Ditch That Textbook
JANUARY 20, 2021
Canvas. Blackboard. Schoology. Google Classroom. No matter your LMS, you have LOTS of power to create great assignments! We educators often see digital learning through the lens of our learning management system (LMS). Many times, because we're looking for our LMS, it keeps us from seeing what's possible. Some examples:"I could really use some examples of […].
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 20, 2021
The global pandemic changed everything. And yet, in many ways, it did not. CoSN’s 2020 Leadership Survey highlighted that the top three challenges school leaders face when it comes to technology were: budget, professional development and department silos. Those challenges have remained the top three for the last four years and were unchanged in 2020 despite nationwide disruptions and closures for schools across the country.
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Education Elements
JANUARY 20, 2021
Learning loss is the baby elephant in the room. It’s an issue that is currently small enough to briefly acknowledge, deprioritize, or ignore completely. Yet this elephant will continue to grow as the size and scale of learning loss due to the pandemic is better understood. The vaccine has returned a sense of hope that life will get back to “normal.” But educators must recognize that a return to “normal” will only reinforce the widening opportunity gap and systems that support institutionalized r
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 20, 2021
The 41st annual edition of the Future of Education Technology Conference promises to look a lot different than the prior 40. This will be the first virtual edition of the event, running Jan. 26-29, which gives educators and administrators a look at the latest trends in educational technology that can enable teachers and administrators to better do their jobs.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 20, 2021
The University of Maryland Global Campus has a decades-long history of educating working adults and members of the military, first by sending instructors to teach soldiers overseas and now through online programs and open educational resources. The public institution recently welcomed a new president , Gregory Fowler, who brings to the role experience as a scholar of English and as an administrator at Western Governors University, Hesser College and, most recently, online powerhouse Southern New
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 20, 2021
Awesome Table is a great add-on to use on your Google Sheets to turn your spreadsheets into interactive visualizations. No coding knowledge is required to operate it, it is simple and easy to use.read more.
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Teacher Tech
JANUARY 20, 2021
I have found a way to hide objects in a Google Jamboard Jam. Create mystery spots in the Jam so students pull out hidden objects. Pen Stays on Top The key to a mystery spot is understanding that in a Google Jamboard Jam the Pen tool is always on top of objects. So if you […]. The post Creating a Mystery Spot in Google Jamboard appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Edsurge
JANUARY 20, 2021
Some critics called it a “tattle button.” One parent called it “Rat My Professor.” Plenty of professors and alumni pushed back last week when the University of Florida added a button to its campus-safety app that encouraged students to report if a professor who was supposed to be teaching in person switched classes to online. Under pressure, administrators altered the button on Friday—though it is still possible for students to use the app, called Gator Safe, to complain about how classes are be
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 20, 2021
Floop is an excellent feedback collecting tool I learned about from this post by Jennifer Gonzalez. I have been experimenting with it for sometime now and found it really amazing. This is a tool.read more.
eSchool News
JANUARY 20, 2021
With the onset of COVID-19, parents have stepped-up and continued to play an active role in their children’s daily education activities. Teachers, schools, and districts have put their best foot forward to ensure students are learning but still struggle with meaningful parent engagement, which has proven critical to a child’s ongoing success in the classroom.
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.
techlearning
JANUARY 20, 2021
The new administration hopes to get students back in the physical classroom by investing billions in rapid Covid testing technology
MiddleWeb
JANUARY 20, 2021
For five years Marilyn Pryle has begun every class with 10 minutes of choice reading, inside a Book Club model. Would in work in a hybrid classroom? Yes! Her experience this year “reinforces the truths I already know.” Students want to read. Escaping into a story feels good. The post Daily Silent Reading in Hybrid Classrooms first appeared on MiddleWeb.
eSchool News
JANUARY 20, 2021
There are many pressures that come with being a student, from doing well in school to being accepted by peers. This can be a lot to deal with while growing up in such a fast-paced world–and it can cause mental health deficits that leave lasting effects. Prior to COVID-19, about 15-20 percent of students already needed mental health support, and following all the uncertainty and change the pandemic has brought into the learning space, that number is only set to increase.
EmergingEdTech
JANUARY 20, 2021
So here we are in 2021 and most of us are still teaching remotely, at least part of the time. I know one pretty universal issue many educators are facing in this environment is engagement with our. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
The Jose Vilson
JANUARY 20, 2021
By the time this publishes, you’ll officially only have four hours left in your presidency. “Good riddance” isn’t strong enough. For you and your cabal of fascist, racist, sexist, imperialist, homophobic, classist, seditious sycophants, I would wish your souls the agony you’ve bestowed upon the world over multifold. When the substitute teacher across the hall from me yelled your name in triumph at my Latinx and Black kids, you smirked that your name could inspire su
MindShift
JANUARY 20, 2021
President Biden will issue an executive order asking the Education Department to extend pandemic relief for about 41 million federal student loan borrowers through Sept. 30. In March 2020, borrowers were granted a reprieve on their loan payments — interest was set to 0% and collections of defaulted federal student loans were paused. Congress initiated this relief in the CARES Act.
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