Fri.Mar 11, 2022

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Securing & Future-Proofing Your School IT

techlearning

Experienced education IT professionals share tips on safe and equitable technology use for students and staff.

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Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th : Pi Day and World Maths Day. Pi Day. Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant ? (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of ? in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.

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Do We Really Want Academic Permanent Records to Live Forever on Blockchain?

Edsurge

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a buzzword in the edtech sector. The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. Updates must be validated collectively. The technology can be used to authenticate the identities of people, to determine ownership or to verify data. The possibilities for applying this type of system in education are extensive.

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Community Schools: Connecting the Dots of a Connected Village

EdNews Daily

By James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen Editor’s Note: This is part two of a five-part series (click here to first read part one) Seamlessly connecting the combined strength of community assets is a powerful way to ignite the learning process for students, educators, parents and community leaders. A rising tide floats all boats, and the entire community is strengthened through a very pronounced synergistic effect in the community schools model.

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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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March Mathness is On

MIND Research Institute

Compete in our 2022 March Mathness challenge for a chance to win cool JiJi Store prizes. Here at MIND Research Institute, we wholeheartedly believe that penguins love basketball, which is why JiJi can't wait to see schools compete for the number one spot during March Madness this year. JiJi and the ST Math team love basketball so much that we decided to bring the fun from the court to the classroom in our first-ever ST Math #MarchMathness Puzzle Challenge!

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Digital Illiteracy Is a Rising Threat. A New Department of Education Program Seeks Solutions

Marketplace K-12

A new accelerator program run by the federal agency supports teachers, academic researchers, and others who design projects meant to promote civil discourse, and combat online misinformation. The post Digital Illiteracy Is a Rising Threat. A New Department of Education Program Seeks Solutions appeared first on Market Brief.

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One Founding Principal’s Strategies for Building Positive School Culture

Edthena

Positive school culture is key to thriving teachers and students. It means that educators are connected and behave with shared beliefs and values. But school leaders have so much on their plates and it can be tricky to know how to support something as broad as the culture of a school. That doesn’t stop Sarah Martin. The founding principal of Stonefields School in Auckland, New Zealand, has prioritized cultivating a positive school culture.

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How to create resilience in traumatized students

eSchool News

Positive experiences can be life-changing for a child. In a previous installment of this series , I shared how positive experiences with teachers throughout my childhood helped counteract some of the trauma I experienced early in life. Research shows that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have long-lasting effects, but there are things each of us can do to help the children in our lives deal with that trauma.

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Free & Easy: Certify Students with Certify’em for Google Forms

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

@alicekeeler Join me March 17th to learn how to make mastery certificates alicekeeler.com/otis #googleForms #grading #teacher #teaching #google ? Thrift Shop – Instrumental Hip Hop Beats Crew When students complete a Google Form wouldn’t it be cool for them to automatically receive a certificate showing their mastery? That is what Certify’em does.

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35 Teaching Tools To Use For Uplifting Classroom Standards

SplashLearn

Teaching tools can help you elevate and maximize the learning potential of your students. With these hand-picked teaching tools you can start making positive changes now. The post 35 Teaching Tools To Use For Uplifting Classroom Standards first appeared on SplashLearn.

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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 is Fanschool and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks

techlearning

Fanschool, formerly Kidblog, is a blog for students to help spark passion and build relationships.

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Performance and Reliability Combine in New Christie GS Series Projectors

eSchool News

CYPRESS, Calif. – (March 11, 2022) – Christie® is pleased to announce the addition of two new models to its line-up of class-leading 1DLP® projectors. Designed and built to offer both performance and reliability for high-use environments, the new Christie GS Series models are available in two brightness options: 9,000 ISO lumens and 10,600 ISO lumens, and are ideal for installations including meeting rooms, education spaces, museums, houses of worship and more.

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Flipped learning: Extinct or endemic?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Background : Back in February, I gave the keynote address for the IFLIP symposium on flipped learning hosted by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Originally planned to be in-person because the Delta surge was easing, it was moved to online just a month before the event when Omicron hit. (Then there was a major snowstorm the day before, so it all worked out.

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The aftermath of COVID–and the way forward

eSchool News

This school year began with enthusiasm for educators and students who were able to return to in-person learning after 18 months of remote instruction. Even with masks and other health protocols, educators and students were happy to be back on campus. We have all learned so much during these COVID years—resilience, creativity, determination, emotional well being and the value of teachers.

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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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Why Reading Is Not Just About Decoding

edWeb.net

Blog post by Michele Israel based on this edLeader Panel. Readers may decode a word, but do they know what it means? Is the language in the texts they read compatible with what decodability dictates? And ultimately, does all that decoding make for reading comprehension? Renowned reading researcher Dr. Freddy Hiebert contends that decoding alone is only one piece of the reading process.