Neo LMS

JANUARY 11, 2018

Factors relating to poor sleep have been found to have a significant impact on school performance. This was observed in a study published by NCBI showing that students with less than 7 hours of sleep performed worse academically than those with adequate rest. The major cause is the pressure that students feel when having to juggle academics, extracurricular activities, family time, and a social life.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2018

By Dan Tynan Districts extend their wireless networks to buses, sports facilities to expand students’ opportunities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen McClaskey on episode 229 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kathleen McClaskey talks about the research on learning styles and the alternatives for teaching and reaching every child. Today’s show will help you think about the research many of us have used for years to design lessons.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through my Teachers Pay Teachers store, I have two lesson plans help you plan Martin Luther King Day on January 15, 2018. 4th grade. Students interpret the words of Dr. Martin Luther King in their own words in a visual organizer. Great project that gets students thinking about the impact of words on history. Common Core aligned. 7-page booklet includes a sample, step-by-step projects, a rubric for assessment, and additional resources to enrich teaching. 5th grade.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 11, 2018

January 11, 2018 Teachers may sometimes feel overwhelmed by the multitude of resources available online. It might take one a tremendous amount of time to sift through and locate required materials to.read more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Amazon has quietly re-opened a previously-controversial sharing feature that allows allow anyone to add to its directory of online educational materials, a platform called Amazon Inspire. Inspire was launched with great fanfare in 2016, touted as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other open education resources. But just after Amazon Inspire first launched, some teachers complained that other users had uploaded their materials without permission.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

California is one step closer to having a fully online public community college. In a state budget proposal issued on Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown called for spending $120 million to create the online institution within the 114-campus California Community College system. The college would aim to help 2.5 million students earn credentials through more-flexible and affordable digital learning options.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 11, 2018

10 Resources For A Student-Centered 1:1 Program In Your School contributed by Christi Wilson For school districts striving to move from a teacher-centered learning environment to a learner-centered approach, a 1:1 technology program may just be the answer. A 1:1 technology program is naturally student-centered, placing a computer or tablet in the hands of each […].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

The idea of an advisor telling a student who just received an associate's degree to next enroll in a Ph.D. program seems farcical. But, leaders in higher education act similarly when it comes to analytics by embarking to create predictive models without first building a baseline level of understanding around data and analytics. As a result, we hear all too often, “my institution needs predictive analytics.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2018

Most K-12 educators (80 percent) said they believe English Language Learner (ELL) instruction is a top priority for their school or district, according to a new survey. Ninety-nine percent of surveyed educators also said they need more professional development and different types of learning materials to properly support ELL students and meet their needs, according to the 2017 EL Education Report from McGraw-Hill Education.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2018

These days college degrees are coming in new shapes and sizes—with the rise of microcredentials. But the trend raises plenty of tough questions: Who should offer these new degrees? How short is too short? How can quality be measured? Will employers accept them? To address these and other questions, we’re holding a live video discussion on January 16 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 11, 2018

January 11, 2018 Smithsonian’s History Explorer provides teachers, educators and students with a wide variety of resources to help them teach and learn about the American history. The site is a fruit.read more.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 11, 2018

As an experiment, Ed Summers wanted to build a web application that 1) had a complex, generous interface, incorporating React and 2) could live entirely offline–in fact, could be walked around on a thumb drive. The goal was to make a more sustainable and portable version of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project , which Mary Sies, her students, and community members have been developing.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 11, 2018

The study of how districts track spending for each school found that it is difficult to make "apples-to-apples" comparisons of expenditures among schools in a system. The post K-12 District Spending Analysis Raises Red Flag About ESSA School Comparisons appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2018

As K-12 competency-based education programs become more widespread, educators and policymakers would do well to focus on four key issues that can make or break high-quality programs, according to a new report. The CompetencyWorks report, Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education , calls for creating competency-based systems in which the culture, structure, policies, and instructional practices fully support each and every student in their

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techieMusings

JANUARY 11, 2018

Pear Deck has just rolled out a very exciting update to their Add-on for Google Slides. They have added in pre-designed templates to inspire & made the side-bar navigation even easier to use. Pear Deck’s new templates are yet another way to push teachers forward in rethinking how to build lessons and activities. They provide easy inspiration and help teachers structure reflective pauses and embed temperature checks within their lesson with just the click of a button.

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SecurEdge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Meet Madison. Madison is an eighteen-year-old freshman at a mid-sized university. Madison has had a smartphone since she was thirteen. It’s an integral part of her life, the primary way she stays connected to her friends and, now that she’s away at school, to her family back home. Madison uses her phone to access every sphere of her life. It’s her primary vehicle for maintaining friendships, dating, consuming media, and sharing ideas.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 11, 2018

The title of this post is not something I have ever really thought about until recently. As I have blogged for almost eight years now, I do not know if I have become a better writer, or naturally more comfortable with writing often. In the last few months, I paid for “ Grammarly. ” Before I purchased the program, I would have put the period after the quotation mark in the previous sentence.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 11, 2018

Social Media is part of life--and a good context for targeting social cognition and narrative language. In general, social media is now one context for us all to be sharing our stories through words and pictures, and also is a way we send messages about ourselves and interact around them. Of course this should be self-monitored; I've shared with my students that I set an intention of at least 2 hours daily in which I don't look at Facebook or Instagram (if you have a goal, you need a measurable

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 11, 2018

No matter where you are in your journey to understand grading, this book can help, says middle school teacher Emily Prissel. Susan Brookhart does a nice job of presenting important ideas succinctly and clearly, while giving practical advice and ready-to-use strategies.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 11, 2018

From machine learning to big data, augmented reality to artificial intelligence (and every one and zero in between), 2018 looks set to be a whirlwind year in the EdTech arena. We’ve seen developments flourish and evolve throughout 2017 that will prove transformative – over the next 12 months – to both how technology is used in the classroom, as well as how it shapes Texthelp’s own work.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 11, 2018

Anyone Using This Platform in an Educational Context? If This Then That, or “IFTTT” ([link] is a free online app that will allow you to define relationships between. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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

JANUARY 11, 2018

Berit Gordon offers a step-by-step plan for playing catch up with students who are not regular readers and therefore do not have the reading skills or the knowledge base to feel anything but overwhelmed and bored by classic literature, says classics teacher Kelley Pujol.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

Who hasn't sent a text or email to the wrong person? Who hasn't posted something online they later regretted or seen something in their feed that made them uncomfortable? These are difficult moments for people, no matter their age, and it's natural to be unsure what to do. But the most common advice young people get about social media is usually limited to "Think before you send" and "Once you post something, it’s always there.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 11, 2018

Doug Robertson offers meaningful, practical advice on how to insure that having or being a student teacher benefits both sides. In addition to plentiful laughs, teacher-librarian and former mentor Rita Platt finds useful tips on many aspects of having a student teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 11, 2018

We're excited to announce our first Library 2.018 mini-conference: Design Thinking: How Librarians Are Incorporating It Into Their Practice , which will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, March 8th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This event is being organized in partnership with Steven J. Bell, who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Day 10 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This reckless abandon of showing love to others can feel like you are not showing love to yourself sometimes. Yet it is part of reckless abandon to pour yourself out in love of others when you do not know how to go on. When you are tired.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 11, 2018

I don’t think I know anyone who isn’t in a search rut. We usually begin our search in one of two search giants. But while they may not have achieved verb status , we have other choices well worth discovering. And it’s kinda in our ballpark to ensure that appropriate choices are easily available on both desktops and mobile devices. Today, I’d like to share a few search engine options that might be worth sharing in a curation with your learning community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Students take 20 minutes each day to work on social interactions and understanding their emotions. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. — One of the more radical transformations in public education today begins with a simple greeting each morning among second-graders.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 11, 2018

For years, technology-facilitated crime has presented courts and legislators with the difficulty of maintaining the pace and rapidity of trends in online crime. Some of the more common forms of technology-facilitated crime that affect students today include child pornography and cyberbullying. But less-discussed crimes can also be identified through Gaggle’s content analysis and expert review.

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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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