Thu.Mar 11, 2021

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The impact of digital fatigue in the educational system

Neo LMS

More than a year ago, in the context of the international health crisis we are still facing, the entire world had to deal with unique learning circumstances. With schools being shut down, stakeholders, faculty, and institutional bodies had to reinvent teaching, exploring adequate alternatives to ensure successful learning. Experiencing this new reality in various ways, teachers and students around the globe tried their best to move education online almost overnight.

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What It Takes to Get Hybrid Instruction Right

EdTech Magazine

When school districts went fully remote in response to COVID-19, the need for immediate technology — any technology — often superseded the need to choose the right long-term technology. Now, as more schools adopt hybrid learning models, school districts have learned more about what it takes amplify lessons for students both in class and at home. Even after the pandemic subsides, hybrid learning will continue to evolve the K–12 education landscape.

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Tech Tip #66–How to Add Accents

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: How to add accents. Category: Languages, Keyboarding, Writing.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Over the past couple of decades, teachers have seen a new generation of students: those who have never known a world without the Internet. Many of them grew up immersed in a digital world. They are the digital natives. The earliest digital natives are now sending their own children to school. Today’s teachers, many of whom are digital immigrants—people who transitioned from an analog world to a digital one—must find ways to reach digital native students and their caregivers.

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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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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

“I hope it works, I hope it works,” I muttered to myself as Tonja, the student teacher in our classroom, logged into Zoom to reach the remote learners in our class. As the program started, I couldn’t help but think how different her experience as a preservice teacher was from my own. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes.

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Pop Out Your Google Classroom Roster

Teacher Tech

I love Google Classroom yet there are a few things I find odd that you can not do in Google Classroom. One is that you can not easily get a roster of the students in your class… in Google Sheets. Pretty much every day I want to check something off. Template Reuse Google Classroom I […]. The post Pop Out Your Google Classroom Roster appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever

The Hechinger Report

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. We’ve seen firsthand just how true this statement is at Benedict College, our small, historically Black college in Columbia, South Carolina. Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU.

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

Edsurge

With widespread lockdowns and closures last year, the critical role that schools and child care centers play in supporting children may never have been clearer. As it turns out, society is not as productive when working parents don’t have child care. That fact is not lost on investors who foresee greater demand for early-education programs and services after society reopens its doors.

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This Is How to Poll Your Students in Google Meet

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Polling is a handy feature provided by Google Meet. As a teacher, you can use Meet polls for a variety of educational purposes including: empowering students voice by involving them in making.

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What If Colleges Treated Students as Data Users, Not Just Data Points?

Edsurge

Their noses are swabbed. Their exams are recorded. Their Instagram posts are monitored. During the pandemic, college students are surveilled very, very closely. The health crisis has introduced new forms of data collection into higher education, but these are largely changes of degree, not kind. For years now, tech companies have been selling colleges tools that collect information about how students learn, where they travel on campus and what they do online.

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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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3 Easy Ways Students Can Voice Type Their Documents

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Since they first appeared almost three decades ago voice recognition technologies, also known as speech to text technologies, have come along way in the way they have transformed out interaction with.

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How courses like coding and design lead to tech literacy

eSchool News

Technology is ubiquitous in the lives of today’s students. As technology users, students access technology for entertainment, communication, and learning. Tech literacy, which has become as essential as reading, writing, and arithmetic in preparing students for the future, encourages students to move beyond the role of technology consumers to becoming technology creators.

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A video game makes math and English classes a full-body experience

The Hechinger Report

Dance parties, movement breaks and jumping around are a typical part of many pre-K classrooms. But jumping about isn’t just a way to get the wiggles out in Greenburgh Central School District, in a suburb of New York City. Kids here are learning critical math and English skills through an online platform, called Kinems. Similar to a Nintendo Wii, the platform uses motion-based sensors and allows touchless interaction, enabling kids to control an avatar on the screen by moving their bodies.

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EdisonLearning and Pointful Education Partner To Expand Access To Online Career and Technical Courses

eSchool News

Pointful Education’s suite of CTE and elective offerings are now available to all secondary students enrolled in eCourses through EdisonLearning. EdisonLearning a premier provider of digital learning solutions for grades 6-12, and Pointful Education, a leading publisher of career and elective courses, today announced a partnership that expands EdisonLearning’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) and elective offerings with the integration of Pointful Education’s online courses.

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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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Help Kids Stop Hiding Behind Literacy Masks

MiddleWeb

Cris Tovani has written a true page turner to assist all teachers with literacy strategies that will captivate their most reluctant students. “Why Do I Have to Read This?” begins with insights into the many masks of reading resistance that students wear, says Linda Biondi. The post Help Kids Stop Hiding Behind Literacy Masks first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Edthena Makes it Easy to Blur Teaching Videos with New Feature

eSchool News

In a physical classroom, it’s easy to move the camera to hide details. It’s quite a bit harder when teaching is Zoom-style or hybrid. The rise of teaching in virtual spaces has increased the need for teachers to be able to hide parts of their classroom videos, such as students’ names, for privacy reasons. Now, Edthena is making it easy for teachers to blur teaching videos before sharing with peers and coaches for instructional feedback on the award-winning platform.

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Using "What If" Videos to Empower Thought Experiments During Distance Learning

Cycles of Learning

I recently discovered this amazing YouTube channel that proposes, WELL PRODUCED, video scenarios about perplexing "What if." scenarios and then animates/describes what would occur? For example: "What if the oxygen disappeared from the world for 5 seconds?" or "What if the moon exploded?", etc. Keeping "What if" in mind, I have been struggling with hands-on labs during distance learning, and have recently been experimenting with leveraging the scenarios described in on the channel to empower " Th

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3 ways to prepare students for college and a career

eSchool News

While the way students are achieving educational goals may look a little different due to the pandemic, it doesn’t eliminate its value or importance. In fact, with the way our day-to-day lives are evolving, it’s critical that students take time to evaluate how their next steps , personally and professionally, might impact the future. What’s been made clear over the past year is that how one looks for a college, how one prepares for a career and, ultimately, the importance of education all go han

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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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Read to succeed -- in math; study shows how reading skill shapes more than just reading

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

These findings clearly demonstrate how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication, suggest that reading, writing and arithmetic, the foundational skills informally identified as the three Rs, might actually overlap in ways not previously imagined, let alone experimentally validated.

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A Quick Guide to Grading in Gradelink

Gradelink

Gradelink provides educators with multiple grading options, such as calculating final grades in points, letters, or percentages. Follow this guide to get your grading set up properly for your specific needs. 1. Set up Assignment Types. Assignment types are categories used to determine the weight of an assignment or group of assignments within a class.

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Strategies for Using Picture Books on YouTube

SpeechTechie

As I have, for now, continued to be doing mostly teletherapy for the past YEAR (that anniversary has been painful, so apologies for the quiet blog), I have found picture books invaluable. Pssst.shhh.largely any picture book you might want has a YouTube read aloud. One strategy I use is to evaluate what's there, as often several are available. I prefer those that look more slide-show than a person with a book, and also tend to avoid videos with too much zooming.

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Kidaha

Technology Tidbits

Kidaha is an excellent site for students, parents, or educators to find clip art. This is ideal for students looking for educational clip art for school or for teachers looking for just the right type of art for their classroom or lesson. I highly recommend checking out Kidaha by clicking here !!!

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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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Real-Time Communication, Collaboration, and Formative Assessment – Whiteboard.chat

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

Whiteboard.chat I wasn’t going to share another web whiteboard, but I really can’t categorize Whiteboard.chat as just a web whiteboard. It’s a combination of some of the handiest EdTech tools in one platform. It’s also free and doesn’t require users to sign in. Rather than try to describe all of the features, I’m just going. Read more. The post Real-Time Communication, Collaboration, and Formative Assessment – Whiteboard.chat appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.

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Vmaker

Technology Tidbits

Vmaker is one of the best online tools around I've seen for creating educational screencasts. What sets Vmaker apart from other similar sites is the abundance of features that is included. An educator not only has the ability to record their screen, they can add narrations, add backgrounds and filters, highlight mouse clicks, annotate and draw on the screen and more.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

Buncee

March is Women’s History Month, and it is during this time that we honor the amazing women throughout history, remember the struggle for women’s rights, celebrate the women who continue to inspire us every day, and empower the women of tomorrow. This year, here at Buncee, we’ve teamed up with Shannon Miller , along with PebbleGo and Capstone to bring you some ideas and inspiration on how you can celebrate Women’s History Month with your students!

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NameCoach

Technology Tidbits

NameCoach is a wonderful web service that educators are using to learn student's names and pronounce them correctly. This is especially useful w/ school starting up and teachers want to learn the correct way to pronounce their student's names. The way this works is simple as a teacher creates a name/web page and then has the student's speak their names.

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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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Otus

Technology Tidbits

Otus is an ideal tool for Remote Learning w/ schools being closed. Their learning platform makes it easy for educators to build dynamic engaging lessons, deliver instruction, and then assess student learning. Otus is a all-in-one mobile learning solution for schools that combines the best features of a: learning management system, data management system, and more.