EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2018

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez IT leaders, teachers and administrators alike gather to discuss the future of the innovative classroom.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 3, 2018

Being one who travels virtually every week, I often find myself in remote locations, driving to hotels I’ve never seen, in a town I’ve never been. Upon landing at the closest airport, I’ll typically grab my carry-on luggage, proceed down an escalator, and if my destination is too far for an Uber, I’ll find the closest Hertz Car Rental.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 3, 2018

This post is co-authored by Ditch That Textbook’s Matt Miller and Laura Steinbrink. Laura is a high school English teacher and tech coach from Plato, Missouri. Check out her blog, Rockin’ the Boat, at rockintheboat.wordpress.com. If you are like me (Laura), you are constantly searching for a new, fresh activity to help connect your students […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

Day 3 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Why is it surprising that we need people? “As iron sharpens iron, so one person can sharpen another.” ( Proverbs 27:17 ) But it can be so hard to make friends. I admit, before I was bullied terribly starting in fifth grade, I had lots of friends and trusted people.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

Every year, I review a large number of websites, apps, and resources that help educators blend technology into their classrooms. I get lots of feedback from readers sharing their experiences, asking questions, and clicking through to see if a particular tool will serve their needs. But, I often don’t hear how the product worked in the fullness of time.

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Doug Levin

JANUARY 3, 2018

I’ve been at this technology in education thing for a long time – much of it as an analyst and researcher, some of it as a (pretty good) policy advocate. I’ve been funded by industry and provided advice to investors and brands. I’ve received support from some of the most prominent philanthropies funding in the space, and I’ve even been paid by the federal government to help them craft (and market) their educational technology plans to Congress and the states.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

Education has been a recurring theme throughout the many programs of the NYC Media Lab, a public-private partnership where I serve as an Executive Director. How will virtual and augmented reality change the classroom? How can teachers use immersive media to educate citizens and keep our communities vibrant? In what ways can enterprises leverage innovation to better train employees and streamline workflows?

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 3, 2018

Roll Dice in Google Slides One of my favorite sayings is “I don’t use Google Slides to give information, I use it to GET information.” Using Google Slides to make a presentation is probably the least likely thing I do with Google Slides. It’s an awesome collaboration space! While using Google Slides in edit mode […]. The post Roll Dice in Google Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2018

Chalk is a 5-year-old company that is growing rapidly. It was initially created to help teachers save time on their planning. Our focus has always been to help teachers (we love them!), and now we have evolved to assisting entire schools and districts. It’s been a crazy and rewarding ride for Chalk. What is Chalk? A platform that helps align and utilize a curriculum on an administrative level, so teachers know what skills students need in a specific grade.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s no great overstatement to say that the Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to rollback net neutrality protections has shaken the education community’s faith in open and equitable internet access for all students. I understand there are concerns about [Ajit] Pai. But the tea leaves for E-Rate are pretty positive actually. John Harrington, Funds for Learning Among the groups commenting on the issue, both ISTE and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) raised the possibili

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

High school junior Tania Toriz, 16, and sophomore Jade Boling, 15, fix a screw on the top of a shed that their “Geometry in Construction” class constructed at Ritenour High School near St. Louis, Missouri. Photo: Kristen Taketa for The Hechinger Report. EUREKA, Mo. — Every week in geometry class, more than two dozen Eureka High School students stow their backpacks and cellphones in their lockers and don hard hats and goggles.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2018

January 3, 2018 In yesterday’s post, we featured a number of important tips to help teachers and students become better Google searchers. In today’s post we are highlighting another equally important.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Professor Scott Dobrin works with two students inside a lab at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — For the first few minutes of Scott Dobrin’s anatomy and physiology class at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, nothing feels particularly out of the ordinary.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2018

Sphero has just rolled out their new programming platform and community center, Lightning Lab. With this app Sphero positions SPRK programming alongside Scratch and other web-enabled platform. With Lightning Lab, users can have access to all of their programs no matter which device they use to sign in as the programs travel with the user's profile. The post Programming Robots with SPRK Lightning Lab appeared first on TeacherCast.

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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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ProfHacker

JANUARY 3, 2018

Here at ProfHacker, we’ve long advocated using Markdown , a plain text markup language that doesn’t require advanced software or expertise. Markdown is super useful for creating documents that are going to end up eventually being web pages… or PDFs… or e-books… or Word docs… or just about any text document, really.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2018

Welcome to the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each and… The post Are Your Students Civically Minded?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2018

January , 2018 If you are using Google Drive on Chrome, the visual below is definitely a must see. It features a number of interesting ideas and activities you can do on Google Drive using a wide.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Legal Outreach Staff member Tamika Edwards leads a class discussion. Photo: Nick Chiles/The Hechinger Report. QUEENS, N.Y. — When Ismelda Mejia, 16, a junior at a large public high school in the Bronx, was invited to the principal’s office earlier this fall along with nine of her classmates, she was thrilled to discover the reason why. Her GPA placed her among the top 10 students in her class.

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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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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 3, 2018

In 2011, I wrote about the idea of moving from “classroom management” to “classroom leadership.” Here is a snippet from that post: For as long as I have been in education, the term “classroom management” is something that has been in every evaluation form I have seen as well as a major topic of discussion. In every element of leadership, there is some element of management but to paraphrase Stephen Covey, “you manage things, but we lead people.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 3, 2018

The term “physical campus safety” probably conjures up images of smoke detectors, evacuation plans, tornado drills, recess monitors and other components of school safety that have been around for decades. More recently, for many schools additional measures have become necessary, including metal detectors, stricter visitor management procedures, anonymous online reporting systems, campus police, school resource officers and an abundance of educational technology geared towards safety and security

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MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s 12:15 p.m. on a Tuesday in December and 30 students gather for an unusual class at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school located in one of the country’s poorest Congressional districts. Two seniors, who have been trained to lead the class, are presiding over today’s session on the theme of interpersonal connection. They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 3, 2018

Twas the day of Christmas, when all through the house , Not a creature was stirring.except for a (computer) mouse! While the stockings were hung by the chimney with care (around 6 AM) 823 youths logged in to play ST Math there! No longer nestled snug in their beds , But at their devices, learning math instead. (ST Math parody of Clement C Moore’s The Night Before Christmas).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2018

Today’s jobs are changing, and they are changing at such a rapid pace that many of the jobs our students will hold in the future do not even exist today. But just because we don’t know what those jobs are doesn’t mean we can’t do our best to prepare today’s students, and tomorrow’s work force, for the opportunities awaiting them.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 3, 2018

Nope. It’s not. Of course, you can create slides with Keynote. In fact, I would argue that it is one of the most user-friendly and satisfying tools for doing so, particularly on an iPad. But it can do so much more , as my 9th-grade students recently discovered in our Technology Foundations class, a required first-semester 9th-grade course at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, Oregon.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2018

People know Dr. Steve Perry from his education thought leadership, his Capital Preparatory Schools system and his talent to tell his personal stories in education. Outspoken and often controversial, Dr. Perry’s voice is widely respected by grassroots community members, education experts and even A-list celebrities. In this no-holds-barred interview, Dr.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2018

Setting up a structure for fundraising to support your students who want to travel is crucial regardless of their family income. Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. Carrie A. Olson, PhD, Researcher and Teacher at West Leadership Academy, Denver Public Schools, presented with Carylann Assante, CAE, Executive Director of SYTA and the SYTA Youth Foundation, in “ How We Helped 800 Students Participate in Educational Travel: Proven Tools

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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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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 3, 2018

In this week’s dealmaking news, Amanat Holdings increased its stake in Taaleem Holdings, a provider of K-12 education in the United Arab Emirates, and Copenhagen-based Peergrade raised $1.5 million. The post K-12 Dealmaking: UAE’s Taaleem, Peergrade Gain Additional Investments appeared first on Market Brief.

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Cycles of Learning

JANUARY 3, 2018

Because I am completely obsessed with the revising my curriculum each year, I have always struggled with meaningfully integrated a textbook. Past integration efforts (homework, reading, classroom sets, etc.) represents moves I am ashamed of and weak spots in my pedagogy. My efforts weren't wrong per se, but I never invested the time, until now (I hope) over the past 17 years of teaching to critically think about how to integrate a text in meaningful, thoughtful ways.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 3, 2018

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”. – J.K. Rowling. This question recently cropped up from one of our faculty members. We are deep into exploring the connection between reading and writing, building a foundation for literacy instruction schoolwide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2018

Mark Wise on episode 223 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. No grades. Just learning and sharing. Despite worries that it wouldn’t work – it has been working for years and is just getting better.

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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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