EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky., is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens. During a time when many students have access to personal and school-issued devices, JCPS is focused on teaching academic integrity rather than punishing lapses, says William Pierce, executive administrator of digital innovation and program management.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology. When technologies were first available online, I was an early adopter, and often got brutally criticized by administrators and colleagues in my K-6 settings for having students use the internet for research, use web tools, create webpages in wikis, and work virtually with schools in other states and countries (for example, see their work from 2008 at [link] ).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ask a Tech Teacher has a book of 169 tech tips to energize your classroom. We’ve added about ten more since publication. Here are some of the tips educators find most useful. The heading will click through to a more detailed article on the tip: Tech Tip #167–How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time. positive parent reports. rated ‘for everyone’ or ‘low maturity’. no in-app purchases or

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. I rotate between 7 sites pre-k to 12th grade, but I will be working with 4th grade-12th grade teachers on this date. My boss mostly likes for me to introduce new tools to teachers during these opportunities.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Chris McMurray One of the most valuable skillsets we can teach our students is the ability to code. Not only does it enhance their writing and math skills, but it also gives them a valuable mindset for future life and employment situations. Perhaps the top reason to teach our students how to code is that it gives them a strong basis for problem-solving and helps them understand the way things work.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2023

Education is still reeling from the impacts of COVID-19. The rapid shift to virtual learning was a necessity and, like always, educators rose to the occasion like they always do even though training in this area didn’t really exist at scale. A few years later, we are beginning to get an idea of the most pressing issue at hand, which is learning recovery.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Mike King Providing high school and college students with work-based experiences has been proven to improve their career prospects. Several thought leaders in the industry have documented the positive outcomes that work-based learning can provide. The challenge has been getting more employers to provide these opportunities and encouraging them to support greater numbers of students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2023

Learning computers starts in kindergarten with understanding hardware. This lesson plan (#103 in the lesson plan book noted below) includes three pages. Introduce less with K, more each year until by sixth grade, students are good hardware problem solvers because they understand the basics. Page 2 is an assessment you can either print out and have students fill in or push out to students to be completed online.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. It’s commonsense, but it’s also reinforced by hundreds of studies ( An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle ).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!]. Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Not in person – Kim is in Bangkok, Thailand, and her team is all over the globe – but online. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2023

I remember vividly as a young principal when I started to drink the “edtech” Kool-Aid many years ago. It represented a true turning point in how I thought about change in education. Up until this point, my thinking was relatively traditional and as such, so was the culture of my school. However, I was motivated like never before to move beyond the nearly impenetrable walls I had mentally constructed that had inhibited me from moving beyond my comfort zone until this point.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially ended the conversation about whether school districts should embrace one-to-one programs that put a computing device into the hands of every student. “During COVID, a large number of individual devices were deployed,” says Amy McLaughlin, Cybersecurity Initiative director at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 18, 2023

JavaScript is considered the language of the web. Virtually every website you visit uses it in some capacity to improve the user experience. Coders use it to create interactive websites, games, and apps. And, in 2022, JavaScript was one of the most in-demand programming languages in the information technology industry. But what does this mean for children who want to start coding with JavaScript, and where can you find resources on how to learn JavaScript in an interactive and user-controlled wa

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2023

In honor of Martin Luther King: The 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is Free through Jan. 17, 2023. Lesson plans include: an Event Chain of Dr. King’s impact on American history. interpreting his words with a visual organizer. What’s included in each lesson plan: brief summary of project.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Books are an excellent way to help children connect more deeply to science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) concepts they are learning in class. Plus, they practice reading skills as they strengthen STEM connections! These STEM books make great read-alouds and independent reading book choices for children at home or in the classroom. Educators can also add these books to classroom and school libraries.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 4, 2023

The post How to Spark Student Agency in the Classroom Through Community Connections appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

One of the best and most gratifying aspects of my job is getting into classrooms and providing feedback to leaders, who, in turn, help their teachers grow. Most of my blog ideas materialize during these times of bliss. Without this practical lens, I don’t think I would be able to write anything of value. Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ).

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

The technology solutions that were once viewed as emergency tools at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are now supporting innovation at Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. CIO Andrew Zuckerman, who started out as a District of Columbia Public Schools teacher through Teach for America, is leading the charge. After taking administrative roles at Prince George’s County Public Schools and then Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, he returned to PGCPS during the first year o

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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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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 29, 2023

As a teacher, one of the most important aspects of your job is providing a comfortable and conducive learning environment for your students. However, this can often be challenging, especially when the classroom noise level becomes too high. This is where Lärmampel comes in. Lärmampel is a revolutionary app that allows teachers to easily and effectively manage classroom noise levels.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT. It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Unlike a Google search, the new tool can deliver full paragraphs of information, and it does so in a way that seems like the AI is having a conversation with you. This chatbot was released in late November, but it’s already sparking an existential crisis for educators at all levels.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 25, 2023

The journal Nature, and all other Springer Nature titles, have updated their Guide to Authors with rules for using LLMs like ChatGPT when writing research articles for the publication. To summarize, the rules say: 1. DO NOT list the LLM as an author, and 2. DO describe how you used the LLM in a Methods, Acknowledgments, or other appropriate section.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post Launching an OpenSciEd Community to Support Research and Practice appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 30, 2023

Humans crave a deep connection when it comes to learning something new, especially if they initially don't see any value in what's being taught or facilitated. We expect this as adult learners, so it goes without saying that our students both want and need this as well. In the absence of authentic meaning there is a tendency to disconnect or go off task, putting the learning experience at hand in jeopardy of not being successful.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

To turn kids into productive citizens when they go out into the workforce as adults, we want the lessons they learn now to be relevant and useful. There are particular skills employers demand of their job candidates, and failure to address them in the classroom today will result in a skills gap when students enter the workforce. The Intel Skills for Innovation framework helps schools embed digital skills into lessons.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 16, 2023

In recent years 70% said that anxiety and depression are a major problem among their peers.(1) Post pandemic statistics now show that figure closer to 80%. This has placed the social emotional health of students in the spotlight, and forced schools to be deliberate about how they are addressing it. Quality SEL involves ensuring that the programs are equitable and inclusive of the diverse needs of all students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2023

As an early adopter and enthusiast for immersive technology in schools, I’ve had the opportunity to share ways to use augmented and virtual reality to transform learning with educators around the world. I provide staff development and training, and many of the teachers I work with are enthusiastic about trying new tools. For some, it’s the wow factor of using something novel or exciting; for others, it’s the allure of seeing their students highly engaged with new technologies.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 19, 2023

I missed this when it was first published, but a few months ago Ithaka S+R shared the results of their Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2021. The survey went out to 145,099 randomly selected faculty members across the US and over 5% of invitees responded. I was particularly interested in the survey’s findings about the state of open educational resources in US higher education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2023

The post Celebrating Youth Voice and Innovation on International Day of Education appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here is a great resource on reading comprehension strategies to use with your students in class. This is basically a chart created by the folks in Scholastic and is available for free download in PDF format. The chart is adapted from the work of Beal, Keene, and Tovani. The chart features 6 major reading comprehension strategies that students can use to improve and enhance their reading comprehension skills.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

A team from Irving Independent School District led a session at TCEA 2023 sharing the lessons they have learned over the past 20 years of running a one-to-one program. Though their session was titled “A 20-Year Success Story of District-Wide 1:1,” James Tiggeman, assistant director of digital learning, admitted, “We haven’t had 20 years of success. There were bumps in the road, and we are happy to tell you what went wrong and how to fix it.

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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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