Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: . Category: Keyboarding. Q: When I push ‘PrintScreen’ to take a screenshot, nothing happens.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Parents are concerned about their children’s online safety and data privacy, but not as much as other issues such as the quality of education their child receives, protection from violence and bullying, and ensuring their child doesn’t fall behind in school. That’s according to the approximately 1,200 parents surveyed by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) between mid-May and early June of this year.
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EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Last spring’s school closures led to new questions about student learning and the use of technology in education. Administrators and teachers wondered about how students were — or weren’t — engaging with online instruction. IT teams were concerned about who needed laptops and mobile hotspots and how those devices were being used. But with everyone working remotely, they were left in the dark.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
“I might be one of the few people coming out of the COVID-19 situation with more friends,” said Karine Durand. Durand’s words have stuck with me for months. This past June, she and I were both speakers on a JFF Horizons conference panel focused on the power of investing in students’ social capital to break down barriers to opportunity. Durand explained to the audience that in her day job as a nanny, she hadn’t spent much time building a professional network.
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Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Let’s be honest, we have not from the beginning of our use of Google Drive been diligent about organizing it and now it’s a hot mess! Here are a few steps to help clean it up. Create a Hot Mess Folder Let’s start fresh!!! In your Google Drive create a folder and call it “Hot […]. The post Your Google Drive is a Hot Mess appeared first on Teacher Tech.
MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The more we try to exert control in the online classroom, the more stressful it can be for us and for students, writes author and literacy expert Jennifer Serravallo. Six shifts will give learners more ownership and flexibility, increase engagement, and boost learning.
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EmergingEdTech
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
After advocating for video as a tool in the flipped classroom for many years now, I feel like this guest post by Victor Blasco may seem a little redundant. But he covers a lot of ground here, and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
A September 2020 meta-analysis found that student achievement tended to improve after a school turnaround. But not always. In some cases, such as in North Carolina, pictured above, student achievement suffered after a turnaround effort. Credit: Photo by Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images. How do you fix a broken, failing school where student achievement, attendance and graduation rates are rock bottom?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Today as people took to streets in the United States and in several other places in all around the world to denounce racism and police brutality, a spark of optimism shines in the gloomy horizon, a.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Last spring, school districts rushed to transition to distance learning as quickly as possible to protect the health and safety of students, teachers and staff. Now, schools are reflecting on what worked, what didn’t, and how these learnings can be applied to prepare for safe and effective learning this fall. Related content: 7 steps to stellar online learning.
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.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
In education, one of the more bizarre debates of the past quarter century has been over whether more money improves students’ outcomes. It’s tough to think of anywhere else in American life where we’d even have that discussion. Yet a remarkable amount of attention has been devoted to the notion that it doesn’t, as well as to the equally dubious idea that more money is the answer to all our educational ills.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Timelines are key elements to use in your instruction. They allow you to visually organize data and draw attention to the most important pieces of information (e.g., dates, events, project milestones.
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Use the virtual world of Minecraft to help in education through online engagement, here's what every teacher should know.
Cycles of Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
As distance learning pushes on, I keep revising and refining my list of tools. Because "tools" in many ways, represent our primary means of interacting with our students, I feel a professional obligation to always share. I'm sure this list will change in like 2 freaking days, but whatever.I'll share again :) l 1. Zoom Yeah, Zoom Fatigue is a real thing, but like the great Ani Difranco says: "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right". 2.
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.
ScienceDaily (EdTech section)
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
An international team of researchers has now found that computerized training can support preterm children's academic success. In their randomized controlled study 'Fit for School', the researchers compared two learning apps.
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
How higher ed is finding success providing remote mental health support for students during the pandemic
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Last week, Cisco gave a preview of Webex Classrooms , a new platform that can help schools manage online and hybrid classrooms. The platform works hand in hand with Webex Meetings , Cisco’s videoconferencing service, and gives educators, students and parents a single secure place to connect online. With Webex Classrooms, teachers can schedule and launch their online classes, host virtual office hours and parent-teacher conferences, and organize classroom resources that students can easily ac
MindShift
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Sep 17, 7:00am CDT. I’m a Chicago principal overwhelmed by ‘what ifs.’ Here’s how I got unstuck. was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here. I’ve reached out to my network, created a self-care jar, and helped teachers reframe their narratives about the coming school year.
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N2Y
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
When working with students, I like to see movement in the room, whether it is the classroom, resource room, or speech therapy room. Using the Frayer Model allows for student movement while working! One of my preferred movement activities involves putting large sticky notes on a wall. Each represents one of the squares in the Frayer Model. The students make a notation on each.
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