EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2015

'By Steve Zurier School districts recognize they need a solid network infrastructure to support ambitious plans for technology in the classroom. .

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

'Adapted from an article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them. Image retrieved from https://l2lbyte.wordpress.com/learning-videos/ Currently, online tools.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Flipping your classroom is not just about the videos. The flipped classroom really revolves around increased face-to-face interaction between students and teachers. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Most of my blog posts are inspired by the work I do with my high school students. This post is inspired by my own children–ages 6 and 7. My children attend a Spanish immersion school, where they receive 90% of their instruction in Spanish. As part of their homework, they must read each day. My daughter, who is in 2nd grade, is expected to read independently for 25 minutes a day in Spanish.

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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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User Generated Education

JANUARY 16, 2015

'I’ve posted about The Other 21st Skills and Attributes. This post provides links and resources about these skills as well as an educator self-assessment. This assessment contains questions to assist the educator in evaluating if and how s/he is facilitating these skills and attributes in the learning environment. Related Resources: The Other 21st Century Skills: https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-other-21st-century-skills/.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. “As educators, we always worry about summer dip,” Hall says, explaining how students tend to forget things over the long break. “With snow days in the past, we missed so much that students would come in and it would be almost like winter d

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2015

'Over the past year more and more schools across the globe have embraced the concept of making to learn. This phenomenon trickled into schools as the Maker Movement became more popular and natural connections to learning became quite evident. To begin to understand the educational value of making we must look at the roots of this movement. A recent article in Newsweek sums it up nicely: THE MAKER MOVEMENT is a global community of inventors, designers, engineers, artists, programmers, hackers, ti

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 23, 2015

'Money can sometimes feel like a dirty word in the education space. And as an edtech entrepreneur, you want to do good, but you also need to make money. Here''s some advice I was given on that. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2015

'I’m a huge fan of TED Talks! TED presenters weave together stories and information skillfully to engage their audiences. They have clearly rehearsed their material, yet the delivery is natural and, as a result, their ideas are compelling. I want my students to feel confident articulating their ideas and delivering powerful and poignant presentations, so I began my own TED Ed Club.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 31, 2015

'I absolutely love planning lessons from scratch. I just got a job teaching technology units for a summer camp for elementary age students. I can design and teach whatever I want – planning for a different theme each week. Some of the themes I am planning are: Expanding and Showing Your Personal Interests Through Blogging, Photos, and Videos; Coding and Creating Online Games; Tinkering and Making – Simple Robotics; Hacking Your Notebook; and Creating Online Comics, Newspapers, and M

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

'We hear a lot about 'personalized learning' – the importance of reaching every student at their level, including their interests and passions, and giving them choices. This isn’t really a new concept. Teachers have been trying to do this forever, and the only difference is that we now have tools to do this more efficiently and effectively than we could before.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2015

'By Alberto M. Carvalho Boost student achievement through technology integration.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 11, 2015

'Technology seems to be more accessible that ever before. It is common to walk into a typical household these days and see a variety of devices being charged. One of the first things I look for when I go to a friend’s house is whether or not any charging cables are readily available in case I need one. Even when we entertain guests I will go to charge my iPhone and find that someone has already commandeered my charger, much to my chagrin.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 12, 2015

'Don''t underestimate how much luck matters. You''re not going to get anywhere without hard work, but sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time. Click the headline to read the full post. Questions? Email websupport@epe.org.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 20, 2015

'For teachers who are just getting started with Google, Google Drive can be intimidating! In preparation for a Google training, I’ve put together a short explanation of Google Drive and its basic features. Although an increasing number of people have a Gmail account, I run into teachers all the time who are not sure what Google Drive is or how it works.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 19, 2015

'One of the best indicators that I am doing teaching right is the spontaneous comments made by my learners. This qualitative information, for me as an educator, is a much better measure of success in the classroom than any type of quantitative information. What follows are some comments I love hearing from my learners: I really like coming to class.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

'As you make your way north from Minneapolis to Pine City, home of Pine Technical & Community College (PTCC) , the landscape becomes increasingly sparse. The distance between houses increases with each mile, and you can imagine that the long winters common to this part of Minnesota make those distances feel even longer. But that distance, though real, is also a metaphor for some of the other impediments to education that the college seeks to mitigate through technology.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2015

'By D. Frank Smith Angel investors are giving CodeHS a chance to spread its programming wings to more schools.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

'Portions of this post are adapted from the Future Ready Schools website with permission. Advances in technology continue to impact society in amazing ways. The evolution of the Internet allows anyone with access the ability to communicate, collaborate, acquire information, and learn with anyone, at anytime, and from anywhere. Learners today have embraced this digital world and have begun to explore their passions in ways never imagined.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Google Classroom new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students. [link] https://classroom.google.com/ (sign in with your bridgeportps.net account)(you must request an invite first - see above link) Open to all soon. Video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26iyyQMp_g&feature=youtu.be Setting up your Google Classroom [link] log in create class tell students the class code and have them login and join the class share and collec

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading. While leading a training in Alaska this weekend, a participant mentioned The Smithsonian Tween (& Teen) Tribune.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 20, 2015

'When Tom Whitby and I set out to write The Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning we wanted to provide a manual for any educator who had a desire to improve their practice, as many have already done, by utilizing social media and other tools. We both had experienced tremendous growth in our professional and personal lives and we wanted to share how we got there with others.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. The realization prompted her to leave her middle school classroom and become a research psychologist, so she could better understand the role noncognitive traits like self-control and perseverance play in achievement.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2015

'By D. Frank Smith President Obama is taking student-data privacy seriously, and companies are taking notice.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 5, 2015

'This post was originally published by the National PTA, here. Note: This blog post represents my personal views and not that of my employer, the Alliance for Education, or that of the US Department of Education; the two organizations that are running Future Ready. Parent Engagement in a Future Ready School It’s no secret. Parents are instrumental in the academic success of children, yet walk into schools across our nation, and the range of parent involvement is all over the map.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 22, 2015

'YouTube is a behemoth. Each month, more than 1 billion unique users visit the site to view 6 billion hours of video per month. It’s the second-largest search engine in the world, bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, Ask and AOL combined. It’s not out there just for watching practical jokes, how-to’s on renovating your house or ridiculous [.].

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2015

'When students share their ideas and work online, they are taking a risk. As soon as they share a YouTube video or post a comment online, they open themselves up to possible ridicule and unkind remarks. I wish I could protect my students from the Internet, but I can’t. What I can do is help them to protect themselves and learn how to be savvy about how and what they share online.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 27, 2015

'If you haven''t had a chance, check out Part One of this series. Last week we looked at the first four qualities that Tom Whitby and I layout in our book The Relevant Educator and believe all Relevant, Connected educators posses. Just to recap: Practices and Models Lifelong Learning -For educators, learning should never stop. Believes in Sharing and Collaboration -Alone we are smart but together we are brilliant.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 23, 2015

'Imagine yourself trying to find a job when you don’t have a high school diploma. You go to a local community center and ask about the GED classes they offer, but you are too late – the next opening isn’t for months. Most people don’t get much further than this. Life intervenes and they drift away. Even for the persistent, there’s no guarantee they will find the services they need.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2015

'By D. Frank Smith Author Jane McGonigal and MakerBot’s Yuri Salnikoff led the first two keynotes of the conference.

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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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