Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Here are ideas of apps and websites that teachers in my PLN used successfully in the past during Hour of Code: Kindergarten. Start kindergartners with problem solving. If they love Legos, they’ll love coding. BotLogic –great for Kindergarten and youngers. Code –learn to code, for students. Daisy the Dinosaur —intro to programming via iPad. How to train your robot –a lesson plan from Dr.
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
“The hardest challenge you will face is not changing yourself, but convincing or empowering your colleagues to embrace change.” – Eric Sheninger If you are reading this blog, trying out new ideas, implementing innovative strategies, or attending meaningful professional learning opportunities then chances are you embrace change. Additionally, you are more than likely to be using social media for your Personal LearningNetwork (PLN) to push your thinking like never before.
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The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
Trends and Topics on Twitter This week’s top education tweets of the week have lots of interesting nuggets for us busy teachers. But one topic is flying around: flipping kids. No, not flipping them off. Not flipping your classroom — flipping a child like you flip a house. Turning their day around. The old cliche of “turning that frown upside down” is catching on.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
By D. Frank Smith App creation has become a solid launching point for students interested in the pursuit of computer science education.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
We've been on the forefront of ed-tech efforts around the sharing and creation of videos for teachers. But being a leader in the space also means being the first to grapple with new difficulties. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving sites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World. Primary Games Thanksgiving Apps.
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EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
By Eric Patnoudes Get an inside look at one of the year's most influential professional learning camps.
Ditch That Textbook
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
In high school and college, I suffered through quite a few research reports and papers. I gathered data, cited sources, followed MLA style and double spaced. I turned in my papers. Then I never did anything else with them. I still have one political science paper I wrote hiding out in a trunk full of [.].
Brilliant or Insane
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. In a different life, I was an English teacher. In fact, I spent the first half of my twenty-four year career in education writing beside middle and high school kids. Writing workshop was my passion, and Nancie Atwell was my hero (well, she still is). Naturally, I was thrilled when my principal tapped me to […]. The post How Do We Make Writing?
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Productivity that Works. You can be more productive on your iPhone or smartphone. My home screen as been pretty consistent for the last few years. With this tutorial, I’ll take you through the apps I use, how they work together, and some quick tips on productivity with your iPhone. If you’re just starting out or want some productivity ideas, this post is for you.
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.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
By Ricky Ribeiro The Miami Heat player and three-time NBA champion partners with CDW and Lenovo to give back to his community and put technology in kids’ hands.
Dangerously Irrelevant
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Michael Petrilli said: Last year, [Ohio] State Superintendent Dick Ross published a report on the testing load in the state’s schools that showed strikingly similar results as the new Council for Great City Schools study. It found that about one-quarter of the testing in the Buckeye State was linked solely to the need for data for teacher evaluations in subjects other than math and reading.
User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
My primary job is that of educating pre and in-service teachers with a bit of teaching elementary students along the way. I often say that there is not enough time during the school day and the school year to teach isolated and singular content area topics. I stress designing and teaching cross-curricular thematic units. Not only will the learners then get to experience multi-layered instruction, they will also experience more authentic learning experiences.
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Leaders are Readers and Readers are Leaders You want to have purpose and meaning in your life, and certainly there are lots of people who have advice. How do you tell truth from fiction? How do you know who to believe? Research by Anne Cunningham and Keith Stanovich found that habitual readers know more than habitual television watchers. But it also showed that readers are better at deciphering misinformation.
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.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
By D. Frank Smith An affordable VR package is coming to select schools, along with some guidance from Google.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
In the USA, Veterans Day annually falls on November 11. This day is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, which ended the World War I hostilities between the Allied nations and Germany in 1918. Veterans are thanked for their services to the United States on Veterans Day.
Dangerously Irrelevant
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Cory Doctorow said: In the educational domain we see a lot of normalisation of designing computers so that their users can’t override them. For example, school-supplied laptops can be designed so that educators can monitor what their users are doing. [Students] are completely helpless because their machines are designed to prevent them from doing anything. — We have this path of surveillance that starts with prisoners, then mental patients, refugees, students, benefits claimants, blue coll
Brilliant or Insane
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. Sometimes, administrators stop into my sessions to thank the staff that I support for their hard work and contributions to our learning. Most of the time, this is appreciated by everyone in the room. Once in a while, people express some level of resentment once the moment loses its luster, though. “I wish our principal […].
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Catlin Tucker
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
I’ll be leading a master class titled “Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology” at Alan November’s BLC Conference in Boston in July. Space is limited, so visit the BLC16 Pre-conference Master Class page to register! This hands-on workshop will allow participants to explore the creative strategies for developing literacy–reading, writing, language, speaking and listening.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
This is the only project that’s easier than the holiday card in Publisher. There’s no folding and the templates are bright, colorful and exciting for kids as young as second grade: –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Click here for a list of holiday websites and apps. There are other templates available, but none as simple for youngers and as professional-looking.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Patti is the Director of Adult Learning Initiatives at Digital Promise and has over 20 years experience developing products for adults. You can follow her on Twitter @patticonstan. Recently, I heard about a program in San Francisco (a part of the Parents Partners program of Mission Graduates ) that teaches digital literacy skills to low-income, mostly Latina moms by pairing them with technology professionals from Silicon Valley companies in one-to-one mentoring sessions.
Brilliant or Insane
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Brilliant or Insane. No one gets out of middle or high school unscathed, popular or not. I guess I should begin there. And now that I’ve survived three tours of duty, I know from experience that this tough truth pains parents as much as it troubles their children. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said, “All of you […]. The post The Perils of Popularity appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.
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.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
By Karen Scarfone Learn to take advantage of configuration and compliance templates provided in the popular Tenable Network Security product line. .
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Where’s the caps lock on Chromebooks? There’s a ‘search’ button where that key is on my normal keyboard.
Ditch That Textbook
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
At the two schools where I’ve taught in my career, I’ve been branded as the techie teacher. That’s been a good thing and a difficult thing. It’s been great because students get excited to try some of the experiences they get through technology. It has also opened some great conversations with colleagues about how they [.].
Voyager Sopris Learning
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
How many more times do we have to hear from NAEP ( National Assessment of Educational Progress ) that 30 to 40 percent of middle and high school students are struggling and/or can’t read? It’s a catch-22. Because reading is difficult for them, older struggling readers don’t like to read, and therefore they don’t read. As a result and over time, vocabulary, sentence structure, comprehension, and academic language become less familiar, and these students begin to fall further and further behind.
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.
Securly
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Google SafeSearch is a powerful setting focused on reducing the inappropriate content from both search and image search results. But with so much new content uploaded every day, it’s nearly impossible to filter out all – or even a majority – of the “bad stuff”. Enter Creative Commons , a non profit organization that advocates for the legal sharing of digital content by filtering image searches on the browser once enabled.
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Greeting cards are easy enough for second graders–even early readers. Using MS Publisher, pick a template, add a picture to personalize, add their name–and they’re done. It takes about 15 minutes. Kids always feel great about creating these greeting cards: –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Click here for a list of holiday websites and apps.
Battelle for Kids
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 13, Number 5. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. - Justice Potter Stewart.
The Jose Vilson
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
Last week, I got to address the New Jersey Education Association about a number of different issues, but I need to leave this one note here for posterity. Here’s a remixed, written-out version of the remarks I made at the NJEA Convention. The intent of the message, and many of its controversial pieces, remain intact unapologetically. There’ll be video soon, and I’ll share it a.s.a.p.
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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