Sat.Jul 25, 2015 - Fri.Jul 31, 2015

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Early Elementary: Differentiate Reading Practice

Catlin Tucker

In my last post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I provided a blended learning strategy that creates more time in the classroom for teachers to work individually with students. This week I was presenting on technology infused reading strategies and resources for K-5 teachers and wanted to share them.

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Back to School Selfie Adventure for Your Students!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the Effective Technology Integration tips category! In a few weeks, school starts again. This is the best time to begin connecting with students and getting them to connect with their peers. Try something new this year! Get students to talk about themselves by presenting selfies they have taken as part of a mission you have sent them on. First, get students to watch the video, Around the World in 360° Degrees , and reflect on it.

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Report: Experienced Teachers Soar in Tech-Enabled Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith One finding from the SIIA Vision K-12 Survey could turn the tables on the perception of digital natives’ technological expertise.

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Musings on Leadership, Change, and #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

As I am driving my SUV and family guinea pig from Staten Island, NY to Texas (more to come on this later) I took the opportunity, when my father was at the wheel, to peruse my professional Facebook page. As I looked through my updates I noticed that I had posted quite a few quotes, ideas, thoughts, and opinions on leading change. The idea then popped into my head that I should archive all of these in a blog post.

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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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Stages of Being a Maker Learner

User Generated Education

Discussions have occurred around some maker circles about what actually is making as related to maker education. I have proposed that the heart of making is creating new and unique things. I also realize that in order for this type of making to occur, there needs to be some scaffolding so that maker learners can develop a foundation of knowledge and skills.

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Goal: Build Your Teacher Survival Kit

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward ! . The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. – John F. Kennedy. When I first began teaching, I remember meeting a veteran teacher who carried a big bag with her everywhere. I forgot what the situation was but I remember her coming to the rescue with masking tape, scissors, and Post It notes.

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3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons

Ask a Tech Teacher

Lesson planning used to mean filling in boxes on a standard form with materials, goals, expectations, assessments–details like that. Certainly this is valuable information, but today’s lesson plans–like today’s lessons –demand less rote fill-in-the-blanks and more conceptualization, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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Show Learners the Possibilities. And Then Get Out of the Way

User Generated Education

We are living in an age of advanced user-driven technologies, information abundance, and networked, participatory learning. It should logically follow, then, that education should take advantage of these amazing developments. As many of us in education know, it has not. This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0.

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10 Quick Fixes That Every School Can Implement Immediately

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane Teachers worry about the Common Core, high stakes testing, accountability, parent complaints, and many other issues that face educators daily. What if you could stop worrying? What if there were quick fixes for your school and classroom that you can implement right now? Sound unrealistic? It’s not. The answer is easy: Instead of using the old committee […] The post 10 Quick Fixes That Every School Can Implement Immediately appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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4 Reasons Windows 10 Makes Sense for Education

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Should you upgrade to Windows 10? These new features could help empower your classroom and research.

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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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Readying New Teachers for 21st Century Classrooms Blog

Battelle for Kids

July 30, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 15. Sitting in the Atlanta airport watching the planes and passengers come and go, it occurs to me that traditional educator preparation has been a bit like an airport-most of the "customers" (students) treated identically, with the common goal of getting from here to there, from to home to graduation. Teachers have been taught to act as sole pilots, in complete control of their classrooms.

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What a Typical Tech Lesson Looks Like

Ask a Tech Teacher

In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten several emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the “way things were.” I’m determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! … Could you please elaborate on how you run your class?

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10 Summer Habits Teachers Should Carry into the New School Year

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane Like many educators, I have the good fortune to know and love quite a few school counselors, social workers, and psychologists. I hang out with them inside of the schools that I get to work in, and I get to spend quite a bit of time with them socially as well. It’s very good for […] The post 10 Summer Habits Teachers Should Carry into the New School Year appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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CK-12 Integrates Its Awesome Educational Resources With Google Classroom

Educational Technology Guy

CK-12 , a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that it is integrating with Google Classroom. Google recently updated Classroom to allow third parties to integrate and share with Classroom and CK-12 has just done that. The Google Classroom share button is now in CK-12 so teachers and students can access all of the content in CK-12 from within Google Classroom.

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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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Is There an Uncrossable Chasm Between Research and the Classroom?

The Journal

There has always been a chasm between what educational researchers do in their labs and what educational practitioners do in their classrooms. There is no well-defined path for taking an idea from research and putting it into practice. In this week’s post, we discuss the different paths across the chasm that Logo (the programming language) and the graphing calculator took.

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Tech Tip #108: Got a Tech Problem? Google It!

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Sometimes, I just can’t remember how to accomplish a task. Often, I know it’s simple. Maybe I’ve done it before–or even learned it before–and it’s lost in my brain.

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10 Tough Truths about Your First Year of Teaching

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane A few weeks ago, I attended a retirement luncheon for a close teacher friend of mine whose daughter recently accepted her first teaching position. As you might imagine, this dynamic inspired quite a bit of reminiscing among the attendees, and soon enough, every veteran teacher in the room was sharing memories of his or her […] The post 10 Tough Truths about Your First Year of Teaching appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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3D CAD and 3D Printing with Chromebooks

Educational Technology Guy

Everyone who reads this blog knows I'm a huge fan of Chromebooks , especially for education. One area that I get asked about often is 3D CAD and 3D Printing. So here is some info. I am by no means an expert on 3D printing though. Tinkercad is a completely web-based, 3D CAD system that works on Chromebooks. I've used it and found it easy to use and pretty powerful (and I've used systems like CATIA, Pro-Engineer and SolidWorks).

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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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What does the @WWE and Your Classroom have in common? Find out on Wednesday July 29 at 4pm Eastern!

TeacherCast

Are you intimidated by public speaking? Are you wondering what you can do to excite your students? Do you want to oil yourself up. and bodyslam your next interview? If the answer is YES to any of these questions than you MUST check out this weeks EdChat Interactive featuring ME Jeff Bradbury. In this weeks presentation, I will walk you through the secrets to creating an awesome lesson for your students that will have them captivated and LEARNING.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

Summer PD 2015 just ended. A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, lab teachers–gathered virtually for three weeks to experiment with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom–Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, backchannels, digital citizenship, assessment, and more (12 topics in all).

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ISTE and 100 Word Challenge Founder Collide

Brilliant or Insane

Brilliant or Insane You can’t imagine the excitement I felt when I read the email telling me that 100 Word Challenge had been accepted at #ISTE2015 in Philadelphia! For those of you who don’t know about 100WC (where have you been?!), it is a weekly writing project for students under 16. I set a prompt of a few […] The post ISTE and 100 Word Challenge Founder Collide appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Waiting to Excel: Transforming Teacher Preparation in Urban Classrooms

Battelle for Kids

July 27, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 13. Driving Question: What is needed to transform urban teacher readiness for 21st Century Classrooms? A Frame of Reference Noting that adult humans use somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the 86-100 billion neurons there are estimated to be in a brain, the neuroscience developed during the last century has demonstrated that all human brains have the capacity for far greater levels of high intellectual performances.

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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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Part 4: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to the fourth post… and almost last post of this series. There is still some summer left so I thought I will add one more post… a fifth one for next time. I have a goal every summer to bring you at least 40 new tools… now it will be 50… that you may not know about. Remember, I am picking these from thousands and I am trying to find those sites that are up and coming and might just be the next big edtech hit.

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Subscriber Special: August

Ask a Tech Teacher

Multi-user licenses are going up in price October 1st. This includes licenses for: student workbooks. teacher resources. teacher webinar–training. If you’re planning to purchase one, save 25% by purchasing yours now: Room. School. District. Questions? Email askatechteacher@gmail.com or zeke.rowe@structuredlearning.net.

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Podcast: 7 Great Augmented Reality Apps for your Classroom

TeacherCast

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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Three Classroom Uses for Vocaroo – from Avra Robinson

EdTechTeacher

This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Vocaroo is a simple, free voice recorder that allows users to create an audio recording with just a few clicks. Once recorded, the audio file can remain on the Vocaroo servers and be easily transmitted via a link, or it can be downloaded into several different file types including MP3, Ogg, FLAC, or WAV.

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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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Part 5: Forty… Now Fifty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to the fifth post… and last post of this series. I hope you have enjoyed these tools that I have picked from thousands. I tried to give you some new… along with some that have been around that you might not have known about. As the new school year gets closer I have some great posts coming your way! Please ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21cen

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Another solution: Tracking Formative Standards-Based Student Performance

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

In discussions with Lindsay Stephenson , another ELA teacher who is implementing standards-based learning with her students, we've been trying to figure out methods for efficiently tracking student progress and alignment with the standards. Neither one of us are keen on the look of spreadsheets. Neither one of us wants to use another learning management system.

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6 Great Apps to try on the new Windows 10 | @Microsoft_EDU

TeacherCast

It’s July 29, 2015, a day that will go down as Windows 10 day! I was excited to wake up this morning and download the latest FREE operating system on my Surface 3 tablet. The install was very smooth taking about an hour and a half. There are several great new features to Windows 10 that are perfect for any classroom. We will be going through these features over the next few weeks here at TeacherCast.

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Back to School with Explain Everything

EdTechTeacher

Explain Everything. A conversation with Reshan Richards and Greg Kulowiec Learn more about Explain Everything 3.0 when Greg Kulowiec , checks in with educator and co-creator of Explain Everything, Dr. Reshan Richards about the newest updates to our favorite Screencasting app. Greg and Reshan will chat live on [insert date] at [insert time] via a Google Hangout on Air here: [insert link].

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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.