Wed.Apr 28, 2021

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The Opportunities to Have Disruptive Thinking in the Classroom with Eric Sheninger

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We all have undergone disrupted thinking because of our disrupted society due to the pandemic. But many of us hope we don’t go back to business as usual. Thought Leader Eric Sheninger has a challenge for us today about what we can learn from the pandemic and the opportunities we have to use disruptive thinking in the classroom for the good of our students.

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EdTech Essentials: 3 Language Teachers Share Their Top Tools

EdTech Magazine

¿Cómo se dice EdTech en español? To get the answer, you might turn to Laura Boyd or Alberto and Mario Herraez. All three teach Spanish to middle school students, but their independent classrooms are unique. Boyd teaches Spanish to fifth through eighth graders at Poplar Grove Middle School. Her classroom in Tennessee’s Franklin Special School District is operating in a hybrid model, where students can choose whether they want to log in to class virtually or attend in person each semester.

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Text historical, book characters with this Google Slides/PowerPoint template

Ditch That Textbook

Students can show what they've learned by creating interactive text conversations between two people. Here's how. What if you had Harry Potter's cell phone number?Or Alexander Hamilton's? Or the President of the United States?Imagining those conversations can be a lot of fun. Plus, they can let students show what they've learned, think critically, and make […].

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How Did State-Funded Preschools Respond to the Pandemic? Special Report Offers a Glimpse

Edsurge

As any parent or educator can attest, the pandemic has touched nearly all aspects of preschool. It has reshaped policies and practices, altered the delivery and content of professional development, and shaken families’ confidence about sending their kids to school. Many of these changes, such as waived or relaxed teacher requirements, are expected to be temporary.

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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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So, You Want to be an #MIEExpert? – Part 1By @VictoriaTheTech

Teacher Tech

Guest Post by Victoria Thompson How can I be more involved with Microsoft Education? I get really excited when I am asked this question but I sometimes struggle on how to answer because there are truly so many ways to be involved, with one of the best being part of the #MIEExpert community. So, in […]. The post So, You Want to be an #MIEExpert?

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4 lessons the edtech industry should take from the pandemic

eSchool News

It happened slowly, then all at once. Vague news from Wuhan, stories from Seattle, then a run on hand sanitizer and paper towels. Within a few weeks, districts nationwide had canceled in-person classes, Chromebooks had sold out, and edtech companies were inundated as educators were forced to reinvent school in the digital space. It has been a year since we started shutting our schools and transitioning to remote learning.

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Looking For The Google Classroom Login Page?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Looking For The Google Classroom Login Page? by TeachThought Staff. Google Classroom has quickly become the standard for education technology in the mainstream classroom. It’s functional, (mostly) easy to use, and doesn’t get overly ambitious in what it tries to accomplish: helping teachers organize and distribute digital assignments to their classroom.

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PenChecks Trust and EduNetwork Partners Team Up to Launch the Second Annual Financial Future Challenge

eSchool News

Teaching Money Management Skills to Young Students. La Mesa, CA. April 20, 2021 – PenChecks Trust and EduNetwork Partners have teamed up for a second year of the Financial Future Challenge, a national program challenging students ages 7-14 to learn good money management skills at a young age and create entries into the challenge to teach their peers what they have learned.

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Pedro Noguera: Teachers Have Power, and This is What They Can Control

Edthena

Teachers can strengthen relationships with kids by determining what is in their control. Teaching is about helping students imagine dreams and possibilities. When teachers learn together, they grow together. As part of our #PLtogether initiative, we talked with researcher and school equity advocate Pedro Noguera, dean of USC Rossier School of Education.

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365 Fun and Creative Writing Prompts For Kids – One For Each Day Of The Year

Fractus Learning

Creative writing prompts stimulate innovative minds and imagination. Anyone who writes, not just authors, experiences times when they can’t write a thing. Writing prompts help children and adults to overcome writers’ block. Teachers use writing prompts to stimulate students in various ways; it inspires imagination and critical thinking, problem-solving, innovative ideas, and is fun.

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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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A Leadership Lesson in Every Story

Adjusting Course

The leaders in a school cannot do it all. We can accomplish what matters most when we work together. I stopped by an automobile shop recently to repair a door-ding my vehicle sustained at school. The person running the repair shop was on the phone when I arrived, so I used the extra time to read some thank you cards and hand-written notes that were posted in the window of the shop.

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How to choose a STEM platform to support hybrid learning

eSchool News

If ever there was a time that underscored the need for strong STEM education, it’s now. Our students—the future scientists, engineers, and world leaders—need skills that only STEM can provide. To best cultivate these young minds, our teachers need equitable access to platforms that will help them in every and any learning scenario. The question is, how can schools deliver programs flexible enough to meet teachers and students where they are, and without compromising quality, integrity, and equi

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Best Ways to Protect Intellectual Property in Academia

EmergingEdTech

Intellectual property, as defined by the European Parliament Factsheet on Intellectual, industrial and commercial property, “encompasses […] inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Discovery Education and Industry Leaders Launch Social-Emotional Learning Coalition to Address Critical Educator and Student Needs with No-Cost Resources

eSchool News

Silver Spring, Md. (Wednesday, April 28, 2021) — Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms – today launched the new Social-Emotional Learning Coalition. The Social-Emotional Learning Coalition provides K-12 educators, students, families, and afterschool directors a no-cost library of digital social and emotional learning (SEL) resources supporting the integration of SEL into core inst

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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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macOS Security Compliance Project

Jamf on EdTech

Standardize your organization's endpoint security and management workflows by leveraging the macOS Security Compliance Project, which provides guidance from leading government Information Security agencies for organizations to enhance and maintain a strong security posture to protect endpoints and data.

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FLVC offering College 101 video series

eSchool News

Tallahassee, FL – April 28, 2021 – The Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) is offering a series of videos to help students get all the information they need to prepare, apply, and pay for college. FLVC recently hosted “College 101: What to Do, When to Do it, and How,” a four-night virtual series that covered important steps of the college preparation process.

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edWeb 2020 Teacher Professional Learning Survey Copy

edWeb.net

edWeb is a professional learning network that provides teachers and all educators with free online professional learning communities and edWebinars. edWeb makes it possible for educators to participate in personalized, collaborative learning – anytime, anywhere. We’ve been conducting research on our members’ attitudes about professional development for a number of years, and began an annual Teacher Professional Learning Survey 3 years ago to benchmark changes in attitudes on a consis

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Tips for Finding Your Way to a (High-Paying) Trade Job

MindShift

Figuring out what to do with your life is a challenge for anyone. Students are often told to get their bachelor’s degree and find their passion and they’ll eventually be rewarded by landing their dream job. For most people, it’s not that simple. Along the way, Isis Harris in Portland, Ore., says, “I kept hitting walls and I kept running into obstacles.” Then she took a course designed to sample different jobs in construction, and while wiring a light bulb, a switch

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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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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Your Classroom

Waterford

“Where are you from?”. “Here.”. “OK, but where are you from ?”. This short conversation is common, even in today’s world, and it reinforces that some Americans don’t consider Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) children as completely American. Have you ever heard this line of questioning directed at children in your classroom or family, or have you heard it yourself?

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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

The Hechinger Report

When Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 per hour. A single Black mother of two, Marie loved children and knew she wanted to be a teacher, but couldn’t afford to pay for a licensure program, which can cost $30,000 or more at local

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