Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 16, 2020
October 19-23, 2020 is Digital Citizenship Week. Here are resources from Ask a Tech Teacher and Structured Learning that will help you learn how to teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video).
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 16, 2020
By Tamara Fyke For the past decade, I have been advocating for the integration of social-emotional learning and screens in schools. I never imagined that we would be living in 2020 when families are forced to make the choice between face-to-face and online classes due to a pandemic. Now that we are here, I find myself continually listening and learning, researching and re-evaluating.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Richard Mayer is one of the most influential educational researchers: His theory of multimedia learning is widely cited, and his resulting principles for how to design learning materials have become a kind of gold standard in the instructional design world. The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks Mayer as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2020
It’s a shared challenge facing instructors whose classes typically involve labs or career and technical education: In the age of physical distancing and remote learning, how do educators re-create hands-on lessons online? “How can I help someone learn to weld if they can’t come in and use the equipment?” asks Lori Romano, director of career, technical and adult education at Pasco County Schools in Florida.
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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.
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 16, 2020
You can use Google Slides to create a timer. I created a slide for every second. Click here for the Google Slides file. Publish to the Web Use the File menu in Google Slides to choose “Publish to the web.” Publishing allows you to “Start slideshow as soon as the player loads.” Change from the […]. The post 3 Minute Timer – Google Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2020
It’s a shared challenge facing instructors whose classes typically involve labs or career and technical education: In the age of physical distancing and remote learning, how do educators re-create hands-on lessons online? “How can I help someone learn to weld if they can’t come in and use the equipment?” asks Lori Romano, director of career, technical and adult education at Pasco County Schools in Florida.
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eSchool News
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Digital learning tools have proved themselves invaluable as classrooms across the globe made the abrupt change to online learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, as some schools have reopened physical classrooms in at least a limited capacity, digital learning tools that may have previously gone unused have retained their place on educators’ must-have lists.
Linways Technologies
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Technology integration is the key to quality assurance in education. Many experts have said it before and the data proves it. To that end, we, Linways technologies have been talking with teachers, academic experts, institutional management personnel, etc. to learn about how technology can provide better solutions to cater to quality education. In our previous blog, we discussed how Linways Academic Management System helps to simplify education management.
N2Y
OCTOBER 16, 2020
For back to school 2020, many educators spent months preparing to resume instruction safely by addressing students’ social-emotional needs alongside academic goals. Approaches include creating safe spaces through trauma-informed teaching and inclusive social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies. But, what about the adults who are also experiencing change and uncertainty about school and in life?
Linways Technologies
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Data defines strategy. Data reflects strategy. Schools and colleges often have a limited amount of data to work with. However, every piece of info that comes into a teacher’s desk represents the actual reflection of how things have been and what needs to change. So in this article, we are going to discuss a 6-step framework for better understanding and improvement of student data.
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.
Edthena
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Ayodele Harrison supports black male educators through BMEsTalk, a virtual safe space for black male educators to connect, grow, and lead. Are black male educators safe in their schools? Ayodele notes that many are asked to step into positions they may not want to be in. Participating in community creates common experiences among black male educators can result in affinity, leading to positive impacts in the classroom.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 16, 2020
On March 30, 2020, I entered a whole new world of teaching my kindergarten class. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the world have had to completely change the way we work. It took a week of training, webinars, and numerous Zoom meetings with my teaching peers to learn the technology platforms I needed to deliver instruction. The next step was designing curriculum and instruction using the new format.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 16, 2020
In a recent post published on its Keyword blog, Google announced the release of new updates to its popular app Google Lens. Students will now be able to use the app's homework help to get assistance.
SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Genius is a great website for looking more deeply at any song, and most you can think of are covered on the website. Just locate the song, and highlighted sections of it are annotated in the right sidebar. Songs are motivating "texts" (provided you find ones appropriate enough AND motivating) for higher-level language skills (e.g. identifying sentence structures, vocabulary, figurative language, multiple meaning, and narrative, particularly for older students).
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
OCTOBER 16, 2020
As a college student, whether you’re doing an undergrad, masters, or Ph.D., you know that PDF is a file format you will inevitably have to deal with on a daily basis. Here are some of the reasons.
Georgia Test Prep
OCTOBER 16, 2020
School districts have done their best to plan learning contingencies due to the COVID situation. Some schools have opted for virtual learning to keep children and staff safe, and this is an entirely new paradigm for everyone involved– the teachers, the students, and last but not least: the parents. We are all figuring it out as we go along. It’s a bit like building the plane as you’re flying it.
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