Sat.Jan 24, 2015 - Fri.Jan 30, 2015

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What a Classroom Looks Like for Teachers and Students After Flipping

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'Flipping your classroom is not just about the videos. The flipped classroom really revolves around increased face-to-face interaction between students and teachers. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Strong Networks: The Backbone for Modern Learning

EdTech Magazine

'By Steve Zurier School districts recognize they need a solid network infrastructure to support ambitious plans for technology in the classroom. .

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Leading Schools of the Future

A Principal's Reflections

'Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. Advances in technology continue to impact society in amazing ways. The evolution of the Internet allows anyone with access the ability to communicate, collaborate, acquire information, and learn with anyone, at anytime, and from anywhere. Learners today have embraced this digital world and have begun to explore their passions in ways never imagined.

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Inside One District’s Virtual Snow Days

Digital Promise

'Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. “As educators, we always worry about summer dip,” Hall says, explaining how students tend to forget things over the long break. “With snow days in the past, we missed so much that students would come in and it would be almost like winter d

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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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Critical Skills Students need for the Future

Educational Technology Guy

'Two years ago, I wrote an article entitled " 10 Important Skills Students Need for the Future ". Basically, they need critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills. This weekend, I found this on Twitter. It shows that employers agree that these are the critical skills students need. Project Based Learning is a great way to develop these skills.

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Investors Find Fresh Opportunities in Coding Education

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Angel investors are giving CodeHS a chance to spread its programming wings to more schools.

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Personalized Learning Isn’t Enough. How Do We Create Learners?

Digital Promise

'We hear a lot about 'personalized learning' – the importance of reaching every student at their level, including their interests and passions, and giving them choices. This isn’t really a new concept. Teachers have been trying to do this forever, and the only difference is that we now have tools to do this more efficiently and effectively than we could before.

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What Does A Relevant, Connected Educator Look Like-Part 2

The Web20Classroom

'If you haven''t had a chance, check out Part One of this series. Last week we looked at the first four qualities that Tom Whitby and I layout in our book The Relevant Educator and believe all Relevant, Connected educators posses. Just to recap: Practices and Models Lifelong Learning -For educators, learning should never stop. Believes in Sharing and Collaboration -Alone we are smart but together we are brilliant.

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Google Joins Ed Tech Giants in Signing Student-Data Privacy Pledge

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith President Obama is taking student-data privacy seriously, and companies are taking notice.

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When they ask for creative, just not computer creative

Ditch That Textbook

'It hit me a couple days ago. It hit me on a day when things were going really well in all of my classes. I was finding new ways to give my students choice, from choosing vocabulary for their lists in Spanish class to helping pick activities for lesson plans that week. (Recently, I decided [.].

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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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Should We Use Digital Technology To 'Drill' Children?

The Journal

While computer technology can be used to drill information into students’ heads, we have to ask whether that is indeed an appropriate pedagogical strategy for the 21st century. We present an argument against drilling; join into the conversation, please!

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Evernote Tips and Tricks Series - #8 - Checklists

Educational Technology Guy

'I''m a huge fan and user of Evernote , and lots of people ask me for tips on using it, so I''m starting a series of blog posts on Evernote Tips and Tricks to share some great tips and ideas for using Evernote. Tip #8 - Checklists One of the nice features in Evernote that I use constantly is checklists. Checklists are great for to-do lists, shopping lists, project management and more.

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Busting Myths About WAN Optimization

EdTech Magazine

'By Joel Snyder Learn what performance, visibility and control can bring to networks. .

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Why Twitter Will Never Connect All Educators.

My Island View

'If there is one thing I truly understand about educators it is that they are slow to change. It might be from decades of people jumping in with the “latest and greatest” answer to a better way to do things in education, or some legislative mandate to fix it all through legislation, only to find it to fizzle out and fall way short when actually implemented.

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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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K12 Inc. Is Second Largest 'Gainer' on New York Stock Exchange

Marketplace K-12

'The Herndon, Va.-based online education company''s stock price jumped more than 30 percent on Thursday, representing a partial rebound from a major stock slide in 2014. For-Profit Education K12 Inc.

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Evernote Tips and Tricks Series - #9 - Searching your notes

Educational Technology Guy

'I''m a huge fan and user of Evernote , and lots of people ask me for tips on using it, so I''m starting a series of blog posts on Evernote Tips and Tricks to share some great tips and ideas for using Evernote. Tip #9 - Searching your Notes Evernote makes searching through your notes very easy and powerful. There are multiple ways to search in Evernote.

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#FlipClassFlashBlog 3: Late Work Policies

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'I allow my students to turn in work late. I don''t take points off, but I do have a conversation with the student about why the assignment is late. Sometimes I get a litany of excuses, but other times I learn about my students as people rather than scores in a gradebook. My students who choose to open up know that I care about their overall wellbeing.

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Edtech Tools Get Creative With Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

'How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don’t exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn''t present. Look at the most innovative technology we have today: iPhone, ChromeBook, Galaxy Note, iMac, or whatever your favorite tool might be.

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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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Hashtag How Tos - Figure, Configure, Follow, Find, + Find Others

The Innovative Educator

'When I speak with educators about the power of hashtags in social media, I get four questions. 1. How do I figure out which hashtag to use and set it up? 2. How do I know what people are saying? 3. How do I know what hashtag people are using if I want to find conversations about an area of interest? 4. How do I know who is using the hashtag? There's a few great sites to help you answer these questions.

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Suggestions for apps/extensions to Block on Chromebooks and Google Apps

Educational Technology Guy

'There are some apps and extensions that are better blocked in the Google Apps Admin Console to prevent some issues. Here is a list that I recommend blocking. In the Admin Console, go to Device Management > Chrome > User Settings and then Allowed Apps and Extensions. Select Allow All Apps and Extensions except the Ones I Block and then click Manage.

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Talking about the Weather

SpeechTechie

'Having just dealt with a tremendous blizzard, I am going to be a stereotypical New Englander and talk about the weather. Again. Weather is a topic that naturally lends itself to eliciting language in our students as well. Not only does this topic pop up repeatedly in science curricula across the grade levels, making it relevant to the Educationally Relevant "E" in The FIVES Criteria , but discussing it requires a number of language skills: Sequencing-seasons, processes Categorization-seasons, m

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Bloom is Brilliant

Iterating Toward Openness

'Rereading Ben Bloom’s 1968 “ Learning for Mastery ” I am once again impressed and humbled by his ability to cut straight to the absolute core of the issue. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard these points made more clearly or more persuasively. Absolutely inspiring. If students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for some subject (mathematics, science, literature, history, etc.) and all the students are provided with the same instruction (same in terms

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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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Struggling To Connect With Students? Let Them Get To Know You

The Innovative Educator

'Guest post by James Alan Sturtevant Teachers are often lectured, “Get to know your students!” That’s not easy to do! A lot of kids can be pretty closed down. And, if you try to get to know them before they’re ready…it can be counter productive. Bonding with students is fundamental to the learning process. John Hattie, in his landmark book “Visible Learning”, created a list of 138 influences on student learning.

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Edcamp comes to CT - twice this year! Join in, share, learn.

Educational Technology Guy

'Edcamps are the "unconference". They are free, attendee led and driven, places to share and learn. Edcamp is a great series of free, unconferences for educators. It is a great method of professional development, being run by teachers, for teachers. The Edcamp model is unique in that attendees set the agenda the morning of the conference and the sessions are not led by one person, but are rather a collaboration of both the facilitator and attendees.

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Protecting Students and Creating Teachable Moments

Gaggle Speaks

'A district-wide initiative to implement Microsoft Office 365 meant Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) needed a way for students to be safe using tools such as email, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Email messages, as well as content created and shared in OneDrive, now are integrated with Gaggle’s Safety Management for Office 365. MNPS is also able to assure that this technology initiative protects students from visual depictions that are obscene and child pornography as outlined in

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Get your FREE Google Classroom iPad App User Guides!

EdTechnocation.com

'Get your FREE user guide for the new Google Classroom iPad App! Google just released an Android & iOS app for Google Classroom. It''s not full featured (yet) so it''s important that teachers and students understand exactly what you can and can''t do with the app. I''ve created two separate user guides, one for teachers and the other for students.

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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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#Throwback Thursday - The Value of Using Cell Phones to Enhance Education + Some Concrete Ways to Do So

The Innovative Educator

'Today''s #ThrowbackThursday brings us to a post I wrote in 2008 about using cell phones for learning even if they are banned where you work. Little did I know back then, that this post would receive more than 20,000 views and also be the basis for my book, "Teaching Generation Text." At the time, it was considered rather scandalous (see this coverage in the local paper) that I was teaching teachers how to harness their cell phones for learning when schools across the city in which these teacher

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Flipped-Learning Toolkit: Getting Everybody On Board

Turning Learning On Its Head

'Edutopia.org published this video and article on their home page co-authored by Aaron & Jon. So you’re a parent, a student, or an administrator, and you just found out that a teacher in your school has flipped their class. What impact does that have on you? How should you respond? How can you support it? Where can you go for more information?

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5 Common Problems with School Websites

Gaggle Speaks

'Parents typically turn to a school or district website for important dates and other information, making your website extremely valuable when communicating with your community. Here are five common problems to always look for on your school or district website that could prevent you from making a great lasting impression. Misinformation. Parents use school websites as a source of information because it’s convenient.

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#FETC 2015 Recap

The Electric Educator

'I had the opportunity to attend the Future of Educational Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando Florida this past week. FETC is one of the largest EdTech conferences in the country with over 10,000 attendees from around the world. FETC is a HUGE conference with lots of big names and big ideas. Here are my top take-aways from the 2015 conference: 1.

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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.