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3 Free Apps That Connect My Kansas Classroom to the World

Edsurge

Want to visit my students and me in southeastern Kansas? Now you can through the power of social media. About a year ago, I began using an app called Periscope to watch fellow teachers discuss classroom techniques and strategy. In no time, I was hooked. Periscope offered free professional development whenever and wherever I wanted it—whether in the teacher’s lunchroom, the grocery store, or in bed after a long day.

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5 Good Lesson Planning Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In yesterday’s post we reviewed web tools that you can use to create interactive lessons, lessons that integrate a wide variety of multimedia materials. In today’s post, we are sharing with.read more.

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Check out these 3 New Profesional Development Opportunities from @TeacherCast Today!

My Paperless Classroom

Join me LIVE for Hack the Classroom presented by Microsoft Education, the Microsoft Innovative Educator Podcast and a new TechEducator Podcast. The post Check out these 3 New Profesional Development Opportunities from @TeacherCast Today! appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Connection for Personalized Learning

BYOT Network

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. By engaging in opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom to real-world learning activities and situations, students are better able to experience personalized learning. These connections may occur within a school’s own learning community, but they may also include local or even global pursuits that help students learn more about themselves while making a contribution; participating in a work experienc

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Choose your paradigm

Ed Tech Now

Part three of my ten-part investigation into the purpose of education, following the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee, discusses Thomas Kuhn and the relativism espoused by many modern educationalists Continue reading →

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Connection for Personalized Learning

BYOT Network

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. By engaging in opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom to real-world learning activities and situations, students are better able to experience personalized learning. These connections may occur within a school’s own learning community, but they may also include local or even global pursuits that help students learn more about themselves while making a contribution; participating in a work experienc

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Grading and Feedback tools for Google Docs

The Electric Educator

Lots of resources are available on using Google Docs to assign student work, but there isn’t much regarding grading student work electronically. Here are three strategies for providing feedback to students. Suggest an Edit To identify mechanical changes (grammar, spelling, punctuation) use the “suggestion” feature available for Google Docs. As you mark corrections to the student’s work, they will be automatically represented by green correction marks.

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My Current Thinking on Library Media Specialists and 21st Century Learning

Reading By Example

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. She conducted an interview with me for a graduate class she is taking. How are schools helping students develop 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, inquiry and technology skills)? Investing in an LMS is essential.

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Grading with Google Drive

The Electric Educator

Lots of resources are available on using Google Drive to assign student work, but there isn’t much regarding grading student work electronically. Here are three strategies for providing feedback to students. Suggest an Edit To identify mechanical changes (grammar, spelling, punctuation) use the “suggestion” feature available for Google Docs. As you mark corrections to the student’s work, they will be automatically represented by green correction marks.

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My Current Thinking on Library Media Specialists and 21st Century Learning

Reading By Example

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. She conducted an interview with me for a graduate class she is taking. How are schools helping students develop 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, inquiry and technology skills)? Investing in an LMS is essential.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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3 of The Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

Have you been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? If not, that’s okay. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! Taking the top spot for the first time is The Biggest Barrier to Real Learning. Want to find out what it is? Read the post. Next up is a post that tells you how to become The Genius Hunter In Your Classroom. Rounding out the top is a great post for teachers to share with parents as back-to-school nights are on the horizon.

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Making Spectacles of ourselves

Learning with 'e's

The popular social media company Snapchat (soon to be renamed simply 'Snap') has released news of a product which might just revolutionise the wearable technology industry. Snapchat's Spectacles are stylish sunglasses that have a built in camera that is capable of recording and sharing to the web up to 10 seconds of video from the wearer's eye level perspective.

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Answer Pad

Technology Tidbits

The Answer Pad is a great student response system and mobile learning tool I've covered before in the past. This excellent site/app allows educators to turn their classroom paperless and do all their testing, assessing, etc. on a mobile device (i.e. iPad). Also, Answer Pad is an excellent learning tool that teachers are using to integrate technology into their curriculum as well as differentiate instruction.

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Is Mississippi’s child care system backsliding?

The Hechinger Report

The infant room at St. Paul Learning Center in Brandon was rearranged following advice from Early Years Network staff to allow more room for tummy time. The state will terminate its contract with the organization at the end of this year. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Guest Blog Post: How to choose the perfect app for your child.

EdTech4Beginners

As we all know, in the past, mobile phones and tablets have been banned in classrooms. However now, with the expansion of technology, it has become an integral part of our lives and also education. Image courtesy of Chrysalis-school.com. And it is just the beginning. There has not been much change in the education sector in the past four decades, but in the near future, a huge increase in technology is likely.

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