Wed.Sep 02, 2020

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JotForm Smart PDF–Great for Today’s Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

Forms are popular in schools for assessments, data collection, and a slew of other reasons. Some teachers look no further than Google Forms but for those who require more simplicity and sophistication, a higher degree of agility and rigor, the gold standard for forms is free JotForm (premium edition also available). It works on all platforms and offers professional-looking templates that use a drag-and-drop interface to quickly and intuitively build forms.

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How to use Jamboard in the classroom: 20+ tips and ideas

Ditch That Textbook

Jamboard is a collaborative online whiteboard. It gives students lots of creative work space. How do you use Google Jamboard in the classroom? Check out these ideas! Whiteboards and chalkboards have been a fixture in classrooms for ages. They're great for gathering ideas and making thinking visible. But there are drawbacks.Having to write "DON'T ERASE!

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12 Things Equity Focused Teachers Can Say To Students In The New School Year

Education Elements

As school returns, we know this year presents unique challenges and changes to both educators and students. With such change, it may be especially difficult to communicate with students. While your intentions may be good, sometimes the impact of what we say can have unintended consequences. Consider some of these alternatives to have the impact you wish to have to start the year on a strong note.

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The Building Blocks of Remote Learning

EdTech Magazine

Despite the potential for in-class participation this fall, some schools are deploying hybrid learning models that see students balance on-campus and at-home education, while others have opted out of in-person reopening entirely. But even those going full steam ahead into reopening face the specter of potential pivots to distance learning delivery.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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What We Know For Sure: Three Practices Every Innovative Leader Can Try

Education Elements

"We all get caught up in the business of doing, and sometimes lose our place in the flow” (O Magazine, August 2011). Recently, we were spinning in circles trying to figure out a new process for an internal role we stepped into when Jason shared a way we might reframe our conversation. Shifting from trying to brainstorm as many solutions as possible or uncovering the perfect idea, we instead focused on the simple, yet powerful question: “What do we know for sure?”.

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Fast-Tracked for Success while Learning from Home

Digital Promise

As schools across the country rapidly shifted to remote learning this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and teachers at Verizon Innovative Learning Schools—where every student receives a device equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom—had the advantage of already knowing how to use learning apps. Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, joined the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative at the start of the 2019–2020 school year.

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Yah, It’s Conference Season

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik The conference season is in full swing at the Learning Counsel. In September alone, we have events in South Texas, Southern California, the Northeast, North Texas, the Mid-Atlantic States, Kentucky and Tennessee. But this year is a little different. We still have the best local speakers in every area. We still have collaborative time and carefully selected resources you can’t find anywhere else.

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Be REAL with Educator/Author @TaraMartinEDU

Teacher Tech

You may not be great at the technology challenges you are facing right now, but you know how to teach, you know how to love kids, and you know how to connect with kids. And honestly, that's what they are going to remember in 40 years. The post Be REAL with Educator/Author @TaraMartinEDU appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Our Nation’s Education System Created the Greatest Generation. Can We Create the Smartest Generation as Well?

EdNews Daily

By Dr. Kenneth W. Eastwood In modern history, during times of national crises our state and national governments deployed educational support and funding systems designed to eliminate racial and economic inequity within our society. Also, to increase the numbers of academically proficient and talented students who would enter the workforce and become a source for designing and working on the interventions and innovations that could lift America up.

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Educational YouTube Channels to Help Students Learn Science at Home

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In the spirit of providing teachers and parents with educational resources to help them enhance their students and kids' distance learning, today's post features a carefully selected collection of.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Questions We Should Be Asking: Remote Instruction and Our Highest Poverty Districts

EdNews Daily

By Christy S. Martin, Ed.D. More than ever, where you live may determine what kind of educational opportunities you have. Recently, the Center on Reinventing Public Education researched how 477 school districts will be opening this fall. The results are alarming. According to the school districts they reviewed, 26 percent are opening fully remote, 12 percent in a hybrid model, and 85 percent are offering a choice.

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Web Tools to Help Teachers Transition from in Class to Online Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As the current pandemic rages across the globe causing colossal social and economic damage and setting up new realities, the way education was delivered pre-pandemic will forever be changed. Distance.

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From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis

EdTechTeacher

At EdTechTeacher, we believe in the potential for transformative learning experiences through innovative uses of technology. To help prepare for the 2020-21 school year (and beyond), we created a guidebook titled ‘From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis’ The guidebook provides educators with best practices, practical recommendations, and technology tools to reimagine learning in any classroom.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground. But outside the spotlight, away from the media and the public’s attention, millions of students are asking themselves one pressing question: Will I have enough money to buy groceries and pay rent in September?

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Remote learning for the long haul

eSchool News

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been the source of many discussions in the past few weeks about the “return to school.” We’re witnessing major public city schools opting for hybrid or fully-remote options, the CDC director and the president are at odds over the White House administration’s suggested guidelines, and many states’ re-entry plans seem to be even more uncertain as we see cases continue to rise across the U.S.

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As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip

The Hechinger Report

Even as the country skidded to a dystopian halt in the first days of the pandemic, Sam Chaudhary and his colleagues found themselves with more work than they had ever seen. This story also appeared in Ozy. Chaudhary is co-founder of the education technology provider ClassDojo, which enables kindergarten through eighth grade students, teachers and parents to share content, schedules and feedback — an obvious and critical need as education abruptly became remote.

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Weekend Routines to Set Company Leaders Up For a Successful Week

Marketplace K-12

Leaders of education companies can use meaningful weekend routines to disconnect from work and prepare mentally for the time ahead, writes CEO Sara Potler LaHayne. The post Weekend Routines to Set Company Leaders Up For a Successful Week appeared first on Market Brief.

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6 ways to set high-quality peer coaching in motion

eSchool News

If you are like many of the tech-savvy, sometimes simply tech-aware, educators I have spoken to recently, you are getting “pinged” by colleagues who hope you will help them shift their pre-COVID teaching practice to a model that supports remote, hybrid and in-person teaching. As we prepare for the coming school year, the curriculum and learning outcomes for students will remain unchanged, but the strategies to master them will change dramatically due to COVID-19’s impact on schools.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

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

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An overview of adaptive learning

Linways Technologies

4 features of Linways LMS that make it perfect for nurturing adaptive learning. Adaptive learning or adaptive teaching is essentially a teaching mechanism. The teacher uses technology-assisted insights and analytics to improvise and update their teaching styles as the curriculum moves forward. This way, the teacher can learn about student’s learning efficiency, their unique needs, and offer customized course delivery for the best experience.

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Newly Minted Career Sparks National Nonprofit Links Kids with Professionals

eSchool News

Today marks the official launch of Career Sparks, a nonprofit organization aimed at connecting real-world career professionals with K-12 students, who are primarily disadvantaged, in a fun and exciting virtual setting. With Career Sparks children now have the power to explore exciting careers from a traditional classroom setting or at home through distance learning.

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8 Ideas to Consider for Remote Learning (Part 2)

The Principal of Change

In my newly released, self-paced course, “ Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning ,” I have been sharing ideas and strategies that you can use in a remote, blended, or face-to-face setting. As a preview of the course, I have written the following posts over the past month: 1. Ideas for building relationships with students in a remote learning setting. 2.

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How to Teach Science Remotely

techlearning

Best practices, advice, and resources to teach science remotely

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Why We Need to Be Exhausted. It’s a Gift.

MiddleWeb

Worry, anger and fear are not worthy expenditures of a teacher’s precious energy, writes Dina Strasser, as she prepares for a pandemic fall in a new school. “I am inviting us to look upon our exhaustion as a gift. It will teach us what is necessary and what is not.”.

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50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

techlearning

Recently I've been experimenting with a number of curation sites that are beneficial for creating and sharing lists.

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Columbus City Schools Adopts Curriculum Associates’ Ready Classroom Mathematics

eSchool News

Columbus City Schools in Columbus, Ohio has adopted Curriculum Associates’ Ready Classroom Mathematics to support students’ growth and achievement in mathematics. The rigorous, standards-aligned core curriculum, which emphasizes modeling and discourse, will be implemented with all of the District’s 25,000-plus students in Grades K–5 starting in fall 2020.

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Bloom's Taxonomy "Walk-Around" model revisited

Cycles of Learning

Revisiting this post today while working with colleagues on inquiry lesson planning in the context of Blooms Taxonomy. Because I am finding this particular reflection and model useful, I felt it as worth sharing again. Enjoy!

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Savvas Delivers Innovative Back-to-School Solutions to Help Teachers, Students and Families Succeed with Distance Learning

eSchool News

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. They include features specifically designed to help teachers seamlessly shift between in-person and remote learning, easily identify both learning gaps and the critical content from the previous grade to close them, as well as increase student engagement with imme

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Dogo News for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Events, etc.) where educators can then select lesson plans, create assignments, and help students increase their Reading and Vocabulary skills.

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Adobe Offers Free K-12 At-Home Access

eSchool News

As an unprecedented back-to-school season rolls out across the United States, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced expanded support and resources for students, educators and the broader education community. Adobe is offering Creative Cloud application access at no additional charge to all students and teachers from August 24, 2020 through January 31, 2021 for current U.S.

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Amazing Educational Resources

Technology Tidbits

Amazing Educational Resources is an excellent free site/social network for finding educational resources on any number of topics. This is a great place for educators to collaborate and find lesson plans, videos, worksheets, tips, and more in a easy to use environment. Bestof all, a user can search via subject, category, or grade level and even sign up to receive emails when a new tool is added.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.