The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sam Patterson on episode 201 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teachers don’t have to be experts or “geeks” to use coding to improve literacy, use higher order thinking skills, and excite students in their classrooms. Elementary and primary students can learn to code. For Hour of Code week this week, learn how you can go past the Hour of Code and use coding all year long!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2017

“Games are an extraordinary way to tap into your most heroic qualities.” - Jane McGonigal. Students love playing digital games and research shows that powerful learning can occur with game-based curriculums. This is why the first mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions , has students create video game walkthroughs for their peers.

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Battelle for Kids

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sharing our most promising ideas or strategies is great, but often we leave so much of the thinking behind our work invisible thereby severely limiting collaboration. As NTN has explored formal improvement science with our schools, some practical tools have surfaced. These tools provide promising ways of organizing local school improvement work while also making ideas more visible and accessible to others.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Computational thinking skills and other STEM creativity mark this celebratory week.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Every day it seems, the world gets smaller. Studies show that 244 million people worldwide live in a country other than their birthplace. Doesn’t sound like a lot? In fact, it’s a 44% increase from the year 2000. Where it used to be sufficient to teach students how to thrive in their home country, that falls woefully short in a world where the internet reaches everyone, anywhere, where geopolitical borders have little effect on international activities, where the customs and culture

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last spring we decided to launch a series of webinars since we had never done webinars before. We know teachers are pressed for time but eager to learn and hone their craft. We thought giving teachers and administrators the option of a free webinar might interest them and be convenient to listen to live, or view the recording in their own time. What we found blew us away.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I recently was at a meeting about what a good lesson looks like – but from solely looking at pupils’ work. From the main points of the session, I made a prompt card for my classroom which my pupils (and I!) find really useful: Here’s the high quality PDF if you want to print it: Have You Remembered… Lesson prompt card. Have you got any more tips or ideas?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

First passed in 1944, the GI Bill transformed U.S. postsecondary education and the course of the nation’s economic development in the late 20th century. Seventy-three years later, the latest revision of the law is poised to mark another turning point for the education and workforce landscape. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill, kicked off a college enrollment boom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Welcome to a very magical entry for 2017… one that has been a traditional post each holiday season. It is a time of year that I wish to express my gratitude to those wonderful educators that have welcomed me at their schools, webinars, and conferences and also join me at this blog and on twitter throughout the year. I would like to share with all of you a very special letter I found under my Christmas Tree many Christmas Eves ago.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Educators around the country this week are celebrating the Hour of Code, an international effort to bring awareness to computer science. But at Emma L. Johnston Elementary school (P.S. 241) in Brooklyn, students use words like “algorithm” and “loops” year-round—and with remarkable ease. Their teacher has an unlikely strategy to get them to that level of understanding: unplugging the tech.

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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.

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Elements Of A Digital Classroom by TeachThought Staff What makes up a classroom? Is it the space? A room, for example? Is it the purpose? Can a regular meeting space in a garden be a ‘horticulture classroom’? Is it the people? Can a video conference with eight people gathered to study chemistry be considered […]. The post The Elements Of A Digital Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A large-scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off-task student behavior. (Photo: Julienne Schaer/The Hechinger Report). Distracted students are the bane of teachers. In surveys, teachers complain about students walking around the classroom, talking with peers, staring at the walls and fidgeting with their clothes — anything but paying attention to the lesson or the

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What Is A Student Responsible For? by Terry Heick What are you doing to engage the students? How are you making sure they ‘pay attention’? What are you doing to make them care? How are you sparking their curiosity? Drawing their attention away from one another? Minimizing distractions? If a classroom was like a living […]. The post What Is A Student Responsible For?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

December 4, 2017 On the occasion of Computer Science Education Week, we are sharing with you this updated collection of helpful resources to help you introduce and teach kids and young learns.read more.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Setting up a structure for fundraising to support your students who want to travel is crucial regardless of their family income. Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. Carrie A. Olson, PhD, researcher and teacher at West Leadership Academy, Denver Public Schools, presented with Carylann Assante, CAE, executive director of SYTA and the SYTA Youth Foundation, in “ How We Helped 800 Students Participate in Educational Travel: Proven Tools

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Teaching Evaluation Is Ineffective & Outdated. Let’s Try Something New by Viktor Nordmark, Hubert.ai Student evaluations of teaching have looked pretty much the same since they were first introduced, close to a hundred years ago. To summarize what most think about them is pretty easy: Nobody likes them. They can’t accurately measure how effective a […].

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 4, 2017

California and New Jersey lead the country in solar energy usage in schools, and K-12 solar installations across the U.S. have nearly doubled in three years. The post Solar Power Savings Give K-12 Districts Money to Spend in Other Areas, Report Says appeared first on Market Brief.

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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Add Photos on Mobile Google Slides I love using Google Slides on my mobile device. This helps me do learning anywhere. Multiple times I’ve been in an airport and see an interesting question on Twitter, I start a Google Slides while in the security line and not only start to work it out but collaborate […]. The post Mobile Google Slides: Adding Pictures appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

December 4, 2017 In today’s post, we are sharing with you three of the most popular typing games in Chrome web store. Kids and students can use these games to train and improve their typing skills.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, 3.9 million college students dropped out of college with debt, Jill Barshay wrote in The Hechinger Report. Data from College Scorecard of the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. The Hechinger Report recently wrote about some alarming data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard that shows 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In his last few posts, Ryan’s written about GitHub Education , and introduced us to a method for creating an online syllabus using Markdown, RStudio, and GitHub Pages. I’ve recently begun using GitHub Pages myself. A few months ago, I started working my way through the front-end development curriculum at freeCodeCamp (which I’ve really been enjoying).

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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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MindShift

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Did I study enough for this test? Won’t my friends do better than me? If I don’t get an A now, I won’t do well on the next exam, and then will I even get into a good college? Anxious thoughts such as these aren’t always just passing worries. They’re becoming deeply rooted, widespread mantras for young people across America. Anxiety is the most common mental health challenge that young people face, and it’s the top reason why students seek mental health services at college today.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Drew Perkins talks with former NASA Engineer now game designer Mark Engelberg about coding, math education, and the transferability to thinking in disciplines outside of STEM. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Mark Engelberg on Twitter Thinkfun Bootstrapworld.org Arthur Benjamin TED Talk Thinkfun games at Target.com Play Rover Control Online Kodable Subscribe Listen on: Stitcher Podbean […].

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Turning Learning On Its Head

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Have you ever wondered what students pay attention to when watching an instructional video? Listen to Dr. Peter Wagstaff who has some new research and theories about what keeps student attention.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 4, 2017

by TeachThought Staff Episode 96 of the TeachThought Podcast is the eighth episode in a 12-part series on reinventing learning for the always-on generation. The series is based on the award-winning book, Reinventing Learning For The Always-On Generation: Strategies & Apps That Work. In this series, Ryan Schaaf takes a look at what a modern learner ‘is’ and […].

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state. At the time, that was equivalent to a D on the state’s A-F rating scale (which has been modified in recent years).

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Google Slides is an online presentation app that lets you create and format presentations and work with other people. Due to its page setting options , you can use Slides for more than just presentations. In the spirit of the holidays, we decided to use Slides to design some fun holiday cards that are customizable so that you can create your own as well.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Dustin Gordon grew up thinking he would work the land. He’s from Sharpsburg, Iowa, population 89, where agriculture is the lifeblood of the region. He says most of his friends from high school have gone into farming. “And I was kind of the one exception,” he says. “You know, my dad was a farmer and I kind of steered away from that.”. Instead, Gordon is working on a degree in finance at the University of Iowa.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When Sean Crevier accidentally wandered into the room where educators at a Milwaukee Edcamp were discussing 20 percent time projects, also known as Genius Hour , he stayed only out of politeness. He had no idea the stories colleagues shared there would change how he teaches. For the past six years, Crevier has been letting his students choose and drive the learning involved in these projects.

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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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