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AUGUST 13, 2018

Technology Helps Teachers Prevent and Mitigate Bad Behavior in the Classroom. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/13/2018 - 10:17. While most teachers want to believe the best about their students, the reality is that skipping class, plagiarism and a host of other issues are behavioral challenges teachers grapple with daily. It can be difficult for teachers to react in ways that will guide students back to proper classroom behavior without alienating them — which is a major concern according to a recent

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Last summer, we began an exciting pilot project to understand whether instructional technology coaching ultimately leads to closing the digital use divide in the classroom. While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content.

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Ditch That Textbook

AUGUST 13, 2018

How do you get the most out of social media without letting things get lost in the shuffle? Being an educator on social media can be both inspiring and overwhelming. There are so many great ideas and resources out there to use that it can be hard to keep up with it all. It can […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes, we start the school year and things from year’s past are dragging us down. We kick off Season 4 of the 10-Minute Teacher with a Motivational Monday story from Will Rogers — “Trade the Cow.” Episode 336: Trade the Cow. Listen on iTunes.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

As of June 16, 2018, Today’s Meet closed (read the full details here ). That iconic backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners, the one that for ten years was the first name thought of when discussing feedback and collaboration, one that quickly became a staple in classrooms and conferences. I went to my PLN for thoughts on what they’ll use in its stead.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 13, 2018

Once again, the P21 network of Exemplar schools and member organizations is eager to represent at SxSWedu in Austin next March.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Libraries offer a refuge where students study, find books or take the occasional nap. But could these places soon provide additional services beyond homework help? A new report this week explores whether libraries can play a more proactive role in helping community college students succeed. Researchers started by first asking 37 students from seven community colleges what challenges they face, which will inform the next phase of the project: devising ways to test whether libraries can assist wit

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about what others are thinking. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget , who is credited with founding the scientific study of children’s thinking, was convinced that preschool children cannot consider what goes on in the minds of others.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can a 15-year-old from Chino Hills, CA do to help break down barriers and smash stereotypes? Zaina Siyed answered that question by creating the FemSTEM Robotics Scholarship Program , a free STEM program for Muslim girls aged 10 to 14. Siyed was fed up with never seeing girls—especially Muslim girls like herself—competing in the robotics challenges she loved so much.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 13, 2018

20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture It’s an age-old saying, “Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.” What separates good teachers from the excellent ones? The excellent ones are handing out fishing poles; creating a culture in the […]. The post 20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 13, 2018

20 Steps to Get Started with the New Google Classroom Create a new class. Click on the Classwork tab. Click on the Create button. Create a topic called “Today.” Click on the Create button and create a topic called “About/Resources.” Click on the Create button and create a topic called “Unit 1” Click on Create […].

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 13, 2018

Valentina Gonzalez steps into the shoes of middle grades English learners to reveal how they experience a new school year and how teachers can help them meet the unique combination they face: language learning, cultural shifts, and the emotional journey of adolescence.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2018

At Tudor Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska, “show and tell” has an inspiring twist. Instead of sharing an interesting rock or a favorite toy, they are sharing messages of peace and personal commitment to making the world a better place. And, through live video conferencing, they’re sharing their messages with students in Argentina, Pakistan, Brazil, Canada, and the United States, as well as locations throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

. Can you predict the future? Flying cars, miniature nuclear power plants in every home and a world without disease are daring predictions that missed the mark — and still appear unlikely in the near future. Our ability to know what the future will be like in 10 years, much less 50 years, is limited. The unknown impacts of human ingenuity, climate change and demographic shifts in an increasingly global world, among myriad other forces, ensures that the future will be unpredictable.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Common Sense Education team is constantly searching for the best tools for digital teaching and learning. Our experts have rated and reviewed more than 3,000 (and counting!) apps, websites, and games for their learning potential. Through all this, we consistently come across new tools that are unlike anything we’ve seen before. The innovation happening in the edtech world is a big part of our inspiration and motivation to keep reviewing.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 13, 2018

The folks at Google Classroom have put together this handy Back to School guide to help teachers using Google Classroom learn more about the newly released updates and make the best of this learning.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

Last week, when many students were beginning the new academic year in some public schools in the United States, my family and I took a cruise to Cuba. My 7-year-old-son Roby could barely wait to get off the ship to enjoy the sights and sounds of Havana. This was not his first vacation abroad. In past trips, he had gawked at Big Ben in London, strolled through the United Nations in Geneva and fallen down a set of stair in the Eiffel Tower.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 13, 2018

Digital projects often bring together many different members of an institution, or several institutions, and those members often have very different statuses: students (undergraduate or graduate), workers in precarious positions, those with permanent positions, etc. Understanding and properly valuing all of this work, and the disparate effects such work has on the different people who perform it, is an ongoing challenge.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 13, 2018

Smithsonian’s History Explorer provides teachers, educators and students with a wide variety of resources to help them teach and learn about the American history. The site is a fruit of the.read more.

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techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

Oakland, Calif. — Aug. 9, 2018 — (OTC PINK:SCIL), a leading SaaS service provider that delivers neuroscience-based educational technologies, today announced that it has released its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018. Details of the quarterly results can be found at [link]. Concurrently, the company announced that Jeffrey D.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 13, 2018

On Thursday, August 2nd, it was my great pleasure to by the featured guest on Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum. We had a lively discussion, exploring blended learning. We explored questions from. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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AUGUST 13, 2018

A recent survey of 1,000 U.S. teachers found that the state of parent-teacher engagement still has room for improvement. The survey, conducted by ClassTag , found that 65% of teachers reported adequate parent engagement, but 35% of parents had no interaction with their classrooms last school year. In the survey, which was conducted between June 23 and July 22, 2018, teachers cited parent-teacher engagement, alongside home life and classroom climate, as the critical factors in student success, fa

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

In a 12-month period in 2016-17, more than one of every four Mississippi households with children — 25.8 percent — lacked enough money to buy the food they needed , according to a new report by the Food Research & Action Center. That rate is the highest of any state in the nation, and over 7 percentage points higher than the 2017 national average.

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techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

ClassroomScreen which I will be using at all future learning events. ClassroomScreen basically allows me to ditch my former toolbox of presentation tools as it combines them into one nice, simple place. Just visit classroomscreen.com and you have access to a timer, random number generator, work symbols (i.e. silence, work together, ask a neighbor), QR code, class sound level, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

On the day after Thanksgiving, 1960, Edward R. Murrow took Americans from their living rooms into the fields where hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers across the country worked harvesting the nation’s food. His documentary, “Harvest Of Shame,” aired on CBS, and was an in-depth look at the poverty suffered by migrant farm workers and their families.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

“No one is born knowing how to read—we all have to learn how. When you read, your brain has to do a lot of things at once. It has to connect letters with sounds and put those sounds together in the right order” ~Sally Shaywitz, M.D., Overcoming Dyslexia. This year I challenged myself as an educator. I enrolled in a college graduate program working towards a certificate in Dyslexia Knowledge and Practice.

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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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AUGUST 13, 2018

Versal Slick course creator is full-featured, but lessons remain traditional Pros: Absurdly easy to use, supports tons of media, and works instantly with other systems such as Google Docs, Office, and Prezi. Cons: The lessons are still mostly walls of text and images with few discovery features, so it's largely a teacher-as-expert learning experience.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2018

When a colleague invited Joy Kirr to a professional development day featuring the Scottish design thinking expert Ewan McIntosh she didn’t think it would be life changing. She was flattered to be asked, and wanted to make the most of the opportunity, but her experience of professional development up to that point didn’t lead her to believe it would be Earth-shattering.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2018

In an age where students seem to be attached to tech, why not take that as an educational opportunity? With WhatsApp being such a popular messaging app, there is a good chance students already have it. With the free app’s numerous features, it’s a natural choice for communication and more between teachers, students, and even parents. Meanwhile, Edulastic provides an easy way to create formative assessments and analyze data.

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techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

Comcast today announced it has now connected more than six million low-income Americans to the Internet through its Internet Essentials program, a broadband adoption program for low-income families in the U.S. The company also announced it will significantly expand eligibility to low-income veterans. [ Ultimate Resource Guide for the NEW Google Classroom!

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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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