July, 2015

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The EdTech Trends You Might Be Missing

Doug Levin

Most mornings, over a cup of coffee, I do my daily reading of news about trends and issues related to education and technology – a practice I have more or less followed for at least the past 20 years. I think I’ve learned a few things about how the press covers technology in education over this time (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and have recently started sharing some of the best and most interesting of what I find in a section of my website entitled What I’m Reading.

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Early Elementary: Differentiate Reading Practice

Catlin Tucker

In my last post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I provided a blended learning strategy that creates more time in the classroom for teachers to work individually with students. This week I was presenting on technology infused reading strategies and resources for K-5 teachers and wanted to share them.

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Goal: Build Your Teacher Survival Kit

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward ! . The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. – John F. Kennedy. When I first began teaching, I remember meeting a veteran teacher who carried a big bag with her everywhere. I forgot what the situation was but I remember her coming to the rescue with masking tape, scissors, and Post It notes.

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Subscriber Special: August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Multi-user licenses are going up in price October 1st. This includes licenses for: student workbooks. teacher resources. teacher webinar–training. If you’re planning to purchase one, save 25% by purchasing yours now: Room. School. District. Questions? Email askatechteacher@gmail.com or zeke.rowe@structuredlearning.net.

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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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Is There an Uncrossable Chasm Between Research and the Classroom?

The Journal

There has always been a chasm between what educational researchers do in their labs and what educational practitioners do in their classrooms. There is no well-defined path for taking an idea from research and putting it into practice. In this week’s post, we discuss the different paths across the chasm that Logo (the programming language) and the graphing calculator took.

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Musings on Leadership, Change, and #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

As I am driving my SUV and family guinea pig from Staten Island, NY to Texas (more to come on this later) I took the opportunity, when my father was at the wheel, to peruse my professional Facebook page. As I looked through my updates I noticed that I had posted quite a few quotes, ideas, thoughts, and opinions on leading change. The idea then popped into my head that I should archive all of these in a blog post.

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More Trending

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Stages of Being a Maker Learner

User Generated Education

Discussions have occurred around some maker circles about what actually is making as related to maker education. I have proposed that the heart of making is creating new and unique things. I also realize that in order for this type of making to occur, there needs to be some scaffolding so that maker learners can develop a foundation of knowledge and skills.

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Back to School Selfie Adventure for Your Students!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the Effective Technology Integration tips category! In a few weeks, school starts again. This is the best time to begin connecting with students and getting them to connect with their peers. Try something new this year! Get students to talk about themselves by presenting selfies they have taken as part of a mission you have sent them on. First, get students to watch the video, Around the World in 360° Degrees , and reflect on it.

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What a Typical Tech Lesson Looks Like

Ask a Tech Teacher

In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten several emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the “way things were.” I’m determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! … Could you please elaborate on how you run your class?

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10 Quick Fixes That Every School Can Implement Immediately

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane Teachers worry about the Common Core, high stakes testing, accountability, parent complaints, and many other issues that face educators daily. What if you could stop worrying? What if there were quick fixes for your school and classroom that you can implement right now? Sound unrealistic? It’s not. The answer is easy: Instead of using the old committee […] The post 10 Quick Fixes That Every School Can Implement Immediately appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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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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3D CAD and 3D Printing with Chromebooks

Educational Technology Guy

Everyone who reads this blog knows I'm a huge fan of Chromebooks , especially for education. One area that I get asked about often is 3D CAD and 3D Printing. So here is some info. I am by no means an expert on 3D printing though. Tinkercad is a completely web-based, 3D CAD system that works on Chromebooks. I've used it and found it easy to use and pretty powerful (and I've used systems like CATIA, Pro-Engineer and SolidWorks).

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Should Body Cameras Be Used at Schools?

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith An Iowa school district plans to have its principals wear cameras to record their interaction with students.

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Show Learners the Possibilities. And Then Get Out of the Way

User Generated Education

We are living in an age of advanced user-driven technologies, information abundance, and networked, participatory learning. It should logically follow, then, that education should take advantage of these amazing developments. As many of us in education know, it has not. This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0.

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Readying New Teachers for 21st Century Classrooms Blog

Battelle for Kids

July 30, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 15. Sitting in the Atlanta airport watching the planes and passengers come and go, it occurs to me that traditional educator preparation has been a bit like an airport-most of the "customers" (students) treated identically, with the common goal of getting from here to there, from to home to graduation. Teachers have been taught to act as sole pilots, in complete control of their classrooms.

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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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3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons

Ask a Tech Teacher

Lesson planning used to mean filling in boxes on a standard form with materials, goals, expectations, assessments–details like that. Certainly this is valuable information, but today’s lesson plans–like today’s lessons –demand less rote fill-in-the-blanks and more conceptualization, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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10 Summer Habits Teachers Should Carry into the New School Year

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane Like many educators, I have the good fortune to know and love quite a few school counselors, social workers, and psychologists. I hang out with them inside of the schools that I get to work in, and I get to spend quite a bit of time with them socially as well. It’s very good for […] The post 10 Summer Habits Teachers Should Carry into the New School Year appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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CK-12 Integrates Its Awesome Educational Resources With Google Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

CK-12 , a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that it is integrating with Google Classroom. Google recently updated Classroom to allow third parties to integrate and share with Classroom and CK-12 has just done that. The Google Classroom share button is now in CK-12 so teachers and students can access all of the content in CK-12 from within Google Classroom.

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4 Reasons Windows 10 Makes Sense for Education

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Should you upgrade to Windows 10? These new features could help empower your classroom and research.

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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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Video: Check Out This Awesome Nintendo Shaped Piano Performing Super Mario Bros Music

TeacherCast

The other day I was daydreaming while playing around on YouTube. While I was searching for background music to put on while podcast editing, I came across this pretty awesome video. As a child of the 80’s (weren’t we all?) the nostalgic themes from Super Mario Bros will forever be in my heart. Enjoy this pretty cool video. Oh yeah… the piano is SHAPED LIKE A NINTENDO!

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Waiting to Excel: Transforming Teacher Preparation in Urban Classrooms

Battelle for Kids

July 27, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 13. Driving Question: What is needed to transform urban teacher readiness for 21st Century Classrooms? A Frame of Reference Noting that adult humans use somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the 86-100 billion neurons there are estimated to be in a brain, the neuroscience developed during the last century has demonstrated that all human brains have the capacity for far greater levels of high intellectual performances.

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Tech Tip #108: Got a Tech Problem? Google It!

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Sometimes, I just can’t remember how to accomplish a task. Often, I know it’s simple. Maybe I’ve done it before–or even learned it before–and it’s lost in my brain.

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ISTE and 100 Word Challenge Founder Collide

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane You can’t imagine the excitement I felt when I read the email telling me that 100 Word Challenge had been accepted at #ISTE2015 in Philadelphia! For those of you who don’t know about 100WC (where have you been?!), it is a weekly writing project for students under 16. I set a prompt of a few […] The post ISTE and 100 Word Challenge Founder Collide appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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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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Creating Curriculets with Students

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Cheryl Morris asked me if students can create their own curriculets , embedding questions and quizzes inside a text. Her plan: have students work in groups or as individuals to create their own curriculets and share them with other students to read and answer the questions/quizzes-- like a suped-up literature circle! What a great idea to promote higher level thinking!

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Weekly Resources for the End of July

EdTechTeacher

Long summer days are still here and we hope you are relaxing and enjoying them. In case you missed anything this week, we have compiled posts and tips from EdTechTeacher instructors and friends.

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6 Great Apps to try on the new Windows 10 | @Microsoft_EDU

TeacherCast

It’s July 29, 2015, a day that will go down as Windows 10 day! I was excited to wake up this morning and download the latest FREE operating system on my Surface 3 tablet. The install was very smooth taking about an hour and a half. There are several great new features to Windows 10 that are perfect for any classroom. We will be going through these features over the next few weeks here at TeacherCast.

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Friday 5 — 7.31.2015

Perry Hewitt

Optimizing your business for local search starts with working through the fundamentals. Brush up on your tactics with the ultimate guide to local SEO ranking. Looks matter. An experiment revealed that news site homepages get more pageviews and user engagement when they have contemporary image-rich and modular layouts. Modular pages have discrete blocks of customizable and portable content, rather than a running list of stories.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

Summer PD 2015 just ended. A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, lab teachers–gathered virtually for three weeks to experiment with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom–Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, backchannels, digital citizenship, assessment, and more (12 topics in all).

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Part 5: Forty… Now Fifty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to the fifth post… and last post of this series. I hope you have enjoyed these tools that I have picked from thousands. I tried to give you some new… along with some that have been around that you might not have known about. As the new school year gets closer I have some great posts coming your way! Please ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21cen

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They NAILED it!

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Making the rounds on the interwebs this week is Key & Peele's Comedy Central skit, Teaching Center , where they pose the question, "What if Teachers Were Treated Like Pro Athletes?" Key & Peele totally NAILED it. Yeah it is Comedy Central, so of course it will be funny, but what makes this video stand out is in the nuances and details. I know very little about Key & Peele, other than they are a TV show, but I can tell they know teachers and the teaching profession.

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#ETTchat: Dr. Reshan Richards

EdTechTeacher

Here at EdTechTeacher, we take pride in the fact that all of our Instructors and Presenters have been experienced classroom teachers and dynamic speakers. They not only have a wide array of knowledge in their field, but insights into the future of education. This summer and fall, we want to introduce you to some our EdTechTeacher Instructors and iPad Summit Boston Presenters and in a series called #ETTchat.

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Building the Foundation for a Modern K-12 Classroom

K-12 looks different these days. But one thing remains the same: you need a reliable learning platform that serves as the foundation for teaching and learning––for all students, in a variety of learning experiences. Discover how the Instructure Learning Platform supports today's K-12 classroom through: A central, consistent, connected hub of the digital learning environment.