Sat.May 07, 2016 - Fri.May 13, 2016

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How to Create a Tech-based Curriculum Using the SAMR Model

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a question I get often from teachers: How do I teach my state/national/international curriculum using technology? When I first addressed this issue about fifteen years ago, there weren’t any tools to make this happen. In fact, I ended up writing my own project-based technology curriculum (now in its fifth edition). I wanted a curriculum that scaffolded learning year-to-year, blended into the school academic program, could be re-formed to apply to any academic topic, differentiated

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5 Ways Teachers Are Opening Up the World to Special Education Through Technology

The Journal

Teachers who work with special needs students are finding that technology can not only broaden their students' experiences but engage them in learning, help them retain information, improve their socialization and boost their self-esteem.

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Conversations Instead of Grades

Catlin Tucker

At the start of this year, I wrote a blog titled “ Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook ,” which detailed my desire to rethink assessment in my classroom. I was tired of students always asking me about points and grades, instead of asking me about how they could improve their skills. I wanted feedback and assessment to be an ongoing conversation.

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Goal: Let Students Know You Care in a Letter

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams. Goal: Write a heartfelt letter addressed to your students letting them how much they impacted you this year or write a reference letter for students for their future teachers to read.

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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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7 Tips for Teachers Who Have No Interest in Coding

The CoolCatTeacher

21st Century Skills Made Simple From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Grant Smith helps teachers learn to code. Surprisingly, he says that teachers have less to learn about teaching coding than programmers do! Today’s episode will help you learn how you can teach coding too. Download a FREE Coding Kit from DK Randomhouse.

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The Shocking Data Security Gap in Computer Science Education

The Journal

Giving students and early start on computer science education with a focus on security is crucial. And high school is already too late, argues Project Lead the Way’s Vince Bertram.

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7 big Google changes and how they help educators

Ditch That Textbook

Tens of millions of students and teachers worldwide use Google tools in the classroom. Students are creating and collaborating, researching and sharing. Teachers are managing more efficient digital classes and offering more engaging, thought-provoking learning opportunities. When new features or changes happen with Google products that affect education, it’s a big deal.

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STEM can be fun, just do this.

The CoolCatTeacher

8 Ideas for Fun STEM Learning with Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. STEM lessons can be fun. Whether it is origami jumping frogs or making a boat out of cement, Mandy Casto has eight high-energy ideas for making STEM fun. She also shares her favorite ways to find new ideas and about the success of school-wide “STEM Time” for the students each week.

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CareerVillage Partners with Dell to Produce TechWeek

The Journal

CareerVillage, a nonprofit that aims to help low-income students better prepare for their future, is teaming up with Dell to produce TechWeek, an online networking campaign from May 16 to 20. Dell is giving CareerVillage $100,000 to aid in its mission.

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Approaching Marginalized Populations from an Asset Rather Than a Deficit Model of Education

User Generated Education

Too often marginalized populations (e.g., some populations of people of color, students from lower economic communities) are approached with a deficit model. Attempts are made to instill in these groups of students the skills to make them successful at the Eurocentric education that dominates most schools in the United States. The deficit model of education sees kids as. lacking in some way. defective. deficient. needing to be fixed. not as good as. needing to develop skills valued by mainstream

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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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Watch the Live Stream of My Lightening Talk on KQED’s MindShift FB Page

Catlin Tucker

On Monday, May 16th I will be delivering a Lightening Talk at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education on the future of reading and writing. My talk will explore how technology is creating a growing divide between the classroom and life beyond. I will share specific strategies and tools educators can use to teach reading and writing for today’s students.

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A Paradigm Shift

A Principal's Reflections

The world continues to change as a result of technological advances. Just a few years ago it would have been near impossible to predict some of the paradigm shifts we have experienced. It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. At this point change began to happen at a rapid pace.

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Interactive Whiteboards Facing Steep Decline Globally

The Journal

Global sales of interactive whiteboards are facing a steep decline in the next decade, according to a new market report published by Future Market Insights, a U.K.-based research firm.

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A Class Finale They Won’t Forget! 18+ Ideas & Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buehner. Many teachers will soon say bye to their learners. In the few days you have left with your learners take the opportunity to leave them with fond memories and knowing you believe in them. This may be difficult, especially when your students are restless.

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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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Classroom Technologies Haven’t Reached Their Potential

EdTech Magazine

By Meg Conlan A new survey finds that many teachers aren’t yet experiencing the full benefit of technology.

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Purposeful Play in Full Day Kindergarten

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 7. Driving Question: How to design a kindergarten "explorations hour" to foster purposeful play? ORGANIZING AND MANAGING Upon visiting kindergarten classrooms during their "Making Healthy Choices" unit of study, you would see small groups of students engaged in imaginative play. a "health-food store" with shelves of student-created products, a "gym" with child-designed barbells out of tissue boxes and cardboard tubes, a dentist office with various student-created "tools

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Blended Learning Program Helps English Language Learners Rise to Grade-Level Reading Proficiency

The Journal

A pilot program for second-grade classes at an elementary school with a predominantly ELL student population saw promising results using Lexia Reading Core5.

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Goal: Seek Feedback from Your Learners

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “It seems that teachers and students can be blithely, blissfully unaware that they have different interpretations for the things being said in class. Sooner or later though, they experience a rude shock.” – Easley and Zwoyer (1975). Goal: Seek feedback from your learners about how you can improve a lesson, learning about a difficult topic, or an assessment.

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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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Review: Microsoft’s Surface Hub Owns the Conference Room

EdTech Magazine

By John Breeden II With a large display, interactive whiteboard and a full version of Windows 10, the Surface Hub is more than just a pretty screen.

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Don’t Just Put Amazing Work On The Classroom Wall, Share It Online.

EdTech4Beginners

Sway.com is a fantastic website / App by Microsoft, in which interactive presentations / videos can be created. It is the perfect tool to collate scans/photos of student’s work and display them on the World Wide Web! Take a look at my video tutorial for how to use Sway: Our topics this term are Pop Art and World War 2 so we combined them by re-creating famous Roy Lichtenstein pieces and changing the words to war quotes.

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Ed Tech Implementation Leaves Room for Improvement

The Journal

Although schools have spent billions on computer hardware and software for the classroom, only 16 percent of teachers think their schools are using it effectively, according to a new report.

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Collaborative Group Sessions with Hangouts

Teacher Reboot Camp

“It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.” – Milton Olson. Google Hangouts is a great web tool and mobile app for learners to collaborate. Google Hangouts is for students 13 and older and allows up to 10 videos at once. Students can share their screens, a Google presentation, collaborate on documents in real time, and much 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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4 Steps to Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs in K–12 IT Environments

EdTech Magazine

By George Mitchell Districts can respond to financial pressures by following these simple solutions.

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Don’t Just Put Amazing Work On The Classroom Wall, Share It Online.

EdTech4Beginners

Sway.com is a fantastic website / App by Microsoft, in which interactive presentations / videos can be created. It is the perfect tool to collate scans/photos of student’s work and display them on the World Wide Web! Take a look at my video tutorial for how to use Sway: Our topics this term are Pop Art and World War 2 so we combined them by re-creating famous Roy Lichtenstein pieces and changing the words to war quotes.

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Seal of Privacy: Building a 'Trusted Learning Environment'

The Journal

While the e-learning shift in education holds the promise to accelerate student success, school system leaders are faced with increased responsibility. Chief among those challenges: managing student data and security — and doing so with limited time and resources.

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7 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s summer, time for teachers to recharge their cerebral batteries. That could mean reading, going on field trips, spending time with online PLNs, or taking calls from family members who usually end up at voice mail. For many, it means attending conferences like ISTE and NEA to learn how the heck to integrate technology into their lesson plans.

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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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Future of Reading & Writing Lightning Talk at Stanford University

Catlin Tucker

On Monday, May 16th I delivered a Lightning Talk at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education on the future of reading and writing. My talk explores how technology is creating a growing divide between the classroom and life beyond. In my talk, I share specific strategies and tools educators can use to teach reading and writing for today’s students.

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Filing for E-Rate? Check This List of Eligible Services First

EdTech Magazine

By EdTech Staff The E-Rate application process can be daunting, but this list shows school districts exactly which services and products that are eligible for discounts.

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52 New York Schools Get Funding in Program to Boost Technology

The Journal

New York state is beefing up funding and support for classroom technology, high-tech security and connectivity in its public schools. On Wednesday, the first 52 school projects were approved, with $45 million from the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act that was approved by voters.

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10 Spreadsheet Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the top ten spreadsheet tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers. Many are for Excel–just adapt them to Google Sheets if that’s your school program. Most are free lesson plans: #79: Excel Turns Data Into Information. #74: Mastering Excel (for Beginners). #73: How to Graph in Excel. 71: Beginning Graphs in MS Excel. Tech Tip #62: Email from Word (Or PowerPoint or Excel).

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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.