Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2022

SmartBrief has an excellent article worth your time to read: Top 5 tech tools to maximize reading fluency. It is written from the perspective of a 2nd-grade teacher: Teaching in a pandemic presented teachers with a whole new batch of problems to solve, whether through distance, hybrid or in-person learning models. Putting all technicalities and connectivity issues aside, teachers wanted to maximize engagement and student learning all the more. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As teachers, we have many ways to open class. Bell ringers, conversation starters, and even special handshakes can open class. But what if the answer is a question that helps create social connections? Dr. Leigh Zeitz from the University of Northern Iowa surveys his students.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

The Consortium for School Networking kicked off its annual conference Monday in Nashville, Tenn., with a keynote session featuring three leaders in policy, education and technology. Musician Benji Harris, the master of ceremonies for the conference, introduced Steve Langford, CIO for Oregon’s Beaverton School District and CoSN chair, and Holly Doe, CTO for New Hampshire’s Pelham School District and CoSN conference co-chair.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 11, 2022

What is a Learning and Employment Record (LER) and how might we design them to create equitable and inclusive systems of work? How might we ensure we include workers and learners in the development of these emerging systems throughout the design process? At Digital Promise, the Adult Learning, Marketplace, and Learning and Employment Innovations teams have been collaborating on research about LERs—digital records of an individual’s skills, credentials, diplomas, and employment history.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like.

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Education Elements

APRIL 11, 2022

This school year, Portland Public Schools (PPS) launched a multi-year strategic plan for educational equity, inclusion, and excellence with the core belief that the student experience needs to be reimagined. PPS’ district-wide focus spotlighted the middle school experience, where data revealed – regardless of metric – that students are not being adequately prepared for high school and beyond.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2022

Finding community is a vulnerable, difficult experience—especially as a student. It requires not only feeling comfortable with your peers, but also trusting them enough to be able to ask questions and learn without fear of judgment. I’ve been lucky—I found my first community during freshman year of undergrad. Sitting in the common room at 2 a.m., panicking together with fellow students the night before an exam, we forged lasting bonds.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

I’ve been interested in sustainability models for OER for decades. (Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) And for just as long, I’ve believed that there are useful lessons for us to learn on this topic from open source software – OER’s far more popular and influenti

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Low-income students who were offered an upfront guarantee of free tuition at the University of Michigan were far more likely to apply and enroll than students who were told they would likely qualify for free tuition. Credit: Oleg Albinsky/Getty Images. What is the best way to help more bright low-income students attend elite colleges? Typically, we tell these prospective college students to fill out forms to see how much financial aid they can get.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2022

Ed Smylie is my hero. You may not recognize the name, but you probably remember that scene in Apollo 13 when, upon discovering the spacecraft’s lethally rising CO2 levels and the dilemma of mismatched equipment, flight director Gene Kranz commands his team to “invent a way to put a square peg into a round hole. Rapidly.” Engineer Ed Smylie led the way in an all-night race to do just that.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 11, 2022

The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things. The post Shifting Focus From Ideas To The Effects Of Those Ideas appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2022

Using federal funding for personnel expenses can seem daunting, but it can in fact be manageable with the right knowledge and tools in place. Hiring additional reading and math coaches, counselors, school psychologists, and other support staff is a key strategy for meeting students’ academic and social-emotional learning needs. When school systems use federal funding for personnel expenses, they must have a plan in place for tracking and reporting the time and effort that employees spend on gran

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

As technology is quickly evolving, educators and administrators alike are trying to keep up with the new products and trends in blended learning. We reached out to 4 ed tech thought leaders to get their opinion and advice on some questions that are always on our mind. Here’s who we asked and what they had to say: Tom Murray. Serves as the State and District Digital Learning Director for the Alliance of Excellent Education located in Washington DC.

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Vizor

APRIL 11, 2022

Dean Bates and Jeff Lalonde from VIZOR join Monica Burns from ClassTechTips.com on The Easy EdTech Podcast. Dean, Jeff and Monica discuss one-to-one device management trends, the rapid shift to remote learning during the pandemic and some must try Chromebook management tips. VIZOR helps Schools and Districts manage their Chromebooks and other IT assets like Projectors, Smartboards and Carts.

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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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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2022

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is often inherently employed by CTE instructors in their classrooms, which offers lessons for all educators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

College instructors feel frustrated when students don’t do the reading. We understand. Faculty want their students to succeed. There are few teaching experiences more awkward than questioning students about a reading assignment only to be met with silence. Yet a silent class — whether online or face-to-face — may not indicate lack of engagement or comprehension.

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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2022

This VoiceThread Lesson Plan is designed to assist educators in using a multimedia platform to help students meet learning objectives

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SplashLearn

APRIL 11, 2022

First day of school is as exciting for kids as it is crucial for parents. Parents have to draw schedules, set wake-up times, and a bunch of other things. Use these tips, tools, and messages to help face the first day of school head on! The post How to Prepare Kids for the First Day of School first appeared on SplashLearn.

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APRIL 11, 2022

ReadWriteThink is a free hub of literacy-based content that aims to help students progress.

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

Traditionally, students’ families meet with teachers just once or twice a year at parent-teacher conferences. Many parents believe that any additional communication or involvement with their students’ teachers is unnecessary, or even worse, negative. This is simply not true about family and parent involvement in schools. Research shows that an increase in parent involvement in schools directly correlated to a student’s growth and success in school.

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Brainscape

APRIL 11, 2022

I used to think sweet wine was for the unrefined palates of barely-legal adults. And while it’s true that there are hundreds of cheap and cheerful wines with enough residual sugar in them to preserve a moose, there is a whole other sultry world of masterfully-crafted fortified wines that offer the perfect punctuation to any meal or occasion. From the Sherries of Spain and the Madeiras of Portugal to the Rutherglen Muscats of Australia (and so many more), these honeyed elixirs are a long-s

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

As technology is quickly evolving, educators and administrators alike are trying to keep up with the new products and trends in blended learning. We reached out to 4 ed tech thought leaders to get their opinion and advice on some questions that are always on our mind. Here’s who we asked and what they had to say: Tom Murray. Serves as the State and District Digital Learning Director for the Alliance of Excellent Education located in Washington DC.

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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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MiddleWeb

APRIL 11, 2022

The end of every school year is always frantic. Especially this year, plan year-end celebrations that reflect your school’s values and recognize everything the staff has done to assure a successful school year, recommend Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn. The post Celebrate with Staff as a Challenging Year Ends first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2022

Over the past couple of decades, the explosion in online learning has brought with it never-before-seen innovation that has completely transformed the higher education landscape. Yet, as we’ve seen this spike in edtech innovation happening across the globe and real problems getting solved with powerful technology, it’s important to note that some big problems still exist.

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