Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Another school year has kicked off, and school officials will spend more than $13 billion on technology solutions that claim to work but often fail to generate the desired outcome. The question of whether or not something “works” in the abstract is very different from the question of whether it might work in your district. That’s because education research has historically paid little attention to the sort of implementation variables (such as teacher buy-in, planning time, data interoperability

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Keeping your classes engaged and motivated is a big achievement. However, not all teachers excel at this part. Most of them find it difficult to interact with their online classes in such a way as to boost students’ interest in the curriculum and topics discussed there. Motivation is one of the few reasons people might choose to do something. In e-learning settings, students need the motivation to meet their educational goals and to enjoy a complete e-learning experience.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Wed, 10/16/2019 - 16:36. One reality of the increasingly connected K–12 classroom is even the youngest students are routinely going online, using email and engaging with mobile apps that collect their information. But how do you teach a child as young as 5 how to safely navigate such technology?

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In my blog post titled “ 3 Ways to Build Student Agency into Your Lessons ,” I encouraged teachers to design lessons that allow students to make key decisions about their learning. Student agency is one of the easiest ways that teachers can begin to personalize learning. If students are invited to make decisions about the subject or topic they focus on, how they complete a task, or what they produce to demonstrate their learning, the learning path and products will be different for i

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 13, 2019

There are many factors that inhibit change. In some cases, comfort is the enemy of growth. We teach the way we were taught or lead the way we were led. Now I am not saying that this is bad per se, but the bottom line is whether or not the practice is effective. The same could be said for the status quo. Doing what we have always done might seem like a sound path forward if the results you are judged on are good or increasing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Thom Gibson on episode 575 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Thom Gibson has fun ways to greet students as he walks around campus. He shared them on Twitter recently and I started using some of them and it adds a whole element of fun and engagement while interacting with students. Learn about these ideas and become the kind of person that kids love to greet!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Coaches may be most often associated with the fields of athletics or business, but they are just as important in education. Coaches in any realm have the same goal—to improve performance and assist those they coach in reaching their full potential. In the school setting, coaches provide one-on-one support to help teachers tackle classroom challenges and identify strategies that best support their practices as well as student achievement.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2019

I received permission from my faculty colleagues and Dean this summer to launch a new Leadership for School Innovation (LSI) graduate certificate. I’ve done this twice before. In 2002 Joan Hughes (now at the University of Texas-Austin) and I received a large federal grant to create the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Jeromie Heath on episode 573 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Families want to engage in classrooms but as students get older, it can be challenging. In today’s episode, Jeromie Heath helps teachers understand how to engage families in the classroom in positive, proactive ways. Sponsored By Advancement Courses The holidays are just around the corner, and this is the perfect time to start planning your PD.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s been a couple of years since my tech teacher advice column “Dear Otto” got its first question about classroom digital assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa. At that time, no one had much experience with these devices so discussion was limited to anecdotal evidence and speculation. That has changed dramatically. Now, an estimated 20% of U.S. adults own about 100 million of these AI-powered speakers with close to fifteen percent of sales going to education.

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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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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Q&A: Amelia Vance’s Data Privacy Advice for K–12 Leaders? Focus on Human Error. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 10/18/2019 - 15:01. Daily news headlines chronicle the constant threat of data breaches targeting the nation’s K–12 schools. More than 670 schools have been targets of cyberattacks since 2016 , according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 15, 2019

[callout]This post is written by Jon Fortney, a fifth-grade teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You can connect with Jon on Twitter @FortneyTECH and check out his blog Fortneytech.com.[/callout] Writing sucks. That’s the essence of what so many kids express during writing time in school. In my experience, many children who could spend hours talking your […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Darrell "Coach D" Andrews on Episode 571 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Do you have that difficult student who seems to fight you each time you try to reach him? Coach D was that student. He tells a powerful story of a teacher who was a reacher in his life and changed his life with a two minute conversation in sixth grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. School has just gotten back into session so it seems like an odd time of year to talk about summer school, right?

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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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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Review: The Synology DiskStation 1019+ Offers Easier-to-Use Storage. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 10/14/2019 - 11:44. Schools often lack a full-time computer systems administrator, and keeping up with new versions of server operating systems such as Windows Server or Linux Server requires significant training. . A network-attached storage server like the Synology DiskStation DS1019+ touts easy-to-use storage minus the ongoing maintenance and administrative costs. .

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I was on a phone call with two principals earlier this week who shared a concern I hear often in working with school districts through large change management initiatives. Three years into their personalized learning journey, there are still at least a few teachers in their building who are resistant to the instructional shifts necessary to make learning personalized for each child.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

André Sasser on episode 574 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter “Room service” door hangers are one of the unique ideas that André Sasser shares on the show. From a Woot Wagon to more, André talks about little things that encourage her as a teacher. I also talk about the “fun committee” at my school and some ideas to build community and collegiality.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2019

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: Zoom In/Out of Websites. Category: Internet.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Review: Power Up with the Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop. eli.zimmerman_9856. Sat, 10/12/2019 - 15:44. When I told some of my middle school students I would be reviewing the Acer Predator Helios 300 , their eyes lit up. . They all agreed the laptop has a great reputation within the gaming community. . The Helios 300 is a gaming laptop designed to be not only affordable but also powerful enough to handle the rigors of a high school esports program. .

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Classroom walls are thick. It’s all too common for students to feel disconnected from the real world beyond school. That’s why 12 school districts from the League of Innovative Schools have been collaborating since the spring of 2018 to research and develop a set of tools that catalyze and support Real World Learning. Here’s a look at the way these research-backed materials can engage students in authentic and relevant problems, projects, and experiences that develop career awareness and readine

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Writing sucks. That’s the essence of what so many kids express during writing time in school. In my experience, many children who could spend hours talking your ear off all of a sudden have nothing to say when asked to put their ideas in a journal- regardless of if a prompt is given or not. […].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a kid, I used to sneak into my sister’s bedroom, pull out each of her “Baby-Sitters Club” books, look at the covers, and wonder what each one was about. I’d make up stories to what I thought was going to happen, but never once cracked the books open to attempt to read the print. Everyone in my family was an avid reader, so I wanted to be a reader, too.

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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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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 12, 2019

I recently returned from a trip to Billund, Denmark. To many, a trip to Denmark is one of a lifetime. For me it was especially so as Billund is the home of LEGO. From the time I was a kid I have been surrounded by legos. I could spend hours upon hours building my own utopian town, a scene from the old west, a spaceship or something else entirely. Even in my adult life I am still surrounded by these magical bricks.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. By Kenna McHugh. Jay Goyal, the CEO and Co-Founder of Actively Learn, began his journey to EdTech after graduating from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics. He worked in business development before being selected, at the age of 22, as part of the team that led to the development of federalization of airport security after 9/11.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Books are amazing. They transport students to a different time and place. They boost vocabulary and improve achievement. Book reports, however, can be a drag. They can suck the fun out of reading. They can turn it into a chore. There has to be a better way, right? Use technology to your advantage!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In 2016, I was teaching third grade. One of our initiatives was to include STEM activities in our science lessons. I began with a simple project designing balloon-powered cars, but what started as a promising process quickly went south. Balloons weren’t inflating and cars weren’t moving. After looking around at my students, I realized the main reason they were struggling was that they simply weren’t working together as teams.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Project-Based Learning Spectrum: 25 Questions To Guide Your PBL Planning by Terry Heick I’ve been thinking of the kinds of questions I consider when planning a project–or planning a unit when students plan a project on their own. There’s a lot to consider here–so much so that 12 isn’t even close to enough, but […]. The post A Project-Based Learning Spectrum: 25 Questions To Guide Your PBL Planning appeared first on TeachThought.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

By Cynthia Wise, Ed.D. Upon completion of my Fellowship with the Bellwether Education Partners/Texas Education Agency, my CCC Model was codified. I accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of East Texas Advanced Academy (ETAA) in partnership with a school district in East Texas where I served as principal at a middle and elementary school simultaneously.

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Ditch That Textbook

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Books are amazing. They transport students to a different time and place. They boost vocabulary and improve achievement. Book reports, however, can be a drag. They can suck the fun out of reading. They can turn it into a chore. There has to be a better way, right? Use technology to your advantage! Here are […]. The post Better book reports: 10 techy alternatives appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. The district loaded up on engaging tools to help teachers and students connect and collaborate—TVs in classrooms, whiteboarding devices, and wireless HDMI to name a few. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration?

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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.

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