EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

AI, Personalized Learning Are a Dynamic Duo for K–12 Classrooms. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/20/2018 - 12:48. During back to school season, so many things are new. New students. New teachers. New learning. New school or district wide initiatives, including new software. . Yet, for all that’s new, there are certain things that don’t change. For the last decade, some of the most common initiatives have been about increasing personalization and using technology. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Episode 365 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. What are the essential things we need to teach students about digital citizenship? How can we simply help them understand using examples and research (because we know lecture doesn’t work so well on this topic.) All of the nine topics that I like to teach begin with P: passwords, property, photographs, permissions, privacy, professionalism, permanence, and protectio

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the third blog in our series on higher education challenges (rising costs, declining completion rates), exploring how innovative colleges and universities are addressing them, we’ll look at funding. To clarify: I’m not referring to private colleges, which are necessarily defined as “for profit”, or indeed the growing class of online for-profit educational resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

New teachers quickly realize that one size doesn’t fit all in the classroom. Students are wonderfully different in the way they learn, listen, and absorb. While teaching to the majority sounds good superficially, let’s look at the math: A majority is 51%. That means 49% may not get what you put out there. The popularity of personalized learning makes it abundantly clear that those numbers just aren’t good enough anymore.

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As teachers, we make microdecisions in our classrooms constantly. We’re always analyzing and trying to do what’s right for our students. In a short period of time, we might think … Is she having a hard day? Maybe she needs a pat on the back and some encouragement. He really seems to gravitate toward that […].

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, named Philadelphia in 1681 after the Greek words philo (beloved, dear) and delfo (brother)—hence, the City of Brotherly Love. The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and mo

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

8 Strategies To Make Learning Visual In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff & Jackie Gerstein, TeachThought PD Facilitator How about some strategies for visual learning? Though the idea of ‘learning styles’ has fallen out of favor in education, the idea that there are different methods of ‘ingesting’ information and that differences between and across these methods […].

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A public university in North Carolina has teamed up with six community colleges to offer a program that promises students they will pay no more than $10,000 out of pocket for their four-year degree. Participating students will attend a g two-year college in the state to get their Associate’s degree, then transfer to an online program at Fayetteville State University to finish their bachelor’s.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

30 Storytelling Tips For Teachers: How To Capture Your Students’ Attention by TeachThought Staff Storytelling has been around as long as humankind. It is one of the most effective ways to communicate an important truth to another person. It is a connection point between two people. It gives meaning, context, and understanding in a world […].

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

STEM learning is a cornerstone of education in today’s K-12 schools, but STEM classrooms often aren’t all that inspiring to students who are blind or have low vision. So much of science is based on sight and observations, and when students who have vision challenges are forced to stand off to the side and listen to classmates’ observations about experiments or data, they lose some of the excitement that goes along with scientific discovery.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Over the last few months we have reviewed a number of interesting web tools and mobile apps teachers can use to collect students feedback. And as we have argued elsewhere, access to students feedback.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Effect size is a way of describing the magnitude of the difference between two groups. It gives us a way to use the same measuring stick to show the importance of a difference between one group and another. Research studies use effect size as a metric to show the impact of a variable compared to the control group. Why Is Effect Size Important? For example, picture two cypress trees that are 2 feet in diameter.

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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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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Google Drive Folder in Google Classroom Google Classroom is Google Drive management. When you log into Google Classroom for the first time a folder is created in your Google Drive called “Classroom.” Within that folder is a folder created per class. Class Folder Each teacher and each student has their own Classroom folder in Google […].

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I am always looking for new ways to get to know my students. Over the past two decades, I have attempted dozens of different types of icebreakers in my classes; some were successful and others were a total failure. When I started teaching in smaller towns, I noticed that many high school and middle school teachers skipped icebreakers because they assumed the students already knew each other.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Google Drive Folder in Google Classroom Google Classroom is Google Drive management. When you log into Google Classroom for the first time a folder is created in your Google Drive called “Classroom.” Within that folder is a folder created per class. Class Folder Each teacher and each student has their own Classroom folder in Google […].

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Telepresence: Helping to Overcome the Limitations of Distance Learning Over the last few years, we’ve seen technology redefine the traditional student/teacher dynamic, creating opportunities. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Tech Helpful

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Lately I've been thinking about the impact urgency has on the educational process. There are times curve balls are thrown at our otherwise normal day and we have to adjust to move forward or to help others move forward. It seems there are three big categories that cause a sense of urgency to come out: When things fail. Whether it be the wifi going down, a lesson plan flopping, or a student dealing with a broken relationship.

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SecurEdge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

There’s no shortage of advice on how to measure WiFi performance. Heck, a quick search on Google turns up a mind-numbing 231 million results. But when you dig in, how much of this information is valuable to you if you’re trying to remedy problems with slow WiFi?

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I am visiting a district in Pennsylvania soon, and as a “Twitter Challenge” before I join them, educators were encouraged to send some questions to me ahead of time. I have tried to respond to some tweets on Twitter, but I wanted to respond to this one through my blog: Question for you, @gcouros : Change is one of the hardest things for us to do (as humans), yet we preach it as educators.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This guide is a great tool for any educator, school district, or higher education institution, writes Dr. Charice Hayes. The book involves the reader in defining effective ongoing assessment and includes tools to observe how other colleagues use formative assessment.

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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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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Bad behavior is a snowball effect—it grows and grows until it can’t be stopped. If teachers don’t have a system in place for addressing that behavior from the beginning of the year, they will appear to have a lack of credibility and authority. In his recent edWebinar , Shannon Holden, Assistant Principal of Republic Middle School in Missouri, went over essentials for setting the school year up for success by starting out on right foot.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Dina Brulles and Karen L. Brown help teachers think through the challenges of grouping and offer resources to develop effective groups and differentiate as needed for specific purposes. Teacher Kathleen Palmieri finds the author's guidance on behavior particularly helpful.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

– ‘Beyond the Sale: Careers That Deliver’ Virtual Field Trip Underscores Pathways to Career Readiness through 21st Century Skill-Building – Silver Spring, Md. (Thursday, September 20, 2018) – The National FFA Organization, Tractor Supply Company, and Discovery Education – the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms – are teaming up to host a new virtual field trip entitled Beyond the Sale: Careers That Deliver at 1:00 p.m.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In their newly updated book Michael J. Graham and Jason Borgen have a lot to offer, not just about using Google Tools, but also about integrating technology into the classroom in innovative and thoughtful ways, says teacher and middle school coordinator Jeny Randall.

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Tucson, AZ – Sept. 20, 2018 — Illustrative Mathematics (IM) today announced it has partnered with Khan Academy to provide free practice exercises tightly aligned to its highly-regarded curriculum, IM 6–8 Math. The problem-based core mathematics curriculum for grades 6–8 is designed to enable students to learn by doing, solving problems in mathematical and real-world contexts, and constructing arguments using precise language.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Abby Kiesa, Director of Impact for CIRCLE and D.C. Vito, co-founder of The Lamp , highlight the need to combine media literacy and civic education efforts, in order to help students move beyond media consumption and into informed action. Issues of media literacy rose to prominence during and after the 2016 presidential election, a context that illustrated the critical connection between media literacy and civic engagement efforts.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The FBI certainly is busy these days. Besides all that "other stuff" going on, the agency released this announcement last week alerting the public to cyber threat concerns specifically in regards to students: "Malicious use of sensitive data could result in social engineering, bullying, tracking, identity theft, or other means for targeting children.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Companies funded by New Markets Venture Partners will receive help from the IMS Global Learning Consortium on "interoperability," or district demands for seamless integration of data across ed-tech products. The post Venture Capital Firm, Standards-Setting Group Forge Partnership Around Interoperability appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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