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Six Ways to Use TED Talks Effectively in Your Classroom Through Video

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'TED talks don''t necessarily prepare students for the next standardized test, but they are perfect to get them thinking critically. Here are some examples of great TED Talks that inspire, provide professional development, and teach. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Create Original Theme Memes in 5 Easy Steps

Catlin Tucker

'Yesterday, I stumbled onto the KQED YouTube video about making memes. I love memes! A meme is a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied–often with slight variations–and spread rapidly by Internet users. I decided I wanted to find a way to incorporate memes in my English class. The timing was perfect. We are just wrapping up The Joy Luck Club and I had the computer lab booked!

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Looking at Teacher Accountability Through a New Lens

A Principal's Reflections

'In case you haven’t noticed the education profession has been under attack as of late. The brunt of these attacks has been aimed at the very professionals who are tasked with positively impacting the lives of children each and every day – our teachers. In my mind education is the noblest of professions. Without education, at some level virtually all other professions would be non-existent.

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YouTube Kids Is Google’s First App Designed for Children

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith New app gives parents more control over their children''s YouTube browsing.

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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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How to Begin Your Ed-Tech Startup Journey Today

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'There are plenty of things you can do today to help down the road, if and when you decide to launch your own ed-tech startup. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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17 Websites to Manage Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

'These are clever approaches to keeping order among avid learners: Bouncy Balls –balls bounce based on level of noise in the classroom. Calmness Counter –how noisy is your classroom? Let students see. Class Dojo— class behavior mgmt. Class Badges. Doodle—schedule meetings, polls. Forms—Adobe interactive pdf, collect results. Google Safe Search Preferences.

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The Danger of Prescriptive Grading

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Over the past several decades legislatures have enacted countless laws that have strangled teachers’ creativity, flexibility, and ability to respond to the needs of their students. Far too often, instead of being valued, policy makers devalue us and view teachers as replaceable cogs. Four states, Arkansas, Florida, West Virginia and South Carolina, have even gone beyond [.].

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Harness Power with New Processors

EdTech Magazine

'By Rutrell Yasin An onslaught of new devices and capacity needs will boost the impact of low-powered servers in the data center.

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22 Ways to Add Rigor to Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Let’s start by clearing up a misconception: Rigor isn’t unfriendly. Adding it to your class doesn’t mean you become boring, a techie, or overseer of a fun-free zone. In fact, done right, rigor fills your class with Wow , those epiphanies that bring a smile to student faces and a sense of well-being to their school day. Rigor provides positive experiences, is an emotional high, and engenders a pervasive sense of accomplishment students will carry for years–and use as a te

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Some students need our help

Dangerously Irrelevant

'An inner city high school. 95% of the student population receives free or reduced lunch. A dozen amazing students and an inspiring teacher. And a donor that promises to help them achieve a trip of a lifetime. But with just weeks to go (and after months of fundraising), the donor backs out… Read their story, see their travel itinerary and learning objectives, and contribute anything you can.

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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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Make it Quick: A 3-Step Approach for Over-the-Shoulder Feedback

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Conferences are intended to foster growth. Here, the student and the teacher come together one on one in order to move their work and their learning forward. Definitions of quality are considered, and criteria specific feedback is provided. As a teacher, I’ve always felt that this is where my most important work is accomplished.

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Schools Move Toward Software-Defined Data Centers

EdTech Magazine

'By Steve Zurier District IT managers say this form of virtualization will save money and add efficiencies, freeing IT to focus more on applications.

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All Kids Have Worth

User Generated Education

'All kids have worth. Some, though, want to prove to us that they have none. Our job as caring educators is to prove them wrong. This post was sparked by a blog post by. " href="https://twitter.com/mraspinall">Brian Aspinall , 5 Reasons Why I Stopped Sending Kids Out of Class and a follow up Twitter conversation I had with. " href="https://twitter.com/mraspinall">Brian Aspinall and Terry Heick.

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Nostalgic for factual recall

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Two quotes from today’s article in The Des Moines Register , Iowa Poll: Common Core not so radioactive for Iowans : Ah, the good old days. When Iowa Poll respondents opposed to Common Core standards were asked about their objections, some lamented the shift from traditional teaching methods such as rote memorization of facts and formulas to a focus on more critical thinking.

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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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Building an Authentic Culture of Professional Learning

Digital Promise

'Many sectors, including education, acknowledge that learning does not end when formal training does. In particular, key innovations of the last two decades have opened new possibilities for ongoing learning. As a result, where we learn and where we receive credit for that learning are not necessarily the same place. While this affords learners unprecedented freedom, it also can make it difficult to effectively recognize that learning.

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Microsoft Goes Worldwide with Free Office 365 for Schools Offering

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Microsoft is going head-to-head with other cloud services.

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g(Math) - insert graphs and math expressions in Google Forms and Docs

Educational Technology Guy

'g(Math) is a Google Forms and Google Docs Add-on that allows you to insert graphs and mathematical expressions into your Google Forms and Google Docs. This is very useful for math and science classes and allows teachers and students to better utilize Forms and Docs in class, and for classes using Chromebooks. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Workshop responses: Incorporating students’ learning interests and passions

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Here are some data from a workshop I did with 80 educators… What would this look like in your school? What could / should it look like? Here are some more positive comments from the participants: We enjoy celebrating out of class interests and talents. It’s great to let students choose their own topics based on their own interests for assignments whenever possible.

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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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6 reasons you should ditch your edtech

Ditch That Textbook

'Technology in education is transformational. Revolutionary. Today’s technology in our pockets can do what cost us thousands of dollars in equipment in the past. It can connects us to people and places and events virtually anywhere in the world. But it’s not the be-all, end-all in education. It’s not the silver bullet. And there are [.].

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Pre-K–12 Digital Market Rises in Value to $8.38B

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Revenue for online courses grew 320 percent since last year''s report.

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CK-12 has over 100,000 teacher created digital textbooks available for free

Educational Technology Guy

'CK-12 , a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that there are now over 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks available online on their site. These new "Flexbooks" were created by the 30,000 schools that are using CK-12''s free digital resources. They also have some great physics simulations and other resources available, as well as new elementary math resources and PLIX (Play, Learning, Interact, eXplore) which provides an interactive and immersive

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Twenty Creative Ways to Check for Understanding

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Fist to five, tickets out the door, and think/pair/share are some of the more common ways I watch teachers check for understanding. This is important work, and when we choose our strategies purposefully, the results better inform our practice. Here’s what I’m wondering today, as I lead conversations about checking for understanding on the ground, [.].

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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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10 ways to find global connections for your class

Ditch That Textbook

'Taking classes global is one of my favorite ways that technology redefines what education can do. It boggles the mind to think that a classroom, individual or place can be thousands of miles away but close enough virtually to engage in face-to-face conversation. With communication tools like Google Hangouts, Skype and FaceTime, virtually anyone with [.].

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5 Best Online Presentation Tools for the Classroom

TeacherCast

'Are you being efficient with the way you do your presentations? These 5 presentation tools are my most used and favorite ways to help my students.

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PowToon Edu - create awesome presentations and animated videos

Educational Technology Guy

'PowToon is a free web app that lets you create presentations and animated videos. PowToon Edu is a free Chrome app extension that does the same on Chromebooks and Chrome browsers. There is also an education page. It''s easy to use and there are some great resources on the site to help you learn how to use it. It can be used by teachers to make their presentations more engaging, and by students to create presentations for their projects.

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Traditional Teachers Send the Wrong Message to Students

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. This post appeared on another blog years ago, when I first started transitioning my class from traditional to student-centered practice–a class I called a Results Only Learning Environment. Today, we rehash the post, wondering if classrooms are changing, despite the stranglehold standardization and high stakes testing may have on them.

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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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Which of These 4 Instructional Strategies Do You Use in Your Class ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

'February 21, 2015 Instructional strategies, according to Alberta Learning, are “techniques teachers use to help students become independent, strategic learners. These strategies become learning.read more.

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Learn all about App Smashing and Apple Distinguished Educators with @JCorippo

TeacherCast

'Learn how you can become an Apple Distinguished Educator today! Jon Corippo discusses his tips and tricks to making a great ADE video. www.TeacherCast.net The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com ([link]. Many great ways to participate in the.

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Social Media in Education Resources and Guides

Educational Technology Guy

'Social Media is an incredible resource for education. Educators can learn, share, connect and more with educators from around the world. They can collaborate and communicate with students, parents, and colleagues. There are many different social media networks, and lots of ways to use them. Social media has been embraced by many educators, but many other educators, administrators and parents are concerned about using social media with students.

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Document Learning Made Visible with the Super Note App

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. This year, I’ve spent a good deal of time coaching students and teachers to make learning visible within and beyond their classrooms. This may sound easy, but it isn’t. There’s a difference between displaying student work and capturing the actual moves that deepened understanding or improved performance. Those who strive to make learning visible appreciate [.].

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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.