Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

“Students don’t do the asynchronous work.” “Students don’t work unless I am monitoring them.” “Students will only do the work if I grade it.” I hear statements like this every week. Teachers are frustrated by what they perceive as a lack of focus, engagement, and motivation. I can empathize with their frustration, but I attribute these behaviors to underdeveloped self-regulation skills, especially in online and blended learning environments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

As is my habit, I spend a lot of time exploring new ways to teach old subjects. Lately, I’ve concentrated on social studies. I chatted with my PLN, browsed forums where I knew efriends hung out, and taught a slew of online grad school classes to teachers who always are willing the discuss their newest favorite social studies tech tool. I picked everyone’s brains and came up with a list of five webtools you definitely must look at: Classcraft.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

The SolarWinds hack at the end of 2020 highlighted ways in which hackers can use compromised applications and forged security assertion markup language (SAML) tokens to move into Microsoft cloud environments from on-premises systems. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and US-CERT recently issued an alert warning about the malicious activity, and providing information on how IT can secure on-premises and cloud systems to detect and prevent the threats.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

The following is an edited excerpt from Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education , forthcoming from Routledge. Nearly all of higher education moved online at the beginning of the pandemic. For longtime proponents of online education like myself, you might think it would be an accomplishment. Except that many students showed up resentful, taking digital courses only by force of circumstance, and the teaching they got did not always fit the medium.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 3rd grade science. Developer: Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Developer: Stanford University Research. Curriculum. High school Advanced Placement.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Teachers cite the challenges of remote instruction as a top reason for leaving their jobs during the pandemic. And kids double down on digital reading—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during s

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 8, 2021

Immersive Reader is an excellent learning tool from Microsoft that helps students of all ages and skills develop their reading. Immersive Reader provides a wide variety of features to enhance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson had a blunt message last month for anyone following the city’s charged debate about reopening schools. “If we are really serious about equity, we have to address the fact that many of our African American students are struggling in this environment,’’ Johnson said during an appearance on CNN, echoing a refrain that should be familiar to anyone following the debate to reopen K-12 schools for in-person learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 8, 2021

Google Docs has a cool feature called Citations which allows you to easily add citations and generate bibliographies for your documents. Students can use Docs citation to add in-text references in.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

In a year where the U.S. has been rocked by a global pandemic, the impact of systemic racism, and acts of political violence, many educators have wondered how to create a “learning space” to address difficult subjects. A “learning space” is both safe and brave–one where students are supported in expressing their views, as well as in challenging them and coming to new conclusions.

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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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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

source: unsplash.com Gamification is an increasingly popular strategy for education. Students in the modern digital world are used to playing all kinds of games on their smartphones, consoles, and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

Hall Technologies, a leading designer and manufacturer in the AV industry, announces their latest leap in technology innovation, HIVE Control. This scalable and affordable AV solution leverages the best in modern IoT, legacy control, and automation. HIVE Control will offer major improvements to the industry’s three major pillars of AV control technology: software, interface, and hardware.

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Georgia Test Prep

MARCH 8, 2021

In this Infographic, we have illustrated 7 tips to help your children develop a positive attitude. The post 7 Tips to Help Your Children Develop a Positive Attitude appeared first on.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 8, 2021

OK, here's one way I weed. Go Tinder. Get a book cart and travel around (Fiction or NF) and look at the books. Be surface. Be superficial. Be judgey. I make quick decisions. I don't agonize over it. I pull any books that are suspect, beat up, butt ugly, dated illustration, dated cover art, and just not attractive - SWIPE Left. Put them on the left side of cart shelf.

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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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MiddleWeb

MARCH 8, 2021

Professional books play an important role in every savvy educator's growth and development. Podcasts can serve the same purpose, writes instructional leader Alex Valencic. Podcasts not only stimulate our thinking, they lead us to new authors and help us expand our PLNs. The post Why I’ve Fallen in Love with Education Podcasts first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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MindShift

MARCH 8, 2021

Bobby is a sixth grader at North Brookfield Elementary School in western Massachusetts. He’s crazy about the Loch Ness monster. He’s into math and Minecraft. And he likes online learning. “It’s a lot easier to focus,” he says. “I can be in my room and be a lot more comfortable doing stuff.” President Biden has said that his goal is to have the majority of K-8 schools operating in-person by the end of his first 100 days in office.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

What are digital learning platforms? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. Digital technology has unshackled learning, providing learners a wealth of opportunities to learn what they want to learn, how they want to learn, and where they want to learn with just a few clicks of the mouse.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 8, 2021

We had so much fun creating the list, searching for the best end-of-year bulletin board ideas! Fantastic creativity and ideas out there! Here are our top 21 bulletin boards to delight teachers and kids. Our bulletin board categories include summer bucket list ideas, classroom memories, preschool bulletin board ideas, summer bulletin boards, end-of-year countdown bulletin boards, and more.

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Turnitin

MARCH 8, 2021

Ross Cooper, Biology Subject Lead at Alec Reed Academy in West London talks about how Gradescope has helped him assess his students during the COVID-19 pandemic

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MindShift

MARCH 8, 2021

In most high schools, students are assigned to a school counselor’s roster by last name or grade level. But at U-32 Middle and High School, in Montpelier, Vermont, students get to choose their own counselor. And if it doesn’t work out for the student, they can switch to a different counselor. . When Anna Farber was in tenth grade, she ‘fired’ her school counselor.

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