The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students, parents, and teachers have social emotional learning skills that are needed in today’s climate. Dr. Amy Cranston helps us understand how we can help our children (and families and schools) make it through this difficult time. Sponsor : In today’s challenging times, we know how critical it is to make sure kids are equipped with social and emotional learning skills to cope with the world around them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2020

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: Find Public Domain Images. Category: Images.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2020

In this episode of The Balance , I chat with Rachelle Dene Poth. Rachelle is a Spanish and STEAM teacher, presenter, author, and lawyer! In 2019, Rachelle received the Making IT Happen Award and a Presidential Gold Award for volunteer service in education. She is a Buncee Ambassador, Edmodo Certified Trainer, Nearpod PioNear, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and Google Certified Educator.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2020

How can educational researchers ensure continued data collection in the wake of COVID-19? Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team is experiencing what many educational researchers are familiar with by now—an untimely intrusion by the COVID-19 pandemic that compromises data collection at the end of the school year. This is an especially painful prospect for projects using a pretest-posttest design.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

Donald Rumsfeld once said that there are three things we know - the things we know, the things we know we don’t know, and the things we don’t know we don’t know - and that it’s the last category, the unknown unknowns, that tend to be the most difficult things we encounter. The vulnerability of our global economy to a novel coronavirus may go down as one of the greatest unknown unknowns in our lifetime.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Below are some free resources to inspire students to enhance their STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) skills and also for Social and Emotional Learning. Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. But for now, some experts say to start simple: Take a short online course, for example, to see what students experience. (The in-depth workshop or multi-day training can come later.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

"Resilience doesn’t just mean getting back to normal after facing a difficult situation. It means learning from the process in order to become stronger and better at tackling the next challenge.”. – Quote by Donna Volpitta shared in Inside the Box by George Couros. A little more than a month ago, school teams transitioned to distance learning arguably overnight.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At first the closures seemed short-term, maybe a few weeks at most. Many teachers posted up at their kitchen tables or logged on from their couches—a temporary setup to get by until schools reopened and regular classes resumed. But day after day, it became clearer that there would be no swift return to normal. So teachers settled in—or at least tried—to their newly-virtual classrooms and made their home arrangements more manageable for the longer term.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

Every summer, I look forward to seeing the Little League World Series prominently displayed on ESPN. Over the past few years, we could see more and more of the journey teams would go through as they play their way to their final destination in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. There is something about the freshly cut grass, the metal bleachers filled with people from all over the world.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MAY 13, 2020

Organizations across industries have relied on video surveillance systems as an important component of their physical security environment for decades. The advent of inexpensive, network-enabled cameras facilitated the growth of these systems to the point where virtually every organization has some video surveillance footprint. Whether limited to critical areas or deployed throughout an enterprise, these cameras collect video footage that organizations historically used for forensic purposes — s

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Should colleges be giving students a partial refund on tuition since their campuses were forced to shift teaching online for the COVID-19 pandemic? Some students think so, and lately their calls for refunds have been getting louder. Petition movements at more than 200 campuses are calling for partial refunds of tuition, typically asking for 50 percent back.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them. - Hemingway. February 10th was my first day as Managing Partner at Education Elements. On March 11th, 30 days into my new job, I was on the phone with our CEO making critical decisions about our response to the exploding Coronavirus crisis.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Alexandra Bernadotte knows a lot about getting over obstacles. As founder of the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit Beyond 12 , Bernadotte has devoted the past decade of her life to providing historically under-represented students the academic, social and emotional support they need to succeed in college. She’s a social entrepreneur in a world littered with barriers for women of color—women of color—yet has become one of the few to bring in almost $28 million in funding and earned income to her no

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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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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2020

There’s no question that digital transformation is dramatically shifting the education landscape. In the Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) 2019 survey , 55 percent of respondents say they have implemented 1:1 programs in their schools. This is a significant increase from the 2014 survey which showed that only 23 percent of schools had implemented a 1:1 program.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 13, 2020

In today's post we are sharing with you some Math Youtube channels as featured in Learn at Home with Youtube. Most of these channels have already been featured in previous collections of ours. The.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 13, 2020

We can have an influence on the negativity of the news and media we see, and that begins with educating ourselves on where the bias towards negative news comes from. Educators have an important role in helping stem the tide of negative news bias, and edtech and eLearning platforms are uniquely positioned to step into the void of online literacy education.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

GSV is making a new investment in education. But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Instead, the edtech investment firm is helping to launch a new online MBA program focused on entrepreneurship. Its partner? A small, Christian college in Jackson, Mississippi. “What we’re focused on is creating an amazing program that attracts people who have dreams, and we help those dreams come to reality,” says Michael Moe, founder of GSV.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 13, 2020

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 210 Polarization, Racism, And Education. Drew Perkins talks with John Wood Jr. of Braver Angels about bringing people together on the most polarizing of issues, including racism, and how that work touches education. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: braverangels.org/ @braverangels Braver Angels on Facebook , Instagram , YouTube @JohnRWoodJr Race, Culture and the Dynamics of Prejudice There Are Evils Worse Than Racism 1776 1619 Project The TeachThought

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SpeechTechie

MAY 13, 2020

Piggybacking on yesterday's post , I just wanted to demonstrate a brisk look at Smart Exchange. We need not focus only on ELA categories in any material but can be looking also at content areas and consider a) would this activity be Fairly Priced, Interactive, Visual, Educationally Relevant, and Speechie/Specific, i.e. you can identify specific objectives you can target with it and b) what can you do AROUND the activity?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 13, 2020

We will never look at disaster movies the same again. The last few weeks have suddenly made them seem just a little bit less far-fetched – the mask and glove-clad grocery shopping, the slightly dystopian feeling of driving on near-empty highways. Lives have been upended, and the future seems uncertain for millions. How the next few months will play out across the world is quite uncertain.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 13, 2020

Working from home can be as challenging as it is comfortable. As an educator, I never thought I would be working from home. That’s just not the way our industry was designed. Teachers are social creatures – even the introverted ones. We thrive on the ability to connect with our students and coworkers and we yearn to be present during life-changing learning experiences.

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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 Principal of Change

MAY 13, 2020

Although this podcast on “4 Non-Negotiables” was recorded long before schools moved to “Emergency Remote Teaching,” these ideas still apply, but may look different. As you read the post below or listen to the podcast, consider these questions: You can listen to the full podcast on iTunes , Spotify , or Soundcloud, or check out the original post from 2016 below.

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MiddleWeb

MAY 13, 2020

Our classrooms have been replaced for now by remote learning platforms, and the connection between students, parents, and teachers has taken on a whole new life. Elizabeth Stein considers how we can make the most of expanding our co-teaching relationships with parents.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The recent school closures due to COVID-19 mean that most students will not be returning to the classroom for several months. This situation has sparked a lot of conversation across the education landscape about how student learning will be impacted. At MIND, we know that school closures are exacerbating the existing problems with both traditional math education, and with society’s relationship with math.

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techlearning

MAY 13, 2020

How to use Google Classroom as a teacher or as a student, everything you need to know.

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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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ExcelinEd

MAY 13, 2020

During the pandemic, charter schools in communities across the country are actively supporting their communities by providing services that go beyond curriculum and student instruction. Here are seven inspiring examples: Meals delivered to students’ homes. A few weeks ago when families in Escondido, CA, were unable to leave their homes to pick up meals from their local school, Epiphany Prep Charter School began delivering meals to students’ homes.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2020

Google Cloud announced it’s making Google Meet, Google’s premium video-conferencing solution, free for everyone with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to G Suite’s business and education users, such as simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including the expanded tiled view.

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Cycles of Learning

MAY 13, 2020

Today I find myself reflecting more philosophically on the distance learning process, specifically models of technology integration. If you follow the work on this, two models, SAMR and TPACK talked about are referenced the most. I referenced TPACK in yesterday's reflection. Below are images of each model. As shown above, SAMR is a more technology-centered" (in my opinion) approach that outlines how tools are used to on a spectrum of "Substitution" to "Redefinition".

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techlearning

MAY 13, 2020

The Dell Inspiron 27-7790 powerful enough for video lessons but mobile and affordable at the same time.

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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