The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Aaron Johnson shares the techniques to help us do it better From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Aaron Johnson Shares His Way to Engage Students Even at a Distance. Many of us are learning to traverse between online and in-person learning environments. Our guest Aaron Johnson, author of Online Teaching with Zoom , shares with us how to better engage students through Zoom, so we can all teach effectively at a distance.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

While computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) have received increasing attention over the past decade, CT integration in early learning settings is an emerging area of focus. Our National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project, a collaboration with SRI International , Edfinity , and Curious Media , aimed to identify CT skills aligned with the abilities and interests of preschool children (age 3-5 years).

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

poem by Vicki Davis From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Rather Stand by Vicki Davis. I’d rather stand alone for the right thing … than be popular for the wrong one. I’d rather be wise. than smart. I’d rather find a child’s strength. than point out her weakness. I’d rather find a child crying. than let him cry alone.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 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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Ditch That Textbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Google Classroom can be even more powerful with a few tips and strategies to make it efficient and effective.Google Classroom streamlines the management of student work — announcing, assigning, collecting, grading, giving feedback and returning. It has certainly saved many teachers hours of work. Without a solid workflow and some strategy, grading digital work can be cumbersome. […].

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the era of remote learning, school districts are challenged with delivering widespread connectivity, especially in rural and underserved communities. School IT leaders have scrambled to make bandwidth available to support online classrooms and address issues of equity. “The challenge with COVID-19 is that we have designed networks for the borders of the physical school building, and that is what the E-rate funding supports,” says Amy McLaughlin , project director for the Consortium for Scho

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

November has some extra special meaning for the NEO team. Each November, we look back to the previous 12 months, and then all the way back to the very first post published on the NEO Blog, to reflect upon our progress in the e-learning blogging sphere. We’ve come a long way in the last five years! While face-to-face interaction has been to its minimum in the last months, the pace of the blog did not slow down.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Before the pandemic, Tracy Weston’s child care center was booming. Five years after opening Noah’s Ark Preschool Academy with her husband in their small town of Dawson, Ga.—a career move she describes as a dream fulfilled—Weston had built out a staff of skilled early childhood professionals who were caring for some 50-plus children. “Things were really rolling,” she says of her program prior to March.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ride-sharing app, Z?m , was growing fast—right up to this past March when US schools shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Watching your market effectively vanish overnight is chilling for any chief executive. But Z?m CEO Ritu Narayan seized the moment to double down on her team’s commitment to its mission even as Z?m changed its tactics.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments. Shifting to remote learning because of the pandemic also posed additional challenges for these students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has forced some professors to rethink how they teach, and it has led some students to forge closer connections with their professors—and each other. For this installment of our semester-long Pandemic Campus Diaries series, we’ve asked our participants to reflect on what they’ve learned from this disrupted and stressful semester. As we get close to the end of the year, have any lessons emerged?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As schools reckon with academic equity, they’re often focused on academic progress. During the edWebinar Leading for Equity: Academic Development Through an Equity Lens , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , the presenters talked about the important role social-emotional learning (SEL) plays in the process.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When President-elect Joe Biden gave a shoutout to the education profession early on in his acceptance speech, the teaching community cheered and roared. They were not the only ones. Business executives and funders of educational technologies also welcomed the signal that education will be a major focus for the incoming administration. “It will be incredibly beneficial to have a life-long educator in Dr.

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One of the ways we used to discourage cheating for paper assessments was to create different versions. Shuffle Question Order In the settings of Google Forms on the “Presentation tab” you can choose “Shuffle question order.” This is certainly one way to prevent students from sharing “the answer to question 5.” Note that ALL the […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I recently met (over Zoom) with a dozen first-year students to hear how their semester at Barnard College was going. Although they reported being engaged in their classes (something every college president likes to hear), words like uneasy, concerned, unsure and anxious popped up frequently as we talked. Barnard women are not alone in their struggles.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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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Testpress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To make training videos for your student can be a real asset. It is also an opportunity to demonstrate elements of your course that are difficult to explain in writing. So you have to enrich your online lessons with videos for this manner. But. Most importantly you must know what you want to deliver and how to communicate effectively. How to create training videos for your students?

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Amid pandemic learning, we must address virtual PD experiences for teachers, write experts Barbara Blackburn and Ron Williamson. By considering our purpose, the content, and the appropriate platforms to engage teachers, leaders can assure effective professional learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Hoover City Schools in suburban Birmingham, AL, was already one-to-one when the pandemic struck in March. And while its transition to remote learning in the spring was relatively painless, teachers and students continue to adjust to the new realities of hybrid school days. In this conversation with eSchool News, Bryan Phillips, CTO of Hoover City Schools, describes some of the positives he notices with this forced migration and divines which practices should probably remain once we get back to w

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What is the relationship between quality and effect? It's partly causal but that's not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence. The post What Is The Relationship Between Quality And Effect? appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What you need to know: As the nation faces a surge in Covid-19 cases, and schools continue to grapple with uncertainty and closures, Verizon is providing additional support and remote learning resources for educators, students and parents. Teacher Training Pathways offers educators a free platform for professional development. Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The post Blended Learning with Google (Part 2: Storytelling) – SULS089 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. More Blended Learning with Google! In part two of this podcast series, we will take a deep-dive into storytelling with Google tools, and how we can use this strategy in any grade level or subject area. Storytelling might be my very favorite strategy for teachers because it is so flexible, engaging, and creative!

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Turnitin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With Turnitin Originality, we’re making it easier for instructors to be notified of any text manipulations through the new Flags Insight Panel.

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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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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Recently, I was able to lead a conversation with a group in Massachusettes, and a particular discussion with an administrator had resonated. She shared some of the strategies that she was sharing to best help her staff move forward, and she had felt that she was overly positive. I asked her about some of the things that she had shared, and although I wasn’t privy to her conversation, many of the things she discussed were problems that her staff was facing, and she had some possible strate

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

UWorld , the worldwide leader in online learning to prepare for high-stakes exams, today announced the launch of AP ® (Advanced Placement ® ) Learning Tools , a new College Readiness solution to help educators enhance instruction, improve student performance, and effectively prepare for AP exams. The tools save teachers time while enabling students to achieve their academic goals.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

JiJi has written a poem for our ST Math community about the #HolidaysWithJiJi photo contest. Happy holidays everybody! It's the best time of the year. It's your favorite penguin, JiJi. Here to bring holiday cheer. I can play on a desk, a shelf, or a frame. Have your cameras out and ready. Let's make it a game. There are others just like me. Several thousand strong.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two). As with all of the other sessions in the Summit (300 in total for this two-month event!

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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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