EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

With the rise in hybrid learning, it’s crucial to adopt a comprehensive and proactive approach to optimize student engagement. Many K–12 school districts across the United States have found their footing and are now able to provide rigorous remote instruction and seamless classroom management for all. Common Sense Education, an educational nonprofit that provides resources for tech use in the classroom, suggests that educators focus on these key considerations when planning for hybrid teaching a

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2021

Researcher Pamela Livingston Gaudet shares her findings From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Yes, 2020 has been a year like no other, and today’s guest, Pamela Livingston Guadet, interviewed a wide variety of school tech directors to hear their stories of triage teaching during the COVID-19 emergency.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 21, 2021

Here’s a great list of Special Needs websites. I’ll display it below but click the link for an updated library: Occupational Therapy –a long list of great apps including stress, social skills building, and more. Read&Write –for students with dyslexia or English language learners who struggle with reading and writing. Signed Stories –beautiful stories in sign language.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

COVID-19 has upended traditional educational paradigms. And while Verjeana Jacobs, chief transformation officer for the National School Boards Association, says “it’s unconscionable that we weren’t prepared for this kind of transition,” she notes that “it has given us an opportunity to think about education in nontraditional ways.” For many K–12 schools, this meant a rapid adoption of distance learning frameworks powered by personal devices such as tablets, laptops and desktops.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Education and research go hand in hand. You can’t have research without proper education and definitely can’t offer the best instruction if it’s not evidence-based. However, the real world contains multitudes and teaching is part science, part art. Teachers find it impossible to apply all best practices at once. They go through different techniques until they find what works best for their students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion investment to establish a Montessori-inspired network of preschools may be shrugged off by many as the world’s richest man dabbling in another playground. Instead, we should see it for what it is: the early days of Amazon’s foray into public education. Bezos, more than any other tech entrepreneur, is known to play the long game, masterfully.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

Three years ago, Darlene Thomas-Burroughs, branch manager of the Hardeeville Library in the rural town of Hardeeville, South Carolina, heard about a new way that library employees could help kids boost their reading scores. Intrigued, she signed up for the seven-month program, offered by Partners for Education at Berea College and the federal Promise Zone program.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating as an online instructor in a virtual environment. Even to those remote instruction veterans, there is certainly an element of frustration that can exist when it comes to finding unique ways to engage students as an online instructor.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 21, 2021

Literably is an excellent reading assessment tool that was recently featured in We Are Teachers' best Tech tools for student assessment. Literably provides you with the tools to effectively assess.read more.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 21, 2021

Editor is a free, embedded tool in Microsoft Word to enhance your writing, and I’d certainly like to think that it enhances mine—in fact, I used it while writing this guest blog! I am excited to see what else I can do with Editor, particularly with its extensions into Microsoft Outlook. The post Editor in Microsoft Word by @VictoriaTheTech appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 21, 2021

There has been a lot of heated arguments prevailing around the topic. “Which is the best-suited educational pathway for making a learner employable or industrially skilled.? “. And based on the topic there was an article recently published by Harvard Business Review. “Why Skills Training Can’t Replace Higher Education.?”. The title itself mentions that Skill Training can never be a substitute for higher education.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2021

By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Between the recent presidential election, COVID-19, and racial unrest, our students are barraged with 24/7 access to news and media that can be real, fake, or altered. According to the presenters in a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ABC-CLIO , the relationship between the terms “news” and “media” are fundamental distinctions that we need to make when working with students in the new era of journalism.

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techlearning

JANUARY 21, 2021

Schools, educators, and students are front and center in the new administration’s plans.

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Turnitin

JANUARY 21, 2021

Introducing the next phase of Turnitin's brand vision and identity.

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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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techlearning

JANUARY 21, 2021

A hybrid learning center can help you maximize simultaneous learning

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2021

BookWidgets is an excellent site for creating educational games/quizzes. BookWidgets is ideal looking for teachers to save time by having their educational games/quizzes automatically graded. This is all done in a user-friendly interface and educational portal that allows teachers to: track and monitor students in real-time. Best of all, BookWidgets makes it easy for educators to assess student learning and differentiate instruction through detailed reports/graphs.

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 21, 2021

Administrator’s guide. How to integrate Canvas LMS with PlagiarismCheck. Step 1. In PlagiarismCheck.org account (Owner role) go to Profile —> Tab Integrations in the top menu. Step 2. Click on Connect to Canvas LMS and get a token. Step 3. In Canvas go to Admin and open an account. Step 4. Open Settings – Apps – View App Configuration.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 21, 2021

Differentiating Instruction with Menus: Literature (3-5) provides a variety of excellent activities to involve students in thoughtful and purposeful engagement with and response to texts. Some teachers may wish to substitute more diverse texts, writes Sarah Pennington. The post Using Menus to Differentiate Literature first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Edthena

JANUARY 21, 2021

Providing guidance and tools to help teachers reach their own professional goals can help develop effective instructional coaching relationships by improving engagement and dedication to teacher learning. . Transitioning from a coaching role to a thought partner role allows coaches to work alongside teachers to support them through learning. . Coaches’ flexibility in their roles can help support teachers through distance teaching. .

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 21, 2021

Administrator’s guide. How to integrate Canvas LMS with PlagiarismCheck. Step 1. In PlagiarismCheck.org account (Owner role) go to Profile —> Tab Integrations in the top menu. Step 2. Click on Connect to Canvas LMS and get a token. Step 3. In Canvas go to Admin and open an account. Step 4. Open Settings – Apps – View App Configuration.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2021

I Know It is a fantastic site for interactive Math lessons grades K-5th. This is a super fun easy to use site for practice on a wide range of topics, such as: place value, multiplication, counting coins, time, and more. Best of all, I Know It allows educators to assign lessons and track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction. I highly recommend checking out I Know It by clicking here !!!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

For months, they have been labeled “essential workers,” celebrated for their sacrifices and hailed as heroes for their role in keeping the country going in the face of a deadly pandemic. But with vaccinations underway—and an end to the exhaustion, fear and suffering finally in sight—early childhood educators in some states have found themselves snubbed by the very people who once praised them for stepping up in a crisis.

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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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Adjusting Course

JANUARY 21, 2021

Many people are reeling right now. And when I say, "reeling" what I really mean is struggling, crying, and trying to persevere through the ever-changing rules of a pandemic. Supporting teachers, students, and our school community has never been more challenging.or important. During times of uncertainty and crisis, leaders often rely on their instincts.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 21, 2021

The post Podcasting: A Tool for Blended Learning appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Y’all know I love podcasting, both listening and creating! In this guest post by Michele Haiken, author of Podcasting for Students: Tips and Tools to Drive Creative Expression , Michele shares some great ways we can use podcasts for students to learn and create!

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MindShift

JANUARY 21, 2021

President Biden has called reopening schools a “ national emergency ” and said he wants to see most K-12 schools in the United States open during his first 100 days in office, which would be between now and April. On Thursday, he announced he would sign several executive actions, including measures meant to push the process along. These come after actions signed on Wednesday geared toward improving college access and providing relief for student loan borrowers.

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