The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Don Goble created a passion project for him and his students during distance learning. He tells the story of how he brought leading media experts from around the country into his classroom during the time students were staying home during the pandemic. Listen to Don Goble Share How He and His Students Interviewed News Media from Around the World Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking h

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2020

This post originally appeared on The Keyword. Read the original article here. Educators around the world have been increasingly relying on technology for distance learning. For many, this transition wasn’t easy, and is a reminder that professional development is critical. One way schools can support educators is through instructional coaches, who work hand-in-hand with educators to help them achieve their teaching and learning goals with technology.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 23, 2020

I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 038 is below. Thank you, Mark Hardeman and Blair Peterson , for sharing how the International School of Tanganyika in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities.

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Waterford

JUNE 23, 2020

Last week, we provided you with an overview on the importance of setting goals for the school year and how to set SMART goals as a part of your professional development. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be difficult make a plan for growth when you may not be sure what your classroom or job requirements will look like. Teachers, we’ve put together a list of eight professional goal examples that can help you plan for whatever the upcoming school year brings.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

As College Preparatory Middle School prepared to move from a church basement into its own brand-new building this year, administrators looked at every aspect of technology. “We connected with some very knowledgeable IT people who knew how schools could benefit from technology, and how to plan for both present and future needs,” says Mitchell Miller, director of school operations at College Prep, located in the San Diego suburb of Spring Valley.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. Instead, it will be absorbed into SIIA’s existing public policy division, which advocates for legislation on behalf of its members.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 23, 2020

We are revisiting this collection of some of the best storytelling apps you can use with your students and kids. The apps offer a wide variety of tools and features to enable young learners to engage.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 23, 2020

If you have a list of emails for your students in Google Classroom it is easy to add them all at once! Copy List of Emails Take your list of emails and copy them. Notice I have a list of email addresses in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. I highlight ALL the names and use Control […]. The post Google Classroom: Paste a List of Students appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Adapted and reprinted from Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry, with permission from Brookings Institution Press, © 2020 by Brookings Institution. “When will schools open?” It’s a question that parents, employers and school leaders are struggling to answer amid a national pandemic that doesn’t seem to be letting up soon.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 23, 2020

Google has recently released a new social networking and web curation platform called Keen. This is, as MakeUseOf stated, Google's alternative to Pinterest. Keen allows you to curate content online.read more.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2020

Distance learning has become a new reality for many learning institutions across the country. Moving a brick-and-mortar curriculum online overnight is no easy task. Many districts that lacked distance learning plans, communication tools, and training for teachers found the rapid change from the classroom to distance learning a bit too challenging. Some even shut down the school year early.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 23, 2020

If you think your sense of creativity has taken a toll particularly during this trying time we go through due to the current pandemic, the visual below from the folks in Wrike has some practical.read more.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 23, 2020

How do we ‘not take things personally’? We take feedback seriously but not to a point of diminishing our value. Teacher educator Victoria Lentfer, author of Keep Calm and Teach, shares ways to prepare for the stress and anxiety novices may encounter in the school environment.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 23, 2020

This post includes updated content from two previous blog posts on design thinking. To view the original posts, check them out on Medium here and here. In my work with teachers around the country, I often discuss the challenges to implementing design thinking in the classroom. Teachers express that while the model is helpful for identifying and solving problems, there is no process embedded in the model itself.

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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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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 23, 2020

“How many of you are working on your own game design?” I was surprised to see so many hands in the air. I was at GameSchoolCon last winter, a convention for homeschool families who use (or want to use) games in their curriculum, and I was speaking on one of the panels, “Table Talk with Game Designers.". Amongst the audience were students, parents, and family members.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2020

Eileen Belastock has been waiting for this moment, just not under these circumstances. As Director of Academic Technology for Mount Greylock Regional School District , which serves 1,250 students in western Massachusetts, she has all along been advocating for teacher buy-in to the use of tech and the need for every student to have devices and access to the internet.

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techlearning

JUNE 23, 2020

In light of the widespread disruptions to education, work and in-person social connections due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Comcast announces two initiatives to help students, teachers and members of the public to maintain their connectivity to important resources, friends and family.

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Linways Technologies

JUNE 23, 2020

The four levels of learning evaluation. We have previously discussed many different types of learning theories and evaluation techniques. You can refer to those articles here: An introduction to learning theories_ Part-I An introduction to learning theories_ Part-II A guide to learning theories. As a teacher, it is important to have an understanding of the basic principles of teaching-learning and assessments.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 23, 2020

In education, it may be tempting to simplify and compartmentalize our teaching. It is easier to think of our day as a block of time for reading, a block of time for math, a block of time for working on social-emotional skills, etc… However, when we teach in such an isolated way our students struggle with generalizing their learning to different situations.

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Prodigy

JUNE 23, 2020

How do you use the different types of assessment in your classroom to promote student learning? Most students don’t like tests. Testing can contribute to math anxiety for many students. Assessments can be difficult to structure properly and time-consuming to grade. And as a teacher, you know that student progress is so much more than […]. The post The 6 Types of Assessment [+ How to Use Them] appeared first on Prodigy Math Blog.

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techlearning

JUNE 23, 2020

Tech & Learning is pleased to announce its annual Best of Show winners at InfoComm 2020 Connected. This select group of products represents the innovation on display at the virtual show, which features thousands of new solutions from hundreds of exhibiting manufacturers. Winners were chosen based on the expert analysis of a panel of industry veterans who reviewed each product in depth over the week leading up to the convention.

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SecurEdge

JUNE 23, 2020

Sometimes, in the WiFi world, we are tasked with the unenviable job of designing wireless in less than ideal conditions. Now, most environments we deal with have their less than ideal components, but they are surmountable for the most part.

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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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ASIDE

JUNE 23, 2020

Source: ASIDE 2020 The reminder popped up today for our ninth anniversary since starting this blog. We had good intentions of entering the fall of last year, ready to contribute more to our passion and commit to haring our ideas, but life changes. We've had changes in job responsibilities, personal additions and losses to family, and of course, COVID19.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 23, 2020

*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.

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techlearning

JUNE 23, 2020

Free digital toolkit helps coaches and teachers to track the progress of their students’ physical activity at a low cost

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JUNE 23, 2020

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Learning Revolution we have two new weekly live and interactive shows starting - " Thrive in EDU " with Rachelle Dene Poth and " Exceptional Circumstances for Exceptional Children " with Rebecca Muller. They join our already-regular shows: " REINVENTING.SCHOOL " with Howard Blumenthal and " The Connected Classroom " with Rusty May. And next week, Angela Maiers will be starting her " Teaching by Heart " weekly show.

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techlearning

JUNE 23, 2020

HoverCam's Flex 11 Software is now integrated with Zoom

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 23, 2020

Virginia is using its CARES Act funds to address instructional loss, prepare educators for virtual instruction and support students’ social and emotional needs. Background. In March, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help states address the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bulk of the education funds flow directly to K-12 local education agencies and institutions of higher education.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 23, 2020

Education is a complex process of getting teachers and students involved in a journey of self-discovery and personal growth to benefit everyone involved. To get the best of this experience, teachers have to pass over some of the responsibilities regarding instruction and assessment to students. This allows them to become the main characters in this process — a different one, that is — with various background knowledge, learning pace, and level of motivation.

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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