Neo LMS
JUNE 9, 2016
In a previous post I talked about why should schools focus on visual elements and user experience instead of features when selecting an LMS. The reason for this is quite simple. Teachers want to achieve the best results from students even on subjects that are information heavy and not that appealing to them. How can they do this? By including as much visual and interactive elements as possible in the learning process.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 8, 2016
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. In 1996, I joined an internship to design educational activities and exhibits to open the Witte Museum’s Science Treehouse. The internship taught me valuable lessons in organizing engaging field trips, summer camps, and camp-ins with student learning and safety at the forefront.
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The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 10, 2016
A sample Cool Cat Teacher newsletter From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Happy 5 idea Friday! Today is the day I send my newsletter subscribers the ideas to help them be better teachers. Right now, I’m actually sending 10 ideas — five for teachers in school and five for teachers out -of-school.
Tom Murray
JUNE 6, 2016
At the end of last summer, my wife and I watched our little girl step on a school bus for the very first time. With tears in our eyes, we wrote the post, “ Written With Love On Your First Day of Kindergarten ”, as a piece of our collective heart forever took her first real steps without us by her side. Her smile radiated and her confidence sparkled, but for her mom and dad, letting her grow wings, we’ll admit, was hard.
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A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 5, 2016
Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. I remember as a teacher many years ago asking my students to raise their hands to respond to a question and even during Jeopardy-style review games had groups collaborate on their response. Undoubtedly this left many students out of the formative process.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 10, 2016
By Meg Conlan Teachers get a chance to explore Minecraft’s digital worlds in advance of the game’s September release.
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Ditch That Textbook
JUNE 6, 2016
With three elementary-aged kids at home, I’ve seen my fair share of Disney Channel shows. It started with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse many years ago and has since evolved to Good Luck Charlie. (I’ll actually get the theme song for that one stuck in my head and sing it all day. Not by choice.) I’ll tolerate [.].
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JUNE 9, 2016
In a recent New York Times article critiquing grit in education, David Brooks writes, “Creative people are good at asking new questions, but the GPA rewards those who can answer other people’s questions.”. From my experience owning a test-prep company, GPA is king and not just for students, whose sense of intellectual worth rises and falls with each letter grade.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 9, 2016
By Meg Conlan Driving student engagement, smartwatches and other wearables will gain traction in the education market.
Digital Promise
JUNE 9, 2016
Back in 2011, Digital Promise started the League of Innovative Schools , a network of forward-thinking districts around the country. At that point, efforts to use personal technology and adaptive software to support teaching and learning were relatively scarce. A handful of school districts were really pushing the envelope and a handful of others were still finding their way.
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.
The Journal
JUNE 6, 2016
David Thornburg, our guest blogger, looks back and looks forward – and sees Chromebook’s DNA in the history of computing and forecasts all sorts of provocative software that this "new" platform will engender.
Teacher Reboot Camp
JUNE 10, 2016
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”- Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go! In 2012, I visited the British Library with Terry Freedman. I was astounded by how much interaction I was able to have with the exhibits. I got to experience the exhibits with 3D glasses, touch tabletop screens, and scan QR codes.
EdTech4Beginners
JUNE 9, 2016
David Wiesner is a wonderful author and most of his stories are told solely through pictures. This makes them absolutely perfect for English lessons. Children can be imaginative and creative and in my experience they absolutely love his books. I wrote a unit of work (plans and resources) based around his story, ‘Tuesday’ It is about a group of frogs who, on one strange Tuesday, are given the ability to fly.
Tom Murray
JUNE 8, 2016
This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Having worked with almost 500 school districts and 3,000 school leaders over the past year, I’ve often been asked, “What type of devices should we buy?” The problem with this question, is that quite often this is the leading question – the initial area that the district is investigating.
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The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 10, 2016
A sample Cool Cat Teacher newsletter From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Happy 5 idea Friday! Today is the day I send my newsletter subscribers the ideas to help them be better teachers. Right now, I’m actually sending 10 ideas — five for teachers in school and five for teachers out -of-school.
Education Elements
JUNE 8, 2016
When I gave up control of my classroom, true learning started taking place. Giving up control felt liberating and inspiring. I handed the baton of teaching to my students. I was no longer the focus of the lesson. Student’s voices traveled through our classroom with excitement and engagement. I happily took the role of facilitating and the words of my students amazed me.
EdTech4Beginners
JUNE 7, 2016
Usually when we ask our students to take notes, they use bullet points and text only. Sketch notes are different. They are unique because they combine writing with images and symbols. They are very visual and are often much easier to read and far more memorable. In a recent history lesson, I taught my students how to sketch note, first by showing them examples and then discussing their effectiveness.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 10, 2016
Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Teachers have long-known the positive effect industry experts have on students, but the complications of finding the speaker, arranging the event, and preparing the class have made this a daunting task. Nepris , a cloud-based platform that connects STEAM subject experts (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) with teachers and classes, wants to turn that around.
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JUNE 7, 2016
This time of year most students and teachers are eyeing the calendar with glee. School is almost out (or already out in some parts of the country). This is when administrators can catch up or do long range planning in the front office and teachers can take a moment to recharge. For an ed-tech company leader like myself, I’m eyeing the “summer slump” with dread.
User Generated Education
JUNE 7, 2016
A flexible and risk-taking mindset rather than a fixed one will benefit all stakeholders in an educator’s realm: the educator’s learners, colleagues, her or his learners’ families, the community, the field of education-at-large, and of course, the educator him-or herself. Mindset is defined as “a set of assumptions, methods, or notations held by one or more people or groups of people that is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups
EdTech4Beginners
JUNE 4, 2016
Minecraft is a game in which the main aim is to construct objects. To do so, requires a lot of thought and creativity – this makes it perfect for use in school. Recently I asked my students if they could think of any ways that Minecraft could be used to support their learning. There were many ideas! The following Monday, a pupil came to show me what he had done over the weekend.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 7, 2016
In about a month, I’ll be starting a new series of tech tips. These will be from my upcoming ebook, 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech Into Your Class Now (expected publication date: August 2016) where I provide 1) an overview of the tech topics most important to your teaching, and 2) practical strategies to address common classroom tech problems.
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.
Hapara
JUNE 6, 2016
“Summer slide,” “Summer brain drain,” no matter what term you use for it, it’s well-known that students lose critical academic skills during the weeks that they are out of school. This is true in both reading and math, and especially true for low-income students.
Battelle for Kids
JUNE 8, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 3. Driving Question: How can we leverage real-world work to prepare students for the workforce? "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet" — Shift Happens. It's difficult to imagine life before mobile technology.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 8, 2016
Dave Winters sent me a very nice message today thanking me for my TEDxDesMoines talk, Extracurricular Empowerment (Getting Beyond Fear). But what was even more fun was getting to see the compilation video of his students’ genius hour projects at Cascade Middle School. This is a touching, inspiring video and is a great idea for any school that wants to capture and share the enthusiasm that can accompany student-driven learning.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 8, 2016
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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.
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 7, 2016
By Eric Patnoudes Conference offers chance for educators to collaborate, innovate on professional development practices.
Battelle for Kids
JUNE 5, 2016
Volume 3, Issue 5, Number 1. Driving Question: Who is responsible for what? In the 19th Century's agrarian culture, parents prepped their kids to take over the farm. In the one room schoolhouse, the older children or a school marm who rode in from the nearest town taught reading and writing. In the 20th century, urban manufacturing emerged. Factories needed workers who could master the 3Rs and work the assembly line.
Education Elements
JUNE 9, 2016
Personalized learning came along at the perfect time in my life, like the deus ex machina in an M. Night Shyamalan film. It all started, as these things often do, just when I was ready to slam closed for good my own cosmic “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. Not long ago, I was reflecting on my visit to Marengo Cave and I couldn’t help but think that the experience of those first two kids, hesitantly making their way through that small, scary opening, was not unlike the experience that many of my
Brilliant or Insane
JUNE 7, 2016
Brilliant or Insane. We are living in an age when what we can achieve in one day is becoming more and more important. The rise of technology has helped spur productivity to heights never previously seen. In the not-too-distant future, people may even be using 3D printers in their homes to make household goods and clothing. Schools also […]. The post 12 Productivity Tools for Tech-Savvy Teachers appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.
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