Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Back-to-School Night is the one evening each year when I have the opportunity to connect face-to-face with my students’ parents. Unfortunately, not all parents can attend Back-to-School Night. Some of my parents work at night or they are at home with their other children. So, three years ago I began flipping my Back-to-School Night presentation in the hopes of reaching more of my parents.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
We got 420 applications while recruiting new instructional coaches for our team. Very few of them knew how to provide constructive feedback for teachers. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.
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EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
By D. Frank Smith A game born from a teacher's frustration has blossomed into a new way to teach geography and current events.
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
How we best learn has been a hot topic for many years. As most would agree experiences that are relevant, practical to our needs, meaningful, and applicable drive learning. The ability to acquire and construct new knowledge, then apply it in ways to solve complex problems, is at the heart of what education has been tasked with accomplishing. This lofty goal has fallen way short of expectations as our education system has changed very little over the past 100 years.
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User Generated Education
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
What does learning look like in school environments? What is wrong with the following pictures? Mohamed, a self-assured kid with thick-framed glasses and a serious expression, had just started at MacArthur High School a few weeks ago. The Irving, Tex., ninth-grader has a talent for tinkering — he constructs his own radios and once built a Bluetooth speaker as a gift for his friend — and he wanted to show his new teachers what he could do.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
New research on how schools are using the ed-tech software and technology they purchase shows schools are not maximizing their investments. Often educators aren't even using the products in the classroom. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
I repost this article every September because I get so many requests for mouse resources for those youngest keyboarders. Enjoy! One of the most important pre-keyboarding skills is how to use the mouse. The mouse hold is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break. Here are some images to assist you in setting up your newest computer aficionados: Here are 16 websites student will enjoy, including 4 for adults new to computers: Mouse Skills.
Brilliant or Insane
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. If you’re the parent of school-aged children, you’re probably still well acquainted with 4:00 am. This is when you once fed your hungry babies and nursed them through bouts of whooping cough, ear infections, and tummy aches that shook you out of your dreamless half-sleep. Those were the days when you assumed you’d return to […].
Battelle for Kids
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 6. Driving Question: How can special educators use the 4Cs to ensure students are identified quickly and appropriately and services are aligned? My first year at Katherine Smith Elementary School as a specialist was tough. Our entire team was new to one another. This was true for the resource specialist, the speech language pathologist, and the school psychologist.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
By D. Frank Smith Microsoft's premiere tablet has made a lasting impact on education, and here are just a few of its success stories.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Here’s a great lesson plan with three activities well-suited to the discussion of architecture and design in 1st grade: Review. Students complete three projects in two weeks to aid understanding of architecture, design, and three-dimensional thinking. They’ll experiment with spatially laying out a three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional paper.
Brilliant or Insane
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. As both a teacher and administrator, I often heard from parents whose children were exceptionally good at math. “My daughter already knows how to multiply four-digit numbers, so third grade math is too easy for her. She needs to be accelerated.” There’s lots of research to support acceleration as a strategy for gifted learners. The […].
Battelle for Kids
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 7. Driving Question: How do we support ALL students to ensure meaningful participation in early grade projects? The End is Our Beginning Since we transformed our school into a 21st Century Learning campus, Katherine Smith School has held an annual Exhibition Night – a school event where the campus is turned into a living museum.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
By D. Frank Smith A new startup guide to 3D printing takes students by the hand in their first foray into the magic of makerspaces.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
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 week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: So many colleagues are embedding documents to their blogs and websites, but I don’t know how to do that. Can you help?
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Paul Sinanis, middle school student, said: I don’t understand the point of school. What’s the point? Everything that I am interested in and connects to my world doesn’t ever come up in school, so what’s the point? via [link]. Related Posts. Students will lean into the wind if given a chance. Newell-Fonda students decide to ‘be the change’ [VIDEO].
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Bringing technology into the classroom can feel like an uphill battle. But as we know, engaging with students on devices and platforms that they are already comfortable with creates a better, more natural learning environment. In addition to helping teachers modify curricula for different learning styles, classroom technology also primes students for research and collaboration in higher education and beyond.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
By EdTech Staff Napa County school officials assembled a digital early learning initiative to help turn the tide.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
In fifteen years of teaching K-8, I have learned that one factor provides a reliable barometer for student success: Parent involvement. In fact, it’s crucial. According to the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education Research Review and Resources , no matter income or background, students with involved parents are more likely to have higher grades and test scores, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Greg Whitby said: more businesses are moving away from improving old models to responding to the changing needs of consumers (and employees) within the context of a rapidly changing world. In addition, real time data has helped to create a whole new paradigm for doing things differently, thinking creatively and responding immediately. On the flip side, education is still wedded to the improvement model; looking for enhanced solutions to old problems.
Ditch That Textbook
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
Explorers. Researchers. Archaeologists. Scientists. Lawmakers. Even celebrities and athletes. They’re the great guest speakers that many of us would love to invite to talk to our classes. But schedules, speaking fees, travel and other conflicts keep us from making them an in-person, face-to-face reality. Well, to be accurate, they make in-person contact a fantasy.
Brilliant or Insane
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, one American is sexually assaulted every 107 seconds. Sixty-eight percent of sexual assaults are never reported to the police, and 98% of perpetrators will never spend a day in prison. Forty-four percent of victims are under the age of 18, and 4/5 of assaults are committed by someone known to the […].
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.
Battelle for Kids
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 8. Driving Question: How can we connect the learner with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder into 21st Century Deeper Learning? If we could listen to what was happening inside the head of a learner with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), this is what we might hear: "The teacher is talking to me, but I can't follow all of what she is saying.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
My team’s most recent video about the maker experiences that we’re facilitating in our Northwest region of Iowa. Happy viewing! Related Posts. Live blogging Oskaloosa High School’s experiences at the FIRST Championships. When all students bring home is a piece of paper. Newell-Fonda students decide to ‘be the change’ [VIDEO]. Replication or empowerment?
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
To help you adjust, here are the Top Ten articles on putting technology into your back-to-school plans: How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests. 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons. 8 Characteristics of a Successful K-12 Technology Department. How to Build Your PLN.
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Over the past few months I’ve had the opportunity to check out and learn more about appoLearning. You might remember I wrote about my experience in finding and curating content there. And then how easy it was to create a collection of high quality resources to share. The site really does make it easy to find resources like websites, apps, and videos that have been curated by other educators and create collections that can be private, shared with a small group or made completely public.
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.
Ditch That Textbook
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Every day, millions of hours of YouTube videos are watched by its 1 billion users. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. It’s no surprise that video engages students in our classrooms. It’s in their pockets — on the mobile devices that many of them come to school with every day. (Or [.].
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
Dean Shareski said: In the past decade, most everyone with access has experienced what it’s like to learn from anyone, anywhere at any time. In everyday life, this is no longer an event to behold but the way we learn. Any policy maker or leader who doesn’t understand and live this needs to find other employment. via [link]. Related Posts.
Brilliant or Insane
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. As an education consultant, I’m hired to help teachers meet many outcomes, most of them related to curriculum design, instructional practices, or making meaningful use of assessments and the data they produce. Contrary to what many believe, this isn’t my most important job. Idealists suggest that consultants are experts and change agents.
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
rosterSync is a great new, free tool from New Visions Cloud Lab , the same people behind the Chromebook Inventory Tool. rosterSync has two versions: Super Admin and Teacher. rosterSync: Super Admin Edition The Super Admin edition allows GAFE super admin's to create and update Google Classroom, including populating classes, using CSV exports from Student Information Systems.
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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