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Teach Critical Thinking

Ask a Tech Teacher

There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Worse, you’re either right or wrong with no gray areas.

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Best Monitors for Teachers: How to Use Pen Devices to Deliver Lessons 

ViewSonic Education

The best monitors for teachers solve an important dilemma in today’s digital age: how to keep handwriting alive while implementing EdTech classrooms? Contrary to many people’s fears, using digital touchscreens offers greater flexibility for teachers while driving student engagement. There are many other wins that follow and give liberty in terms of how the lesson is carried out for both online and in-class scenarios. .

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Genius Hour: 3 Strategies for Incorporating it in Your Class

techlearning

Educators Vicki Davis and John Spencer share tips for effectively incorporating genius hour into the classroom.

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Help Inspire the Next Generation of Creators and Change Makers

Digital Promise

The post Help Inspire the Next Generation of Creators and Change Makers appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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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The Siri and Alexa Test

A Principal's Reflections

I absolutely love being at home. Having an intense travel schedule makes you cherish the little things that help alleviate stress and relax. One of my favorite pastimes is taking advantage of being outside any chance I get. Moving to Texas seven years ago meant the weather would stay warmer longer, making this more realistic. There is almost always music, whether in the pool, doing yard work, or hanging out with family and friends.

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8 Exciting International Literacy Day activities for students

Neo LMS

International Literacy Day activities take place annually on 8 September. It’s a perfect opportunity to spend extra time engaging students and motivating them to elevate their reading and writing skills. This year, its need feels all the more urgent. Many students have fallen behind in their education due to the pandemic. This is not a short-term problem.

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How to Make Math Class Student Centered

MiddleWeb

Fresh teaching ideas engulf math teachers each fall. Which strategies take priority as we seek to help students have the best year ever? Teacher and coach Mona Iehl recommends three: build classroom community, review and augment resources, and select engaging lesson formats. The post How to Make Math Class Student Centered first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Abbott Elementary: 5 Lessons for Teachers

techlearning

The popular sitcom Abbott Elementary provides laughs–and teaching lessons.

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4 Best Practices for Improving Digital Learning Instruction in Your School Community

EdTech Magazine

Imagine this scenario: An office at the state or district level distributes a lengthy instructional guide to school-level educators and leaders. The resource is chock-full of sound, research-backed advice for effective teaching and learning with digital devices. The only problem? The resource goes unread by practitioners, who have a million things to do and not nearly enough time to do them.

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Back To School Websites

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to. BTS resources. BTS resources from Microsoft. Make a class photo in Pixton EDU. We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. Here are some of the past articles I think you’ll like: 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons. 11 Back-to-school Activities for the First Month of School.

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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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Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Furthermore, kindergarten and elementary grades are fundamental. Reading expert, Laura Robb breaks down excellent reading instruction from kindergarten through fifth grade.

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

Edsurge

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic set this work back substantially; teachers and students went into survival mode and volunteer opportunities dried up as workplaces closed.

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Untether Tech in the Modern K–12 Environment

EdTech Magazine

The focus in K­–12 districts has long been on flexible learning spaces, but modern classroom designs are adapting now that most students are equipped with one-to-one devices. Many schools are conceptualizing configurations that move the traditional focus from the front of the classroom. Instead of placing a display at the front of the room, schools are opting for displays on mobile carts.

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Is it Too Little: Or Too Late?

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik Tick Toc. Approximately 13,800 district superintendents are staring down the barrel of a September 30 deadline. That’s the date that all those ESSER funds must be committed. Here it is, September already, and 40 percent of districts have spent less than 20 percent of ESSER III funding. Further, 60 percent have only spent about 30 percent.

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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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Add-on the Fun with BookWidgets

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Add-on the fun in Google Classroom with BookWidgets. Easy to use for any teacher and student. Use the new Add-on to add directly to Google Classroom or add BookWidgets using the Chrome extension or sharing link. The post Add-on the Fun with BookWidgets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students. Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more.

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Report Reveals Barriers for Women in IT

EdTech Magazine

A 2022 report from Logitech and Girls Who Code looks at the barriers faced by women in IT and the forces driving their success. The organizations surveyed 400 individuals in tech and IT positions with the goal of understanding and addressing the barriers women face in tech and ultimately encouraging more girls at the K–12 level to pursue STEM careers.

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Why State Universities Are Buying Up Online Colleges

Edsurge

Even before the pandemic, big-name colleges and universities were getting serious about online education. And that already-growing interest has ballooned since COVID-19 forced pretty much every institution to teach temporarily online. But we’ve seen an interesting trend in how some state universities have decided to get into online learning—with a big splash.

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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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My Classroom or OUR Classroom??

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

If you are striving for a student centered classroom does your syllabus indicate that this is MY class or OUR class? Are students afraid to deviate from the directions? Do they think they can advocate for their own learning or are restricted to following the directions? The post My Classroom or OUR Classroom?? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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3 Powerful AI-powered Tools to Create Educational Visuals

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making huge inroads in the world of learning with more and more teachers and educators embracing its educational potential. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you a series of posts covering the the topic of AI and its use in education. Stay tuned. The purpose of today's post with you a sample of AI-powered tools (courtesy of Harsh Makadia ) that can help you create awesome visuals and images to use in your instruction.

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

EdTechTeacher

Guest Post by Jon Bergmann (Keynote of the Mastery Learning Summit on Oct. 21st, 2022). The pandemic has been hard on schools, students, and yes us teachers. One of the most devastating and demoralizing results of the pandemic has been that so many of our students are significantly behind. The Brookings Institute did a study and found that math and reading scores dropped significantly and that this disproportionately impacted students from marginalized communities. .

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What if we gave every teacher a work from home day?

eSchool News

School and district-based staff are understandably wary about the new school year. Teachers, the majority of whom are women, are struggling under the immense pressure of pandemic schooling. Many have worked long hours to try to support their own families while keeping up with the demands of online teaching and changing COVID-19 protocols. Teacher retention rates were already declining pre-pandemic, and the shortage of educators across roles may be widening.

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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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PUSH a Value to Other Sheets

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Want to know how to copy a value to other sheets? Push cell value to all sheets by hacking Alice Keeler's Add-on. Use the feature to push the selected cell in a spreadsheet to the other sheets in the spreadsheet. The post PUSH a Value to Other Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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10 Great Guitar Learning Apps for Both iPad and Android

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post, I am sharing with you this hand-picked collection of some of the best guitar learning apps out there. While I created this list with students and teachers in mind, anyone interested in learning how to play guitar will find them helpful. The apps offer access to a wide variety of step-by-step lessons, video tutorials, and interactive activities to help users learn guitar playing in fun and engaging ways.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Emojis

Gaggle Speaks

In the fall I had a group of mothers approach me after a seminar to ask me about what they were calling ‘picture texting’ as a cause for concern that their children were losing their grasp on the English language. I immediately realized that this is not about an inability but rather an intentional choice to move to what I call a teen dialect that helps evade oversight from adults.

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Run the numbers: How data solve problems

eSchool News

In this episode of Innovations in Education , hosted by Kevin Hogan: AI and expenses—a smarter way to track costs 5 ways relationship mapping supports your students How analytics can identify student mental health challenges.

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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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BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS

American Consortium for Equity in Education

WINNERS OF A $10,000.00 GRANT! BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS We welcome Superintendent Dr. Anitra Wells and Vlada Lotkina, President of CLASSTAG, which awarded the grant. Thanks and congrats to you both! ………………………… Everything we do is. Keep Reading BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS.

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Best Apps to Remotely Access your PC from iPad or Mobile Device

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of apps that enable you to remotely access your computer and view your files and installed applications as if you were sitting down next to it. Depending on the app you select, features differ. Some of these apps offer way more functionalities such as webcam access, audio and video streaming, collaboration, and many more.

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The Educator’s Guide to Time Management

MiddleWeb

The first step to taking control of your time is making the effort, and educator Frank Buck’s “Get Organized Digitally!” provides the rungs of the ladder to get you there. Department chair Stephanie Choate says Buck inserts educator success stories in just the right places. Highly recommended. The post The Educator’s Guide to Time Management first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How to ensure clear communication with your paraprofessionals

eSchool News

As back-to-school commences this fall, in addition to the students and teachers returning to school buildings, somewhere between 160,000 and 250,000–or more–folks will be joining those students and teachers. Known by a variety of titles, from paraeducator and paraprofessional, to aid, to assistant teacher, these educational support personnel have the least training of people working in schools.

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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.