Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2015

The end of the school year typically blows by in a blur of exams. I’m often left wishing I had done more to get my students reflecting on the year. Not this year! This year, I am going to have my students write themselves a letter to be delivered in the future. Instead of collecting stacks of paper letters in envelopes to put in the snail mail years after my students have left my class, I am going to use Remind2Me to get my students reflecting on the year, articulating what is important in

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 6, 2015

As educators, we can help students navigate racial trauma by providing safe spaces for honest conversations about their stressful experiences related to race. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 3, 2015

I pondered just sending out the title of this post as a tweet – short, sweet (well not so much), and to the point. Instead of just throwing out a sound bite into the social media abyss a detailed explanation is in order. Now here’s why. As of late I have been working with a greater number of teachers across the country on digital leadership and learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

I have a thing for office supplies! I think it comes from being a teacher. This week (May 3-9) is Teacher Appreciation Week. Now, I can share my favorite productivity tips and tools (as always) along with how to get them for yourself at your local Staples store. Staples Teacher Rewards Offer for Teacher Appreciation Week. This Teacher Appreciation Week, May 3-9 , Staples has a best-ever offering of 40 percent back in Staples Teacher Rewards.

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User Generated Education

MAY 6, 2015

I was recently asked what is was about my childhood that led to me being an adult who makes and who advocates that everyone should make in one form or another. I believe there were several childhood experiences that contributed to me becoming a lifelong maker. I was born a very curious and creative kid. This was accepted by my mother who gave me the freedom to be so.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 7, 2015

Are you preparing to present your ed-tech startup or your education project at an expo? Don't forget to bring these things. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2015

The Struggle to "Go For It" with No Regrets on the Family Front I loved Sheryl Sandberg’s TED speech upon which a movement began. But I am sitting here reflecting upon it and how I feel about my decisions to put family first. I wrote this post in 2014 but didn’t publish it. Perhaps it is the untimely death of Sheryl Sandberg’s husband that has me reflecting back upon this.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 4, 2015

Let’s be honest: students and parents obtain no tangible benefit from large-scale annual testing. Kids and families give up numerous days of learning time – both for the tests themselves and for the test prep sessions whose sole purpose is to get ready for the tests – and for what? The data come back too late to be actionable. The questions are shrouded in secrecy so that no one has any idea what students actually missed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2015

This is for both younger and older students so check these out–pick the ones that work for you: America’s Story. America–Colonies. American Indians. Civil War I video. Civil War II video. Civil War—reconstruction—video. Colonial America–life. Growth of the USA. Historic speeches. Jamestown Adventure Game. Mt. Vernon. Native American Conflicts.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 5, 2015

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” – Charlie Munger. I’ve been very blessed to be able to train teachers and teach students in over 20 countries. In 2009, I began my journey as a connected educator and learned how to use social media and web tools to share my knowledge and materials. In the process, I also discovered how to supplement my income.

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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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Tom Murray

MAY 6, 2015

Routers on school buses to bring wifi to the poorest parts of the community. District wifi maps indicating free business hotspots throughout the community. Wifi kiosks in low income housing. With the explosion of digital learning over the past decade, school districts are starting to tackle access and connectivity issues, as well as providing anytime, anywhere learning experiences for kids.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 7, 2015

Jo Boaler said: data from the 13 million students who took PISA [math] tests showed that the lowest-achieving students worldwide were those who used a memorization strategy – those who thought of math as a set of methods to remember and who approached math by trying to memorize steps. The highest-achieving students were those who thought of math as a set of connected, big ideas. … [wait for it…]. … The U.S. has more memorizers than most other countries in the world. via [link

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2015

By D. Frank Smith Google's Zach Yeskel talks with EdTech about progress made since Classroom was first unveiled in 2014.

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Doug Levin

MAY 7, 2015

A timely new report, “ A Path to the Future: Creating Accountability for Personalized Learning ,” by Anne Hyslop and Sara Mead of Bellwether Education Partners argues that federal policymakers ought to rethink accountability provisions in a new ESEA in light of innovations in personalized learning – a concept that the authors themselves (to their credit) describe as “ complicated to explain ” (p. 11), “ conflated with other, related efforts ” (p.13), and

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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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User Generated Education

MAY 8, 2015

Google has an initiative entitled Googlers Teaching Googlers: Googler to Googler places employees from across departments into teaching roles. Classes taught Googler to Googler—everything from kickboxing to parenting— are initiated and designed by employees. Telling your employees that you want them to learn is different than asking them to promote that culture themselves.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 2, 2015

Diane Ravitch said: It’s totally inappropriate to compare opting out of testing to opting out of immunization. One has a scientific basis, the other has none. The tests that kids take today have nothing to do with the tests that we took when we were kids. When we were kids, we took an hour test to see how we did in reading, an hour test to see how we did in math.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2015

By D. Frank Smith More teachers and school administrators are catching on to the power of flipped classrooms. .

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 4, 2015

With new technology, today’s classrooms have tools that can make learning happen that was impossible in recent years. Now, students can create impressive products as class projects that would have required lots of equipment or money in the past. The smartphones that many students carry in their pockets are much more powerful than the technology [.].

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Brilliant or Insane

MAY 8, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. So, how do teachers throw out grades? Is this a real thing? What replaces grades? How is feedback delivered to large audiences? What about pushback from parents, colleagues and students? These questions are answered in this slide deck and in Assessment 3.0, linked below. What else do you want to know about teachers who throw out […].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 7, 2015

In most online courses and/or ‘adaptive learning systems’ … Students do low-level work at times that are convenient. Students do low-level work from places that are convenient. Students do low-level work on their own, unique path. Students do low-level work at their own, unique pace. But it’s still low-level work. . Digitizing, chunking, and algorithmizing worksheet-like learning tasks doesn’t move them out of the domains of factual recall and procedural regurgitation.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 6, 2015

Google Classroom is Google's learning management system, allowing teachers and students to share assignments and communicate online. It is easy to use and works great, but there were some features teachers were asking for. Well, Google listened! Google announced some great additional features last month and has just announced some new features for the mobile apps: Teachers can now create and edit assignments, make copies of attachments and attach photos to assignments as well as grade assignment

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 4, 2015

May 5, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 6, Number 3. Driving Question: How can projects and partnerships help all students discover the real work world? "Understanding is not a precursor to application, analysis, evaluating, and creating but a result of it". -R. Richard and K. Morrison. "In the real world." is a phrase often shared by teachers/parents in relation to the importance of learning.

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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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Brilliant or Insane

MAY 2, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. Mother’s Day is approaching, and I’ll be spending part of it helping my daughter weed out her bedroom. She’s leaving for college in August and preparing this space for her younger sister, who has been looking forward to inheriting the bigger room since she started middle school. Like many educators, I’ll dedicate a part of […].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 3, 2015

Sir Ken Robinson said: It’s not the need for standards. It’s the way they play out. testing is not some benign educational process. It is a multibillion-dollar industry that is absorbing massive time, resources and cash that could be used for other things. Its a massive profit-making machine. You can look at the value of there being some sort of commonly-agreed standards and some core content that could be helpful to schools.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 7, 2015

Last month, I published a post entitled "Important Skills Students Need for the Future that we need to help them learn" in which I described what I, and other research, felt were the most important skills for students to learn to succeed in the future. It also showed that these same skills were important to employers for their employees to have. Here is a nice poster showing 7 Key Skills for Employability.

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 7, 2015

We have no idea what the future holds for today’s students. We don’t know what their workforce will look like. As educators, it’s still our job to prepare them for that future. Now, we have a little more guidance. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted surveys, asking students to teachers to senior business executives about how to [.].

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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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Brilliant or Insane

MAY 2, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. In a world ruled by content curation, every educator should be passing along social media strategies to students. The “That’s a parent’s job” mantra is not a sufficient excuse for ignoring your responsibility here. We’re in this together. Students must be taught early and often how to create, locate, maintain and share content. And they […].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2015

Are they learning or just parroting? Download this slide: png.jpg.key.pptx. Image credit: Parrot’s portrait , Patrick Bouquet. See also my other slides , my Pinterest collection , and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. Related Posts. 5 great slides about technology, learning, and change. Can’t we do better than the evolutionary filmstrip?

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Battelle for Kids

MAY 3, 2015

April 28, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 6, Number 1. Driving Question: How can today's schools deepen local partnerships in the community? There is an old French school of painting, called En plen d'air , which—when translated literally— means "in the open air." This means of artistic expression, made popular by Monet and his fellow impressionists, stresses the importance of actually being outside, of interacting with the world in which one is painting, if one wants to best represent real, natural life.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 8, 2015

Edueto is a free service that allows teachers to create their own online activities for students. Teachers can create exercises such as quizzes, matching, writing, sorting, equations, sequences and more and assign them to their students to complete. Student progress is tracked. There are also exercises created by other teachers that you can use and even edit.

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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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