EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Jamie Ellman’s eleventh grade students haven’t read from a textbook all year. It’s not because she only sees about a third of her students in person each day. It’s because of the technology-focused model of Moe and Gene Johnson High School, where she teaches history to sophomores and juniors. The tech-based approach of Hays Consolidated Independent School District’s new high school in Buda, Texas, lends itself nicely to the various digital learning models the district adopted in the wake of the

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 19, 2021

This post is written by Jon Spike. Jon is a Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Integration at UW-Whitewater, collaborating with preservice teachers and instructors to leverage technology in innovative ways. He teaches courses on topics such as Digital Tools and Video Games & Learning. He also hosts the LaughED podcast, where educators around the world […].

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

As a veteran teacher with more than 20 years under my belt, I believe classroom management is among the greatest challenges a teacher can face. Add in managing in-person and remote students, and this could be a recipe for stress. Back in 2017, Lenovo helped solve that challenge with LanSchool, its powerful classroom management software. Today, the software continues to be an effective tool for managing the hybrid and in-person learning environments.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 19, 2021

By Dan Hoppie As an Executive Director of Curriculum for Pasadena Independent School District in the greater Houston area, I have wrestled with two seemingly opposite forces during the pandemic. First, I recognize the many difficulties that exist in trying to intervene for students who are experiencing profound change in how they are accustomed to learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2021

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Image Your Computer Often. Category: Maintenance, PCs, Chromebooks, Macs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2021

In 2019, the United States spent 2.8 percent of its Gross Domestic Product on Research and Development (R&D). R&D is our nation’s engine of innovation. It put that smartphone in your hand, that solar panel on your roof, and that COVID-19 vaccine in your arm. R&D unquestionably makes our lives better. At a basic level, R&D is the set of activities an organization undertakes to innovate —using research techniques to solve problems or learn new things.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Gifted education is often a flash point in school desegregation debates; in large cities, these programs often operate as an essentially separate school system, dominated by white and Asian children. Though gifted programs touch only 3.3 million school children, about 7 percent of the U.S. student population, it’s disturbing that Black and Hispanic children are rarely chosen for them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2021

According to a 2019 survey from the Centers for Disease Control, approximately one in five youths reported they’d seriously considered attempting suicide within the last year, while one in six had actually made a suicide plan, and one in 11 had made an attempt. Since the pandemic began, things have only gotten worse. In 2020 Mental Health America reported an uptick in severe major depression and suicidal ideation among youth.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

We may not yet know what college admissions will look like after the pandemic, but the influence of the SAT and the ACT — once critical requirements in a student’s college application process — is rapidly eroding before our eyes. And that’s something to celebrate. The College Board and ACT will still continue to offer these tests and to contend that test scores can provide value to admissions offices.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 19, 2021

Few days ago we covered some of the best web tools and Android apps for recording audio, lists that we curated specifically for teachers, educators and students. Today we are adding another.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 19, 2021

4 Easy Ways To Promote Critical Thinking In Your Classroom Join us for a quick 30 minute webinar on easy ways to integrate critical thinking in your classroom. Pre-register. Critical Thinking. When. Tuesday, April 27 at 4:30 Eastern US. Where. This free event is hosted by TeachThought University. You can pre-register here. Who. Terry Heick , Founder/Director at TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 19, 2021

Flux is a tool I come across while I was reading Shawn Stevenson's book Sleep Smarter (Amazon affiliate link). Shawn mentions it among the tools he recommended to help people reduce the mental and.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2021

COVID-19 has raised a number of major questions for educators, one of which is “Why are college applications decreasing ?” Higher education lost about 400,000 students this fall. Are these students taking a gap year between high school and college? If so, that might be a good thing, since data suggests that a gap year can actually help students. The most important question is, “Will students put off college for a significant period, or choose not to go to college because of financial hardship?”.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 19, 2021

Teacher Gillian Mertens and her colleagues recommend educators do more than help students debunk social media misinformation they find. Instead, the goal is for students to recognize why the information was believed by so many people, thereby developing greater resistance for themselves. The post Helping Kids Develop Their Cognitive Immunity first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. As a high school English teacher, I've experienced most of these bumps in the road myself.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 19, 2021

Maximizing Student Engagement With The XP-PEN And Microsoft Education Apps. contributed by XP-PEN Graphics Tablets. This post is sponsored by XP-Pen , manufacturers of a range of drawing tablets for artists, students, and other creative professionals. They have tutorials and eLearning resources for teachers here and are also Chromebook-compatible. You can read more about our affiliate and sponsored content policies here.

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myViewBoard

APRIL 19, 2021

This month’s releases come later than usual due to national holidays. Nonetheless, we’ve been hard at work improving the myViewBoard Ecosystem! We are growing! myViewBoard recently passed the 3 million user milestone! We are truly a global ecosystem with users in more than 130 countries (and growing). A sincere thank you to all who have joined so far and helped to shape our growing ecosystem.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 19, 2021

April is poetry month and April 22 is Earth Day. Since our 3rd grade studies environmental standards in the 4th quarter, I decided to weave all of these things together using Wakelet, Padlet, and Capstone Connect. Currently, most of our school is attending in-person but we have one class at each grade level that is virtual. I’ve been planning lessons and projects for virtual instruction and then modifying them with activities we can also do in-person for our in-person classes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2021

Silver Spring, Md. (Monday, April 19, 2021) — To celebrate the 51 st Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2021, Discovery Education and several content, corporate, and community partners present educators, students, and families 51 engaging, curated activities and events. Found online at Discovery Education’s 51 Ways to Earth Day website , these dynamic digital resources inspire students to explore the natural phenomena in the world around them as they observe the 51 st Earth Day in the classro

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Insight Education Group

APRIL 19, 2021

This post is excerpted from the recent SmartBrief article entitled, " 3 key insights gained in Jordan ," by Paul Freeman, the Superintendent of Guildford Public Schools in Guildford, CT; and Kelly Lyman, the Superintendent of Mansfield Public Schools in Storrs, CT.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sustainability is a hot topic. In this blog post, we discuss ways to help students understand how to take care of the world and have fun at the same time. Simply put, show them other students who are doing heroic things that they can do, too. Then, let them have conversations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2021

Hispanic-Serving Institutions make up 17 percent of all U.S. public and nonprofit colleges—yet they enroll 67 percent of all Hispanic and Latino undergraduates. That data, published in April , underscores the huge responsibility facing the country’s more than 500 Hispanic-Serving Institutions, so designated because at least a quarter of their students are Hispanic.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

“I like building stuff,” said 11-year-old Isabella Lagunas, describing the appeal of her science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) after-school program, Girlstart. “In school we don’t really do a lot of projects, mostly reading. I like [after school] because it’s more hands-on. It’s being more creative.”. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 19, 2021

In an educational institution the admission process is the most significant phase in an academic year. It is a process that shapes the future of an institution and its achievements. For an admission process to be successful reaching out to the maximum number of students, driving them to the process, and finding the right prospects is very important. “ Triumph the success and quality of your institution and make the students rush to join you “.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, blended learning is a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media and traditional face-to-face teaching. As stated by Ann McMullan, Project Director for CoSN’s EmpowerED Superintendent Initiative, the world that we have been living in for over the last year or so looks very much like a combination of both.

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MindShift

APRIL 19, 2021

In order to understand people who develop substance abuse disorders as adults, it’s important to recognize when they were first exposed. The majority of adults who develop substance abuse disorders first used drugs or alcohol during adolescence. In her new book, “The Addiction Innoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence,” Jessica Lahey translates the research around addiction and explores practical ways parents and educators can use this information to support kids.

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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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Gradelink

APRIL 19, 2021

More Engaging School Email. Your emails don’t have to be limited to just text. SmartSend, Gradelink’s built-in email system, gives you the ability to include photos, illustrations, graphics — even animated GIFs. Let’s go over two ways to add images to your SmartSend emails. (Note: Images must be saved as.jpg,gif,png, or.svg.). Method 1: Drag and Drop. 1.

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