Ed Tech from the Ground Up
AUGUST 20, 2018
An interview with William Lau, the author of "Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools," withadvice about avoiding common misconceptions about teaching the subject. The post Teaching the Power of Computing Through Supportive Guidance appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2018
How K–12 School Districts Can Best Prepare for Ransomware Recovery. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/20/2018 - 09:15. No matter how many layers of security school districts put in place to stop ransomware, it’s inevitable that, at some point, an endpoint will be infected. Since January 2016, there have been 355 cybersecurity-related incidents against K–12 schools , including ransomware attacks, according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. .
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The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 20, 2018
Katie Martin on Episode 341 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Katie Martin, an ISTE 2018 keynote, talks about the importance of putting learners at the center of your innovation model. She starts with the questions we need to ask ourselves and our students and talks about what learner-center innovation looks like.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 20, 2018
Many of my most popular articles are about mouse skills. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers visit Ask a Tech Teacher to find resources for teaching students how to use a mouse. No surprise because using a mouse correctly is one of the most important pre-keyboarding skills. Holding it is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break.
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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.
Ditch That Textbook
AUGUST 20, 2018
Precious minutes are lost each class to administrative tasks. This post looks to share a few tools that can help increase efficiency and enhance productivity in the classroom while also integrating technology seamlessly into lesson plans. 1. Classroom Screen My favorite tool that I have come across in 2018. Classroom Screen is a free website […].
Edsurge
AUGUST 20, 2018
“Here's how this lesson is going to apply to a job you may someday have.” These are important words to Jennifer Johnson. Spoken by her favorite university professors, they bridged the gap between classroom theory and workplace reality and went a long way toward preparing her for a 15-year career in accounting. Jennifer Johnson, University of Texas at Dallas Not all of her teachers adopted that approach, however, and Johnson recounts moments where she struggled to apply academic theory in her dai
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eSchool News
AUGUST 20, 2018
According to Hill for Literacy , about 66 percent of fourth-grade readers cannot read proficiently, which often translates into a growing achievement gap for these children. Why is reading such a difficult task to learn and teach? While humans are born with a natural ability for spoken language, reading is much different. In fact, Dr. Vera Blau-McCandliss, vice president of education and research at Square Panda, said that reading is a relatively new and unnatural phenomenon which she described
TeacherCast
AUGUST 20, 2018
Welcome back to a new school year! In order to personalize professional learning for your teachers, one of the first things to do is assess the skills of staff members. But that isn’t the only time. There are plenty of opportunities where a simple survey can yield great results. The question that often comes up is “what should a technology self assessment look like?
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 20, 2018
Most students are excited to get back to school, but anticipate lots of rules and mundane tasks to begin the year. Why not hit the ground running? Teacher educator Curtis Chandler has ideas to create a good first impression with plenty of fun, challenge, and learning.
TeacherCast
AUGUST 20, 2018
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Nick and Jeff take a look at the many ways that school districts can assess the technology skills of staff members. For many tech coaches, the collection of useable and actionable data is the basis for their entire programs. In this show, we take a look both at traditional surveys that tech coaches can use as well as nontraditional assessment methods for quickly identifying skillsets of individual staff members.
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.
EdTechTeam
AUGUST 20, 2018
Student Voice empowers kids of all ages to share their stories, perspectives, and passions which allows them to develop so many important life and academic skills. It inspired the creation of a non-profit called the Student Voice Foundation. In order to take the concept of this film festival worldwide, the Global Student Voice Film Festival was born.
TeacherCast
AUGUST 20, 2018
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Nick and Jeff take a look at the many ways that school districts can assess the technology skills of staff members. For many tech coaches, the collection of useable and actionable data is the basis for their entire programs. In this show, we take a look both at traditional surveys that tech coaches can use as well as nontraditional assessment methods for quickly identifying skillsets of individual staff members.
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 20, 2018
A3. I turned my entire syllabus into a welcome back game. Now it’s a team challenge through 10 stations with action-oriented work products at each so we never have to read the class rules again. Day 1 empowerment. Please steal it! [link] #hacklearning pic.twitter.com/tf4dgK5ka7 — John Meehan (@MeehanEDU) August 19, 2018 A Gamified Syllabus Guest […].
TeacherCast
AUGUST 20, 2018
In this post, we look at several reasons for creating an educational technology self-assessment and provide a FREE downloadable template for use. The post Should Schools Be Asking Teachers To Self Assess Their Tech Skills And If So … what Would That Look Like? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational 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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 20, 2018
A couple of weeks ago we shared a collection of iPad apps for back to school and today we are featuring another collection inspired by iTunes App Store's Get Ready for School. These are apps we.
Veative
AUGUST 20, 2018
The great bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, was of the view that education should be a ‘joyous exercise of our inventive and constructive energies’. As an educator, my interest in VR therefore lies in understanding its role and potential in spearheading changes in our educational ecosystems. Although, change, as Larry Cuban rightly points out, is often entangled together with the constant when it comes to school environments, rather than an either/or dichotomy as reformers would have us belie
eSchool News
AUGUST 20, 2018
Change is an ongoing exercise, and in schools and districts, every year is marked by shifts. Some of those are major, some minor, but there is little doubt that we are constantly dealing with change. Surprisingly, it’s one area on which we don’t have a good grasp. In fact, when asked about having a change model in place, very few districts identify a specific approach but do identify long-term change as an ongoing challenge.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 20, 2018
Crello, the popular visual creation platform, has recently released an interesting new feature called Animation Maker. With this new addition, Crello users are now able to create animated designs.read more.
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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
Teacher Tech
AUGUST 20, 2018
A3. I turned my entire syllabus into a welcome back game. Now it’s a team challenge through 10 stations with action-oriented work products at each so we never have to read the class rules again. Day 1 empowerment. Please steal it! [link] #hacklearning pic.twitter.com/tf4dgK5ka7 — John Meehan (@MeehanEDU) August 19, 2018 A Gamified Syllabus Guest […].
Prodigy
AUGUST 20, 2018
Whether you’ve been teaching for years or it’s your first day as a full-time teacher, the first day of school is usually accompanied by some anxiety — no matter how prepared you might be. It’s the same for students. Uncertainty about friends, teachers, and schoolwork is enough to make the most extroverted students a […]. The post 17 Fun First Day of School Activities to Try appeared first on Prodigy Blog.
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 20, 2018
New Oriental Education & Technology Group, which calls itself the biggest provider of private educational services in China, says it plans to invest $220 million in ed-tech companies in its home nation. The post China’s Biggest Private Ed. Company to Invest $220 Million in School Tech Market appeared first on Market Brief.
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2018
Cross posted at the #NYCSchoolsTech blog. Learn about the innovative practices going on with some of New York City’s most passionate educators and supporters. The latest #NYCSchoolsTech Podcast was recorded live at our annual #NYCSchoolsTech Summit where NYC Schools most innovative teachers come together to share ideas, network, and learn from one another and about what’s new in the world of ed tech.
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.
EdTechTeam
AUGUST 20, 2018
TODAY on EduSlam we released Creating Empathy with Coding. To watch the video which was released today but will disappear on Sept 4. Sign-up HERE. cross-posted from kevinbrookhouser.com. Many in the EdTech community have been exposed to various ways students and teachers can use Google Forms, Sites, Docs, Slides, and other platforms to create interactive branching logic “choose your own adventure” style activities.
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2018
Professional development can take many forms. The most powerful professional learning is relevant and actionable. I’m so excited to share a new online course from a former colleague and fellow Participate author. Finding Success in Your Co-Teaching Partnership is now open for enrollment, and you’ll want to check this out! Co-Teaching Partnership As a classroom teacher, I had the opportunity to teach in a co-teaching placement.
Educator Innovator
AUGUST 20, 2018
Joe Dillon summarizes the eight texts, author partnerships, and annotation conversations that comprise “Writing Our Civic Futures,” the 2017-18 Marginal Syllabus collaborative web annotation project. This marks the second year the Marginal Syllabus has engaged educators in social reading, collaborative web annotation, and public conversation. Through partnership with the National Writing Project , the 2017-18 open professional learning project explores civic imagination amidst a shifting litera
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2018
Did you ever wonder how music travels from a radio station to a radio receiver? How do the sounds travel through air and buildings and everything else in between you and the station? Celebrate National Radio Day (8/20) by learning all about radio waves. [ Everyday Mysteries: Light of a Lighthouse ] Courtesy of Knovation.
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.
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 20, 2018
Storyboard That the innovative educational tool that teachers everywhere are using in a variety of ways (i.e. digital storytelling, project based learning, graphic organizers, etc) just released a bunch of new clip art for their storyboards. Users can now find new characters, scenes, items, and more by clicking here. Also, Storyboard That released a bunch of new activities and resources for educators in subjects such as: Science, ESL, Social Studies, and more.
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2018
The Tech&Learning news feeds are reporting some rather ominous trends in the annual back-to-school stories that appear this time of year. Simone Stolzoff in Quartz writes about the use of AI tech to surveil students: “In an age of mass school-shootings and increased student suicides , Safety Management Platforms can play a vital role in preventing harm before it happens.But the software also raises ethical concerns about the line between protecting students’ safety and protecting their priva
Technology Tidbits
AUGUST 20, 2018
Code Kingdom: Treasure is an excellent free iOS app to introduce coding/programming to young students. The way this works is a user drags-n-drops code (i.e. Scratch) to have their character/troll maneuver around a board and collect an item or treasure. The better a player does the more levels they unlock (over a 100). Code Kingdom helps students develop their critical thinking, spatial ability and to work and solve problems.
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2018
Type to Learn, a game-based keyboarding curriculum, has partnered with Clever to simplify the login process for students. Schools using Type to Learn can now have their students connect to Clever’s web-based platform to use Type to Learn’s next-generation software. Cleverprovides a single sign-on for all software used in a school. [ Ultimate Resource Guide for the NEW Google Classroom!
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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