Sat.Aug 19, 2017 - Fri.Aug 25, 2017

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6 Shifts to Maximize Productivity and Happiness

Catlin Tucker

This year I’ve decided to pursue my doctorate at Pepperdine University. It is a blended program with a mix of face-to-face and online learning, which is obviously perfect for this blended learning enthusiast! My program will allow me to continue teaching and coaching, but it will present some very real challenges for me personally when it comes to balancing my various roles and responsibilities–mother, teacher, trainer, coach, speaker, and author.

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Buses Wheel In Technology to Underserved Communities

EdTech Magazine

By Juliet Van Wagenen How do you bypass dangerous areas of a city, spotty internet and crumbling buildings to deliver education? By bus of course.

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The Impact of an Educator

A Principal's Reflections

I fondly remember when I was first asked to consider what my future career path might be. Mrs. Williams, my kindergarten teacher, asked the class to draw a picture that articulated what we wanted to be when we grew up. I immediately knew exactly what I was going to draw. That was the easy part. The difficult task, for me at least, was to then utilize what limited artistic abilities I had to create an illustration that depicted my future career.

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4 Questions about the flipped classroom teachers must answer

Neo LMS

The flipped classroom is one of our favorite topics on this blog, because it is a simple concept with big results. “Flipped”, here does not mean crazy or way-out (although some would argue it is), it literally means inverting the traditional classroom model. Where once class-time was spent with the teacher at the front giving instruction, the flipped classroom has students receiving instruction at home via digital channels.

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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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10 digital bell-ringer activities to kickstart class (Part 1)

Ditch That Textbook

One of the hooks from the book Teach Like a PIRATE that’s most memorable to me is the Board Message Hook. In a book about engaging students, the idea of meeting students with something that’s eye-catching and thought-provoking — a statement or a picture or whatever — really resonated with me. Put a photo of something seemingly random on the [.].

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Twitter Helps Teachers Develop Professional Learning Communities

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez We’ve got you covered for #back2school by taking a look at the conversation on #edtechchat.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Next week, my tenth graders will have to invent a new way to access the Internet. It doesn’t have to work , mind you, but it does have to include plausible technology. We’ve been doing this project eight years now. The first time I saw the “tile” product that we now use to locate keys and phones, it was my student’s invention.

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How to assign challenges instead of math homework

Ditch That Textbook

At the same time, being a math teacher puts me in a tough place with the parents and guardians of my students. After all, they’re used to seeing homework sent home with their kids. They grew up with textbook problems when they were kids. Some are questioning how they can help prepare their children at [.].

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3 Key Takeaways from the Office of Ed Tech’s Infrastructure Guide

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez From networks and devices to professional development, the Education Department offers best practices for using ed tech.

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Intentional Creativity

User Generated Education

Torrence, whose focus was on creativity, developed the Torrence Incubation Model of Creative Thinking (TIM) model. As emphasized in this video, embedding creativity into the curriculum can and should be a strong component of content area teaching and learning. In other words, educators don’t need to plan to teach creativity as another part of curriculum.

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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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10 Lesser Known Ways To Cultivate Resilience in Educators And Students

EdNews Daily

Guest article by Dr. Jared Scherz. Dr. Scherz is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and the founder of TeacherCoach, LLC. For more information about his program, please contact him at coach@teachercoach.com or visit his site at [link]. You can also contact Robyn to learn more about TeacherCoach and how they can serve you or your school district this year.

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1-to-1 Computers Demand 1-to-1 Curriculum: Good Luck Finding Any

The Journal

Where is the curriculum — the daily lessons — that specifically exploit 1-to-1? K-12 simply must move beyond using computing devices as nice-to-have, supplements to paper-and-pencil curriculum. In this week’s blog post we explore the fundamental challenge of making 1-to-1 an effective resource.

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Back-to-School Quiz: Which Tech Came First?

EdTech Magazine

By Matt Fellows Get ready for the new school year with this fun, interactive quiz!

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Transmit, regurgitate. Transmit, regurgitate. Transmit, regurgitate…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The teacher transmits information to the student. The textbook transmits information to the student. The online tutorial or learning software or YouTube video transmits information to the student. . The student’s role is to be the recipient of what is transmitted. The student’s role is to regurgitate what was transmitted with enough fidelity that the teacher or software system can check off that the student ‘knows’ it.

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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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A Brief History of the Ed-Tech Market and Why Startups Should Pay Attention

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

There's still a lot of room to innovate in the ed-tech market. The post A Brief History of the Ed-Tech Market and Why Startups Should Pay Attention appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Personalized Learning Journey: Oh The Places You'll Go, And How The Friends You Meet Can Help You

Education Elements

In the book Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss describes the excitement and trepidation we all feel before we embark on a new adventure. There are going to be tales of success, failure, and everything in between, but what makes this journey so special is it truly becomes your own.

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80 Percent of Ed Tech Leaders Use Cloud to Boost Efficiency

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez K–12 cloud usage runs the gamut from storage to productivity suites.

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5 steps for implementing a 1:1 program

Neo LMS

The concept of 1:1 has been around for quite a while, but didn’t quite catch on until recently, the major driver behind this being the increasing availability of devices and general change in education. 1:1 education means that each and every student gets a device (usually a laptop) with preloaded programs and textbooks. The device is usually offered by the school, but with the spread of BYOD programs, this no longer stands true all the time.

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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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How to Use Google Sheets in the K-12 Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Nothing turns data into information like a spreadsheet. We as teachers understand that, which is why spreadsheets are a fundamental tool to critically analyze any data that includes numbers. There are many options (Numbers, Excel, and Open Office to name just a few), but arguably the most popular is Google Sheets. If you’re using Google Classroom or G Suite, you already have it.

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A Textbook Dilemma: Digital or Paper?

The Hechinger Report

My friend Joanne was packing her youngest child off to college this month and wrestling with a modern dilemma: Is it better to buy textbooks in digital form or old-fashioned print? One of her son’s professors was recommending an online text for a business course: lighter, always accessible and seriously cheaper ($88 vs. $176 for a 164-page book). But Joanne’s instinct was that her son would “learn better” from a printed volume, free of online distractions, and with pages he could dog-ear, peruse

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Videoconferencing and Social Media Boost Reading Engagement

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Collaboration tools allow students to interact with their favorite authors.

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4 important questions teachers in the flipped classroom must answer

Neo LMS

The flipped classroom is one of our favorite topics on this blog, because it is a simple concept with big results. “Flipped”, here does not mean crazy or way-out (although some would argue it is), it literally means inverting the traditional classroom model; where once class-time was spent with the teacher at the front giving instruction, the flipped classroom has students receiving instruction at home via digital channels.

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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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It’s Time to go Back to School. Lots of Ideas!

Ask a Tech Teacher

I’ve written a lot of Back-to-School articles over the last few years. They cover so many topics–see if you find what you’re looking for here: 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year. 4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page. 5 Tech Ed Tools to Use this Fall. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways Teache rs Can Stay on Top of Technology. 5 Ways to Involve Parent

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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Laptops Lead Back-To-School Tech Purchases

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Schools can prepare for an influx of new devices.

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Framework Facelift

Battelle for Kids

With the upsurge in new methods of news sharing- real, fake, and personal- on social media streams, P21 is often asked why the Framework for 21st Century Learning does not address these “new” issues.

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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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Choosing Your Blended Learning Model

Education Elements

Educators and researchers alike love to obsess over what model of blended learning a school should implement. A favorite question I get asked is: “OK, now that you’ve told us about all the blended-learning models, be honest, what’s the best one?”.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

Cloudflare relies on the randomness of lava lamps to encrypt communications on the internet. This strikes me as both awesome and terrifying - and a stark reminder of the limits of computing.

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Review: Acronis Backup to Cloud Quickly Restores Data, Minimizes Downtime

EdTech Magazine

By John Breeden II Schools can rest easy knowing that their information is being automatically saved to the cloud with the Acronis toolset.

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List of some great apps for Education for all different projects

Educational Technology Guy

Great Apps for Education · Screen casting: o [link] o [link] · Markup and Edit Photos: o Microsoft Remix 3D [link] o [link] o PicMonkey [link] o [link] · Note taking: o Google Docs o Google Keep o OneNote [link] o Evernote [link] (desktop app is very powerful) · Creative App Bundle (WeVideo, Soundtrap, Explain Everything): o [link] - video editing, sound editing, online whiteboard with recording · Video Editing: o Wevideo [link] o Animoto [link] o [link] o [link] o [link] · QR Code Reader: o [li

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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.