Fri.May 15, 2020

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Why Kids Never Stop Moving: Neuroscience and a Student?s Need to Move

The CoolCatTeacher

Neuroscience and a Student's Need to Move From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Have you ever wondered why kids never stop moving? Suzanne Cresswell shares the neuroscience behind student’s need for movement. This is one of the most popular posts we’ve aired on the 10 minute teacher and right now is a great time to remember what we know about movement and student academic and physical growth.

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College or Career? Check out These

Ask a Tech Teacher

Choosing what to do after high school used to be simple for those who had good grades: Apply to college. Now, not so much. For one thing, college has become increasingly more expensive and students are asking whether there’s enough value in what they get to offset the costs. Another worry: Colleges sometimes seem dangerous hotbeds of protests and riots.

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How PBL in Math Class Can Make Projects Unforgettable

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In these times, part of being a teacher is to have meaningful online projects with engagement. PBL can create memorable learning with projects, and Lauren Harris uses projects to teach math. 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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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate

EdTech Magazine

Educators are always looking for ways to meet the needs of English language learners in their school district. After all, the number of ELLs entering U.S. public schools continues to rise. In fact, they are the fastest-growing student population, according to the National Education Association , and by 2025, are expected to make up an estimated 25 percent of public school students.

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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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Narrowing the Gap in Home Connectivity

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik E-rate may still be the answer if Congress and the FCC can work together In the Learning Counsel’s National Survey, schools and districts from across America are weighing in on key issues related to teaching and learning. Many of the questions are asked with regards to budgets, pressures, policy, new technologies in consideration, and what programs, results or achievements respondents are proud of in their school or district.

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Extending the Value of Physical Security Systems with Enhanced Video Surveillance

EdTech Magazine

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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Students and Professors Look for Closure As Unprecedented Semester Ends

Edsurge

After months of improvising in response to a deadly pandemic, colleges are wrapping up a very unusual semester. Faculty and students are puzzling over how to find closure as they conclude their virtual courses. Subsequent to the Great Pivot Online, professors who ran their remote classes asynchronously—recording materials for students to use at their convenience—say they didn’t necessarily have an opportunity to seal off their semesters in ways that felt satisfying.

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Learn Science at Home- 8 Great YouTube Channels for Young Learners

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In the spirit of providing teachers and patents with educational resources to help them enhance their students and kids' distance learning, today's post features a carefully selected collection of.read more.

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Getting Started with Microsoft Teams

Teacher Tech

Microsoft Teams is the perfect way for O365 users to interact with their students. In this webinar series with Adam Grocott we look at what you can do with Microsoft Teams and how to create assignments. Teams.office.com Go to teams.office.com or install the desktop app for teams. Your class is a team, I love this […]. The post Getting Started with Microsoft Teams appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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12 Of The Best Bookmarking Tools For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

12 Of The Best Bookmarking Tools For Teachers. by TeachThought Staff. What are the best bookmarking tools for teachers? From apps to browser extensions and social readers to publishing platforms, these tools come in many forms. Below, we’ve gathered our favorite ways to save articles, media, curricula, lesson plans, and anything else you might want to save during your daily skimming. 12 Of The Best Bookmarking Tools For Teachers. 1.

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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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Will coronavirus problems mean even more ‘summer melt’ this year?

The Hechinger Report

Mittzy Matamoros, a senior at John Henry High School in Richmond, California, must quickly make some big decisions about her future. She was accepted at several sought-after four-year institutions, such as the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Merced, but then the coronavirus pandemic swept the world. Her mom, a restaurant server, and her dad, a plumber and construction worker, lost their jobs.

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Superintendents Brainstorm to Support Early Learners During COVID-19 Outbreak

Marketplace K-12

K-12 school district leaders discuss issues unique to early childhood education and how to address remote instruction, learning loss, parent training and social-emotional learning amid the pandemic. The post Superintendents Brainstorm to Support Early Learners During COVID-19 Outbreak appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educators Share What’s Working in Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

I am inspired and encouraged by the innovations I’m seeing in schools and homes across the country. For a time when we are physically social distancing, it has been beautiful to see how people are coming together to take care of our nation’s children. I want to start a conversation about what you all are finding to be working in the hopes that others can benefit from your experience.

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A Good Graphic Organizer to Help Kids Improve Their Reading and Writing

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With school closures in effect due to the current pandemic, parents are spending much more time helping their house-bound kids with their home schooling. There are several digital resources parents.

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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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8 STEM learning challenges students can do at home

eSchool News

I was chatting with my brother the other day about how things are going with my two nieces learning at home while their schools are closed due to COVID-19. My 13-year-old niece, Sophie, has continued to follow a typical school schedule each day with her school delivering a full learning program online. Her high school is doing a wonderful job providing lessons and activities to keep her motivated, learning, and engaged.

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Online program expands to combat early learning disruptions caused by coronavirus closures

The Hechinger Report

A Mississippi mom encourages her daughter as she completes a session on the kindergarten readiness program, Waterford Upstart. Thousands of Mississippi children will have access to the software this summer as part of an effort to support incoming kindergarteners during the coronavirus pandemic.Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Linways is on a mission to ensure uninterrupted learning.

Linways Technologies

We love to help millions in learning and we believe that’s our life’s purpose. Everyone loves the process of creation and if that creation could change millions of lives, We would be even happier. We were in this edtech space quite some time and we love to solve the problems of teaching and learning. We all know the world is going through a serious crisis in all aspects.

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Schedules and Organizational Strategies for Student Success at Home

N2Y

As teachers, students and families adapt to remote learning, it’s important to apply strategies that will ensure success for all in this new environment. One key to success is for teachers to share clear plans and expectations for remote learning with parents, caregivers and students. Organizational tools, such as visual schedules, are one of the best ways to set both daily and longer-term expectations.

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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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All middle schoolers need these key tech skills

eSchool News

Saint Patrick’s is a small, pre-K–8 Catholic school in Yorktown Heights, New York. Last year, we received a grant to revamp our computer lab into what we call a STREAM lab, which stands for science, technology, religion, engineering, art, and math. The grant allowed us to invest in 30 new MacBook Airs to supplement our existing iPads and Chromebooks.

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Three Examples: Elementary Charters Instructing Young Children at a Distance

ExcelinEd

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. How are charter schools supporting families and student instructional needs during this time? As we previously mentioned, charter schools are different , even from each other. They serve students in different contexts and are responding to pandemic impacts in numerous ways.

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Online Teaching Reflections: Day 31

Cycles of Learning

This a quick post just to emphasize (as I have written about before) how much I LOVE using hypothetical medical case studies as inquiry entry points in my Biology classes. Positioning students in a scenario where they have to diagnosis a "patient" given minimal information, if done correctly, tunnels them into the a subsequent lecture so well. In lieu of the ability to do wet labs, student feedback has indicated that case study analysis is a great use of time in the distance learning setting.

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In ‘She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power,’ True Strength Is In Being Yourself

MindShift

Showrunner Noelle Stevenson has always been a fan of science fiction and fantasy. As a kid, she loved it all: the epic space battles, the magic, the quests that seemed larger than life. But there was a problem with her favorite childhood stories, like Star Wars and The Lord of The Rings series. “I never quite saw myself reflected in them,” Stevenson says, “certainly not at the heart of the story.” There weren’t a lot of women.

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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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#FactFriday: There are at least 13 types of charter schools

ExcelinEd

It’s National Charter Schools Week, and we’re celebrating how public charter schools are meeting the unique needs of individual students, families and communities. But not all charter schools are the same; these schools are made for specific purposes to address local needs. The American Enterprise Institute’s report Measuring Diversity in Charter School Offerings classifies 13 different types of specialized charter schools.

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Friday, May 15 Events - The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the Friday, May 15th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The day's sessions are below. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here. Recordings of past sessions are listed on the Recordings page. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. TODAY'S SESSIONS : All times are US-Eastern Daylight Time - to see them in your own time zone and to get the links for attending live, click HERE. 11:00 AM - Recalibrating Learni

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4 Steps to Prepare For The Next Version Of School

TeachThought - Learn better.

4 Steps to Prepare For The Next Version Of School. by Drew Perkins , Director of TeachThought PD. The start of every new year usually brings an increasing number of requests from school leaders looking to discuss professional development options for the spring, summer, and fall. As we moved from January to February and into March that annual trend was typically growing with each passing week.

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Back to Normal: Questions We Must Consider

EdNews Daily

By Tamara Fyke Yesterday I was part of a strategy meeting with a Nashville non-profit that provides school-based services. The team includes a mix of working moms and single women who are working as university professors, school counselors, teachers, and non-profit leaders. We reviewed the work in progress and talked about the coming school year. Then I raised the question, “What if school doesn’t start back in the Fall?

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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.