Mon.May 18, 2020

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End of the Year Project: What Are YOU Curious About?

Catlin Tucker

The last couple of months have been exhausting on a lot of levels as teachers and students shift to online learning. I would venture to guess that everyone is ready for a much-deserved summer break. Teachers looking for creative ways to end the school year may want to consider a “What are YOU curious about?” project. This is a fun way to close out the year with a student-driven investigation.

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169 Tech Tip #48 Quickly Switch Between Windows

Ask a Tech Teacher

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: Quickly Switch Between Windows. Category: Internet.

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5 End of the Year #RemoteLearning Celebration Ideas

The Web20Classroom

This school year has been anything but normal. Many educators have settled into a grove of creating the best learning experiences they can for their students while still providing some meaning during distance learning. But as the days turn longer and the weather turns warmer, it’s time to begin thinking about how to celebrate all that has been accomplished.

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What to Expect from CoSN2020

EdTech Magazine

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is resuming its annual conference virtually from May 19-21, making it one of the first K–12 national education conferences being held online. The thought leadership event, which drew more than 1,000 attendees in 2019, was slated for mid-March. But because of official health and safety advisories regarding the novel coronavirus, CoSN’s Board of Directors split the conference into a two-part virtual experience.

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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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The 3 R?s of Teaching Reading Remotely

EdTechTeacher

A Guest post by Dr. Courtney Pepe. When reflecting upon the changing educational landscape that is taking place during Remote Learning, there are many challenges and dilemmas facing educators. Fortunately, educators are creative, dynamic and resourceful professionals who have the ability to turn challenges into opportunities. One notable challenge facing educators during Remote Learning is how to teach reading and literacy from a distance.

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Girls Who Code CEO: For Remote Learning to Succeed, It Must Be Equitable

Edsurge

For the past two months, Girls Who Code has been racing to design and deploy new virtual initiatives to serve thousands of girls around the world who rely on our programming. We had no choice. We needed to reach our girls. We couldn’t risk losing progress on closing the gender gap in tech. And we refused to let the COVID-19 pandemic stop us. The idea of a long-term shift toward virtual schooling fills me with dread and excitement at the same time.

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The ?Unsung Heroes? Keeping Students and Families Fed During School Closures

Edsurge

In the food service business, it is wise to have a Plan B at all times. And, for good measure, probably a Plan C, too. On any given day, the food delivery may not arrive on time. Or, when it gets there, half of the supply has spoiled and needs to be thrown out. “You make decisions knowing they might change,” says Beth Kujawa, the food services supervisor at Leyden High School District 212, located just outside of Chicago.

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10 Reasons To Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

10 Reasons To Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom. by TeachThought Staff. Although still an emerging technology in terms of recognizing its full potential, virtual reality offers the opportunity to step into places, roles, and experiences that were previously impossible, or at the very least, inaccessible to most. As Terry Heick said in Why Virtual Reality is So Important , “Through the use of digital technology, virtual realities can be designed precisely for human interaction for very specifi

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66 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, the Work Is More Urgent Than Ever

Edsurge

Does Brown v. Board of Education represent a historical event or an ongoing national journey? As we mark the 66th anniversary of the monumental decision that ended legal segregation, the implications of that question and the complexities of the implementation of the decision could not be more important. Many of us engaged in educational equity work have wondered how to observe the anniversary.

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Interactive Presentation Templates to Teach Students about Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google has recently teamed up with Pear Deck to design "custom, interactive presentations and vocabulary flashcards to accompany the Be Internet Awesome curriculum". You can easily integrate these.read more.

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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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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

Edsurge

While I have always wanted to be a parent, I've never wanted to homeschool my kids. At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment. This educational context, so different from my own growing up, has always intrigued me. As students would share their experiences, I often realized that the home schools in my imagination were vastly different from what these young people described.

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Ohio import of NYC community college program passed rigorous 3-year test

The Hechinger Report

It’s rare for researchers to test a promising treatment on only a portion of students in real schools to see if it’s effective. Educators typically loathe the idea of denying anyone an opportunity to learn, which is what happens in a randomized controlled trial. Even rarer in education is a replication of this kind of experiment to see if something works in a different setting.

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Video Tutorials to Help Kids Learn Drawing and Sketching at Home

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As we dig deeper into the educational resources provided by Learn at Home with YouTube we uncover more and more interesting materials that you can use with your students and kids to engage them in.read more.

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5 ways to improve communication while students are learning from home

eSchool News

Over the past weeks, we’ve been talking with school and district leaders as they continue to navigate these new challenges we’re all facing. As students adapt to a new way of learning from home, it’s important to recognize that the pressure to succeed remains, now amplified without their usual means of support. In addition, parents are struggling to understand the best way to support their children and are desperately seeking guidance and structure from the educators leading this cha

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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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Quarantine campuses: With dorms shut and class online, students DIY college life

The Hechinger Report

For six first-year students at Olin College of Engineering, the mid-March news of the campus closing and classes going online was more than troubling. It was so problematic as to require a solution. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Which led four of them to cram into an orange Subaru and drive some 1,400 miles from Olin’s campus in Needham, Massachusetts, to Duluth, Minnesota — two flew — where one student’s family had a vacant rental house.

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Students Making Sense of Multiple Sources

MiddleWeb

When your students read, view, and listen to multiple sources on a topic or issue, do they tackle each source in a silo? Martha Polley and Sunday Cummins share Martha’s dive into helping students think across history sources, synthesizing to deepen their understanding.

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Use science to build categories and following directions

SpeechTechie

GoReact is an activity (originally an app) from Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago that I originally wrote about for ASHA Leader. I was reminded of it recently when a HS student I work with had a chem project I needed to assist with. GoReact can be used to explore the periodic table of elements and associate elements with practical, relatable objects they are used to make.

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How to Use a Document Camera for Remote Learning

techlearning

A document camera is a great way to use learning resources live and it's easy when you know how.

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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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OPINION: How to use university endowments for coronavirus recovery

The Hechinger Report

In the face of the coronavirus, some courageous university leaders have stepped up to protect their students, their employees and their communities. They have maintained essential services for low-income students, refused to lay off employees and begun careful planning to reopen safely for the fall term. To weather this crisis and speed a national recovery, universities also need to use some of our nation’s biggest untapped rainy-day funds: their endowments.

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One-to-One Programs in Education: More than Buying Devices

Vizor

Reading Time: 3 minutes One-to-one (commonly abbreviated as 1:1) computing programs in the education system have already been around for a few decades. Although not a new concept, schools still have trouble obtaining successful results with one-to-one programs. Are schools biting off more than they can chew? Are they underestimating the undertaking of implementing a one-to-one program?

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Try this resource to engage students in at-home coding

eSchool News

Students don’t always need to jump right into a programming tutorial to develop an interest in coding. Sometimes, all it takes is an engaging book–and with most students across the country learning from home in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a downloadable resource they can do from their own home may be just the thing to spark their interest in coding.

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Engaging Literate Minds Book Study Schedule

Reading By Example

As announced previously , we will be reading Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K–3 for this summer’s book study. A common question is, how can I participate if I am not a contributor to the blog? One possibility is to write your own responses to the text as we do, for example on your blog and/or as a series of tweets (i.e. a Twitter thread; use #engaginglitminds as a hashtag).

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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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Student Mental Health Resources

eSchool News

Schools may have protocols in place to support students on campus, but with the recent transition to distance learning can leave educators unsure of how to help. Gaggle has put together resources to help students in this time of isolation. With changes to their routine, concerns over COVID-19, and possible scarcity of food and resources, it’s a stressful time to be a student or educator.

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Transforming online learning experiences

Learning with 'e's

In 'normal times' transformation is often slow, usually driven by technology. During the Second World War , which was far from normal, a number of radical developments in medicine, science and technology rapidly emerged. They had to. It was expedient, because lives were at stake. In a time of crisis, we all try to cope in any way we can. Today's crisis is precisely one of those moments in history.

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Free Online Career Development

eSchool News

With the school closures caused by the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, school counselors, teachers, parents, and students are looking for online resources. But they’re also looking for ways to stay inspired – and to feel a sense of optimism – about the future. For a limited time, Kuder is offering access to its career development systems for students in grades pre-K to 12, as well as a 10-hour professional development course for career advisors, free of charge.

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10 Ideas to Virtually Celebrate the Year

Buncee

Another school year comes to a close, although certainly not in a way any of us were expecting. During this time of remote learning, we all need to embrace our creativity, and find ways to connect with each other, as we celebrate the good times from the past school year. Whether you are finishing a year and returning after summer vacation, or graduating and beginning the next phase of your school career, the end of the school year is the perfect time to reflect on memories and accomplishments fr

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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.

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Online Teaching Reflection: Day 32

Cycles of Learning

In last week's post I shared a CAD challenge I was facilitating with my Engineering for Social Good class where they designed, to scale, cases for my father's Cochlear Implants. This morning students turned in initial prototypes done using either TinkerCad, OnShape , or Fusion360. See embedded Padlet board of submissions below which include screenshots of prototypes as well as screencasts (made using screencastify ) where they explain their process.

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When to Call Someone Out or Call Them In Over Racist Behavior

MindShift

Excerpted from “ This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do The Work ,” written by Tiffany Jewell and illustrated by Aurélia Durand. The following is from the chapter “Choosing my Path: Calling In and Calling Out.” By Tiffany Jewell. What does it mean to “call someone in” or “call someone out?

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Curiscope

Technology Tidbits

Curiscope is a wonderful company that makes augmented reality posters and tee's for education. These are great learning tools for the classroom that shows student's different aspects of Science through augmented reality. Below is a brief demo of an AR poster. I highly recommend checking out Curiscope by clicking here !!!

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One-to-One Programs in Education: More than Buying Devices

Vizor

Reading Time: 3 minutes One-to-one (commonly abbreviated as 1:1) computing programs in the education system have already been around for a few decades. Although not a new concept, schools still have trouble obtaining successful results with one-to-one programs. Are schools biting off more than they can chew? Can they be underestimating the undertaking of implementing a one-to-one program?

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

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