Mon.Jun 08, 2020

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What Educational Leadership Looks Like Today with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Leadership in this season is difficult. Dr. Joe Sanfelippo talks about partnering with parents, the message he’s sending to his community, and how we move forward from this challenging time towards the fall. Note from Vicki: The focus of this episode is specifically pandemic related as it was recorded two weeks ago.

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169 Tech Tip #93 Shortkey for Find

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 Activate a Link. Category: Internet.

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How to Encourage Good Student Behavior While Videoconferencing

EdTech Magazine

Classroom management is a key part of teaching, even when instruction happens exclusively online. As teachers engage in remote learning , features of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet can help minimize distractions and redirect student misbehavior. Here are more details about those features — and key classroom management strategies teachers can employ on any platform. 1.

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There Is So Much Work to Be Done. Start Today.

Edsurge

Last Monday morning, each of my coworkers reached out to me and offered concrete support—did I need to talk? To move some of my work off my plate and onto theirs? To be treated to coffee? To ignore them? To take the day off? Each of my coworkers reached out and each time, I cried. I cried, in each moment reminded of yet another televised murder , brutal in the cold and thoughtless treatment of George Floyd’s life.

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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 Schools Are Recruiting New Teachers Virtually

EdTech Magazine

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many school districts to quickly embrace new ways of teaching and learning. It also led them to move teacher hiring online amid uncertainty about the profession. While some districts — especially those in high-poverty areas — have dealt with teacher shortages in STEM, special education and bilingual education, the pandemic’s impact on school systems may have exacerbated those.

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Chromebook Accessibility Features to Help Kids with Special Needs in Their Distance Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With the current school closures, online education is becoming the norm, and in some places it probably will stay so at least for the foreseeable future. With this new reality there emerged a number.read more.

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How to Reopen: Spaces, Schedules and Systems

MiddleWeb

As schools investigate safe measures for reopening for summer school or fall classes, educator Tan Huynh shares the specific protocols put into place at his international K-12 school in Vietnam – with details about classroom spacing, traffic flow, and careful hygiene.

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How K?12 Schools Can Measure Ed Tech ROI

EdTech Magazine

The COVID-inspired rush to distance learning is putting pressure on already-strained IT budgets in school districts nationwide as educators strive to provide students with needed devices and online tools. That comes on top of the $13 billion districts already spend on ed tech tools each year. Over the past five years, K–12 technology spending grew more than 8.6 percent a year, Technavio reports.

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5 predictions for post-COVID learning

eSchool News

The school year ended for some students with quiet sign-offs in dining rooms and living rooms across districts. Others may have celebrated with neighborhood car parades, while others are still logging on each day until mid-June. With the global spread of COVID-19, educators and students abruptly shifted to online and at-home learning, scrambling to ensure devices and internet connections were in place.

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How to Make the Case for Cybersecurity

EdTech Magazine

The education sector still lags behind other industries when it comes to cybersecurity. A 2018 SecurityScorecard report found that education ranked last out of 17 industries in the country in terms of overall cybersecurity posture. It also found that education ranked poorly in three key areas: application security, patching cadence and network security.

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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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After George Floyd’s killing, many colleges are promising to do better for black students: Will anything change?

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK – As anguish and impassioned protests grow over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, so do the statements from college presidents proclaiming support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Mari Chiles, an undergraduate student at Yale University, says the college has “fostered an environment that questions whether black students like me are smart enough to be there.

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Coronavirus eLearning Series… Ideas To Think About Now… Before Next Year: Idea 3…PD For The Next Level of eLearning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

[link]. Welcome! In this time of Coronavirus challenges I want the opportunity to share thoughts, ideas, and questions that I hope are helpful to all of those amazing educators that are doing so much for our students. While I know I may fall short in some ways, I do hope everyone can discover at least one idea that might help their school, parents and students as they take on this new challenge (opportunity) in learning.

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Rich schools get richer

The Hechinger Report

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. In his 2013 book, “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century ,” French economist Thomas Pikkety made a provocative argument about rising income inequality and the growing importance of disparities in wealth.

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5 Ways to Support Parents During Remote Learning

techlearning

Ways to support parents during remote learning include improving communication and providing resources

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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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5 achievable digital citizenship goals?even during at-home learning

eSchool News

Internet safety, online privacy, cyberbullying, media balance, online relationships, news and media literacy—digital citizenship topics tackle big questions. It can feel daunting to integrate lessons on these weighty topics into your already-packed classroom agendas. But does it have to be such a heavy lift? It’s true: Educators who can teach digital citizenship as a standalone unit can really dive deep into the dilemmas students face online.

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OPINION: College in a pandemic is tough enough — without reliable broadband access, it’s nearly impossible

The Hechinger Report

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. We all want American life to return to normal as quickly as possible, and hope that the fall will see students walking across college campuses again. But we have to gird ourselves for the possibility that might not happen. That means we must prepare now for the potential that colleges and universities that swiftly shifted to online instruction as the pandemic swept through the country and forced campuses to shutter will have to continue, and even

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Shortcut

SpeechTechie

Shortcut by Donald Crews has always been one of my favorites to use in therapy. It's a personal narrative, so good for teaching story elements, with some suspense. This story has an important message about evaluating dangers- a family of kids had been told not to take the shortcut (railroad tracks) and is surprised by a freight train running off schedule.

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New Important Google Maps Updates for Safe Navigation

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today Google Maps announced a set of new features on its mobile app (both Android and iOS). These features are directly related to COVID-19 and are therefore meant to provide users with important.read more.

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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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Join the #BunceeSummerChallenge

Buncee

We all know it: creativity loves company … and this summer, we challenge YOU to create with us! Tune in with the Buncee team on Twitter to participate in the #BunceeSummerChallenge ! Every day at 11AM ET, we’ll be sharing a new activity to keep your creativity in tip-top shape. As a bonus, you can add your finished Buncees to our Buncee Summer Challenge Board !

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15 hands-on investigations to teach students about various physiology concepts

eSchool News

Vernier Software & Technology recently released Human Physiology Experiments: Volume 2 to engage high school and college-level students in hands-on data collection as they learn about key human physiology concepts. The lab book, available in both printed and e-book formats, offers 15 investigations that utilize a variety of Vernier Go Direct ® sensors and cover circulatory and cardiac physiology, respiratory physiology, muscle physiology, complex reflexes, biofeedback, exercise physiology, a

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Make Microsoft Teams Meetings Fun with Buncee Backgrounds

Buncee

Getting ready for your next virtual meetup? Spruce up your next call with another Buncee + Microsoft Teams appsmash! If you’re using Microsoft Teams for your meetings or class discussions, worry no more! Your virtual gatherings no longer have to be all work and no play. With Microsoft’s recent release, you can now add a fun twist to any virtual meeting by adding your own custom Buncee background !

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Best Cribs For Your Newborn’s Nursery

Fractus Learning

The best cribs for newborns and babies are the ones that fit comfortably into the parents’ lifestyle…and looks good in the nursery. Buying a baby crib is an unforgettable experience that many parents remember for a [.].

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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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A Little Test

Reading By Example

For the month of June, my two kids and I set up weekly “camps” Each week there is a theme, such as “Disney” or “outdoors”, and we listed activities that would accompany each. Anything to keep them off screens during this long summer… Last week was Cooking Camp. One of our activities was the opportunity for me to teach them how to grill.