EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

By Jacquelyn Bengfort K-12 IT leaders find ease of use paired with peace of mind in cloud application services.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

One of the wonderful Ask a Tech Teacher contributers, Jenny Wise, is a busy homeschooler who suggested I publish an article about the benefits of technology for the homeschooler. I asked Jenny if she would share how she came to homeschool her children, how technology contributes to her success, and then share resources. Here are her thoughts: At one time, homeschooling was a religious or moral choice made by families that wanted to guide the education of their children more carefully than a publ

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

PBS KIDS recently launched You Choose 2016 , a kid-friendly website for ages 6-8 providing kids with relevant, non-partisan democracy-related information through interactive exploration and video. This site aims to teach kids about the Presidential election process in an entertaining and fun way, reminding them that even though they are unable to vote, their voice still matters. .

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

By Jacquelyn Bengfort A migration doesn’t have to be hard if best practices are followed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted it for the classroom. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes. Many schools already use Google’s suite of productivity tools — Docs, Sheets and Slides.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy , Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell , young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects. As a result, it’s simple for emerging learners to create digital stories or presentations on any number of topics.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Effective note-taking can deepen understanding, but students rarely develop this skill on their own, writes Curtis Chandler. With a few tweaks we can help middle schoolers transform the painful process of note-taking into a terrific tool for thinking. Tips & links!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The old SAT was put to bed earlier this year, and it’s in with a new version of the college admissions exam. On Tuesday, College Board released provisional data saying 1.36 million test takers took its redesigned test between March and June 2016. Almost 1.18 million test takers took the old SAT during the same period in 2015. In March 2014, College Board announced a plan to redesign the SAT , removing obscure vocabulary, changing focus of math areas, removing penalty for guessing on questions an

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Planning a paperless classroom? Here are four important apps you should definitely consider. Using these apps will enable you to create and distribute assignments to your students, provide feedback.read more.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Are you using Google Classroom to it's fullest potential? On this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we discuss not only what's new, but how it can be easily integrated into your curriculum. The post Google Classroom tips for the Non-Newbie Teacher appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Are you using Google Classroom to it's fullest potential?

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Learning needs of autistic students require a special attention from those attending to them. This is because autistic learners exhibit a wide range of characteristics that often interfere with their.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Morehouse, Spelman, And Clark-Atlanta University Homecoming Parade at Morehouse College on October 24, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images. ATLANTA – One of the few black kids in her elementary school in Waterford, Connecticut, Alversia Wade remembers being asked in fourth grade by white classmates if she liked watermelon and fried chicken.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In the MSD of Wayne Township , there are several blended and online opportunities available for students. Perhaps the same is true in your district, but how many of those same opportunities are available to teachers as well? Recently, the teachers in one particular program in the district inspired a personalized approach to professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

A new kind of credential has entered the crowded market for online learning. EdX, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that provides online courses, announced last week the creation of 19 “ MicroMasters ” courses, a new type of online educational program. These courses are tailored master’s degree-level classes that can help students hone skills that will be immediately useful in the workplace.

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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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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As we Settle into Another new School Year, These Technologies are Poised to Make a Difference I find it fun this time of year to think about how things have evolved since we started the last school. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Kris Baker likes to have fun in class. When you walk into her 7 th and 8 th grade math intervention classes at Milford Junior High School in Ohio, you see students jotting math problems on their desks with dry-erase markers, solving equations to earn the chance to make a shot in “Trashketball,” or playing classic board games as a reward for working hard.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt A fun way for students to learn vocabulary is to ask them to go on a vocabulary scavenger hunt. Students go out on campus and take pictures that represent the vocab. Students get out and moving and think of how their vocab is represented in a real context. Template alicekeeler.com/vocabscavengerhunt Vocab Have students […].

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As I type, the Google doodle says that it’s the search engine’s 18th anniversary, which is a very long time of continuing to provide relevant search results on the internet. Google’s search engine, though, has long done far more than that, which brings me to the topic of today’s post: internet speeds. From time to time in everyone’s life, it can be useful to know just how fast your connection to the internet is.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Naper Elementary School students could be the envy of their peers when it comes to a labyrinth for testing their robotic skills. With technical assistance from Naperville North High School, Naper fourth-graders will be rolling robotic Sphero balls through what one elementary student likened to the always-changing maze in “Maze Runner,” a literary reference that brought a smile to the face of Ryan Shambo, Naper’s learning commons director and lead teacher.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In the greater Chicago area, Township High School District 214 is primed for innovation in teaching and learning. The district’s Director of Technology Services, Keith Bockwoldt, has spent the last several years ensuring that his teachers have the tools and resources they need to help all students take advantage of digital learning opportunities. Hoping to bolster connectivity in his schools, Bockwoldt recently led the district broadband network upgrade to 10 Gbps of Internet Access, thereby pre

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Want t o GO EVEN FARTHER in the classroom with EVEN MORE Google Apps on your mobile device? Here's a Google Apps Take Three list to continue your Googley Journey! 1. Google Cast Allows students and teachers to share their screens wirelessly from everywhere in the classroom. iTunes Google Play 2. Google Keep Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Merge Data into One Column Sometimes I need to have a need to take columns of data in a spreadsheet and put them into one column. What I normally do, if it isn’t a lot of data, is use Control-X to cut out one column of data and put it underneath the other. However, why […]. The post Google Sheets: Merge Data into One Column appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The post 35 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Classroom Apps! Did you know that Google Classroom plays well with others? Yep! Google is known for making their applications open to working with third-party applications, and Google Classroom is no exception. Are you using Google Classroom? I have put together a list of 35 Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom, making it even easier to create lessons and announcements with your favorit

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Has a student ever come to you, distraught over the decision of what to do next? Where should they go to college? What should they major in? What career should they pick? Many students feel completely uneducated and unprepared in determining an aspiration or career goal for their future. Much less selecting the most beneficial next step toward it. Luckily, it does not always require a specialized degree to help get them started.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Lots of questions in this post…and this is definitely a post that I am writing to understand my learning, not necessarily share it. I would love to know what you think. Teacher-extraordinaire, Kelli Holden , shared this video of her former student Maddisyn reading to Kelli’s current class. Maddisyn was sharing about an experience she had four years ago where she blogged on PSD70’s 184 Days of Learning Project , and the author of the book that she wrote on, Peter Reynolds, ac

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The post Made With Code: A Project By Google To Encourage Girls To Code appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future.

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Ed Tech Now

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In part four of my series on educational purpose, I consider Professor Biesta’s distinction between aims and purposes by asking myself why the chicken crossed the road Continue reading →

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Beautiful design, great story, stunning sound in powerful SEL allegory.

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Ed Tech Now

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In part four of my series on educational purpose, I consider Professor Biesta’s distinction between aims and purposes by asking myself why the chicken crossed the road Continue reading →

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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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