EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Although some schools were starting to adopt digital and online tools before COVID-19, a national survey of 2,168 K–12 administrators and educators conducted in March by Bay View Analytics found that the shift to remote learning has caused significant changes in the classroom. In their report, “A Year Apart,” the survey’s authors note that “it has become clear that schools, teachers, and administrators may not decide to return to pre-pandemic habits.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Choice boards give students options for activities they do, but they can also be overwhelming. Here's a better option. Once, when teaching high school Spanish, my students and I had finished covering a new verb tense. We practiced it. They were getting the hang of it. It was time for them to demonstrate understanding. Show what […]. The post Progressive choice boards: Provide choice without overwhelming appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Student engagement is a high priority for educators across K–12. In its 2021 State of Engagement Report, GoGuardian’s research insights underscore the value of learning experiences that address the whole child — creatively, cognitively and emotionally. Strong and meaningful teacher-student relationships can help make this vision a reality, especially when digital tools are used to bring students in at every step of the learning process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If you haven’t heard of Tract, it’s a new way to inspire students to become lifelong learners. The platform focuses on student growth and learning rather than state or international standards (it does meet them–just don’t look for that in the detail). The purpose of its videos, hands-on projects, and more is to spark student creativity, empower them to explore their own passions at their own pace.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As school districts nationwide are re-envisioning learning and applying lessons learned from rapid technology integration during the pandemic, superintendents from the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools network are leading the way. Last month, as a new school year began, Digital Promise President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard sat down with three such superintendents on a panel to explore the ways in which their districts were better prepared or more successful than their peers outside of the netw

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Burned out, tired, demoralized, at a breaking point. Spend time with teachers these days, and phrases such as these will come up often. It's not a new narrative, but it’s certainly an accurate one for many, as the pandemic continues to radically reshape the education landscape. Earlier this year, a RAND Corp. survey of former teachers found that stress was the most common reason for leaving the profession.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Free 3D Icon is a website that provides access to a wide variety of 3D icons that you can download and use in your multimedia projects. This resource which I discovered through Eric Curts' Tech.read more.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A lot is being written about our youngsters not getting enough sleep, particularly our high school students. In fact, many high schools have raised the time for their opening bells, hoping to give our juniors and seniors another hour in which to sleep. Other countries have been known to suggest that sleep isn’t all that necessary.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Google Sites are super easy websites to make. Check out these 3 settings that will help you to make your website awesome. The post 3 Settings to Try in Google Sites appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Kathleen McClaskey Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three-part series “How do we create an inclusive learning culture with equity at the center?” Creating a culture of learning and inclusivity, a non-negotiable for competency-based schools, is a tall order for most K-12 public school systems. As schools move from a traditional system to a personalized, competency-based system we need to evaluate the tools we have used around learners and learning, teachers and teaching and learn about ho

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Over the past year, virtual learning proved to be a mixed bag of success. Some students adapted; but for others, learn-from-home was a gargantuan hurdle. Many school systems, in fact, were forced to alter their student performance standards simply due to the number of failing grades students were receiving. A recent McKinsey study showed that present forms of virtual learning, especially those built around videoconferencing , actually widen learning gaps.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Kevin Dorsey and Zach Vander Veen Where does Social Emotional Learning (SEL) fit in? Through the framework of SEL, students can develop skills in self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal relationships to better prepare themselves for school, work, and life success. SEL provides a foundation in areas ranging from impulse control and emotion management to problem-solving and self-discipline.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Teachers across the curriculum will welcome this post by nonfiction expert Marlene Correia and Melissa Stewart, author of 180+ nonfiction books for kids. Learn why today's five categories of children's nonfiction not only excite and engage but are what students say they want to read most. The post 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Students Love to Read first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Experiments with Google is an innovative project launched in 2009 by Google allowing coders from all around the world to create experiments using Chrome, Android, AI, AR and more. Over the.read more.

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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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Turnitin

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The academic integrity journey begins with an honor code, a promise. How can we nurture awareness of academic integrity throughout the entire journey?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox , recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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myViewBoard

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Like every month, are you eagerly waiting for “What’s New” we have for you in October in our myViewBoard ecosystem? Well, your overwhelming responses and feedbacks really help us make significant developments in our myViewBoard suite of apps. And, we applaud all the efforts you have made to constantly help us serving you better. Having said that, your wait for the latest updates is finally over!

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techlearning

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Three dimensions of digital equity need to be addressed to successfully support learning

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Are You Thinking About Starting Your Own School? Part of the LearningRevolution.com “Survive and Thrive!” Series OVERVIEW : A 60-minute webinar presented by Dr. Mara Linaberger, founder and COO of Microschool Builders. The pandemic has created so many questions in teachers’ and parents’ minds about the effectiveness of our big system of compulsory education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Lindsey Lush. I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” and giggle at their developing use of pun. . Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We've posted a new podcasts from Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : "Are We Making It Too Hard to Hire Qualified Library People?" Dr. Albrecht's recent podcasts episodes include "Tools and Tips for Library Supervisors: Parts 1 & 2," "Stop Saying Calm Down," Spirit of Service," "Library Civility: A Code for How We Treat Each Other," "The Code of Quality Service," and "The Power of Surveys.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Lindsey Lush. I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” and giggle at their developing use of pun. . Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Climate change. Social inequality. Civic responsibility. The major concerns of our time are “ wicked problems ”—complex challenges that lack clear disciplinary boundaries and that require unique, transdisciplinary perspectives to both meaningfully frame and address. Solving them may require training young scholars to be “ wicked students ,” to use a phrase from Paul Hanstedt, director of the Washington & Lee University teaching and learning center.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Lindsey Lush. I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Whenever things go awry in the use of this technology (often due to user error), my students like to say, “This SMART board isn’t very smart , is it?” and giggle at their developing use of pun. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. Social media caption: The latest trend in assessment tools and gimmicks is the adaptive, “smart” test and the use of individualized learning plans to improve test scores. But what these tests and the resulting learning plans do, is work off a deficit model that only serves to influence the outcome of the test itself.

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