The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Make Writing Essays Easier My student cried when I showed her how to voice type in Google. Then, instead of 90 words in one class period, she typed 500. She edited it. She turned it in early. Tears of joy happen when the right tool is taught to the right student. Technology isn’t flashy The right technology makes lives better. Make writing well easier with these four writing tips.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2015
By Heather B. Hayes K–12 schools are building the robust, reliable infrastructure required to support cutting-edge STEM courses.
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Digital Promise
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise and Sandra is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. In a recent Digital Promise study , a majority of ed tech product developers told us their products are “research-based.” Yet, many school leaders are skeptical of these claims. It can be difficult to find details about research study findings in companies’ marketing materials, or to interpret how the developer applied these findings.
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 5, 2015
My background is in experiential education. One of the strategies used in experiential education is debriefing or reflecting on the experience. In other words, learning from direct experience is not left to chance. The educator becomes proactive in debriefing or processing the experiences to increase the chances that learning occurs. This is in line with John Dewey’s ideas: ‘ We do not learn from experience , we learn from reflecting on experience.’ A recent research study publ
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The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 9, 2015
The top 10 education tweets of the 2015 school year so far include lots of sketchtnotes. Sketchnotes! Educators love them. SAMR, growth mindset, new tools, blogging, and back to school were hot topics for my PLN. How encouraging it is to see educators taking the little time we have to reflect, learn, and challenge one another to be more. A big shout out to uber sketchnoter Sylvia Duckworth !
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2015
By Tommy Peterson Many K–12 educators remain enthusiastic about game-based learning despite a report that adoption has stalled.
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Brilliant or Insane
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. It started my first year of teaching, and although things have improved dramatically over the last two decades, I’ve never completely overcome Sunday night stress. I deal with it far more often than I’d like to, and I know that many of my teacher friends do too. One of them just happens to be my […]. The post Six Ways You Can Tame Sunday Night Stress appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 7, 2015
Every Classroom Matters Episode #177: Judy Fishel. Guilty. We tell students “be a good student.” “Study hard.” “Work hard.” But are we guilty of not telling them HOW to be a good student? WHAT study tips actually work? WHAT things do they do to be a “good” student without having to work so hard? . Important Takeaways.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2015
By Jacquelyn Bengfort Districts put portable technology through its paces, but ensure the long-term safety of their investments through smart policies and super strong protective components.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 7, 2015
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I need to take a screenshot with my Chromebook. Here’s the shortkey: Hold down the Ctrl key and press the Window Switcher key.
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.
Brilliant or Insane
OCTOBER 7, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. This year, I have the honor of joining a wildly talented bunch of educators as New York Educator Voice fellow. Driven by our collective desire to uncover and share promising practices that help all learners achieve high standards, New York Educator Voice fellows are also committed to sharing the stories of teachers who are pursuing […].
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 9, 2015
Every Classroom Matters episode 178 with John Spencer. Writing should be exciting. You can teach writing skills with powerful multimedia based prompts and ideas, a global audience, and easy to use tools. John Spencer has the data to show that kids write more using this method. Important Takeaways. How can reluctant writers get excited about writing?
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2015
By Calvin Hennick Develop an upgrade strategy by learning from districts that have already done it.
Ditch That Textbook
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Educators have a daunting task. It’s our job to help students prepare for a workforce that we can’t describe. Today, people have jobs that we couldn’t dream of several years ago. For example … managing social media for companies arranging work-from-home or telecommuting optimizing websites for search engines People all over the world are doing [.].
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.
The Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2015
On 28 October 2014, the W3C approved a standard version of HTML5, a programming language for the web. For K-12 at least, HTML5 is totally disruptive – in a GOOD way! Educational app developers can now write highly interactive apps that will run on virtually all end-user-oriented, computing devices, i.e., on all the crazy computers that kids bring into their BYOD classrooms.
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 9, 2015
A few shout-outs that this blog has gotten this year… Onalytica calculated Dangerously Irrelevant to be the 5th-most influential educational technology and e-learning blog in the world. EdTech magazine named Dangerously Irrelevant as one of its ‘must read’ K-12 IT blogs for 2015. Getting Smart included Dangerously Irrelevant as one of its 55+ ‘great blogs and blasts’ and also was kind enough to put me on its list of 50 people shaping the future of K-12 education.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2015
By Wylie Wong Districts look to follow ISTE’s 14 critical elements as guidelines to more effectively leverage technology for learning.
Ditch That Textbook
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Formative assessment can be drudgery. When students are doing the same quizzes and the same practice questions all day long, it can be less than stimulating. Or formative assessment can be fantastic. Teachers use formative assessments to get the pulse of the class, to see how students are progressing. When used correctly, formative assessments let [.].
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Battelle for Kids
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 11, Number 1. Driving Question: How can we make students feel like they have a voice? We recently heard a colleague ask, "How can we make students feel like they have a voice?" This is a great question. There is just one problem: the word "feel." It sounds like we want students to have the sensation that they have a voice, but not necessarily have one.
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 5, 2015
It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. Like library and textbook censorship, not only does blocking video services, social media, online interactive content, and other Web resources restrict students’ intellectual freedom, it also prohibits them from engaging in powerful conversations and learning opportunities (and, incid
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 5, 2015
By Steve Zurier School districts integrate technology with modern educational techniques.
Brilliant or Insane
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. The new Hacking Education audiobook has arrived, giving problem solving a voice. Now, you can hack learning while driving, jogging, walking your dog, waiting in a doctor’s office, or from the comforts of home. To win a free copy of the audio version of Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School, enter the sweepstakes below. […].
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.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Welcome to this second post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In the first post I provided some reflection on major ideas to support. In this post I wish to begin pointing out some tools and resources to help as an educator builds that students centered classroom. Remember that a classroom might be 1 to 1, or it may be using technology to leverage student centered learning.
The Jose Vilson
OCTOBER 4, 2015
39,000 feet above the ground, the chants still ring in my ear: What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? NOW! What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? NOW! We hit a rhythm right around here: If we don’t get it? SHUT IT DOWN! If we don’t get it? SHUT IT DOWN! If. We. Don’t. Get. It? SHUT! IT! DOWN! Indeed, with more than a dozen social justice advocacy groups from across the country co-hosting an event with the American Federation of Teachers in New Orleans, LA, one mig
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2015
By Tommy Peterson School districts share strategies for bringing games into the classroom.
Battelle for Kids
OCTOBER 7, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 11, Number 3. Driving Question: How do I enable students to make significant, authentic choices each day? Today's driving question is very different from yesterday's. Yesterday, I outlined how I build a classroom climate and structure lessons with evidence-based strategies that encourage students to make decisions about what and how they learn.
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.
TeacherCast
OCTOBER 9, 2015
The face of education is steadily changing. Where it was once restricted to only the classroom or the odd homeschooling instance, the classroom has officially expanded its borders and has not only entered the age of the internet, but has brought new opportunities to students who would have otherwise gone without or experienced substandard education in their area.
The Jose Vilson
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Remember that piece I wrote at the Progressive? Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz’ team decided to write a response. I didn’t expect it, but nonetheless, here’s my response on Medium. An excerpt: You can’t speak to agency if you’re trying to co-opt the parents of PS 307 in your argument for why we need more charters. You can’t speak to agency if you force parents and students to attend rallies under threat of, you guessed it, kicking them out.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2015
By D. Frank Smith VR is fast becoming a new way to expose students to career possibilities.
Battelle for Kids
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 11, Number 2. Driving Question: How do I develop and expand student voice and choice every day? " Sit down, shut up and get to work." I wince every time I hear those words and others like them. I winced when I was a student and I wince now when I walk through classrooms and see kids cower or fight back. Alone or strung together, these literal words or others that send the same message that "I make the choices around here.
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