EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Here’s a look at back at some of the year’s most impactful and buzzworthy ed tech trends.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As concerns about fake news mount, it’s increasingly important that we expose students to high-quality news stories about current events and encourage them to think critically about those stories. The more informed our students are about the world around them, the less likely they’ll be duped by fake news stories. So, I was excited to stumble on Listenwise , which is bringing public radio into the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 18, 2016

For every education professional, adversity is a constant reality: lack of time, not enough resources, outdated facilities, resistant staff, and a slew of mandates/directives, to name a few. It can be difficult at times to envision and implement progressive change when you feel buried by these challenges. I wish I could tell you that these daily demands will dissipate in the near future, but that would create an allure of false hope.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 30, 2016

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” ~ Bill Gates. Throughout the year, I’ve shared many activities and resources to engage your learners with technology. Below are more than 15 ideas to try with your learners in 2017. Try picking one or two that you think would really motivate your learners to be more creative, problem solve, and think critically.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2016

How Words often Kill the Best Intentions From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We have too many standards. Many of you will agree, they are too long. In fact, some teachers I know spend more time aligning standards than creating lesson plans. With this in mind, we must ask, are these well-intentioned standards keeping us from focusing on the main thing?

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 8, 2016

EDTECH4BEGINNERS presents… Create. 6) ThingLink lets you add interactivity to an image with ease. Choose a picture and then mark hot-spots. When the hot-spot it is tapped, the video or text you have input will pop-up. 16) Canva – simply the most amazing app for graphic design. Posters have never looked so good! 13) Bossjock supports pupils with sound recording and editing clips.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. School. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide mo

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We are quite excited to share our very first interview here with Inkeri Martin, English Teacher from 51Talk. . 51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. 51Talk enables millions of students across China to take live, one-on-one interactive English lessons with North American teachers. 1.

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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As teachers, we’re so used to assigning homework. Students are used to doing it. It’s what we’ve come to expect as the norm. Why do we do it? We hope that kids will improve. We hope they’ll be smarter, or more resilient, or develop positive skills that will prepare them for the future. But does it [.].

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Some of the Things I Enjoy From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you’ve ever struggled to buy presents like I do, you probably ask people what they like to buy. Therefore, I am always looking at the blogs and newsletters of the edtech gurus and leaders I love to see what they love ALREADY. To help you with your buying, here are some things on my “enjoy” list and how I use them.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2016

A new acronym floating around at the moment is SAMR. But what does it mean and what implications does it have for classroom practise? SAMR stands for: substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition. It basically details all the ways technology can impact or not on learning. SAMR. Substitution. This is when teachers or pupils are using tech tools but in no different way to old ones.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez K–12 school districts have many reasons to cheer for computer science this week.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join the conversation on blended learning! After just two months, there are over 2000 readers engaged in Blended Learning in Action ! I am excited to announce the start of our #BLinAction book club discussions to help readers stay connected and share ideas about each chapter. We’ll take a deep dive into one chapter per week. The book chats will run “slowchat” style with one thought and one question posted per day throughout the week.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Guest Article by: Matthew Pietrafetta, Ph.D. Grit has been celebrated and critiqued by many in academic circles and the academic press, but the conversation has remained largely focused on the work and opinions of researchers. Less attention has been given to the day-to-day experiences of educators who are working to strengthen students’ grit and incorporate grit into classroom curricula.

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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This past weekend our minister asked us to consider what it meant to be ‘present’ within a community. Among other actions, she articulated two concepts – watching and naming – that she thought were particularly important for members of a community who wish to be deeply involved and fully present. Watching includes the acts of staying informed and of being a participant observer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Who Will Be the People to Bridge Racial and Cultural Distrust? From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Someone thought Dad was a poor dirt farmer. Here’s how they tell the story. You see, my father is a farmer in South Georgia. In the past, he’s been involved in various political campaigns in both political parties.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 11, 2016

HyperDocs are the creation of Sarah Landis and Lisa Highfill – expert educators. Hyperdocs sound complicated but they really aren’t. HyperDocs are basically online documents but rich in hyperlinks to other documents, images, websites, text and video. They have been described as interactive worksheets. How are they different to document with hyperlinks?

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2016

By Eric Patnoudes Online contractors help create video that highlights passion for education.

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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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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Whenever I work with teachers, I always have a YouTube playlist handy. It has videos that always seem to resonate, entertain, educate or inspire. I constantly find encouragement in videos that others share. And in a world where well produced, stunning videos can be created by virtually anyone, it’s easier to find than ever. Here [.].

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If the most recent U.S. Election has taught us anything it's that we live in an era of fake news and sites. With accusations flying of manipulation of stories, the media and voters, it’s truly hard to know if what we read on blogs, social media and other sites is actually the truth or a tale spun to generate clicks. To further compound the problem a recent study from Stanford shows that the vast majority of students can’t determine it what they read on websites is true or baloney.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When I was in high school, we didn’t have an ‘open campus.’ We were supposed to stay at school and eat our lunches in the cafeteria. Many of us would drive off anyway, hoping that we could make it back in time for our next class. We often were late because of the distance between our school and the fast food joints. But since I ran with a crowd of ‘good kids’ who got high grades and were heading off to college, we could stroll into class late – sometimes with coffee or an ice c

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How to Become a Master at Student Motivation From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Student self-motivation is, perhaps, the Holy Grail of teaching. In fact, the hardest days of teaching are when your students don’t care. In those circumstances, we start to wonder if we should care either. For example, have you heard some teachers complaining when student motivation is missing: “My students never study.” “My students just donR

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The ‘cloud’ is the term meaning a collection of online data which is stored online. Creating a classroom cloud is extremely useful because it allows for all the children’s work to be stored in one place and shared easily. Here are 3 tech tools which make creating a cloud nice and straightforward: Google Drive. This is the tool I use in my class to create a cloud.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Google surveys examine the impact of their products and apps in K–12 education.

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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I love listening to podcasts. They’re kind like personalized radio. I can pick shows that I like and listen to them whenever I want. Podcasts have been a driving force for me in becoming a better educator. I’ve listened to hours of them while driving, exercising or cutting the grass. I can take that down time [.].

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Brilliant or Insane

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Brilliant or Insane. Years ago, I decided to convert my boring traditional middle school classroom into a vibrant, student-centered, project-based learning environment. This was a monstrous undertaking that added a lot of stress to an already stress-filled job. In spite of years of hard work and frustration, I stuck with PBL, because I knew it was best for engaging […].

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

A couple of months ago I keynoted a STEM conference in Syracuse, New York. I talked a lot about the power of student agency and tried to give numerous, concrete examples of student-directed project- and inquiry-based learning in practice. We discussed the idea that the global innovation economy is pushing the skill sets of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving much deeper into the labor pool than ever before.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Answer the question "Why does my child have to do this homework?" From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you ever assign homework, you have likely dealt with the “Why does my child have to do this homework?” question from parents. In my experience, these complaints are often from parents who have different expectations about learning and the role of home and school than you do.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 29, 2016

WriteReader is a web based literacy platform that enables students aged 3 to 10 to create their own books while learning how to read and write. It empowers teachers to instil creativity in students by encouraging them to create, share and publish books whenever and wherever they want. It is a perfect English language acquisition tool for elementary teachers to support student writing and 21 st century skills.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We've all been there. We are sitting in a group of peers or strangers ready to discuss a topic but no one wants to take the lead and get things going. You need that one focal point for everyone to rally around to get things moving. Videos and images are a great way to jumpstart creative thought and to get folks talking. The same is true in the classroom.

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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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