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3 Ways to Engage Families in Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Jeromie Heath on episode 573 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Families want to engage in classrooms but as students get older, it can be challenging. In today’s episode, Jeromie Heath helps teachers understand how to engage families in the classroom in positive, proactive ways. Sponsored By Advancement Courses The holidays are just around the corner, and this is the perfect time to start planning your PD.

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Tips to increase motivation in e-learning

Neo LMS

Keeping your classes engaged and motivated is a big achievement. However, not all teachers excel at this part. Most of them find it difficult to interact with their online classes in such a way as to boost students’ interest in the curriculum and topics discussed there. Motivation is one of the few reasons people might choose to do something. In e-learning settings, students need the motivation to meet their educational goals and to enjoy a complete e-learning experience.

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What Makes an Effective Classroom Coaching Program?

Digital Promise

Coaches may be most often associated with the fields of athletics or business, but they are just as important in education. Coaches in any realm have the same goal—to improve performance and assist those they coach in reaching their full potential. In the school setting, coaches provide one-on-one support to help teachers tackle classroom challenges and identify strategies that best support their practices as well as student achievement.

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Creating student blogs with Wakelet

Ditch That Textbook

[callout]This post is written by Jon Fortney, a fifth-grade teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You can connect with Jon on Twitter @FortneyTECH and check out his blog Fortneytech.com.[/callout] Writing sucks. That’s the essence of what so many kids express during writing time in school. In my experience, many children who could spend hours talking your […].

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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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From Boilers to Vape Sensors, the ‘Internet of Things’ Means More Work for Schools

Edsurge

Sandra Paul doesn’t typically don a safety helmet and work boots to perform her job as director of information technology and operations for a 7,200-student school district in New Jersey. And yet, there she was during the 2016-2017 school year, at a construction site helping to install new boilers at a Township of Union Public Schools high school. The reason for Paul’s involvement: these new internet-connected boilers would allow staff control from anywhere in the building and even out of the di

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Creating student blogs with Wakelet

Ditch That Textbook

Writing sucks. That’s the essence of what so many kids express during writing time in school. In my experience, many children who could spend hours talking your ear off all of a sudden have nothing to say when asked to put their ideas in a journal- regardless of if a prompt is given or not. […].

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Classroom Tech Can Drive Student Engagement—But Schools Need to Choose Wisely

Edsurge

When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. The district loaded up on engaging tools to help teachers and students connect and collaborate—TVs in classrooms, whiteboarding devices, and wireless HDMI to name a few. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration?

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Creating Culture Conscious Campuses

EdNews Daily

By Cynthia Wise, Ed.D. Upon completion of my Fellowship with the Bellwether Education Partners/Texas Education Agency, my CCC Model was codified. I accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of East Texas Advanced Academy (ETAA) in partnership with a school district in East Texas where I served as principal at a middle and elementary school simultaneously.

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‘The Secret to Developing Successful Readers’ Lies In How You Motivate Them

Edsurge

In our ever-changing digital world, new information spills out of devices by the second. This means that no matter which career students choose, there will always be more to learn and consider. As researcher and professor emeritus of education at the University of Maryland, Dr. John T. Guthrie explains, the road to lifelong learning starts with proficient reading.

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5 Good Tools to Create Whiteboard Animations

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

You probably have seen them before, whiteboard style animations are everywhere online. They are used by profit and non-profit entities to advertise, educate or to simply communicate effectively. Two.

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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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A ’Golden Age’ of Teaching and Learning at Colleges?

Edsurge

Somewhere in a university lab, a research subject is being slid into a brain-scanning devices to try to better understand how humans learn and retain information. It may seem a bit like science fiction, but research like this is taking off around the world. And in recent years more of the findings are making their way onto campus, in the form of new teaching practices.

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What Technology Can & Cannot Replace In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

What can technology replace in the classroom? While it isn't enough to make up for unengaging learning models, done well technology can change everything. The post What Technology Can & Cannot Replace In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Fall into Pumpkins

Teacher Tech

My good friend Christine Pinto was telling me she was having her Kindergartners do some pumpkin activities this week in anticipation of going to a pumpkin patch. I thought alicekeeler.com/pixelart would be a fun way for kids to make a pumpkin since after all, the answer is always a spreadsheet! Using my pixel art template […]. The post Fall into Pumpkins appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How teaching developed in Local and Global Contexts enriches learner Communication Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 3)

100mentors

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. In the first two installments of the series, we introduced inquiry and we focused on conceptual understanding (Approaches to Teaching) that can improve the learners’ research and thinking skills respectively (Approaches to Learning).

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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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A Tale of Two Spenders: How State and Federal Higher Ed Spending Shifted During the Great Recession

Edsurge

Government spending on higher education has shifted significantly over the past two decades, with federal support increasing and state support decreasing, according to a new report from Pew Charitable Trusts. Between 2000 and 2015, federal dollars going to colleges per full-time student increased 24 percent, to $4,544, while state spending fell 31 percent, to $5,099 (adjusted to 2017 dollars).

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Building and sustaining a strong math culture

eSchool News

Current employment trends and future projections all point towards continued growth in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs, as well as the need for STEM-related skills in other fields. Yet, recent math proficiency levels among American students remain low, at just 44 percent in fourth grade and 33 percent at the eighth-grade level, and the math score trend lines are not showing significant improvement.

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How teaching developed in Local and Global Contexts enriches student Communication Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 3)

100mentors

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. In the first two installments of the series, we introduced inquiry and focused on conceptual understanding as (Approaches to Teaching) that can improve the students’ research and thinking skills respectively (Approaches to Learning).

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A Good Tool To Help You Create Animated Video Content to Use in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Animaker is an excellent animation video maker that allows you to create engaging video content.

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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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Fun Learning, Creating and Coding With Roblox Education

EmergingEdTech

The popular platform (second in line behind Minecraft) is seeing increased use in schools and classrooms. Roblox is a cross-platform hit game that was launched long ago (for the game industry) in. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Develop Stronger Teaching Skills Through Ed Tech

Omega Notes

The changing nature of higher ed coupled with the widespread availability of content through myriad providers can lead to greater emphasis on pedagogy and student-centered learning, according to Dr. Beena Giridharan. But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007).

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Listening to Lead Forward

The Principal of Change

One book that I come back to over and over again is “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. Written in 1936, there is still so much from this book that resonates today. For example, this quote always grounds me on if we are trying to help others move forward; we must look for the positive connections between our thinking: In talking with people, don’t begin by discussing the things on which you differ.

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Use a 4-Step Countdown to Launch Math Lingo

MiddleWeb

Like a rocket launch, learning math lingo requires plenty of ongoing, personalized checkpoints. Author and instructional coach Pam Koutrakos offers a streamlined, easily replicable process we can all use to help middle grades students prepare to take off with math vocabulary.

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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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Yup. You’re gonna have to talk about it. 22 impeachment resources that can help

techlearning

If you’re not having classroom conversations about both current events and political issues focused on impeachment, you’re probably doing it wrong.

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3 Ways Academic Integrity Can Start in Primary School

Turnitin

3 ways that educators can cultivate academic integrity and authenticity in their primary school classroom.

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Glimpse K12 Launches New Tool to Help Eliminate Grade Inflation, Deflation and Systemic Bias

techlearning

“Our customers discovered that the way they were assessing student performance in the classroom was not in line with standards mastery on achievement tests,” said Pearson.

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Educator or Liberator?

Reading By Example

During one of the sessions at the AWSA Elementary Principals Conference this week, Associate Executive Director Joe Schroeder wondered aloud: “Am I an educator or a liberator?”. He shared his trip to Rome with his wife as a source of this inquiry. Viewing the marble sculpture David by Michelangelo, he found the following quote attributed to the artist: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”.

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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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3 Ways Academic Integrity Can Start in Primary School

Turnitin

3 ways that educators can cultivate academic integrity and authenticity in their primary school classroom.

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Virtual clans

Learning with 'e's

Virtual clannish behaviour can be observed in a number of ways, but probably most overtly in the subtly distinctive ways in which people use their mobile phones. Members of the mobile tribe can be divided into at least two clans. One clan can be observed holding their mobile phones to their ears whilst another group tend to stare at their devices. This is the audio message clan and the text message clan.

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The Future of School Websites Is Consolidation and Consumerization

EdNews Daily

As technology improves, educational sites are evolving from digital brochures to marketing tools and communication hubs that feel familiar enough to make the entire community feel welcome. By Ali Arsan. Back in the mid-1990s, connecting online was not easy. As a student, my classmates and I decided to build a website for our school and use it to share stories online and find old friends in the area to meet up for beers.

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15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning – SULS034

Shake Up Learning

The post 15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning – SULS034 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Classroom is a fantastic tool for teachers and students in the K12 classroom. But did you know, Google Classroom is also a great learning tool for adults, too? Today, I am going to share with you 15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning.

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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