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7 Essential Characteristics of an IB Learner

EdTech4Beginners

The International Baccalaureate Programme, or IB for short, is a continuum of global educational programs for primary school, middle school, and high school students that is currently being implemented in 159 countries. To date, more than 7,000 international schools offer the program, and more than 1.95 million students are presently full-fledged IB learners.

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Culturally Responsive Education: Evidence to Influence Practice

Digital Promise

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Halftime for your Strategic Plan

Education Elements

This upcoming Sunday, many Americans will extend the yearly tradition of watching the last two NFL teams compete for the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy. As a loyal Philadelphia Eagles fan myself, I am not too interested in the game this year, since it features the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. What I am excited about most is the halftime show - this year featuring Dr.

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Exploring Virtual Reality learning experiences in the classroom

Neo LMS

With the start of a new year, it is always a great time to explore new ideas or try some new methods that may be a bit different from what we have traditionally done. I always think it is a great opportunity to stretch ourselves professionally, especially after a break or during the spring months. Finding ways to boost student engagement is important, and what I have found is that by using tools like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), we can immerse students in unique and personali

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Prepare K–12 Students for a Digital Future

EdTech Magazine

Technology planning can be challenging, even during the best of times and in stable environments. Given the ever-changing circumstances of the pandemic, it can feel nearly impossible to think very far ahead at all. There is no doubt that over these past two years, K–12 students, teachers, leaders and families have experienced an academic, social and emotional roller coaster.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). This used to mean enrolling at your local college or online institution. Now, the right classes may not be available, or available but at the wrong time, or the class is full before you get a chance to enroll.

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Is student note-taking relevant in classes today?

Ditch That Textbook

Students have taken notes for ages. Is note-taking still helpful? Here's how we can get more out of student note-taking. "I want my students to take notes. But they just don't take them, or they fight me on them. How can I make my students take notes?" Note-taking has to be one of the oldest practices […]. The post Is student note-taking relevant in classes today?

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TCEA 2022: 5 Things Women Should Know About Advancing in K–12 IT Leadership Roles

EdTech Magazine

In the overwhelmingly female-centric field of K–12 education, there is one path that has a vanishingly small number of women: IT and IT leadership. In its 2021 survey of K–12 IT leaders, the Consortium for School Networking found that only 28 percent of its members were women. With this as a backdrop, teachers, instructional education specialists and IT team members — both women and men — participated in a TCEA 2022 panel discussion on how to expand the pool of women in line for leadership posit

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14 Valentine Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Apps for Valentine’s Day. Drag-and-drop games. Google Drawings Magnetic Poetry from Ctrl Alt Achieve. Games and puzzles. Games and stories. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Match.

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Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension in Your Classroom

Waterford

Want More Science of Reading? Check out our seven-part Science of Reading webinar series. Explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Download previous recordings or register for our next session here. We’d love to see you there! In this article, we will examine the building blocks of reading comprehension.

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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 engage learners with a combination of STEM and SEL

Hapara

Blog series: Spotlighting SEL in the H?para-supported classroom. This blog series is designed to provide educators with examples from the classroom of how the H?para Instructional Suite can be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL). We will explore themes from Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs as well as the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for applying evidence-based SEL strategies to your

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TCEA 2022: Online Learning Success Starts with a Strong Foundation

EdTech Magazine

Teachers have come a long way since March 2020, when many were thrown unprepared into the remote learning world. But instructional technology consultant and author Lindy Hockenbary says there’s still a lot more teachers can learn about online learning success. At this year’s in-person TCEA 2022 conference in Dallas, the A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning author used her session, titled “The Recipe for K–12 Online Learning Success,” to share with teachers, instructional technologists and other

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Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

Ask a Tech Teacher

update. A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. In this monthly column, I share the most popular post from the past month here on my education blog, Ask a Tech Teacher. . 7 Writing Hacks. Though published for authors, these tips are well-suited for writing classes and teacher-authors: Writing is hard. And satisfying. And an opportunity for the long-sought-after huzzah moment.

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Personalizing within the Curriculum: High Quality Instructional Materials as a Lever for Student-Centered Learning

Education Elements

Over the last 10 years, we have seen a significant shift in how educators access and leverage instructional materials to guide instruction. As many states adopted new, more rigorous standards, curriculum providers rushed to create materials that would prepare students for college and career and state assessments. Though it took time, the current market for high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is strong and presents states, districts, and educators with a different set of challenges.

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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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Beyond connectivity: using technology to support learner equity and access

Hapara

Internet connectivity is a big deal for learner equity and access. Unfortunately, between 15 and 16 million K — 12 learners and 400,000 educators in the United States lacked adequate connectivity , a device or both in 2020. To help the country close this digital divide, a goal of meeting or exceeding internet access at speeds of at least one megabit per second (Mbps) per student was set by the FCC.

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TCEA 2022: 3 Questions to Ask When Modernizing Campus Security in K–12

EdTech Magazine

What does a safer school campus look like today? When it comes to protecting a school’s physical campus, times have changed, and school security should reflect those changes, said security expert Matt Tourney in a TCEA 2022 session. Analog cameras connected to closed-circuit TVs and coaxial cables in a tiny closet somewhere on campus are no longer considered a best practice, said Tourney during the session “Improve Physical Security in Your School the C.I.A.

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Tech Tip #172: Translate Webpages In a Second

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is not part of the 169 tech tips for your class book but it will be when I update the ebook: Tech Tip #172: Translate Webpages in a Second. Over the years, I get more and more views on this blog from non-English-speaking nations. I always drop in to visit and no surprise, their blogs are in their native language (as mine is). Sometimes they have the Translate feature, but not always.

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What We Learned from the Edcamp Design for Learning Series

Digital Promise

The post What We Learned from the Edcamp Design for Learning Series appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields

Edsurge

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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TCEA 2022: One School District Shares What Not to Do to Prevent a Ransomware Attack

EdTech Magazine

“It’s like your home was robbed, and there’s nothing you can do about it. We had 800 employees and 5,200 kids, and everybody is shut down,” said Julie Gauthier. The deputy superintendent of Port Neches-Groves Independent School District in southeast Texas explained to a room full of TCEA attendees in Dallas what it felt like when her school district was hacked back in November 2019.

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A Word About The Work We Must Do

The Jose Vilson

About five years ago, the Teacher Activist Group in Boston, MA invited me to speak at their 7th annual Boston-Area Education for Social Justice Conference. I had already been there a few times for keynotes and bore witness to the significantly evolving teacher activism landscape over those years, including the ascension of teacher-activist Jessica Tang to the president of the Boston Teachers Union.

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Learning Counsel Offers Free Digital Learning Reference Guide

EdNews Daily

The last couple of years have seen remarkable changes in the entire education landscape. One thing that has yet to be done, however, is to come together with a clear strategy predicated on the actual tech transformation destination. It’s hard to coordinate tactics if there is no unified comprehensive goal. All during the pandemic, parents and students have continued their shopping for digital learning.

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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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Can Third Graders Learn Data Science? These Researchers Say Yes

Edsurge

Tell me about your dog. What type is it? What color is it? How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)? If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives.

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Best Science YouTube Channels

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Science is all about exploring (and enjoying) the wonders of the world around us. Videos make this exploratory experience even engaging and fun. Through videos science is brought to life.read more.

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5 edtech opportunities that will emerge in 2022

eSchool News

There is a certain perspective that comes from being in the edtech industry for over 30 years, and while I thought I had seen it all, nothing could have prepared me (or anyone else) for a global pandemic. Not only did the pandemic upend our lives, it looks like we will be managing and battling surges and outbreaks of COVID variants for a lifetime or more. .

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Learners: Happier, Healthier, Here’s How

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to better understand and address mental health in more effective ways. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges to students, educators, and parents. Children already coping with mental health conditions have been especially vulnerable to the changes, and now we are learning about the broad impacts on students as a result of schools being closed, physicall

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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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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

Edsurge

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. This is foundational to both teachers and their administrators. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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Slidesgo Offers Free Google Slides and PowerPoint Templates

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Slidesgo is a platform that offers a wide variety of free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates. The way it works is simple: search the library, save the ones you like to your Google Slides or.read more.

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When edtech concepts become practical classroom realities

eSchool News

In this week’s episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education , host Kevin Hogan explores the following: Bringing the world to life through augmented reality 3 wireless technology trends to track in 2022 How artificial intelligence can transform professional development for teachers.

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@PodcastPD: ‘Tech with Heart’ with Stacey Roshan – PPD113 @AJBianco @mrnesi #TechWithHeart #edtech #podcastedu

techieMusings

I had a chance to join AJ Bianco and Chris Nesi to talk all things Tech with Heart on episode 113 of Podcast PD. What I appreciated most about this conversation was the opportunity to truly dig into: why I flipped my classroom initially how my own introverted & perfectionist nature has driven my work as a teacher my journey & evolution as a teacher and how tech integration has played a role in that the importance of embracing our individual teaching strengths & styles.

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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.