Wed.Dec 18, 2019

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How to Help Everybody Do Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Vanessa Vakharia gives us the language to help kids overcome adversity in learning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Learning can be hard. Many students struggle. Teachers can struggle to help students learn content but what do we do when students have thinking that is limiting their ability to learn. In today’s show, we talk about math, but the language and metaphors that Vanessa Vakharia shares today can be used in any subject.

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The Thinking and Creativity That Goes Into Game Design

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can design a game in any subject to assess their peers. When students design games they use a lot of creativity and critical thinking skills. Students must imagine and design worlds, characters, levels, sound effects, game elements, and more. Students must determine what they want their peers to accomplish in their games and strategize different levels, bonuses, easter eggs, and traps.

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End-of-Year Maintenance: 16 Steps To A Speedier Computer

Ask a Tech Teacher

This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get (the links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence. 16 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer. Backup and Image your computer.

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Considering Collaboration? Answer These 4 Questions First

Education Elements

A few years ago I found myself in the middle of an aisle at the home improvement store acquiring some tools I needed for a job around the house. In the moment, I didn’t make the connection to my classroom, but I later realized how I don’t usually go to the store to buy tools that I don’t need. When a home repair presents itself I am willing and motivated to go find the tools I need to solve the problem at hand.

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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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How Can Districts Set Up Classroom Coaching for Success?

Digital Promise

Districts are increasingly investing in coaching programs to improve teacher practice and student outcomes. However, merely providing schools with the funding for a coaching position is not enough. To maximize the return on the investment of coaching, our research on the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) shows that districts need to take an active role in eliminating barriers to effective coaching and foster a culture that encourages teachers to innovate their practice.

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Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online

EdTech Magazine

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. As many as 80 percent of students surveyed said either they or a friend or family member had been affected by a cyberattack. Despite that, 43 percent said they believed that they wouldn’t ever be a victim of a cybercrime.

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Review: Cisco Meraki MX64 Tightens Network Security

EdTech Magazine

Managing and protecting a busy network primarily for the benefit of inexperienced users, like those in a K–12 school, can be challenging. . The obstacles are compounded by limited IT budgets and staff. Some schools and districts share those IT resources with other facilities in their county or state. And schools are subjected to the same types of cyberattacks that plague businesses and other organizations.

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Pros And Cons Of Getting A Degree In The Arts

EdNews Daily

If you love the arts and want to make a career of it or take your current work to the next level, you’re probably wondering if you should go to art school. It can be a tough decision to make since being an artist doesn’t require a degree, but formal study can help hone your skills. . The Pros. There are some jobs in the creative field that state you need a degree, and there are others that don’t require a trip to college.

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Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online

EdTech Magazine

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. As many as 80 percent of students surveyed said either they or a friend or family member had been affected by a cyberattack. Despite that, 43 percent said they believed that they wouldn’t ever be a victim of a cybercrime.

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Pearson Sells Mixed Reality Learning Unit to a New Company, GIGXR

Edsurge

As Pearson resumes its education technology investment activity, the publisher is also divesting other edtech assets at the same time. On Dec. 16, Pearson announced the first two deals made by its recently formed venture fund , which invested $4.2 million in two companies: online bootcamp Springboard and Knowledge to Practice, a medical startup. Now, the publisher confirmed that it has spun off its Immersive Learning team, selling its assets to a new company, GIGXR , based in Venice, Calif.

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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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How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

Absenteeism is a huge concern for K–12 schools. Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. That means 1 in 7 students missed 15 or more days of school. Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent.

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The Project-Based Beginnings of High Tech High Founder Larry Rosenstock

Edsurge

The varied stints throughout Larry Rosenstock’s career reflect the ethos that he instills in students at High Tech High , the San Diego public charter school network he helped found in 2000 that espouses an experiential approach to education. As a carpenter, he learned how to work hard—and that he loves working with kids. Assisting at a psychiatric hospital, he came to understand that every person learns and thinks differently.

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State-Sanctioned Esports Events Are on the Rise. Here’s Why It Matters

EdTech Magazine

Competitive esports leagues exploded in K–12 schools in recent years. The esports market became a $1 billion industry this year. Colleges dole out more than $17 million in esports scholarships for students. More people watched the 2019 North America League of Legends World Final than the Super Bowl, according to CNBC. . Amid all that growth, another significant trend emerged: More state high school athletic associations are sanctioning esports programs. .

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The Periodic Table of Educational iPad Apps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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 educational apps we.

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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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Innovation Happens When Universities Partner with K-12 on IT-Enabled Solutions

EdTech Magazine

Over two years ago, when Boston Public Schools decided it was time to completely redo its bus routing and timing operations , it also realized this overhaul was something staff members couldn’t figure out on their own, at least not optimally. That’s when the district decided to open the challenge to technology and academic leaders in what they called “a three-month hackathon-style initiative.”.

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How to Create a Custom Theme in Google Classroom

EdTechTeam

As teachers, we want our students to be engaged. We work to make content interesting and organized. And depending on your style, you may or may not spend the time to make your content visually appealing for students. After all, there’s not enough time in the day, right? But there are a few simple things you can do to brighten up and personalize your content by creating a class theme.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

When developing this year’s theme for the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking , we decided to build the event around changing mindsets. Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach.

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Bloom's Digital Taxonomy iPad Version

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is a handy visual we created and shared awhile ago featuring some good educational iPad apps that will help you target each of the six thinking levels.

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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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Review: Cisco Meraki MX64 Tightens Network Security

EdTech Magazine

Managing and protecting a busy network primarily for the benefit of inexperienced users, like those in a K–12 school, can be challenging. . The obstacles are compounded by limited IT budgets and staff. Some schools and districts share those IT resources with other facilities in their county or state. And schools are subjected to the same types of cyberattacks that plague businesses and other organizations.

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Build Skills with Quick STEM Mini-Lessons

MiddleWeb

You’re about to launch your class into a full-fledged STEM project when you realize your students lack a particular skill set. Why not start with one or more mini-lessons? Anne Jolly offers an illustrative example – teaching teams how to develop criteria and constraints.

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Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online

EdTech Magazine

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. As many as 80 percent of students surveyed said either they or a friend or family member had been affected by a cyberattack. Despite that, 43 percent said they believed that they wouldn’t ever be a victim of a cybercrime.

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When Good Leaders Choke (and Why You Should Too)

Adjusting Course

I got a new car this year that's teaching me all kinds of things. The new car is ten years old, but I believe it's what people in the auto industry affectionately refer to as "a good runner." (I'm hoping this means it will run for another 10 years.) The only trouble I've noticed so far is sometimes you have to step on the gas pedal a little just to get it started.

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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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How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

Absenteeism is a huge concern for K–12 schools. Consider this statistic: As many as 8 million students were chronically absent from school during the 2015–2016 school year, up from 7.2 million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. That means 1 in 7 students missed 15 or more days of school. Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent.

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When Mario Brothers became Minecraft, our children became vulnerable

The Hechinger Report

Note: This isn’t what you’re used to expecting from my columns. If there’s a racial gap in video gaming among kids, I don’t know of it. And the education I’m talking about here isn’t directed at children, and doesn’t take place in an institutional setting. But, just as media literacy is crucial to enable kids to understand the subtext of the messages they are bombarded with every day, gaming literacy is essential for parents so they will know how to prot

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State-Sanctioned Esports Events Are on the Rise. Here’s Why It Matters

EdTech Magazine

Competitive esports leagues exploded in K–12 schools in recent years. The esports market became a $1 billion industry this year. Colleges dole out more than $17 million in esports scholarships for students. More people watched the 2019 North America League of Legends World Final than the Super Bowl, according to CNBC. . Amid all that growth, another significant trend emerged: More state high school athletic associations are sanctioning esports programs. .

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How Ibram X Kendi’s Definition of Antiracism Applies to Schools

MindShift

Americans of all backgrounds are increasingly aware of how race affects every part of life in this country. Conversations about how to address racial injustice and how to create equitable systems are happening in many industries, including education. Political conversations, increased representation of diverse voices, and data showing inequality in many areas of society are all creating a moment in which many educators are examining their practices and the policies at their schools with the inte

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Innovation Happens When Universities Partner with K-12 on IT-Enabled Solutions

EdTech Magazine

Over two years ago, when Boston Public Schools decided it was time to completely redo its bus routing and timing operations , it also realized this overhaul was something staff members couldn’t figure out on their own, at least not optimally. That’s when the district decided to open the challenge to technology and academic leaders in what they called “a three-month hackathon-style initiative.”.

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Children and Technology: All Your Questions Answered

Prodigy

Children and technology is a hot-button issue for parents everywhere. Most parents would tell you they know screen time should be limited, but the temptation to turn on the TV for a few minutes to get some quiet is often just too great. (Can you relate? ??) There’s ample opinions about how much screen time […]. The post Children and Technology: All Your Questions Answered appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

When developing this year’s theme for the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking , we decided to build the event around changing mindsets. Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach.

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Pearson CEO to Retire in 2020, and Search for Successor Begins

Marketplace K-12

John Fallon led Pearson through a transformation away from serving as a traditional publisher, though the company has struggled with sales in the U.S. college materials market. The post Pearson CEO to Retire in 2020, and Search for Successor Begins appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.