Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Recently, the 60,000-member National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) released a new “Research Compendium,” a handbook with 38 chapters , each summarizing the best research on an important aspect of teaching and learning mathematics. For the past three years, I was honored to work on the team that developed the chapter on “Technology for Mathematics Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Experts from NMC and CoSN explore the trends and issues facing K–12 schools in the coming year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Sponsored by Edpuzzle From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Edpuzzle solves so many of my flipped classroom problems. During the last four years of using flipped classroom techniques, I’ve come to rely on what is called the “in-flip” — I show the videos in class and interact with students to help them do in-class activities with what they’ve learned.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Letting students explore their own passions in the classroom can meet educational standards in innovative ways.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

T he unauthorized use of another’s creative content has always been a problem but with the growth of the Internet, it’s become epidemic. The prevailing wisdom seems to be: cc. If it’s online it’s free. This, of course, isn’t true but the rules and laws surrounding plagiarism and copyrights aren’t nearly as well-known as those that deal with, say, driving a car or crossing a street.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.” – John Naisbitt. Taking selfies has become a cultural phenomenon. Selfie was the word of the year for 2013 (Brumfield, 2013). Taking selfies is an important part of a student’s sense of self, self belief, and self-esteem.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Welcome to our continuing thought-leadership series with 51Talk. Today, we chat with Isaac Johnson-Tyas, who recently came on board to support 51Talk teachers. He also does a lot of work behind the scenes. His role is invaluable as he helps to build a bridge between teacher communication, recognition, and socialization, while helping the operations team make informed decisions.

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Is there any educator in the world who wouldn’t want their students to demonstrate the following qualities: Committed, Creative, Confident, Courageous, and Curious ? Or to see students leave school at the end of the term and describe themselves as Skillful, Passionate , and Humble ? Or have students working hard to make communities happier ?

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Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The education world is starting to get used to Google Classroom. It was released in August 2014 to much fanfare and basic features. Since then, the updates have come fast and furious, and as of January 2017, Google Classroom has more than 70 million users: students, teachers and others. We’re finding ways to become more […].

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The room is filled with chatter in Arabic, French, and Ukrainian as my class of 9th, 10th and 11th grade emergent bilingual students file into third period, grabbing their iPads off the cart before they settle into reading. Title III federal grant funds from the previous year made it possible for me to create a 1:1 classroom for students enrolled in ESL at Seaholm and Groves High Schools in Birmingham, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Young children have a lot to fit into each school day. So making the best use of the little time allocated to learning a foreign language is paramount. In England, state primary schools have been required to offer children aged seven to 11 a foreign language since 2014.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Given the pace of change in higher education today, it should come as no surprise that colleges and universities are investing in research and development labs dedicated to academic and business-model innovation. Done right, these labs have the potential to transform institutional cultures. But investing in innovation as an organizational function won’t amount to much unless the leaders charged with driving innovation are able to thrive.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I have recently been setting up a behaviour management routine for my year group. As part of it, I created a form to encourage children to reflect on their behaviour: Click Here For The High Quality PDF Tagged: behavior reflection , behaviour management , behaviour management forms , behaviour reflection , education , teaching.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom contributed by Lisa Tanner Are you preparing your students to succeed in this high-tech world? As more media moves to the internet, digital literacy is an essential skill. Students must know how to locate, read, and understand information from the web. But how can teachers […]. The post 12 Tools To Find Quality Reading Passages For Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Students make use of technology while working in small groups. Photo: Meredith Kolodner. School district administrators and principals are inundated with salesmen peddling computers and software programs. Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. Can they be believed? The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and ev

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Nothing is sacred—or secure—when it comes to data. Breaches have become a fact of life as they indiscriminately target the digital services that we rely on, from Equifax to Target, Ebay to Yahoo. Schools increasingly find themselves in the crosshairs as well. More than 207 incidents have targeted K-12 public schools since January 2016, according to this tally from industry consultant Doug Levin.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Good communication is essential in any relationship, whether it is employer to employee, spouse to spouse, or teacher to student (or student’s parents). In my time as an educator, I’ve seen what a difference good communication can make. When communication channels are open between parents, students, and teachers, students have increased motivation for learning, improved behavior, more regular attendance, and a more positive attitude about school.

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I’m sort of surprised no one here at ProfHacker has yet written about the launch of Zotero 5.0 , seeing as how it’s a favorite automated citation/bibliography/collection organizer platform of the group. So I will. I think it’s still worth writing about, even though it launched more than ten years ago by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media because when I talk about it, people still haven’t heard of it and what it can do for you research and workflow.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For Free Response Feedback Try Google Slides I am a fan of self-grading. Digital tools that provide students with IMMEDIATE feedback. It’s better for the students and it’s better for me to not spend my time marking things right and wrong. I suggest putting free response questions SEPARATE from the multiple choice so that students […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

September 25, 2017 Inspired by The Periodic Table of Education Technology created by Daily Genius, we went ahead and created a similar table for iPad Apps. Based on our experience with reviewing.read more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“We live in a world today where everything we do can be tracked,” says Shannon Bischoff, Technology Facilitator at Toledo Public Schools in Ohio. She believes we need to teach students about digital safety “and how to make appropriate choices online.” At Learning.com , we work hard to do just that, by supporting educators with a positive, researched-based curriculum that offers a rich exploration of digital citizenship topics.

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Cycles of Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Last year a new feature was added to Google Forms which allows users to submit a file (picture, video, document, etc.) when completing a form. Today in class I leveraged this feature to facilitate the curation of a student generated study guide for an upcoming chemistry assessment. Because chemistry assessments usually involve the production of a handwritten graph, diagram or chemical structure, I had students submit a question in text, then upload a written answer using the file ​upload f

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Historically, English language learner (ELL) instruction has primarily focused on reading and writing. The reasons for this are twofold: 1) Reading and writing are the most obvious, immediate learning needs, and 2) federal and state reclassification requirements are focused on these subjects. Conventional thinking says that literacy must be the primary focus, and that when literacy scores rise, they will pull up math scores alongside them.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

September 25, 2017 Below is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited time. This deal is valid at least in the Canadian and American iTunes App Store. Our.read more.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Classroom educators know better than anyone else how much of learning is built on the strength of relationships in the room. When students like and trust their teacher, they learn better. That’s why large class sizes and a focus on standardized test scores — to the exclusion of other things — frustrate many veteran teachers. They know those factors often hinder teachers’ ability to form relationships.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Codemoji. What’s It Like?

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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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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The company says it is determined to move from selling a "disconnected mix of products" to an "integrated, holistic experience.". The post Microsoft Moves to Enable Streamlined Purchasing of Bundled Products for Education appeared first on Market Brief.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Cheryl Mizerny has launched a year-long Kindness Classroom project with her all-girl sixth graders. Learn about Sept-Nov plans to strengthen peer relationships, develop positive mindsets, and practice empathy – including activities that anticipate the new Wonder movie.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Student Voices. What do kids really think about school? How would they change it? Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

About half the nation’s school district administrators have at least a general awareness of open educational resources, but their understanding drops when they’re asked specific questions that get beyond a surface-level understanding of those materials. Those were among the takeaways in a newly released survey by the Babson Survey Research Group, which found that 31… The post District Officials Think They Know Open Ed.

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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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