The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How to Improve Google Classroom & Remote Learning Experiences with Kasey Bell Teaching online is challenging for many teachers. In this show, we talk about best practices to re-engage students, the common mistakes districts are making, and teachers’ importance right now.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
A majority (86 percent) of educators believe that technology needs in schools will increase over the next three years, according to a recent survey by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development and the EdTech Evidence Exchange, a nonprofit affiliated with the university. With the sudden shift to remote learning due to COVID-19, achievement gaps among students in U.S. schools widened.
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Ditch That Textbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Through the use of Wakelet Spaces, teachers created their own Wakelet Evidence-Based Portfolios. You can too. Here's how. This post is written by Dr. Randall Sampson. Randall is the founder of Liberty Leadership Development. He has been a teacher and public school administrator, as well as a university professor and national education transformation specialist.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Despite the current challenges of remote and hybrid learning, new possibilities also have emerged, especially around the use of educational technology. Schools and districts have realized that educational technology is crucial to preparing students for a rapidly evolving world. Educators are learning new teaching methods and are constantly striving to innovate.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in November. It’s a short month and we wish you the best during your holiday celebrations: How to Make Kindness Part of Your Classes. National STEM/STEAM Day. Tech Tips: 4 Stages of Keyboarding Growth. 16 Sites, 3 Apps, 7 Projects for Thanksgiving. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher).
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Data-driven initiatives have helped schools improve student learning outcomes and measure technology ROI. The School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, for example, relies on its data systems to spot which students may be falling behind and need more academic support in a school that may be doing well as a whole. “We use data to make sure we can drill down to every student and every other facet of the organization,” says Superintendent Donald Fennoy II.
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EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
School looks vastly different today. For many students, it requires using a school-issued device to continue learning from home. It also involves logging in to digital platforms to attend live classes, view and submit assignments and connect with peers. This new learning environment is certainly necessary during the pandemic. But as school leaders start to think about long-term plans for online learning, it’s even more imperative to prepare for the inevitable: increasing cyberattacks.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Racial bias in grading is a persistent and knotty problem. It’s one of the reasons that it’s better to grade essay exams blind without students’ names attached to them. Even Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman has recommended anonymous grading because of his findings of bias in decision making. But that’s often not practical for everyday assignments.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The new school year had barely begun for some K–12 districts before cybercriminals struck. In early September, several ransomware attacks against schools made headlines. The attacks halted online learning or forced officials to postpone the first day of classes — costly setbacks that compound ongoing challenges with remote learning. Security experts are reporting an increase in the frequency of cyber incidents such as ransomware attacks, which have plagued not only schools but also businesses
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Most educators and students agree: Learning took a nosedive last spring when schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic. A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall.
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.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The global pandemic accelerated K–12 education’s digital transformation. With remote and hybrid learning turning mainstream, today’s teachers and students are increasingly reliant on mobile devices and digital tools. Efforts to close the homework gap are more urgent than ever, and cyberthreats — particularly ransomware attacks — are only intensifying.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Effective questioning during remote learning doesn’t require new strategies. Consultant Barbara Blackburn suggests building questions with higher order thinking models; including questioning stems; adding cubing for student choice; and having students source their answers.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Whether schools choose to continue remote education, use a hybrid education model or return full-time to campus, some form of virtual teaching system will figure into every school’s plan, even if only as a contingency. With every jurisdiction constructing their own approach to virtual education — then adjusting it in response to a rapidly evolving pandemic — cybersecurity risks abound.
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Strategies for creating digital choice boards include starting simply, adding audio or video content, and using learning taxonomies. The post 16 Strategies For Using Digital Choice Boards In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.
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.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
In today's post we are sharing with you two important features that have been added to Google Sheets recently. Both of these functionalities are integrated with Sheets and will enable you to.read more.
EmergingEdTech
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Learn how to create a comfortable and productive learning space at home! Do you have children at home who engaged in remote learning? Are you worried about how to organize a learning space? If your. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Helping young people educate themselves on these topics doesn’t have to take the form of a one-sided lecture or reading. The post Critical Literacy: How To Encourage Students To Change Their World appeared first on TeachThought.
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Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
David Ross is a global education consultant and former CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). After holding national and international education leadership roles for 15 years, in August of 2019, Ross returned to the classroom to practice what he had been preaching: project-based learning. He teaches sixth graders at Technology Middle School in Sonoma, California.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Academic institutions across the U.S. have resumed the fall semester, with many choosing to continue offering instruction in virtual or hybrid environments. While educators pivoted and quickly adjusted to virtual learning environments at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition was not without its challenges. In March, 41 percent of school districts reported they could not provide ongoing virtual lessons to all students due to educators’ lack of appropriate tech tools—a significa
Marketplace K-12
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
A ballot measure before voters in the nation's largest state would potentially pour billions of dollars in new spending into K-12. The post A Key Election Issue for the Education Industry: California’s Proposition 15 appeared first on Market Brief.
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.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
By Ginny Kirkland. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Today’s students are inundated with information from myriad media sources—social media, blogs, podcasts, text messages, television, internet searches, radio, email, and other communication apps. The list seems almost endless, and it most certainly is overwhelming. Understanding how to separate fact from fiction in media was recently discussed in the edWebinar, Teaching Disinformation in 2020: CIA Tips for Students and Educa
Educator Innovator
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Only top three issues included; not to scale and will not add up to 100%; Source: CIRCLE/Tisch College 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll. While election season tends to concentrate public attention on choosing leaders, young people are often more motivated by longer term issues that affect their future. And, according to the CIRCLE/Tisch College.Tufts 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll , for many young people, a top concern is climate change and the environment, along with racism and healthcare.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Rosetta Stone Inc. announced the 10 winners in its first Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year award program. A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Victor Machado, an ESL teacher at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, won the $10,000 grand prize, along with a schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English.
Fractus Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
If your kids are loco for locomotion, Lego train sets are a guaranteed hit. With every kind of model from old steam engines to modern high-speed trains, they have something for engineers of all ages, and with a huge range of educational benefits, it’s easy for parents to jump on board! From Lego City to Lego Creator, we’ve looked through the options and chosen 9 of the best lego train sets on the market today.
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.
Technology Tidbits
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
*Be sure to checkout how Make Beliefs Comix can work for you for Remote Learning during school closures!!! Make Beliefs Comix is a excellent site that educators around the world are using for digital storytelling, project based learning, reinforcing vocabulary, and more. Also, Make Beliefs Comix has an abundance of lesson plans, the ability to translate comics into other languages, and recently launched story starters/writing prompts to help get the student's creative juices flowing.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
It’s been described as the most important election of our lifetime. And it’s happening as an ongoing pandemic keeps schools and businesses closed, as police brutality and racial injustice spur protests in the streets, and as the civic pillars of America’s democracy are increasingly called into question. Results may be delayed—and disputed. Stressed out?
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