eSchool News
MARCH 18, 2022
It is impossible to exaggerate how much the edtech sector is growing – in fact, exploding might be a better word! The edtech market in the UK is now estimated to be £3.2bn following growth during 2020 of more than 70 percent. This phenomenal growth ensures that the sector is newsworthy, but what are the key trends emerging? These trends are the ones to watch throughout the coming year–and probably the coming decade.
EdTech Magazine
MARCH 18, 2022
Creating a modern learning environment within a school district often used to be the result of a “keeping up with the Joneses” approach. When a school saw what a neighboring district implemented, it would try to keep pace by purchasing similar technology or building a similar space. These days, districts are taking a much more thoughtful approach when they purchase technology.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 18, 2022
Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about Biomes, Habitats, and Landforms: Antarctice Environ—find the animals. Biomes of the World. Breathing earth–the environment. Ocean Currents—video from NASA. Rainforest Websites Videos. Rainforest—3 games. Rainforest—Jungle Journey. World’s Biomes. Virtual tours. Click here for updates to this list.
Edsurge
MARCH 18, 2022
In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice. In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 18, 2022
The ability to create and share timelines is a key skill for teachers. Timelines capture and present information in a visual format that facilitate understanding and enhances retention. A timeline,read more.
Edthena
MARCH 18, 2022
[link]. The AI Coach by Edthena was recently featured on the eSchool News Innovations in Education podcast. Host Kevin Hogan and Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller spoke about how the AI Coach platform is transforming professional development for teachers, including how it can deliver “anytime anywhere professional development.” Kevin Hogan’s reflections remarked on how the AI concept has become a classroom reality.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Edthena
MARCH 18, 2022
Prioritize the teacher professional development that will most affect student outcomes. Give teachers time to practice what they’ve learned. Provide teachers with feedback on their implementation. Who hasn’t heard a teacher groan, “Another one?” when ‘teacher professional development’ is put on their schedule? Unfortunately, teacher PD has become a dirty word.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
MARCH 18, 2022
This article originally appeared earlier this week at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. I post there every other Monday (David does the other Mondays). Check the end of this post for some extra thoughts that don't appear in the original. Click here to subscribe and get Grading for Growth in your email inbox, free, once a week.
eSchool News
MARCH 18, 2022
Silver Spring, Md. (Monday, March 14, 2022) – Jackson Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission to advance financial knowledge on a national scale, and Discovery Education today opened the 6th annual Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids Contest. The contest enables communities to vote for their school to win $10,000 that can be used for critical educator resources that teach kids how to earn, save, spend, and donate.
eSchool News
MARCH 18, 2022
If I had one teaching tool at my disposal in a classroom besides pencils, papers, and books, it would be an educational robot. A robot is the single most engaging learning tool I’ve used with students. It appeals to children of all ages, genders, and backgrounds—and it goes beyond technology to include so many learning goals. In fact, when I was at the pre-K-8 Park School, I considered it one of the most important social-emotional learning tools I’ve used.
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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