Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 18, 2015
The first day of school is an opportunity. It’s a chance to let students know what they can expect from you and your class. Will the class be teacher centered or student centered? Will they work in isolation or in collaborative groups? Will they be challenged or not? Unfortunately, many teachers spend the first day of school reading their syllabus to their students and explaining all of the classroom norms and rules.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 19, 2015
3 Important Times We Have to Talk Students need parent teacher communication. We need to work together to help kids. There are three essential times for parent teacher communication. The Global Search for Education has a monthly question. This month: “What are the best ways parents can help teachers and that teachers can help parents?” Introductions.
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Teacher Reboot Camp
AUGUST 20, 2015
Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. This year try integrating technology to get students researching, exploring, creating and moving. Hover over the infopic below to discover lessons, free apps, and resources! Challenge: Try one of these ideas to transform the learning in your classroom! If you enjoyed these ideas, you may want to get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or my $5.99 ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities
A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 16, 2015
There is often a great deal of emphasis on establishing a vision when beginning the change process and rightfully so. Great leaders understand the importance of a shared vision and the need to articulate lofty goals and resulting outcomes. They are forward thinking, which turns out to be a highly admirable trait right up there with honesty as described by James M.
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2015
By D. Frank Smith A young maker's contribution to the movement shines a light on how 3D printing can revolutionize education.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 18, 2015
The Teacher as a Talent Scout Good schools don’t just teach you subjects. Good schools teach you about yourself. A focus on strengths is the secret to a better school. We want students to be leaders, but we never let them lead. Let’s change that! Here’s how. Do you want your teachers to be six times more engaged in teaching? Do you want your students 30 times more likely to be engaged in school?
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Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 19, 2015
One thing we can all agree on is that there are tons of free tech tools available that enrich learning. I can’t keep up with them. I belong to several Tech Teacher forums, FB groups, G+ Communities, and every day I find more great tools I can’t wait to use in my classroom. Like many of you, this summer I attended several professional development conferences (ISTE, Teachers Pay Teachers, WordPress, Summer PD)–that bumped my total up to about a gazillion.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2015
By D. Frank Smith Developers and administrators now have far more options within Google’s classroom managing app.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 17, 2015
An Every Classroom Matters Episode on Building Parent-Teacher Relationships sponsored by Bloomz. First-rate teachers value parents. Jumpstart positive parent partnerships from day one. Show parents how much they matter. Principal Amy Fadeji and Superintendent Joe Sanfelippo have a collection of simple ideas. Important Takeaways. How to Connect. Four ways Amy encourages teachers to connect with parents.
Teacher Reboot Camp
AUGUST 15, 2015
“It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.” – Milton Olson. Google has many free incredible apps and tools that work on any device to support and promote collaboration. I have found great success integrating Google Drive with Google Hangouts. Hangouts allows video chat for 10 people and has many incredible apps for you to make music, peer edit documents, screenshare, doodle, play games, and
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.
Brilliant or Insane
AUGUST 21, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. One of our most popular posts, “14 Things Teachers Should Never Do on the First Day of School,” sparked plenty of discussion here on Brilliant or Insane and on our social networks. Even though most agreed with our “Not to-do list,” many longed for the positive spin? “Okay, this makes sense,” one reader allowed, “but I’m a […].
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 17, 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 Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: The internet website is quirky. Stuff I know should work doesn’t. Is there any quick way to fix that without having to reboot?
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 16, 2015
Sponsored by Staples Now is the time. I start back to school. So does my son. Lots of you will soon too. How do we get totally ready? Start by making a list. But sometimes I don’t know everything that is out there. So, I headed down to my local Staples store in Albany, and my son and I did some shopping. 1. Help Your Child Get Ready. For quite some time, I’ve had my son look at his list and shop for what he needs.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2015
By D. Frank Smith Not all schools are equipped to support every student's device. The solution? Accessories.
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.
Dangerously Irrelevant
AUGUST 15, 2015
Today is Dangerously Irrelevant’s 9th birthday. That’s a long time in blogging years (sometimes I feel ancient even though I’m not that old yet). Most of the educators whose amazing voices inspired me in those early days are no longer blogging. A few of us continue to write and, of course, new voices have joined us. And left us. Over the past nine years I’ve learned some things about blogging specifically and about social media generally.
Ditch That Textbook
AUGUST 20, 2015
It’s said that surrounding yourself with great people will help you become a greater person. As an educator who’s always trying to improve, when a teacher of the year speaks, I listen. They’re usually brimming with enthusiasm, wisdom and great practical ideas. As the co-host of the “HookED” radio show on the BAM Radio Network, [.].
Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 19, 2015
August 20, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 9. Driving Question: How might the work of district leaders transform daily instruction? Whenever I told people that I am a blended learning coach, I'd often get a quizzical look. "A what? What's a blended learning coach?" Just as frequently, I'd also get the question: "What exactly is blended learning, anyway?
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2015
By D. Frank Smith Adobe's latest update to its Document Cloud can ease the stress of entering a world of paper.
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Brilliant or Insane
AUGUST 16, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. Collect a Different Kind of Student Data: an excerpt from Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School In the spring of 2015, Denver elementary teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to complete this sentence in writing: “I wish my teacher knew…” The student responses were so unexpected, so moving, Schwartz shared some of them online, […].
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 21, 2015
When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their own personal finance decisions. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets? The quandary of infinite wants vs. finite dollars? Or do they think money grows on some fiscal tree that always blooms?
Ditch That Textbook
AUGUST 17, 2015
Want to stop bullying, improve the classroom and school climate and improve achievement all at the same time? Help your students become superheroes. Using the SuperYou FUNdation curriculum, teachers are helping students empower themselves and become the best versions of themselves. They’re seeing children transform into better people as well as better students.
The Journal
AUGUST 17, 2015
Over the past 20 years, boosters of several new technologies have promised to “revolutionize education.” In this week’s post, we review the various predictions about laptops, interactive whiteboards, iPads and Chromebooks. Ah, techies and their penchant for hyperbole.
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.
Brilliant or Insane
AUGUST 20, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. If you are a math teacher, you’ve likely heard of Photomath. The smartphone app, which debuted in early 2015, allows a student to take a photograph of a mathematical equation and then provides not only the solution to that equation, but the steps to solve it. This app is going to ruin math class this […]. The post 4 Ways Photomath Will Ruin Math Class This Year appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 15, 2015
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, w
Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 17, 2015
August 18, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 8. Driving Question: How might the work of district leaders transform daily instruction? In 2010, our district administrators read a text by Hackman and Wageman entitled Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great. The district leadership council (DLC) in Farmington is a group of 20 or so principals and central office leaders who meet together twice a month for two hours.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
AUGUST 17, 2015
I have often reflected on the idea of formative assessment. In my reflection I have come up with several main ideas. First, this is a practice that has always been a part of good teaching. Second, it may be better stated as formative learning since I view assessment as a part of the overall learning experience. Last, I have come up with some wonderful formative learning tools, in nine different categories, for use in the classroom I wish to share with you in this series.
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.
Brilliant or Insane
AUGUST 15, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. A Summer Reminder: Why Teachers Teach By Matt Biers-Ariel If you walk into a typical high school staff room in May, you probably won’t see an enthusiastic teacher waxing about a conference she just attended, and you would be hard pressed to find a pair of teachers collaborating on curriculum. The energy is a bit […]. The post A Summer Reminder of Why Teachers Teach appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.
TeacherCast
AUGUST 19, 2015
One of the hottest devices being showcased this year at the ISTE conference was Swivl. Swivl is a complete video solution that provides presenters the ability to capture video during their lessons and create self-directed learning experiences for their students. About Swivl. Video is a powerful tool but simply watching a video is a passive experience.
Voyager Sopris Learning
AUGUST 19, 2015
By Louisa Moats, Ed.D. Motivation, according to a recent textbook on adolescent literacy* , is “a feeling of interest or enthusiasm that makes a student want to complete a task or improve his or her skills.” Teachers of adolescent poor readers, however, often find that their students are willing to do anything BUT read and write. Getting students to believe that they can make meaningful progress—when all prior experience suggests they will not—and to work at something that has never been rewardi
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 19, 2015
For almost three years Lumen Learning has been helping faculty, departments, and entire degree programs adopt OER in place of expensive commercial textbooks. In addition to saving students enormous amounts of money we’ve helped improve the effectiveness of courses we’ve supported, as we’re demonstrating in publications in peer-reviewed journals co-authored both with faculty from our partner schools and other researchers.
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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