Fri.Dec 09, 2016

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Combating Fake News And Teaching Digital Literacy

The Web20Classroom

If the most recent U.S. Election has taught us anything it's that we live in an era of fake news and sites. With accusations flying of manipulation of stories, the media and voters, it’s truly hard to know if what we read on blogs, social media and other sites is actually the truth or a tale spun to generate clicks. To further compound the problem a recent study from Stanford shows that the vast majority of students can’t determine it what they read on websites is true or baloney.

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18 Holiday Websites and 14 Projects For Your Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Need a few websites to fill in sponge time? Here are Holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them: 12 Days of Christmas. Christmas puzzles and games. Christmas—history—fun video. Gift Hunt –updated version of 12 Days of Christmas–just as much fun. Holiday collection. Holiday Crossword. Holiday Elf Games. Holiday Hangman II.

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Announcing the Digital Promise filmMAKER Challenge

Digital Promise

We at Digital Promise are very excited about the launch of the filmMAKER Challenge , an opportunity for middle and high school students to learn about and engage in product design and filmmaking. Through the challenge, students will use human-centered design strategies to solve real-world problems and share their solutions broadly. filmMAKER pairs product design and filmmaking because even the best ideas fail to make an impact if they can’t be shared with the world.

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University of Michigan Teaches Digital Etiquette to Middle School Students

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From cyberbullying to phishing, graduate students are helping middle schooler students learn how to be safe online.

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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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Google Tackles Graduation with Two New Features

Edsurge

Google Education is gearing up and growing its G-suite for two groups: guardians and graduates. How? The company announced two new features earlier this week at its free online conference Education on Air. First up, for parents and guardians, Google is making it easier to get involved and stay on top of student performance. Specifically, the company has removed the need for guardians to have a Google account in order to receive email summaries of student progress in Google Classroom , which can

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Apple Released Its 10 Best Apps of 2016

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 9, 2016 Apple has recently released its year-end list of the most popular apps in the app store. Some educational apps we have previously reviewed here in Edtech and mLearning have also made.read more.

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3 Great Websites for Elementary Science Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 9, 2016 Below are three interesting science resources selected specifically for elementary teachers. These websites provide teachers with a wide variety of educational materials to help.read more.

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Weekend Reading: Almost Home Edition

ProfHacker

If you’re teaching on the semester system, there’s a pretty good chance you’re in its dying embers, so I will get out of your way and usher you directly on to this weekend’s links! Preventing cheating in multiplayer video games turns out to be around as challenging as preventing plagiarism: Given that cheating is surprisingly widespread, and to many, perfectly acceptable, an entire culture of self-entitled habitual video game cheaters has sprung up.

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How To Ensure Students Are Actively Engaged and Not Just Compliant

MindShift

Engagement is a crucial part of learning, but ensuring students are actively engaged is more complex than whether a student is paying attention or not. As technology has made its way into the classroom many educators describe how attentive students are when on devices, but a quiet, outwardly behaved student is not the same thing as one that is truly engaged.

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Friday 5 — 12.9.2016

Perry Hewitt

Is Snapchat’s somewhat impenetrable experience design a feature and not a bug? Josh Elman explains the difference between intuitive design and shareable design. The latter reflects the deeply social nature of how humans learn, and capitalizes on people’s desires to learn and to teach. Just when I finally mastered NYC’s Whole Foods color-coded checkout lines, Amazon Go opened in Seattle: a new store with no checkout, no lines, and a lot of technology.

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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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On the Other Side of the Screen

The Principal of Change

I often get the opportunity to work with students and speak to them in large gatherings, which can be tough. Some of the educators that I speak to might know me from my book, blog, or Twitter, but it is rare that students have any clue who I am. Online connections help to build rapport with a lot of people before I speak, but with most students, I am starting at zero.

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Investors See Promise in Ed-Tech Sector Despite Challenges

Marketplace K-12

Growing demand for ed-tech in the U.S. and abroad challenges companies to distinguish their products in a fragmented marketplace, attendees at the Education Business Forum learned. The post Investors See Promise in Ed-Tech Sector Despite Challenges appeared first on Market Brief.

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11 Toy Chest Options for Every Home

Fractus Learning

A toy chest is one of the simplest ways to keep children’s toys from taking over your house. With a toy chest, parents can store their children’s toys out of sight and keep their child’s room or play area picked up. There are toy chests perfect for use in a child’s bedroom or playroom as well as those that fit in a living room or family room.

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Hour of Code in the Library

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

For the past 3 years, our library has participated in Hour of Code during Computer Science in Education Week. This movement of setting aside an hour to tinker with coding was started by Hadi Partovi. When we started back in 2014, there was only a handful of options of coding resources for students to try on code.org and many of them crashed due to the number of students using the site around the world.

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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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Words in mind

Learning with 'e's

This is number 34 in my learning theories series. Psychologists and cognitive scientists have offered a number of useful theories that aid our understanding of learning. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. All the previous posts in this series are linked below. The last post in this series featured the stages of cognitive development model proposed by Jean Piaget.

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Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit 2016 (FREE PD)

Shake Up Learning

The post Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit 2016 (FREE PD) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit 2016. My dear friend and colleague, Matt Miller from DitchThatTextbook.com , is up to something awesome! Matt has created a free, online summit for teachers! (Ya, he’s just that cool!) Matt has put together a great lineup of educational leaders and authors.

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Will changes in online college applications help students chase the American dream?

The Hechinger Report

Elijah Corbin Irving, a senior at Snowden International School in Boston, uses the American Student Assistance’s Boston Public Library College Planning Center as a resource. He also gets help with his Common Application from Bernardo Barbosa, a member of Boston University’s College Advising Corps, a nonprofit that works with Boston high school students.

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A Better Future for my Kids? I Still Dare to Imagine

Fractus Learning

I first heard the famous and, to my mind, most socially relevant song ever written, John Lennon’s “Imagine” , at the end of the movie The Killing Fields. I was 11. It is a gut-wrenching film: the story of an American journalist and his colleagues caught up in the madness of the wars in Southeast Asia during the 1970s. I remember being sickened by the images of the suffering the Cambodian people endured under the rule of the brutal and fanatical Khmer Rouge.

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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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Conquering the confusing common app: These tips will help

The Hechinger Report

How do you fill out the parent information section if you live with a foster family? Does babysitting your little brother after school count as an “activity”? The questions that come up while filling out The Common Application can be confusing, but we’ve compiled a list of tips to help. First, an overview: The Common Application exists online. Almost 700 colleges and universities nationwide belong to the nonprofit organization that created it.

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The Scoop on Deeper Learning and Mathematics: English Language Learner Edition

MIND Research Institute

From classroom teacher to district leader, all educators continue to search for innovative ways to provide empowering learning environments for their English language learners (ELLs)—especially when it comes to math. Instruction that leverages visual learning and conceptual understanding is a great start. Scroll through for some of our favorite reads on how visual learning can provide ELLs a path for math success.

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

This is part five of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Trump University and the History of the Future of For-Profit Higher Education. On November 19, just eleven days after being elected President of the United States of America, real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump settled a class-action lawsuit, agreeing to pay $25 million to put to rest fraud allegations from his now-defunct for-profit education venture, Trump University.