EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/27/2018 - 15:10. Simply adding technology to a classroom doesn’t make it an innovative space. Leaders looking to shift learning must think more holistically. “It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Edu

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Day 50 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. While we see George Washington as a success, while he was alive, he had his critics. On the day that Washington’s successor, John Adams’ was inaugurated, a newspaper critic wrote about the departing President Washington: “For the man who is now the source of all the misfortunes of our country is this day reduced to a level with his fellow-citizens, and is no longer possessed of power

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

#ICE18: Robert Dillon Explains the Pillars of Technology Integration. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/27/2018 - 09:47. You don’t know what you don’t know. That old adage sums up why it is so hard for educators, parents and communities to adopt new learning spaces and the pedagogies that go along with them. Over the past 20 years, Robert Dillon has been a huge advocate for experiential learning.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously. Our yard stick in this endeavor is once again selected grant recipients of the New Generation Learning Challenges program.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

#ICE18: Kristin Ziemke Explores Technology’s Place in Literacy Lessons. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/27/2018 - 11:24. Kristin Ziemke believes that literacy is in the middle of experiencing an evolution of sorts. When people think about literacy — and the goal of increasing it — many educators don't make the connection to technology, but Ziemke does. “We need to redefine what it means to read,” explains Ziemke, author of Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom and co-author of Con

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously. Our yard stick in this endeavor is once again selected grant recipients of the New Generation Learning Challenges program.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When I first released CheckMark back in October of 2017 , I did so with the hopes that it would be beneficial in helping teachers give students feedback on their writing more quickly and efficiently than they had previously experienced. The response has been overwhelming, and I’ve heard from teachers all around the globe saying that they are spending less time giving feedback and more time helping shape writing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Leigh Hansen says she got her school district an Amazon Business account in 2016 mostly for the curriculum department. “Curriculum was buying used textbooks, and the easiest place to obtain them was Amazon,” says the director of purchasing and warehouse at William S. Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita, California. “They way we were doing it before the approval process was taking too long, and sometimes the textbooks that they wanted to procure were no longer available.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones. by Terry Heick The concept of disruption is an apt one in our fluid, digital, and almost destructively social world. In response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s not surprising to see that trend continue now that technology has caught up with our inherently rebellious ways. […].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Create a Drop Shadow on Text In Google Slides and Drawings you can now add a drop shadow to text. Format Options Type your text. While the textbox is selected, look in the menu for “Format options.” This may be hidden since it is the LAST option in the toolbar (when the textbox is selected.) […]. The post Google Slides: Create a Drop Shadow on Text appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What does it mean to report on education technology from a student lens? How does the tech-health discussion impact teachers in the classroom? What are virtual school lobbyists doing to impact the national discussion on school choice and accountability? NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz joins the EdSurge OnAir Podcast to discuss her new book, “The Art of Screentime: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life,” and offer listeners some answers to challenging questions about the ever-evolvin

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We are huge fans of Google add-ons created by Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration for they have proved time and again their efficacy. In today’s post we are sharing with you one of his recent.read more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Discovery Education , a large provider of print and digital textbooks and curriculum, is taking a big step away from its parent company Discovery Communications, best known for its broadcast TV channels. San Francisco-based private equity firm Francisco Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the education business in a deal worth $120 million.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) has become more prominent as an effective approach to interdisciplinary learning. However, implementation is not as simple as following a new curriculum or purchasing materials. During the edWebinar “ STEAM: Innovations That Solve Real World Problems ,” Cheri Sterman, director of education, Crayola; Lucie Howell, director of learning and engagement, The Henry Ford; and James Wells, innovative teaching & learning manager, Crayola,

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In January I wrote about using Macdown to write in Markdown , a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using simple typographic characters. If you’d like to learn more about the convention or what other Profs. Hacker are doing with it, we have a substantial archive of Markdown posts to browse.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

One of the defining features of open educational resources is permission to engage in revise and remix activities with regard to OER. While those permissions make it possible for us to change and improve OER, they do nothing to tell us which OER to spend our time and energy improving – or how to improve them. In our work at Lumen, we put a lot of effort into creating scalable processes for empirically determining which OER aren’t sufficiently supporting student learning and then maki

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

One night, my wife and I had just sat down to dinner at a local restaurant when one of the waitresses came rushing over to our table. I recognized her immediately—she was a young woman who had been a resident of a group home that I used to run. She had been in her first or second year of high school when she joined the program and was struggling with behavioral and emotional issues, substance abuse and unresolved childhood trauma.

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SecurEdge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We get really excited when we hear from IT leaders and other key decision makers looking to learn more about WiFi as a Service. When they ask us a question, that means they’re one step closer to simplifying the way they provide secure WiFi for their business or school.

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EmergingEdTech

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Curiosity can make all the difference in your students' ability to excel and thrive. One of the most inspiring “edtech” moments I've had so far this year was the interview I conducted. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techieMusings

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In my AP Calculus course, I wanted students to look back on past work and connect it to new knowledge. Reflection is key to learning, and I wanted to create a project to help students strengthen their understanding of the relationships between “old” and “new” material. I wanted students to go back to material we had done in early chapters and reflect on how their understanding of these problems has evolved and grown.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A testing organization's representative asked me to consider having them cover the costs of my attending the SXSW EDU conference if I would specifically attend and write about the panel discussions featuring their representatives. I said I wouldn't be able to, and so they asked if I'd conduct a phone/online interview with a spokesperson from the organization on the topics that were going to be covered at SXSW EDU.

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MiddleWeb

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Sarah Cooper’s eighth graders take a “Bread and Roses” metaphor from the Progressive Era to the fight for the ERA – making insightful comparisons Cooper had not anticipated. "Giving students room to make their own connections meant that they could teach me," she says.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I've had the pleasure of working with this company. All opinions are my own. I recently had the chance to review the new research conducted by Adobe Education on creativity in the classroom. Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation, and covers a topic on the minds of educators I meet during my travels.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I always find it fascinating when I travel to different states and provinces, and educators ask me questions on why they can’t do certain things in their schools, believing it is the “government” that is not allowing them to do it. This week in both the province of BC and the state of Ohio, teachers asked me, “How do you get around unblocking YouTube when the government will not allow it?

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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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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

(BROOKLYN, NY) February 14, 2018 — SOS Brooklyn , an award-winning creative design and strategy agency that creates interactive and personalized user experiences (UX), today announced the launch of their next chapter, Backpack Interactive. Driven by 18 years of experience in the edtech world and a passion to serve as champions of the end user, the new division will create high-impact learning solutions for teachers and students.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

ClassPulse is a new mobile app (iOS/Android) for assessing students, collaborating, and gaining feedback, that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's amazing blog. It's an easy-to-use app that lets educators create a class and then have their students join via unique code. Once the class is created students and teachers can then message each other and collaborate back and forth.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

CHULA VISTA, California, February 20, 2018 – Today, Hitachi America Ltd. announced the expansion of its Collegiate Series of projectors with the addition of three new high-brightness, low-maintenance projectors; the CP-EU4501WN, CP-EW5001WN and CP-EX5001WN. With these additions, the Collegiate Series now offers twelve different projector models ranging from 3,500 to 5,800 lumens, all complete with a three-year limited warranty on parts and labor.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Venn diagram is a wonderful resource from Read Write & Think that I just found out about from Monica Burns excellent blog. This is a great site or app (iOS/Android) that allows users to create their very own Venn diagram of two to three circles. After inserting their text a student can even change modify the colors and specifications of their diagram and share it w/ others.

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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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