EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom tech and data will continue to boost learning outcomes.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2017

“When I engage in dialogue, I recognize that those I speak with are equal to me, and I work from the assumption that they hold within them wisdom, knowledge, ideas, and gifts.” That line from Jim Knight’s book Unmistakable Impact highlights the power of dialogue as a vehicle to learn from the people around us. The value of discussions can hardly be overstated.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JANUARY 19, 2017

Startup incubators provide access to experts around everything from sales to technology. They key is to find the right one and land a spot. The post Finding, Pitching, and Prospering Through a Startup Incubator appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 6, 2017

What we can learn from the media's silence about the South Georgia Storm Disaster 2017 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Is it that we don’t have a dead baby in a ditch like we had in the Camilla tornadoes in 2000 to get people upset? Is that Albany Georgia’s tragedy is ignored? Or is it just that the news media is so busy covering reality DC that they don’t have time to report on a storm that left 8,000 homes without power and my

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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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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 12, 2017

One huge drawback of using Google Classroom has beenthe inflexibility of creating assignments. Everything you assigned had to go to every student. Deliver assignments to small groups? Ha! Differentiate to subsets of students? Nah. Until now. Google announced a few changes to Google Classroom, and this one was the bombshell: assign activities to small groups [.].

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2017

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. I have been using them for my summer maker camp, with my gifted education classes, and for my upcoming Saturday morning program. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?” I laughed and told her, “It’s actually has become one of my passions.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

I don’t typically make “pie in the sky” New Year’s resolutions, but. this year I am bound and determined to move ALL assessment into the classroom! Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. However, there are three reasons I’d argue we should NOT spend our time outside of class grading: Our prep time is better spent designing creative and engaging lessons

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background? I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2017

Appreciating teachers and the role we play in the world From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Wow, you know as a teacher you just can’t turn it off. I was just in Walgreens picking up pictures, and as I was walking in, a little one-year-old decided to walk out through the open door. I scooted out and followed him and took his tiny hand as his alarmed grandmother was grateful I brought him back.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 2, 2017

In 2004, I was about to start my first teaching job. That’s when I got introduced to the world. I went on a 10-day mission trip to Uruguay. We drove the streets of Montevideo, a world capital that reminded me a lot of life in the United States. We walked through centuries-old Colonia del Sacramento, [.].

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Schools face increasing challenges as technology becomes integral to education. Efficient device management is essential for maximizing technology use and safeguarding investments. Our article discusses the importance of tracking devices, outlines current challenges, and suggests modern solutions that go beyond traditional methods like Excel. Learn how advanced tracking systems can streamline operations, improve maintenance, and offer real-time updates for better resource allocation.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 6, 2017

Apple TV’s allow you to stream your iPad screen to another device such as a projector. They are invaluable in the classroom and have so many uses. How do you set it up? It is really easy to set up an Apple TV. Watch the YouTube video below for details: How can Apple TV be used in the classroom? Show a pupil’s work to the whole class. Share a student solving a problem on their iPad with the whole class; they can present the information easily by talking through their methods.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2017

By Jacquelyn Bengfort Districts go beyond reconfiguring classrooms and prepare students to take their learning mobile.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 30, 2017

Check out my conversation with the lovely ladies who host CNUSDEchat podcast , which is officially launching February 1st! We had the opportunity to chat about blended learning, flexible classroom spaces, and the importance of placing students at the center of learning! Listen Now! The CNUSDEdchat podcast also has conversations with Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Jessica Fuller available!

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 14, 2017

Robyn D. Shulman, Author. My daughter turned 14 in November. As I reflect back on her childhood, I tend to do what many parents do: compare her life now to how my life was as a teenager then -my then seems like a different planet. To say parenting and childhood have changed over the past thirty years is an understatement. As I felt her move around in a mini-ocean that took over my body, I could never have imagined parenting would be entirely different than it is today.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 11, 2017

Derek Black said: [C]harters, vouchers, and other choice-like reforms are insulting substitutes for equal access to learning opportunities. They espouse the premise that all students are entitled to equal learning opportunities and reason that since students are not getting those equal opportunities in public school, they should be allowed to go elsewhere.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 30, 2017

Google Forms is a great tool for surveying others and collecting data from them. By using Forms in that way, it can save us tons of time. It can save us even more time when we survey ourselves. I can hear your response to that one … Wait, Matt … survey ourselves? Have you gone [.].

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 10, 2017

Binumi is a great tool for everyone to create videos on any device, anywhere and at anytime. Users get everything they need to create amazing videos: royalty-free footage, editing tools and publishing ability. What do the outcomes look like? Some of the things that students create are pretty wonderful and leave students feeling proud and accomplished.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2017

By Erin Brereton When properly implemented and supported, wearables such as virtual reality headsets and heart rate monitors can offer game-changing benefits to students.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 16, 2017

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest concerns I hear about is the fear of what students will find online. Teachers know it’s important to teach students how to search effectively, evaluate website credibility, and cite their sources, but it can be scary when teachers are working with younger students. One way to teach these important skills, while keeping students safe online, is to create a custom search engine.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2017

Recently it seems that innovation is a buzzword on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Need happier employees? Innovate! Need bigger profits? Innovate! Need better leadership? Innovate! Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Unfortunately, innovation is too often be touted as a silver bullet solution without even defining what innovation is.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. This is not a matter of instructor bias; it is the lecture format itself — when used on its own without other instructional supports — that offers unfair advantages to an already privileged population.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 9, 2017

Google Slides is such a versatile tool in G Suite (Google Apps). It goes much further than creating a slide presentation to show on the screen to the entire class. Mix in images — the visual tools that make instant connections in our brains — and you’ve got an engaging activity in the making. I [.].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2017

Are you teaching for tomorrow? It’s a question I often ask myself and educators in my professional network. In fact, this question has become the cornerstone of my personal educational philosophy, and a guiding principle for my team of high school social studies educators at Fairfax County Public Schools. Teaching for tomorrow allows us as educators to reflect on our profession and the experiences students are having.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2017

By Eric Sheninger By following a process, K–12 leaders can be assured they are making the most of education technology.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

JANUARY 14, 2017

Last month I was honoured to be interviewed on Corey Engstrom’s Teacher Tech Trails. Near the end of the podcast , I mentioned the ‘greatest’ injustices that we tend to do in more traditional schools and classrooms to three different kinds of students. While I would question my choice of the word ‘greatest’, I think these students are worthy of mentioning and there are enough of them to ask ourselves what we can do to better meet their learning needs?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 25, 2017

January 26, 2017 Critical thinking is a disruptive cognitive process that explores alternative ways of thinking about something with the purpose of uncovering silent and untold meanings.read more.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

As a New Year begins we all think about what we can make happen in this New Year. I thought it only appropriate to think about the idea of Making and Creating in education. In this article, I have some ideas to allow Making and Creating to become part of the school culture. Before continuing, I would appreciate having you take a moment to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email and follow me at ( mjgormans ).

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 24, 2017

I have a confession to make. I’m heavily invested in Google, being a Google Certified Innovator, using Google tools all the time and suggesting them to teachers. (No, that’s not the confession yet …) I’ve had great things to say about so many Google products over the years. Except one: Google Sites. I think “despise” [.].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

"It’s not working!”. A student raises his hand, sounding irritated and wronged. The look on this 11-year-old’s face seems almost accusatory; his code is not running and he sounds as if it is the teacher’s fault. During my early days of teaching coding to sixth graders, my immediate reaction was to feel apologetic for a lesson that was not going smoothly for students.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2017

By Jena Passut The former Reading Rainbow host shares the power of storytelling in his life and beyond.

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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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