Fri.Nov 20, 2020

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The Quick, Easy Way I Show Kids Thankfulness

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Thankfulness is a way of life all year long. As a student, however, I think I caught what teachers taught by how they lived their lives. I want to be that person who models everlasting love and joy for every human being I get to know! So, today is such a day! On this day, I like to share with each student in the class why I’m thankful for them.

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How to Make the Most of Chromebook Security Features

EdTech Magazine

Among the reasons many K–12 schools have made Chromebooks their tech of choice for remote and hybrid learning is the protection they provide against cyberattacks. Because most of their operations are based in the cloud and are easily controlled by system administrators, the devices are widely seen as highly secure. Still, K–12 IT professionals say, the standard security perks that come with most Chromebooks aren’t enough on their own to prevent bad actors from accessing private data — or to keep

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Ditch Summit

Ditch That Textbook

The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit is back! Choose from hours of amazing professional learning. when and where you want to watch it. Free certificates of completion. More at DitchSummit.com. The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit is a FREE online conference for teachers. It brings together some of the brightest minds in education to discuss […].

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Comprehensive Integrated Cognitive Training: Sculpting Cognitive Processes

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 in a five-part series. In the first article in this series, we discussed the concept that the greatest matter of equity our nation’s students face is their cognitive capacity. We said we would need to be able to do three things in order to solve the problem of cognitive capacity: Understand each student’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses; Remediate, build and strengthen both weaker cognitive processes and those that are already strong

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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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Student-Led Conferences Template

Teacher Tech

When there's a script or some sort of template for student-led conferences, it also helps families who speak another language. The post Student-Led Conferences Template appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Make Learning Engaging and Meaningful in this COVID World

EdNews Daily

By Tamara Fyke All three of my children, ages 22, 17 and (almost) 15, have had their learning interrupted this year because of the pandemic. My oldest son has had the least difficulty transitioning since many of his courses have been offered online throughout his college career. My 17-year-old daughter chose online school, which has rigorous demands with regular deliverables.

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Podcast: America’s Top Young Scientist

EdNews Daily

In this episode of the Learning Counsel’s Edujedi Report Podcast, you’ll meet America’s Top Young Scientist. Listen, as your host LeiLani Cauthen introduces you to a young woman that is so impressive, she has to be heard to be believed. According to Beth Meyer, Vice President Growth and Partner Activation, Discovery Education, “Science is about curiosity and exploration, and teaching is about keeping students connected to that curiosity.

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Educational Websites to Help Kids Learn Science

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A working formula for a successful learning activity with kids involves three main elements: engagement, interactivity, and fun. The more of these elements a learning activity exhibits the better.

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K-12 End-of-Year Tests Were Eliminated in 2020-21, but Will They Ever Come Back?

EdNews Daily

By Craig Jones In higher education, it has become increasingly clear that colleges and universities are on a path to remove all ACT and SAT requirements. As of today, only one Ivy League school, Princeton, is still requiring admissions tests (although this year, they are not requiring submissions due to lack of access to testing sites). Testing in K12 Within K-12, the future of high stakes, end-of-year testing has been a far more controversial topic.

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Critical Reading Tips for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The Internet and web technologies have radically transformed the information landscape levelling the ground for everyone to access, produce, and share knowledge anytime, anywhere. The world’s.

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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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K12 Inc. Acquires Another Coding Bootcamp and Adopts a New Name: Stride

Edsurge

K12 Inc. is growing up, at least in terms of the kinds of students it wants to reach. And with that comes a name change, as its offerings now extend beyond operating online schools for K-12 districts, which has long been its flagship business. Earlier this week, the Herndon, Va.-based company agreed to acquire Tech Elevator, which offers coding bootcamp online and across eight cities, in a $23.5 million all-cash deal.

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4 ways schools are successfully pivoting to remote learning

eSchool News

Spring 2020 was a real learning period for schools that had never used remote learning before. Call it a baptism by fire, if you will, but seemingly overnight, nearly every institution nationwide had to make a quick shift to online instruction. The approaches varied by geography and by the schools themselves. Some districts missed their own deadlines for getting everyone enabled and connected in the spring, while others didn’t even have phone numbers for their parents.

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Calm

SpeechTechie

This is a good week to remind you of a simple resource to help you and your students. I have written about Calm before but it seems it is more important than ever. We all need to take moments each day to reset and breathe. Calm can be used as an app on mobile devices or Apple TV but I find that the web interface offers more, and particularly like the Scenes feature which can be used for free.

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AI could help your students collaborate, research says

eSchool News

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) assistant professor of computer science Jacob Whitehill is collaborating with colleagues at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU Boulder) to explore how artificially intelligent (AI) teaching agents might help encourage more meaningful collaboration among students in school classrooms. As part of a five-year, $20 million grant awarded to CU Boulder, Whitehill and colleagues at nine other institutions will study how to build AI agents that interact with stu

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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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Tips for Cultivating Healthy School Friendships Online

MindShift

Almost everything we know about friendship in schools was learned from research conducted in classrooms and intended for use during in-person education. Now that many children in the United States are learning at a distance, teachers and parents need new strategies to make the most of peer relationships. Phyllis Fagell , a school counselor in Washington, D.C. and author of Middle School Matters , spoke with MindShift about how best to support existing friendships, promote the formation of new on

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Tampa Middle School Receives the Superstar Treatment with Ashly Audio-Backed System

eSchool News

Sligh Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Florida has an audio system worthy of a superstar performance thanks to professional wrestler Thaddeus Bullard’s charitable organization, the Bullard Family Foundation. Bullard’s foundation supports programs that provide opportunities to those in struggling communities to achieve more than what statistics might imply of them.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Replay Weekend - 300+ Sessions, and Now In Easy Categories | Special Interviews Continue #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final few days! This weekend is a special "free-replay" weekend- -you can watch all of the Summit sessions that have been released so far, even if you haven't bought the Summit Library all-access pass. Of course, we're trying to get you to be so appreciative of all the content that you step up to purchasing!

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Ruidoso School District is First to Deploy Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots

eSchool News

As schools around the world evaluate how to reopen safely amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ruidoso Municipal School District is taking important steps to provide a safer environment for students and employees as they return to in-person learning. It is the first school system in the world to deploy Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots, which are proven to deactivate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in two minutes.

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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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How This Startup Leverages Games to Create a Love for the Natural Sciences

Edsurge

Games and gamification are not new to education. Even before the more recent growth of the edtech industry, educators have routinely created games and interactive challenges in order to get students engaged with subjects ranging from math and logic to history and reading. However, the reward systems—points, scores, competition and winning—have typically been of the extrinsic variety.

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Newark Public Schools Expands Use of Lexia Core5 and PowerUp to All of its Elementary Schools

eSchool News

Newark Public Schools (NPS) has approved expanding implementation of Lexia Learning’s Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) throughout its K-5 and K-8 schools. This decision comes after the district’s trial subscription successfully helped teachers both within their classrooms before the pandemic and with remote learning that began in March.

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Teaching Vocabulary in the Service of Knowledge

edWeb.net

By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. What exactly is in a word? Perhaps more than we realize. A well-stocked vocabulary is what helps students make sense of what they read. That comprehension builds their overall understanding of the world around them. Strengthening students’ grasp of language and knowledge takes more than merely learning a weekly list of core words, contended Dr.

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McGraw Hill Announces New Elementary Math Program That Increases Student Curiosity and Confidence

eSchool News

Learning science company McGraw Hill today announced the release of Reveal Math, a new K-5 math program that offers a unique instructional model helping teachers incorporate both inquiry-focused and teacher-guided instructional strategies to unlock their students’ mathematical potential. Reveal Math for K-5 joins Reveal Math for grades 6-12, which is currently used in hundreds of schools nationwide, creating a comprehensive K-12 curriculum.

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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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What Jill Biden’s Dissertation Reveals About Her Approach to Higher Education

Edsurge

It turns out that Jill Biden, the presumptive First Lady, has thought deeply about community colleges. In fact, she wrote her dissertation at the University of Delaware about how to improve retention at two-year colleges. So what did she conclude? And what does it say about her thinking on higher education, as she prepares to move into the White House?

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STEM Careers Coalition Marks First Anniversary and New, No-Cost Digital Resources

eSchool News

The STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – marks its first anniversary by welcoming new members to the growing coalition and by offering educators, students, and families nationwide access to a host of new, no-cost digital resources. The array of dynamic resources leverages the power of digital content to connect all learners to their innate curiosity by bringing STEM to life.

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Pearson Creates New Direct-to-Consumer Division

eSchool News

Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, today announces the creation of a new direct-to-consumer division as it looks to further strengthen its focus on building a direct relationship with learners around the world. The new division will be co-led by two senior executives: Ishantha Lokuge joined Pearson from Shutterfly last year and now steps up to the role of Chief Global Product Officer and Co-President, Direct-to-Consumer.

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Epson’s Brightest Laser Projector Ever is Now Available – Smallest 3LCD Projector with 30,000 or More Lumens

eSchool News

As people continue to keep a safe distance from one another, big, bright displays are essential in providing better visibility in today’s more spread-out venues and auditoriums. Epson, the number-one selling projector brand worldwide, 1 today announced its brightest projector – the Pro L30000UNL – is now available. Delivering 30,000 lumens of color and white brightness, 2 it is one of Epson’s most technologically advanced projectors.

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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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Rhode Island Department of Ed Names Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® an Approved Interim Assessment

eSchool News

The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic as an approved interim assessment for the 2020–2021 school year. Now, local education agencies (LEAs) across the state will have access to the award-winning online program for students in Grades K–12 as well Curriculum Associates’ accompanying professional development to support educators as they work to improve student achievement in both reading and mathematics.

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Praesidium releases updated accreditation standards, establishing the highest criteria for sexual abuse prevention

eSchool News

Praesidium today announced it has updated its accreditation standards, establishing the highest criteria for sexual abuse prevention within organizations to protect children and vulnerable adults within their care from abuse. Praesidium Accreditation allows organizations to publicly demonstrate their commitment to abuse prevention. Praesidium’s updated standards are based on the latest scientific research, thousands of cases and 30 years of field experience.

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Tobii Dynavox launches Boardmaker 7 – the new platform for special education

eSchool News

Tobii Dynavox, the global leader in assistive technology for communication, today announced the new generation of its special education platform Boardmaker. Boardmaker provides a fully inclusive education environment for parents, special education teachers and schools to millions of students around the world. Boardmaker has been the world’s leading software for special education for the past 30 years and currently supports education, communication, and access needs for more than six million stud

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GoGuardian and Pear Deck Merge to Expand K-12 Classroom Management Offerings

eSchool News

GoGuardian, a K-12 EdTech company dedicated to maximizing each student’s learning potential by providing solutions that enable more productive and safer digital learning, today announced a merger with Pear Deck, an award-winning and market-leading student engagement platform. The merger brings together two of the fastest-growing companies in education under a single umbrella and will enable a strong partnership that drives expansion into new, but interconnected growth areas, while supporting bot

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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.