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Battling Against Traditional Perceptions of Teaching and Learning

Catlin Tucker

My goal with blended learning has always been to shift the focus from me to my students. I want to place them at the center of learning. I want them to ask questions, conduct research, engage in conversations, collaborate with peers, and make meaning for themselves. I believe this is the best way to prepare them for life. However, the truth is that. being a student in a student-centered classroom is hard & some kids just don't want to work that hard Click To Tweet I teach 9th and 10th grade,

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Jon Corippo @jcorippo talks about one of his favorite tools, Quizizz. He shares how you can use this tool to teach vocabulary and save time for other things! Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Chromebooks and G Suite: A Partnership Worth Exploring

EdTech Magazine

By Nathan Lang Schools are seeing positive results after pairing Google’s education platform with 1:1 Chromebook deployments.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. @ jackiegerstein and Barbara Bray @bbray27. Crossed posted at [link]. If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. If there is someone other than the teacher managing the makerspace or there is a schedule for the school, your kids may only be able to use it once a week or month.

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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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Personalized Learning Journey Begins with a Vision

Education Elements

Have you ever stopped and looked around your school, your classroom, and asked yourself: “How did this all happen? Where did it all begin? How did we get to this point? When did the transformation occur?”. In year one of being a personalized learning school, I have had many reflective moments like this at Trailside Middle School. I look back on what our classrooms looked like, sounded like, and felt like a few years ago - and the transformation is amazing.

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10 Summer Jobs For Teachers 2017

EdNews Daily

Summer is here. School is out. Looking for part time summer jobs for teachers or summer teacher employment? Please find 10 summer jobs for teachers in 2017 listed below. These companies are hiring now. You will also find a good variety of online summer jobs for teachers. 10 Summer Jobs For Teachers in 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware.

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The Vocabulary Doctors: How to Teach Vocabulary

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Dr. Kimberly Tyson and Dr. Angela Peery on episode 94 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Kimberly Tyson @ tysonkimberly and Dr. Angela Peery @ drangelapeery share their advice for helping students learn blended vocabulary. We’ll also be giving away of their book Blended Vocabulary for K12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital tools and Direct Instruction and you can enter by clicki

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Supporting the Full Life-Cycle for OER-Based Lessons is Critically Important

The Journal

In the "old" paper world, teachers had evolved a comfortable process for managing the life-cycle of a lesson; developing, distributing, enacting, assessing, reflecting, sharing. In this week’s blog post, we argue that in the "new" world of OER-based lessons, teachers again must be supported in managing the full life-cycle of a lesson.

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Teacher Input Essential to Startup Product Development

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

By getting a strong group of teachers to provide input on a startup product at the beginning, you create a group of future cheerleaders and super-users. The post Teacher Input Essential to Startup Product Development appeared first on Market Brief.

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ISTE 2017: 3 Things to Look Forward To

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Whether you are prepping for #ISTE17 or planning to be #NotAtISTE, here’s a rundown of some of the big conference happenings.

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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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16 Things They Don’t Tell You About Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Motivational Monday - episode 91 podcast and blog simul-post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You know, there are some things that I’d really like to tell you as a teacher, some things I wish that somebody had told me. 1. Teaching is Hard. The first thing that nobody ever really told me is just how hard it is to teach.

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There Can Be No Privacy without Security

Doug Levin

If there is an Achilles' heel to a future of robust personalized learning for all K-12 students, it is the uneven attention to the cybersecurity risks facing school information technology assets and data. In this post, I offer emerging lessons about real and perceived information security issues facing schools from the data underlying the K-12 Cyber Incident Map.

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5 Advantages of Online Professional Development for Teachers

EdNews Daily

The number of teachers who participate in online professional development is rising at a faster rate than any other time in history. Today, prospective teachers can take full online degrees for certification, whether it is to obtain a bachelor’s degree or a graduate degree. Practicing educators can take online professional development for various reasons.

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Windows 10 S Promises Efficiency and Fosters Learning Opportunities

EdTech Magazine

By Rob Dickson By creating more time for teachers to teach, the new operating system could provide great benefits.

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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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Why educators should consider scenario-based learning

Neo LMS

The e-learning landscape is a continuum of different instructional designs meant to adapt to individual student needs. This is where scenario-based learning comes in, where learners are immersed in real-life and situational scenarios that lets them gather skills and information. In other words, scenario-based learning is a just another face of learning by doing.

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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

Ask a Tech Teacher

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. Write an ebook. Genius Hour. Service Learning. 15 Digital Tools in 15 Days. Khan Academy.

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10 Companies Hiring Teachers Over the Summer

EdNews Daily

Summer is here. School is out. If you are a teacher looking for a summer gig, or unique ways to make extra money over your break, please find 10 companies hiring now. Some of these jobs are remote, too. You will also find a good variety specific for educators. These 10 companies are hiring teachers over the summer 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware.

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4 Unexpected Perks of a Cloud Migration

EdTech Magazine

By Joel Snyder Sure, the cloud can save districts money and speed application deployment, but there’s much more to gain from the cloud.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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An Australian Math Classroom with iPads

The CoolCatTeacher

A conversation with Tom Davidson in episode 93 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Tom Davidson @trdvo shares how he uses iPads in his math classes to teach. He’ll talk about Explain Everything, SeeSaw, Aurasma and his workflow with some sample lessons. If you’re using iPads or want to compare how math is being taught somewhere else, this is a wonderful classroom Wednesday that you don’t want to miss!

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What You Might Have Missed in May

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of May: Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin. 9 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences. ORIGO Stepping Stones 2.0–A Versatile, Easy-to-Use Math Program. 19 Ways Students Keep Learning Fresh Over the Summer. Studying for Finals: 5 Collaborative Online Methods to Try in Your Classroom. 2 Webtools You Can Learn This Summer to Differentiate Lesson Plans.

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QR codes on the streets of China

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thomas Friedman said: China has moved so fast into a cashless society, where everyone pays for everything with a mobile phone, that Chinese newspapers report beggars in major cities have started to place a printout of a QR code in their begging bowls so any passer-by can scan it and use mobile payment apps like Alibaba’s Alipay or Tencent’s WeChat Wallet to contribute to the beggar’s mobile payment account.

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Associate for Success

A Principal's Reflections

I cannot overstate the importance of trust in establishing the foundation for relationships. In addition to trust various other elements contribute to the growth and strengthening of relationships. One that might not readily come to mind is association. The act of associating with others can contribute to positive relationship building and is linked to the awareness of your own defined leadership persona.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Winston-Salem Innovation Literacy Project

Battelle for Kids

During the spring semester of 2017, as a part of EDU 377/677: Literacy in the 21st Century, a course offered through the Department of Education at Wake Forest University, a group of undergraduate and graduate students were tasked with attempting to define literacy in the 21st century.

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Maker Learning Research Webinar: Maker Empowerment

Digital Promise

For the last year, working groups focused on maker-centered learning and research in the League of Innovative Schools have joined forces to focus on the research behind the national wave of enthusiasm in maker learning. This working group’s first online meeting featured Dr. Kylie Peppler discussing the topic of creative learning opportunities and outcomes in maker learning environments.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

Ask a Tech Teacher

You’ve been teaching for five years and love what you’re doing. You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs first. Most of the teachers at your school have been there years — even decades — and you have no doubt that, too, will be you. So, you don’t bother to keep your resume up-to-date or expand your teaching skills other than what is required for your position.

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Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

Neo LMS

What schools can learn from a simple tailor. What does tailoring have to do with education? Nothing much would be an average answer, but I beg to differ. And the following story will make my case. You see, I grew up wearing almost only tailor-made clothes. They were unique, they fit me perfectly, and all my friends and classmates envied me for this.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 22 Edition)

Doug Levin

What privacy rights should K-12 students be entitled to when using school-owned/-leased devices, if any? What privacy rights should they have when that use happens at home? Are students entitled to different privacy rights when using the devices for personal reasons (in the cases where such use is allowed or encouraged)? Do students’ family members who […].

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Start the Facebook live broadcast. #Check. Get the app loaded to take audience questions. #Check. Start live-tweeting the discussion. #Check. Welcome your panelists and attendees to your SXSWedu panel. #Check. The best laid plans can fail when you overlook the simplest of details. As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and libr

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Teachers: Already planning next year? Here are 4 ideas

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are 4 Ways Teachers Can Better Prepare for the Next School Year , thanks to Kiddom , the online platform with a mission to make your lessons easier to plan, assess, and analyze: Put Time Back in Your School Day. Time is precious. As this school year ends, learn how to save time and plan effectively for next year with these four strategies using Kiddom.

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E-Safety: A free poster for your classroom / computer room

EdTech4Beginners

I recently made an e-safety poster using the Canva. You can find my tutorial explaining how to use this excellent tech tool HERE. Please feel free to print the poster – for the high resolution PDF file, click HERE. Tagged: child protection , e-safety , education , graphic , learning , online safety , poster , teaching , teaching resources.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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.