The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 29, 2020
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Mike Messner teaches seventh-grade social studies in Silicon Valley. He shares his stories of the tech they use, what Silicon Valley parents like (and don’t like), and how he has joined an online PLN to bring state of the art to his classroom. Sponsor: Adobe I use Adobe Premiere Rush to teach digital filmmaking in my classroom.
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2020
How do you expand educational time without expanding school hours? The answer: turn the school bus into an extension of the classroom by enabling the fleet with Wi-Fi. It’s a solution that a growing number of school districts are turning to, particularly those in rural areas where bus rides can add more than an hour to student commutes. These are often the same students suffering from the “homework gap” driven by unequal digital access: 18 percent of all students in rural areas have limited in
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Education Elements
JANUARY 29, 2020
The foam on the edges of the waves grazed the outside of my foot and I felt the sand catch my heel with every step. I was intently focused as I walked along the beach outside of my home in Jacksonville, Florida, considering my intention for 2020. It had been a few years since I had abandoned new year's resolutions in exchange for yearly intentions, which has proven to be a great decision.
EdNews Daily
JANUARY 29, 2020
By Tamara Fyke. I have a crazy idea. What if we stopped fighting technology? Instead of punishing our students for bringing their phones to class, what if we allowed their phones? . I asked my college-aged son his opinion about my idea. He’s an expert, since he’s almost done with his K-20 journey. He pondered my suggestion and then said, “It won’t work.”.
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Education Elements
JANUARY 29, 2020
Take a look at your calendars and consider the number of meetings you have each week. Can you say that you go through most of those meetings and 100% finish on time and in each of those meetings you get 80%-90% of the agenda items covered? While getting all this done, can you say that 100% of all meeting attendees get a chance to participate? I can.
Edsurge
JANUARY 29, 2020
For almost a decade, Mary Marcy has been president of Dominican University of California, a liberal arts college outside of San Francisco. What began 130 years ago as a religious school for women now serves about 1,750 co-ed students, many of them first-generation. Marcy’s work helping the institution adapt to attract and serve new kinds of students inspired her to explore how other small colleges are responding to today’s economic pressures and demographic changes.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edsurge
JANUARY 29, 2020
Among the many hats he wore, Clay Christensen, of disruptive innovation and Harvard Business School fame, was an educator. Few were better. As Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc told the Boston Globe , Christensen was “maybe the best teacher I’ve ever known.” Given the number of educators there, LeBlanc is in a position to know.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 29, 2020
In today's post we are sharing with you four practical Chrome extensions that will enable you to search the web in more efficient and effective ways. More specifically, using these extensions you.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2020
Editor’s note: Montana parent Kendra Espinoza hoped a tax credit would help her pay for a private Christian school for her daughters. But her state’s constitution contains an amendment that bars taxpayer aid to religious institutions. Now, it’s all up to the U.S. Supreme Court as it decides Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education?
eSchool News
JANUARY 29, 2020
Digital equity remains a top hurdle to teaching and learning innovation in schools, while personalization and SEL will help accelerate innovation, according to a glimpse of CoSN’s next Driving K-12 Innovation report. CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation initiative is an ongoing effort to keep school IT leaders up-to-date on how new technologies impact different education stakeholders.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 29, 2020
Canvas LMS offers many useful functions by default, but plagiarism detection isn’t one of them. However, you can easily fill this functional gap by third-party tools like Unicheck. This plagiarism.
Sell Courses Online
JANUARY 29, 2020
The post Kajabi vs Kartra: Which is Best for Your Online Business? appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Kajabi and Kartra are two of the most popular online business platforms and they stand out in this crowded market with their promise of being all-in-one solutions.These platforms are meant to replace a bunch of different solutions which means there are a lot of different dimensions to this comparison and so, most business owners find … Kajabi vs Kartra: Which is Best for Your Online Bu
Education Superhighway
JANUARY 29, 2020
As the wide-area network administrator of Education Service Center (ESC) 14 in Texas, Mike Wetsel worked to upgrade 41 school districts in the region to fiber. Thanks to the time, energy, and funding that district staff, state leaders, and ESC 14 invested in the project, many schools in the region are now on scalable infrastructure, can seamlessly use technology in their classrooms, and have reduced their monthly Internet costs.
Vizor
JANUARY 29, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes With over 3 million downloads, ChromebookInventory was a popular add-on for Google Admin Console. The add-on exported Chromebook metadata and Organizational Units (OUs) from the Google Admin Console into a Google Sheet. This made it much easier to perform bulk edits against an entire fleet of Chromebooks. Despite its popularity, support for ChromebookInventory stopped.
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.
The Principal of Change
JANUARY 29, 2020
I shared this video on the idea of “traditional practice” about a year ago: A couple of thoughts: 1. Traditional practice does not equal bad practice. We can’t use the terms interchangeably. 2. Innovation is ONLY innovation if it leads to something better. “New” is not enough. #InnovatorsMindset pic.twitter.com/2VcFbuFcVp. — George Couros (@gcouros) February 13, 2019.
Adjusting Course
JANUARY 29, 2020
Sometimes it seems the older I get, the less I’m sure of. But this much I know; the path to meaningful change is paved with trust. Trust can help us accomplish some pretty incredible things. It helps teams soar and it can bolster the confidence of individuals. And the absence of trust can be catastrophic. The problem is trust is sometimes the last thing we consider when we see somebody behaving in a manner that is less than their best.
My Island View
JANUARY 29, 2020
The discussion around technology in education often revolves around wha t technology can or can’t do in regard to affecting kids’ learning. The fact of the matter is that technology in education only works for kids, if it works for their teacher.The best tec hnology in the world will not be effective if the teacher is not a committed advocate for it.
MindShift
JANUARY 29, 2020
Years ago, when Michael Reichert’s oldest son was born, he and his wife made a commitment to shield him from the “toxic pressures and cultural norms that we believed would try to steal our son’s humanity from him.” . But it turns out that parents can’t build a wall around their children, says Reichert, a clinical psychologist and author of “ How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men.” What parents and teachers can do is strengthen boys’ resilience to be themselves
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techlearning
JANUARY 29, 2020
To inspire students to be the next world changers means we need to allow them at least one project or opportunity to change the world in our classes.
eSchool News
JANUARY 29, 2020
Conferences give educators a chance to meet peers in different districts and states, learning about new instructional practices and innovative trends. At TCEA 2020, educators will share a vision for the future of education. While you’re at TCEA 2020, check out some of the sessions that caught our eye. They focus on 21st-century skills, STEAM, digital learning, students’ digital footprints, tech leadership, and more.
techlearning
JANUARY 29, 2020
National Geographic Learning has partnered with not-for-profit assessment organization NWEA to help teachers assess student proficiency and personalize learning paths across K-12 reading instruction.
Vizor
JANUARY 29, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes With over 3 million downloads, ChromebookInventory was a popular add-on for Google Admin Console. The add-on exported Chromebook metadata and Organizational Units (OUs) from the Google Admin Console into a Google Sheet. This made it much easier to perform bulk edits against an entire fleet of Chromebooks. Despite its popularity, support for ChromebookInventory stopped.
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.
Marketplace K-12
JANUARY 29, 2020
In K-12 dealmaking news, K12 Inc. has acquired Galvanize, a technology training company, while an education recruitment company in the U.K. has acquired a similar business. The post K-12 Dealmaking: K12 Inc. Acquires Galvanize; UK Specialist Ed Recruitment Firm Completes Acquisition appeared first on Market Brief.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2020
Editor’s note: Montana parent Kendra Espinoza hoped a tax credit would help her pay for a private Christian school for her daughters. But her state’s constitution contains an amendment that bars taxpayer aid to religious institutions. Now, it’s all up to the U.S. Supreme Court as it decides Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education?
techlearning
JANUARY 29, 2020
3M and Discovery Education today announced the opening of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
Learning with 'e's
JANUARY 29, 2020
Photo by Steve Wheeler More often than not, one thing leads to another. Particularly where creativity is concerned, I have learnt that one small event, thought or action can trigger several more, and you never know where the sequence will take you. In the words of that great philosopher Diana Ross, I'm in the middle of a chain reaction*. Last week I purchased a loop pedal.
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.
techlearning
JANUARY 29, 2020
QuaverSEL is an interactive online social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum.
Reading By Example
JANUARY 29, 2020
Tonight on the newsletter , I’ll be available to field questions on literacy and/or leadership. I cannot promise to know the answer, but I am willing to be a thought partner in this collaborative space. Sign up below (if you haven’t already) to join the conversation later – it’s free!
techlearning
JANUARY 29, 2020
Tech & Learning Sponsors #TLTechLive Social Hub at TCEA 2020
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 29, 2020
This school year, you have probably heard about dozens of new apps–all educational, rigorous, and highly-recommended–and you can’t wait to try them in your classes. The problem is there are too many so how do you pick? Here are three general guidelines: The app must improve outcomes. Award-winning educator, presenter, and teacher-author Alice Keeler says, “ Paperless is not a pedagogy” What she means is: Go paperless not to save trees but to improve the education ex
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