Thu.Jul 02, 2020

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Helping teachers and admins see the value of edtech

Neo LMS

The fact that education needs to change isn’t something new. Thinkers, authors, teachers, and school leaders have been saying it for many years, citing areas such as curriculum, pedagogy, school restructuring, and of course, technology. In fact, any edtech leader, IT manager, or anyone in charge of implementing new technology has actually been a change manager in one way or another.

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How Microsoft Teams Supports Inclusive Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced mandated school closures in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts such as Peoria Public Schools knew they’d have to lean on technology to teach remotely for an indefinite period of time. But they were also concerned about how they would continue providing services from a distance to students with disabilities and unique learning needs.

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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

Edsurge

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space. He showed off solar systems made of foam and sticks and I shared a stuffed rocket from Kennedy Space Center. We exchanged one or two words at a time and lots of gestures, but he made progress and his mom said he looked forward to class.

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Author @MelSideB Shows How Visual Medium Increases Student Engagement!

Teacher Tech

Not all students best express their knowledge of a concept through writing or best learn a concept through strictly reading about it. Some students like to demonstrate their learning through pictures, some through demonstration, and others still through writing. All students are more engaged if you tie the learning to a real world problem, something that applies directly to them.

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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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How New York City, Oakland and Indianapolis Are Planning to Reopen Schools.

Edsurge

Call it “blended,” “hybrid” or “split.” Students, families and teachers are gearing up for a new school year that will feature a mixture of at-home and in-class education. That was the message from the heads of school districts in New York City, Oakland and Indianapolis this week during a webinar where they shared a few snapshots of their evolving plans for the upcoming school year.

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Educational Apps for Learning Body Parts

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a collection of some good iPad apps you can use with your students and kids to help them learn about human body. The apps feature a number of interactive games and activities to enable kids.

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8 things to help your district launch an esports program

eSchool News

It may lack sweat equity, but it’s up there with even the most physically demanding of sports. Esports, the competitive side of video gaming, is exploding. And K-12 schools are buying in, because esports is not only fun, but also a viable educational tool! A recent edWebinar , “Ready Player One: Esports in K-12,” highlights why esports has taken hold in schools.

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Making Thinking Visible through Screencasting

EdTechTeacher

The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO Tom Daccord’s blog, Leading Innovations in Schools: From Someday to Monday. Screencasting is a powerful tool for formative assessment. When students create screencasts, they make their thinking visible, which allows the teacher to assess how students engage with content and the learning experience (process), but also allows teachers to measure student progress over time.

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How to make remote learning easily accessible

eSchool News

When school starts again in the fall, it’s likely that a significant number of students will still be learning remotely. To make classrooms less crowded and prevent the spread of the coronavirus, many states and districts are considering a hybrid approach in which some students attend school and some learn from home, such as by having students alternate between in-person and remote learning.

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Educational Apps for Music Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you teaching music, the visual below is a good resource to keep handy. It features a number of interesting iPad apps to help you with the teaching of music. The list contains apps with.

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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 align your institution’s learning outcomes with the teaching strategy

Linways Technologies

This article, as the name suggests, discusses some of the key elements to align your institution’s learning outcomes with the teaching strategy. We have written a great deal about Outcome-Based Education, and how educational institutions, especially in higher education, are adapting to outcome-based strategies in many of our previous articles. Despite it’s growing popularity, OBE was always perceived to be difficult to practice, not because of the lack of resources, but because of it’s complexit

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Support the Future of the Professions- Supervise a Graduate Student this Fall

SpeechTechie

I am hearing from some of my colleagues and friends at the graduate school level that they are finding it hard to secure placements for graduate students needing clinical practicum experiences this summer and fall. For many of us, what fall will look like is uncertain, everyone understands that. But I'd like to advance an idea: whatever it will look like, a graduate student will HELP YOU.

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Online Learning During COVID-19

edWeb.net

WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. Everyone would have their tablet or laptop.

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MIND Blog Rewind: June 2020

MIND Research Institute

Each month on the MIND blog, we share stories of how our organization, our partners, and educators across the country are advancing the mission to mathematically equip all students to solve the world’s most challenging problems. We also share resources for educators and students, and cover some of the exciting events we take part in across the country.

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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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U.S. Department of Ed. Funds 24 Projects, With Commercial Viability in Mind

Marketplace K-12

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded over 20 grants for small businesses to develop ed-tech products that the agency says have commercial promise. The post U.S. Department of Ed. Funds 24 Projects, With Commercial Viability in Mind appeared first on Market Brief.

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Game-Based Learning: How to get Started

EdTechTeam

This blog post is sponsored by Acer Education, a partner of EdTechTeam. Game-Based Learning is an experiential approach to education that uses games to engage and motivate students in the learning process. All mammals have an innate need to play, from the moment they’re born. According to Constructivist pedagogies, this is central to cognitive development.

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Summer Learning: A Dry Run for Fall Back-to-School Planning

techlearning

One district decided to test those uncharted waters while offering a safe and educational option for summer learning.

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Think Exam- The Top Proctoring Solution and Service Providers!

Think Exam

With the increasing demand for the proctored exam, companies are eager to grab this opportunity of providing proctoring solutions and services. “This is one of the biggest reasons why the online proctoring market is expected to reach USD 10 Billion by 2026.”. The first step of the proctored exam includes the verification of student identity in which the student has to open the audio-video setup and show its identity proof.

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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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Finding & Funding the Best Tools for Any Learning Environment

techlearning

Insight and advice for preparing for back to school

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Google Quick Tips Video Library for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

The post Google Quick Tips Video Library for Teachers appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Quick Tips Video Library for Teachers. Each week on the Shake Up Learning Show podcast, I share a quick tip. These tips are 2 minutes or less and are all about your favorite Google tools–Google Classroom, Google Chrome, Google Drive, and more! You can catch the tip by listening to the podcast or watch the quick tip video on YouTube!

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6 Things Anti-Racist Educators Want Grown-ups to Know about Teaching and Raising Kids

MindShift

For most of Karyn Parsons’ life, race was considered an impolite conversation topic. But as America reckons with racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd, that view is changing. Parsons, who is best known for her role as Will Smith’s self-absorbed cousin Hilary Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” is glad. “I’m seeing so many people, so many white people, for the first time taking a hard look at things and asking questions,” she said.

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A Call to Action through Authentic Literacy Experiences #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

This week I had the opportunity to participate in the 2020 Trauma Informed Virtual Conference with Heather T. Forbes. The sessions in this conference provided me with opportunities to experience others’ feelings and ways of thinking. As an adult learner, I was challenged not only to consider these ideas, but to act upon them. In chapter 9 of Engaging Literate Minds , the authors refer to the social imagination and its three components: (1) Perspective taking (the ability to think about what othe

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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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Understanding and Supporting Behavior

N2Y

Understanding what drives behavior is the first step in determining how best to support students in making positive changes. This guide provides an overview of the functions of behavior and how behaviors are reinforced. It also includes steps for identifying target behaviors and for addressing those behaviors with meaningful intervention strategies based on relevant data.

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@Wacom Interview Series: Investing in Digital Tools for Education #edtech @PearDeck

techieMusings

I had a chance to do a series of interviews with the Wacom team where I shared some of my experiences as an online teacher and the tech tools I’ve leaned on to connect with my students and get intimate insight into their needs. “To really succeed, we have to re-imagine our lessons entirely when teaching remotely… Kids aren’t all getting on a Zoom to see us lecture at them for 50 minutes, that can be done in a video and there’s no reason that I should waste valuable

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Positivity Behavior Management: From Start to Finish

N2Y

Already a powerful resource for behavior management, Positivity now encompasses a Core Behavior Profile, behavior tracking, and additional reporting to support teachers and administrators throughout the behavior intervention process.

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Building Social Stories with Buncee

Buncee

During the COVID 19 pandemic our classes, like others across the globe, went online. At this time, preservice teachers learned about different disability categories and how to best teach all students. Instead of the content being presented by the professor, future teachers presented topics related to students with disabilities, and effective teaching strategies to reach and teach students.

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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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COLUMN: With few answers about returning to school or campus, let’s support children instead of hiding them

The Hechinger Report

Since the pandemic, babies and kids of all sizes are ending up on their parents’ work calls. Credit: Miguel Pereira/Getty Images. Last week, a memo from Florida State University contained a line that sent chills through working parents everywhere: “Parents will no longer be allowed to care for children while working remotely.”. Childcare during the coronavirus was already daunting enough, but as numbers spike and some states scale back on opening, parents who’ve been counting on a reprieve

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