Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In the last ten years, the narrative about teaching and education has struck me as extremely negative. I hear about schools failing students and bad teachers hiding behind tenure. As an educator pushing for innovative change in this space, I recognize that education must evolve to prepare students for an unknown future. However, the wonderful work teachers are doing every day is often lost in the conversation about education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Leadership and Support of the New Teaching Professional From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The first year is the toughest. Pretty much every teacher will tell you that. It is when the students will try you. The first year is often when colleagues are the most unsupportive. You don’t know everybody’s names.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

There is a huge disconnect between how people learn naturally and how students are taught in public education. Mark Twain once quipped, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”. In school, students are expected to. Sit in uncomfortable desks and chairs, and expected to pay attention for long periods of time. Learn out of textbooks specifically designed for the institution of education – books that almost no one buys in real life.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By Eric Patnoudes Reading and responding to students’ emotions could help boost engagement levels and academic performance.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

The following is a guest post by Dr. Bill Daggett , Founder and Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Dr. Guy Sconzo , Superintendent of Humble ISD in Humble, TX. In my last guest post , I outlined the ways in which the Every Student Succeeds Act, recently signed into law, gives us a unique chance to create the indicators of achievement that will mean and matter to us—indicators catered to the unique DNA of our states, districts, and schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How to reach every learner every day from a teacher who is doing it From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Physics can be taught with a total project based learning approach and have high test scores. Teacher Ben Owens demonstrates this every day. High poverty and high needs students don’t stop him. He expects 100% engagement from every student every day (and gets it.

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The Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Reportedly some 30,000 Chromebooks come online in K-12 each day. There are positive and negative aspects to that, though, as far as we can tell, the Chromebook invasion is mostly a good thing for education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Dr. Bill Morgan and I have engaged in several months of spirited conversation about keyboarding, pre-keyboarding, and how it can best serve students. Bill is the brilliant creator of Keyboarding Arts and the giant floor keyboard for classrooms. His experience teaching keyboarding often informs me in my art as I adapt to the ever-changing needs of the students in my classes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

An Essential 21st Century Literacy From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Discussion forums and threaded conversation are a basic digital literacy. I teach these using Reddit and the Wikispaces discussion forum. When students and teachers know how to communicate effectively in discussion forums , they make themselves able to join forums correctly.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 9. Driving Question: What if I do more than share grades with parents? I recently met with two parents and their son. It was a conference to discuss how he was doing in class and what they could do at home to help. If that kind of interpersonal communication is the "Gold Standard" of analog communications, we have to concede it's not the only way we can communicate with families, nor is it the most sustainable.

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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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Each student has an individual way of learning and their own pace when it comes to addressing different subjects. Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers could meet all individual learning needs for each student? It definitely would! A personalized learning approach would come with a shift of perspective, changing the focus from the educational system to the students, giving the latter more control over their learning experience and connecting learning with their interests, talents and passions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

I was chatting with Mary over at the Dial My Calls site (click to see my review of Dial My Calls ) and she had some great suggestions for how teachers can use technology to stay in touch with parents: A lot of emphasis has been given to getting parents involved in their child’s education, but with a teacher’s already full schedule and parents who are already stretched thin, this is not always easy to accomplish.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The two types of calendars every collaborative project needs From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Want to see students excited? Want to see them run to class? I’ll never forget the time we skyped with Govinda and his students in Nepal. The fifth graders had an optional meeting at 7 am where they could come to school to meet the other kids half a world away.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

By Matt Renwick Principal Matt Renwick offers a few proven tools for facilitating better digital collaboration. .

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Each student has an individual way of learning and their own pace when it comes to addressing different subjects. Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers could meet all individual learning needs for each student? It definitely would! A personalized learning approach would come with a shift of perspective, changing the focus from the educational system to the students, giving the latter more control over their learning experience and connecting learning with their interests, talents and passions.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Many schools in Iowa are trying to find small chunks of time that allow students to engage in some inquiry- or project-based learning. These might be class-level projects, teacher-led exploratories, or student-led ‘genius hours.’ Several districts in Northwest Iowa are going beyond these smaller experiments, however. They’re carving out a couple of weeks for a ‘J Term’ in January after winter break, or a May Term at the end of the year, or even a mid-semester ‘MidMester Academy.

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Think back to what got you into education in the first place. A specific content area or a bent toward a certain age level might have helped you find your place in the education world. But I’ll bet it didn’t get you into education all together. Was it a desire to help mold the citizens [.].

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

By D. Frank Smith Google signals the departure of Play for Education, the company's educational lens into the Google Play storefront.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative gives students an opportunity to take ownership of their own learning. These schools are using technology to enhance learning in exciting new ways. Classroom lessons are changing and becoming more innovative and personalized. Teachers are empowering students to think about what they want to learn and what interests them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Summit. (noun) A day-long ’sit and get’ event designed to draw political and media attention to the powers-that-be at the top. Usually comprised of speeches, panel presentations, and non-interactive breakout sessions. Iowa antonyms : EdCampIowa, ISLI, StuCamp, EdCampDesMoines, school district unconferences, Iowa 1:1 Institute. Summits are a great way to reinforce the passive, transmission-oriented model of learning.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 8. Driving Question: How does a 21st century classroom communicate student outcomes? In yesterday's post, we shared about learning targets. Today it is student led conferences incorporating learning targets. Learning Targets were part of the solution for communicating with students, but what about our parents? It was then that we decided to do Student Led Conferences (SLCs).

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

By Jenny Allen CDW•G gathered a group of Texas leaders at TCEA to talk about the hurdles of technology in the classroom.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative gives students an opportunity to take ownership of their own learning. These schools are using technology to enhance learning in exciting new ways. Classroom lessons are changing and becoming more innovative and personalized. Teachers are empowering students to think about what they want to learn and what interests them.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

What interesting problems have you posed to students recently? What interesting problems have students asked you? Yesterday I was listening to Tim Ferriss interview Seth Godin on his 4 Hour Work Week podcast: ‘How Seth Godin Manages His Life — Rules, Principles, and Obsessions’ When I got to this quote, I noted the time on the show and went back to it later to share here: “We need to teach students two things: 1.HOW TO LEAD. 2.HOW TO SOLVE INTERESTING PROBL

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Voyager Sopris Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

At EdView360 , we’re big fans of digital learning. We’ve seen the transformative effect that excellent digital instruction can have on students, teachers, and entire classrooms, and we couldn’t be happier today to be celebrating Digital Learning Day (DLDay). Now in its fifth year, DLDay is an Alliance for Excellent Education event dedicated to celebrating the very best that digital learning has to offer.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

By Brien M. Posey Hyperconverged systems simplify server virtualization, and these best practices help simplify deployment. .

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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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Fidelis Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

By Tom Vander Ark on February 16, 2016 6:20 AM. Tom Vander Ark wrote an important piece in EdWeek this week on five megatrends we should expect to see in the future: “Tech : We’re living on an exponential curve but our brains make linear projections. When it comes to new technology, almost everything is closer than it appears. Smart AI : Artificial intelligence, the new infrastructure for everything, will progress rapidly and in the next decade will be better at a lot of things than

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

My first year of teaching I was in a room with around 20 computers and 40 students. While this may give away my age, this was in 1999, when computers in classrooms weren’t as much of a “thing” as they are today. The computers, however, were pushed to the side and if I remember correctly of the 20 only half of them had fully functioning keyboards, only a few of them turned, on and none of them had any sort of digital content nor were any connected to the internet.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 2, Number 8. Driving Question: How does a 21st century classroom communicate student outcomes? In yesterday's post , we shared about learning targets. Today it is student led conferences incorporating learning targets. Learning Targets were part of the solution for communicating with students, but what about our parents? It was then that we decided to do Student Led Conferences (SLCs).

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

By Jena Passut Learn more about Murray’s vision for educational 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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