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11 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship

Ask a Tech Teacher

Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Now, education can be found anywhere — teaming up with students in Kenya, Skyping with an author in Sweden, or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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Standards-Based Grading: How to Start the Journey

The CoolCatTeacher

Nicole Naditz on episode 478 Standards-based grading — where students are assessed by specific standards — is being discussed or implemented in many districts. Today we talk to an award-winning French teacher turned Instructional Technology Program Manager who can help us understand the pitfalls and possibilities of successful implementation.

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The Benefits of Mentors in Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Everyone deserves a coach—even coaches. The Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) utilizes coaching for classroom teachers to increase impactful use of technology in 100 middle schools across the country. These coaches help teachers tackle specific classroom challenges by brainstorming innovative, technology-based strategies and providing personalized classroom support to the teacher throughout the implementation process.

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60 tips to spark creative lesson ideas

Ditch That Textbook

If you’re like me, you want to make school a memorable experience. You want to improve on the “eat your vegetables” approach to learning. It’s hard. “But I’m not a creative person.” “But I’m not good at coming up with new ideas.” “But I’m not innovative.” Coming up with cool ideas for learning is tricky. […].

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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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Entrepreneurs Should Avoid Tunnel Vision and Embrace Flexibility

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Being focused on solving one problem in one way doesn't serve product development well. Company leaders need to be able to pivot, take suggestion and respond to market demands. The post Entrepreneurs Should Avoid Tunnel Vision and Embrace Flexibility appeared first on Market Brief.

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Extracurriculars are More than Nice-to-Have: They’re Essential

Edsurge

Among many seemingly intractable problems in education, there’s one wide learning gap between the haves and have-nots that we know how to close: the extracurricular gap. Here’s the problem: Low-income and minority students are at a structural disadvantage when it comes to accessing out-of-school opportunities. Children from low-income families are three times less likely to participate in after-school programs.

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Instructure Co-Founder Goes After Digital Courseware With His Next Edtech Startup

Edsurge

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. That strategy paid off over 10 years ago when, as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, he found that his peers were disgruntled with the learning management system used on campus at the time.

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OPINION: ‘Punitive discipline makes school feel like a prison, not a community’

The Hechinger Report

During horseplay with friends, a young man — a high school student — had shoved an elderly woman. Now, he risked suspension. I was working in the student’s school as a staff developer at the time, helping to implement restorative practices as part of my work with Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility. I drew the young man into a “restorative conference” with the principal and others.

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A New Pinterest Guide for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Pinterest is among some of the best social bookmarking platforms out there. It has been particularly popular among the education community. From creating collaborative boards to saving and sharing.read more.

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What Does Salesforce Buying Salesforce.org Mean for Higher Education?

Edsurge

It’s not everyday that a company acquires a nonprofit that it started that shares its name. But then again, Salesforce isn’t a typical company. Last week, Salesforce announced it will pay $300 million in cash for Salesforce.org, which sells discounted licenses of Salesforce’s customer-relationship management (CRM) tools to nonprofits and educational institutions.

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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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New- Apple Education Released An Important Guide for Music Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

GarageBand is a powerful music studio and one we have been recommending for teachers and students over the last few years. Using GarageBand, students are able to create their own music and audio.read more.

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Empower students to be future ready with these top 5 tools

eSchool News

Educators are constantly looking for resources and tools to get students engaged and excited about the content they are teaching. Take it a step further by empowering your students with designing and creating, and that engagement will automatically happen. Empowerment means you are providing your students with the future-ready skills and experiences they can take with them into the future.

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Innovation and Creativity in the Classroom with Chromebooks

EdTechTeam

You may have noticed the device of choice for many school districts and students is the Chromebook. We see them everywhere! At school, in homes, at Starbucks… So, what are they and why are they so popular? Chromebooks are, simply put, devices that connect to the Internet with keyboards attached. They connect to the Internet with the Chrome Browser. If they connected with Firefox, they’d be called Firefoxbooks.

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How this district is preparing students for 2030–and beyond

eSchool News

Whether we like it or not, the fourth industrial revolution is fundamentally changing the way the world works–and educators have to rise to the task of preparing students for 2030 and beyond. “We don’t have as much time as I thought we did to redesign education and prepare our students for the future,” said Dr. David Gundlach, the deputy superintendent of Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Area School District (OASD), during CoSN 2019.

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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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Five Practices to Do Today for More Effective Instructional Coaching

Insight Education Group

How many of us current or former teachers would love the opportunity for a redo on those first one, two, or even three years? Those unlucky students had us at the early phase of our learning curve and provided us with excellent “on the job training.” I often look back at those years with a sense of nostalgia in its truest form as “longing mixed with regret.”.

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The Secret To Teaching Coding To Everyone

techlearning

Four years ago, when I started a makerspace at my current school district, I knew I wanted to introduce my middle schoolers to coding. I had taught coding to a small group of high schoolers in an informal, club-like format before, but I’d never taught coding in a formal classroom setting. I was excited to teach my first coding lesson. I prepared slides and some sample Scratch projects to help students through the lesson.

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What are Clickers? How to increase student engagement in the classroom using Clickers?

Testpress

How to foster meaningful engagement among students is a long standing question in lecture halls. High-enrolment classes present challenges to many basic principles and established best practices in teaching and learning. Instructors in lecture halls often face difficulty. Drawing out prior knowledge or misconceptions Motivating students, maintaining their attention Creating opportunities for meaningful engagement Assessing student comprehension Developing classroom activities that allow for the

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Tech & Learning Opens ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards

techlearning

Tech & Learning's ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards celebrates those products and services being exhibited at ISTE that show the greatest promise according to the country's most tech-savvy educators.

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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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5 Ways To Make Teacher Professional Development Effective [With Examples]

Prodigy

Every educator has at least one tale of a teacher professional development session gone wrong. But how can you avoid those mistakes? It’s difficult to plan and execute creative opportunities for teachers to continue to build their skills. Many school leaders will admit that professional development is the last thing on their mind in the […]. The post 5 Ways To Make Teacher Professional Development Effective [With Examples] appeared first on Prodigy.

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The Back to School Faculty Meeting (a Novel Excerpt)

MiddleWeb

Novels about school are rare and often feature a lone heroic teacher defying the odds. Instead, NBCT Roxanna Elden's fictional account of life at a struggling urban Texas school – "Adequate Yearly Progress" – is funny, often moving, and always authentic. Read Chapter 2.

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45 Fun Brain Teasers for Kids [With Answers]

Prodigy

Sometimes keeping your students engaged during a (long) school day feels like a losing battle. How do you gain their full attention while teaching the skills they need to succeed? How do you turn tough and intimidating concepts into fun, entertaining lessons that actually spark life in the classroom? Brain teasers for kids are a […]. The post 45 Fun Brain Teasers for Kids [With Answers] appeared first on Prodigy.

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These Swings For Kids Are Made For Carefree Summer Days

Fractus Learning

Think back to when you were young. What can be a more glorious summer afternoon memory as a kid than taking a hop on a tire swing and feeling the breeze on your back? Or maybe […].

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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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The Night Diary: A Visit with Veera Hiranandani

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

We are so fortunate to have an amazing independent bookshop in our community, Avid Bookshop. This year, they have brought 5 authors/illustrators to our school. That means that every student in grades K-5 has experienced 2 author/illustrator visits this year. For our final visit of this school year, we welcomed Veera Hiranandani , author of the 2018 Newbery Honor book The Night Diary.

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How can teachers learn more about computer science? Code.org has a solution!

ExcelinEd

The biggest challenge in providing students with equitable access to computer science is that there are still not enough teachers to teach it. The biggest misconception that schools and teachers have about teaching computer science is that it would take years of preparation. To address these barriers, Code.org offers professional development programs for existing teachers who want to begin teaching computer science.

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Lockbox Challenges with Google Forms

Catlin Tucker

Kids enjoy games! One way to create a collaborative challenge that feels more like a game than work is to use Google Forms to create a lockbox activity. When coaching a group of teachers this month, we created a transitional language lockbox challenge. Groups of students worked collaboratively to figure out which transitional words fit into particular sentences then entered their answers into a lockbox to see if they were correct.

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Part 4: Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom… Exploring Search Engines and Data Bases

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this fourth post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. Did you know there are multiple types of search engines on the internet. While knowing how to use them is important, so is understanding which one might fit a particular inquiry the best. In this post, I wish to emphasize the idea of knowing what search engines to use for questions your students might have.

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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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Keynote Panel Announced - Library 2.019 "Open Data" Mini-Conference - June 5th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're excited to announce the keynote panel for our second Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Open Data," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 5th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Local, state and federal governments are releasing data - the public's data - in new ways. Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn an