Catlin Tucker
OCTOBER 22, 2017
On Sunday, October 8th I went to bed early. I had been waking up between 4-5 AM all week to do work for my doctoral program. We had also hosted my husband’s family for the weekend, and I was exhausted. Normally, we go to be at 11 PM, but that evening I crawled under the covers at 9:30 PM. It was a warm and windy night. I could hear the wind whistling through the trees outside my window.
A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 22, 2017
As a principal, the buck stopped with me. I was reminded of this by numerous superintendents during my tenure as a school leader. However, when we began moving forward with our digital transformation one particular superintendent asked me point blank what evidence I had that actually supported our claims that new equated to better. This not only stopped me in my tracks, but that moment in time provided the grounding that my school and I really needed.
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 24, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez New research indicates exactly when students lose interest in tests.
The Journal
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Educators typically have mixed views on their school’s IT staff — to put it mildly. In order to better understand IT staff’s priorities, responsibilities and resources, we lunched with them recently. Our eyes were opened by those conversations!
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The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Barbara Bray on episode 174 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Barbara Bray talks about personalizing learning in the classroom. She teaches us strategies and helps us think about how to make our classrooms better. (Note: There were so many great quotes in this show, I’ve made some graphics for you to share.
Teacher Reboot Camp
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. Noah and I sat down at the Friendly Place in San Antonio a few years back and he began to passionately explain and sketch out his digital badging ideas for an entire district.
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Doug Levin
OCTOBER 23, 2017
As quoted in: Hobbs, Tawnell D. “ Hackers Target Nation’s Schools.” Wall Street Journal. 23 October 2017. Cyber experts say schools need to be proactive in the rush to go digital, such as having antivirus software up-to-date, backup files, and providing computer security training. “We’re rushing to connect everything while we know that even for the most sophisticated technology companies in the world that they’re vulnerable, and schools don’t have a chance in that context,” said Douglas A.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Dr. Rebecca Klemm on episode 175 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Rebecca Klemm @ numbersalive shares how to help numbers come alive for all ages. From toddler to teenager to Ph.D., Rebecca informs us about the building blocks that build math success. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answe
Teacher Reboot Camp
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Our learners become citizens of the digital world as toddlers or younger. They create digital avatars and profiles as part of their membership to online games or online communities. Sometimes their parents create their online profiles for them or the children create profiles for their dolls or toys. These profiles and memberships come with responsibilities, which are often outlined in small print in the Terms of Service few read or consider.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 25, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A combination of grants and donations will support computer science education for underserved students.
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.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended learning and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that teachers and leaders from around the country were deploying on the ground.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Randy Zeigenfuss on episode 178 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Superintendent Randy Ziegenfuss talks about secrets of transformational district leadership. Encouraging innovation. The role of principals. The mistakes many districts make in transformational change. The importance of the district team.
Teacher Reboot Camp
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Getting students to care about seeking and spreading the truth is one of the key topics in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions. How do we motivate our students to spend a few extra minutes evaluating all the information they consume with a critical eye? Annotation is the key to helping learners evaluate what they read online.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 26, 2017
By Amanda Murphy UDL provides multiple paths to student success.
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.
EdTech4Beginners
OCTOBER 23, 2017
My school have painted some of the walls with ‘whiteboard paint’ The children absolutely love it and it is fantastic for collaborative learning. Here’s my class writing some poetry: Contemporary room design enabled Mr Jarrett to support these Yr6 students to explore their performance poetry ideas together #BeAmbitious pic.twitter.com/L2xkdWjuFg. — BISS Puxi (@BISSPuxi) September 7, 2017.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Tom Rademacher on episode 179 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tom Rademacher, author of It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and slightly unprofessional) Book About Teaching , shares why teachers should tell their story. (And how they can do it without losing their job.).
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Assessment. Evaluation. Judgement. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” 1. …very little of the work we give students in school provides them with a sense that they are making a contribution to anything other than their own educational progress toward graduation.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Here are ten of the most-visited image-use tips on Ask a Tech Teacher: 10 Tips About Using Images in the Classroom You Don’t Want to Miss. Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts. Photos For Class–Robust, Student-safe with built in citations. Quick Search for Plagiarized Images. 5 Image Apps for your Classroom. My Picture’s a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG.
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Neo LMS
OCTOBER 26, 2017
A major buzzword over the last few years, digital storytelling has emerged as a new way to communicate, specifically to communicate personal stories. It is defined by its use of computer-based technology to enhance the old art of storytelling. Typically digital storytelling is not associated with media such as Hollywood movies, as it is characterized as a personal expression, rather than a commercial exercise.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Vickie Morgado on episode 177 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Vickie Morgado from Canada has her third graders connecting with the world! Learn about global Kahoots, how she tweets with her class and more global collaborative techniques in this show. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam can save you time!
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
OCTOBER 24, 2017
When I started Listenwise, I was part of a business accelerator called Learn Launch. Its focus is to help education technology companies get their businesses off the ground. We had many classes and mentors who helped us understand the market. One thing stood out to me – the education market is seasonal. I thought this… The post School Takes Vacation in the Summer, But It’s a Busy Time for Ed-Tech Startups appeared first on Market Brief.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps: Projects. ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset). Lesson Plan: Halloween letter for grades 2-5.
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.
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Elementary school classrooms do not naturally lend themselves to a flipped or blended environment for a number of reasons. Firstly, there is the trending topic of screen time among young users. There is a growing awareness that although young children gravitate towards screens (who hasn’t received a sweet, yet garbled, text message from their toddler playing on their partner’s phone?
Doug Levin
OCTOBER 23, 2017
As quoted in: Hobbs, Tawnell D. “ Hackers Target Nation’s Schools.” Wall Street Journal. 23 October 2017. Cyber experts say schools need to be proactive in the rush to go digital, such as having antivirus software up-to-date, backup files, and providing computer security training. “We’re rushing to connect everything while we know that even for the most sophisticated technology companies in the world that they’re vulnerable, and schools don’t have a chance in that context,” said Douglas A.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The time to plan for 2018 funding is now. Here’s how you can get started.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 24, 2017
In my school, every teacher assesses writing. Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. I remind students of the five-paragraph essay, synonyms, plan-revise-edit-rewrite, persuasive essays, letter writing, or whatever fits the day’s lesson.
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.
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 22, 2017
I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on design thinking for educators at the New Mexico Association for the Gifted Fall Institute. Here is a round-up of what we did. Warm Up: Instant Challenge. Participants were asked to warm-up for the session with a challenge from the Destination Imagination Instant Challenge App. Instant Challenges are fun, STEAM-based group activities that must be solved within a short period of time.
Doug Levin
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Loyal readers may notice that the weekly round-up of news stories and commentary – A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News – has been on a hiatus for a few weeks. I’ve turned my attention to a new (and eye-opening) research project , which is being released in parts. You can follow along here or wait for announcements of its completion.
Education Elements
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Yes, I said it in my title. Life-changing. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little. But as a former teacher, I met too many students who “hated (insert any subject here)” because they thought their textbook, worksheet, or homework material was boring, too difficult, or did not make sense to them. I also met too many fellow teachers who thought their curriculum was simply their textbooks (which they often didn’t like), and no more.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 25, 2017
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: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration?
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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