EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2017

By EdTech Staff By creating a plan, K–12 IT administrators can make the most of the federal funds.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Joanna and Matt Pace on episode 172 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Joanna and Matt Pace write videos on a popular YouTube channel, Hopscotch. Joanna is an elementary teacher and Matt is a songwriter from Las Vegas. Their 7 Continents song has almost 300K views. Today they talk about what makes a great learning video and how to select good videos on YouTube for K-6 students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PowerPoint is the iconic leader in slideshow-type digital tools. It’s considered the most feature-rich, flexible, and diverse of all presentation tools and where everyone goes first (or wants to go first) to create presentations. Though the alternatives are loud and boisterous, over 500 million users choose PowerPoint, 6 million of them teachers.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

People, as the superior beings the are, are supposed to build upon the collective knowledge of everyone that ever lived and come up with innovative ideas to make the world a better place. But what is innovation anyway? Can it be learned? Better yet, can it be taught? I believe it can. It may not be easy, neither for the teacher nor for the student, but I doubt that it’s impossible.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As most of us know, effective distance and blended learning requires more than assigning an online curriculum and handing out log-in information; it requires teacher involvement. In this webinar, Jen Vanek, Director of the IDEAL consortium at World Education, presents an approach to supporting learner success in blended learning called “involved instruction” that incorporates a rich, primary curriculum, supplemental activities, a learning management system, and teacher engagement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. Add in the fact that I had several English language learners in my class, and my lessons on mitochondria and tetrahedrons largely started with basic vocabulary and sentence flow instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

A decade ago professors complained of a growing “epidemic” in education: Wikipedia. Students were citing it in papers, while educators largely laughed it off as inaccurate and saw their students as lazy, or worse. As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 17, 2017

126 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs For Digital Learning by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re enthusiastic supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Put simply, learning taxonomies help us think about how learning happens. Even if they’re ‘not good’ as we’ve often seen the DOK framework described, they still […].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Who oversees online programs at colleges? The question sparked an internal investigation at George Washington University, after a lawsuit last year raised questions about whether the academic quality of online programs was on par with their in-person versions. “There was concern among members of the faculty senate that little was known about online programs at the university, how large there were or how many there were,” says Kurt Darr, professor emeritus of hospital administration at GW.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Teach Students to Create Gmail Signatures Guest Blog Post by Don Yerks On October 1, 2017, I received an email from a student asking me to check on an assignment. To my amazement, she had placed a “Signature” in the message area of the email. When I saw her in class the next day, I […]. The post Teaching Email Signatures by @dyerksjr1 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Public and private sectors both shape how students are prepared for future jobs and career opportunities. In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

October 17, 2017 Below is a collection of some good EdTech we are featuring for the first here in EdTech and mLearning. Some of the things you can do with these tools include: accelerate your.read more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There was a time when American schools, like American offices, were drab and stuffy places. But things are changing. As the office has evolved to allow a more creative and collaborative workplace, many educators have taken note, bringing those same features to classrooms, school libraries, lunchrooms and other common areas. Today’s schools, are now being equipped with outlets from the floors to the walls allowing students to easily plug in and charge laptop computers, phones and other devices wh

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

October 18, 2017 Google Maps has made it possible for you to explore the moons and several other planets right from the comfort of your couch. You can now discover and explore the secrets of each of.read more.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Kahoot! Plus Released For Game-Based Corporate Training by TeachThought Staff Compiled From A Press Release Summary: Kahoot! moves into corporate learning Kahoot!, the game-based learning platform and one of the fastest-growing #edtech brands with more than 50 million unique monthly active users recently announced Kahoot! Plus, a premium version of Kahoot!

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The success of the program will hinge on the training of teachers and administrators, as well as its connections with existing systems, one nonprofit leader advises. The post Sprint Rolls Out Effort to Boost K-12 Connectivity, Tech Access appeared first on Market Brief.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Your child doesn’t want to go to school. It’s a daily struggle that many parents are familiar with. But what if your child refuses to go to school? Mental health professionals and educators say what used to be considered run-of-the-mill truancy could actually be something else. Some cases of chronic absenteeism are now being called “school refusal,” which is triggered by anxiety, depression, family crises and other traumatic events.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 17, 2017

I received a lovely tweet the other day regarding something I shared in my last post. The interesting thing was that it was not actually about the content of the post, but the disclaimer, where I shared the following: Just trying to work my way through some thoughts here…This post is more focused on writing to learn, not writing to share my learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As students spend more time on digital devices in school, data security becomes increasingly important. When Baltimore County Public Schools started giving every student a computer for daily use in the classroom, teachers sought out more online learning materials to go with them. That meant more partnerships with third-party vendors, some of whom tracked student performance or required personal information about students to open new accounts.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 17, 2017

… And Taking it a Step Further, How About the Custom Degree? It's been a lot of fun these past 8+ years researching, learning, and writing about the ever changing world of “edtech” [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This has been an exciting week for internet security folks. That’s almost never a good thing. There have been a variety of wild new announcements, including the revelation that cell phone companies are exposing a remarkable amount of non-anonymized information about everyone, as well as new attacks against Flash and Office , and, most notoriously, the Krack Attack , which “destroys nearly all wifi security” I am not a security professional, but I think that a decent amateur exp

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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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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 17, 2017

NCTE's National Day on Writing (#WhyIWrite) is Friday, October 20. To help celebrate, we've pulled together a dozen of the many great posts about teaching writing that are freely available at MiddleWeb. You'll find ideas, inspiration, and ready-to-use activities here.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Parents today want more information from their children’s teachers and schools, but they also want that information to be timely, targeted, and personalized to their children or their interest areas. The latest data from Speak Up Research Project gives insights on school to home communications. In “ Text, Twitter, Email, Call—What Do Parents Say About School Communications?

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There's no perfect teaching recipe that balances patriotism and civic responsibility, says middle school history teacher Lauren Brown. But if educators attempt to ignore the low points in America's past, they'll insult students' intelligence and lose their trust.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Tech & Learning Editorial Director Kevin Hogan will moderate a discussion with key K-12 ed tech leaders about how districts should be putting into action some of the learnings and takeaways from the.

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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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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In this week’s dealmaking news, European education fund Educapital closed its first funding round. Also, an African ed-tech accelerator unveiled its first cohort and a few ed-tech companies unveiled new partnerships. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Educapital Raises $53 Million; Ed-Tech Incubator, Accelerator Select Cohorts appeared first on Market Brief.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Streaming is not an uncommon idea for most people. Almost every common social media app has the ability to stream (ie Facebook Stream, Twitter Periscope), however in the education sector social media streaming services feel a bit iffy. Most technology and admins are not sure if about what is the appropriate method or does this feel right to do. That being said, when YouTube turned Google Hangouts On Air into YouTube Event Streaming, I feel comfortable using this method for streaming events for

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2017

What happens when students and teachers are invited to define the problems they want to solve and design solutions to address them, using powerful technology for creation and collaboration? Digital Promise Global set out to answer this question through a year-long research study in collaboration with Designs for Learning. Our research focused on the experiences of a global network of Learning Studios located across Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, t

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

An upcoming webinar titled “The Future of Work and What It Means For K-12 Schools” has Carolyn Leith concerned about career-readiness. “They’re talking about today’s sixth graders and where they’re gonna be in the workforce.” Leith, a member of the steering committee at Parents Across America Puget Sound, was one of three speakers on Saturday talking about challenges ahead for the gig economy, technology and student health at the Network for Public Education’s (NPE) national conference in Oaklan

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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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