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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Globalization has an impact on various aspects of our lives. We live in an age where global issues that affect us all are pushing us to collaborate and to understand different perspectives. In schools, teaching from a global perspective can be quite challenging. Growth comes from stepping out of our comfort zones, which classrooms can become quite easily.

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Ditch those homework packets with family choices boards

Ditch That Textbook

Can we shift the homework culture while still bridging home-school connections? It's possible with family choice boards. Read on for examples, templates and ideas for getting started. This post is written by Susan Stewart, PK-12 Instructional Technology Coach in California. Susan is a Google Certified Innovator and Trainer with a passion for technology integration in […].

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The Role of the School Administrator in Classroom Coaching

Digital Promise

Research on instructional coaching shows that when defined, understood, and implemented as a principal-coach-teacher partnership, teacher coaching programs can be more effective. Engaged principals are key to a successful coaching program. Our research on the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) coaching program shows that when principals support the coach-teacher relationship and collaboration, the coaches feel more confident about their coaching skills and, therefore, have a more significant impact

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How to Help Your Students Navigate the News in a Presidential Election Year

Edsurge

For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. It’s a nationwide teachable moment in which the entire country is constantly discussing a hearty list of key standards that is supposed to inform our instruction. I’ve always relished these times because they’re part of what makes social studies special. Our English teacher colleagues, for example, can’t rely on moments when everyone’s talking about diagramming sentences, or Beowulf, or the past perfect continuous tense wi

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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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PleIQ: the early-years interactive smart toy that fosters multiple intelligences through an Augmented Reality experience

Educational Technology Guy

PleIQ: the early-years interactive smart toy that fosters multiple intelligences through an Augmented Reality experience PleIQ (Play-Q) is the best new educational toy that beautifully merges the physical and digital worlds to provide our children with an immersive learning experience. PleIQ is the perfect complement to high-quality classroom instruction—a hands-on, 21 st Century, augmented reality toy that appeals to all learning styles.

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Policy Watch: Educators Can Teach Lawmakers What Our Students Need

EdNews Daily

School leaders can help lawmakers create better education legislation by keeping them informed of current challenges and offering pragmatic solutions. By Glen Miller. It’s no secret to educators that students are not meeting literacy benchmarks. A recent report on reading performance from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that 63 percent of students in 4 th grade are reading at a “basic” or “below basic” level.

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Why Your School Should Stick to Core Principles Instead of Market Trends

EdNews Daily

By Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller. What’s hot in education technology? A better question might be, what’s hot in EdTech this year ? It’s no surprise that the sector is growing – and quickly. In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 billion. Just the first half of this year alone, the United States neared one billion in EdTech funding.

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The Latest Innovation in Student Retention at Colleges: ‘Food Scholarships’

Edsurge

College kids have a reputation for seeking out free food, and that's why any student organizer knows that ordering pizza is a good way to lure folks to a meeting. But for many students, hunger is a far more serious problem. More than 30 percent of college students may not regularly get enough to eat. And that's from an analysis conducted last year by the federal Government Accountability Office.

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5 Homework Assignments for the Thanksgiving Break

Teacher Tech

A friendly reminder that a break is a break. This is not an excuse to give extra work to students. There is NO research that suggests that we should give students work to do over the Thanksgiving break or any break. Actually, rest and breaks are very important. So please, let your students have a […]. The post 5 Homework Assignments for the Thanksgiving Break appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Definition Of Peer Teaching: A Sampling Of Existing Research

TeachThought - Learn better.

Peer teaching occurs when students, by design, teach other students. The post The Definition Of Peer Teaching: A Sampling Of Existing Research appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Some Helpful iPad Tips for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a handy inforgaphic we designed specifically for teachers and students. The visual is based on a post we published here a few days ago featuring a total of 15 practical iPad tips to help you.

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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

eSchool News

The discussion about the importance of class size has been ongoing for decades. While some still argue that class size doesn’t make a noticeable difference in the quality of education, research has shown that is not the case. Understanding the connection between class size and student achievement, as well as teacher retentions, is critical to the future of our educational system.

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6 Good Educational Tools to Boost Students Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today we spent sometime going through the featured resources in ReadWriteThing and picked out for you the tools below. These are interactive web tools students can use for a variety of educational.

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10 Technologies Higher Education Should Get Ahead of (or Fall Behind)

EmergingEdTech

In Today's Digital World, Industries of all Types Must Transform in Order to Thrive I often attend CIO “summits” and similar events for IT and business leaders. A common theme at these. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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Welcome to JNUC 2019

Jamf on EdTech

It's finally here! Before you settle in for three days of fun, here are a few public service announcements for Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) attendees and non-attendees.

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Chegg Ditches Ingram for FedEx and Eyes International Growth

Edsurge

A switch in distributors for Chegg’s legacy textbook sales and rentals business reflects, in a way, how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues.

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Welcome to JNUC 2019

Jamf on EdTech

It's finally here! Before you settle in for three days of fun, here are a few public service announcements for Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) attendees and non-attendees.

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How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Coaching a coach is an exciting experience, but everyone has struggles that they need to mastermind one in a while. Alison Jalufka is a Learning Coach at an elementary school in her Central Texas school district. She started her teaching career in elementary education as a first-grade teacher and now has the opportunity to make an impact as a tech coach. .

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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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New Jamf product portfolio and customers take center stage during JNUC keynote

Jamf on EdTech

From Jamf Protect to 100,000 Jamf Nation members, read this blog post for a recap of everything that happened during the exciting Jamf Nation User Conference opening keynote.

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Building an attitude of gratitude among students and teachers

eSchool News

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, now’s the time for principals like me to take a moment to be grateful. It’s also a time to inspire an attitude of gratitude among teachers and students. At my school, Brookwood Elementary, our mindset of the year is “Live to Give,” so our social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons this fall have been focused on serving each other and the community.

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New Jamf product portfolio and customers take center stage during JNUC keynote

Jamf on EdTech

From Jamf Protect to 100,000 Jamf Nation members, read this blog post for a recap of everything that happened during the exciting Jamf Nation User Conference opening keynote.

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Join the ST Math Fall Break Challenge

MIND Research Institute

The holiday season is a busy one, often filled with wonder and reflections of gratitude. It's also filled with caring parents and teachers wanting to ensure that students stay engaged in learning over designated school breaks. Here are our suggestions to help students and families stay engaged in math over fall break! If your school has ST Math® , a powerful visual instructional program that leverages the brain's innate spatial-temporal reasoning ability to solve mathematical problems, you can e

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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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Timing your Apple hardware refreshes

Jamf on EdTech

This morning at JNUC, six technology enthusiasts led a panel discussion that focused on an affordable way for organizations to implement Apple in their environments — participate in a buyback program.

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The Feedback of Failure

The Principal of Change

I saw the following tweet from Chasity Beatty and wanted to share a few thoughts: The simple answer is this; yes, there is failure. But in all failure, there can be feedback if we choose to look for it. Sometimes failure can teach us that we need to tweak things and get better. For example, the other day, I had a terrible run. I got up and put in the effort, but I could tell you that my eating habits the night before had an impact on my run that morning.

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Timing your Apple hardware refreshes

Jamf on EdTech

This morning at JNUC, six technology enthusiasts led a panel discussion that focused on an affordable way for organizations to implement Apple in their environments — participate in a buyback program.

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3 amazing findings about digital and mobile learning

eSchool News

In order to support digital and mobile learning, students in K-12 classrooms need access to sufficient bandwidth, scalable and affordable broadband infrastructure, and robust Wi-Fi. And for the most part, they have it. Educators and school IT leaders have worked tirelessly toward this end, and according to the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway, 99 percent of school districts across the nation are now on scalable fiber connections with a “clear path” to supplying enough bandwidth for di

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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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APNS and MDM: A technical update

Jamf on EdTech

This advanced-level JNUC presentation for "elite Mac admins" covers how APNs enable MDM, how MDM enables great experiences with Apple — and why you should care.

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Wordpress, and Blackboard, and Wix. Oh My! Which School Website Platform Should You Choose?

The Innovative Educator

All public schools must have accessible websites. With so many options, which platform should you choose? To help you figure that out in the alphabetical listing below you can: Visit the site Check out the accessibility guidance Watch a video clip from each platform as they share information about what they provided in a showcase to New York City school webmasters.

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The Mac security lesson you may need: “Eat your own dog food”

Jamf on EdTech

Security experts discuss the importance of "living in the shoes of a normal user, not an admin” during this JNUC 2019 session.

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New Schema: Standards Based Report Cards

MiddleWeb

This year Mary Tarashuk is adding standards-based report cards to her self-contained class of 4th graders. Holding on to John Dewey’s insight about the goal of education, she’ll meet the new challenge with cross-curricular units, student work archives, and pragmatism.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks