The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter STEM can level up and it must begin to include underrepresented communities of women and minorities. Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. Fortunately, TGR Foundation and Discovery Education are partnering to help STEM teachers reach a more diverse group of learners and generate student interest in STEM.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2020

Sometimes the best approach to dealing with the biggest problems involves taking a deep breath and diving in headfirst. That’s the way it was facing the coronavirus pandemic, says Peter Cevenini, CTO at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. “The situation evolved so fast,” he says, “everything we did kind of happened simultaneously.”. As circumstances quickly changed and schools began implementing remote instruction earlier this year, IT teams and other district leaders had to do triage

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The mathematics curriculum of today was created before computers. Conrad Wolfram has written a book, The Math(s) Fix and how AI can be part of this process of learning new math. He says we’re “making humans into third rate calculators instead of helping humans be problem solvers.” He also argues that math should be approachable for everyone and we spend too much time in schools on the wrong tasks.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Although some academic institutions and educational professionals still doubt the high value of eLearning software, technology-based education is no longer a myth. And the Covid-19 pandemic has proved that EdTech and eLearning are integral parts of modern academic reality. Lockdown aside, why are more teachers turning to online educational software?

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2020

Where we learn matters. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning. As a profession, we have honorably pivoted to meet the needs of students, but all of us have experienced the soft spots of our strategy. We have seen students lack access to technology and Wi-Fi. We have watched as students with additional challenges, including those with physical or learning disabilities, fade from technology-rich learning, and we have even seen our most driven s

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2020

There is no greater power than that of a creative mind bolstered by a strong foundation of learning. That is what we believe at St. Vrain Valley Schools, and it is the basis of our efforts to ensure our students are well equipped to enter the workforce and higher education with the skills they need to become the next generation of innovators and creators.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Educators who run U.S. schools aren’t a diverse group. Almost 80 percent of the nation’s 90,000 principals are white. Only 11 percent are Black and 9 percent are Latino, according to federal data. That doesn’t come close to reflecting the demographics of the nation’s 50 million public schoolchildren who are 46 percent white, 15 percent Black, 28 percent Latino and 6 percent Asian.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2020

Widespread protests, sparked by the killings of Black people at the hands of police, have led to a global conversation on racial discrimimination. Many companies have shown their support through blast emails and social media posts. But how can they go from words to actions and meaningfully foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) after many rapidly converted to operating remotely due to COVID-19?

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2020

The pandemic has struck the education system especially hard as schools had to swiftly adjust operations to fit within a remote learning environment. Now, as many schools take the summer months to map out a plan and prepare for the start of a new school year come September, administrations are working to find the most successful and efficient ways to adopt learning models that can accommodate an extended period of e-learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

A protester holds a sign during a protest over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Breonna Taylor, a black woman, was fatally shot by police in her home in March. Credit: AP Photo/Darron Cummings. Breonna Taylor is one of the names inspiring a massive national movement to overturn racist policing practices.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2020

Cybersecurity has always been a high priority for K-12 administrators and staff, but with the rapid push to remote learning brought on by COVID-19, school leadership has had to consider how to educate through the lens of cybersecurity. While school years are closing up for the 2019 – 2020 year, it’s still unknown what our learning environments will look like for the 2020 – 2021 school year.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 22, 2020

It's no wonder that "homeschooling" memes are circulating fast and furious on the internet during the pandemic. A few of the memes I've seen over the last few months say: "It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a distillery to homeschool one." "Okay, the schools are closed. So, do we drop the kids off at the teacher's house or what?

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 22, 2020

How can teachers plan successfully this summer when they don’t know what teaching will be like in the fall? ELA/science teacher Jeremy Hyler is investing time creating lessons driven by Hyperdocs – a flexible strategy he can use face to face, online, or in a blend.

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Jamf on EdTech

JUNE 22, 2020

As IT shifts to remote support operations, it is vital to think about how users request and receive the help they need. Mobile Device Management (MDM) and IT service management (ITSM) tools go hand-in-hand.

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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

JUNE 22, 2020

In the post “5 Points To Get Across in a Teaching Interview” from 2018 , I wanted to share some ideas for people going through the education interview process. No matter what questions are being asked, I think we can still bring up some key points that highlight our thoughts on education. . In the accompanying podcast, I share three ideas that will help candidates thrive in an interview, such as the importance of making candidates feel comfortable and welcome, ensuring that the pro

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 22, 2020

More than 40 percent of school district tech leaders in a recent survey said they expect IT budgets to decrease next school year because of a financial downturn related to COVID-19. The post District Leaders Expecting COVID-19-Related Cuts to Tech Spending, Survey Finds appeared first on Market Brief.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 22, 2020

Choosing the right bathtub for your infant can be harrowing. You want a baby bathtub built with both safety and convenience in mind. After all, all the safety features in the world won’t matter if the [.].

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MindShift

JUNE 22, 2020

Is a dump truck a vehicle? What about a skateboard? An elevator? A hamster wheel? These are some of the questions math educator Christopher Danielson has asked — or been asked — while playing a reasoning game he calls “Is It or Not?” The game began with a debate between another math educator, Kassia Wedekind , and her six-year-old daughter, but Danielson has played it with children of all ages, including his own.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 22, 2020

We are born curious beings. The essence of our lives is threaded with the ultimate desire to know more and do more. Traditionally, children have gone to school as a place to accomplish this goal. While the book, Engaging Literate Minds , would have been originally written during the time where most children attended school in person, the practical stories and insights are perhaps even more important now that the pandemic has changed our global landscape.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2020

This blog is long overdue. We needed to take some time to grapple with the current events, in order to find healing and balance. Thank you for being patient with our human process. When do we feel most human? Is it when we connect with each other and with nature? Is it when we create works of art, food or ideas? Is it when we move our bodies in response to our inner rhythm?

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