EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

How K–12 Schools Can Get Started with Blended Learning. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 10/29/2018 - 09:41. Last school year, our school started a one-to-one Chromebook initiative for sixth-grade students. That meant our incoming seventh-grade students would not only have Chromebooks, but they would know how to use them. Entering the school year, I had the following assumptions: All of our classroom management problems would be solved because our students would be engaged with technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Dr. Justin Aglio in episode 382 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Justin Aglio has partnered with Carnegie Mellon and MIT to develop a middle school curriculum teaching Artificial Intelligence. Learn how they did it and what they are teaching in today’s episode. Project Pals has a useful classroom collaborative platform that lets you create and manage projects for your students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Julienne Cruz has taught math in public schools for eight years and has seen many students struggle with learning math. When asked about her students’ attitudes towards math, she noted: “Students from kindergarten to third grade tend to like math; they think it’s fun to think about patterns. Around third to fourth grade, when math starts to get ‘hard,’ students begin to develop anxiety.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 29, 2018

November is a short month, with a week off to celebrate the holiday. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher: Book Review: Repositioning Educational Leadership. Hour of Code activities. Let’s talk about Measuring Up–from Mastery Education. Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning. The Power of Symbols–What does ‘Turkey’ mean?

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Today’s students see themselves as digital natives , the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers certainly acknowledge the growing influence of technology and have responded in kind.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Every summer, I bought a planner in hopes that this would be the year that I would use it for the entire year. Just like all my New Year’s Resolutions though, I would keep it up for about a week or two, then forget about it. For the rest of the semester, I would write […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

After we have reviewed kids safe search engines and kids friendly educational websites, we are sharing with you this list of interesting YouTube channels that provide educational video content for.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The next year will focus on technologies that influence how users interact with the world, according to Gartner in its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2019. A strategic technology trend is “one with substantial disruptive potential that is beginning to break out of an emerging state into broader impact and use, or which are rapidly growing trends with a high degree of volatility reaching tipping points over the next five years.” The IT research and analyst firm announc

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Most of the requests we recieved from our readers here in EdTech and mLearning during the last few weeks revolve around one theme:student interactives. We have reviewed several of these tools in the.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

October 27, 2018 — Pittsburgh, PA, United States — Police outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA in the aftermath of the shooting that killed 11 people on October 27. Photo: Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire. “Do I need to tell my teacher that I’m Jewish? Because in a lockdown, will they come for our class first?”.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

"Being "bossy" has had a negative connotation since the dawn of preschool playgrounds. Whenever a little girl barks out orders or a young boy wants something done his way, they are considered.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Fostering a Creative Culture in the Classroom, Part 1 of 2 Guest Blog Post by Amy Burvall What is the most creative thing you’ve ever done with students? Did it involve supplies commandeered from the art room, a lot of mess, and way too much time away from learning the curriculum? There’s a lot of […]. The post If These Walls Could Talk: 3 Ideas For a Creative Classroom Culture by @amyburvall appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick discuss several strategies for working with teachers of all grade levels, subject levels, and most important, skill levels. It’s easy to create one type of professional development session, but what happens when you are working with a group and a teacher is struggling to understand certain concepts. .

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This week’s highlighted blog is Cult of Pedagogy by Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher and a National Board Certified Teacher who now works full-time supporting teachers with her blog and other resources. Cult of Pedagogy really does have something for every educator at every level. You name the topic and there is a quality post relating to that topic on Cult of Pedagogy.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick discuss several strategies for working with teachers of all grade levels, subject levels, and most important, skill levels. It’s easy to create one type of professional development session, but what happens when you are working with a group and a teacher is struggling to understand certain concepts. .

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The post 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Shake Up Learning community is always chatting and sharing digital tools and lesson ideas for the K12 classroom. Recently, we discussed our favorite formative assessment tools for the classroom, and I wanted to share these here for you as a resource. In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom!

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Michelle Russell is always looking for new resources for her math classes. But before she spends time incorporating new tools, she wants to know what the resources can do. Here she shares what she and her students think of two online math platforms – IXL and Delta Math.

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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Startups salivate at the prospect of entering the enterprise — and for good reason. The enterprise is rife with legacy systems and circuitous processes that frustrate employees and hinder results — and the startup has just the perfect product to fix the problem. Too often though, the pitch to the enterprise falls flat or a promising pilot gets sidelined.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

If A YouTuber Ran For President, They’d Probably Win by Terry Heick In a democracy, the majority rules. What happens, then, when the majority is wrong? I’m sure there are political science theories that ‘explain’ this problem, but I’m equally sure I wouldn’t be able to endorse that theory. I’ve thought about this concept for […].

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Welcome to another STEM related post. I hope you enjoyed the 35 STEAM Ideas in the last post. There are a lot of ideas floating around in regards to STEM education. As I reflect on my observation of STEM practice in my travels across the country I have become more convinced that STEM is a verb, and not just a set of nouns. In fact, STEM action is something all content areas can embrace as they engage students in authentic learning.

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Cycles of Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I have written in the past about how much I am enjoying teaching Biology this year. After graduating with a degree in Biochemistry, my first teaching job, and thus the subsequent 17 years, led me to the world of chemistry education. Upon switching schools, the opportunity to teach a few courses of Biology surfaced. Two years in, I am humbled by how much I don't know/forgot, both related to content and pedagogy of Biology instruction, and how much exciting opportunity there is in the field.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

– Between 2005 and 2015, STEM employment grew by 24.4 percent, over five times more than non-STEM employment over the same period. As technology continues to expand into every aspect of our lives, STEM occupations, with their better wages and lower unemployment rates, attract a wide range of labor—with significant implications for economic development.

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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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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as empathy requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley , empathy is: the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

EDSITEment Extensive humanities resource offers deep well of great content Pros: In-depth lesson plans give teachers plenty to choose from. Cons: It's not the most exciting site in the world, especially for kids. Bottom Line: The National Endowment for the Humanities has put together an outstanding place for art, history, language, and literature. Read more here.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as empathy requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley , empathy is: the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

WHAT: HIGH IMPACT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT™ Webinar – Classroom Design for Barrier-Free Collaboration WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 1, 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST REGISTER: Gainesville, FL, Oct. 29, 2018 – Classroom design hasn’t changed much since the industrial revolution. Typically desks are found in rows with minimal opportunities to enhance learning that research shows optimizes cognitive growth and meets the needs of all students.

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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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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as empathy requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home. According to the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley , empathy is: the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Cincinnati, OH ( October 29, 2018 ) — Since March 2018, the Wisconsin Department of Justice has invited school districts to apply for its $100 million School Safety Grant to use for implementing physical safety measures, staff training, and other safety tools. This fall, Sun Prairie Area School District will use a portion of its awarded funds to implement an online school safety and crisis prevention program called the EmployeeSafe Suite from PublicSchoolWORKS.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Photo from Pxhere I can't speak for anyone else, but my own personal learning is most enriched when I'm in conversations with others. Whether it is sat during a break in a conference schedule; over a few drinks in the evening with a couple of colleagues; in breakout sessions; or simply sat discussing ideas across a social media channel; all of these can be rich veins of new thinking for me.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

On November 8, Boxlight is holding its third annual Boxlight STEM Day (#BLSTEM) in the United States and Latin America. [ Top 10 K–12 Educational Technology Trends ] Students in Georgia, Texas, and California, as well as Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica will use the Labdisc data logger to perform experiments. The purpose is to relate light intensity and light source efficiency to create a hypothesis about the amount of light sent out by different sources, then test it using the Labdisc

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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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