Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Many of my most popular articles are about mouse skills. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers visit Ask a Tech Teacher to find resources for teaching students how to use a mouse. No surprise because using a mouse correctly is one of the most important pre-keyboarding skills. Holding it is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
By Christy Martin, Ed.D. Recent politics has brought the teaching of United States History to the forefront. Politicians on one side advocate the teaching of patriotism and the greatness of those involved in shaping our nation. Many on the other side say that our history is riddled with inaccuracies and that many of those involved in shaping our nation’s history no longer deserve a place in it.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
As another school year begins, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shape Americans’ daily lives—from where they can travel to who they can see and how schools will operate this fall. And for six months and counting, the virus has exposed existing inequities in our society and, in many cases, intensified them, especially in education. Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
In the first interview of this episode features LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, who discusses how districts are approaching the digital transition and beginning to embrace, rather than simply accept, the need for technology in schools (0:30). Cauthen also describes the identity challenges students are facing in our globally connected world, as identified in recent research, and much more.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
It’s back-to-school season. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in the U.S., classes are shaping up to look very different this year. For starters, many students won’t actually go into a school building. Instead, they will participate in fully remote instruction. That’s a key finding from an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 375 school district reopening plans from around the country and across a diversity of geographies, COVID-19 infection rates and poverty levels.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
You matter to so many, so please make sure you do something just for you! The post Self-Care is More Than a Hashtag with @MjmcalliWrites appeared first on Teacher Tech.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
When Highline Public Schools starts its academic year on September 9, the district will implement an engaging distance learning model that Superintendent Dr. Susan Enfield and her team developed over the summer. Based on the case rates of COVID-19 in the area, the district made the decision to offer only distance learning until November. Enfield reached this conclusion in collaboration with other districts in the region of Washington.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Google has recently teamed up with Pear Deck to design "custom, interactive presentations and vocabulary flashcards to accompany the Be Internet Awesome curriculum". You can easily integrate these.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
NEW YORK – With coronavirus cases out of control on some college campuses, one thing has become abundantly clear: There is no such thing as a safe, risk-free return to campus. So why keep up this useless, lose-lose proposition and welcome students back at all, only to force them into quarantine or send them home? Why not recognize instead that college life on many four-year campuses, as we have known it, is officially impossible for now?
NeverEndingSearch
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
In what felt like a very different, and very inspiring kind of binge-watching, I just experienced all 12 episodes of the new Netflix series, Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices. It was indeed a celebration. The series features prominent Black authors, artists and celebrities reading children’s books that highlight the Black experience. Books were carefully selected around a social justice framework highlighting identity, respect, justice and action.
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.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
In partnership with eSchool News, Illuminate Education is spotlighting teachers in a series recognizing educators, the way they have moved instruction online during COVID-19, and how they have prioritized the needs of their students. Karina Tran. SDC K/1st-Moderate Severe Disabilities. Woodcrest Elementary School. Fullerton School District. “Don’t compare yourself to others, and just stay true to who you are as a teacher, and it will all fall into place.”.
Georgia Test Prep
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Your student (or child) is trying to solve a math problem. They’ve been staring at the paper for a while now. You can almost feel their struggle. You can see the wheels turning, but no progress is being made. Finally in frustration they blurt out, “I’m stuck!”. We’ve all been there – in life we are often faced with problems that we cannot find an immediate solution to.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
KidTeachKid , a nonprofit organization created and run by Houston-area high schoolers and their friends, has made a great educational impact on the local community. In the wake of COVID-19 spreading worldwide and cancelling many summer programs, students throughout the community were left without opportunities to pursue their interests. KidTeachKid’s mission is to provide these educational opportunities to students, believing that kids can be both learners and teachers, and for peers to raise ea
Reading By Example
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
This is an excerpt from a four-session course titled “ Create Your Ideal Curriculum “, available to newsletter subscribers. Join today! Subscribe. The messiness that comes with performance tasks is a reason why they are not implemented more in the curriculum. Yet this messiness also has two upsides: space to be creative with how students can show what they know, and the opportunity to implement structures that students need for their creativity to thrive.
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.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles Unified), Annenberg Learner and Discovery Education today launched a new partnership providing educators, students and families access to high-quality digital resources. Through this new partnership, Los Angeles Unified educators, students and families are empowered to interact with more than 300,000 exciting digital resources, standards-aligned activities and vetted, high-quality content carefully curated by grade level.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Storillo is an innovative new tool for group writing projects. Storillo makes it easy for educators to create projects and then organize groups for students to work on together. Best of all, Storillo makes it easy for educators to see who has done what and help strengthen cooperation/collaboration skills. I highly recommend checking out Storillo by clicking here !!!
ExcelinEd
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
This week, the U.S. Department of Education advised states not to expect any additional waivers to federal testing requirements, which are outlined in the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA. Testing is critical to ensuring that parents and educators have the data to better understand, particularly amid learning disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where students are academically.
Technology Tidbits
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Knoword the super fun Vocabulary game that is perfect for distance/remote and Game Based Learning has just released a major update!!! Knoword Assignments - lets teachers easily plan, create, assign, and track student responses as they play through a "word pack". These packs can be created from new or customized from an existing pack to meet their needs w/ the ability to control all assignments.
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