EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From virtual museum trips to close-up art investigations, Google has a plethora of offerings for educators.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Archaic Ways of Teaching Grammar. We construct grammatically correct sentences or correct our mistakes by intuitively applying the rules that govern English syntax. If, instead, we had to apply those rules consciously, they would only get in our way, making it impossible for us to speak or write at all. To construct a simple two-word sentence, such as “He dreams,” requires the application of at least seven grammar rules.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I’ve written about Iowa BIG before. What I love about the school is that you can’t tell the 4.0 student from the student who was struggling academically back at his ‘mothership’ high school because at Iowa BIG they’re both doing amazing work. Joziah Grimm shares his story below. Happy viewing! Related Posts. East Campus: Uncovering the brilliance in every student.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article. Some people are dramatically better at activities like sports, music and chess than other people. Take the basketball great Stephen Curry. This past season, breaking the record he set last year by over 40 percent, Curry made an astonishing 402 three-point shots – 126 more than his closest challenger.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Many parents buy chemistry sets to inspire their kids to be future scientists. These kits have evolved over the years from haphazard, 1950’s “ Atomic ” chemistry sets using radioactive uranium ore, to safer, Smithsonian-branded sets come with goggles, plasticware and large warning labels. The Museum at Chemical Heritage Foundation boasts more than 250 science kits gathered over 100 years to showcase these “miniature laboratories” for children.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Augmented Reality is radically transforming our life by making the border between thephysical and digital reality thiner than ever before. We have already touched upon the huge potential of.read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The popular platform GoConqr has recently added a bunch of new interesting updates to enhance its user experience and provide learners with more educational resources and tools. Below is.read more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Calls for innovation in education seem to get louder by the day. “Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce. From there, of course, opinions about what sorts of innovations we ought to invest in, and to what end, vary politically and philosophically.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We all know that STEM education is a crucial part of the K-12 curriculum, but unfortunately, many students are still not heading to high school and college prepared to pursue a STEM field once leaving the education system. The post Pros and Cons of Gamification in the Early Years of STEM Education by @sarah_daren appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This guest post from Jodie Deinhammer , Innovation Summit featured speaker, first appeared on Daily Genius. When a cart of iPads was first delivered to my classroom, my first thought was, “Awesome, now we can Google stuff!” Fast forward 7 years and my students are now publishing iTunes U courses, authoring multi-touch books, and last year we collaborated with the Dallas Zoo to create educational resources to help protect endangered species.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 14, 2016

As a teacher, how you relate to your students is greatly significant. You could possess a vast and varied wellspring of knowledge in comparison to the less learned minds in your classroom. But, as we all know, if you don’t have the respect and trust of your students, you can certainly curb your effectiveness as a teacher. So, I ask: “What is a Teacher to a Student?

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Cross-posted from the High School and Beyond blog. As the economy tilts toward jobs that require training beyond high school, it’s bringing a dawning recognition that career readiness will require continual training throughout our work lives. Take this blog post, for instance: Across the [ahem] decades of my career, I’ve had to learn new skills, like blogging, to keep up with the demands of journalism.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 14, 2016

So I never really thought I’d write a post about tarot cards, but The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life comes with a fascinating proposition: Just as writers and artists have used the tarot, or variations of it, for centuries as part of their creative process, so too can any writer use it as a way to gain insight into how to write more productively.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Video versions of ads can be motivating ways to target students' understanding of narrative and expository text structures. I have recently enjoyed the series from Amazon Prime in which people solve animal-related problems. Here's one featuring an adorable little horse: As the ads are wordless, they offer an opportunity to work on student narration and also interpretation of nonverbal information.

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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 Electric Educator

OCTOBER 14, 2016

By now you may have noticed that the "Research" tool in Google Docs, Slides, and Drawing has been replaced by the "Explore" tool. While Explore adds a few nice features (see my previous post for a complete overview), it has removed the citation feature which was heavily used by K-12 teachers. There has been a fairly vocal outcry from educators because of the removal of the research tool.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 14, 2016

EdTechTeam is proud to become an Apple Professional Learning Provider. With a history of producing conference-style iOS Summits and custom workshops featuring Apple products in education, EdTechTeam builds on their success to offering unique professional learning opportunities in support of the new Apple Teacher Program - a new professional learning program designed to celebrate educators and help them make the most of Mac, iPad and built-in apps to Enhance student learning.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

During the 1990s, a most amazing collaboration arose in Lund, Sweden between a rehabilitation engineer from the University of Lund and an artist who ran a day program for adults with intellectual disabilities. Although not well-known outside of Sweden, the program’s development of a picture language has had implications for people with linguistic difficulties around the world.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The power to harness and visualize current, contrasting data across a school district is altering the way administrators and superintendents plan and communicate change. More data than ever before is.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Every kid wants to be a freewheeler–but learning to cycle is tough! You can’t just climb onto a pedal bike and go. Before making the step up, some tykes use trikes or training wheels. But these days, many parents and experts suggest a more balanced approach. Enter the balance bike. Balance bikes are just like normal bikes–minus the pedals. Kids learn to balance first and cycle second.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We hope you’ve had a chance to experience an EdTechTeam Summit featuring Google for Education this year. If you haven’t, make sure you visit edtechteam.com/events to find an event near you! We are rolling out new sessions, a new app, new fun Googley experiences and more ways for you to have FUN while learning! Vote for your favorite new Googley experience at a Summit - or share what you think would be fun!

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I learn a lot from discussions on social media channels such as Twitter. Some might be aware that I established a chat for the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) a couple of years ago, which is dedicated to discussions around technology supported learning in all sectors. Known as #EDENchat, it has hosted over 30 one-hour discussions, and the entire list (and archives) can be found Storified on this website.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Gather and analyze live data anywhere.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article. Modern human beings have a shorter attention span than goldfish : ours is, on average, below eight seconds while the little fish can focus for nine seconds. These decreasing attention levels are driven by people’s constant use of technology. One study found that people’s dependence on digital stimulation has become so high that 67% of men and 25% of women would prefer to experience an electric shock rather than doin

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not only does image annotation combine the best of text and pictures, but kids love it. Adding their own thoughts to a picture or even better, having the picture talk, inspires them to a creative level that’s difficult to achieve with most other communication tools. With the breadth of tech tools available, this is not only easy to accomplish but fits most school budgets.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Rafter ranked among the most substantially-backed education companies in recent memory, having raised more than $86 million dollars since it started a decade ago. Then last week, the company, which helped colleges save students money on textbooks, abruptly shut down. While its customers scramble to find alternatives , observers wonder what can be learned from Rafter’s demise.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

“Most teachers claim we can’t learn because we don’t have resources like books.” –Eustace Apolonio, high school student in Indianola, Mississippi. “I would want people to know, at my school, we have big goals.” – Jada, a third grader in the Mississippi Delta. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Children in Mississippi face some of the toughest obstacles in life and education from the time they are born: high child poverty rates, schools that lack funding and supplies, and a revolvin

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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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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Amazon is taking another swing at streaming music, but this time with Alexa as its not-so-secret weapon. Will the hardware that's insinuating itself into our home lives (and turning our tots into tyrants ) make the difference? Alexa's already done a good job making Siri seem dumb. No one ever sits you down to teach you how to write an email, but they probably should.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Presidential Campaign Politics. There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. On Sunday, Clinton and Trump held their second debate. The topic of education didn’t really come up, save Clinton’s invocation of “The Trump Effect” and the increased bullying in school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Attendees hold up campaign signs as they listen to Donald Trump speak at U.S. Bank Arena on October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Trump is campaigning in the swing state as the presidential election closes in with only 25 days until election day. Photo: Ty Wright/Getty Images. In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said high college costs are being propelled in part by the cost to universities of complying with government regulation, and cited a report that t

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