Sat.Nov 01, 2014 - Fri.Nov 07, 2014

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Sustaining Outdated Practices Will Not Transform Schools

A Principal's Reflections

'When one looks at education in general there is very little change from over 150 years ago. Back then the education system was designed to serve an industrialized world that was in desperate need of skilled factory workers. What resulted was the quick development of a system to educate as many students as possible in a fashion that was cheap and easy.

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Words Matter: Let’s Talk About Learning, Not Technology

Digital Promise

'I still remember the first time I held a voluntary workshop on Google Docs for a staff of 100 teachers. I called it “10 Ways to Use Google Docs in Your Classroom.” Five people showed up. A week later, I was eating lunch in the staff lounge and heard a colleague say, “They always have an excuse for not turning their work in. They forgot to bring it home, they lost their flash drive, their printer wasn’t working, yada yada.” I immediately piped up: “You know, h

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Learning Beyond The Classroom Walls

The Web20Classroom

'When I decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology, I started out like many students do. I sat down at my laptop, went to Google and started searching. Eventually I landed on a program at an in-state university that was one of the first of its kind. Everything was virtual. Not once in the 18 months I was in the program would I set foot on campus.

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Ivory Tower University Researchers: Making Valuable Contributions to Classroom Practice

The Journal

In this second installment of our “Learnings from Singapore” blog post mini-series, we focus on the critically important role that “Ivory Tower” university researchers can play in improving classroom practice.

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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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Ten Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

'I took some time to look over my past posts and decided I needed to provide Social Studies Teachers with some great resources for their classroom. Rather than get into any one specific Social Studies area, I thought best to find some resources that might work in just about any Social Studies Classroom. First, to ensure you do not miss a valuable post or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centur

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Meet Six Educators We All Can Learn From

Digital Promise

'This blog post was originally published by EdSurge. Guest co-author Mary Jo Madda is an Associate Editor at EdSurge. When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students.

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PBL & Flipped Learning at Home using Rainbow Looms

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'My daughters are 8 and 6 years old and they have gotten into the Rainbow Loom craze. In the melee of doing laundry and catching up on stuff during our November break, I realized that flipped, project based learning was going on in my own home. My girls are intrinsically motivated to create their bracelets and often refer to YouTube videos for how to create them.

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Can We Do That? (ROI/ Risk and Sphero)

My Paperless Classroom

'Working with middle schools kids in an afterschool programming club, I am always looking for an engaging challenge. When I mentioned the idea to my robot club they said "Oh that will be easy." Sphero Robots to dance. He mentioned Ok Go''s new video "I won''t let you down." Later, I mentioned to a friend that I wanted the kids to teach our robots to dance.

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Flipped-Learning Toolkit: Overcoming Common Hurdles

Edutopia

Video & Transcript Video Transcript: The Flipped Class: Overcoming Common Hurdles. Jon Bergmann: Here are some tips to overcome some of the hurdles and blunders that we’ve seen commonly happen as teachers flip their classrooms. Aaron Sams: Make sure your students can access the content. We all know that not all students have access to the Internet at their home, so you may have to come up with some other solutions.

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Online Learning Research

The Thinking Stick

'Photo Credit: MaceyBuchanan via Compfight cc. Seeing that I’m fully invested in online professional development for educators through both COETAIL and Eduro Learning , I’m always on the look out for research on how to make online learning better. What is it that sets good online learning apart from the OK online learning systems? How can we use that research to start blending our classrooms more and more to prepare students for the universities that away them?

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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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Connecting with Authors via Social Media

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'While many will vilify social media and focus only on the posts where folks are acting inappropriately or unprofessionally, social media is very powerful tool for connecting regular ol'' folks like you and me with experts in a field. I use Facebook to share photos of my girls with family who live elsewhere and to keep up to date on what some of my favorite authors are up to.

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Interactive whiteboards: A Comparison + Some Alternatives

The Innovative Educator

'Guest Post By Matt Shufro Editor's Note: Too many schools are not smart when it comes to interactive whiteboards and other projection devices. This is a smart and insightful look into what projection device might make the most sense classrooms. Over the last ten years, smart boards have become mainstays in K-12 classrooms. Many educators believe this interactive whiteboard technology enhances classroom learning with increased student engagement and focus.

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Exploring Yosemite, the New Mac OS

My Paperless Classroom

'This episode of the TechEducator podcast we dive deep into Yosemite, and Jeff Bradbury and Jeff Herb compete for the title of Mac-Daddy. Who has the best tips and tricks? It doesn''t matter because you will win with all the new things you learn about how this OS powers up your productivity.

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Take a Chance with This HTML: Random Messages & Links

Learning in Hand

'I’ve been experimenting with coding web pages that display random text or redirect you to a random webpage. In reality, the text and websites aren’t entirely random. The HTML randomly selects from a list of text messages or a list of URLs. In this post I hope to give you (or your savvy students) some starting points and ideas for making your own HTML that changes each time it’s loaded, clicked, or scanned as a QR code.

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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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Flipped Learning Podcast: Tools for Assessment

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'I had a great conversation with Troy Cockrum and Joan Brown about tech tools for assessment on the Flipped Learning Network''s Podcast. I look at edtech as a vehicle for learning and a way to leverage the workload for teachers.

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Going #GAFE (Google Apps for Ed)? Here's a Great Resource

The Innovative Educator

'More and more schools are flying solo as they move toward becoming a Google Apps for Education school. If you don't know, Google Apps for Education (GAFE) is a suite of free web applications and cloud-based storage that can be accessed from any modern web browser and is tailored for use in K-12 schools. The most popular apps are Google docs, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings.

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Integrating technology into learning

Learning with 'e's

'Using technology in the classroom and integrating technology for learning are two different things. The first is something that any teacher can do without much thinking, but to truly integrate technology into education takes a great deal of imagination, thinking and planning. Embedding technology so that it becomes transparent is clearly an aim to which all educators should aspire.

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Please Vote for St. Marys Intermediate School for @CompassLearning Video Contest

The Mobile Native

'St. Marys Intermediate School has some EXCITING news to share. We have been selected as a finalist in the Compass Learning Classroom Refresh Video Contest. Our video was chosen from over 120 videos from all over the United States. We have a chance to win up to $55,000 worth of new technology for our school, but we need your help! Go to www.classroomrefreshcontest.com to sign up.

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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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Birds of a Feather Learn Together: 3 Steps to Becoming an Organized Tweeter

MSEDTechie

'I’ll be the first to admit it: when I first started using Twitter 3 years ago, I used it purely as a social outlet. I “connected” with my favorite celebrities, chatted with a few of my friends and poked fun at the funny trending hashtags. But after spending quite a bit of time using Twitter personally, I soon discovered the value in using it to build a professional learning network.

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The Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews 5 Reasons to Allow Students to Use Cell Phones in.

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Trading places

Learning with 'e's

'One of the most radical shifts of pedagogy in recent years has been where learners take control of their own learning leading them to create their own content. Previously, the generation of new knowledge was the preserve of the expert, the academic, the teacher. In the last decade, user generated content has quickly become the most common content on the web, and is a digital age hallmark of student centred learning.

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NMC Horizon Report "Deep Dive" on the Future of Libraries - November 12th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join the NMC and the Learning Revolution for the NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries. In this half-day event, library professionals, educators, and thought leaders will explore four major themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition (which reached an amazing one million downloads eight days after having been released): Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities Emphasis on Mobile Content Management and Technical Infrastructure Rethinking the Roles and Relationshi

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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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StudyMode

Technology Tidbits

'StudyMode is an excellent new site for students looking for a wide variety of study materials. A user can search through course notes, research papers, essays, and other student created content. Also, this is a great place to find notes on famous works of literature and AP notes for exams. I highly recommend checking out StudyMode by clicking here !!!

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Our Vermont students are Making a BIG Difference with their 3D printer

Learning With Lucie

'Last week I was so honored to be invited to visit the STEM Academy at Essex High School to see one of the project inspired from the CREATE MAKE LEARN Summer Institute in full swing. As an ambassador for Creativity and Innovation in our school, I just had to write this piece for the eNable newsletter and post for the Create Make Learn blog. Create Make Learn Summer Institute was the third large scale professional development project I designed with the goal of inspiring creativity and innovation

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Here comes the SAMR

Learning with 'e's

'In previous posts I articulated some thoughts on how technology can (and should) be integrated into education. In an initial post I argued that technology use is not the same as technology integration. Technology integration results in digital tools being embedded into learning, so that for example maker cultures emerge, or the classroom activities are flipped , supporting more effective pedagogies and improving student learning outcomes.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - GlobalEdCon News - Awaken Young Inventors - Library Horizon Report "Deep Dive"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'The Learning Revolution Weekly Update November 5th, 2014 The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. The great majority of these events are free to attend.

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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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Speaking Times Table HD

Technology Tidbits

'Speaking Times Table HD is an excellent iOS app for kids wanting to learn their times tables. This is a fun app that uses a Monkey theme to learn their tables in a safe environment w/ fun filled graphics and sounds. Best of all, Speaking Times tracks student''s scoring and shows which problems they get wrong and what the correct answer is to help w/ learning.

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Google Apps, Extensions, and Apps, O My- Part 2

MSEDTechie

'Check these out Citelighter PicMonkey TechSmith Snagit EasyBib Tools Movenote for Education Flubaroo - Google Sheets add-on'

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Digital reflections

Learning with 'e's

'My last post was about integrating technologies into education. This post examines some of the categories of technology and the places they might occupy when they are integrated into the learning process. It''s important for teachers to consider that integrated technology can provide a doorway to deeper learning, characterised for example in critical analysis and personal reflection.

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Using Technology to Support At-Risk Youth

Educator Innovator

The nation’s 23.8 million non-dominant students comprise nearly half of the school population, and many of them are underserved by their school systems, particularly when it comes to technology use. Walk into one of the under-resourced schools in which many of these young people spend their days and you’re liable to notice that although SMART Boards may have replaced blackboards and some computers may be visible around the room, in many cases there are few differences between today and the

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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.