Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
The first month of school is exhausting! New students, new routines, and, for many of us, new curriculum. Getting kids acclimated to all the newness spurs a lot (and I mean a lot) of questions. In an effort to save my own sanity and teach students how to be independent and resourceful, I put a technology spin on the old adage, “Ask 3 before you ask me.” It’s not just that I am wild about technology.
Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
A small thing can pass by unnoticed. But many small things can become the equivalent of a really large one. You may not notice — or give too much credit to — a typo that got its way into your written text. You may not care about where exactly you insert an image, as long as it’s on the right page. Your students may not notice or care about that either; except for those that always do.
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A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
I still vividly remember my early years as an assistant principal and principal. Instructional leadership was a routine part of the job along with the budget, master schedule, curriculum development, meetings, email, phone calls, and many other duties. With the evolution of social media yet another responsibility was added to my plate in the form of digital leadership.
Ditch That Textbook
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Everyone wants data. Schools want it to track student performance. Companies want it to learn about their customers. We track data in our own personal lives (fitness data, banking data, even social media data). Teachers and students have their own data gathering and tracking tool that’s free and easy to learn — Google Forms. Google [.].
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EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
By Mike Patterson Collecting student data can be a great source of insight, but best practices for privacy and security must be followed.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
By: Robyn Shulman, M.Ed. We live in unprecedented times of great digital advances and innovation. Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Today’s youth are digital natives who are unaware of life without Internet access, instant communication, mobile phones and an abundance of on-demand information sitting in their pockets.
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The Journal
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Educational technologists: listen to the teachers; they are asking you to help them to be more effective in creating and using digital curricula. In this blog post, then, we define the five functions that a blended learning platform must support — and challenge the ed tech community to build such a platform!
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
By Courtney Pepe Teaching students the value of invention doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Level Up to Teach Classic Literature Like a Pro From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Classic literature can be exciting. You can teach classic literature like a pro with today’s insight from Starr Sackstein. What do Rodney Dangerfield, Alfred Hitchcock, and Harry Potter have to do with teaching students about classical literature?
Ditch That Textbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
In workshops I’ve run, I often ask teachers, “What are the hurdles to reaching your professional goals?” The most popular answer is always the same. Always. Time. So many of us educators feel overworked. We don’t have enough time to accomplish the important work that will have a huge impact on our students’ lives — [.].
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.
Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Time is a funny thing. Even though a minute has 60 seconds, and an hour has 60 minutes, people perceive time differently. The best example for this is a classroom: for teachers, a class is a lot shorter than it really is; for students, it’s a lot longer. Teachers sometime feel that time flew by and they still have so much information to share. Students, on the other hand, experience time dilation, as if they were orbiting the Earth in a fast space shuttle, and for them a one-hour class could fee
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The North Carolina fourth grade teacher discusses how technology has helped her students take charge of their learning experience.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 7pm EDT From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I’m continuing the Education Technology Series that I’ve been running this fall. Tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 6 at 7pm, EDT I’ll host 8 Steps to Global Collaboration in Every Classroom. In this 1-hour and 15-minute class I’ll share: 5 reasons most teachers fail to consistently bring global collaboration into their classroom.
EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
I recently wrote an article for the International Teacher Magazine. It covers my experience of personalized learning. At first, I was running around the classroom, trying to support all the children’s individual learning needs. However, as I got to grips with educational technology, personalized learning got a whole lot easier. For the full article, please click here.
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.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
In the first of a series of reports from Digital Promise Global, Making Learning Personal For All – The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom explores learner diversity and learning variability across a variety of factors impacting student performance. A growing body of evidence stresses the need for the research community, educators, and education technology developers to work together to implement new learner models to better differentiate instruction and support students based on their
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The end of summer has me saying goodbye to a crew of summer interns who helped Listenwise. Our interns came from New England colleges, Norway, and in one case, a local high school. It was definitely an eclectic bunch, giving me the opportunity to practice managing people from disparate backgrounds. I was an intern more than two decades ago, when not many college students even knew what an internship was.
Dangerously Irrelevant
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Here are some questions that you could discuss with students during a 20- to 25-minute advisory period. These might be particularly apt for middle and high schoolers. If each advisory took notes and then you compiled the responses at the school level, I bet that you would learn some interesting things about the youth that you serve and spark some useful conversations with your teachers and administrators.
EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Last week I did a science lesson with my students where we looked at how the sweets ‘Skittles’ dissolved in hot and cold water. We time-lapsed the results: This stand worked brilliantly to hold the camera: After I asked my students to complete this online science experiment write-up form on Google Docs. You can download it for free here (it is view only so remember to click ‘download’ or ‘make a copy’ so you can edit it).
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Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
On everything from get-to-know-you activities to getting yourself ready: New School Year? New Tech? I Got You Covered. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year. 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. How to Prepare Students for PARCC Tests. 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 5 Tools To Shake up the New Year. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons.
User Generated Education
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
There is a new platform for immersive learning games that’s taking classrooms across the world by storm. Based on the same principles as interactive Escape The Room digital games — which challenge players to use their surroundings to escape a prison-like scenario — Breakout EDU is a collaborative learning experience that enhances critical thinking and creativity while fostering a growth mindset in students.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
By Matt Fellows Get ready for the academic year with this back to school tech pop quiz!
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Adult educators are getting more and more excited as they see growing evidence of technology’s potential for improving learning for adults. Community-based organizations, libraries, adult education programs, and community colleges across our Beacons are working together to incorporate technology to support their learners. When we talk with educators around the country, most, if not all, are clamoring for ways to best leverage education technology.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Play as the vehicle of education is not a revolutionary idea. Pedagogy has long recommended ‘play’ as a superior teacher for youngers–. Play is the great synthesizing, integrating, and developing force in childhood and adolescence. –PsycINFO Database Record 2012 APA, The play of children is not recreation; it means earnest work. Play is the purest intellectual production of the human being, in this stage … for the whole man is visible in them, in his finest capacities, in his innermost being.~ F
Brilliant or Insane
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Brilliant or Insane. Before the days of electronic gradebooks, every week I posted a printout with student grades. High-achieving students raced over, comparing their grades down to the hundredth, while less academic students shrugged off the opportunity to check their grades. While most schools have shifted to electronic gradebooks, the insane practice of grading continues, and of equal […].
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
The Microsoft Education Community is a great, free resource for teachers. It has free web courses on using Microsoft tools and on best practices for using technology in education. There are discussion groups, resources and training tools available. You can earn badges and certifications through the site also. The site is easy to navigate and has some excellent resources.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
By Sarah Wallace. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 255,000 jobs in July, continuing a period of strong job creation. And, for the first time in more than eight years, the U.S. unemployment rate has remained below 5 percent for several consecutive months. This is good news for the 1.9 million students who graduated this past spring Also good news is the fact that employers are estimated to hire about 5 percent more graduates from the class of 2016 than 2015.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
Last week, we released our third annual Impact Report, “The Positive Power of Personalized Learning.” In the report, we share the incredible work and positive outcomes of districts we work with across the nation, from those that are just launching personalized learning to those that are embarking on their fourth year of implementation. Since this is our third year sharing this report, I want to share three key takeaways from what we’re seeing (and celebrating) in the field.
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
I was in EMS for 22 years before retiring due to a back injury. One of my most memorable experiences was responding to New York City as a Paramedic in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I will never forget that experience. What I saw and did are still with me, as is a type of asthma from breathing the dust. My Experience as a Paramedic on 9-11-01 As the years have gone by, I've noticed that people are not remembering this terrible event like they did the first few years after.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
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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.
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