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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The time for financial literacy and real-world learning is now. And there is no better free resource for educators to use than Everfi. Through interesting, relatable scenarios and real-life simulations around topics like financial literacy and social-emotional learning, teachers can easily bring the real world into their classrooms.

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Children’s brains on stress

The Hechinger Report

Gabriel was always an “angsty” child, his mother, Camille, remembers. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times. As a toddler, he was bright and curious — by nine months he was intuitive enough to test out the strength of a cardboard box before climbing onto it. But he cried easily and was quick to anger. During fits, he’d swing his head back so violently that Camille considered buying him a helmet.

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No Act of Kindness is a Wasted Effort

A Principal's Reflections

I fly a lot. Even during the heart of the pandemic, I was on the road coaching in numerous school districts as part of long-term projects. Now things are absolutely crazy but in a good way. Job-embedded and ongoing professional learning is being prioritized in schools, which means my travel is back to pre-pandemic levels. As much as I love what I do, being away from the comforts of home is stressful.

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Why Digital Equity Still Matters for Students in Online Environments

EdTech Magazine

Educators, administrators and K–12 leaders realized technology’s full potential when the COVID-19 pandemic first swept the nation. Since the initial shift to remote learning, educational technology has advanced in leaps and bounds. With the expansion of virtual-only schools, many students won’t be returning to the classroom this year. Some are choosing to learn online because they’ve found their niche, while others are taking a virtual option for safety or scheduling reasons.

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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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How to Use Gamification for Attention-Getting and Fun Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Paolo Tolomeo gets kids excited about learning math and language arts by sailing the 7 seas. Learn how it does it, how he keeps on track with lessons, and how to avoid common mistakes when adding gamification to your classroom. Sponsor: Advancement Courses is sponsoring DonorsChoose projects from August 18 – September 24.

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Helping Students Take the Next Step in their Career and Education Journey

Digital Promise

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question adults often ask young people. Used to help gauge kids’ interests, the expected response is usually tied to a future profession or job. In the Cajon Valley Union School District, they’ve added a few follow-up questions: “What skills and experiences will you need? What do you do well? How can we help you to meet your goal?”.

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Three Tech Tools for Teaching Literacy

EdTech Magazine

Despite kindergarten being a crucial time for literacy development, those classes saw an average 16 percent drop in enrollment nationwide in 2020, according to a report from NPR. Teachers have found it particularly difficult to teach early reading skills virtually. Add in the number of kindergarteners whose parents have opted to hold them out this fall, and it’s no wonder experts are concerned about young learners’ reading skills heading into the 2021-2022 school year.

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How to Use Google’s Free Applied Digital Skills Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Google's Applied Digital Skills Curriculum is a fantastic free resource of lesson plans, videos, and learning experiences for students everywhere. Today's guest Coach Victor Hicks talks about how he's used the curriculum for grades kindergarten and up. Sponsor: Today's podcast includes sponsored content from Google and their Applied Digital Skills Curriculum.

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The Show Must Go On: Virtual Arts with Verizon Innovative Learning Schools

Digital Promise

While most school districts are working to offer in-person learning to students this school year, hybrid or virtual learning will likely continue for many. Last year, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) across the country found unique ways to virtually tap into students’ creativity that others can learn from and incorporate this year. At Carrithers Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, Director of Bands Adam Bullock said he struggled to decide what direction to take the band program when

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Tech Tip #96: How to Add Zip to a Slow Computer

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: How to Add Zip to a Slow Computer.

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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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What to Know About Student Privacy on School-Issued Devices

EdTech Magazine

After having devices in their possession for a year, students returning to classrooms are, in many cases, handing over their school-issued tech for the first time. Because districts went into emergency mode when the pandemic began, many IT leaders have not seen these laptops or tablets. Now, they’re dealing with the next chapter of one-to-one initiatives: cleaning students’ devices.

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How to Onboard Teachers Better

Education Elements

Across the country teachers are welcoming students into their virtual and in-person classrooms, as schools are welcoming new teachers to their teams. These teachers - new to the profession, early career and veterans - are starting at schools while conditions remain unprecedented and unpredictable. Despite this reality, school and district leaders are tasked with onboarding their staff such that school, and learning can continue for as many students as possible.

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How to Efficiently Find Edtech to Support Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

Poised for another unique school year, how can educators save time finding the right edtech tools for their learners? In partnership with more than 100 educators across the country, we’ve co-developed criteria that clearly names educators’ expectations from edtech. Digital Promise vets applications with evidence submitted by edtech products to let you know quickly whether a product meets your needs.

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Teachers: What You Should Know about the Brain

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A recently published research study on teachers’ understanding of the brain and neuroscience research has been getting a lot of attention. The findings, based on surveys of teachers in the U.K., Greece, Turkey, Holland, and China, showed that teachers had many misconceptions about the brain. The findings echoed a survey of teachers in the U.S. finding that teachers in American schools have the same misconceptions.

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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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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

Edsurge

As the pandemic continues to stumble its way across the country, colleges that had never considered setting up online programs are now exploring how to do it. Most haven’t a clue. That’s why many have turned to Online Program Managers , known as OPMs, commercial vendors that create and market digital programs. Some colleges, meanwhile, have decided to go it alone and build their own systems.

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Creating Educational Presentations and Videos in Canva for EDU

EdTechTeacher

For years, I’ve been an advocate of utilizing a combination of a slideshow program and a screen recorder to create videos. Through this process, teachers can share new ideas, teach content, explain policies and procedures, and even introduce themselves to new parents and students. Likewise, students can express their creativity while demonstrating their understanding of content by creating a slideshow.

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Guest post: Types of Data centers in Singapore

EdTech4Beginners

With the rising technology dynamics, there are changes in how data is collected, analyzed, and stored. The innovation of the internet has led to the wide introduction of devices like computer systems and smartphones that have made everything easier, ranging from making purchases to effective storage of data. Businesses in all fields have noticed the importance of data centers.

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Threat Horizon for Schools

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen There is still a lot of money from not one, not two, but three enormous stimulus bills putting schools awash with funding right now. Word to the wise: spending on the old traditional schooling model is going to waste a lot of that money and contribute to the “funding cliff,” once there is one in three to five years. Oh, what a cliff it will be, too.

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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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The Moral Imperative of Teaching Every Student Tech Ethics

Edsurge

What do you think about synthetic biology? What about altering a baby’s genes? You likely had a stronger reaction to the second question. But do you know how the two are related? Emerging technologies like synthetic biology are all around us and at varying degrees of development and dissemination. Their applications are being tested, products are being built, data is being collected.

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25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset

TeachThought - Learn better.

Growth mindset sentence stems model the language, tone, and patterns that can lead to the development of a growth mindset over time. The post 25 Sentence Stems To Help Children Develop A Growth Mindset appeared first on TeachThought.

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Five Reasons Why Traditional Classrooms Can No Longer Keep Up with Growing Technology Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It might have been long coming, but one fact is becoming quite clear. Traditional classrooms can no longer keep up with growing technology today. For example, one factor contributing to this trend is.read more.

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All We Are Saying, Is Give Peas a Chance

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik Not so common wisdom from the cheap seats Ev’rybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism –John Winston Lennon Some very wise people that I know all have the same saying – never let a good crisis go to waste. So, it occurs to me that we have an opportunity for a teaching moment (or two) as we turn our eyes towards Afghanistan this week.

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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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Some Colleges Are Relieving Student Worries by Making Textbooks Free

Edsurge

There’s a careful calculation that college students make at the beginning of each semester, one that might take a few weeks to fully suss out. Will I really need to buy textbooks for these classes? Are there any I can avoid purchasing at all? That should come as no surprise, considering a recent CollegeBoard survey calculated that undergrads spent $1,240 on average for books and supplies during the 2020-21 academic year.

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3 Tips to Get Back To Classroom

Teacher Tech

Educator Melody McAllister shares 3 tips to get the support you need to start fresh this school year. She also invites you to the Back To Classroom Community! The post 3 Tips to Get Back To Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Why automation is key to education’s cybersecurity problem

eSchool News

Across industries, ransomware and cyberattacks have proliferated in the past year, largely due to the rapid shift to remote work and school. The education sector has been hit particularly hard–the 2020 calendar year saw a record-setting 408 publicly disclosed cybersecurity incidents in the K-12 sector, according to The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review.

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Digital Safety and Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Students

EdNews Daily

By Pat Craven As administrators, teachers and also parents, we’re ready, willing and able to make sure that our children are safe. So, as we start to plan for our kids heading back to school, we may worry that we can’t monitor their surfing habits or prevent them from becoming victims of cyberbullying. Worry no more: Here are tips on how to ensure kids are safe online (including this video dedicated to back-to-school tips).

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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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How the Pandemic Has Disrupted Global K-16 Online Education

Edsurge

Online high schools were a growing trend even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and some online schools were beginning to have a global reach. Now that the whole world has been forced to experiment more with online delivery, where does that leave the international market for online education at the K-12 level? And what has it done for the global market for online undergraduate education?

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5 Strategies To Support Struggling Students

Teacher Tech

Marcia Carrillo, Teacher Mentor, shares five strategies to support struggling students and how to grade with GRACE. The post 5 Strategies To Support Struggling Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Important EdTech Updates Teachers Should Be Aware of

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The world of EdTech is constantly evolving as more and more new updates and tools are being released almost on a daily basis. It is hard to keep up with everything hence the importance of curated.read more.

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6 Questions To Ask Students At The Start Of The School Year

TeachThought - Learn better.

The beginning of the school year is a critical time that sets the tone for the rest of the year--especially in light of the last 18 months. The post 6 Questions To Ask Students At The Start Of The School Year appeared first on TeachThought.

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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.