Ditch That Textbook

JULY 21, 2020

It's back to school time again and this year looks NOTHING like we have ever seen before. As summer comes to a close teachers are preparing for that big first day of school. Only this year, for many of us, it's going to be in a virtual classroom. If you are going back to school in-person […]. The post 50 back to school activities for the remote learning classroom appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 2020

You’ve opened up school again and at least some students and teachers are attending in person. Unsurprisingly, some students, families, or educators begin to identify as positive for COVID-19. Now what? How many kids have to get sick before you shut down again? What are your decision-making criteria? [practice saying these out loud and see how they sit with you].

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Neo LMS

JULY 21, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on February 4, 2020, in Open Access Government. The number of middle school teachers has fallen dramatically in the last decade or so. Teachers everywhere point to high levels of stress, long working hours, unclear expectations, and not enough support as the main issues behind their decision to part ways with the education system.

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, schools and districts across the country are planning for the upcoming school year and the likely possibility of continued remote learning. This presents a unique challenge to schools who seek to keep students connected to the real world through community-based learning opportunities. Real world learning engages students in life-relevant problems, projects, and experiences to develop their career awareness and readiness.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 21, 2020

Like many teachers, I’ve been busy planning for the upcoming school year. I want to make sure that the virtual learning is engaging and effective and all about connections and wellness. Recently, I discovered this fun idea by Emma Pass in her ebook, The Hybrid Teacher , to add a gif in your slides to get students moving. I was so inspired by the idea that I created brain break workout with an astronaut gif.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 21, 2020

Any K–12 district CTO will tell you that transitioning a school community to a remote learning environment involves long-range strategic planning, allocation of resources, focused sustainable professional development and equitable access to devices and connectivity for students. However, the race was on when when coronavirus pandemic-related state mandates closed school buildings earlier this year.

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Education Elements

JULY 21, 2020

There has been a lot of research done on what makes teams great. Google committed an entire research team to answering the question: What makes a team effective? Daniel Coyle explored the ins and outs of some of the world’s most successful teams in his book The Culture Code. And, leaders right here at Education Elements have compiled some of their learnings in The New Team Habits.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 21, 2020

While Coronavirus pandemic has forced all of us to stay at home, the companies around the world have also been forced to send their employees to tap into the benefits of remote jobs. In the wake of the COVID-19, remote working has become a necessity more than a luxury. However, in this article we are covering some points that show the pandemic is not the only reason why you should work from your home.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2020

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, he founded his own public middle school in the Bronx and served as its principal for 10 years. Now, Jamaal Bowman is headed to Congress. In what has been called a stunning upset, the progressive Bowman defeated a 16-term incumbent in the U.S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 21, 2020

In a post this morning, Martin wrote , “We’ve still not really cracked a community based production model for learning content.” It got me thinking. Back in 2005 I was blessed with the opportunity to commission a short paper from Yochai Benkler (who did much of the first serious work on the economics of open source software development, e.g., Coase’s Penguin and Sharing Nicely ) in conjunction with a keynote talk he gave at OpenEd that year.

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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

JULY 21, 2020

The apps we curated for you today provide students with virtual labs where they can learn more on a wide variety of scientific phenomena. Using an inquiry-based learning approach, students will get.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 21, 2020

In my Intro to Google Sheets spreadsheets webinar I showed 6 key skills that you need for teaching with Google Sheets spreadsheets. One of the things we covered in the webinar is how to create a seating chart using Google Sheets. Resize the Cells To the left of the column indicator A and above the […]. The post Begin with Google Sheets: Make a Seating Chart appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 21, 2020

In each episode of the Inside Our MIND podcast, we take a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives. In our latest episode, Brian welcomes Paul Blair, Director of Product for ST Math Platforms, to the program to provide some insight into the design process for the new ST Math.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2020

It was nearly a decade ago, sitting in my classroom, when the importance of esports in high school first occurred to me. I held a student back. He’d been troublesome as usual that day. His work hadn’t been done, he was actively not taking notes, and had missed his retest window. I wanted to figure out what the deal was, what I needed to consider in order to help him find the motivation to excel.

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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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The Principal of Change

JULY 21, 2020

I had an incredible conversation with Assistant Superintendent Evan Whitehead on his work focusing on “ Balance, Boundaries, and Breaks.” There were so many takeaways in our chat, but I want to focus on a couple specifically. 1. Evan discussed the importance of building in social-emotional time for educators into daily schedules as “compassion fatigue” can be overwhelming.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2020

As the newly-installed Director of Student Information at Barrington School District in suburban Chicago (IL), a district with 9,000 students and 13 schools, Phil Hintz has an added challenge to an already impossible situation—discover unprecedented solutions in an entirely new environment. In this conversation with eSchool News , Phil details how the district is reinventing itself through data collection, making tough logistical decisions, and inspiring both faculty and parents to stretch their

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EdTechTeam

JULY 21, 2020

Educators nationwide are holding their breath waiting for information about what school will look like in the fall. Some districts are offering both face-to-face and remote learning options, other districts are hopeful that school will be able to resume as normal, and even more are planning for complete distance learning. Regardless of what the physical educational environment looks like in the coming days, here are some tips for educational coaches to prepare for a new school year that apply in

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Turnitin

JULY 21, 2020

Learning communities are an effective way to promote a sense of belonging in online and remote learning. In this post, we examine learning community outcomes.

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Reading By Example

JULY 21, 2020

As I shared earlier this week , we may be fortunate to have discovered more time in our lives. Yet experiencing success with new tasks doesn’t happen without some strategies. Next are five approaches I utilize when reading professionally, such as during the recent book study. 1. Define your purpose for reading. We won’t remember everything from the text, so what specific understandings do we want to build?

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 21, 2020

The post A Framework for Blended PD (Part 2) – SULS072 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. As most schools in the US prepare for the start of school online or in some blended format, it’s important to think specifically about teachers’ professional learning. I’m sharing Part 2 of my series on Blended PD. In this series, I’m sharing ideas for planning Blended PD, assessments, strategies, activities, and more.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

As the dust settles from emergency distance learning, schools now have the summer to reckon with what worked and what must change as they grapple with the uncertainty of the next academic year. Whatever the fate of online learning, the past months have exposed some glaring disparities in access to education and technology, while families with children who have disabilities and special needs experienced significant challenges even when technology was available.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 21, 2020

When co-planning is an efficient use of time and in the service of our colleagues’ responsibilities, fellow teachers will see co-planning less like a job they have to do and more of a step they want to do. Tan Huynh shares detailed strategies for co-planning success.

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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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techlearning

JULY 21, 2020

Cloud based gaming as an education tool just got easier than ever to access for schools.

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Think Exam

JULY 21, 2020

Today, the number of candidates opting for online examinations has increased. Most of the schools, colleges, corporate, etc conduct online exams. However, the main reason why it is difficult to invigilate the integrity of online examinations is that the majority of candidates tend to cheat in the exam. Cheating is the biggest cause that hin. The post Introduction to Remote Proctoring appeared first on Thinkexam Blog.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas — When Emma Mancha-Sumners saw her school district’s proposed schedule for remote learning this fall, she knew it wouldn’t work for her or her kids. The sample schedule called for students to switch back and forth between independent work and real-time teaching streamed on their devices. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. “Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Edu

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