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My Story: Fire, Loss, and Rebuilding

Catlin Tucker

On Sunday, October 8th I went to bed early. I had been waking up between 4-5 AM all week to do work for my doctoral program. We had also hosted my husband’s family for the weekend, and I was exhausted. Normally, we go to be at 11 PM, but that evening I crawled under the covers at 9:30 PM. It was a warm and windy night. I could hear the wind whistling through the trees outside my window.

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Efficacy in Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

As a principal, the buck stopped with me. I was reminded of this by numerous superintendents during my tenure as a school leader. However, when we began moving forward with our digital transformation one particular superintendent asked me point blank what evidence I had that actually supported our claims that new equated to better. This not only stopped me in my tracks, but that moment in time provided the grounding that my school and I really needed.

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Reflecting on Digital Identity and Footprints! #EdtechMissions

Teacher Reboot Camp

Our learners become citizens of the digital world as toddlers or younger. They create digital avatars and profiles as part of their membership to online games or online communities. Sometimes their parents create their online profiles for them or the children create profiles for their dolls or toys. These profiles and memberships come with responsibilities, which are often outlined in small print in the Terms of Service few read or consider.

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Introduction to Design Thinking for Educators Workshop

User Generated Education

I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on design thinking for educators at the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Fall Institute. Here is a round-up of what we did. Warm Up: Instant Challenge. Participants were asked to warm-up for the session with a challenge from the Destination Imagination Instant Challenge App. Instant Challenges are fun, STEAM-based group activities that must be solved within a short period of time.

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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 Classroom: Use P to Preview Student Work

Teacher Tech

Preview Student Work Side by Side With Google Classroom One way to give students faster feedback in Google Classroom is to preview student work instead of opening student work. Step 1: Open the Assignment In the Google Classroom Stream click on the assignment title to view the assignment assessment screen. Step 2: Click the Drive […]. The post Google Classroom: Use P to Preview Student Work appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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9 Fundamental Android Apps for Every Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

October 23, 2017 Here is a collection of some good educational Android apps we recommend for teachers using Android devices in their instruction. These are apps you can use for a variety of.read more.

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Grab These Apps They Are Free Apps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

October 22, 2017 Here is a collection of some good iPad apps you may want to try out. These apps are free today and only for a limited period of time. Some of the things you can do with them include: read more.

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Using @SutoriApp + @Flipgrid to Document & Reflect on Class Experience (Including Template) #edtech #stuvoice

techieMusings

If you haven’t used Sutori before, I hope that this post will inspire you to check it out. Sutroi looks like a vertical timeline tool, but I think of it more as a tool to tell a visual story. With the release of Sutori’s new embed functionality , I had a chance to write a guest post on their site’s blog: Using @SutoriApp + @Flipgrid to Document & Reflect on Class Experience (Including Template).

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How School Leaders Can Attend to the Emotional Side of Change

MindShift

During his work consulting with school leaders around change strategies, psychologist Robert Evans has found it tremendously important for leaders to understand that for many people, change — at least at first — isn’t about growth or capacity building or learning; it’s about loss. “All of us respond to a change that someone says or does not because of what it is, but in terms of what it means to us,” said Evans during a keynote speech at the Building Learning Communities conference i

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TEACHER VOICE: On the ground in Singapore, with a sharp perspective

The Hechinger Report

Children at Singapore’s Sports Hub. Photo: Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via ZUMA wire. SINGAPORE — Shortly before I completed my teacher training 15 years ago, my vice principal gave me some advice. “Don’t forget that the higher and faster you fly, the more blurry things on the ground get,” he warned. “You need to land once in a while.”. This profound reminder to make periodic assessments has shaped much of my belief system and identity as a teacher, including my decision to pursue the teaching track, o

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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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Outdated practices

Learning with 'e's

Image source I was thinking today about change. We all desire change, but not many of us want to change ourselves. Irony. Well, time moves on, doesn't it? New technologies emerge, outmoded devices are discarded; old buildings are knocked down to make way for new ones, and children grow up fast. Everything is changing, except perhaps in schools. School is the main experience for children, the key influence on their preparation for the future.

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How I’m Using @Boomerang to Optimize my Email Workflow #Productivity #InboxZero

techieMusings

It must have been early 2013 when I was introduced to Mailbox. Those of you who were fellow fans of the app know that it was discontinued in 2016 to the heartbreak of many. Why was Mailbox so revolutionary for me? It opened up the option to snooze an email to the date and time I wanted/needed to deal with it. For the first time, with Mailbox, I started achieving InboxZero.

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Education and Tech Tweet Compilation w/e 10-21-17

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … a great set of assessment. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Stepping Back and Letting My Students Go

MiddleWeb

In a recent post, Sarah Cooper wrote about her fears surrounding a new current-events project – her 8th graders creating spoken poetry videos on issues of interest to them. Here she reviews the experience and its power to create community as it engaged her students.

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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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Learning to mill PCB boards! Maker Fail & then Success!

Learning With Lucie

My OtherMill CNC router (now called Bantam Tools ) came in this summer right before TechSavvyGirls Summer camp. TechSavvy Girls 2017 and EMMA (mobile studio for creating and making) I didn't have time to play with it, so I threw it in the back of EMMA (mobile studio) and brought it to camp. I was eager to show it to our cadre of young women and share with them the story of female engineer Danielle Applestone - the maker of The OtherMill They were inspired and McKenna, one of my TechSavvy junior

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5 Fab Ways to Animate Your EduLife!

The Daring Librarian

This article was published in NEA Today Magazine - pages 18-20 - and also posted on the NEA Today Website 5 Fab Ways to Animate Your EduLife! Begin Bitmoji Savvy Signage Fresh Feedback Social Sharing Cool Communication Have you fallen in love with Bitmoji yet? This fun FREE app has been around for a few years and now can be easily used to transform and animate your professional life and classroom.

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App Makes Testing Fun

techlearning

Effortlessly fun quizzing that can lead to productive formative assessment and student reflection if implemented effectively.

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Tinycards

Technology Tidbits

Tinycards by Duolingo is the new free iOS app for flashcards. Tinycards lets students memorize anything by playing through a game and unlocking levels. A user can play through an already created deck on any number of subjects or create their own. These flashcards can contain text, images, and animations making learning fun. I highly recommend checking out Tinycards by clicking here !!!

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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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4 Questions for Administrators to Promote a Culture of Innovation

The Principal of Change

I have had the pleasure of working with so many educators around North America and hearing about their individual journeys, as well as organizational success and struggles toward the building of a “culture of innovation.” This is not meaning that every single thing in a school or classroom is “innovative” and that there is nothing you wouldn’t see from ten years ago.

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Answerables

Technology Tidbits

*Be sure to check out their latest updates!!! **Answerables iPad app available here !!! Answerables is a wonderful new innovative site/game that is perfect for Game Based Learning (or more accurate Game Based Learning meets Learning Management System). It reminds me of Second Life but geared more toward kids w/ their fantasy/SciFi environment. The game takes place in the 3D virtual world of Answerables on a planet called Proxima, where the native Ansibles (students) encounter an alien race.