Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This post is written by Esther Park. Esther is a high school English as a New Language teacher in Northern Virginia. You can connect with her on Twitter @MrsParkShine or on her website: mrspark.org Using breakout rooms completely changed the way I teach remotely. But one day, one of my quiet students privately messaged me […]. The post How to create Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a great list of age-appropriate, safe websites that will inspire 2nd graders whether they’re in your classroom or at home: Edutainment with BBC. Games that make you think. Puzzle of student pic–create. Plant games. Plant life cycle. Computer basics. Computer puzzle. Parts of the computer. Videos on Computer Basics K-6. Google World of Wonders.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, many classrooms remain online in some capacity. Now is a particularly helpful time to consider implementing blended or hybrid learning, two strategies that allow for independent or remote learning. We’ve put together a quick primer on what blended and hybrid learning strategies are and why they might have a place in your classroom.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on August 13, 2020, in Open Access Government. The ideal learning process for a student is one that adapts to that student’s every need: the surrounding environment, the actual content of the lesson, the method of delivery, the types of assessment — and everything in between. When this happens, the student has the highest chances of understanding the concepts being taught and later remember what they learned.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year for teachers, administrators, students and their families. The coronavirus pandemic threw several curveballs at our nation’s schools and education systems, pushing many educators to teach and work together remotely for the first time. Despite the hardships this year has brought on, educators were quick to adapt.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Albert Einstein once said: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” The saying is true, especially when kids who are 7 to 10 years old are starting to create interests in learning new things like coding in online games. Such thought is supported by Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who developed the Cognitive Development Theory.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Editor’s Note: This Q&A is part of a series featuring educators and technology experts from our 2020 K–12 IT Influencers list , weighing in on the innovations happening in their school community and in education at large during remote learning. Pivoting to remote learning in the spring presented schools and districts with new challenges, some of which they’re still working to resolve today.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In normal times, a signature feature of college life is parties—often immortalized in so many Hollywood films where students let loose, meet others and find out who they are. But this fall, as colleges try to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, those very parties may be the biggest threat to keeping education going. So, what’s left of campus life for students to enjoy at a time of social isolation?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The future of work is rapidly evolving. The adoption of new technologies, along with COVID-19’s impact on the global economy and workforce, has created greater demand for jobs that require select technical, industrial and business skills. A recent World Economic Forum report found that more than 42 percent of all jobs will change significantly by 2022, placing greater emphasis on skills such as analytics, design thinking and complex problem-solving.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The internet has radically changed the way people obtain information, and part of this digital revolution is the way we teach and learn. The current COVID-19 pandemic, however, is playing a major role in speeding up this learning process as millions worldwide turn to e-learning platforms to continue their studies or find ways to share the knowledge they already have.

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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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Working from home is part of the new normal for K–12 schools and districts. How can IT managers secure teachers and staff in online environments? Here are some questions and answers. What’s the Biggest Security Risk? End users remain the biggest security vulnerability — and educators are naturally more curious, open minded and excited to try new things, making them information security’s worst nightmare.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With the current school closures, online education is becoming the norm, and in some places it probably will stay so at least for the foreseeable future. With this new reality there emerged a number.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Congratulations! If you’re on the list of 30 K–12 IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2020 , spread the news and grab our influencer images for your social media pages or websites. Below you will find a header image for your Twitter profile and a social object to share on your social media pages. Please be sure to tag @ EdTech_K12 when you post!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Students will likely experience 2 to 4 months of learning loss as a result of COVID-19 disruptions, especially in grades K-2, according to a new report. The findings from Illuminate Education highlight a need for additional instructional support this fall. “The data are telling us what we already suspected: this fall, educators need to be ready to use the appropriate tools to identify and contend with student learning loss, particularly in grades K-2,” said Dr.

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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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For many K–12 schools, the new academic year kicked off with a long list of problems: videoconferencing glitches, device shortages, cyberattacks — all amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. If that wasn’t enough, there’s another urgent challenge they also need to address: learning loss. Academic progress for millions of K–12 students was disrupted with the scramble to implement remote learning after the pandemic shut down school buildings last spring.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Google Classroom has become an increasingly popular platform for teachers and educators, especially in the midst of the transition to remote learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Google Classroom has – up to this point – been regarded as a tool for teachers to work with students, we are reinventing Google Classroom as a tool for instructional coaches.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In many homes today, scenes from futuristic movies are playing out: A child enters a room and asks it for a weather update, to turn on the TV or to call Mom. Like magic, it happens. But that “magic” is actually made possible by voice assistant software and conversational artificial intelligence, which are at the core of virtual assistants. In the U.S., voice assistants include Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft ’s Cortana, Samsung ’s Bixby and the Google Assistant.

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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In a virtual world, how would we be able to modify some of the strategies that we would use in a face to face classroom to increase engagement and shake things up so that students are not just listening to a teacher or staring at a screen for the entire class period? The post Three Successful Strategies for a Virtual Learning Environment with @VictoriaTheTech appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Editor’s Note: This Q&A is part of a series featuring educators and technology experts from our 2020 K–12 IT Influencers list , weighing in on the innovations happening in their school community and in education at large during remote learning. Pivoting to remote learning in the spring presented schools and districts with new challenges, some of which they’re still working to resolve today.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It was the briefest of celebrations. In June, the Supreme Court blocked the White House’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This was long-awaited good news for the 3.6 million undocumented young people currently living in the U.S, myself included. For now, we can be free of the constant fear of deportation and carry on with work, school and social distancing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 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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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Rather than approach math using only a curriculum that follows textbook lessons, we can boost learning by teaching math as a science. Middle grades educator and NBCT Kathleen Palmieri is learning how to incorporate data studies to help students relate math to the real world.

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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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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As a new grant writer at MIND Research Institute, I am sometimes asked by curious colleagues, “What do you think about working here?” What I often tell them - and what I’d like to share with you - is that MIND’s commitment to equity in education is what continues to inspire me the most. Equity is defined as, “justice according to natural law or right, freedom from bias or favoritism.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The post 10 Google Tips for Remote Learning appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Remote learning has sent teachers and schools into high gear! We are all trying to figure out what works. In this post, I’m going to show you 10 Google Tips for Remote Learning. This has never been done before, not like this, so cut yourself some slack. We are all learning together!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In today's post we want to bring your attention to this excellent educational resource that, we believe, should definitely make it into your digital teaching toolkit. Open Culture, for those of you.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Tech & Learning COVID Diary series follows educators and administrators throughout the year as they share stories about how their districts are handling teaching and learning during the pandemic.

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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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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Are you interested to join the Buncee Ambassador Program? Applications for the 2020-2021 cohort are now open! If you are an active Buncee user and would like to connect with Buncee’s global community, we welcome you to apply and join our Buncee Ambassador program. The applications will be open until October 9, 2020 , so be sure to apply. Application Open: September 22, 2020.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you want to listen to the podcast based on this topic, you can watch here on YouTube , or listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Soundcloud. In November of 2019, I wrote a post titled “ The Needed Struggle of Learning ,” discussing some of the struggles and insecurities I was having with recording my podcast. November 2019 seems like ten years ago, and to think that making a podcast would be my biggest challenge of 2020 seems foolish now!

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ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Engineers have developed a new machine-learning method that paves the way for artificial intelligence to be used in applications that until now have been deemed too sensitive. The method, which has been tested by running simulations on a climate-control system for a 100-room building, is poised to deliver energy savings of around 20%.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

E-rate is complicated. But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. Common Sense Education created this essential guide to help your district or school address the key topics E-rate recipients need to teach students, including internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying.

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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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