EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When Tropical Storm Zeta rolled through Georgia in October 2020, many residents woke to power outages, downed trees and other signs of storm damage. Despite the disruption — and the storm — Gwinnett County Public Schools stayed in session, with the district leveraging its remote learning capability to continue instruction. Looking ahead, school system officials in Gwinnett say virtual learning could make the old-fashioned snow day obsolete.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A friend started a free blog directory that includes categories for writers and teacher-authors. I’ve added WordDreams. It’s free, just getting going. If you’re looking for another way to market your books, here’s how you sign up: [link]. Why the Blog Directory? Find blogs of a specific category; and/or find bloggers of similar interests.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As an educator, it’s both normal and important to guide your students through challenging discussions in class. Your students are affected by social, political, and other topics both in and outside of school. Although they can be difficult at times, conversations about these topics can help students come to a deeper understanding of and respect for those with perspectives different from their own.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When it comes to troubleshooting for her children’s remote learning, it seems like Barbara Lopez has done it all. Depending on the day, the Miami mom could be supervising just two of her young children as they log into their virtual classrooms?or she could be helping all four. She’s handled Zoom breakdowns, juggled multiple parent support group chats and gotten her kids fed during their four different lunch times.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this edisode of the EduJedi Report, host LeiLani Cauthen talks with Justin Reilly, the CEO of Impero, about a missing ingredient for managing the sudden mass deployments of devices by K12 schools. Student safety, but more importantly, the well-being of students socially and emotionally, has a new guardian with advanced mobile device management software.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I supppose it’s something we simple know. But I suspect it’s something we don’t explicitly teach. Reading is more than an enjoyable and enriching experience. Reading is self care. At a time when they don’t see their friends. At a time when some are reluctant to turn their cameras on and share their faces. At a time we really can’t tell how they’re doing.perhaps it’s the right time to recognize the power we help kids help themselves.

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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I know this year might not hold the same kind of warm and fun memories of previous school years, but we have still been part of the moments in between. What we have done this year has mattered and our commitment to attaching meaning to everyday, ordinary moments will be even more important. The post The Moments In Between By @biologygoddess appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2020

By Tamara Fyke This week I finished reading The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis again. His writings are lifetime favorites, and even though I know how the story goes I uncover something new with each read. At the end of this chronicle of Narnia, Aslan invites his followers “Further up and further in” to an unknown land after the world they once knew disappeared.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. AUSTIN, Texas — Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for help. A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them, did very well in middle school and was accepted to a competitive magnet high school.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This year is clearly a landscape shift for educational technologies. It is important to remember how far we have come in only a few decades with technology to be able to still see our students via video, to both distribute instructional materials and watch them progress in software, to talk to them live from a distance and help them to learn. We must count our blessings for the modern tools that have saved learning in whole or in part for tens of millions of students.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zoom seems to be leading the current video conferencing revolution with more and more users drawing on its services to connect, work, and socialize. Zoom is also popular among the education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When the University of Pennsylvania said it would pay $10 million a year for 10 years to address environmental hazards in Philadelphia’s public schools, Gerald Campano’s reaction was complicated. “Of course it’s important that Penn at least recognizes the profound challenges that the School District of Philadelphia faces with things like lead poisoning and asbestos,” Campano, a professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, said.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2020

K5 Learning is a platform that offers printable reading and math worksheets that you can use in your instruction. It also offers an "online reading and math program for kids in.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The U.S. House has passed a bipartisan and nonbinding resolution to create a national AI strategy that, in part, highlights the need for continued planning in the area of education and AI. The post House Passes Artificial Intelligence National Strategy That Includes Education To-Do List appeared first on Market Brief.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This story on how two pandemics might forever alter education, originally published on November 6, was eSN’s No. 10 most popular story of 2020. Check back each day for the next story in our countdown. Schools across the globe pivoted to online learning within days as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across countries, shuttered physical learning spaces, and shed light on learning inequities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Drew Perkins talks with Kentucky superintendents Rob Clayton and Gary Fields about their navigation of the tensions and challenges associated with Covid-19. The post The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 227 Superintendents Experience Navigating Covid-19 appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The education sector is in the midst of significant evolution. Shifting learning behaviors, demand for new skills, and changes to workforce dynamics have motivated a profound digital transformation to improve outcomes, economics, and accessibility of education. Now, this evolution has been accelerated. At the hand of a global health crisis, many education systems around the world were forced to conduct the largest remote learning trial we’ve ever seen.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Can a new type of curriculum actually turn failing schools into successful ones, and result in greater success for students as well? This question was answered affirmatively and with confirming evidence during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with educator and author Jay McTighe, and the superintendent and deputy superintendent of Mount Vernon City Schoo

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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MindShift

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Full disclosure: As someone who grew up the big sister to a brother, I have a bit of a stake in the subject of this article. It’s a new study that suggests big sisters can make a powerful difference for their younger siblings. But there’s no such personal angle for the authors of the study: economists Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier of Williams College in Massachusetts. “No!

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The topic of electricity often poses difficulties for many secondary school students in physics lessons. Researchers have now developed and empirically evaluated a new, intuitive curriculum as part of a major comparative study. The result: not only do secondary school students gain a better conceptual understanding of electric circuits, but teachers also perceive the curriculum as a significant improvement in their teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

BUCKSPORT, Maine — Its roof frosted with a covering of the previous night’s snow, a yellow school bus chugs up to the front door of Bucksport High School, where Principal Josh Tripp greets the handful of late-arriving students as they drag themselves inside. This story also appeared in Maine Public Radio and National Public Radio. Tripp is just glad they’ve shown up, in a year when school is half online, sports and clubs have been curtailed and the world can seem as cold and gray as a winter mor

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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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Edthena

DECEMBER 18, 2020

All of these recommended reads for teachers and instructional coaches are on the nice list! Here are a few articles for educators about professional development. This month’s recommendations include creating virtual literature circles, making remote learning work, and strategies learned on how to combat the Covid learning loss. Tis the season of creating safe spaces for students, try virtual literature circles.

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