EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

How Project-Based Learning Is Helping Students Build 21st Century Skills. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Tue, 11/05/2019 - 10:51. Organizations face a growing skills gap — as noted by the World Economic Forum , more than half of employees will require “significant reskilling” in the next three years to meet 21st century expectations. . While digital skills such as cloud computing competency and basic programming knowledge are critical in tech-driven environments, the bigger picture focuses on analytical s

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

E-learning technology is transforming how students learn, and these new opportunities bring plenty of benefits to the traditional classroom. Unfortunately, online learning also brings some security risks with it, and schools and teachers who embrace online learning will need to consider how they’ll keep their students safe while using this technology.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Which education challenges are schools and districts prioritizing? Over the past two years, Digital Promise has engaged in a rigorous research process to surface common challenges being tackled in public schools around the country. The resulting Challenge Map presents 38 shared education challenges within nine broad themes related to: Students and classrooms ( student learning and instructional approaches ), schools ( professional learning & support , school culture, climate and safety , and

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Key Questions to Ask When Installing IP Video Security Cameras in Schools. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Tue, 11/05/2019 - 15:57. It’s something school IT leaders and other educators know well: Safety and security are crucial to learning. And schools have a lot to protect — starting, of course, with people and including millions of dollars (or more, for larger districts) of hardware, physical structures and other assets.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

C.A. Preece shows us how to do this. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Science can be difficult for low to average readers. Today, we’ll dig into the power of comic books to help us teach difficult subjects to students by making learning reachable and approachable. C.A. Preece works to reach every learner by working to make science approachable and understandable.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I love the metaphor of ‘Teacher as compass’; helping students navigate their own learning journey. Last night I read this tweet from Will Richardson: Kids don't need to be taught how to learn. (No one does.) Our job in schools is to create conditions where they can practice what they already know. To trust their curiosity, creativity, and inherent agency.

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Image Source This fun family cartoon was ahead of its time. Technology is now ahead of its imagined predictions. The futuristic family cartoon The Jetsons premiered in 1962. It was set 100 years in. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. In 1979 I was seven years old, a couple of years older than my twin son pictured above. In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 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 introduced several ideas for the implementation of Approaches to Teaching in the contexts of inquiry , conceptual understanding , local-global perspectives , teamwork , and differentiation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. At the time, a typical laptop cost well over $1,000. So when the founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, announced that he was forming a nonprofit to build a $100 machine for kids, it was a feel-good story that was painted as beyond critique.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Update Student Slides with First Slide When you make a copy of a document for every student it is slow to open and give feedback. It just takes time for digital documents to load, especially if the internet is not super fast. First Slide allows you to give feedback without opening up any student slides. […]. The post First Slide: Push a Slide to Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

France has banned them outright. Ontario restricts their use in all but a handful of cases. And in some places, they’re locked up in pouches to keep them out of kids’ hands. The contraband in question? Smartphones, of course—or more specifically, smartphones in schools. Once part of burgeoning “Bring Your Own Device” movements, the use of phones—and the accompanying array of digital distractions—has begun to sour among educators and administrators tired of waging battle with students over their

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Frequent high-quality class conversations make a huge difference in how far middle grades students advance academically, socially and emotionally, writes author and teaching coach Jeff Zwiers. Learn about five skills that can help students build ideas through dialogue.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

EL SOBRANTE, Calif. — Training day at Rachel Bolden-Kramer’s home-based preschool. Her two newest employees gather around a snack table outside Bolden-Kramer’s two-story home. The hollers of eight children echo from her makeshift backyard playground. It’s a cool morning in the three-square-mile town of nearly 13,000 people about 20 miles northeast of San Francisco.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 183 Developing Kindness, Character, And Honesty In Today’s Learners Drew Perkins talks with Houston Kraft about his work with Character Strong to develop SEL skills in students and schools. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: CharacterStrong.com @careacter, Instagram, Facebook Listen and subscribe on: iTunes Stitcher Podbean PodcastLand YouTube Also available […].

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The choices are overwhelming, and the stakes are high. Searching for colleges where they will thrive, students compile their lists using standard metrics—size, location, major—unaware that they are eliminating some great options. The choices are overwhelming, and the stakes are high. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of students end up at colleges that don’t work out for them.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Technology has made it super easy for any one to start learning a new language from scratch and right from the comfort of their couch. There are several websites and mobile apps that offer free.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Choosing curriculum products can be a complicated and time-consuming process. With the effort required to research, compare, evaluate and select the product that fits your needs, it pays to have a well-defined plan in place before you begin the search. This survey may help you get organized. Having trouble viewing? Click here to see the survey full screen.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The post 10+ Ways to Use Technology in the Math Classroom – SULS037 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. A lot of math teachers struggle with integrating technology into the classroom. So, I enlisted the help of my friend and edtech expert, Craig Klement, to share 10+ Ways to Use Technology in the Math Classroom. Integrating technology in the math classroom can go far beyond substitution, digital worksheets, and simple quizzes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

You say eether and I say eyether You say neether and I say nyther Eether, eyether, neether, nyther Let's call the whole thing off! You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto! Let's call the whole thing off! — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, “ Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off ” The number of ways to pronounce “water” may be as ubiquitous as the substance itself.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 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 introduced several ideas for the implementation of Approaches to Teaching in the contexts of inquiry , conceptual understanding , local-global perspectives , teamwork , and differentiation.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Another year, another spooky Halloween at MIND Research Institute! This year, the Irvine office took Halloween to the next level — Halloween squared! We celebrated Halloween all month long by BOO-ing fellow employees. What is BOO-ing, you ask? It’s a bit of a Secret Santa…if Santa were a zombie and anonymously left only spooky gifts! If you had been BOO’d, you would arrive at your desk to find Halloween goodies (candy, decorations, and autumnal wonderment), along with a poem and instructions on

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Whether you are a research student, an academic, or a prospective scholar, the collection below is collated specifically for you. It features some of the best research methodology textbooks out.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to Pew Research Center , nearly 90% of adults between the ages of 18 to 29 use social media. The student population reaching college age now, Gen Z, grew up with the internet and social media as an everyday part of their life. Research has already shown that this digital native generation learns through a completely different pedagogy, and a large majority of universities are not accustomed to accommodating this way of teaching.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It was my first day with my group of Tier III 2nd-graders, and they were ready to go around the room and introduce themselves. It was going fine until one student said something surprising. “I’m Jacob, and I can’t read.”. It was odd. I learned later that Jacob was a competitive gymnast and a smart kid, but he chose to identify himself as someone who couldn’t read well.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Recently, I was asked in an email about my ideas on what are some trends that we should focus on in education. Instead of focusing on “technology,” or “new stuff,” I shared some questions to consider based on how we shape learning and leadership in classrooms for now and in the future. These are the three questions I shared: 1.

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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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MindShift

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The act of reading and decoding text is a complex feat of the human brain. Mass literacy is a recent phenomena, but so much of a person’s chances for academic and professional success depend on their ability to read. But millions of Americans struggle to read and it’s often because they have dyslexia. An estimated five to 20 percent of kids are dyslexic but some don’t realize it.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Effective school board members focus on what is best for all students. They prioritize student achievement, drive continuous improvement and implement policies that will ensure success for all. As digital learning transforms education across the country, how can board members ensure that their policies and budget decisions support digital learning opportunities and the robust infrastructure needed to support it?

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Students of all ages love learning science, math, engineering, and programming with these products.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

BARCO SOLUTION. wePresent. KEY BENEFITS. Improves student learning & drives engagement. Ease of use for teachers & stimulates interactive teaching. Supports different BYOD operating systems & perfectly integrates in the network. The Richardson Independent School District in Texas, USA, was not looking for just any wireless solution. They wanted one that would accommodate all users.

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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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