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50+ Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom [Video]

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher YouTube Channel Looking for new ideas for using technology in the classroom? Trying to figure out what’s next? Well, recently I had to record a video just in case the weather wasn’t so great in Pittsburg, Kansas for my virtual keynote. I thought that some of you might be looking for a little summer PD and would take the 45 minutes or so to learn something new.

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A Real and Present Student Data Privacy Threat

Doug Levin

A chilling, must-read study report just released (May 2015) by the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA), “ Education Suspended: The Use of High School Disciplinary Records in College Admissions ” should serve as a clarion call to advocates and policymakers to broaden their focus on what exactly is at issue with respect to student data privacy and how we must move forward as a sector to address it.

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Startup Shortcuts: Create Free Videos About Your Product

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

When developing your ed-tech startup, there are times you'll need to create a video, either for pitching to a business plan competition or as a demo for your product. Here's how to make a basic video with software you probably already have. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Learning: It’s All About the Connections

User Generated Education

I’ve written about connections before in It’s All About Connection. Today, though, I was thinking about all of the connections important for learning. Connection has a lot of meanings and connotations: Here are some of the connections I thought of that can/should be part of both formal and informal education: Connecting of Neural Networks in the Brain – New brain connections form in clusters during learning.

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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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ECM 148: What Every Teacher Can Learn from a Title I School

The CoolCatTeacher

Secrets from a Top Title I School in Indiana with Principal Jayson Snyder How does an improving Title I school do it? What are the improvement secrets? Jayson Snyder, principal of Meadows Edge Elementary in Indiana, shares the secrets: formative assessment, intentional intervention, and how data-driven instruction should look. They work hard to train teachers and have a “yet” mindset.

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What Would Your School Do with $15K in New Technology?

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith A K-8 school in Illinois is the first big winner in a contest to highlight technology collaboration.

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Time to Raise Money for an Ed-Tech Startup

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

I once questioned the idea of outside investment for social enterprises, fearing the investment would poison the impact. Two years later, my views on investment have matured. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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ECM 147: App Smashing Definition and Examples

The CoolCatTeacher

Pushing the Limits of Education Technology- Greg Kulowiec App smashing is when you use two or more apps on a device to do something which one could not do alone. App Smashing inventor, Greg Kulowiec shares many examples on today’s show. Listen on iTunes. Listen online. If you have iPads or other devices in your classroom and you limit students to only one app, you and your students may be missing out.

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4 Tips to Get the Most from ISTE 2015

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Are you ISTE-bound? There's a lot to do between now and June 28. Here are a few tips to keep your ISTE experience on track.

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5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ecolleague Mike Daugherty has over seventeen years experience in educational technology serving a variety of roles. He was recently awarded the OETC (Ohio Educational Technology Conference) Technology Innovator of the Year award and received honorable mention in the national DILA awards. In his current position, he is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio.

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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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7 New Teacher Mistakes and What You Can Learn from Them

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. Running into a former student recently reminded me of the best new teacher mistakes I made. You read right; I said, best mistakes. She trotted up to me as I ate lunch at a picnic table just outside the doors of a school district I work in. Wrapping her hands around me from behind and covering my […]. The post 7 New Teacher Mistakes and What You Can Learn from Them appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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The core of education needs to take into account the people that are in it

Dangerously Irrelevant

Sir Ken Robinson said: [The standards movement is] well intentioned to raise standards, but the mistake it makes is that it fails to recognize that education is not a mechanical impersonal process that can improved by tweaking standards and regularly testing. It’s a human process. It’s real people going through the system and whether the system takes into account who they are, what engages them, isn’t incidental.

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How E-Rate 2.0 Helps Schools Afford Broadband and Wi-Fi

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff What K–12 schools and districts need to know about changes to the E-Rate program.

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4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page

Ask a Tech Teacher

The internet is unavoidable in education. Students go there to research, access homework, check grades, and a whole lot more. As a teacher, you do your best to make it a friendly, intuitive, and safe place to visit, but it’s challenging. Students arrive there by iPads, smartphones, links from classroom teachers, suggestions from friends–the routes are endless.

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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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Passionately Preparing For College, Career AND Life…Outdoors

Battelle for Kids

June 4, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 7, Number 3. Driving Question: How does a small public high school we extend learning beyond school walls and impact its students' futures with outdoor learning? As we wrap up the end of our year co­directing our project –based-small learning community, the Weidner School of Inquiry at Plymouth High School, our staff is ideating on how we can continue to engage all learners in authentic experiences and truly transform the traditional high school experience to reach

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52 Ways to Make a Colleague’s Day: The Teach Kindness Project

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. We are proud to share Brilliant or Insane senior writer Angela Stockman’s new book, The Teach Kindness Project, with you today. The Teach Kindness Project: 52 Ways to Make a Colleague’s Day is available now for free. Stockman has thrilled hundreds of thousands of B or I readers with her inspirational articles, and many have […].

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Get Ready for E-Rate 2.0 with Highlights from the Recent Changes

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff Changes to E-Rate means greater Wi-Fi and broadband access for K–12 schools and districts.

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25 Websites on Civics

Ask a Tech Teacher

These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations. Very effective: Argument Wars. Branches of Power. Civics Game Room. Civics games. Congress. Congress for Kids. Court Quest. C-Span –Congress at work in video. Elections—the Game. Electoral College—humourous video. Executive Command. How Laws are Made. Law Craft. Legislative and Executive Branch Quiz.

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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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9 brand new education podcasts for summer learning

Ditch That Textbook

Finding that special something to capture the attention of your learners can be the difference between a ho-hum, easily forgettable day and an energetic learning experience. (That goes for children, adolescents AND adults!) I’ve found lots of great educators who are wizards at engaging learners at schools and conferences I’ve visited as well as online [.].

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21 Qualities for Your Leadership Scorecard?

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. Good leaders want to improve. Great leaders have a Leadership Scorecard, and they check off the boxes on it every day. Frank Sonnenburg, small business expert and author of Follow Your Conscience, lists 21 qualities that great leaders, or people aspiring to be outstanding leaders, should have While, at first glance, these qualities may seem obvious, many […].

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A Brief Critique of Mastery/Competency Learning

The Journal

The mastery/competency learning movement is picking up massive amounts of momentum in K-12, but its reliance on an old method of instruction will, in the end, not result in creating students who can solve “uncharted problems” and learn how to learn.

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Subscribers: Your June Special is Available–Summer Online Keyboarding

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: Summer Keyboarding Online. Description. Summer keyboarding–Online – -a self-managed online keyboarding class you complete in your own time, at your own pace. Join us for three weeks, fifteen classes, one hour a day–or spread it out as it works for your summer plans.

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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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ECM 148: What Every Teacher Can Learn from a Title I School

The CoolCatTeacher

Secrets from a Top Title I School in Indiana with Principal Jayson Snyder How does an improving Title I school do it? What are the improvement secrets? Jayson Snyder, principal of Meadows Edge Elementary in Indiana, shares the secrets: formative assessment, intentional intervention, and how data-driven instruction should look. They work hard to train teachers and have a “yet” mindset.

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No More Excuses 2: Four Ways to Avoid the Trap of “Developmentally Appropriate”

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. In my last “No More Excuses” post, I pointed out that, contrary to the common wisdom, ignorance is not, in fact, bliss. Educators need to be professional learners and own their responsibility for growing and improving. There’s another, more subtle, and possibly more dangerous, attitude that exists in schools. It is the belief that if […].

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Product Review: Cisco DX80 Brings Video to the Desktop

EdTech Magazine

By John Breeden II This reasonably priced device aims to replace traditional phones.

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7 Best Teaching Apps for Kids with Autism

TeacherCast

Different applications will enable your child to develop or improve mathematical, functional, social, communication, linguistics and other useful skills. Check out these great apps today!

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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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Innocents Abroad: Enabling Learning Outside the School Walls

Battelle for Kids

June 1, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 7, Number 1. Driving Question: What are benefits for young students' learning outside school walls? In grade school, the only time we went off the city block that was our school was to play a basketball game across town and to take the eighth grade overnight bus trip to Washington, D.C. A long ride indeed! In high school, there were lots of sports' trips.

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3 Ways to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck’s best-selling book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, started a revolution in most of the schools that I work in this year, and for good reason: her findings are inspiring teachers and students and parents alike to rethink what it means to be a successful learner and what dispositions we […] The post 3 Ways to Cultivate a Growth Mindset appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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This Is New York, Calling Wyoming

Education Elements

Students in Wendy Daniels 4th grade blended classroom in Evanston, WY join a virtual pen pal session with 5th grade blended students in Middletown, NY. Guest Blog Post by Wendy Daniels, 4th Grade Teacher at North Evanston Elementary School in Evanston, Wyoming. In February Lori Lawrenc e , a 5th grade teacher in Middletown, New York, reached out with a request.

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50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom | A Podcast featuring @AliceKeeler

TeacherCast

Tweet. The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. Many great ways to participate in the TechEducator Podcast. TechEducatorPodcast.com. Follow us Live on Video: [link]. Leave a Voice Mail: [link]. Email: feedback@T eachercast.net.

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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.