The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we prepare to learn this fall, we need to consider some teaching best practices. In this episode we cover quite a few topics: What the fall will look like (we think) How to plan for instruction How to differentiate online instruction Blended learning best practices How to support parents Using community resources to support your classroom Self Care This show includes sponsored content from Advancement Courses and

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2020

It’s hard to imagine school is back in a few weeks. I’ve collected a series of back-to-school tips that are suited for in-person or remote learning. Pick those that work for you: Great Back to School Activities. Back to School: A Bundle of Lesson Plans at a Great Price. It’s Time to go Back to School. Lots of Ideas! How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests. 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Ye

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Maintaining academic integrity is important, but eradicating cheating is near impossible with how quickly technology moves, said Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity director at the University of California, San Diego, and board emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 27, 2020

A communications course is always one of the most popular options among students in Singapore since communication skills are the first criteria that employers look for when hiring. However, there are also many different options when coming to communication courses, which is why you need time to carefully determine the right career path for you. Here are some of the steps you can consider when selecting a course. 1) Ask yourself…is this what I really want?

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

Google for Education recently launched a new certification program to help instructional coaches better support K–12 educators using technology. The Certified Coach program features a free structured curriculum and research-based, five-step coaching model focused on driving meaningful technology use in schools. The curriculum allows coaches to develop skills such as how to align their coaching techniques with school and district goals and build stronger relationships with educators, writes Amand

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Teacher Tech

JULY 27, 2020

In response to school closures in March G Suite for Education enabled Enterprise features of being able to record Google Meet for all G Suite for Education domains. Free Recoding Google Meet Ends September 30, 2020 Enterprise G Suite for Education G Suite for Education is free. However, there are premium Enterprise features available for […]. The post Alert: Recoding Google Meet ENDS September 30 2020 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 27, 2020

The Strange Binary Thinking Around COVID-19 In Public Schools In The United States by Terry Heick I read an this article last week based on issued recommendations from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. In general, they recommend schools open so students don’t continue to fall ‘further behind’–echoing the American Academy of Pediatrics […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 27, 2020

Microsoft Whiteboard is a digital smartboard that allows you to bring your ideas to fruition through a wide variety of expressive forms. You can sketch, draw, write and share your ideas using.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic spread through the country, a common (socially distanced) conversation among friends and families compared how many hours of remote learning kids were getting. Preliminary results from a new survey of school districts confirm what many parents learned through the Zoom grapevine. The number of hours your kids got varied wildly depending on where you happen to live.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2020

As a certified virtual teacher for the past three years, my life and general routine has changed very little since school closures were put into effect in March. That being said, it was heartbreaking to watch the mass majority of teachers adjust to virtual teaching with little guidance or preparation. With the school year wrapping up, summer will look very different for teachers who are now left wondering how they should prepare for September; will they continue distance learning?

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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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MiddleWeb

JULY 27, 2020

To motivate students to embrace independent reading, Kasey Short recommends we help them find the right books, use authentic assignments for accountability, and provide the time to read – all to help build a classroom climate where reading is valued, enjoyed and celebrated.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2020

Revenue for game-based learning and education is projected to reach more than $24 billion by 2024, according to a new market forecast. Metaari’s 2019-2024 Global Game-based Learning Market study , released by Serious Play Conference, notes that growth in AI game-based learning also is expected to skyrocket, analysts say. The report notes that game-based learning is defined as a knowledge transfer method using “game play” involving some form of competition (against oneself or others)

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 27, 2020

Join me today, Monday, July 27th at 4:00 pm to hear educators discuss how to switch between on-site and online teaching. We will listen to a panel together, then myself and co-moderator Laura Ogando with lead participants in a discussion about what we've heard and how it applies in our own context.

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Georgia Test Prep

JULY 27, 2020

The coming school year will be unlike any new school year that kids – or parents – have ever faced. Schools in Georgia will be reopening for the new year come fall, but counties are doing it their own way. In-person instruction, virtual learning, and a combination of these are the possibilities. The prospect of a new school year is exciting and anxiety-inducing for children as it is.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2020

My Wish For U.S., the digital platform that invites Americans to share their wishes for the country’s future, today announced a partnership with First Book, a non-profit social enterprise that provides new, high-quality educational resources to children in need, and AMERICAN HERITAGE ® Chocolate. The partnership will provide classrooms nationwide with books to add to their libraries, chosen by educators to support the wishes they submit with their students on MyWishForUS.com.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2020

Digital storytelling will define the next decade of data

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2020

Many K-12 schools have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More closings are sure to come. In response, Varsity Tutors , founded by Washington University in St. Louis alum Chuck Cohn, has launched a new service called Virtual School Day. Virtual School Day : Nearly 200 free, live K-12 classes available all day long intended to help parents fill their children’s day with enriched learning.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 27, 2020

Weld North Education has acquired social-emotional learning provider PurposePrep. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Weld North Completes Major SEL Acquisition appeared first on Market Brief.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2020

The students are met at the school door with a thermometer and a health quiz, answering questions like “Are you feeling sick today?” Once they pass this quiz, the students in this summer enrichment program outside St. Louis proceed to folding chairs spread 10 feet apart across the gymnasium to eat breakfast alone. Eating so far from friends has been “not great” for Jada Randle. “It’s boring.

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Saving Socrates

JULY 27, 2020

So much can be said about the incredible creativity that has come out of the time students and faculty spent engaging in education online. While there was a lot of experimentation and some of it was less than ideal, these few months of online learning forced all of us to look at what we need most out of an educational experience for children of different ages.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 27, 2020

*Newlearn.io will send out gift cards to the first two teachers who leave the comments. Do you need summer themed vocabulary worksheets? Or do you need some COVID-19 relate homework? Or do you need addition and subtraction lesson plans for the remote teaching? Request any teaching materials you need by leaving comments on the ‘Share Ideas’ below. (Only the writer can read the comments.

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ExcelinEd

JULY 27, 2020

Making Next Year Count: Equity in School Accountability. Last week, Bellwether Education Partners hosted a timely conversation on school accountability with Governor Jeb Bush, The Education Trust’s John B. King, Jr., and CCSSO’s Carissa Moffat Miller. In the webinar with Bellwether’s Andy Rotherham, these three national leaders discuss the past two decades of states’ successes and failures in the pursuit of ambitious educational outcomes and rigorous standards for all — a

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

As a Black mother of children with autism, I cannot separate my passage into a disability-centered way of navigating systems of care from my blackness or other critical identities, such as being a single mother and a first-generation Nigerian American. This week marks the 30th anniversary of the signing into law of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

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