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14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it. The post 14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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Tract–A new way to learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tract is a peer-to-peer, on-demand, project-based learning platform designed for grades 3-12. It includes classes and lesson plans, even themed clubs. It focuses on building student creativity, critical thinking, and independence–skills students need to become prosperous, happy adults. Overview. If you haven’t heard of Tract, that’s alright.

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3 Reasons Why the Cloud Continues to Be Overlooked in K–12 Cybersecurity

EdTech Magazine

District technology leaders once again named cybersecurity as their top priority, yet school districts continue to fall victim to cyberattacks. In fact, K–12 education is now one of the top targeted industries. Why? Cybercrime has evolved, but cybersecurity strategies haven’t. While K–12 education is a leader in cloud adoption, driven by the embrace of Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, districts often aren’t properly securing it.

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Setting the Stage for Current and Future Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

The traditional goal of any education system is to prepare students for either college or careers. Over the years, I would say that while this view still holds value, the context has changed dramatically. The world has radically evolved as a result of constantly advancing technology and the COVID-19 pandemic. With knowledge readily available and the means to seamlessly engage in digital spaces now the norm, educators need to keep pace and ensure that the strategies they use will serve learners w

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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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Student Choice and Voice Can Equal the Best Day Ever

User Generated Education

As is true for a lot of progressive educators, I have a belief in and attempt to practice the implementation of student voice and choice: Sometimes this means fully letting go of the reins so learners become fully self-directed. I had the privilege of witnessing this in action one afternoon last week. I use the word, “witness,” as it was fully and totally due to the actions of one student.

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Tackling the digital divide after the pandemic

Neo LMS

Digitization has changed how we communicate, access services, and the extent of technology present in our lives. Ever since the internet emerged, we have witnessed a new reality among people: those who have access to technology and the internet, and those who don’t. Although the digital divide was not caused by the pandemic, it was definitely exacerbated by it.

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Often, these go undiagnosed as students, parents, and teachers simply think the child is not a good reader, is lazy, or is disinterested. Thankfully, the International Dyslexia Association sponsors an annual Dyslexia Awareness Month in October aimed to expand comprehension of this little-understood language-based learning condition.

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3 Steps for WORD Workouts to See Better Social Emotional Health and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Social emotional health matters. WORD Workouts are a fantastic way to help students connect with their emotions. Additionally, these quick lessons promote student social emotional health. In these times, we know that helping students express how they are feeling can help them better cope with their emotions.

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Making educators’ lives easier for World Teachers’ Day

Neo LMS

Happy World Teachers’ Day! October 5th is all about celebrating all the wonderful educators around the world. At the same time, this day is also about supporting teachers so that every learner can have access to quality education. It’s no secret that teaching is already a stressful profession and the pandemic hasn’t made their jobs any easier. In fact, more than three in four teachers say that job-related stress has taken its toll on them during the 2020-2021 school year.

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Adobe Spark’s All-in-One Design Tool Adds Creativity to Every Class

EdTech Magazine

Some students mistakenly think creativity happens only in art class. That’s not true. With the right tools, students can bring creative design to nearly any class or project. As someone who has used Adobe’s many professional design tools for years, I was excited when it introduced Spark to the mix. By incorporating features from its professional design software suite, Adobe has created a browser-based tool that allows nondesigners such as K–12 students to add creative elements to social media po

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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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Student collaboration in shared Google Slides

Ditch That Textbook

Teamwork is a desirable job skill in today's economy. When we let students collaborate, we prepare them for the future! Here's how Google Slides can help.Part of the reason social media has taken off so much are the connections. Seeing other people’s reaction to what you’ve shared. Learning from others. We can get the same attraction […]. The post Student collaboration in shared Google Slides appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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SEL at Scale: How Edtech Can Support Meaningful Social and Emotional Learning

Digital Promise

“Connection is the most important piece of the puzzle for the student-teacher relationship. … Students are more successful when they feel that their teacher understands them and understands where they’re coming from.”- High school teacher, Tennessee. This past year, with the emergency shift to remote working and learning, the importance of relationships has become more apparent than ever.

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Books I read in September 2021

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2021… Serpentine , Jonathan Kellerman (thriller). A Time of Courage , John Gwynne (fantasy). The Dragon’s Path , Daniel Abraham (fantasy). The King’s Blood , Daniel Abraham (fantasy). The Tyrant’s Law , Daniel Abraham (fantasy). The Widow’s House , Daniel Abraham (fantasy). The Spider’s War , Daniel Abraham (fantasy).

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CDW Tech Talk: Innovating on a Small Budget and Limited Staff

EdTech Magazine

Finding the money and staff to make technology innovations can be challenging, especially for small school districts. In this CDW Tech Talk webcast, learn how a strategic partner can help you innovate, even with limited resources. REGISTER: Enjoy these live conversations every Tuesday. Register for the full series with one click.

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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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National Bullying Prevention Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying is no longer relegated to the playground or the neighborhood. It now regularly happens in the cyberworld. Kids don’t expect that and often don’t know how to handle it. In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying.

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Personalizing Learning: The Goal is Student Ownership

Education Elements

Think back to when you had a deep sense of ownership in your learning; a time when you went above and beyond the expectations because of your own curiosity or passion. For me, this was in seventh grade during a career exploration project. I wanted to be an architect, and I not only wrote a report about the profession, but I created an entire imagined autobiography of myself as an accomplished architect, complete with sketches of a model home.

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What Do Teachers Know About Student Privacy? Not Enough, Researchers Say

Edsurge

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Mandinach and a colleague were tasked with answering. More specifically, they wanted to know what state guidelines had to say on the matter. Was that information included in codes of education ethics?

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Grade Your Cybersecurity Preparedness Checklist

EdTech Magazine

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving. With cyberattacks on the rise, particularly against K–12 schools, IT administrators need to be sure their district’s network is protected. Taking every precaution won’t stop bad actors from trying to access valuable student data, but these steps will make it harder for them to breach school networks.

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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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500 digital learning activities for the in-person or virtual classroom

eSchool News

When schools abruptly shifted to online learning in March of 2020, a flurry of announcements about free digital learning resources followed. Gradually, schools returned to hybrid learning and, now, most districts are back to full in-person learning. But a new move puts 500 daily resources into teachers’ hands for free, no matter where students are learning.

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From Strategic Planning to Strategic Practice: Three Key Actions to Keep in Mind

Education Elements

Strategic planning is the process of setting short and long-term goals, deciding on actions to achieve those goals and assembling the teams and resources needed to take those actions. Districts of all sizes benefit from developing a long range plan that formalizes the district’s mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives, while engaging the community, with the ultimate goal of both improving operational efficiency and providing an exceptional educational experience for all stakeholders.

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Why Our Trauma-Informed Teaching Must Be More Culturally Responsive

Edsurge

Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. For the final research assignment, I choose to explore the disproportionate rates of suicide among Native American youth—an issue that impacts nearly all tribal communities, including my own, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

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Twitter for Teachers Professional Development: A Guide to Advanced Search Tips

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging platform among educators. More and more teachers are drawing on its communicative and social networking powers to connect, share, and grow.read more.

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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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5 Podcasts for Middle Schoolers

Teacher Tech

Melody McAllister, Community Facilitator for AK Teacher Tech on Facebook, shares five, FREE podcasts that were recommended by amazing middle school teachers! The post 5 Podcasts for Middle Schoolers appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Middle school minds: Figuring out who you are in the midst of global turmoil

The Hechinger Report

Isabella Juma turned 13 on February 19, 2020, just weeks before Covid-19 changed the world forever. The first year of teenagerhood would have been a milestone any year, but for Isabella and her peers, a global pandemic, a contentious election and racial conflict forced them out of childhood abruptly. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Gone were the days when she could be just “happy” and “jolly,” she said.

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The Universal Laptop Program Helping One State Narrow the Digital Divide

Edsurge

When this school year began, parents, teachers and students rejoiced over the long-awaited return to in-person instruction. But just when the pandemic appeared to be over, the Delta variant has caused districts to rethink their plans for bringing students and staff back to school. In some states, the seven-day rate of new coronavirus cases is twice as high as it was this time last year.

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Here Is How to Use Google Drawings to Create Digital Badges

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A few weeks ago I reviewed Magic Digital Badges which is a Google Drive add-on that enables you to easily design and assign digital badges to students. In today's post, I am sharing with you.read more.

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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.

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Spooky Stories & Creative Writing

Teacher Tech

Educator, Melody McAllister, shares reading and writing activities to follow up two spooky short stories read by author, Jeff Szpirglas. The post Spooky Stories & Creative Writing appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Tips for Integrating SEL in 5 Middle Level Subjects

MiddleWeb

To help middle graders learn and practice social and emotional skills, teacher and Director of Studies Kasey Short offers ways to incorporate SEL across the content areas, from considering the motivations of historical figures to creating reality-based math word problems. The post Tips for Integrating SEL in 5 Middle Level Subjects first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Should Robots Replace Teachers?

Edsurge

Last week brought one of those surprising new gadget announcements from a tech giant, with Amazon unveiling a home robot it calls Astro, a rolling contraption about the size of a small dog with a screen for a head and a cup holder so it can bring its owner a drink. This got us thinking—what could the rise of low-cost robots mean for education? One person who has dug into that topic is Neil Selwyn, a research professor of education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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AR Apps to Help Students Learn Human Anatomy in 3D

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below are two practical AR apps to engage students in immersive learning experiences about the human anatomy. The firs app, Dissection XR, is now free and only for a limited period of time (Its.read more.

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Building the Foundation for a Modern K-12 Classroom

K-12 looks different these days. But one thing remains the same: you need a reliable learning platform that serves as the foundation for teaching and learning––for all students, in a variety of learning experiences. Discover how the Instructure Learning Platform supports today's K-12 classroom through: A central, consistent, connected hub of the digital learning environment.