EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

TCEA 2018: Small Steps Lead to Big Wins in Blended Learning. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 02/09/2018 - 10:21. There are an ocean of possibilities with blended learning, so it’s best to dip your toes in the water rather than jumping in and drowning, according to an expert who spoke Feb. 8 at the TCEA Convention & Exposition. “Think big, but start small,” said Mary Rizzi, educational technology coach for Beaufort County School District in South Carolina, which educates more than 21,000 students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Mike Roberts on episode 250 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

How can researchers, practitioners, and technology developers best use the wealth of data generated by the increasing use of technology in schools? We’ve been among the many people wrestling with this question over the last five years, and our efforts have led us to a surprisingly simple answer: The best way to use data from digital learning environments for the purposes of educational improvement is in collaboration with the practitioners who will take action based on the data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Apps. Drag-and-drop. Dress up the heart. Google Drawings Magnetic Poetry from Ctrl Alt Achieve. Games and puzzles. Games and stories. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. Match. Mouse skills.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Join Stamford University, Simmons College and dozens of High Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area by participating in this important Pilot Program. . What is it? Helping students develop critical thinking skills is one of the greatest educational and civic challenges of the 21st Century. Fiskkit.com is a startup dedicated to elevating public discourse through critical and respectful analysis of online news articles.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

No Student Is Unreachable contributed by Jeffrey Benson This post has been republished from a previous version As an educational elder with a lot of experience working with challenging students, I am often asked to consult with school teams. Recently a dedicated school counselor discussed with me Garrett, an 8th graders, saying, “He’s really depressed, […].

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Available now for FREE is all 145 issues of the very popular and very nostalgic Nintendo Power magazines. The post Think your students aren’t interested in reading? Check out all 13 years worth of Nintendo Power … FREE! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Will the classroom of the future be strapped to students’ faces? Colleges are experimenting with the latest wave of virtual-reality technology, which proponents see as opening up a new frontier in experiential education. But the technology also raises questions—both logistical (how do you lead a group of students on a VR field trip?) and ethical (will the tech end up furthering social isolation?).

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Raising money for your students is very easy. Create a Cause - Share your Story - Raise Money! The post @PledgeCents … School Fundraising Made Simple! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Quick Capture is a great Chrome extension you can use to take screenshots of your current page. We have been experimenting with it for awhile now and we found it way better than the other tools we.read more.

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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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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learn how to install and properly setup the BluBrry PowerPress plugin and set your WordPress Website up for Podcasting. The post Learn How to connect your #Podcast on your #WordPress Website using blubrry PowerPress appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In yesterday’s post we talked a little bit about assistive technology and featured some very good Chrome extensions you can use to help students with learning disabilities. Today, we are sharing with.read more.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learn how to edit and produce your video projects in under 30 minutes using Apple's Final Cut Pro X. The post Learn how to edit video using #FinalCutPro in only 30 minutes (#FCPX) appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. Some of this seemed interesting enough that I thought I would share. I have previously written about metrics I call the educational golden ratio and the OER impact factor. These are ways of thinking about the learning-related return on investment students get from their purchases of learning materials.

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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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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at creative things you can do in your Social Studies classroom that bring Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication to your students. These examples can be adapted to students of all grade levels and many of them involve coding and programming skills… something you don’t usually associate with the humanities classrooms. .

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

CB Insights did a postmortem on why startup companies fail--a chronicle of missteps that may offer lessons for K-12 companies. The post Why Startups Fail: Lessons for Education Companies appeared first on Market Brief.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this video, we break down the simple select button to show you how to properly navigate through the information you have been keeping in your Gmail Inbox. The post Gmail Tutorial: What does the Select Tool do anyway? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. Being so hot also means that the industry uses the term “learning analytics” in a variety of ways.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learn how Screenflow from Telestream can help you take your video tutorials to the next level using easy to use controls and amazingly powerful features. The post Screenflow: Learn how to take your video tutorials to the next level. appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Kyle Pace

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

You’ve just been to that awesome conference. It was everything you hoped it would be; you learned more than you ever thought you would, you made new connections, your brain is overflowing with fresh ideas, you are a sponge and you soaked up everything you possibly could. You are ready to change the world! A day or two later, you are still processing through everything and you realize, “I have absolutely no idea of where to begin.” It happens.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we discuss Augmented Reality with Metaverse CEO, Dmitry Shapiro. Together, we explore how Augmented Reality is being used in and out of the classrooms and learn where this amazing technology will be taking us as we head into the future. The post Bring Augmented Reality into your Classrooms with @MetaverseApp Today!

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In a world of nearly ubiquitous YouTube viewership, watching and making video essays in the classroom is not only a great platform for close reading and digital composition, but a media literacy imperative, argues Tanner Higgin from Common Sense Education. Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we can better prepare students to be thoughtful, responsible, and critical consumers and creators.

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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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techlearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Time for a little fun and reflection! I was looking at a post I did a while ago and wanted to bring it back once again with some updates. I call it “Forget Real Learning??… Get Them Ready For The Test?? Notice that I have used the question mark extensively!! Many educators are understandably faced with that same question mark when deciding where to focus their students’ learning!

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

“Miss Brown, can I stay in at break and code?”. This is hands-down the most frequently asked question in my classroom. I have had the pleasure of teaching the same core group of students for the past two years. Now that they are in Grade 6, I can confidently call them true 21 st- century learners, as I have witnessed their passion for all things EdTech grow in leaps and bounds.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by 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. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Stellar history website, gateway to cool PD and scholarship Pros: Tons of images, audio, and video bring primary source documents and expert perspectives to your classroom.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Student privacy and school security are growing concerns in schools that can have consequences from negative media attention to losing parent and student trust. Defining and assessing levels of risk in the school is a crucial part of online security and privacy. Although there is no such thing as zero risk, there are measures we can take to significantly reduce risk.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

As it's Safer Internet Day, perhaps it's apposite to ask this question: can the social media companies be trusted? During the time I responded to the English government’s Green paper on internet safety , which puts all its faith in a voluntary code and voluntary contributions to a central fund, I read the following articles: Read more. Terry Freedman is an independent ed tech consultant and freelance writer based in London, England.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Companies selected as "emerging partners" by the State Educational Technology Directors Association will get access to digital learning leaders and larger companies that work with the nonprofit. The post Ed-Tech Startups Invited to Apply for State Digital Directors’ Program appeared first on Market Brief.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Today at the 2018 National Title I Conference, Cricket Media highlighted its corporate eMentoring programs for students in low income communities. Launching this month, TryEngineering Together™ leverages Cricket Media content and STEM enthusiast eMentors to put students on the path to STEM careers. TryEngineering Together partners with corporations to match company employee volunteers with students in grades 3-5, particularly those in economically disadvantaged communities, in 1:1 “eMentoring” r

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Day 35 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Every day I go around the classroom and greet every child by name, and I inquire about the empty chairs. If a child is out, I want all of the other kids to know that child is important to me. Sometimes I’ll send an email, or I might need to ask the front office where they are.

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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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