Wed.Dec 15, 2021

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Holiday Activities To Keep the Learning Going

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. I’ve been there often. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school.

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Holograms Add Depth to Remote Classes

EdTech Magazine

“Hologram” has become a catch-all term for several types of 3D images, from the centuries-old Pepper’s Ghost technique that brought Tupac Shakur to the Coachella music festival in 2012 to even newer representations that boast lifelike interactivity. Technically, they’re not all holograms, according to Paul Christie, founder and CEO of Liti Holographics.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas that align with standards and learning objectives. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject.

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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

Edsurge

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. On Wednesday, Kahoot expanded its reach even further, launching a product designed specifically for children 2 through 7. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot!

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Problem-Based Learning: Strategies for Forming Effective Learning Behaviors

EmergingEdTech

Problem-based learning starts with a question; a real-life question. It’s an educational method that seeks to engage people in what they’re learning. It also seeks to increase the retention of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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5 strategies to build better information literacy in students

eSchool News

We live in the age of information. Thanks to the internet, we now have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Just think about it: Cooking, philosophy, engineering, literature–anything you could possibly imagine can likely be found using a simple Google search. It’s pretty astounding when you take the time to consider it. Of course, many of us have learned the hard way that not everything you find online is reliable or true.

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5 lesson planning resources for educators

eSchool News

Teachers’ jobs are about much more than teaching in the classroom or online. Finding the right learning resources for students is critical–and that’s where the right lesson planning tool can be invaluable. Customized resources, small group activities, and resource organization are all made a bit easier with a little help from lesson planning tools, leaving teachers to spend more active time teaching, giving real-time feedback, and supporting students on an individual basis.

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Cool Toys For Girls in 2021

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents What To Look For In Bean Bag Covers Best Traditional Bean Bag Cover For Kids Room: Kisoy Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Bean Bag Cover For Oversized Bean Bag Chairs: Wudaxian Bean Bag Chair Giant Foam Cover Best Bean Bag Cover Styles For Kids: Wekapo Stuffed Animal Storage Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Bean Bag Chairs Cover For Storage: Luckboy Kids Stuffed Animal Storage Bean Bag Cover Beast Bean Bag Cover For Unicorn Fans: Icosy Kids Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Sled Shaped Bean Bag Cov

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Self-Care for Kids Has Diverse Cultural Roots

MiddleWeb

As we encourage self-care it might not occur to educators that the concept is culturally driven and diverse. ELL teacher Dina Strasser shares resources that can help “decolonize” self-care by recognizing our students’ many differing cultural perspectives on healing and health. The post Self-Care for Kids Has Diverse Cultural Roots first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Learning Through Primary Source Digitization

techlearning

Providing access to a primary source that has been digitized can help transform learning for students

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Lego Dragon Sets – The Best In 2021 For Children

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents What To Look For In Bean Bag Covers Best Traditional Bean Bag Cover For Kids Room: Kisoy Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Bean Bag Cover For Oversized Bean Bag Chairs: Wudaxian Bean Bag Chair Giant Foam Cover Best Bean Bag Cover Styles For Kids: Wekapo Stuffed Animal Storage Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Bean Bag Chairs Cover For Storage: Luckboy Kids Stuffed Animal Storage Bean Bag Cover Beast Bean Bag Cover For Unicorn Fans: Icosy Kids Bean Bag Chair Cover Best Sled Shaped Bean Bag Cov

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K-12 Dealmaking: PresenceLearning Acquires Virtual School Teletherapy Provider; Byju’s Snaps Up Interactive Math Tool

Marketplace K-12

Presence Learning, which delivers teletherapy and software to K-12 special education and mental health providers, has acquired a virtual school teletherapy provider, Global Teletherapy. The post K-12 Dealmaking: PresenceLearning Acquires Virtual School Teletherapy Provider; Byju’s Snaps Up Interactive Math Tool appeared first on Market Brief.

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Fair, accurate, specific, and timely: FAST grading can be fast

Turnitin

?Feedback loops personalize learning and help students monitor their own progress. EdTech tools help uphold feedback while saving time.

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In the shadows: The orphans Covid left behind

The Hechinger Report

Tré never stopped praying. Even when the virus ravaged his sweet mother’s lungs in a matter of days this summer. Or when her casket was lowered into the soil three weeks after her 50th birthday. He never lost what Cindy Dawkins taught her four babies to hold tightest to: the belief that all things work together for good. This story also appeared in Vanity Fair.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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OPINION: Our child care industry is in free fall, and that’s bad news for all children

The Hechinger Report

Democrats are hoping to bring President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to the floor of the Senate before the end of this year. Its fate hangs in the balance. Some of the bill’s major elements are for child care, including funding for universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds and to increase the accessibility of affordable, high-quality child care for all families.

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