Fri.Dec 01, 2017

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30 Apps to Spread and Enjoy Some Holiday Cheer

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” – W.C. Jones. December is here! If you’re students are like mine, they are already in holiday mode. To motivate them tie their learning into activities where they get to send some holiday cheer or celebrate the holidays.

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5 Ways to Be a Change Leader in Your School

The CoolCatTeacher

Rebecca Wattleworth on episode 200 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We can be change leaders and help our school improve and grow. Rebecca Wattleworth, an award-winning teacher from Illinois, talks about lessons she’s learned about being a change leader. Today’s Sponsor: Bloomz is the tool I chose for parent/teacher communication.

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3 Steps to Revamping K–12 Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

By John Jennings Education for students is no longer just one-size-fits-all, so why should learning for teachers be?

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How to add Hour of Code to YOUR classroom

Ditch That Textbook

Coding is a skill that opens doors for students of all backgrounds. No matter where they live, what color their skin is, what their gender is or how much education they have, if someone knows how to code, he/she has opportunities. Companies are begging for coders. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, software developer […].

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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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Subscriber Special: December

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. December 1st-10th: Spend $28 or more on Structured Learning , get a free copy of the. Hour of Code bundle. Click to view slideshow. Here’s a preview (download as a PDF): Lesson Bundle Coding preview. Here’s what you do: Go to the Structured Learning website.

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How a Local Tech Meetup Turned My Classroom Into a Startup

Edsurge

I always enjoy lesson planning in public places, mostly because it keeps me from binging on the latest Netflix series. In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. I sat next to my husband as he worked with a team of strangers to design and build a website connecting local veterans with community services.

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New Company Says by Using Its Service, Students Can Test Classroom Tech Before Arriving on Campus

Edsurge

Wayland Baptist University professor Don Ashley received a call this week from a student saying she couldn't log in to her learning management system (LMS), preventing her from attending a live online lesson. It turned out that Blackboard Collaborate, the LMS that WBU’s Anchorage satellite campus uses, is not compatible with Safari, the internet browser the student was using.

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Some Good Writing Apps for Middle School Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some good iPad apps to use with your middle school students. These are apps to help students enhance their writing skills and improve their grasp of language. Some of the.read more.

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With $14M Fundraise, Noodle Wants Colleges to ‘Pick and Choose’ How They Build Online Programs

Edsurge

As more nonprofit colleges and universities bet their futures on online offerings, many are turning to for-profit companies to help create and advertise their new digital degree programs. One of the newer players to step into that online program manager (OPM) space, Noodle Partners , got a boost this week: $14 million in Series A funding led by edtech venture capital firm Owl Ventures.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

Julie Comeaux and son Matthew begin their home-schooling lesson for the day. Matthew has been home-schooled for the last year. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here.

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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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A “Punishing Decade” for K-12 Education Funding in the States

Marketplace K-12

In many states, including Florida and Arizona, funding for K-12 still lags well below levels they were at in 2008, before the "Great Recession," an analysis says. The post A “Punishing Decade” for K-12 Education Funding in the States appeared first on Market Brief.

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Realistic Expectations, and some tips

SpeechTechie

Technology that we like can tend to go away. It's just how it works. Most technology resources have an element of planned obsolescence. I wanted to write about this because with the launch of iOS 11 this fall, many in our field discovered that a good number of their apps no longer worked, i.e. they wouldn't launch. Why did this happen? Apple introduced a higher level 64-bit processor to its devices in 2013 and at that time began encouraging developers to update apps that were built for the 32-bi

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Four Important Features Provided by The New Google's App 'Files Go' Teachers Should know about

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 1, 2017 Files Go is a newly released app from Google which allows Android users to effectively manage, share and organize their files. The Verge magazine likened it to Apple’s Airdrop.read more.

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Book Release: Concrete Strategies to Help Schools Accelerate Teacher Growth with Video Coaching

Edthena

A new book aims to help educators successfully make and implement a plan for using video-based learning as part of the classroom observation and professional development process. “ Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning ” offers 12 strategies for video coaching – including Video Learning Communities (VLCs), Virtual Walk-through, and Online Lesson Study – that readers can implement in their own districts, schools, or classrooms.

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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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Listennotes.com: a search engine for podcasts

NeverEndingSearch

Listen up, there’s a new search tool in town. Among my friends, at least, it seems that podcasts are a rediscovered treasure. (Check out Jayson DeMers’ Forbes piece, Why Podcasts are Popular , and the 2017 Edison Research Infinite Dial Study on podcast statistics.). The demand is growing, but how do you find podcasts without the effort of subscribing to a feed?

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High, Mid, and Low

The Principal of Change

In a workshop day with a fantastic group of educators, there was a comment on how to differentiate for our “high, mid, and low students.” This language is something that I have used before because when looking at what we teach, it is easy to fall into this trap. If we look at who we teach, what we should realize that ALL of our students (as well as adults) are high, mid, and low, in different areas of life.

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The 5th Annual Picture Book Smackdown

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our 5th annual Picture Book Smackdown was held on November 30th. This year’s smackdown featured students in 3 states along with author & illustrator Deborah Freedman. Don't miss today's Picture Book Smackdown at 1:30 PM EST. [link] #tlchat #picturebookmonth #pbsmkdwn #futureready. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) November 30, 2017.

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Case Study 4.7: ?Global Learning and Teacher Education – Leigh Zeitz

Learning Confluence

The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching. Written and edited by Julie Lindsay, and published by the International Society for Technology in Education in 2016, The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching is for global educators and global education leaders who want to know how to take learning global.

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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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Writing Our Civic Futures (December): Bringing Students’ Lives to the Fore

Educator Innovator

Our December edition of Writing Our Civic Futures, our annotation collaboration with Marginal Syllabus, explores critical literacies that center students’ lives with a recent article from Linda Christensen. This is the third month of Writing Our Civic Futures , a collaboration of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus that supports conversations about civic engagement and learning over the course of the 2017-18 academic year.

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Excellent Choice for Teaching Game Design Basics

techlearning

High production value delights, great option for designing game on paper, lots of tutorials.

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The 2017 ProfHacker Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

Wow. 2017. it’s been, well, let’s just say it’s been. But as the calendar turns to December, it’s time to start looking about again for gifts for family and friends, and to hoping that 2018 will break our trend of taking self-inflicted Ls. As we have done in years past, many of the ProfHacker writers have gathered up a list of things that would make welcome gifts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos calls America still ‘a nation at risk ,’ cheers GOP tax plan.” As I type this up, the Senate has not yet voted, but it does appear to have enough votes to pass the measure. Via Inside Higher Ed : “How the Tax Bills Would Hit Higher Ed.” Via The Washington Post : “ Taxing college endowments will hurt red-state kids more than coastal elites.” Via NPR : “ Graduate Students Across The Country

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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.