Sat.Jan 31, 2015 - Fri.Feb 06, 2015

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TCEA 2015: Bill Nye Says Science Teachers Must Foster the Next ‘Greatest Generation’

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith After outlining the perils of climate change, Nye turned to science educators for help in inspiring the next great thinkers.

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Five Tips for Ed-Tech Startups Entering Business Plan Competitions

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'Spring is a popular time of year for education business plan competitions. Here''s some advice on how to give your ed-tech startup a chance at the prize. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Getting Digital Tools On Your Side: 4 Steps

A Principal's Reflections

'This is the second post as part of an adapted article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools A few weeks back I shared ways that digital tools can improve teaching and learning. It goes without saying that the most important aspect of digital leadership is enhancing student learning while increasing achievement. Technology needs to be integrated with purpose in ways that support learning as opposed to driving instruction.

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Favorite Chrome Extension for Writing: Grammarly

Catlin Tucker

'Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Just in time for summer reading! Editing your own work is one of the biggest challenges that any writer faces. It’s exponentially more challenging to identify and correct your own grammatical mistakes.

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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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TCEA 2015: 7 Twitter Tips to Help Teachers Become Tweeting Pros

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Teachers new to Twitter had a lot to learn in this TCEA 2015 session. .

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Making Teacher Professional Development Decisions Based on Program Effectiveness

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'If the professional development experienced by teachers simply exposes teachers to new concepts that are never implemented, time and money is being squandered. Push for hard data on the impact of professional development programs. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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The factory model of schooling undermines teacher nurturing

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Don Berg said: I suspect that most teachers are nurturing, or at least want to be, and that they already make a meaningful difference in the lives of some small proportion of their students despite the nature of the system. But as wonderful as that is, the system has no mechanism for supporting, let alone encouraging, individual nurturing behaviors.

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Q&A: Rhode Island Head of School's ‘Frozen’ Success

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith We speak with the star of a YouTube parody video of Disney’s Frozen about making official school announcements fun.

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Questions to Ask Oneself While Designing Learning Activities

User Generated Education

'I absolutely love planning lessons from scratch. I just got a job teaching technology units for a summer camp for elementary age students. I can design and teach whatever I want – planning for a different theme each week. Some of the themes I am planning are: Expanding and Showing Your Personal Interests Through Blogging, Photos, and Videos; Coding and Creating Online Games; Tinkering and Making – Simple Robotics; Hacking Your Notebook; and Creating Online Comics, Newspapers, and M

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19 Valentine Sites For Your Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Here are some fun Valentine sites to fill those few minutes betwixt and between lessons, projects, bathroom breaks, lunch, and everything else: Dress up the heart. ‘I love you’ in languages Afrikaans to Zulu. Line up the hearts. More heart writing. Valentine Day games and stories. Valentine Day poem generator. Valentine drag-and-drop. Valentine match.

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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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Five Learning Strategies that Work

Digital Promise

'As the amount of information available to us grows each day, many people turn to “curated” websites to find news and ideas that are are most relevant to them. The education research and cognitive science fields are no different. Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most

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TCEA 2015: How to Inspire a Love of Big Data

EdTech Magazine

'By Brad Sowell As Big Data becomes a more important part of our world, how can we get students excited about analyzing data?

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Update: School Visibility Initiative

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Earlier this week I announced our School Visibility Initiative. Challenges for Week 2 (February 9 – 15) have been sent out and, as of this morning, we have 35 different school organizations participating from 14 different states and countries. Awesome! We are asking participants to send us URLs of their success meeting the challenges so hopefully we’ll have some to share soon… Want to learn more (and maybe sign up)?

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6 Tips I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging

Ask a Tech Teacher

'I’ve been blogging for about six years, some professionally (for my tech ed career) and others on topics of interest to me (writing, USNA, that sort). That first post–putting myself on the line, ignoring that I had no hits, wanting to approve comments from spammers because that would look like someone loved me–I thought that was the hard part.

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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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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

'Piedmont City School District is located in a small rural town in northeast Alabama. Even though it’s emerged as a national model for 21st-century rural education , it’s still difficult for a district like Piedmont to navigate the growing and expansive ed-tech marketplace. So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there.

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TCEA 2015: Top Tweets, Pics and Videos

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith In case you missed it, these social media highlights give a taste of the action for this week’s convention in Austin, Texas.

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Refusing to let children practice agriculture because it might weaken their hunting skills

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Doug Johnson said: If at the end of the last ice age the natives of Minnesota had refused to let their children practice agriculture because it might weaken their hunting skills (although the animals were moving north and it was easier staying fed growing corn), would they have been doing them a service? As information becomes ubiquitous, learning becomes self-motivated, and post-literacy becomes the norm, are we doing our students a service by keeping them from using the tools of the technolog

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#51: History Trifold in Publisher–Grades 4-7

Ask a Tech Teacher

'This lesson is a crowd pleaser. Students create a timeline showing what was happening around the world while they lived their lives. I’ve found this generates lots of discussion between students and their parents as they try to understand what the world events were. Click on each page of lesson plan. Lesson Plans. Click for more lesson plans with timelines.

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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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After visiting classes, 5 reflections on the life of my students

Ditch That Textbook

'I’ve been a teacher for nearly 11 years now. It’s been more than 15 years since I’ve been a high school student — moving from class to class, trying not to arrive late, doing my best to let several diverse subjects sink into my brain in one day. Yesterday, I got a great opportunity. For [.].

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TCEA 2015: Lessons in Samsung School’s Classroom Collaboration Tech

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Samsung''s answer to unifying tablets with the classroom experience continues to impress.

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Oblivious to organizations, systems, and high quality leadership

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Leslie Wilson said: On one hand, [school administrators] have entered this century keen on improving non-performing schools, knowing the moral imperative of students’ using technologies, personalizing learning, and seeking to comply with state and federal mandates. What amazes me is that at the same time they ‘lead’ as though they are oblivious to current research and best practices regarding organizations, systems, and high quality leadership.

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Subscribers: Your February Special is Available

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: 18+ webinars on tech ed pedagogy. FREE. with coupon code FREEWEBINARS. Topics include: 6 Topics to teach every lesson. 8 Tools that are going away (from the classroom). Assessment. Class exit tickets. Class warm-ups. Differentiation—general.

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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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Learning In The Heart Of Texas With #TCEA15

The Web20Classroom

'This past week I spent some time with some fabulous educators gathered from in and around Texas at the 2015 TCEA Convention. This was my first time attending and my first time in Austin and I had a wonderful time learning, sharing and reflecting at this first-rate, mega-sized conference. While I had 3 Featured sessions my mantra for the week was all about sharing.

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TCEA 2015: How One District Showed Skeptics the Power of 1:1

EdTech Magazine

'By Brad Sowell How to get approval from your school board to start a one-to-one program.

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Hiding data from the public

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Mercedes Schneider said: I think that any time you have a situation where information is as tightly controlled as it is by education officials in Louisiana, that should raise a real red flag. If you can’t find data that hasn’t been massaged or indexed or changed to the point where it no longer means much, that’s a red flag that there’s something going on that officials don’t want us to know.

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Modernizing the School Counselor

Ask a Tech Teacher

'When the first school guidance counselors (update: thanks to those in the profession who took the time to educate me on their title) emerged in the late 1800’s, they were almost exclusively vocational counselors, their purpose to assist students in transitioning from an educational environment to a productive piece of society. Quickly, this morphed to helping students determine the career path best-suited for their innate abilities, interests, and skills.

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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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ExamTime - free online learning tools

Educational Technology Guy

'ExamTime is a free set of learning tools that allow students to generate their own learning resources. Students can create, discover and share mind maps, quizzes, notes, flashcards and more online with others. There is also an calendar to plan and get organized and they can monitor their progress over time using their own learning resources. The notes feature is really nice, allowing text and images and making it easy for students to take notes.

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TCEA 2015: A Nontraditional 1:1 Chromebook Rollout

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith A Texas school’s new policy keeps the new notebooks at school.

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Stepping Toward Personalized Learning and a Lesson on Walls… plus a Free Webinar

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

'I want to take a break from my Over 70 STEM Resource Series to have a conversation on Personalized Learning and its relationship to the Walls of education. Please take a moment to read and reflect on my ideas of what Personalized Learning might be and realize that there may be other translations. I also would like to invite you to a free ISTE OLN Webinar on Personalized Learning with Andrew Miller.

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What’s Groundhog Day??

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Watch this Youtube and come away in the know: Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of dozens of tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and dozens of books on how to integrate technology into education. She is webmaster for six blogs, CSG Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers , CAEP reviewer

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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.