The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Episode 711 of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. 3 Ways to Activate Genius Mode & Creativity (Even at a Distance) with David “Creative Dave” Dubczak. David “Creative Dave” Dubczak is a middle school teacher who sparks creativity. In today’s show, he defines creativity and the two kinds of creative thinking to understand: divergent and convergent thinking.

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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Even when we don't have face to face connections, we can still build and develop relationships with our students. Here are some ideas. Paulino Brener has taught Spanish online for years. He has effectively taught students the language, developed relationships and maintained a productive educational environment. And he did it WITHOUT face to face physical […].

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The art of leading looks vastly different for school administrators today. They are now tasked with adapting their leadership practices to an environment where digital tools and remote collaboration and communication are the norm. While this is no easy feat, it does provide a great opportunity for school leaders to create a stronger school community and embrace innovative learning and teaching methods.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app). Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

COVID-19 upended virtually every aspect of business and society this year. Unfortunately, education hasn’t been spared. But there is an upside to the situation. As we continue to live in a more contactless world, innovation in education prevails. For instance, STEM educators are finding creative strategies to engage students remotely. I wrote about some of these strategies in a higher education context, but they also apply to today’s K–12 schools.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Conflict: It’s great for drama, and an inescapable part of human progress, but it can make for fraught situations in the classroom. Conflict can happen even in the most supportive, positive, and open classrooms, disrupting your students’ ability to learn. If left unchecked, it could even lead to violence. Many districts may offer some type of conflict resolution training.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Microlearning is a buzzword used widely in the edtech industry, with many learning designers simply chunking learning content into small pieces of three to five minutes without actually solving competency-based problems like learner engagement, lack of time and the shorter memory span of modern learners. Much of this buzz also disregards three strategic aspects of Microlearning: content design, learning design and learning delivery.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whether schools choose to continue remote education, use a hybrid education model or return full-time to campus, some form of virtual teaching system will figure into every school’s plan, even if only as a contingency. With every jurisdiction constructing their own approach to virtual education — then adjusting it in response to a rapidly evolving pandemic — cybersecurity risks abound.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of trauma — specifically, trauma-informed teaching — has become a focus in education. Almost 50 percent of students in the U.S. have experienced some form of trauma, so it’s critical that educators be equipped to support every student. Trauma is often linked to adverse childhood experiences, including abuse, neglect and other events that happen to people under the age of 18.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. In a virtual classroom, the instructor typically does most of the talking when leading a synchronous lesson. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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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.

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Critical thinking is certainly a 'skill' but when possessed as a mindset--a playful and humble willingness--it shifts from a labor to an art. The post Critical Thinking Is A Mindset appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Teachers have many jobs these days—educator, IT professional, custodian, and mentor, just to name a few. But arguably one of the biggest jobs for teachers in today’s distance learning environment is being able to provide a sufficient level of support for students’ social, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Children have been isolated from their peers and teachers, and many are in homes where there is trauma from COVID-19 or the economic crisis.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Grammatical errors, unlike spelling mistakes, are not always easily amenable to detection by built-in spell checkers. Their complex syntactic structure render them evasive linguistic elements. And.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Google Keep is a tool I use every day. Think digital sticky notes… But Google style, so they are collaborative and work with Docs and Slides. Hashtags are Labels Using hashtags in a Google Keep note helps you to search for things you want to get back to. Using a hashtag in a Keep note […]. The post Use Hashtags in Google Keep appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As educators, it is our responsibility to give students hope and inspiration for the future. Amid a global health crisis that’s claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people in the U.S., this is increasingly difficult. But now it’s more important than ever. Students need something to look forward to. They need someone to show them what’s possible, and how to get there.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

LEGOS is not cheap, and your kid’s Christmas or birthday gift list probably contains some LEGO toys. According to National Geographic Kids, about 28 LEGO sets are sold each second during the Christmas season despite being an expensive toy. People may happily pay more than a car’s monthly installment for a LEGO set. The LEGO Vintage Airport Shuttle Monorail is priced at $3,988 on Amazon.

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Turnitin

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Revision is a difficult writing skill to learn, but educators can support students, through clearly defining and reinforcing revision in the writing process.

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Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Education is the ultimate changemaker. Today is national education day. Life is the most valuable gift we enjoy. It becomes even more beautiful when you discover the purpose it holds within. When you unfold that purpose, everything else in life becomes secondary. And when you let yourself be driven by that purpose, you start moving. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast but ultimately forward.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I was a guest today in Chris Hoadley's NYU class on ed-tech and globalization. Here's a bit of my rant. Thank you so much for inviting me to speak to you today. I have been really stumped as to what I should say. If you look at the talks I've given this year — and I've done quite a lot since I've volunteered to visit Zoom school and speak to classes — there are a couple of notable themes: behaviorism and surveillance.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A newcomer is a student who has immigrated from another country. Their experiences are quite different than those who are citizens of immigrant parents. Tan Huynh shares key ideas from author Louise El Yaafouri to both welcome newcomers and create a system that empowers them.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Statistically, there are more than 5 billion unique mobile phone users in the world today. In the past year, the total number grew by more than 100 million. This means that having a mobile app for.read more.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lego Technic, the advanced version of the classic colored building blocks, takes the fun to another level – and kicks the learning up a gear or two! Budding engineers and technicians will marvel at the awesomely immersive construction process, where they can learn all about how the machines around us work. Revealing the secrets of engines, hydraulics, suspension, steering, and more, Lego Technic offers a truly engaging challenge to children of all ages – and adults, too!

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, has died at age 86. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked up the stairs of William Frantz Elementary School six decades ago to become its first Black student, announced her mother’s death on Instagram late Tuesday.

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Reflections

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Nearly a month ago, I wrote about some of the struggle I was facing as a Principal trying to do the right work during this pandemic. It seems only fitting that I am trying to find time today to put into print a post with an opposite message. While so much of our work in school continues to be difficult, so much of it still finds a way to be right and good.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s (OSPI) Dyslexia Advisory Council recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic to its list of Recommended Literacy Screening Tools. Now, school districts across the state can use the award-winning online program to help identify students in Grades K–2 who display indications of, or areas associated with, dyslexia as part of their early screening of dyslexia.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Over the last few decades, our education system has consistently prioritized educating for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. The United States spends $54 per student on those subjects, but only 5 cents per student on civics education. The result is an education system that has neglected preparation for engaged citizenship, and a divisive, dysfunctional political environment that is coming into sharper focus in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In an election that drew historic turnout among Americans and mixed results for the two main political parties, there is at least one issue that collected victories up and down the ballot: early childhood education. From the election of Democrat Joe Biden, to a statewide ballot measure in Colorado and a handful of local ballot initiatives, voters threw their support behind people and policies that will support publicly funded preschool programs.

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