements

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Yes, I said it in my title. Life-changing. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little. But as a former teacher, I met too many students who “hated (insert any subject here)” because they thought their textbook, worksheet, or homework material was boring, too difficult, or did not make sense to them. I also met too many fellow teachers who thought their curriculum was simply their textbooks (which they often didn’t like), and no more.

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Battelle for Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you are a regular BOOST Breakfast Club reader, you may have read my summer article, STEM and Wellness: Colliding Galaxies. The article explores a partnership sparked by a chance meeting at the 2017 BOOST Conference between the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the National Girls Collaborative Project. Three months later and our educational brief, STEM and Wellness: A Powerful Equation for Equity , is now live!

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Augmented Reality is nothing new for youth. It has been a part of student's social experience in apps like Snapchat and it made a big splash when Pokemon Go made its debut. But when it comes to learning, does it have a place? While seeing an object, insect, or animal up close in an augmented reality is certainly preferably to reading about it in your science text, is it really the best way to help students learn?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia learn to read. Photo: Emily Hanford | APM Reports. For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What do you do when standing in front of a room full of students who have suddenly surpassed your knowledge level as a teacher with 45 minutes of class time left? That was the situation I found myself in one day last year when teaching a unit on the basics of HTML for a pilot course on “Exploring Computer Science,” as part of Mississippi’s CS4MS initiative , a program aimed at exposing all students in our state to computer science.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Here Are 31 Haunted Places You Can Explore With Google Maps by Ashley McCann Have you ever wanted to play paranormal investigator? Would you like to explore America’s most frightening locations, both near and far? Maybe you’re looking for inspiration for some creepy curricula based around historical fact-finding? Have no fear, Google’s got your […].

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Ann Hall wishes people would return to William Strunk and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style.” Currently, she’s a professor in the comparative humanities department at the University of Louisville. She recommends Strunk and White to her undergraduate students, and asks her dissertation students to use it. She also uses Strunk and White indirectly, when she makes on students’ papers and during class discussions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

. Imagine you’re in high school. You’re dealing with all the regular teen worries, but the real bear is this: a significant percentage of your homework demands 24/7 internet connectivity and your family doesn’t have home access. The examples of assignments you receive that require internet access are frequent and daunting: Explain and evaluate “fake news.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2017

7 Tips For Parents Of Struggling Readers Literacy starts and ends at home. Teachers instruct, support, promote, and provide, but if the bulk of the reading and writing isn’t done at home for authentic purposes and self-directed recreation, it will always be a matter of academic proficiency. Which is like food being a matter of […]. The post 7 Tips For Parents Of Struggling Readers appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Between 1999 and 2013, the share of students in the bottom 40 percent of income at the University of Iowa dropped while those in the top 20 percent increased. Photo: Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. More than half of the country’s top public universities replaced low-income students with affluent ones over the past 14 years, according to a new report. .

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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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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Ontario college faculty are currently on strike. I know this because much of my social media feed has been filled with tweets and FB posts updating us on the strike issues and working on getting accurate information out to the public (and questioning the other side of the bargaining table ). One of the main issues that faculty are striking over is the treatment of part-time/contingent/partial-load faculty (and kudos for the tenured, full-time faculty standing with their colleagues), an issue nea

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Many of you are familiar with the four C’s of the 21 st -century learning framework : collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. But step back for a second and remember why you teach students in the first place–so they can be successful adults who contribute to society and thrive while pursuing a fulfilling career. This is why we add to our list of 21 st -century learning skills a fifth C: career readiness.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

October 25, 2017 Over the last few years we reviewed and shared a wide variety of educational web tools and mobile apps teachers can use to create educational visuals, classroom posters, flyers,read more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2017

When it comes to schools’ and districts’ ability to implement new technology tools and programs, cost and shrinking budgets are consistently identified as top barriers to implementation. And while budget woes won’t improve overnight, schools and districts can boost their available funds with grants that are targeted to different areas of need. Want to shrink the digital gap for low-income students?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

October 25, 2017 Google announced yesterday the integration of add-ons with Gmail. These are third party tools used to add more functionalities to Gmail. The same concept was already.read more.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A teacher stands at a white board in front of her fourth-grade class and begins teaching one of math’s most fundamental concepts: the meaning of an equal sign in the middle of an equation. This is not easy. Young students tend to think of the equal sign as the endpoint of a problem. Now, instead of the usual 8 + 4 = ?, they are asked to ponder 8 + 4 = ?

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 25, 2017

State legislatures have placed a huge emphasis so far in 2017 on improving the PD and leadership skills of K-12 superintendents and principals. The post A Big Push in States for PD, Leadership Skills for Superintendents, Principals appeared first on Market Brief.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Popular, Multi-Lingual Resource Platform Launches New Interactive Video Quiz Maker iSLCOLLECTIVE.com, is a publishing and sharing platform used by over 2 million ESL teachers, with resources. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

11trees.com announced new versions of their Annotate PRO apps for Office365 and Google Chrome, making it easy for teachers to create impactful feedback for learners. Optimized for Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Canvas, Google Classroom - the platforms you already love - Annotate PRO brings lightning fast access to comment libraries so you can write once, mindfully, and reuse forever.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Happy Halloween from JiJi and MIND Research Institute! If you're looking for a trick or a treat this all hallows eve, you've come to the right place. MIND colleagues love to dress up and celebrate, especially when there is food involved! Trick: Play a Spooky ST Math Game as a Class. Several of our tantilizingly tricky ST Math games have fun monster characters.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Whether you are an administrator weighing benefits and costs for classroom tech, or an educator writing a grant or appealing to your district budget leaders, here are a few important considerations t.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Video can be a powerful tool for classroom learning, and it's safe to say that teachers have never had more videos at their fingertips than they do today. But with so many videos on YouTube, how do you find the good stuff? You know, those perfect, one-of-a-kind, just-right-for-your-lesson videos -- the ones that make you think, "Oh, my students have to see this!

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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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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2017

“edWeb.net is your one stop shop for professional development opportunities. I enjoy becoming a part of the various online communities. By doing so, I am able to increase my technology tool box as well as collaborate with fellow teachers.” We are delighted to post this article by Brittany Fowler, a Freed-Hardeman University student in the M.Ed. in Instructional Technology Program: I would like to highly recommend to my fellow educators a website called edweb.net.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

These hot products offer added value, at any budget. View Sonic PS750W [link] This affordable alternative to interactive whiteboards has an ultra-short throw lens ma.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eigth annual world-wide collaboration on globally-connected education will take place around the clock starting Monday, November 13, and continuing through Thursday, November 16. This event is FREE to attend, but does require that you REGISTER!

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2017

EvoText partners with Instructure to integrate Ogment with Canvas learning management system.

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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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