EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A simplified ed tech evaluation process is on the horizon.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 26, 2017

At Communication APPtitude we developed our product before our business plan. For us, it worked. The post Building a Startup Business Backwards: Why It Can Work appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

How to improve learning and listening in the classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teachers want their students to create, but don’t want to fight with clunky technology. Listening skills and learning can be improved with podcasting. Today’s show will help you understand one of the simplest technologies to use in the classroom: podcasting.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Moodle is an open source free cloud-based learning platform used by over 96 million people to create over 11 million courses. These can be a simple activity or a fully-featured course. The platform offers a plethora of tools to customize courses as pretty much whatever teachers need, including: Upload video, audio, and links. Engage students in a discussion forum or a survey.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 24, 2017

I have a confession to make. I’m heavily invested in Google, being a Google Certified Innovator, using Google tools all the time and suggesting them to teachers. (No, that’s not the confession yet …) I’ve had great things to say about so many Google products over the years. Except one: Google Sites. I think “despise” [.].

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A Florida principal explains how ed tech has helped boost student outcomes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

I’ve written a lot lately about the benefits of using videos in your classroom. Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. Education is something that will never go out of style.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 26, 2017

In my own high school Spanish classes, this happened all the time. We talked in class. I wrote and drew notes on the board, creating a great summary of our discussion. Guess what the students wanted to do at the end of class. Yep, you guessed it: take a picture of the whiteboard. I’m not [.].

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2017

By Mike Karlin For new technology to be effective, educators need to be prepared.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over the years, LearnLaunch's Across Boundaries conference has engendered conversations on everything from STEM learning to augmented reality. The 2017 conference in Boston is coming up. The post Ed-Tech Startup Conference Pushes Boundaries appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2017

My daughter just bought her first house (though it went on hold several times as the Navy threatened/offered to move her). We wanted a simple way to share a ToDo list that would be available on phones, iPads, and computers, and would auto-update with our ideas. I looked at a variety of options, but found something wrong with each of them. Until I found Google Keep.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2017

I had the opportunity the learn about Dr. Reuven Feuerstein through Dr. Yvette Jackson at a National Urban Alliance conference almost 20 years ago. The biggest thing I took from that conference, that remains with me today, is that if learner potential is discussed, there is an assumption there is a limit of cap to what can be learned. If educators perceive their students as having a propensity for learning, there is no cap.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A keynote focusing on incredible innovations paired with a number of tech debuts showcases exciting updates to education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. This is not a matter of instructor bias; it is the lecture format itself — when used on its own without other instructional supports — that offers unfair advantages to an already privileged population.

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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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Neo LMS

JANUARY 26, 2017

My high school building is a really old one. The institution itself is hundreds of years old but the building as well passed the three hundred year mark quite some time ago. Its classrooms, furniture and sometimes creaky floor oozes history and heritage. Walking through the hallways and sitting in its amphitheater feels like a field trip to Hogwarts.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2017

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a PBS member station widely recognized as a leader in developing digital learning opportunities for adult basic skills and workplace education. By pairing their extensive network of partnerships with their willingness to continually experiment to develop more effective digital learning opportunities, KET is a true Beacon for adult learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 22, 2017

There are a lot of educational apps and games in the App Store and a great maths one is Dora is counting to 10. Children can learn the numbers 1 to 10 while playing a game with Dora, a clever mouse. The game is inspired by the “ Hejny method ” of teaching mathematics. This method says: Do you know how many windows there are in your house? Probably not by heart… but if you give it some thought, you will be able to come up with an answer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #74–What’s My IP Address?

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 26, 2017

The 2017 Global Student Conference, a student-organized event, will be held ONLINE on Saturday March 4th, 2017, and feature keynote speakers and crowdsourced presentations by students in grades 6-12 and college. There is no cost to participate or attend. The theme for this year is “STEM + Entrepreneurship.” The event provides an international forum for the presentation, discussion, and sharing of best practices in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and entrepreneurship in

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2017

Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. The Summit focused on developing action-oriented solutions to meet the needs of this growing ecosystem. During the event, we launched Educators Rising’s “Aspiring to Teach” micro-credential stack to support pre-service educators as they develop foundational practices and

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

Martin McKay is the Chief Technology officer and one of the founders of Texthelp Inc. He directs all research and development at Texthelp with a focus on developing new technologies to assist people who struggle with reading and writing. Martin also serves in working groups to advise the US Department of Education on the accessibility of education materials, and Universal Design for Learning.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 25, 2017

If you wait until you’re ready for personalized learning, you’ll never get started! Our antiquated, factory-style education system is failing our students. It’s also failing our teachers. We have more and more students each year struggling to find relevance and connections between what they do in school each day and their future hopes and dreams. Every day, hundreds of thousands of students walk into their school buildings hoping that this day will be the day that school connects with them, is r

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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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JANUARY 27, 2017

Screen time is all about moderation. Parents can help their child find quality media using these resources. The post Help Your Kids Spend Screen Time Wisely appeared first on Blog.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Digital Promise filmMAKER™ Challenge is an opportunity for middle and high school students to learn about product design and filmmaking through a set of activities, projects, and challenges. These experiences culminate in a final project: redesigning an everyday object and creating a documentary video that tells the story of the process. To help teachers lead this challenge with their students, Digital Promise has scheduled a series of webinars with experts in design education and film produ

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

You might expect Turnitin ’s Vice President of New Technologies, Elijah Mayfield, to have a lifelong penchant for technology. But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. He also spent time consulting for high profile companies like CTB McGraw-Hill and College Board, which wanted to learn more about student writing.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 24, 2017

New student orientation can be a hectic time for not only students but also staff. It marks a critical time in which students are provided with all the information they will need to succeed. It quickly became clear to us that some technology could be used to assist in the on-boarding process. We at Campus Sail have spent the last year building out an online new student orientation platform.

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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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Securly

JANUARY 27, 2017

Screen time is all about moderation. Parents can help their child find quality media using these resources. The post Help Your Kids Spend Screen Time Wisely appeared first on Blog.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2017

We all have had students in our classroom who dislike reading. You can spot them easily during their silent reading time: staring at the wall, using the bathroom, or attempting to sharpen pencils that clearly do not need sharpening. Sadly, the number seems to jump year after year. You attempt to cajole, differentiate, and bring in parents knowing that the only way to improve reading is to read.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2017

Two of my students stared at me, and then at each other. Each held up a sheet of graph paper, but their graphs were different. And then, one of them asked the question I knew was coming. “But, who is right?” I looked at them and said, “You tell me.” The activity I had planned for that day involved showing a video of a man running around a baseball diamond in typical order: home, first, second, third, back to home.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 27, 2017

I recently did some writing for Scholastic, listing a number of ways to use technology in lessons. Click here for the full resource. Tagged: classroom technology , edtech , education , educational technology , teachers , teaching , technology.

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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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