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10 research-based insights on how the brain learns

Ditch That Textbook

I remember struggling with social studies classes in high school and college. The content fascinated me. I loved hearing the stories of conflicts and resolutions. Wars and strategies. Politics and leverage. Power and influence. Plus, I met my wife in a social studies class (Intro to Political Science) as a college freshman, and she’s now [.].

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What One Teacher Did When He Realized His Kids Weren’t Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

How an Award Winning Teacher Went from Failure to Fantastic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When he started teaching, high school Spanish teacher, Matt Miller had a dirty secret: His students couldn’t speak Spanis h. He didn’t want anyone to know. But he came to a breaking point. Learn what Matt did in a fit of frustration and the incredible results his students achieved.

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The Need to Refocus (Vigorously!) on Learning

More Verbs

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) was not designed to be primarily an equity of access to technology program (although that was part of it). And it wasn’t designed to be primarily a program by which students could develop technology skills (although that was part of it). MLTI was designed to be primarily a learning initiative. It was designed so that teachers could design lessons for their own content area that created powerful learning experiences for learners and leveraged

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Facebook Teams Up with California Charter Schools

EdTech Magazine

By Melissa Delaney Founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife, Priscilla Chan, tour the school and begin collaboration on personalized learning project.

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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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Engaging All Students in Problems Worth Solving

Digital Promise

Scott Kinney has nearly 25 years of experience in the fields of professional learning and educational technology, and currently serves as Discovery Education Senior Vice President of Educational Partnerships. One of my many high school memories is learning the Pythagorean Theorem. I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,̶

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3 Ways to Get Back Up When Teaching Knocks You Down

The CoolCatTeacher

Advice from a National Award Winning Teacher Who Has Had Tough Times Too From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. According to a recent Gallup poll, sixty-nine percent of teachers are not engaged in their work in the United States. Teachers are not emotionally engaged in the work. What can we do about it? National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb shares his views on how to engage more teachers in teaching.

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How Wearables and Virtual Reality are Finding a Place in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

By Jessica Leigh Brown Educators are discovering wearable devices that can transform surfaces into interactive media spaces.

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Five Steps to Powerful Virtual Coaching for Teachers

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

When you provide feedback to a teacher by coaching them virtually, new strategies come into play. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

Advice From a Student Assessment Researcher About What is Fair and Unfair in Today's Grading Systems From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far. Dr. Thomas Guskey shares the current research on “fair” grading and what teachers should be doing instead.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

Dr. John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success.

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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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20 locations to tour virtually with Google Maps Street View

Ditch That Textbook

Ever wish you could take your class to impressive landmarks around the country or world? Google Maps Street View makes many of those visits possible virtually — and for free. Street View is an immersive panoramic image experience through Google Maps. It lets you feel like you’re right on the street of many locations around [.].

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Engaging Students with Humor

Teacher Reboot Camp

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. – Dr. Seuss. April Fool’s Day is almost here! Spice up a lesson plan, activity or project with humor. Humor is a great way to ease the anxiety of learning and can make learning difficult or stressful topics engaging and fun. Below are our some free web tools and apps your students will enjoy using to enhance their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, while engaging with your topic o

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How Innovative Educators Plug into Global Ideas

The CoolCatTeacher

The Innovator's Mindset series with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. George Couros said he would argue to his death that Twitter was useless when he started with it. But, now he sees. Should every teacher be connecting online? How can we shift our way of thinking to get information that will really help us teach ?

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Revision Assistant–the Most Comprehensive Virtual Writing Assistant Available for Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

English teachers know the key to writing is rewriting, but getting students to do that has always been a challenge. That is, until I found Turnitin’s Revision Assistant. Revision Assistant makes rewriting easy to understand, self-directed, and believe it or not–more fun. In fact, it uses features from the gamified classroom to encourage students to maximize the strength of their writing ‘signals’ by revising and editing.

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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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Maximizing collaboration in the classroom

Neo LMS

Long gone are the days when, in a classroom setting, only teachers did the talking and students did the learning. While things did not flip entirely (although teachers could learn a thing or two from the younger generations), students today are encouraged to speak their minds about what they learn. Actually, students need talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives.

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Learnings from a Traumatic Professional Development Experience

The Journal

This week’s blog post is about how CN un-traumatized ES after his professional development "experience." Without CN, he presided over a 50-minute session on how to use our Collabrify Apps in the K-12 classroom, at a one-day professional development event at a regional high school. ES thought that telling teachers how to use technology in their classrooms was a '90s strategy — not a today's strategy.

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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Is a Versatile Powerhouse

EdTech Magazine

By John Breeden II Great processing power and handy tools for studying and sharing move this device to the head of the class.

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11 Easter Sites For Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s March 31st. Here are some websites your students will love: Easter color-me (for Kindergarten/first grade). Easter Color Me to print or import to drawing program. Easter games II.

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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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3 minutes: Redesigning lessons with trudacot [VIDEO]

Dangerously Irrelevant

I’m finally posting the video from my Redesigning lessons with trudacot presentation at ISTE last year. 3 minutes. Happy viewing! Want to learn more about the trudacot discussion protocol? No related posts.

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Engaging All Students in Problems Worth Solving

Digital Promise

Scott Kinney has nearly 25 years of experience in the fields of professional learning and educational technology, and currently serves as Discovery Education Senior Vice President of Educational Partnerships. One of my many high school memories is learning the Pythagorean Theorem. I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scri

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CoSN 2016: What You Need to Know Before the Show

EdTech Magazine

By D. Frank Smith Gearing up for CoSN 2016? Here's what to expect from one of the year's biggest education technology leadership events.

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Dear Otto: How do I teach vocabulary?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. . I discuss teaching vocabulary a lot on this blog. If you’re looking for specifics, try these posts: 50 Sites to Add Rigor and Authenticity to Word Study. 5 Sure-fire Ways to Teach Vocabulary.

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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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WHEN TEACHERS LACK AGENCY

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 11. Driving Question: When teachers lack agency, how do students get it? When talking with teachers in schools where they have the freedom to plan their lessons and projects so that students make many choices about what, how and when they learn, this driving question is unnecessary. When teachers have agency to make significant decisions about the learning in their classrooms, they "get it".

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Catching Up or Getting Ahead with Online Summer School Programs

FuelEd

Contributor: Amanda Cunningham Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 3:00pm Many young people experience learning losses when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer break. Typically, students lose about two months of grade-level equivalency in mathematical computation skills, and low-income students lose an additional two months in reading achievement—despite the fact that their middle-class peers make slight gains according to the National Summer Learning Association.

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Districts Expand Their Wi-Fi Footprints

EdTech Magazine

By Karen J. Bannan Wi-Fi becomes a necessity as more school districts log on for learning. .

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Free Videoconferencing Through EZTalk

Ask a Tech Teacher

Just a quick shout out for anyone looking for an easy and affordable way to try videoconferencing. The folks over at EZTalks are having an Easter special. You can find out more about it here.

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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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How Will You Measure The Success Of Personalized Learning

Education Elements

Many educators know Clayton Christensen for his work on Disrupting Class. Fewer may know his philosophical work, How Will You Measure Your Life ? I first encountered his ideas in an essay published in The Harvard Business Review in 2010. This essay was the result of a conversation Christensen had with his business school students at the conclusion of every semester.

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LRM Transforms Teaching & Learning [via Edvocate]

Fidelis Education

By Matthew Lynch via Edvocate. Behind every successful adult is at least one person who pushed him or her to greatness. If you ask some of the world’s highest achievers what motivated them to keep going, they usually mention a specific person who inspired them along the way – a parent, a teacher, a mentor, a coach. Think about the people in your own life who made a positive impact when you were young.

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Make Remote Meetings Feel Face-to-Face with Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e

EdTech Magazine

By John Breeden II This easy-to-use video conferencing unit delivers high quality at an affordable price. .

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STEM For One, STEM For All- Part II: Manor New Tech’s Results

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 9. Part I of this post (March 21) described the critical features that have made this P21 Exemplar School one of the best in the nation not only for serving a diverse population, but also for modeling what it takes to transform a school into a deeper learning model beneficial or all students. Today, MNTHS teacher, Janice Trinidad , describes the results of this innovative approach.

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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.