eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

A new report outlines the need for K-16 students to develop key data literacy skills. Focusing on three specific areas could be key to boosting K-16 students’ data literacy in a world where big data’s importance grows daily, according to a new report. EDC’s Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) convened an expert panel of data analysts and educators for a workshop on data literacy, and panelists focused on what it means to be data literate in today’s world of big data, as well as what

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 18, 2016

The post 7 Ways To Remove The Gamification In Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. The number of American teachers using games in classrooms–particularly with younger students–has doubled over the past six years, according to a large survey released last week that measures national ed-tech use. In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010.

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The Journal

MAY 17, 2016

Naya Salah, a seventh grader at Stratford School's Santa Clara Middle School, uses a videoconferencing system called Beam to attend school as she recovers from leukemia and gets chemotherapy.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

Catch up on the most compelling K-12 news stories you may have missed this week. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2016

A Tip for Parents and Teachers From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He was dyslexic. I’m not sure if there is such a thing is “very” dyslexic. If there was, he was. I had a trick that worked with my older children. But would it work for him? The “trick” was simple. On a long trip, I would start reading the Chronicles of Narnia.

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The Journal

MAY 16, 2016

If adults want to help teenagers learn how to handle the big risks of Internet usage, the best thing we can do is let them get used to handling smaller risky online situations. That's the conclusion from a Pennsylvania State University research project that examined adolescent online safety.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

Recently I was invited by the Natick, Mass. public schools to attend an Apple Distinguished Schools Day where Natick shared its blended learning approach with other schools and districts. As an online learning tool, Listen Current fits well into blended learning, but I wanted to learn more about how schools are adopting it and how we as a company can be more attractive to schools using blended learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2016

End the School Year Like a Pirate with Dave Burgess From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Your legacy moment as a teacher is the last day of school. In today’s high-energy show Dave Burgess will get us all motivated to end the school year well. Don’t wind down, you’ve got to wind up at the end of the school year!

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 20, 2016

By Meg Conlan Experts from around the web share tactics and advice for educators who want to make the most of Google Forms.

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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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The Journal

MAY 17, 2016

A number of private colleges have recently signed on for a program that gives them marketing access to potential students whose families have accounts at specific financial companies.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2016

I’ll tell you a little secret: I was awful at cheating at tests in school. I used to be a pretty good student: I paid attention to class, I did my homework every time, and I scored quite decently in tests. But cool kids usually did the opposite. In a ridiculously naive attempt to become a cool kid myself, I decided one day that I shall cheat on the next test.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2016

Living an Epic Life Full of Meaning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Examine your relationships. You may find a secret stash of energy waiting to be unleashed. The People Who Drain Our Energy. Some people are vampires. When they come around, you taste dread. Inevitably, they will suck your blood. Well, not literally, they won’t suck your blood.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 15, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “The expert at anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes. Goal: Get students to share advice for being successful in your class, class subject, or grade level. Accomplish this goal: Ask your learners to come up with advice for being successful in your class, the grade level, or subject.

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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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The Journal

MAY 17, 2016

More than half of students (58 percent) in a recent study couldn't read content displayed on a 70-inch flat panel in an average-sized classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 18, 2016

By Meg Conlan The new partnership will combine Sesame Street programming with Watson technology to reimagine early childhood education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

The Need. Perhaps you’ve seen the statistics — more than 30 million adults in the U.S. are unable read, write, and solve basic math equations. But our adult basic education programs can only serve roughly four million of those adults. This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources.

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Doug Levin

MAY 16, 2016

My reaction to a news story about an education company acquisition seems to have set off a debate in my twitter feed about the intersection of open educational resources (OER) and the role of the private, for-profit sector in the K-12 content/curriculum market: For the love of all things good and holy, can we not keep confounding ‘open’ with ‘free’?

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The Journal

MAY 17, 2016

The National Institute for STEM Education has partnered with Chalk & Wire in an effort to improve assessment of STEM teachers as they seek certification.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2016

By Meg Conlan Poor academic outcomes haven’t stopped the online education industry from growing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2016

Buncee is a web- and iPad-based creation tool for both teachers and students. With it, teachers can prepare engaging lessons, newsletters, and how-tos. Students can write interactive digital stories, easy-to build presentations, and more. The drag-and-drop interface makes it simple to put exactly what you want where it fits. If you ever struggle with getting PowerPoint to do what you want, you won’t with Buncee.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 16, 2016

Timetables are very important to have in the classroom. Children need to know what they will be studying over the day. In particular, it is known that pupils with special educational needs, benefit from the structure and support of a timetable. A visual timetable is great because students of all ages can understand it and it’s clear to see.

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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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The Journal

MAY 16, 2016

There are some that use technology to support construction-oriented pedagogies — maker movement, project-based learning — and some that use technology to support instruction-oriented pedagogies — personalized learning. Instruction may well be less costly to deliver — but the loss of the opportunity to develop our children’s creativity is inestimable.

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 15, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 9. Driving Question: How should play be integrated into early classrooms in support of deeper student learning? First Grade students arrive at school to find unfamiliar music playing in the background of their classroom. The teacher greets them at the door in a red and gold traditional Chinese suit. The Smithsonian Museum's Giant Panda Cam is playing on the classroom's ENO board, for ongoing student observation.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2016

[ Want to be the Seed-to-Table Manager here? Read the job description and then email the superintendent. ]. Shovels busy at work, three young children dig and cut through the earth, turning over the rich black soil underneath. They have a long planting row to create, but the sun is out and the weather is perfect. Their female classmate, in her blue-striped jumper and pink flip flops, carefully pats dirt around a seedling.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 16, 2016

Timetables are very important to have in the classroom. Children need to know what they will be studying over the day. In particular, it is known that pupils with special educational needs, need the structure and support of a timetable. A visual timetable is great because student’s of all ages can understand it and it is clear to see. I have made an electronic timetable which can be projected to the whole class or shared with them using a class management tool such as Google Classroom.

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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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The Journal

MAY 16, 2016

Students from elementary school through community college will take part in the sixth annual C-STEM Day held by the University of California, Davis on May 21. The C-STEM Day events will take place at the UC Davis campus and at University High School in Irvine, CA.

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 17, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 10. Driving Question: "What if.parents and school districts harnessed the full power of play as a 21st Century tool for students to experience and develop 21st Century skills?". As educators, we embrace the task of teaching children to be creative problem solvers, communicators, collaborators and critical thinkers—using these tools to solve challenges with gusto.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2016

This is the second guest post in a series on Response to Intervention (RTI) by Dr. Chris Weber , a Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on the topic with the International Center for Leadership in Education. Check out the first post in the series HERE on differentiation. A Comprehensive Approach to Early Intervention within an RTI-Inspired System of Supports for Rigorous Learning, prior to a Referral for Special Education Assessment Differentiation, special education, and response to intervention (R

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 19, 2016

This term, my class’s science topic is ‘healthy bodies’ Last week we went live on Facebook whilst doing a heart dissection. This week, we looked at what happens to the heart during exercise. I started off by showing the students this excellent video as a reminder of last week’s learning: A group discussion followed about what happens to the heart when we exercise.

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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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