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Closing the Professional Development Gap for K–12 Teachers

EdTech Magazine

Professional development has never been more critical for educators. Last year’s rapid shift to remote learning intensified challenges for educators in the digital landscape. The transition also put existing professional development standards and practices to the test. After all, without a clear focus on building technology skills, many training programs could fall short and leave teachers ill-equipped for a more digitally driven future — especially a future in which the unexpected happens.

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10 ideas for creating an interACTIVE classroom

Ditch That Textbook

This post is written by Joe and Kristin Merrill. Kristin is a fourth grade teacher, and Joe is a first grade teacher. They would love to stay connected with you! Follow them on Twitter at: @FriendsInFourth (Kristin), @MrMerrillsClass (Joe), and @TheMerrillsEdu (collectively). To gain access to free templates for the activities above, sign up for […].

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How a Feedback Tool Improves Both Instruction and Student Outcomes for This Math Teacher

Edsurge

In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. This has been accompanied by a growing demand for educators to provide quality feedback in a timely manner. And high school math teacher Krystina Wood might have discovered the secret sauce to do just that.

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Rethinking Your District Strategic Plan in the Era of COVID-19

Education Elements

What’s the first word that pops into your head when you hear “strategic planning”? What word did you think of? Common responses we hear are boring, painful, old-school, far-off, or even just a simple, “ugh.”.

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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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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

Edsurge

Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Bumper funding rounds and freshly minted unicorns are grabbing headlines, but there are questions about how long current investment appetite will last. Unlike other edtech startups seemingly on the fast track to big checks, Codecademy has been in the business for over a decade. And its announcement of a $40 million Series D round, led by Owl Ventures, is recognition of years of growth at the forefront of programming education.

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Here Is A Great Reading App for Students with Dyslexia

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Omoguru is an excellent reading app for students with dyslexia. It offers a wide variety of tools 'designed to make the text more readable'. Some of these features include: tools to adjust text.read more.

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4 Reasons to Become an IT Software Developer

EdTech4Beginners

Many people are attracted to the field of computer science because it promises a bright future. With every passing day, the digital world is becoming more advanced and computers more complex. The field of computer science never feels boring because no matter how many times you have spent in the industry, you always have something new to learn. Computer science (CS) is a broad field, and if you want to make a career in it, you will have to pick one path.

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Mentoring Conversations with Jamboard by @MCarrilloEDU

Teacher Tech

Guest Post by Marcia Carrillo Jamboard For the Win “My face is SOOOO big on ZOOM!” “I mean I seem so HUGE!!!” Ugh. Many of us know this feeling, and this led me to begin sharing my screen with teachers during our weekly “mentoring” meetings. BOOM! But, what should or could I share on my screen […]. The post Mentoring Conversations with Jamboard by @MCarrilloEDU appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Another Good Tool to Enhance Teachers Remote Collaborative Team Work

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro's.read more.

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OPINION: How the racism of ‘good’ teachers can hurt kids

The Hechinger Report

Racism shows up in schools in a variety of ways. One is in the harsh disciplining of Black students compared to white students. Black students receive more detentions, more suspensions and more expulsions in comparison to white students, which can have chilling effects on students and their success in school. Changing this reality will require educators to have tough conversations, a willingness to accept responsibility for their actions (including the results), and courage.

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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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How to Validate Your Online Course Idea: The Ultimate Guide

Sell Courses Online

The post How to Validate Your Online Course Idea: The Ultimate Guide appeared first on Sell Courses Online. … How to Validate Your Online Course Idea: The Ultimate Guide Read the Post. The post How to Validate Your Online Course Idea: The Ultimate Guide appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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New- Chromebooks Will Soon Offer An Integrated Screen Recording Feature

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As remote teaching and distant education are becoming the norm in many places around the world, the need for more reliable technology to accompany this transformation becomes even more pertinent.read more.

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Here’s what helps–and hinders–K-12 innovation

eSchool News

A personalized, learner-centered educational experience is one of the main drivers of K-12 innovation and extraordinary student outcomes, according to CoSN’s annual innovation survey. The survey includes three categories: accelerators that pave the way for teaching and learning innovation in schools, hurdles that hinder it, and tech enablers are tools that districts can leverage to surmount hurdles and embrace accelerators.

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Teaching Digitally Resource Guide – SULS098

Shake Up Learning

The post Teaching Digitally Resource Guide – SULS098 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this interview, Kasey chats with tech specialist, Nadine Gilkison. Nadine freely shares tons of online resources, templates, Hyperdocs, and more. Let’s take a deep dive into Nadine’s, “Teaching Digitally Resource Guide for Teachers.” Her resource guide has so many great ideas to help teachers and students with essential technology skills, thriving through remote learning, an

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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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5 strategies to get the most for your used Apple devices

eSchool News

When school districts refresh their fleet of used Apple devices, they often sell back those used devices to a buyback company. These companies decide what they will pay for a device based predominantly on the age and condition of devices. However, there are several steps that districts can take to boost the payout of most devices —even those that are badly damaged.

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How to Leave Video Feedback in Google Classroom

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Leave Video Feedback in Google Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s so easy to use Screencastify to record quick feedback for students. Let’s take this a step further and share feedback in Google Classroom. You can leave video feedback as a private comment, a comment in a document, or add it to your comment bank. Google Classroom and many of your favorite Google tools give you opportunities to communicate and leave feedback for students. “Learners need endles

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“Empathy not at the expense of ourselves.” 

The Principal of Change

When I discuss the characteristics of the #InnovatorsMindset , the first trait shared is that of “empathy” because it leads to all of the other ideas. Looking at the image below, these characteristics are meant to be connected and not work in isolation. For example, empathy is necessary if you want to be an effective problem finder AND solver to understand others’ needs and experiences better.

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How to Co-teach When You’re Not Even There

MiddleWeb

Since EL specialist Tan Huynh can’t be in every co-teaching class every day to co-instruct with content teachers, he has developed strategies to guide learning from afar across grade levels and disciplines. Discover his BATS: boxes, acronyms, templates, and structures. The post How to Co-teach When You’re Not Even There first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Blur Part of a Video from Your Classroom with Drag-and-Drop Ease

Edthena

Sharing videos inside Edthena is safe and secure. Even so, sometimes there are reasons that student information should not be visible, and teachers need to blur part of a video. The rise of Zoom-style teaching has increased the need for this video blurring: student names now appear clearly on the recordings of video conferences. Today we’re announcing that it’s now possible to blur part of a video inside Edthena with just a few clicks.

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The Two Types of Independence Growing Tweens Need to Practice

MindShift

Excerpted from FOURTEEN TALKS BY AGE FOURTEEN copyright © 2021 by Michelle Icard. Used by permission of Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. . Two Types of Independence.

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Want to write with me? I’m hiring!

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Over the next few months, I will be transitioning my website, TheCornerstoneForTeachers.com , to TruthforTeachers.com. With more than 6.2 million episode downloads, the Truth for Teachers podcast has become my primary method of sharing ideas, and I think the name really embodies the type of resources I want to offer. Part of my vision for expanding Truth for Teachers beyond just the podcast is to center the voices of classroom teachers, and make the site a place to share wisdom from a diverse gr

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States Must Test Student Learning This Spring, Biden Administration Says

MindShift

The U.S. Education Department says states must resume the annual testing of students that was suspended a year ago amid the pandemic. For the past two decades, federal law has required schools to test students once each year in math and reading, in grades three through eight and once in high school. And they are required to publicly report these standardized test results, broken out by racial and ethnic group and disability status, and in some cases, hold schools accountable with various sanctio

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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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5 More principles of effective instruction adapted for online teaching

Neo LMS

In a previous post, we discussed the first five principles of effective instruction as outlined in Principles of Instruction by Barak Rosenshine. The guidelines, which are backed up by research in cognitive science, the work of master teachers, and learning strategies, work best in a teacher-led setting. Read more: 5 Principles of effective instruction adapted for online teaching.

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Young People Struggle To Keep Friends Close As Pandemic Pulls Them Apart

MindShift

Emma Fritschel, 25, and Evelyn Wang, 23, met on the first day of their freshman year as roommates almost six years ago and have been inseparable ever since. But then the COVID-19 pandemic strained their relationship in ways they had never before experienced. “Things were really tense between us for reasons that we both kind of came up with in our heads,” Wang says.

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Social Connection and Annotation for More Just Learning Futures | LEARN: Marginal Syllabus, Spring 2021

Educator Innovator

Welcome to LEARN: Marginal Syllabus for Spring 2021. Together via LEARN—Literacy, Equity, and Remarkable Notes—we gather as educators to socially read, annotate articles about literacy and equity, and work toward justice-directed literacy education. This spring, during our third annual LEARN syllabus, we will read four articles published in the NCTE journal Research in the Teaching of English.