Tue.Aug 13, 2019

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How Effective Is Your Edtech Tool? Five Questions to Ask

Digital Promise

We all want to help students learn. When it comes to education technology (edtech), school leaders and developers alike want to provide the best tools—ones that truly make a difference. This is especially critical for students who are not being served by current instruction. To support this goal, Digital Promise’s Marketplace initiative is dedicated to identifying “effective, engaging, tech-enabled learning environments.” But what does “effective” really mean?

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How educators can use edtech to teach students essential real-life skills

Neo LMS

Technology in the classroom continues to transform the way that teachers teach and students learn. Simple techniques such as incorporating videos into learning or making lectures available online are already breaking down barriers when it comes to different learning styles, teaching students from a distance, and more. When teachers incorporate additional edtech such as gaming, online learning platforms, and other e-learning tools, they can transform their classrooms and learning plans while keep

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20 ways to Ditch That Textbook in K-2 (with templates!)

Ditch That Textbook

Are you a primary educator? Are you interested in Ditching but don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! This post will walk you through template after template of rich learning experiences you can provide your students today! 20 activities to Ditch that Textbook in K-2 1. CVC Word Builder – Simply pull down either the […].

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Speed Presentations: Help Students Improve Presentation Skills Rapidly

The CoolCatTeacher

Rob Donatelli on episode 543 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Presentation skills are an essential skill for students to master. How do you help students improve when there are many students in the class. Robert Donatelli has a solution: speed presentations. Learn how to use this technique to help students improve their presentation skills.

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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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Reach Each Student: Design Edtech for Learner Variability

Digital Promise

Edtech has the potential to ignite the power of learning by helping teachers tailor learning environments and instruction to reach the full diversity of learners. But how can we accomplish that goal? Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project (LVP) aims to understand the range of diverse needs that students may have, and to support product developers in turning learner factors and research-based strategies into pedagogical features for educators and students to use.

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A Superintendent's Quest to Marry Equity and Personalized Learning

Education Elements

Equity and personalized learning share quite a bit of common ground. They each require an ongoing commitment from all stakeholders. Both are built on the premise that each person’s needs are unique, and both recognize that no one set of tools and responses will support everyone. Peter Olson-Skog is drawing these connections concretely through his work as Superintendent at District 197 in West St.

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Leading Change? Start by Talking About What You Value

Education Elements

As any great leader pursuing innovation in education knows, having a clear “why” for pursuing the “what” of change is critical to success. But equally important, often less emphasized, and incredibly hard is the “how” of making and managing that change in a classroom, school, or system. At The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a national nonprofit that learns alongside educators and system leaders at the forefront of blended and personalized learning, we’re often asked about common change management p

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What the Big Edtech Mergers and Acquisitions of 2019 Signal for the Industry

Edsurge

Mission-oriented investors often refer to the “ double bottom line ” when saying how they care just as much about making a positive social impact as they do about financial returns. But at the end of the day, making money is a legal fiduciary duty. (After all, investors have investors, too.) With two acquisition deals alone totaling $2.5 billion, 2019 offers some edtech investors hope that their bets could pay off.

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Feedback for Every Teacher to Boost Student Engagement

Education Elements

Take a look inside a high school physics teacher’s classroom. In her fifth year, Ms. Valdez is popular with nearly all of her students. They appreciate her energy and sense of humor. Her ambition is to engender in her students the enthusiasm for and wonder about physics that motivated her to devote her career to teaching the subject. She has told you that she wants to teach her students to think like physicists.

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10 Good iPad Apps for Learners with Autism

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After writing about the best books for teachers and parents to learn and explore the world of autism, we are introducing you to this collection of some good iPad apps to help autistic kids 'learn,read more

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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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Let Students Read! Why Quantity Really Counts

MiddleWeb

If we want our students to be readers, we have to let them read, writes principal and reading teacher Rita Platt. We have to give them time for the kind of reading that is guided by curiosity, joy, and love of story. Platt shows exactly how her school made this work.

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GroupDocs: A Copy Per Group

Teacher Tech

GroupDocs Add-on Randomly Assigns Students to Groups In the modern world collaboration and getting along with a team is essential. Assigning students to group work can sometimes be tricky. Use my Add-on GroupDocs to assign students to groups and give each group a copy of a collaborative document. alicekeeler.com/groupdocs Steps Make a copy of the […].

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Bring Your Lessons to Life with These Virtual Field Tools

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The Internet has brought the entire world right into our own homes. The world’s knowledge is just a click away. Our students have benefitted and continue to benefit from the wonders of the web in.

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Webinar: What Ed-Tech Companies Need to Get Right With Artificial Intelligence

Marketplace K-12

How can education companies keep up with the surge of interest in AI? Three guest speakers on our Aug. 21 webinar will provide essential intel on this subject. The post Webinar: What Ed-Tech Companies Need to Get Right With Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Market Brief.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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5 ways to make sure PBL PD works

eSchool News

Project-based learning is gaining steam nationwide because of its effectiveness in helping students build 21st-century skills. But there is a difference between just doing a project and doing effective, high-quality PBL. When our school district, Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, embarked on a district-wide PBL initiative three years ago, we wanted to make sure we were doing the latter and we knew that doing good PBL required the right training.

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Making Learning More Accessible for the Differently Abled with VR

EmergingEdTech

The 20th century was marked by the rise and widespread adoption of experiential learning or “learning through reflection and doing.” According to David Kolb, who pioneered this approach as a learning. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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39 STEM Videos Your Students Will Love

Fractus Learning

Videos are great tools to explain a concept or for presenting practical experiments and activities students can do. Teachers, however, don’t always have the time to create their videos. We’ve created a list of STEM Video channels teachers may explore […].

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Is Microsoft Making a Comeback in Education? – SULS025

Shake Up Learning

The post Is Microsoft Making a Comeback in Education? – SULS025 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Is Microsoft making a comeback in education? Today’s guest is the gadget guru herself Leslie Fisher. I brought Leslie to the show to answer the EdTech community’s biggest question, is Microsoft making a comeback in education? You won’t want to miss our chat about what’s new with Microsoft, and some of Leslie’s other favorite tools and gadgets. .

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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What Should be Included in a Wireless Network Design for Businesses?

SecurEdge

What is the most essential step in any wireless network design? It's planning, and it's particularly important when it comes to supporting new business applications and technology initiatives. Successfully deploying a wireless network solution is more than just installing a bunch of access points and hoping that they work. Wi-Fi networks have grown increasingly complex and requires the right design for business operations to run smoothly.

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Top trends: Supporting students through SEL

eSchool News

Here are the most popular SEL stories from the past month: 1. 5 ways we develop SEL in our students. These days, words like bullying, isolation, suicide, peer pressure, and anxiety are more and more commonly used among students, parents, and educators. As educators, we hear these words and experience the reality of each. 2. Are educators using SEL to empower or to manipulate?

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10 Back to School Tips for An Awesome Year!

techlearning

The 10 tips below have helped me be an effective and energized teacher.

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Optical Illusions For Kids Your Students Will Love

Fractus Learning

Optical illusions are fun ways to improve kids’ cognitive abilities. An optical illusion image stimulates problem-solving skills and visual memory recall because the child will want to figure out how it works. Optical illusions are caused when the brain interprets the object that the eyes see differently. The rods and […].

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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3 Steps to Setting Achievable Goals

EdTechTeam

What’s preventing me from being a great leader? This is a question I often ask myself. I find that some days the answer comes easier than others. Leadership is a constant work in progress with constant action, inquiry, and reflection. But what I have really discovered is that in order to become better at leadership, you have to set goals and track progress.

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Game Highlight: Devouring Mathematical Concepts with Pie Monster

MIND Research Institute

Pie Monster is one of my favorite game characters in ST Math®. As someone raised on cheesy 80’s horror, I like anything with monsters. And, I can relate to the fact that all Pie Monster needs to be happy is pie. In the past, we've talked about how ST Math students come to know Pie Monster through puzzles and cohesive imagery that spans several grades.

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Five Great Apps You Should Try in Microsoft Teams

EdTechTeam

This blog post is sponsored by Acer Education, a partner of EdTechTeam. ACER produces a range of affordable Windows 10 devices designed for use in education. For schools using Office 365, Microsoft Teams brings together lesson content, collaboration and apps in one easy place for students to access. Here are five great apps you can use with your class inside Microsoft Teams.

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Accelerate Learning Introduces Core Mathematics Curriculum, STEMscopes Math

techlearning

The curriculum features inquiry-based math investigations, virtual manipulatives, and interactive games to engage students as they build their understanding.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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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Why A Makerspace Popped Up in a Museum

Educator Innovator

Most people wouldn’t think of science as quirky, but if they’d witnessed a posse of orange, papier-maché robotic pumpkins racing down the hall at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV), in Richmond, Virginia, they might re-think that image. Over the past several years, libraries, museums and community centers around the country have opened “makerspaces” where young people can come and play with equipment they may not have at home — like 3D printers or circuitry boards.

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New York State PTA Partners with School Safety Company, Gaggle

techlearning

“We fully believe in Gaggle’s mission to provide a safe and secure online environment for our students," said NYS PTA Executive Director Kyle Belokopitsky

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Closing Out The Listening Leader Book Study: Seeking Diversity

Reading By Example

This summer my family and I found a monarch caterpillar on one of our perennials at the front of the house. This was a surprise for me: these types of caterpillars only eat milkweed plants. The perennial it was chomping on was what I believed to be a Joe Pye Weed. “We should move it indoors and put it in a jar with milkweed leaves,” I announced to the family.

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Awards of Excellence 2019 Contest is Open!

techlearning

40 years * 40 finalists * 1 big party!

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks