Sat.Feb 14, 2015 - Fri.Feb 20, 2015

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Drive Higher-Order Thinking with RSA Animation

Catlin Tucker

'RSA animation is essentially whiteboard animation. The artist draws pictures on a whiteboard to depict concepts using a combination of words and pictures. If you’ve never seen an RSA animation, I’d suggest watching “Changing Educational Paradigms” which took a section of Ken Robinson’s TED Talk and animated it using this technique.

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Five Steps to Turning Your Ideas Into an Ed-Tech Startup

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

'Thinking of launching your own edtech startup? Here are some easy steps to help you start generating startup ideas. I''ll also share how we came up with the idea for ProfessorWord. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Goal: Be Someone’s Champion

Teacher Reboot Camp

'Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward ! “Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.” – Rita F. Pierson. Each year, teachers worldwide aim to accomplish 1 to 30 goals that transform their teaching.

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Tips for BYOD Equity

A Principal's Reflections

'Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives are being adopted by districts and schools around the globe. With the growing access that students now have to technology at home, educators are seizing this opportunity to increase access in the classroom. For cash strapped districts BYOD seems like the logical solution to leverage the mobile devices students have to enhance learning, increase productivity, conduct better research, address critical digital literacies, and teach digital responsibility.

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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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Learn the Ins and Outs of Google Classroom from an Expert

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Educator and blogger Alice Keeler has written extensively on integrating Google Classroom with everyday school work.

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7 Authentic Assessment Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Assessments have become a critical piece to education reform. To prepare students well for college and career means they must deeply learn the material and its application to their lives and future learning.That means assessing student knowledge authentically and accountably. This doesn’t stop with quizzes, tests, and memorizing facts. Those approaches may be prescriptive, but they don’t measure results in a way that leverages learning.

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Building Rapport with Students: 10 Reasons to Greet Them at the Door

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. via midatlantic.coastguard.dodlive.mil The topic of building rapport with students came up in a Voxer conversation, rekindling interest in this excellent post from B or I contributor Reed Gillespie. Share your own rapport-building strategies in our comment section. When you walk into restaurants and many shops, someone greets you as you enter.

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Students Line Up for Google Science Fair 2015

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith The global challenge begins this week, with a grand prize of $50,000 in scholarship funds.

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Best-Kept Secrets for Teaching Tech to Kids

Ask a Tech Teacher

'There’s a secret to teaching kids how to use technology. It’s called ‘delegate’ I don’t mean sluff off the teaching to aides or parents. I’m referring to the importance of empowering students to be their own problem-solvers. Encourage them to be risk-takers and then expect it of them. Here are seven ways to make this happen: Let students know technology isn’t difficult.

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15 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers — and how to make your own

Ditch That Textbook

'Sometimes, we just need some help organizing our thoughts — students AND educators. Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in [.].

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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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Students Assessing Teachers: 10 Critical Questions

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. The thing about evaluation is that it seeks to judge. The thinking, practice, and work of those under review are often reduced to labels or numbers. Evaluators distinguish those who are proficient from those who are not. So much context is lost. Many other important things are as well. When evaluation and the results that [.].

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Google Expanding Its Kid-Friendly Educational Offerings

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith A new acquisition by the search-engine giant could spell big changes for the company in 2015.

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Website Review: Prodigy Game

Ask a Tech Teacher

'There are a lot of online math systems to help students through one of school’s toughest subjects (if not science). Each one proclaim s they have the way to teach students while having fun, in ways that are aligned with state and national standards. How do you decide what is best for your class? Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. support

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Sketchnoting 101, for those with little artistic talent

Ditch That Textbook

'Sketchnoting — creating notes with visuals, sketches or doodles — can be powerful. It’s powerful for the sketcher — visual notes capture ideas in ways that are more likely to stick in the brain by nature. It’s powerful for the viewer — it presents ideas in an engaging way that can be understood almost instantly. [.].

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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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How Teachers Cost Students College Scholarships

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Grades shouldn’t be used to sort students. Yet, we continue to use them to do just that. Recently it was brought to my attention that a mere hundredth of a point in class potentially cost a student acceptance into his top-choice college. As we all know, students applying for college are asked to provide their [.]. The post How Teachers Cost Students College Scholarships appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Q&A: Project-Based School’s ‘Uptown Funk’ Cover Video Goes Viral

EdTech Magazine

'By D. Frank Smith Educators are making names for their schools online with creative school-based projects.

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10-day update: Digital Leadership Daily

Dangerously Irrelevant

'Yesterday was the tenth day since I launched Digital Leadership Daily. So far over 440 people have signed up. Woo hoo! Please share this fairly pain-free learning opportunity with your local school leaders! Related Posts. The challenges of digital leadership. A new resource for school administrators: Digital Leadership Daily. How long has it been since you were really bothered?

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Goal: Be Someone’s Champion

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward ! “Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.” – Rita F. Pierson. Each year, teachers worldwide aim to accomplish 1 to 30 goals that transform their teaching.

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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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Texas Students Share Thoughts on a Journey to Independent Learning

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. As each middle school child shared his or her opinion about a classroom they’d never experienced before, my face brightened with a broad smile. One student brandished a sign saying, “I read 15 books this year. Last year I read 2.” Another sign read, “I’ve been able to use feedback to make my writing better.” Students huddled around [.].

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Prodigy - free math game that helps students learn math while having fun

Educational Technology Guy

'There is no doubt that math is a difficult subject both for students and for teachers. As a student, the idea of math can be daunting, as the subject often requires practice to refine skills and grasp concepts. However, as a teacher, coming up with ways to encourage math practice is difficult. Engagement has emerged as a buzzword, which is often thrown around as a solution to this problem.

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Everything I Need to Know Came From a Computer

Ask a Tech Teacher

'Life is hard, but help is all around us. The trick is to take your learning where you can find it. In my case, as a technology teacher, it‘s from computers. Here are four lessons I learned from my computer. I might not survive without them. #1: Know when your RAM is full. RAM is Random Access Memory. In the computer world, it controls how much you can work on at any given moment.

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Do Low-Achievers Benefit More from Technology?

The Journal

In this week’s blog post, we continue with our “Learnings from Singapore, Implications for Us” theme and describe some empirical data that provocatively support the conjecture that technology can, in fact, give a leg up to children who have trouble learning.

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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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5 Reasons I Chose Crowdfunding for My New Project

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. Last summer, I hatched an idea to recruit experts to write a series of books. A few weeks later, I had a project plan that included many expensive parts. I needed money, and a friend suggested crowdfunding. At first, I was dubious: “Is that a real thing?” I asked. Then, I began researching crowdfunding and quickly learned that it [.].

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Gen Z: Growing and Learning with Mobile (Infographic)

Educational Technology Guy

'Mobile technology is huge - smartphones, tablets, laptops, Chromebooks - and provides some great learning opportunities. itslearning has gathered statistics from sources like the “Harvard Gazette,” Ambient Insight, and PBS regarding the effect of mobile devices on the education of Generation Z. The findings have been summarized in an infographic titled “Generation Z: Growing and Learning with Mobile” ( [link] ), and they reveal that incorporating middle school students’ mobile habits into class

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Part 3… STEM Resource Series… Over 70 Stemtastic Sites

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

'Welcome to this third of many posts that will bring you over 70 STEM links. Along with this series, be on the look out for another series I will be posting entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning. First, to ensure you do not miss a valuable post or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS.

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Learn how to create multi touch books with #iBooksAuthor

TeacherCast

'The TeachEducator Podcast invites the creators of iBooksHack.org to discuss and demonstrate Apple iBooks Author. The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com ([link]. Many great ways to participate in the TechEducator Podcast.

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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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Learning from Failure: Inspirational Stories for Teachers

Brilliant or Insane

'Brilliant or Insane. It’s easy to become deluded. When I think back on the time that I spent in the classroom, I can see that now. Back then, I didn’t know what it meant to be playing school. It never occurred to me that some of the best writers I knew did this well while many of those [.]. The post Learning from Failure: Inspirational Stories for Teachers appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Edchat Interactive - a new type of free, online PD that is relevant, timely, interactive and social

Educational Technology Guy

'Edchat Interactive is a new type of free, online PD brought to you by some of the same folks who created #echat twitter discussions, including Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson , who are both friends of mine and in my Personal Learning Network and great educators. This new form of PD is relevant and timely for educators, and made to create a discussion that is engaging and helps you learn new skills and information.

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The Classroom of the Future Exists Today – Guest Post from Nellie Gonzalez Cutler, Editor, TIME FOR KIDS

EdTechTeacher

'What does the 21st Century classroom look like? That’s the question educators and exhibitors asked this week at the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in San Diego, California. TIME FOR KIDS exhibited at the summit—and connected with innovative educators to learn how they are using technology to bring the world to students. On many levels, the modern classroom isn’t all that different from classrooms of previous generations.

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Which Commenting Plugin runs your #WordPress #Podcasting Website?

TeacherCast

'In this post, you will learn my two favorite WordPress commenting plugins that are perfect for your educational podcasting website.

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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.