EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2015

By Wylie Wong School districts that embraced the devices first share how they prepped their networks and successfully rolled out these affordable classroom tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 10, 2015

A New Every Classroom Matters Episode. In this episode, Minecraft EDU creator Joel Levin talks with Vicki about Minecraft in schools. Want your school to use Minecraft? This is THE episode to share ! Get those kids excited about learning ! You can use Minecraft! Important Takeaways for Listeners. Minecraft makes great student-centered student-led projects.

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Doug Levin

JULY 5, 2015

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 6, 2015

Mike Daugherty is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio, an occasional contributor to AATT (see his last post, 5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing), and the author of Modern EdTech Leadership , a discussion on how today’s administrators handle the blending of tech and ed. I asked him if he could distill this profile into bite-size chunks, consumable over coffee or between classes.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2015

By D. Frank Smith Classroom in a Box empowers educators to jump-start digital learning in their schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 9, 2015

A Great Way to Fund Your Makerspace or Student Projects Students can change the future. You can be part of it. Today, Staples pledged $10 million to Think It Up. Think It Up is a nonprofit supported by the Entertainment Industry, Donorschoose.org, and Staples. We can help our students create, invent, and share their projects — AND RECEIVE FUNDING!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

A few folks know that I was one of the three finalists to be the next Director of the Iowa Department of Education. It was an interesting process (e.g., just two 30-minute interviews is apparently all that it takes) but I did feel that I was able to present my best self. I discussed how we won’t see desired changes in student learning outcomes until we change what students experience in their schools on a day-to-day basis.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 5, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Are your students texting in class? Of course they are. A better question is, are you allowing your students to send text messages? If not, why? The picture above is what happens in most classes. Students hide their mobile devices and surreptitiously send text messages to their friends. In many cases they may be […] The post 5 Reasons to Allow Texting in Class appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 8, 2015

A new Every Classroom Matters Episode. In this episode, Dr. Brad Johnson joins Vicki to talk about improving teacher talents, proven ways to engage students and student leadership. Brad says if we follow this approach we can help teachers be six times more engaged in teaching and have a three times better quality of life. Important Takeaways. Brad shares what you have to have from teachers before you can get students engaged.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2015

The other day I had a great conversation with Nick Alm, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota studying Entrepreneurial Management and Social Justice. For the past few months he has been working on a tech start-up called InvolvEdu. As a former high school principal I was really intrigued by the concept. InvolvEdu is free web and mobile app for high school and university students that allows them to get credit for what they do outside of class.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 8, 2015

Bob Greenberg has been videoing some amazing thinkers for his Brainwaves YouTube channel. People like Mitch Resnick , Alan Kay , Jerome Bruner , Nicholas Negroponte , Noam Chomsky , and Eric Mazur. I’m not exactly sure why Bob asked me too but I got to spend a few minutes with him at the recent ISTE conference in Philadelphia and of course was absolutely delighted for the opportunity… The video is titled Transforming Schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2015

Web 2.0 is the most exciting thing to happen to education since the schoolhouse. It is a limitless classroom, allowing students access to anything they can define. Includes what’s a digital citizen, how to create a blog, a classroom internet start page, a classroom wiki, how to join social networks and post pictures on Flikr, where to go for podcasting and online docs, and more.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 9, 2015

By EdTech Staff When applying for E-Rate, schools and districts should plan ahead.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 8, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Twitter is an absolute monster. It’s scarier than Frankenstein, Dracula, or any other horror film character–according to many parents, that is. What? You don’t think Twitter is scary? Okay, maybe it isn’t frightening to you, but if you’ve tried to get your students to use Twitter, you know what I mean. Anytime I say I […] The post Can Teachers Take the Monster Out of Twitter?

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2015

Imagine that your bosses come up to you one day and say something like this… Hey, I know that we’re a year and a half late on this but we’re trying to take care of you. It looks like the company’s profits are solid but we’re just not sure right now. At this point all we can offer is a 1.25% raise for you and your co-workers. I know that’s below inflation and you’re going to have cut back at home but that’s all we’re comfortable with given our uncertainty about the financial projections.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2015

New to Ask a Tech Teacher? Here’s what you do: Subscribe to the site. We publish 5-6 articles a week on a wide variety of tech-in-ed topics. Don’t miss out on the latest about: Grade-level specific (K-12) tools and information. Subject-specific tools and information. The 21st Century classroom. Tech tools for the classroom. Reviews of tech ed books, products, websites, apps.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2015

By Buzz Garwood Acer Iconia Tab 10 is a smart, affordable investment for modern K–12 classrooms.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 6, 2015

Brilliant or Insane A truly amazing thing happened recently. In an effort to learn more from what I call Education Hackers, I launched a new Voxer group, called #HackLearning. Thousands of teachers, parents and thought leaders from more than 60 countries were using the Hack Learning mobile app. Others were discussing the idea of hacking education on the #HackLearning Twitter feed. […] The post How Education Hackers Are Transforming Teaching and Learning appeared first on Brilliant or Insan

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JULY 8, 2015

As we think about our teachers becoming highly skilled at using technology in the classroom, we could certainly generate a very long list of skills, approaches, tools, apps, strategies, and other competences we’d like them to get good at. But there are certain behaviors/professional learning that MLTI would like to promote and encourage because they have been linked to fostering a quality, learning-focused 1to1 technology initiative (of course many of those items from the first list would

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 4, 2015

It’s America’s birthday and I’m celebrating. What I write today will be… anything I want–gibberish, a short story, guest articles on crazy topics. I have no idea. My son’s in Kuwait protecting America’s distant shores. My daughter’s in San Diego preparing her LPD for some future battle. I’m here, thanking both of them and every other service member who accepted the calling to protect our nation’s freedoms.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2015

By Lisa Phifer Follow these five tips to ease Wi-Fi onboarding in K–12 schools.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 9, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Over the last few years, Thomas Goetz and his research team in Konstanz, Germany identified five different types of boredom and reached the conclusion that students tend to experience just one type over the course of their lifetimes. Interestingly enough, Goetz suggested that boredom was by far the most intense and most common emotion experienced by […] The post 5 Ways to Be Bored This Summer and Why You Can’t Ignore Them appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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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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Battelle for Kids

JULY 7, 2015

July 8, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 5. Driving Question: When and where do new teachers learn about the bully's? "Learning is Impaired when Children are Scared.". When three-year-old munchkins, barely out of training pants are already showing their muscle through inappropriate and aggressive behavior- it's time to pay attention. In 2005, Yale professor Walter Gilliam, shocked anyone listening that 3 year-olds were being expelled at 3 times the rate of children in kindergarten through grade t

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JULY 10, 2015

It is interesting to collaborate with other districts and education initiatives, and hear frustrations about how much they have invested in professional development – how many sessions they have provided – and how it has resulted in very little change in practice. Perhaps it is because our thinking about professional development has been incomplete.

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TeacherCast

JULY 6, 2015

While many teachers embraced the idea of brin g ing technology in to the classroom, several other teachers frowned upon the thought of even more technology to disrupt classroom code. Are using new and inventive ways that bad for this new generation? After all they know more about computers, mobiles, and game applications than they can ever know about libraries, slide projects , and inks.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 9, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Over the last few years, Thomas Goetz and his research team in Konstanz, Germany identified five different types of boredom and reached the conclusion that students tend to experience just one type over the course of their lifetimes. Interestingly enough, Goetz suggested that boredom was by far the most intense and most common emotion experienced by […] The post Five Ways to Be Bored This Summer and Why You Can’t Ignore Them appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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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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Battelle for Kids

JULY 6, 2015

July 7, 2015. Educators, business leaders, and government officials have lost a true friend and partner in our quest to assure that all of America's children are taught by great teachers. Dr. Ronald Thorpe, President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, lost his battle with cancer on July 1, 2015, but his work lives on.

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JULY 6, 2015

Mike Daugherty, a district Ed Tech Director in Ohio, reflects on the characteristics of a successful ed tech department: Handling the technology needs of a public school system can be a daunting task at times. Online testing, BYOD, 1:1 computing, and assistive technology are only a handful of the variety of technical challenges that flow through the department every day.

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TeacherCast

JULY 7, 2015

For the last 35 years I have been a MAJOR fan of Lego. My house is filled with millions of plastic bricks, video games, and other LEGO products. Last year, I had the privilege of sitting down with Lego Education to learn how Lego is creating awesome products for STEM Education. This year, I asked them to showcase not only their great STEM products, but show off some of their Duple products for those of us with younger learners.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 8, 2015

Brilliant or Insane 5 Techy Pastimes that Will Expand Students’ Scientific Knowledge by Meghan Belnap For teachers seeking a hobby or pastime with a purpose for their students, something that broadens a person’s scientific knowledge can be especially rewarding. For students who don’t gravitate to sports or video gaming, there are a number of techy pastimes available that educate as […] The post 5 Techy Pastimes that Will Expand Students’ Scientific Knowledge appeared first on Brillia

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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.

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