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5 Major Predictions for 2022

Education Elements

In 2021 we navigated a lot of change and ambiguity. Life felt at times, hectic and unpredictable, but there was also a slowing down. There were shortages; so we waited longer for everything from household supplies to PCR tests. We saw inflation creep up, and so we waited to buy things; and, we changed our purchasing habits. Stores and restaurants reduced hours due to staffing issues and lowered demand.

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7 fun digital learning tools to try in the classroom

eSchool News

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on under-the-radar digital learning tools. During pandemic learning, educators have seen a plethora of digital learning tools and resources, and they’re figuring out what does and doesn’t work for their instructional methods.

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How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing

Neo LMS

One of the greatest lessons I learned as a former educator turned e-learning company leader is that an organization is only as successful as its employees. Teachers work best when they have the time to build teacher-student relationships, manage their workload, and have the time to recharge in their personal lives. . In reality, teachers have always had many responsibilities, with burnout being a major issue before, during, and even after the pandemic.

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Top Posts of 2021

A Principal's Reflections

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, the consensus was that 2021 would be a much smoother ride. Most people would agree that this was not the case. During countless coaching visits, I saw and heard firsthand the myriad of challenges being faced in classrooms, schools, and districts. Through it all, though, educators found a way to forge ahead in the midst of adversity.

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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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Here’s a Preview of January

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in January: Public Domain Day. Subscriber Special and MLK Day. 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2021. 10 Top Reviews for 2021. 10 Top Tips in 2021. Tract–How to Change the Dynamics of Peer-to-peer Learning. Build Empathy Among Students. 5 Must-have Apps for Curious Students. Free Posters.

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Gamification and Game-Based Learning in EdTech: How to Start Designing a Great Product

EdNews Daily

By Krista-Lotta Ojanen and Saila Juuti There are many ways to start designing a game. You may have your mind set on a cool mechanic, like pinning teams against each other in a fun multiplayer environment. Or you wish to share a captivating story with memorable characters – or design an entire game world that’s different from our own. However, when you want to create an educational game, you need to look at what you want to achieve with it; how will it improve learning and what is learned when

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Our favorite teacher memes for 2021

Neo LMS

Dear fellow teachers, For the past two years, I have been writing open letters that are meant to be fun and empathetic at the same time for welcoming the new year on a positive note. Read more: Our favorite teacher memes for 2020. 2021 has continued to spread uncertainty in our lives, leaving us wondering what would happen next, especially in our classrooms.

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Schools Use Trial and Error for Choosing Edtech, But They Don’t Have to

Edsurge

With President Biden’s signature turning the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, our nation is poised to make historic investments in its highways, public transit, railways, airports, ports, water systems, broadband networks and electric grid. Even in our hyper-polarized political climate, the bill garnered widespread bipartisan support. A key reason?

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God Keeps Me and Us Around (2021 Year-In-Review)

The Jose Vilson

Many of us end this year the same way we ended last year : by staring at screens, searching for answers to questions we don’t know how to ask. Screens of all sizes feed us information about the way people wrestle with institutions, with each other, and with themselves. The people who cheerled the personified mess four years ago and vociferously rebelled against any mitigation efforts have openly questioned why the current US president hasn’t singlehandedly eliminated the global pande

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Pear Deck- Full Review and Ways to Use it In Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Pear Deck is a tool that allows you to turn your presentations and lessons into interactive learning materials. The way Pear Deck works is simple and easy: First, make sure you install Pear Deck.read more.

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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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Free Webinars with Alice Keeler and Otis

Teacher Tech

FREE Teacher Workshops and Webinars. Alice Keeler has partnered with OTIS to bring you free and engaging webinars and access to the recordings. The post Free Webinars with Alice Keeler and Otis appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

Edsurge

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. Ten years ago, more than 300,000 learners were taking the three free Stanford courses that kicked off the modern MOOC movement. I was one of those learners and launched Class Central as a side-project to keep track of these MOOCs.

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Why Should You Create an Email Distribution List BEFORE Creating Your Microsoft Teams Environments?

TeacherCast

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Microsoft Outlook Email Distribution List so that you and your organization can successfully transition to a Microsoft Teams environment for communication and file sharing.

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BrainPOP Jr. Full Review for Teachers and Parents

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

BrainPOP Jr. provides a growing library of educational materials to help students learn, discover, play, and engage in various literacy based activities. BrainPOP's movies cover various topics.read more.

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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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How to Make a Word Search

Teacher Tech

For fun! Word Searches can be a fun thing for students to do on a rainy recess or after they have finished their work. Here is how to MAKE a word search. The post How to Make a Word Search appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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A New Mindset for Teachers: Self-Care Is Not Selfish

Edsurge

There was a time when I would work myself to death. All day, every day. There was a time when I would come to school sick beyond belief because I did not want to disappoint anyone, and let’s face it, because the hassle of leaving lesson plans for subs who never completed them drove me absolutely crazy. Late nights in the building, extra hours at home planning and grading, and various extracurricular activities required all of my attention and energy.

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OPINION: Why we need a proactively anti-racist scientific method

The Hechinger Report

As researchers of early childhood development, we focus on generating science that improves outcomes for children of all backgrounds. The Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide movement for racial justice have only made this work more urgent. Closing opportunity gaps for Black children and other children of color begins with expanding all families’ access to high-quality learning environments, in preschools and beyond.

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Symbolab Calculator and Math Solve- Full Review

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Symbolab is an educational math tool that allows you to discover, practice, and learn math problems using scientific calculators and symbols. It is both an equation search and math solver. Students.read more.

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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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How edtech discoveries during the pandemic can turn into innovations after

eSchool News

In this episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education , sponsored by Adobe Sign: Nine 2021 takeaways to improve edtech going forward How personalized learning can help improve digital equity issues What social-emotional learning (SEL) really means.

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Why Mission — Not Money — Will Lead Colleges to Truly Innovative Online Learning

Edsurge

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning? During the past decade, online education has been driven by enrollments, especially out-of-state enrollments.

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How to Unsubmit Work on Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

How to unsubmit work on Google Classroom. For students and teachers. The post How to Unsubmit Work on Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Free Printable Kindergarten Worksheets to Use with Your Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Looking for good sources of free printable kindergarten worksheets? The list below has you covered. I scoured the web sifting through piles of worksheet resources and handpicked the titles.read more.

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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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OPINION: We face another lost generation if we don’t do something about college enrollment

The Hechinger Report

A century ago, a bright and talented generation struggled to recover from the ravages of World War I. Their challenges were summarized in the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, “The Sun Also Rises”:“You are all a lost generation.”. Now, nearly a century later, many fear we are creating another lost generation. Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and t

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A Case for ‘Radical Simplification’ in Higher Education

Edsurge

We’re about to start year 3 of teaching in the pandemic, and it seems like an appropriate time to think back to March 2020 to think about what new things I’ve started to adjust to COVID-19 disruptions, what I stopped doing and what I plan to continue for 2022. The practice is a common retrospective technique known as Start/Stop/Continue, and it poses three questions: • What are we not doing, that we should start doing?

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15 of Our Most-Read Articles During 2021

MiddleWeb

Co-editors John Norton and Susan Curtis highlight 15 of MiddleWeb’s most popular posts for middle level educators during the past 12 months. You'll find articles that were new in 2021 or rediscovered and shared widely in this second "weirdest year ever.". The post 15 of Our Most-Read Articles During 2021 first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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XtraMath Full Teacher Review

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

XtraMath is an online program that helps students improve their math fact fluency. The program targets key math concepts such as fractions and decimals. The purpose of XtraMath program is to.read more.

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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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5 learning strategies that are here to stay

eSchool News

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 4th most-read story focuses on some learning strategies that have staying power. In 2020, students, teachers, and parents made an extraordinary pivot to distance learning with no preparation at all.

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I Wanted Balance Between My Career and Personal Life. Now, I Sing A Different Tune.

Edsurge

Each year, I participate in the One Word challenge, which is a twist on making a New Year’s resolution. In the One Word challenge, you pick one word that will serve as your North Star throughout the year. The word I have chosen for 2022 is harmony. This word sums up a shift in my thinking from pre-pandemic to now. Before the pandemic, I thought multitasking was crucial to my success in the many roles and labels I carry: mom, wife, leader, friend, daughter, sister, and many more.

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Why Should You Create an Email Distribution List BEFORE Creating Your Microsoft Teams Environments?

TeacherCast

In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Microsoft Outlook Email Distribution List so that you and your organization can successfully transition to a Microsoft Teams environment for communication and file sharing. Is your district thinking about making the transition this year to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams ? Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to work with districts across the country, make the decision to transition away from the Google platform, and adopt Micr

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How to Track Someone Else’s Messages for Free?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today, living without a smartphone would be like living without air – impossible. Believe it or not, 47% of smartphone users said they couldn’t live without their devices. So, you can only imagine.read more.

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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.