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8 Tips to Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools

EdTech Magazine

8 Tips to Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 06/08/2018 - 09:51. Teachers and administrators at K–12 schools recognize the positive impact of parent engagement on student achievement, so many schools and districts now leverage technology to power better and more meaningful relationships with parents and families. .

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Consuming vs creating: Is there room for both?

Ditch That Textbook

Consuming vs creating, sounds like it’s one or the other. But don’t our students need to do both? Sometimes our students are consuming information and sometimes they are applying what they have learned by creating something. Its all about balance and knowing the why behind your lesson. When should students be creating vs consuming? And what are […].

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5 Favorite Apps for Summer Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Summer has a reputation for being nonstop relaxation, never-ending play, and a time when students stay as far from “learning” as they can get. For educators, those long empty weeks result in a phenomenon known as “Summer Slide” — where students start the next academic year behind where they ended the last. “…on average, students’ achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning…” ( Brookings ).

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Effective School Communications In The Summer

The Web20Classroom

As the end of the school year approaches my daughter’s backpack is filled with fliers from her elementary school. Everything from summer reading lists to stacks of classwork that are finally being sent home. Nearly every night my inbox is full of emails from the school reminding us of this and that. It seems like they are trying to pack everything we need to know for the summer into the space of a few days.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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6 teacher recommendations to help students with math

eSchool News

Poor performance in previous math classes and low confidence are some of students’ biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to math success, according to a new survey about math education. The survey of more than 400 high school math teachers comes from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Teachers in the survey are all coaches for student teams participating in the MathWords Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a national online contest SIAM organizes.

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A Collection of Educational Math Apps for Elementary Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a handy visual we have been working on over this weekend. This is a collection of some good math apps curated from iTunes App Store specifically for elementary students and young learners.

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3 Important iPad Resources for Science Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here are three interesting free resources for science teachers using iPad with their students in class. These are courses provided by Apple Education featuring various tips, ideas and content.

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Google Docs: Press Enter a Whole Bunch of Times

Teacher Tech

Press Enter in a Google Doc I am always collaborating, even if I am collaborating with myself. My habit when I start a Google text document is to press enter repeatedly. This provides me room to collaborate without fighting for the same cursor space. It’s muscle memory. Create a doc and press enter at least […]. The post Google Docs: Press Enter a Whole Bunch of Times appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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5 Philosophies for Effective Teaching and Learning

EdTechTeam

This is an excerpt from the third chapter of More Now: A Message From The Future for The Educators of Today by Mark Wagner, Ph.D., our founder and CEO. These philosophies have inspired his work, and ours at EdTechTeam, for years. The book comes out June 26 and is available for pre-order now. The Lead Learner Philosophy. Early on in my career in edtech consulting and training, I heard former CUE CEO Mike Lawrence share a Native American proverb that has stuck with me: “He who learns from one who

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MDM updates from WWDC 2018

Jamf on EdTech

Here's a look at the announcements from Apple's "What's New in Managing Apple Devices" session during the 2018 Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC).

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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From Markdown to Word, With Citations

ProfHacker

Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written several posts about Markdown — the “ syntax you (probably) already know ,” to quote Lincoln Mullen — and Zotero — the reference management software developed by George Mason’s Center for History and New Media. As our history of posts should make clear, Markdown is great for many things, but one of the the things it doesn’t handle well natively is integration with free citation management tools like Zotero.

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“We can’t ask teachers to be innovative in their practice while administrators do the same thing they have always done.”

The Principal of Change

“I am not a teacher but an awakener.” —Robert Frost. I tweeted this recently about the ideas of engagement and empowerment. . Engagement is more about what you can do for your students. Empowerment is about helping them figuring out what they can do for themselves. #InnovatorsMindset. — George Couros (@gcouros) June 8, 2018. Some things that I have been thinking about the idea of empowerment lately.

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Missing Her

Reflections

June 7, 2018 I read the text message as it came across my phone today and could hardly believe it. A friend from my former district was reaching out to tell me about the passing of an incredible woman I used to know. I read the text to myself and took a deep breath. This week has already been a tough week personally and this is the drop that causes the bucket to overflow.

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Follow Common Sense Education at ISTE 2018

Graphite Blog

From June 24 to 27, thousands of techy educators will convene in the Windy City to share, connect, discuss, and learn about all topics related to technology in education. The Common Sense Education team will be among them, presenting and participating in a range of events throughout the week. Sneak Peeks and Big Prizes If you're able to be at the conference in person, be sure to stop by our booth, #782, for a chance to win a day of in-person digital citizenship training from Common Sense, va

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Math Practice Tool Engages Students With Gameplay

techlearning

ExploreLearning Reflex Addictive and adaptive games to help kids memorize math facts Pros: Eye-catching graphics, simple gameplay, and low cognitive threshold will hook kids right away, plus point systems might keep some kids playing. Cons: Only helps with memorization and quick recall, not pattern recognition, grouping, or deep understanding of numerical relationships.

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How to avoid a cyber attack

eSchool News

From credit card hacks to social security breaches, cyber attacks are more common with each passing day. Organizations in every industry are on high alert to ensure networks and information remain secure. News reports lead you to believe that only high-profile companies are affected, but perhaps the most precious data when it comes to tomorrow’s leaders is held in educational institutions.

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Google for Education Available for Homeschool Families

EdTechTeam

Google for Education is now available for Homeschool families and in Florida through their co-op and umbrella schools! A small team of Googlers and Trainers had the super fun job of sharing the news and opening up the possibilities within Google for Education to homeschool families. We met thousands, dare I say closer to 10,000 people at the recent Florida Parent Educator Association (FPEA) Homeschool Convention.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Lincoln Learning Acquires Evan-Moor; ETS Teams With LearnLaunch to Fund Startups

Marketplace K-12

In this week’s dealmaking news, Lincoln Learning, a Rochester, Pa.-based nonprofit online learning and support service organization, acquired supplemental education materials provider Evan-Moor. Also, assessments provider ETS and LearnLaunch have joined forces to fund ed-tech startups. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Lincoln Learning Acquires Evan-Moor; ETS Teams With LearnLaunch to Fund Startups appeared first on Market Brief.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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Follow Common Sense Education at ISTE 2018

Graphite Blog

From June 24 to 27, thousands of techy educators will convene in the Windy City to share, connect, discuss, and learn about all topics related to technology in education. The Common Sense Education team will be among them, presenting and participating in a range of events throughout the week. Sneak Peeks and Big Prizes If you're able to be at the conference in person, be sure to stop by our booth, #782, for a chance to win a day of in-person digital citizenship training from Common Sense, va

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SMART Technologies Showcases New SMART Board Pro Series at InfoComm

techlearning

SMART Technologies Inc. will be showcasing its latest SMART Board® Pro series lineup of interactive displays at InfoComm 2018 in booth #2614. Intended for collaborative spaces where users need quick access to show and share content, the new SMART Board Pro series provides an Intel® Compute Card with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro experience directly in the interactive display.

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Do Not Touch (By Nickelodeon)

SpeechTechie

Do Not Touch (By Nickelodeon) is a fun tongue-in-cheek free app for iOS that provides a nice warm-up activity. This augmented reality (AR) app overlays digital visuals in your real space; point the iPad at a floor or table and interactive animations will appear. As a language activity this can be used to have students share space, follow a "group plan," observe, describe and take turns.

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Buncee WOWs Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf

Buncee

A professional development workshop at Manhattan College hosted by Dr. Shawna BuShell, Director of the Graduate Program in Instructional Design and Delivery introduced our teachers to Buncee as an option for visual learning and expression. . As visual learners, the opportunity for graphic learning is integral for technol ogy and literacy development.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Best of Infocomm Winners

techlearning

Best of Infocomm Winners Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Best of Infocomm! Below are highlights of these winning products: Layer Logic, CoreTouch Whether it’s figuring out the right input on the display, connecting the laptop, uploading the content, or adding the remote participants, there always seems to be some technology getting in the way of the starting the meeting on time.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. (National) Education Politics. Via The Atlantic : “ DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won’t Be Studying: Guns.” Also via The Atlantic : “The Trump Administration’s Approach to School Violence Is More Style Than Substance.” The Departmen

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Digital Ways to Appreciate Super Dads! 30+ Resources

techlearning

Father’s Day is approaching. What a great time to inspire young people to create and learn with some cool web tools and apps by encouraging them to express their appreciation for an important father figure or male role model. Not only do students learn how to edit and design with technology; more importantly, they also experience the joy of using technology to uplift others.