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Why Twitter Chats Matter

The Web20Classroom

'As a co-founder of #edchat and a life-long learner I''ve had the opportunity to be a part of 100''s of Twitter chats over the past 5 years. From the beginning of #edchat when it was just a few people chatting to now state and specialized chats that get 100''s of people following, these chats matter. But why? Meeting New People -Social media is called that for a reason.

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Free resource from Discovery Education about Manufacturing

Educational Technology Guy

'Discovery Education has a new free resource: Manufacture Your Future, which has free STEM lessons and resources for grades 6-12 related to manufacturing. This is an excellent resource. Manufacturing is a great career and there are a lot of openings in the field. Manufacture Your Future: New Online Portal Offers Free, Dynamic STEM Lessons and Resources Discovery Education and Alcoa Foundation are excited to introduce Manufacture Your Future , a new, online destination designed to inspire student

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#10PercentLess

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

'What does it mean to be ‘Locked Out’ and to be paid 10% less? “Effective May 26, 2014, and continuing until further notice, your members will be locked out as described in this letter,” Michael Marchbank, public administrator for the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association, said in a letter to teachers’ federation president Jim Iker. …BCPSEA, the bargaining agent for the province’s 60 school boards, also said it would dock teachers’ pay by 5 per cent as of Monday over

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Film & the Back Channel

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'My classes are wrapping up the year reading Shakespeare''s Romeo and Juliet which includes viewing the 1968 Zeffirelli film version. While the acting leaves much to be desired, there is merit in showing this version because it provides students with a view of the time period and it is used in various critical thinking activities. We compare and contrast the cinematography of Zeffirelli''s R&J (1968) with West Side Story (1961) in the opening brawl sequence--there really is no comparison, WS

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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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Coding with Kindergartners

My Paperless Classroom

'Last year at this time, I was trying not to think about Kindergarteners. I was still teaching 9th grade English and I had just accepted a job teaching technology to K-5. I was excited about the challenge, and I knew I had bitten off more than I could chew. As I was developing the tech curriculum, I had the challenge of teaching programming or at least computational thinking at each grade level K-5.

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Turning Your Classrooms from Places to Control Students to Places to Engage Them in Learning

The 21st Century Principal

'“For the first time in the history of education, the teacher, the student, and the content do not need to be in the same place at the same time.” Ian Jukes, Windows on the Future How we handle the details of designing our “learning spaces” ultimately determines what happens in our classrooms. As Jukes points out, for the first time in history students and teachers do not even have to be in the same place when learning.

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Why innovative educators should look down upon "Look Up"

The Innovative Educator

'If you know and love the power of social media, then someone who doesn't get it may have sent you the "Look Up" video below. Video creator Gary Turk is a privileged white guy who features his privileged circle of buddies using the social media platform YouTube to whine that social media is making them feel lonely. Boohoo Gary and friends.

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Why General Studies Matters in a Yeshiva and Why it Needs to Rock

Saving Socrates

'You would think this has already been said many times over. You''re right, I know that. I''m sure anyone who has seriously thought about it knows general studies matter. You might be of the argument its needed for students to be able to get jobs when they graduate or you might argue it''s the Torah ideal. Whatever the reasons, it''s necessary. I''m just arguing they matter more than most people realize.

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NC State Senate at It Again: Continuing Their Dismantling of Public Education

The 21st Century Principal

'One thing is for certain, when our current North Carolina Legislature is in session, they are looking for ways to cut public education. Yesterday, it became apparent that our North Carolina State Senate has decided that they want to give teachers big pay raises, but on two conditions: 1) Teachers must give up their tenure voluntarily. 2) Teachers in the lower grades must give up having teacher assistants in their classrooms.

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Experiential learning

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 7 in my blog series on major learning theories. My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. In the last post we examined the work of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi on Flow Theory. In this post, we explore the work of John Dewey on experiential and interactive learning.

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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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Stepping Toward Sensible, Valid Teacher Evaluations

The Innovative Educator

'I was recently interviewed for BAM Radio''s Rae Pica along James Popham who wrote, “ Everything School Leaders Should Know about Assessment. ” In this show we look at formative and summative teacher evaluations and discuss what teachers can do to support more valid and effective assessments. I talk about how teacher effectiveness gives teachers the opportunity to know only toot their own horn, but also toot the horns of their students.

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Science Interactives

MSEDTechie

'TCEA has listed these Amazing Science Interactives If there''s any subject area that can benefit from powerful Web 2.0 tools and interactives, it''s science. These hands-on resources can help your students better understand a complex topic or extend their learning. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel shows students the true size of our solar system. Scrolling (forever) gives us a taste of the vastness of space in this accurate portrait.

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NC State Superintendent Responds to Anti-Public Education Budget of NC Senate

The 21st Century Principal

'I n her response to the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal which continues the anti-public education agenda of this current state legislature, North Carolina State Superintendent, June Atkinson, pointed out these additional, hidden gems in that budget: Administrator salaries have been separated from the teacher salary schedules and no change from last years salaries.

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Deeper learning

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 5 in my blog series on major learning theories. My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. In the last post we examined the work of Jerome Bruner on scaffolding. In this post, we explore the work of Craik and Lockhart on levels of processing.

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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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The hottest posts everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Erase Unnecessary Costs by Getting Smart.

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Canva- a great resource for flyers, strategy cards or other therapy visuals!

SpeechTechie

'A number of great webtools have become defunct in recent months (bye, xtranormal, and see ya, Kerpoof, sniff sniff), so it''s great to see that useful websites are still being developed. Canva premiered in the past year as a tool to make design accessible to everyone. Canva is free (some backgrounds or stock photo options available at cost) and a super-easy way to make a snazzy visual: a flyer for your services, event, or practice news, an appealing reminder to use a particular language strateg

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Texas Advertising for Teachers in NC: Perhaps NC Should Advertise in Texas Too

The 21st Century Principal

'Recently, the Houston School District in Texas decided to take advantage of how teachers in our state are being treated by a legislature that has no interest in supporting public education. Here’s their ad: Perhaps we should run an ad in Houston, but it wouldn’t look like this one. Here’s what our ad might look like. As long as our North Carolina Legislature is more interested in tax cuts for the wealthiest and for businesses, than providing a quality education, unfortunately this won’t change,

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Activity learning

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 8 in my series on learning theories. My intention is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In the last post we examined the various educational theories of John Dewey including experiential learning. In this post, we explore the work of Yrjö Engeström on Activity Theory.

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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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Books Beyond Borders & Wazzup Wattpad?

The Daring Librarian

'We love connecting with other kiddos in schools in other cities and states. Our sister library is Central Middle School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and we had a great time the other day chatting with them about books! Books Beyond Borders with Google Plus Hangout Our friend & one my librarian mentees, Mrs. Tiffany Whitehead , excitedly emailed that she was being filmed for a local news segment and she wanted to show off our long distance cooperative relationship and highlight cool tech with a

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Hack Education with Audrey Watters - Common Sense Media's Graphite - @coolcatteacher Vicki Davis

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 27th, 2014 The secret of education is respecting the pupil. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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W. James Popham's Sarcastic Shot at Teacher Evaluation Reform

The 21st Century Principal

'I don’t usually post a video on its own my my blog, but W. James Popham’s irreverent look at the teacher evaluation reforms going in the United States simply speaks for itself. His mock info-mercial here is almost believable in the climate of Race to the Top and the NCLB waivers.

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Connecting Around the World! Mystery Skype, Twitter & Google Hangouts!

MSEDTechie

'Connecting around the world! It''s time to change the way we teach! Using Mystery Skype, Twitter, and Google Hangouts are great ways this can be done! We need to allow our students to really collaborate. Not only with each other, but with others outside of your classroom walls. Skype in The Classroom anyone?? Skype can be used in the classroom to support your curriculum, such as participating in a Mystery Skypes, Author visits via Skype Experts, or Skype with another classroom to share projects

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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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Answerables

Technology Tidbits

'Answerables is the innovative new platform that combines Game Based Learning w/ a Learning Management System to create a fun and safe platform into the virtual/digital world. Answerables reminds me of a Second Life but geared more towards kids and more user friendly. This is a great place for educators to assign digital lessons, and for students to learn through collaborating w/ others in a safe environment.

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Games-Based Learning Not Only Helps Students, but Teachers Too

Educator Innovator

Game designers are incorporating assessment tools into new learning games in ways that are useful for instructional decision-making, without overpowering teachers with irrelevant data. . Last fall, at Robinswood Middle School in Orlando, Florida, 65 students were learning about air pollution. They weren’t learning by textbook or even a video. Rather, they were part of a beta test using SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!

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Year-End Reflection: Some Year-End Resolutions for Being Better Educators

The 21st Century Principal

'“Loving ourselves does not mean indulging ourselves.” Ayya Kema How many times have you heard the advice that until you love yourself you are incapable of loving others? We as educators live in a field that talks a great deal about “putting students first” and “sacrificing for the benefit of the kids.” What this translates to in daily practice is long hours, substantial amounts of time grading papers outside of class, and spending personal money taking care of the students.

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Nice Shout out from Tech & Learning Magazine

MSEDTechie

'Our newest TL Advisor, Patricia Brown, also won Honorable Mention in TL''s Leader of the Year program #edchat.

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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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Level it Books

Technology Tidbits

'Level it Books is a mobile app (iOS/Android) that I''ve blogged about many times because of how useful it is for educators, parents, and librarians. This is a simple to use app that allows a user to scan a bar code (ISBN #) of a book and then have a Reading/Lexile Level generated. This is ideal for the teacher who wants to create a class list of students and track their Reading Level too.

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What Drives You?

A Principal's Reflections

'In education, I think the driving force that compels us to join the profession is the innate desire to instill a love for learning among students and to help place them on a path to success. There is nothing more exhilarating than seeing, or knowing, firsthand that you played a small part in a student’s evolution over the years. Foremost is the desire to work with kids.

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MarsEdit Functional Blog Editor for Mac Users Looking for a Live Writer Option

The 21st Century Principal

'One thing I obviously discovered immediately in my Mac conversion this weekend was my loss of Windows Live Writer, the free blogging software. I used Live Writer quite often, especially when scratching out the earliest drafts of a blog post. What I discovered this weekend is that it isn’t available for Mac and there’s really no equivalent solution available of my MacBook Pro.

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2 Cool for School

Kathy Schrock

'2 COOL 4 SCHOOL: CREATIVELY USING POWERPOINT TO #WorkWonders FOR ANIMATION I am a long-time Microsoft PowerPoint user. I have been using it to #WorkWonders since PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows 3.1 came out in 1992! Over the past few years, in addition to using PowerPoint to create presentations, I have both used and discovered some neat ways it can be used to solve a a few animation problems!

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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.