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5 Ways Digital Tools Are Transforming the Education Space

EdTech Magazine

By Eric Sheninger K–12 thought leader Eric Sheninger offers guidance on how to manage an arsenal of digital tools in the classroom.

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Three Lessons Ed-Tech Startups Can Learn From Innovator Sal Khan

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

I recently watched an interview with Sal Khan, founder of the extremely successful ed-tech non-profit Khan Academy, and he touched upon three ideas that should resonate with ed-tech startups. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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8 Types of Blended Learning According to Research

The CoolCatTeacher

Design Your Classroom for Maximum Learning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blended learning happens when you mix the face to face classroom with online learning. While flipped classroom is a form of blended learning, it is not the only one. Today, researcher Thomas Arnett breaks down the eight types of blended learning and explains how they are being used to improve student outcomes.

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The NEW Google Forms: 9 classroom uses

Ditch That Textbook

For years, educators have been using Google Forms to gather data, assess learning and create fun techy learning experiences. Recently, Google Forms got a facelift, and even more recently, it added some new features. These features make some new things possible in the classroom, and they make some things easier — and prettier — than before. [.].

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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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What Obama's $4B Computer Science Initiative Means for K–12 Schools

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith President Barack Obama's new Computer Science for All initiative will give states federal funding to widen access to K–12 computer science lessons.

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What My Parents Taught Me About Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

One of the best parts about blogging for me is that my parents read each and every post. My father takes a look at the content only, while my mom is my chief proofreader. During my early years of blogging I always posted each post to my personal Facebook page and emailed my parents a live link. It was at this time my mom got sick of all of the spelling and grammatical errors so she emphatically stated that I must send her each post to proof before posting.

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20+ resources for engaging game-based learning

Ditch That Textbook

Our society thrives on games. They’re everywhere, from our social lives to our work lives to our school lives. People kill time on the bus, in a doctor’s waiting room and even in the bathroom (eww … but true!) playing games on their smartphones and tablets. The sports world is a force to be reckoned [.].

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A Brief History of the Evolution of Classroom Technology [#Infographic]

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff An infographic dives into the technologies, from 1860 to the modern day, that have helped shape the classroom experience.

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3 Fresh Art and Music Apps for the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Fifty years ago, Albert Einstein warned ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ The ability to solve problems by thinking creatively is more important than knowing how they were solved in the past. Now, in today’s connected classroom, creativity has become the newest transformative tool, the buzzword that indicates a curriculum is on the cutting edge, that teachers are delivering their best to students and differentiating for varied needs.

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Transforming the classroom with augmented learning

Neo LMS

Learning has evolved to a point where augmented reality (AR) is a possibility. It’s evolved to a point where the environment adapts to learners needs and as I like to say it the learning process is as interactive and as immersive as ever. What is augmented learning? Augmented learning, by principle, works by providing learners with a whole new dimension of content delivery.

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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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Smart Changes Proposed to ESSA Title IV Program Design

Doug Levin

Like many I was both puzzled and troubled by the Obama Administration’s request of $500 million for the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA) Title IV block grant program, less than a third of the authorized maximum. Given the great variety of needs the program is intended to address and the complex, layered structure for allocating program funds , even a fully funded program would be challenged to make a real difference in many communities across the country.

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Online Tool Lights the Way for Districts in FCC Bandwidth Race

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Education SuperHighway is giving school districts an open book for comparing their bandwidth spending against the nation’s schools.

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19 Valentine Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Dress up the heart. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. Valentine games and puzzles. Valentine Day games and stories. Valentine Day poem generator. Valentine drag-and-drop. Valentine match.

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Stand and Deliver: The Role of Presentations in Project Based Learning

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 4. Driving Question: How do PBL presentations build students' communication skills and college-and-career readiness? In traditional schools, teachers are the main academic voices. In schools that value project-based learning (PBL), students' voices are heard and honed throughout their academic careers and in all subjects. Written and oral communication get their full due even in science and math projects.

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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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Parental Control Quick Guide: Keeping Your Kids Safe Online

Securly

The web holds a wealth of information – including content that may be inappropriate or dangerous for young audiences. A request for personal details, cheap ticket offers to a sporting event, or suggestion to meet “in person” ? STOP! These are all red flags of online culture to watch out for. Kids are likely to run into online harassment, even from people they know , without proper cyber safety practices.

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TCEA 2016.A Wrap-Up

The Web20Classroom

This post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own. As I have for the past several years I had the pleasure of gathering with thousands of educators from across Texas and beyond at the annual TCEA conference in Austin. I enjoy spending the week there learning and sharing because of the high quality of sessions and folks that are there.

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8 Fresh Activities for Valentine’s Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re looking for project websites for Valentine’s Day, go to my post last Friday and you’ll find 20 Great Valentine Websites for your students. If you’re looking for something else, read on: Here’s Valentine history , according to Wikipedia. Who knew it all started with Geoffrey Chaucer? Three great Valentine love poems from new efriend, Chris Wood.

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Guiding Rubrics To Grow Communicators

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 6. Driving Question: How can grade-appropriate rubrics foster communication? When it comes time to assess student performances as communicators, teacher adopters of Project-Based-Learning in the MIndQuest21 PBL model, follow McTighe and Wiggen's advice to start at the end. Their backwards planning helps them create guiding rubrics.

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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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Keep the Focus on the Learning on Digital Learning Day

Voyager Sopris Learning

For those of us who have been around for a while, Digital Learning Day (or DLDay), happening February 17, has special significance. I fall into the “around for a while” category because I had both a TRS-80 and an Apple II. How cool is that? I also had long, blond hair, but let’s not dwell on the past. The special significance of DLDay for us is that so many of our dreams are coming true.

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Robots as Coaches?

Fidelis Education

University of Michigan and IBM launch a new project that will in essence replace an advisor’s role with technology: “ Called Project Sapphire , the multiyear partnership combines IBM’s resources with scientists and students at the University of Michigan’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. The team will capture approved human-to-human conversations between undergraduates and their advisers and will train the system on how to guide students and topics including course selection and career advice.”.

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Dear Otto: How do I Make Keyboarding Collaborative?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from a reader: I am student teaching in a high school in Louisiana.

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Classroom Debate: Using Soft Skills to Tackle Hard Content

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 5. Driving Question: How can debate support the goal of any 21st Century classroom? In 1997, a shy, fearful young student walked into my 10th grade English class with her head down and no eyes on her future. She had been removed from four previous schools due both to her own behavior and fluctuating circumstances at home. It did not take long for her to begin this same detrimental path at her new school and in my classroom.

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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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Should scale be the goal?

K12 Open Ed

I have written before about the connections between OER and open practice and why I think open practice should be the goal, not merely the adoption of OER. While I hope and believe that OER can pave the way for open practice, it is not at all obvious that the use of OER is a necessary condition. In fact, some of the most vibrant classroom exemplars of open practice in action that I’ve seen have not involved OER.

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Rethink Your PD: Fire the Consultant

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane. I used to refer to myself as a consultant (I probably had it on a business card once). So, am I suggesting firing me? In a way, Yes! When I first left the classroom in 2013, I was always looking for ongoing consulting work with schools. “You don’t need the one-and-done workshop,” I’d say. “You […]. The post Rethink Your PD: Fire the Consultant appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Put on Your Cowboy Boots, You’re Going on a Personalized Learning Field Trip

Education Elements

Put on your cowboy boots, it's about to get personalized in Nashville, TN. After an inspirational tour of personalized learning hotspots in Music City, your friends at Education Elements have put together the ultimate PL day-trip. We hope the guide below helps you to decide where to go to see the variety of strategies and approaches schools are taking on the journey toward personalized learning.

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Guiding Rubrics To Grow Communicators

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 6. Driving Question: How can grade-appropriate rubrics foster communication? When it comes time to assess student performances as communicators, teacher adopters of Project-Based-Learning in the MIndQuest21 PBL model, follow McTighe and Wiggen's advice to start at the end. Their backwards planning helps them create guiding rubrics.

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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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#Relate2016: Sign Up for the Latest!

Fidelis Education

Join Fidelis and EVP of Greenwood Hall, Josh Cage, for a 60-minute interactive webinar on how to start a coaching program. During the last learning and development session of the #Relate2016 series, we presented the top skills needed to be a great coach. During this presentation, we’ll be talking to Josh about what it takes to create an amazing coaching program.

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Slow or Sophisticated? Squandered or Sustainable?

Iterating Toward Openness

There’s an AP story about open textbooks making the rounds in a variety of outlets over the last few days (e.g., ABC News ). The story includes some quotes from David Anderson, executive director for higher education at the Association of American Publishers. It boggles my mind that someone whose industry faces an existential threat from open educational resources (OER) still doesn’t know what open means.

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10 Google Docs Hacks Every Teacher Should Know – from Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Google Docs is a popular word processing tool because it allows ready access to your documents and files from any internet connected device. It permits users to readily share documents and easily collaborate on materials. If you are already familiar with Google Docs, try out these 10 hacks to up your Google game!

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Friday 5 — 2.12.2016

Perry Hewitt

How does content make it to the front page of Reddit? The Datastories team analyzed 4 million data points to find out. This article gives a number of practical pointers, including the value of posting images, and timing your posts for 9:00 am PST. I’m a little obsessed with my new Amazon Echo, an internet-connected speaker that lets me access news briefing, play music from Spotify, and even order an Uber without a cumbersome tap on an app.

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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.