Edsurge
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Roughly half of children in the U.S. have experienced some form of trauma, making it critical that educators consider trauma-informed approaches to teaching. This form of instruction recognizes that students’ actions are a direct result of their experiences. It also considers how the brain’s cognitive abilities are affected by trauma and can inhibit learning from taking place.
Education Elements
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The pitter-patter of toes on our wooden floors, reminiscent of a spring rain pinging against a tin roof, grow louder as they approach our bedroom door. A moment of silence occupies the space as our door slowly opens. Seconds later, we hear a soft breath pressed against my wife’s ear that says, “Good morning Mom, the sun is up.” My youngest son stumbles across the bed to nestle his buttery brown cheek against mine and mutters to me, “I love you so much, dad”.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
There are usually a few nervous giggles when teachers join their first classroom simulation from Mursion , a virtual reality training provider. But CEO Mark Atkinson says the snickers swiftly dissolve into focus as educators get absorbed into what feels like a real-life classroom situation. Whether in healthcare, education or leadership, we try to develop empathy that reflects real-world experiences.
Teacher Tech
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The behavior of play has long been an essential tool for learning. The post Can Games Power Up Student Engagement in an Online/Hybrid Classroom Setting? By @MsBDuncan appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Trading Card Creator is a web tool from ReadWriteThink that you can use with your students for various educational purposes most important of them all is to help them enhance their writing skills.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Technology has played a central role during COVID-19, enabling educators to continue teaching remotely, with both students and staff ensconced in the safety of their kitchens or living rooms. Remote learning technology has become mission-critical for education. But as the pandemic stretches out far longer than we could have imagined, evidence suggests that remote learning is falling short in a number of ways.
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Interventions into student safety, prompted by technology used to help school leaders prevent students from harming themselves or others, increased dramatically after COVID-19 landed in the U.S. and caused schools to close physical classrooms. In its annual Student Safety Report , Gaggle, which uses artificial intelligence and trained safety experts in a student safety solution designed to prevent student suicide, bullying, inappropriate behaviors, school violence, and other harmful situations.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. As schools reckon with learning equity, they’re often focused on academic progress. During the edWebinar, “ Leading for Equity: Academic Development Through an Equity Lens,” hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , the presenters talked about the important role social-emotional learning (SEL) plays in the process.
Technology Tidbits
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Knowledgehook is an excellent new site for students and educators looking for help in Math grades 3rd-10. Knowledgehook uses "game based learning" to help students learn a wide variety of topics (i.e. algebra, decimals, and more). Best of all, teachers can use it to help to run a "better" Math class and strengthen their curriculum through state of the art online professional development.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Today is the final day of The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit. We've had 320 sessions and 25 special interviews over the course of two months. This is an important moment for education , and the Summit has been (and will continue to be) an incredible opportunity to think together about how to move forward in a time when students, parents, teachers, administrators, librarians, and others have found their normal school lives disrupted.
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.
Technology Tidbits
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Vocab Victor the innovative mobile (iOS/Android) app for building vocabulary words/skills just released a major update for educators, their digital "classroom". This new update offers lots of features but mainly lets teachers create classrooms where students can join and then customize and create wordlists from their curriculum to include in Vocab Victor's educational games and is WEB BASED!!!
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Yvette Alston-Johnson was seething when she got the news. Children in Paterson, New Jersey would not be allowed to go to school in-person this fall, while many of their peers in predominantly white and affluent suburbs would return. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Alston-Johnson attended Paterson public schools, as did her five children, and she has watched the buildings fall steadily into disrepair over the years.
Technology Tidbits
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
ChronoFlo is an amazing new site for creating stunning timelines. What separates ChronoFlo from other timeline creator are the robust features that it has. For example, a user can create multimedia timelines w/ images, hot-links, videos, and more, w/ the ability to turn them into 3D and even embed them into a site/blog (w/ a premium account). Also, ChronoFlo is very user-friendly, has the ability to generate bar/line graphs, and has templates that educators/students can use to create dynamic loo
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning. Clearly, remote learning is here to stay, at least for the next few months.
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.
Technology Tidbits
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Cloud Stop Motion is an innovative site for creating and storing stop motion video projects. This is ideal for educators looking to integrate technology into the classroom and can be used for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more. Best of all, the educational portal allows teachers to track and manage student accounts, organize all projects, and export/watch all videos, all from w/in the web/browser.
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