Tue.Mar 22, 2022

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Is Education Due for a Reset

Ask a Tech Teacher

Throughout my career in education, teaching has been prodded, pushed, tweaked, nudged, and reformed. I author a K-12 Technology Curriculum. Each time I update it, I include a list of what has changed since the last update, something like: Windows updated its platform—twice. Student work is often collaborative and shared. Student work is done anywhere; it must be synced and available across multiple platforms, devices.

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The eGlass Brings Digital Innovation to the Classic Chalkboard

EdTech Magazine

While the chalkboard has served as a classic teaching tool for centuries, the past few decades have seen teachers shifting to the tidier whiteboard or the multifaceted interactive smart board. Still, no upgrade to the humble chalkboard has ever truly overcome one very important challenge: that teachers must turn their backs to students when writing.

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Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning Activities

User Generated Education

My gifted students, grades 4th-6th, selected Artificial Intelligence, as their elective during Spring, 2022 semester. (For more about this see Offering Electives to Elementary Students.) The machine learning activities I describe below are part of their larger Artificial Intelligence elective. Introduction to Machine Learning Via Videos. Teachable Machine Activities.

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Leveraging Students’ Strengths to Develop Student Leaders

Education Elements

Kate Sanders, Teacher: How do I empower more student leaders? This question had been circling my brain for months. As the adviser for the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter at Sequatchie County High School , I have had the opportunity to facilitate unique opportunities for student leaders. However, much of the workload is placed on the shoulders of the FCCLA officer team.

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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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Celebrating the Ciena Solutions Challenge Model Schools

Digital Promise

When students are empowered to act on issues they are passionate about, they have the opportunity to positively change their communities and the world around them. Through the inaugural Ciena Solutions Challenge Model Schools Program, Digital Promise and Ciena supported teams of teachers and students at Notre Dame High School, Ridgemont High School, and St.

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Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives

Edsurge

Dino Sabic of Chattanooga, Tenn. Photo by Kathleen Greeson for EdSurge. Who are you? If you saw this question on a government form, you’d likely respond in a practical fashion, checking boxes about how the world perceives you. Where were you born? What’s your family’s income? What’s your race? Did your parents—even your grandparents—graduate from college?

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

Edsurge

“Mr. Morita, you were wrong. School is not the problem. Students are the problem.” This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. He seemed to think that if students would just study and be compliant then they would do well.

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50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students by Dennis Lee, StudyPug.com High school is perhaps one of the … 50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students Read More. The post 50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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COVID Brought Attention To Early Childhood Education. Here’s How Investors Are Responding.

Edsurge

One thing the pandemic has made clear, many experts say, is that families with young children need more support than they’re getting. The shuttering of child care centers forced many parents to leave their jobs, fueling the Great Resignation. And a U.S. Treasury report from September noted the harmful effects of shortfalls in the childcare supply. For early childhood education, coronavirus stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating trends that were already happening, in good and bad ways.

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50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

Were you an active or a passive learner? Of what you learned today, what are you most comfortable with and what is still 'iffy'? The post 50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Income-Share Agreements Aren't the Revolution We Thought They'd Be

Edsurge

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements , or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea is students pay nothing up front for college but pledge to pay a percentage of their wages for a set time after they graduate and get a job. One startup leader who tried the approach says it didn’t quite go to plan, as he shared in a Twitter thread making waves this week.

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OPINION: We can longer afford to neglect child care providers and our littlest learners

The Hechinger Report

In January, the U.S. Census Bureau released national data showing that nearly 40 percent of parents with children younger than age 5 had experienced disruption in child care in recent weeks. Disruption for parents means they can’t go to work or are figuring out late into the night where they might be able to cobble together child care. Disruption for children is even worse.

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Zaila Avant-garde Made Spelling Bee History. What Will the 15-Year Old Do Next?

Edsurge

If you were just tuning into the Scripps National Spelling Bee last summer, settling in to watch the competition play out, for the first time, during a pandemic, you might not have noticed Zaila Avant-garde as anyone other than Speller 133. At least not at first. But as the competition whittled down, Speller 133 remained, buoyant but soft-spoken as she aced each word.

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4 essential components of behavior support in the classroom

eSchool News

The 2021-2022 school year began full of promise. Students, families, and educators were ready to get back to pre-pandemic learning routines. Almost no one was prepared for how the landscape had changed – many educators had left the profession, staffing needs were at an all-time high, and students were engaging in more frequent and more severe challenging behaviors.

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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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Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others

The Hechinger Report

The need for mental health services on campuses across the country has intensified during the pandemic. With it has come an increased awareness among college counselors and administrators about the importance of meeting the needs of every student — especially those who hold marginalized identities and may have experienced extraordinary hardship over the past two years.

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Building A Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Framework for Mental Health

techlearning

Experts recommend a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) that can help students get the mental health assistance they need to flourish both socially and academically.

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It’s not about the tech you have, it’s how you use it

eSchool News

In this week’s episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education , hosted by Kevin Hogan: 3 edtech trends to watch in 2022 Virtual schools can serve students with special needs —and do it well Fostering Student Well-Being with Microsoft Education Solutions.

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Where you are right now…

The Principal of Change

I never wanted to be a vice principal. . But within a day of being on the job, I loved it. I felt I was doing something that I was meant to do and really enjoyed the opportunity. . On the second day, I wanted to be a principal. It was not because my principal wasn’t effective. Quite the opposite. It was because he was highly effective. I loved learning from him and wanted to do what he was doing.

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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 Colleges and Job-Training Programs Can Learn From Teenagers’ Hopes and Fears

Edsurge

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Helping Middle Level Students Self-Regulate

MiddleWeb

When kids struggle to stay on task, reach goals, and take ownership of their learning, they lack self-regulation. Using clear text and video explanations, Amy Gaumer Erickson and Pattie Noonan break down the four components of self-regulation that will help students succeed. The post Helping Middle Level Students Self-Regulate first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How ST Math’s Problem Solving Process Develops Social Emotional Learning Skills

MIND Research Institute

Want to help your students become well-rounded mathematical thinkers? Start practicing SEL skills using the Problem Solving Process. Many ST Math teachers have seen the benefits of incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons into their math instruction time. Students are more engaged in discussions, have greater empathy for their peers, and can better manage their emotions while persevering through challenging problems.

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Podcast - "Thought Stopping and Patron De-escalation" + Dangerous Situations Webinar

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've just posted a new Dr. Albrecht podcast in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0 : " Thought Stopping and Patron De-escalation." "My topic for this half hour, is kind of a fun one, it is a concept called thought stopping, which I'll explain in some detail. And some de-escalation tools for your toolkit with patrons that are a little bit of a lighter touch, and may be connected to the thought stopping idea which sort of throws them off guard and gets them back

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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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What are the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching?

Neo LMS

Education is and has always been the field that autoregulates in order to provide students the tools to live, adapt, contribute, develop and create better outcomes for themselves and generations to come. Teachers have continuously tried to adapt their approaches to the requirements of specific communities with the purpose of reaching students where they are in terms of knowledge and ensuring an uphill learning curve.

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