Neo LMS
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Using edtech can help teachers access tests, set objectives, and create lesson plans for students. Technology isn’t just helpful for teachers, though. Technology in a school can play a significant role to keep parents up to date and informed about their children’s education. All parents and carers want is for their children to receive the best education possible.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 29, 2019
“Polk County is one of the counties you don’t think about very much,” said Nakia , a student at Chilhowee Middle School in Benton, Tennessee, a small rural town of fewer than 2,000 people. “We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”. Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Lear
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2019
K–12 Schools Take a Business-Minded Approach to Education. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/29/2019 - 10:32. Aging, malfunctioning technology can be costly for schools — not only financially but also in terms of time. But forward-looking administrators are embracing advanced technologies, as well as key business best practices , to make the most of their limited time and dollars.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Andrea Moore on episode 583 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students need life skills. Some schools are adding in courses to help students cook, care for their families, manage their money and more life skills. Others have always had these courses. Today we interview a teacher, Andrea Moore, who started her career as a literature teacher but teaches many practical things to her students every day.
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EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. By Kenna McHugh. Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. Before taking on his role at PBLWorks, his familiarity with Project Based Learning (PBL) matured as the co-founder of Envision Education and served as its CEO and Chief of Innovation.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Fall 2019. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/29/2019 - 12:55. Oct. 29. 2019.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Ditch That Textbook
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Remember the joy you felt when laid the last domino in a match, played the final card in the deck, and finally reached level 4 in your Super Mario Brothers world? Well, that feeling is not just a coincidence. That is game-design in it’s purest form — leveraging choice, strategy, skill, and a little luck […].
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 29, 2019
By Dan Ringo. When you think of a competent and successful school district facility manager (FM), there are a few qualities that immediately spring to mind. For example, a facility manager should be a skilled and experienced maintenance person with a strong knowledge of industry standards for operational elements like safety, energy efficiency, sustainability and construction.
Ditch That Textbook
OCTOBER 29, 2019
[callout]This post is written by Cate Tolnai, a co-founder of BUOY Consultants, a partnership agency serving schools, districts, and companies with implementation strategy and services. Her recent co-authored publication, Power Up Your Classroom: Reimagine Learning Through Gameplay, (ISTE, 2019) presents frameworks for learning engagement and instructional design.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
All the first graders in Jean Duran’s class at River Grove School outside Chicago knew the drill: when they were gathered on the multi-colored carpet at the front of the room, they had to pay strict attention to their teacher. Yet that could be a problem in the long, narrow classroom, where the carpet and white board were at one end and the projector and computer were wired into a corner 35 feet away. in addition to losing her students’ attention, she was losing about ten minutes a lesson sprint
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.
100mentors
OCTOBER 29, 2019
This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. In the previous installments of our series, we have shared ideas on instructional strategies that allow the simultaneous implementation of Approaches to Teaching and Learning (ATLs).
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Computing experts love speed—and there’s an ongoing battle to build the fastest computer on earth. Usually the overall trend follows what’s known as Moore’s Law, with the speed of the fastest computer doubling every 14 months or so. But last week saw the announcement of a new kind of speed record. A team of scientists from Google said they used a quantum computer to solve a problem in less than four minutes that would have taken a traditional supercomputer 10,000 years to complete.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of the city’s South Side, the University of Chicago could be the first college or university in the nation where total advertised cost for an undergraduate breaks $100,000. Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report. CHICAGO — Butterflies congregated on a bush as Griffin Badalamente walked past the carefully cultivated lawns and flowers on the University of Chicago campus.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
As a new teacher, Shelby Womack was teaching a lesson about simplifying fractions to his fifth grade class when he grew concerned about answers from students that didn’t make sense. Although they had covered the vocabulary of numerators and denominators in the previous days, there was clearly a gap somewhere. Equipped with just a white board and an Expo marker, Womack decided to poll his students: “Raise your hand if you think the numerator is the one on top.
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.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Use Cal.new to Quickly Create Events Google is always making updates and improvements. It’s a hard call to say what my favorite update is so far this year (show attachments and details in Google Classroom might be the winner) but all these dot new shortcuts are pretty high on my list of winners! Cal.new I […]. The post And Now … Cal.new appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
This quiz is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest Social studies is an ever-evolving discipline. As humanity’s story changes, we must continually strive to tell it with accuracy. New frameworks and standards, along with new instructional methods and lesson plans, seek to represent these shifting currents and break from the status quo.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Reading scores for fourth graders fell in 17 states and dipped in 31 states among eighth graders. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. 30, 2019.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Almost a decade after Lynzi Ziegenhagen began work on tools to help K-12 schools with data analysis and visualization, she faced an important decision. For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. Raising money and building that team internally wasn’t the ideal situation. “That would have taken too much work and too much time,” says Ziegenhagen.
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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
100mentors
OCTOBER 29, 2019
This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. In the previous installments of our series, we have shared ideas on instructional strategies that allow the simultaneous implementation of Approaches to Teaching and Learning (ATLs).
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically. Digital resources abound, with various content advocating strong positions on gun rights, immigration, gender equality, and other hot-button issues.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2019
CROWN mentor Rodney Woods speaks to incoming freshman Eric Sims during the CROWN orientation at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA, on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. THIBODAUX, La. — Rodney Woods was on the fence about applying to Nicholls State University, a four-year public institution a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house in Louisiana’s Bayou Region, a rural area of the state dotted with sugar cane fields and mud-colored swamps.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 29, 2019
To further emancipate itself from its previous parent company, Pearson’s former K-12 courseware business has changed its name. The company formerly known as Pearson K12 Learning is now called Savvas Learning Co., according to an external email reviewed by EdSurge. The company will continue to use the Pearson name until spring 2020, when it launches a rebranding initiative with its new name and logo.
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.
Shake Up Learning
OCTOBER 29, 2019
The post 13 Tips to Organize Your Google Drive appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this blog post and podcast episode, you will learn 13 Tips to Organize Your Google Drive. Google Drive is the heart of G Suite. Google Drive allows you to store your files securely and access them from any device, as well as create, open, and edit your files. I have thousands of files stored in my Drive and struggle with keeping them all organized.
EdTechTeacher
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Have you ever used Google Slides to create images? Just like with Google Drawings, Slides has many tools that facilitate the creation of images. From textboxes to shape and line tools, as well as the ability to change the background or insert photos, Google Slides can be a fabulous tool for teachers to create images to be exported and used in other environments.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Patrick makes it super easy for anyone to learn math through a collection of useful video lessons. Patrick has been teaching math for 8 years at the university level. His website, Patrick JMT.
PlagiarismCheck
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Students who are not familiar with paraphrasing can easily understand it: it is encapsulating a passage from a text in your words. Instead of quoting something directly, you express ideas and/or data in a personal way. It is done for various reasons: it is great for students to learn how to absorb knowledge and to be able to reiterate it with a fresh style; there should not be too many direct quotations in one paper, so paraphrasing helps to reduce that number; and it is recommended to use only
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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 29, 2019
eSports In High School? One League Seeks To Engage A New Generation Of Learners contributed by Claire LaBeaux The new Orange County High School Esports League™ in Southern California has enthusiastic support of teachers and administrators–and it’s drawing in a subset of students that typically are not otherwise engaged in school. eSports competition is facilitated […].
PlagiarismCheck
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Students who are not familiar with paraphrasing can easily understand it: it is encapsulating a passage from a text in your words. Instead of quoting something directly, you express ideas and/or data in a personal way. It is done for various reasons: it is great for students to learn how to absorb knowledge and to be able to reiterate it with a fresh style; there should not be too many direct quotations in one paper, so paraphrasing helps to reduce that number; and it is recommended to use only
eSchool News
OCTOBER 29, 2019
While some English learners and students of color may be striving to attain minimal academic competency, others are likely to be high-ability or gifted/talented students who are not receiving appropriate support for their needs, and therefore are less engaged and have lower levels of participation in programs suitable for them. English learners (ELs) and students of color are persistently underrepresented in advanced classes and in programs for students identified as gifted, according to researc
The Principal of Change
OCTOBER 29, 2019
I found this quote from Susan Fowler’s book, “Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work. and What Does” fascinating in the context of education, learning, and school; So a few thoughts on this quote for my reflection. In what parts of my own life do I find “joy” in the struggle of learning? Where do I despise the “struggle” of learning?
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