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Try SplashLearn for Summer Learning and Fall Success

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Personalize learning and make it fun for students. I recommend SplashLearn for parents this summer to strengthen the foundations of Mathematics (Pre-kindergarten to Grade 5) and Reading (Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2.) It is understandable for parents to want to ensure that their kids are ready to move ahead this fall.

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The Many Faces of Student Voice

A Principal's Reflections

There are many ways to both engage and empower students that lead to ownership of learning. Creating what I call a “free-range” experience that replicates real-world contexts and develops critical competencies while tapping into passions might be the holy grail, in my humble opinion. While there is a slew of strategies a teacher can use to accomplish this, a focus on high-agency elements is both powerful and realistic.

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4 Things any teacher training program should include from now on

Neo LMS

During a recent conversation with close friends, we began remembering teachers who significantly impacted our lives. On quite a nostalgic afternoon, I heard wonderful stories about generosity, inspiration, and total dedication to this profession. Most of us had graduated from high school more than twenty years ago, but we still had warm feelings for inspiring teachers who were (and, to a certain extent, still are) role models for us and our colleagues.

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ISTELive 21: The Classroom and AV Design Trends Emerging from Pandemic Learning

EdTech Magazine

Laptops and online collaboration dominated the learning space last year, but key audiovisual adoption trends are likely to carry over into the future, said Mike Peters, an educational strategy lead for CDW•G.

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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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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today’s episode focuses on the realities of hybrid teaching. Tennille Johnston is an award-winning science teacher in Texas who is speaking out about what really happened this school year. She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021.

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Subscriber Special: July

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. July. Sign up for our newsletter. Then get 10% off your next purchase! First Name. Last Name. Special Interest: Email Format. html. text. Marketing Permissions Structured Learning will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing.

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ISTELive 21: How to Create Memorable Online Professional Development for Educators

EdTech Magazine

Creating online professional development courses has made training more accessible to teachers. School leaders should consider keeping online PD even after the pandemic, to allow teachers to learn on their own schedule. We spoke with Manny Curiel, ed tech specialist at Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, about the logistical needs of professional development videos and how he makes them memorable.

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8 Great Ways Administrators Can Prepare for the Fall

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. An amazing fall starts now with the administrative preparation this summer. Dawn Stansbury discusses eight things administrators need to do this summer and we highlight differences in those items now after the pandemic. This show includes a transcript to use and discuss with beginning or veteran administrators as part of training and discussion.

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Two Tech Tips for Everyday Life

Ask a Tech Teacher

The last time my daughter visited, life became different than the norm. That inspired two easy tech solutions I had no idea existed and you’re going to love. Here they are: BTW, I cross posted this to my writer’s blog so my writerly friends could read about these also. If you subscribe to both, you’ll see it there too: Hey Siri! Where are You?

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Coaches Use Micro-credentials to Support 21st Century Tech Skills

Digital Promise

The Spanish translation of this blog post can be found below. The vision of Alberto Meléndez Torres High School is to develop the technological skills necessary for the 21st century, for students, teachers, and the community in general. This also includes achieving and transforming educational excellence, access, and equal opportunities by developing knowledge, educational experiences, and strengthening the knowledge of digital citizens.

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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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ISTELive 21: How Schools Can Confidently Create a Strategy for a Digital World

EdTech Magazine

While technology played a key role in education over the past 18 months, it’s not a panacea, Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport, warned a room of virtual attendees during a Saturday session at ISTELive, the online gathering of the International Society for Technology in Education. During his session, “Shaping your School Digital Strategy – Hints and Tips,” Kingsley outlined how to confidently create an effective digital strategy, including pointers for “bringing people along for the journey” rather

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5 Steps to Fact Checking – Digital Literacy in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As we teach students how to discern the truth, Amanda Brace has five steps for fact-checking that she teaches her students. Digital literacy is an essential topic for all of us and this show will help teachers (and parents) understand a simple way to help their students work through topics to get to the truth.

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How to Mix STEM Education and Creativity in the Classroom

Waterford

Lately, the three Rs of school have been eclipsed by a focus on STEM education , or Science , Technology , Engineering , and Math. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no room for creativity or the arts in the classroom. On the contrary, creativity is increasingly being recognized as a vital skill for the future.[2] Because of that, and the impact creativity has on learning, fostering creativity should be a natural function of schools.[5].

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Here’s a Preview of July

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in July: Useful Tech Tips. Useful shortkeys. Must-have apps for curious students. Free posters. The hardest tech problem revealed. Lessons learned from teaching. Lots of tech resources for your classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curric

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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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Getting Disconnected Students Access to Their Online Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

One Thursday evening in March 2020, we learned that, because of the pandemic, the state of Texas would begin shutting down schools on the following Monday. Four days later, the Ector County Independent School District began educating 34,000 children in a virtual environment. However, for many of our students back then, virtual learning was impossible; 39 percent of K–12 students had little or no internet access in their home.

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Books I read in June 2021

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2021… Colleges That Change Lives , Loren Pope & Hilary Masell Oswald [higher ed]. Win , Harlan Coben [thriller]. Footfall , Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [sci fi]. Space Winners , Gordon R. Dickson [sci fi]. The Severed City , Christopher Mitchell [fantasy]. Needs of the Empire , Christopher Mitchell [fantasy].

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Better Questions in the Classroom Lead Students to Think Harder—and Learn Deeper

Edsurge

Imagine yourself in a kindergarten classroom. Amidst bright walls and happy chatter, students are bustling about, moving from station to station to explore different concepts related to shadows and light. At one station, a little boy named David is holding a stick up to a lightbulb to form shadows, and using Unifix Cubes to measure the shadow’s length at different angles.

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What You Might Have Missed in June

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of June: Websites that add sparkle to spring. Internet Safety Month–Rules to Live By. Here’s How to Motivate Summer School Students. Teacher-Authors–Help me launch my latest prehistoric fiction. Coding Words You Need To Know . Most Common Tech Problems You-all Face. 5 (free) Posters on College and Career. Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum.

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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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ISTELive 21: Post-Pandemic Lessons for the Future of K–12 Education

EdTech Magazine

Virtual learning had existed for more than 20 years when the pandemic shifted all students and teachers online. This unprecedented experience opened many students up to the idea of learning remotely full time, and as a result, schools across the country are considering some virtual-only options for fall. During ISTELive 21, we spoke with John Watson, founder of the Evergreen Education Group, and Claudio Zavala Jr., digital designer for Burleson Independent School District, about the lessons K–12

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The Localization Paradox

Iterating Toward Openness

I was recently invited to participate in a Three Days of Focus conversation including the reusability paradox on the OE Global platform. The conversation opens for public participation this Wednesday. This is my initial contribution to the conversation. Thanks to Alan and others for the invitation to participate in this conversation. If you didn’t make it all the way through my 2002 article linked above (and I wouldn’t blame you!

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The Pandemic Was Disastrous for Early Childhood Education—And Both Kids and Adults Are Feeling It

Edsurge

The long-running pandemic has disrupted every facet of education. But the early childhood sector has been particularly devastated. Over the past 16 months, young children have experienced learning setbacks and fewer social experiences, while their educators have endured degraded working conditions, stress from job uncertainty and mental health declines.

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Detailed Lesson Plans and Interactive Games to Teach Students Typing

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Keyboarding has already been an important skill in the 21st century classroom but the transformations triggered by the current pandemic has made an essential skill. Now that computers and digital.read more.

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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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ISTELive 21: Teaching Culturally Responsive STEM in K–12

EdTech Magazine

K–12 schools must work to provide opportunities for meaningful, integrated STEM for all students. The pandemic has forced many educators to address digital and social inequities over the past year, and teaching culturally responsive STEM is one way to begin to close the gap. Technology helps facilitate these lessons, but it’s not the only component schools need.

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Make a 4th of July Word Search

Teacher Tech

Word searches are fun!! I did spend some hours looking up research articles on the educational benefits of word searches. While they are fun for students, circling words does not have a lot of benefits in terms of learning. BUT sometimes we do things just for fun, so I have a way to generate your… Read More » Make a 4th of July Word Search.

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Inclusive R&D Centers Educator Voice. It’s Already Changing the Face of Math Instruction.

Edsurge

Research and development (R&D) is an engine of innovation in many sectors but has been largely untapped in education. It is a powerful way to seed meaningful and lasting change for students and schools. Other sectors achieve incredible advances through R&D. In fact, we are beginning to see the other side of the pandemic because sustained R&D made it possible to develop a vaccine in record time.

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21 awesome AR and VR tools for learning

eSchool News

Nearly everyone has experienced augmented reality and virtual reality to some degree, and while they’re fun, AR and VR can also be incredibly powerful when integrated into classroom learning. During an engaging ISTELive 21 session , Jennifer Hall , NBCT, an educational technology specialist with Atlanta Public Schools, outlined an abundance of AR and VR apps for students and educators.

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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.

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ISTELive 21: Don’t Give Up on Hybrid or Fully Remote Learning, Advocates Plead

EdTech Magazine

The daily car ride to her brick-and-mortar school used to fill Chloe with so much anxiety that it made her physically sick and caused her to miss a ton of classroom time. Soon she was falling behind on her schoolwork, but then she discovered Poudre Global Academy, a hybrid school in Fort Collins, Colo. Now that she can choose to go into a physical classroom only two days each week, her teachers say she is thriving.

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Breaking News: Customize Templates for FREE!

Teacher Tech

Guest Blogger and Educator Marcia Carrillo show how to customize your Google Slides using Slides Mania and Remove.bg for FREE! The post Breaking News: Customize Templates for FREE! appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Launches Free Online Reflection Tool for Students and Teachers

Edsurge

Sometimes even small talk can have enormous effects on students’ wellbeing. Giving kids a chance to talk with adults about their lives outside of class can be critical for their social-emotional development. But during the pandemic, online classes didn’t often allow the time for that individual attention. That was the thinking behind Along , a free digital reflection tool developed by the nonprofit Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and announced yesterday at the 2021 annual co

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Weava- A Powerful Research Tool for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Weava is an excellent tool that allows you to annotate websites and PDFs. Students can easily highlight sections in PDFs and websites and add notes to contextualize and enhance their learning. Using.read more.

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Building the Foundation for a Modern K-12 Classroom

K-12 looks different these days. But one thing remains the same: you need a reliable learning platform that serves as the foundation for teaching and learning––for all students, in a variety of learning experiences. Discover how the Instructure Learning Platform supports today's K-12 classroom through: A central, consistent, connected hub of the digital learning environment.