Wed.Aug 14, 2019

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Creating Real Opportunities for Student Leadership

The CoolCatTeacher

Adam Welcome on episode 544 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students need real leadership opportunities – not just running a note to the office or other tasks that may be called “leadership” but really aren’t. Adam Welcome, co-author of Empower our Girls: Opening the Door for Girls to Achieve More Listen to Adam Welcome Talk about Student Leadership Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here.

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How Soft Skills Can Help You Pull Off a Schoolwide Tech Upgrade

EdTech Magazine

How Soft Skills Can Help You Pull Off a Schoolwide Tech Upgrade. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 08/14/2019 - 10:09. K–12 schools must take many steps before they can install ambitious tech upgrades and enhancements. . While implementation may feel like the end of the mission, IT leaders face a significant challenge — ensuring these upgrades and enhancements stick.

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Announcing 14 New League of Innovative Schools Members

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is excited to announce 14 new districts will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2019-2020 school year. The League is a powerful network of forward-thinking school district leaders. Across 114 districts and 34 states, administrators and educators are testing new programs, technologies, and strategies in an effort to support our mission to design, validate, champion, and scale effective, innovative learning opportunities to advance equity and excellence for

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How to create a PDF ebook with Google Slides

Ditch That Textbook

PDF files are about as universal as it gets. You can open them on almost any Internet-ready device. They’re read-only, so publishing a PDF is a good way to distribute information to be consumed by reading. It may not be the first thing you think of when you use Google Slides but it really is […].

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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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Coaching for Success with Verizon Innovative Learning schools

Digital Promise

At Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, coaching is a key to success. During the school’s first year as part of the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative, Newburg coach Chelsea Haynes, with the backing of her school leadership, made sure that teachers had the support they need to explore new ideas and try new tools to better meet the needs of their students.

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How to Successfully Personalize Learning in Secondary Schools

Education Elements

Last year, a group of educators sat down with engineers from a well-known technology company. The first question the educators asked was what the engineers look for in potential candidates. Adaptability was their immediate response. The way these engineers code today is different than how they coded ten years ago and will be different ten years from now.

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Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: The 5 R’s Strategy for Teachers

ViewSonic Education

Quick Take: Take a closer look at the Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: What will happen. Dangers to teachers & other users of Flash. 5 R’s Strategy to transition. Adobe will retire its crown jewel Adobe Flash in 2020. The once ubiquitous Flash Player found in 98% of all Internet-connected desktops around the world will fade into its golden years at the end of 2020.

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The Key to Fixing the Gender Gap in Math and Science: Boost Women’s Confidence

Digital Promise

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The gender gap in math and science isn’t going away. Women remain less likely to enroll in math-heavy fields of study and pursue math-heavy careers. This pattern persists despite major studies finding no meaningful differences in mathematics performance among girls and boys.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

EdNews Daily

By Paul Erickson and Paul Gigliotti. A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. That statistic becomes even more concerning when you consider that a couple years ago, eSchool News cited a study in which almost half of surveyed teachers (48 percent) felt students retained more information across all subjects when learning through technology, and

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eSpark - a fun and engaging way to differentiate reading and math instruction for students in preK-5th grade

Educational Technology Guy

eSpark is a fun and engaging way to differentiate reading and math instruction for students in preK-5th grade. It is completely web-based. They have just released a free, one-year trials of eSpark as well. Sing up free here: [link] eSpark automatically differentiates for PreK - 5 students based on their current needs with targeted instruction in reading and math.

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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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Using Tech to Practice SEL Skills

EdNews Daily

By Tamara Fyke. As an educator and parent, I feel I have been waging the war against screens for more than a decade. In the classroom, even with adults, it’s a challenge to get learners to focus on what is happening in our space in the present moment; at home, it can be a battle to get my kids to engage with me rather than friends in distant places via text or SnapChat.

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Ebooks Are Great — Just Not for Young Readers

Edsurge

When you talk to an adult reader about ebooks, they typically come down on one side of the fence or the other. They either love the convenience, access and ease of the digital version, or they’re the kind of person who can’t imagine life without the smell of the pages and the feel of a book in their hand. To that, I say to each their own. Personally, I go back and forth, but typically prefer the electronic version because I can toss multiple volumes in my bag on one device and toodle off on vaca

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60 Things Every Child Should Know About The Internet

TeachThought - Learn better.

Critical Thinking Online: 60 Things Every Child Should Know About The Internet by Terry Heick The simple premise is as-titled: What are the things every child should know about the ‘internet’? Below, I offer 60 possibilities. A few caveats: Of course, the list is subjective. The goal here is to brainstorm possibilities to begin thinking […].

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

Edsurge

Today Google unveiled a new feature, “ originality reports ,” which, ironically, is not all that original. But it could make for a practical addition to its growing suite of online educational tools, now used by tens of millions of teachers and students. Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years.

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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 New Google Docs Add-on for Checking on Plagiarism

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Are you tired of using multiple checkers to make sure the paper submitted by a student is original? The PlagiarismCheck.org team integrated a high-quality anti-duplication software into Google Docs.

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Screenshot URL: Show You Looked at Student Work

Teacher Tech

Use QuickShare Screenshot When Reviewing Student Work Updated: The QuickShare Chrome extension now includes the words “Screenshot URL:” when copying the link to your screenshot. Use the QuickShare Chrome extension to take a screenshot when you view student work. The screenshot will automatically save to Google Drive and copy to your clipboard.

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OPINION: Many teachers see social-emotional learning as the ‘missing link’ in student success

The Hechinger Report

As instructors finalize lesson plans and schools across the country head back into session, there’s been a recent and significant surge of interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula at both the federal and state levels. With few exceptions, policymakers, educators, families and communities in many states see the benefits of social and emotional learning and are united by shared goals to promote these practices as part of a well-rounded education.

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4 challenges facing school principals each year

eSchool News

In May 2019, 150 school principals from across the country participated in an edWeb survey on the topics, challenges, and accomplishments they experienced this year as the educational leaders in their buildings. Some of the most significant challenges and successes were highlighted in a recent edWebinar, presented by Shannon Holden, principal of Pierce City High School (MO), and Dr.

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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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How We Refer to Groups of People Matters a Lot

MiddleWeb

American Indian or Native American? Latina or Latino or Latinx? African American or Black? History teacher Lauren Brown shares activities and resources she uses to help students understand the background and history of such naming choices and why it's important to teach.

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Come check us out! 3 Presentations at ASHA Orlando in November!

SpeechTechie

I've been in solid vacation mode since the beginning of July. It's really been awesome. A week down in Cape Cod, then trips to 6 National Parks including Shenandoah, then the Utah "Mighty 5" of Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and Zion, that trip in the space of one week. Something everyone should do--maybe not the 5 parks in one week part, but we did well.

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How intentional leadership behaviors can help PBIS implementation

eSchool News

In its call for social-emotional learning curricula to be integral to every public-school student’s education, federal IDEA legislation, and subsequently ESSA, mandate multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to meet the needs of all students, academically, socially, and emotionally. This embrace of a response to intervention (RTI) systems-approach is one that many school districts comply with through adoption of school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).

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Writing is Not All About Essays

Turnitin

Tired of the five-paragraph essay? Why some tasks in the learning process are better suited to shorter-form writing.

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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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Webinar - "Sexual Harassment of Library Staff" on September 17th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

"SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF LIBRARY STAFF: RESPONDING TO INCIDENTS BY PATRONS OR OTHERS." A 60-minute webinar, recorded in a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht , held live on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019, at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. Register to attend live or to have access to the recordings by clicking on the "Join WEBINAR" on THIS PAGE.

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Google for Education Introduces Originality Reports

techlearning

Today, Google for Education announced the launch of originality reports, a new feature that helps ensure the authenticity of coursework by flagging any text that has missed citations and has high similarity with text on the web or in books.

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Cast Your Vote to Get Our Panels on AI, Ed-Tech, School Budgeting and More on the SXSWedu Agenda

Marketplace K-12

Vote for our panels on social-emotional learning, the ed-tech market, artificial intelligence, global education opportunities and the K-12 marketplace to appear on the agenda at SXSWedu. The post Cast Your Vote to Get Our Panels on AI, Ed-Tech, School Budgeting and More on the SXSWedu Agenda appeared first on Market Brief.

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Best Games for Back to School: Video Games Finally Make a Legitimate Move into the Classroom

techlearning

Game-based learning—where teachers teach and assess through video games—is being found in more and more classrooms.

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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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AR, VR and MR Driven Student Engagement

myViewBoard

Quick Take: Introduces how to integrate AR, VR and MR technologies and applications to increase student engagement. Look at each technology separately and how it can be applied to modern education. . Student engagement is a ‘hot’ topic in education, if we could only engage young people they would thrive! . So how does one engage a millennial about the periodic table and Pythagoras?

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Challenge-Based Learning: Science Curricula and Real-World Connections

edWeb.net

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities. In a recent edWebinar , Anthony Baker, Project Director for Digital Promise, which has further developed and researched the Challenge-Based Learning model, explains that this approach enables students to make meaningful c

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New App Brings Multi-Device Screen Mirroring Tech to Apple TV

techlearning

Apple TV owners can now screen mirror multiple device types and up to four devices simultaneously with the new Ditto tvOS Receiver app.

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What is a Gaggle Safety Audit?

Gaggle Speaks

A Safety Audit , performed by Gaggle and exclusive to your school or district, provides a retrospective analysis of content and review of possible incidents Gaggle’s services would have caught, had you been a subscriber at the time. Through this comprehensive report of past content, your school and district administrators are able to see exactly what kinds of potentially harmful content your students are sharing across your online collaboration platforms, such as Google’s G Suite for Education,

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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