Tue.Aug 31, 2021

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From Hybrid to Blended Learning: Using Tech to Improve Students' Experience

EdTech Magazine

Most teachers were aware of blended learning prior to the pandemic. Many were attempting to integrate the model into their classroom teaching on some level, using digital tools and web-based resources in their curriculum and pedagogy. However, the blended learning approach wasn’t yet seen as a necessity in the K–12 learning environment. Now, with recent advancements in educational technology and the near-perpetual use of these tools for the past year and a half, there’s no going back to the way

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What the Maps in Our Brain Tell Us About the Learning Process

Edsurge

If the billions of neurons in the human brain weren’t well organized, they could easily fill an area the size of, say, the Epcot center dome. To fit into the more portable dome of a human head, those neurons are instead organized so that brain regions are carefully mapped to things like vision and hearing. And understanding those maps can be a key to better understanding how the mind—and how learning—works.

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Free History Games, Lessons, Worksheets, and Educational Video Content for Social Studies Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The last time I wrote about the Common Sense powered educational platform WideOpenSchool it was a review of their field trips resources. In today's post I am bringing your attention to another.read more.

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eSchool Media announces winners of first-ever K-12 Hero Awards Program

eSchool News

Rockville, MD, August 31, 2021–eSchool Media is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox , which recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent.

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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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Here Is A Great Google Drive Tool to Help You Create Custom Certificates to Share with Your Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After we have seen how to create and share digital badges with students, in this post you will learn about another equally important add-on I discovered through Five Hacks from Google Forms post.read more.

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Helping Gen Z Students Balance Digital Life

MiddleWeb

Children are suffering more anxiety and depression, which many researchers attribute to overuse and misuse of personal devices and social media, writes author-educator Debbie Silver. Our response needs to focus not on scolding but on helping students become self-regulating. The post Helping Gen Z Students Balance Digital Life first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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How to ensure classroom air safety during COVID-19

eSchool News

Ensuring classroom air safety is more critical than ever this year–and every school year in the foreseeable future. As we prepare for a return to in-person learning for the 2021-2022 school year, discussions continue to focus on how schools will keep students and faculty safe from airborne COVID-19 and other viruses and pathogens. The COVID-19 Delta variant and other numerous variants have the potential to cause localized outbreaks beyond student and faculty, infecting both vaccinated and

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Launching Real “Reading Progress”: A Game Changer from Microsoft Education

NeverEndingSearch

In school hallways across the country, it’s not uncommon to see children sitting with adults who are there to assess their reading fluency and growth stopwatch in hand. In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud. While some are eager to share, for some students, the experience creates terror and leads to stigmatization. For classroom teachers, the responsibility of monitoring and ensuring the reading progress of more than 20 students who may be in various face-to-face, hybr

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Gratitude for Those Closest in Our Lives

The Principal of Change

I feel really blessed to work with schools and districts around the world, but one of the favorite types of events I can ever do are the ones where I get to come “home.” As I write this, I just finished keynoting an event with the district where I first started as a teacher in my first year and two opportunities to intern there before my career even started.

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THRIVE! Webinar "You Matter: Mental Health for Educators Who are Starting a New Year" with Angela Maiers

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You Matter: Mental Health for Educators Who are Starting a New Year Part of the LearningRevolution.com 'Survive and Thrive!' Series OVERVIEW : Teacher stress, I believe, is the biggest crisis facing our schools. We have had so many challenges in education. And the indispensable linchpins, the teachers, are sometimes at their breaking point. Are you personally feeling exhausted?

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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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With Return to School, Number of Kids Who Need Mental Health Help Expected to Rise

MindShift

As schools across the country reopen, mental health professionals are anticipating a surge in the number of kids seeking help in the coming weeks. That’s not unlike previous years. “Historically, our busiest times of the year are a couple of weeks into the school year, perhaps the end of September, beginning of October,” says Dr. Richard Martini , a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. “These

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Using edtech to bring edutainment in the classroom

Neo LMS

We all know from our personal experience that learning while having fun is more effective. Granted, the notion of “fun” may differ a lot from one individual to the other, but still, it is important to consider that spicing up education with a little bit of fun – that is, including entertainment into the educational process – may improve students’ engagement and their learning outcomes.

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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

The Hechinger Report

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. The next morning, he woke to an email announcing that in-person classes would be canceled for the foreseeable future. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to YouTube

Graphite Blog

With an estimated 500 hours of content uploaded every minute, YouTube’s ever-increasing collection of videos is a lot of things to a lot of people. It's entertainment, it's news and commentary, it's how-to videos, and it's much, much more. But how useful is YouTube for teachers and students? The reality is that millions of teachers and students around the globe use YouTube for learning every day -- YouTube may very well be the world's most popular destination for online

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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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30 Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom – SULS0125

Shake Up Learning

The post 30 Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom – SULS0125 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey takes a deep dive into the uses of Google Forms. There are so many ways to use Google Forms beyond a standard survey or quiz. Learn how you can use Google Forms to engage students in new ways, use powerful add-ons, and save valuable time!

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