The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 27, 2020
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I’ve seen one tool improve student engagement in Google Classroom significantly — H?para. While Google Classroom is can be taught, there are some problems with Google Classroom regarding engagement and simplicity. Google Classroom isn’t always simple to use for students who struggle.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The global pandemic accelerated K–12 education’s digital transformation. With remote and hybrid learning turning mainstream, today’s teachers and students are increasingly reliant on mobile devices and digital tools. Efforts to close the homework gap are more urgent than ever, and cyberthreats — particularly ransomware attacks — are only intensifying.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Education has changed. No one knows yet if it’s for better or worse but we all understand that nothing’s as it once was. That means many traditional teaching tools are no longer the best choice for the new norms. Over the past few months (well, since March), I’ve spent a lot of time reinventing my teaching protocols, doing a rigorous evaluation of whether my standard practices are best suited for the new best practices for teaching at home and school (click here for lots of inf
Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Students these days are distracted. Devices and social-media notifications constantly beckon, and in this time of COVID-19 and widespread remote instruction, the distractions have multiplied. So what are educators to do? That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. ” It’s a surprisingly optimistic take on the topic—it goes out of its way not to blame students or urge blanket tech bans.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2020
In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Jennifer Holley began the year teaching nine 5-year-olds in person and 14 online. Her first online kindergarten class was a bit of a mess, she said. Only three children were correctly logged in, while her email and the school’s phone were flooded with requests for technical help from the frantic parents and grandparents of the other kids.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The “ touch up my appearance ” filter on Zoom is set to the highest blur and I enter the meeting room with an easy click. As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Meanwhile, all around me, millions of other teachers are doing the same, creating in-home classrooms that are virtual stages with costumes, props and seemingly inexhaustible enthusiasm.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Technology is enabling learning like never before, with millions of students attending school remotely for some or all of their regular instruction this fall. With this skyrocketing growth in technology use, however, comes greater concerns around student privacy. Which technologies are collecting student data? How is that data being used? Who has access to it?
eSchool News
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Why did you go into education? I bet it was because you love teaching and inspiring young minds. However, these days teachers are faced with an increased focus on academic benchmarks, state testing–and currently, major changes with the switch to virtual learning. This shift in focus is causing an increase in teacher stress due to the workload, and the teacher shortage this year is at the highest we have seen in decades.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Course Hero has made its first acquisition since joining the billion-dollar unicorn stable earlier this year. The Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of an online education platform has acquired AI-powered math platform, Symbolab. The deal follows an $80 million Series B funding round that valued Course Hero at $1.1 billion. While the company is keeping the financial details of this deal close to its chest, similar moves look likely as Course Hero takes steps to become a more proactive supplier
Teacher Tech
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Follow @Knikole! She is in the business of helping teachers! The post Educator Spotlight: @Knikole appeared first on Teacher Tech.
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.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 27, 2020
For Todd Dugan, superintendent of Bunker Hill CUSD #8, a small, remote district in southern Illinois, issues surrounding back-to-school COVID-19 style are not abstract but all too real. Some of the district’s biggest priorities include: Rural struggles–and successes–as COVID hit. Address learning loss that comes with inequity. As school resumes, freedom of choice.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 27, 2020
After learning virtually for some weeks, many of Michelle Russell’s math students got in the habit of writing down little or no evidence of how they reached their conclusions. Which got her thinking. “What does it really mean when you tell students to show their work?”.
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.
MIND Research Institute
OCTOBER 27, 2020
This article features contributions from MIND Research Institute's Senior Instructional Developers, Carl Robinson and Martha Klingshirn. Does this look like you when your child asks you to help them with their math homework? You’re not alone. Most parents think about math as mountains of worksheets, fact memorization, and strict rules for solving arithmetic problems.
Shake Up Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The post Google Classroom Comments: All You Need to Know! – SULS086 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Feedback is a crucial part of the learning process, and with Google tools and Google Classroom, giving feedback on digital assignments has never been easier. Today, I’m going to share with you everything you need to know about Google Classroom comments.
Turnitin
OCTOBER 27, 2020
In this series on Originality features, we hope to help you with your pedagogical journey toward academic integrity
The Principal of Change
OCTOBER 27, 2020
It was great to have a discussion with Meghan Lawson recently on the #InnovatorsMindset podcast. She was of tremendous help writing “ Innovate Inside the Box ,” and one of the most popular quotes in the book comes from a conversation the two of us had via text! In this podcast, Meghan and I talk about the importance of finding joy in the work that we do each day and why it is so important that we elevate others, students and adults, in education. .
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MindShift
OCTOBER 27, 2020
This story about online kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Jennifer Holley began the year teaching nine 5-year-olds in person and 14 online. Her first online kindergarten class was a bit of a mess, she said.
edWeb.net
OCTOBER 27, 2020
By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Encouraging students, their families, and other community members to provide input and participate in school and district activities not only results in a more equitable education for diverse students, but also better prepares the students for college, careers, and responsible citizenship.
N2Y
OCTOBER 27, 2020
For the return to school in 2020, special education may have looked very different from past years. In some districts, service delivery was fully remote. Others implemented a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual learning. Some schools opened with full?time, in?person instruction. Regardless of the model in use, teachers can always incorporate evidence?
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 27, 2020
"Tools for Tense Situations: Reducing Conflicts With Patrons As Libraries Return to the New Normal" Part of a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : We invite you to join us for a 90-minute webinar presented by Library 2.0 and Dr. Steve Albrecht. As libraries re-open their doors to provide service to patrons, we're all facing uncertainty, apprehension, and stress.
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.
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Digital citizenship is essential for all people living in a digital economy. Since the economy shapes our lives and our communities, we cannot take part as active citizens in the important events around us without digital skills. Without any tool to identify fake news on social media (essentially if we are digital illiterates), we can make bad decisions and don’t even realize that.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Imagine a world in which a teacher begins the school year with a comprehensive personal profile of each student in her class—a report that incorporates insights on academic performance, social-emotional development, behavior, attendance and a host of related data. Without having to conduct numerous assessments and informal interviews throughout the opening weeks, she can actually “know” her students before they arrive in her classroom and meet them where they are on day one.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2020
In years past, teaching about a presidential election meant teaching about the Electoral College, just making it a little more interesting. In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. It’s a contentious subject, and across the country, some districts are forbidding their teachers from broaching this election, some teachers are choosing on their own not to teach it, and, in some cases, students are being told
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