Tue.Jun 22, 2021

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Reimagining Post-Pandemic Classrooms for Today’s Learners

EdTech Magazine

There’s no denying that the pandemic upended education this past year. Like many school districts across the nation, Portland Public Schools pivoted to online and hybrid instruction. “Our teaching staff rose to the challenge and have done a beautiful job making instruction engaging for students in a remote environment,” CTO Don Wolff says of the Oregon district.

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6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos

Neo LMS

Student engagement is a big part of independent learning. We want students to actively interact with the learning material, no matter where they are and how they’re learning. As such, educational videos are nothing new, especially in the world of asynchronous and blended learning. It’s not a big deal since teachers have figured out that they can focus on offering individualized attention to students or in-classroom activities that don’t involve lecturing by pre-recording said lectures.

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Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of

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What the Pandemic Showed Us: Lessons About Curriculum, Equity, Family, and More

Waterford

The COVID-19 pandemic forced educators across the country to pivot on the fly and adjust their style of teaching. The disruption was unprecedented, stressful, scary, and physically and mentally taxing for teachers and students. But it also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity: A chance to rethink education to meet the needs of all students. As the first full school year since the pandemic has drawn to a close, it’s a good chance to reflect on what educators have learned and rethink the sta

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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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8 Strategies For Using TikTok For Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Just as teaching with video games might be 'controversial,' so is teaching with what on the surface seems to be a superficial distraction. The post 8 Strategies For Using TikTok For Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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School Is Hard for Mobile Students. These Districts Want to Help.

Edsurge

Being the new kid in school is never easy. Students who move, especially during the middle of the academic year, must adapt to a lot: new classes, new textbooks, even a new social scene. And that kind of disruption can sometimes cause big academic delays. In Chelsea, Mass.—a mostly working-class suburban city just across the Mystic River from Boston—high student mobility used to be a challenge without a clear solution.

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The Key to Detecting Misinformation? Your Own Curiosity

Edsurge

The classic book “ How to Lie With Statistics ,” first published in 1954, is probably the biggest bestseller of all time on how to make sense of numbers. But it has left a troubling legacy—leading to a distrust of all kinds of statistics, even ones that can help make sense of things like today’s global pandemic. "It’s never been easier to fool yourself.

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Google Chat- Another Good Tool for Distance Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Like Google Workspace, Google Chat is now available for free on personal accounts. This is big news for us in education. Its communicative and collaborative features can be used for a wide variety of.read more.

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Education needs to go back to school for cybersecurity

eSchool News

The education sector has not been immune to the digital revolution transforming businesses and organizations across the world. The year before the pandemic saw sky-high growth and adoption in education technology, with global edtech investments reaching €15.87 billion in 2019. Many education institutions have their own bring your own device (BYOD) policies, while downloads of educational apps have risen by 130 percent over the past year.

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Intellectual and Emotional Obstacles to Adopting Evidence-based Teaching Practices

Iterating Toward Openness

Helping people adopt evidence-based practices is notoriously difficult. Even in matters of life and death, evidence-based practices frequently go unadopted or take an incredibly long time to enter widespread use. As Bauer, et al. (2015) explain, It has been widely reported that evidence-based practices (EBPs) take on average 17 years to be incorporated into routine general practice in health care.

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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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Why cheap teacher PD costs you more money in the long run

eSchool News

There’s a lesson about return on investment hidden in the humble classroom pencil. That’s right–the pencil. Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you definitively that all pencils are not created equal. There are cheap pencils with soft lead that breaks too easily and erasers that smudge writing instead of removing it. Then there are name-brand pencils that feature strong graphite that breaks less often and top-quality erasers for clean corrections.

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COLUMN: Employers, don’t blame the ‘skills gap’ on workers, blame yourselves

The Hechinger Report

For the past 200 years, Philadelphia workers have built ships for both commercial and military use. Philly is the birthplace of the U.S. Navy and produced the nation’s first military ships after President George Washington signed the Naval Act into law in 1794. Today, a robust apprenticeship program supported by public spending is providing Philly’s workers with pathways into the proud tradition of shipbuilding.

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Hey Teacher Coach, Your Teachers Succeeded This Year… Did You?

Edthena

As a teacher coach, you may not have final grades to input or last-day-of-school classroom parties to plan. But that doesn’t mean the end of the year can’t include some close-out activities. Don’t miss out on a crucial opportunity to fine-tune your work during this time. While teachers reflect on their growth over the past school year, make sure you, too, are reflecting on your coaching.

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Meet the SETDA 2021 State Achievement Award Recipients

SETDA Says

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) created the State Achievement Award (SSA) to recognize outstanding initiatives from SETDA State and Affiliate members and their teams that address meaningful challenges in teaching and learning. The 2021 SSA awards, which were presented during the SETDA Emerging Trends Forum on June 15, 2021, celebrate the impact of […].

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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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How to Schedule Assignments in Google Classroom

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Schedule Assignments in Google Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Did you know you can schedule assignments in Google Classroom? Yes! You can push out your assignments at a specific time and date so you can plan ahead! This is a MUST-HAVE Google Classroom skill for teachers. Scheduling assignments can help you save time and get organized!

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What Is WeVideo And How Does It Work For Education?

techlearning

WeVideo is the online video editing platform aimed at K-12 for students and teachers.

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It’s Time for a Walk and a Letter to Yourself

MiddleWeb

As educators reflect on the past year, NBCT Elizabeth Stein shares insights from co-teachers in her coaching circle who are grateful for the support they received from one another. She encourages all of us to rest, relax, and find ways to carry forward our own silver linings. The post It’s Time for a Walk and a Letter to Yourself first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Innovation in Teaching Through #Edtech @Flipgrid @usekamiapp @PearDeck

techieMusings

Bullis School teachers redesign lessons to keep collaboration alive and engage all learners – whether face-to-face or remote. As this school year comes to a close, I wanted to celebrate some of the amazing work of my colleagues at Bullis. In my role as Director of Innovation & Educational Technology, I have the opportunity to work with incredible teachers every day, and I am so grateful for the lessons & ideas they bring to life in the classroom.

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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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Indiana offers free career coaching to all residents

The Hechinger Report

When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Tansy Troup was going on two decades as a seamstress, working full time at a dry-cleaning business in Evansville, Indiana. With her hours cut back and a compromised immune system, she was forced to finally face a truth she’d been wrestling with for a while: She needed to go back to school and get a new job. Using a grant from the state, she enrolled in a Microsoft Office certificate program at Ivy Tech Community College.

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4 Ways My Teaching Has Changed Because of Remote Learning

techlearning

The pandemic has changed my teaching.

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DreamBox Learning® Equips Educators with Lesson Recommendations to Accelerate Student Learning

eSchool News

New Lesson Recommendations feature helps teachers understand where students are in their math learning to support academic growth toward proficiency. BELLEVUE, Wash. —June 21, 2021 — DreamBox Learning ®, the company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, today launched DreamBox Lesson Recommendations, a new offering that gives educators real-time student progress insights with actionable next steps to meet student learning needs.

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How to Help Families Find Necessary Resources Over the Summer

Waterford

For many students, summer vacation means a leisurely and relaxing break from school. But it can also present challenges—academic and beyond. Educators know summer learning loss is a real issue, and it contributes to achievement gaps for all kinds of learners. Teachers can help fight this academic summer slide by providing summer reading challenges, gifting an end-of-year book to students, or checking in with families over the summer, among other things.

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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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Introducing ScreenFlow 10: A Dynamic New Video Eding Experience for Your Instructional Tutorials

TeacherCast

With the 10 year anniversary of TeacherCast coming up on July 11, 2021, I have recently been reflecting on some of the applications that have been with me since the beginning. When TeacherCast began, it was originally conceived as a video platform that showcased tutorials to help teachers learn how to use EdTech in the classroom. While over the years, TeacherCast has changed quite a bit, the one constant application that I use each week to create videos on my YouTube channel is ScreenFlow.

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Can Colleges Help Early Childhood Teachers Go Back to School?

Edsurge

The clock is ticking in Washington, D.C. By the end of 2023, workers who teach the littlest learners in the nation’s capital will be required to have advanced credentials in early childhood education. For some teachers, this feels like pressure. For college leaders, it feels like opportunity. And so two of the city’s universities are setting aside cross-town rivalries to meet this regional workforce need together.

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Introducing ScreenFlow 10: A Dynamic New Video Eding Experience for Your Instructional Tutorials

TeacherCast

With the 10 year anniversary of TeacherCast coming up on July 11, 2021, I have recently been reflecting on some of the applications that have been with me since the beginning. When TeacherCast began, it was originally conceived as a video platform that showcased tutorials to help teachers learn how to use EdTech in the classroom. While over the years, TeacherCast has changed quite a bit, the one constant application that I use each week to create videos on my YouTube channel is ScreenFlow.

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