The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 13, 2018

Stephanie Zeiger on episode 290 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. STEM and Computational Thinking go together. Today’s guest is a PhD, Biomedical engineer and STEM Teacher. Stephanie Zeiger helps us see the potential of STEM and computational thinking. Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. coolcatteacher.com/earth Check out their NGSS aligned Science gam

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 13, 2018

Many teachers, whether working online or in a brick and mortar school usually have a few resources they depend on and use all the time for their teaching. However, there are a variety of activities or resources you can turn to when you need to modify a lesson or change routes. If you are an ESL teacher, no matter how or where you teach, you may be looking for some new resources to add to your teacher’s toolbox.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 13, 2018

All student have a voice. Some students share their voice often, some rarely, and some almost never. We want to hear from ALL of our students. But what does encouraging student voice really mean? How do we creatively incorporate ways for students to showcase themselves in our lessons? And how can we use student voice to […].

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 13, 2018

4 Tips for Controlling Shadow IT. jena.passut_7651. Fri, 04/13/2018 - 10:15. For a K–12 IT department, one of the biggest security threats may be as sinister as it sounds. Shadow IT — the term for hardware, software and applications acquired by an organization’s users without going through the IT department — has become common, especially with the rise in inexpensive computing devices and widely available mobile and cloud-based apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2018

April 24th-30th: Coaching or Mentoring. BOGO — Buy one month; get the second free. Do any of these sound like you? Your kindergartners don’t know what ‘enter’, ‘spacebar’, ‘click’ or many other techie words mean but you need to teach them to keyboard, internet, and become digital citizens. How do you start? You have new students in your class who haven’t had technology training.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Recently, my school district—like many across the country—has begun to explore ways to increase students’ technology use in thoughtful ways, especially at the middle and high school level. Taking the idea from theory to practice is something that takes a lot of work, and classroom teachers can sometimes benefit from extra support to make this successful transition.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? A Georgia Tech computer scientist has been pursuing that question for several years. And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Ashok K. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2018

Social-emotional learning. Character education. Bullying prevention. These programs all fall under the larger umbrella of emotional intelligence (EQ)—the ability to manage one’s feelings and interact positively with other people. While many schools may touch on it during the school year, Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., and Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D., authors of Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students , advocate for more formal training in EQ.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices.

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 13, 2018

Have Students Set Goals One researcher I particularly admire is Carol Dweck from Stanford (and author of the best selling book Mindsets.) One of the effective practices she shares is using short-term goal setting. Short term goals lead to long-term goals. Short-term goals should be measurable, and not by grades. These are not things like “I will […].

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2018

As open educational resources (OER) become a more viable option for K-12 school districts that want to adopt new resources, curating these “free” and “open” educational assets has become increasingly difficult. With the U.S. Department of Education making a clear push for OER via its #GoOpen campaign, where districts take on the challenge of replacing at least one textbook with OER, the need for reliable vetting and selection tools has grown exponentially.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 13, 2018

Mozilla has been killing it these days, from super-secure browsing to keeping Facebook in its (secure) place. This month, they released their annual Internet Health Report. From the Introduction : The Internet Health Report is about the human experience of the Internet. It is an independent, open source compilation of data, research and stories that show how the Internet is evolving across five issues.

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TeacherCast

APRIL 13, 2018

Do you want to Build a Football? During Recess workshop for grades 1 and 2 one of the boys asked me “Can we make a football?” I have never ever even thought of making a football and I had to think about it for a second before I pointed to the fabric bin and asked… The post Can We make a Football? The Magic of Not Saying No appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 13, 2018

As a learning activity, digital storytelling has a number of pedagogical benefits. It helps students develop their literacy skills (espcially writing), it empowers their voice and provides them with.read more.

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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 Principal of Change

APRIL 13, 2018

Adam Grant recently tweeted this article, focusing on the importance of theory and delving into the unknown for science. It is a fascinating read , and the end quote stuck out to me: Some of the most interesting scientific work gets done when scientists develop bizarre theories in the face of something new or unexplained. Madcap ideas must find a way of relating to the world – but demanding falsifiability or observability, without any sort of subtlety, will hold science back.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 13, 2018

For those of you with an entrepreneurial mindset, the visual below from Wrike will help you learn more about how to believe in your own ideas and take initiative towards establishing your startup.

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techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

Alice Johnson said, “the teacher for the gifted and talented will be more of a ‘guide on the side’ rather than a ‘sage on the stage’.” As far as I can tell, Johnson was the first to use the terms ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’. Since Alice Johnson though, these terms have found their way into the mouths of almost every “educational thought leader” and administrator as a way to describe the role of the teacher in the 21st century classroom.

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There is no box

APRIL 13, 2018

This guy John Eick, @John_Eick , (pronounced IKE not ICK), just blew my mind for the second time in less than a month. We were fortunate enough to have John keynote our district PD day a few weeks ago and I thought he rocked the house then, but yesterday as the Lead 3 keynote, he brought the house down. In about an hour, from a tiny stage in front of a crowd of school administrators seated at round tables eating lunch, John taught a master course on organizational change leadership.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Speaking in generalities and platitudes is easy. But living out the hard things in life is rare. Believe me, I’m guilty as the next person and am working on my own ignorance and faults. An ever-growing passion of mine is to seek out people that I disagree with and yet can have productive conversations. Even if a conversation is not possible, at least reading/watching/listening to those ideas and beliefs can be fruitful.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 13, 2018

"A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency , such as friendship , kinship , common interest, financial exchange, dislike, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. ( Wikipedia )" Since I last posted on Social Networks over a year ago, a number of new ones have been introduced that can be a huge benefit to education.

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Vizor

APRIL 13, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools introduce technology in their classrooms, are they figuring out how to manage the new devices? How do you distribute hundreds or even thousands of Chromebooks? What if one needs to be repaired? Will a student not have a laptop for a few days? What if students move the devices from one classroom to another when they’re not supposed to?

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There is no box

APRIL 13, 2018

Every student has access to an Internet connected mobile device. Now what? If you are at a district that has entered the 21st Century and made the decision to provide technology access to every student, congratulations, you’ve taken you’re first step into a larger world. What happens in that larger world is up to you. It can look a lot like before, and probably will at first.

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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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Vizor

APRIL 13, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools introduce technology in their classrooms, are they figuring out how to manage the new devices? How do you distribute hundreds or even thousands of Chromebooks? What if one needs to be repaired? Will a student not have a laptop for a few days? What if students move the devices from one classroom to another when they’re not supposed to?

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 13, 2018

Kahoot! and Code.org team up in an effort to advance K-12 computer science education. A handful of ed-tech firms including web-based teaching learning solutions provider Edmentum and instructional technology company BookNook raised funds from investors. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Key Data Systems Acquires Progress Testing, Edmentum Raises $25 Million, Kahoot!

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techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

Flocabulary Schoolhouse Rock meets Tupac in this delightful hip-hop-based platform [ Class Tech Tips: 3 Ways Adobe Spark Promotes Creativity in the Classroom ] Pros: Smart songs are helpful and catchy; they hit all the right spots to satisfy both teachers and students. Cons: Some subject areas are lighter on content than others, but new material is added regularly.

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Think Exam

APRIL 13, 2018

Conventional classroom exams involve a lot many challenges for the administrators but the big time challenge is cheating. Countering this challenge is a grave task and has given rise to many plans and techniques from the side of administration, eventually leading to the same outcome that is, cheating. Students never lack creativity when it comes to developing an innovative plan for passing the test in an easy manner.

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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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MindShift

APRIL 13, 2018

In her TEDx talk , Elise Roy describes how losing her hearing when she was a child forced her to become an excellent problem solver because she was able to identify issues someone else might not have ever noticed. Growing up, she had to design innovative solutions to challenges that arose in her everyday life, picked herself up from failure , tried new strategies and eventually succeeded.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 13, 2018

Science teacher Mariana Garcia Serrato introduces KQED Learn , a new online platform that supports student investigation and inquiry, and allows students to collaborate and share their work with an authentic audience of fellow students. As a Science teacher, working with both NGSS and CCSS, I’m always looking for ways for my students to develop investigative skills.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 13, 2018

Dystopia 2153 is an innovative new site for coding/programming that I just found out about from Monica Burns. Dystopia is a fresh take on teaching STEM skills by helping kids learn how to code through a digital graphic novel w/ over 40 different coding games. Also, for those that like "traditional" graphic novel a print version can be ordered. I highly recommend checking out Dystopia 2153 by clicking here !!!

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techlearning

APRIL 13, 2018

HOUSTON — April 12, 2018 — Accelerate Learning today announces that the STEMscopes™ PreK-12 digital STEM curriculum has been chosen as a finalist in The EdTech Awards 2018 in the STEM Solution category. The EdTech Awards recognize outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders, and innovative trendsetters across the K-12

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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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