EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 25, 2023

Educational technologies, when carefully designed and thoughtfully applied, have the power to amplify the impact of high-quality teaching and learning. In this workshop presented at #FETC 2023, participants explored specific technology integration strategies that can help take Project-Based Learning experiences to the next level! We unpacked each element of the PBL design process, from driving questions to student exhibitions, and explored powerful ways that edtech can enhance each of these expe

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Student data privacy has been at the forefront of district leaders’ minds well before the pandemic. However, since COVID-19 shifted schools and classrooms online, it’s not surprising that tech usage has reached an all-time high. Districts are accessing 1,400 edtech tools per month on average, and cybersecurity attacks in our nation’s schools are also increasing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

I published this several years ago, but with the current dissatisfaction of many parents with traditional education, it’s worth revisiting. Purpose Driven Learning (or PDL) is a concept coined by Michael Matera and Adam Moreno to summarize the philosophy that each learner’s inner strengths can be unlocked by focusing with purpose and drive.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Subscribe today! I really wanted a bot to write this. But when I asked ChatGPT to write me a higher education newsletter for The Hechinger Report, the one that it produced really wasn’t very good.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

Teacher retention is anticipated to become one of the biggest challenges in K–12 education in 2023. Educators are leaving the profession in droves, with numerous states facing severe teacher shortages heading into the 2022-2023 school year. In the past two years, job dissatisfaction among educators has increased sharply, according to data from an American Federation of Teachers survey.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 23, 2023

The post Improving the Odds: A New Study to Improve Undergrad Math Results appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 24, 2023

Raise your hand if you are still trying to fill teacher vacancies, even though it’s the end of the first semester. How about if you’ve had teachers start the year, but they’ve since exited? Maybe you’ve heard this: “I’m considering not staying another year because even though I love my students, I no longer feel connected to the work.” These experiences represent an aspect of our current educational landscape.

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techieMusings

JANUARY 24, 2023

I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with the team at Kami, creating a series of micro tips. These tips were initially posted on Kami’s TikTok and Instagram channels. To make it easy for you to watch them all in one place, I’ve compiled them into one video. You can use the table of contents below to navigate to the tip(s) you’re looking for!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

One day, when Nicole M. Joseph was in the third grade, she raised her hand in class to answer a math question. The teacher did not call on her. Her mother happened to be standing outside the door observing the classroom and was unhappy about what she saw. It seemed to her that Nicole, a Black girl, was being ignored by her teacher, a white woman. So she saw to it that her daughter moved to a different class — an advanced class.

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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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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Use student data to personalize learning: The concept isn’t new. Educators have been doing it as long as they’ve been in the classroom. The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data. Where technology now plays a role is in scaling the use of data. Educational technology tools are gathering immense amounts of student data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some students just don’t like writing. A page filled with black-and-white words intimidates–or bores!–them making it almost impossible to explain their ideas for an assignment. That is one reason graphic novels are becoming so popular–telling a story or thoughts with a blend of images and words The drawback is finding a photograph that fits the assignment requirements in a legal, copyright-appropriate manner.

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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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Personalized Learning

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. It’s September 2021 and as one of the district’s instructional technology content leaders, I have finally been given the green light to host in-person professional development (PD) for this group of eager teachers after months of mee

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although education has undergone rapid changes in the past few years, many of the processes have stayed the same. At this year’s Future of Education Technology Conference, Alberto and Mario Herraez, also known as the eTwinz, opened with this thought starter in their Thursday session, “Fostering Self-Regulation Skills and Personalized Learning in an Elementary Setting.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2023

Do your first graders love vehicles? Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about them: Build a car–abcya Design your very own vehicle with ABCya’s Create a Car! Choose from cars, trucks, buses, and even construction vehicles. Customize your vehicle with different wheels, engines, and more. Enjoy the ride! Vehicle Puzzle –click and drag puzzle pieces into place for this picture Freight Train Cars –video about all the cars in the freight train from Railway

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2023

The post Understanding Two Powerful Student-Centered Product Certifications: Universal Design for Learning and Learner Variability appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

I love learning. As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. Despite my love for learning, I strongly disliked most professional development sessions.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you are a novice or an expert, the 2023 TCEA Convention & Exposition will offer attendees their pick of hundreds of sessions focused on the intersection of education and technology. With the theme of “Passionate Educators. Limitless Possibilities,” the four-day event begins Monday, Jan. 30, and runs through Thursday, Feb. 2, in San Antonio. The conference will feature something for everyone, from teachers and librarians to IT staff and school administrators.

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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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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. While the curriculum and learning standards are of course important, you can’t simply put all of your focus on academics. To develop a productive classroom full of learning opportunities, you need to focus on building relationships with students.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGPT. The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Educators are frequently thinking about the future. They’re preparing young learners for a world that doesn’t yet exist, but will in five or 10 or 15 years. But how can anyone prepare for what’s coming in 40 years? How can that future be imagined? These are the questions Anne-Marie Imafidon posed to the Future of Education Technology Conference audience Wednesday during her keynote presentation, “The Tech Landscape and Cultivating Leaders of the Future.

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techlearning

JANUARY 23, 2023

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

When 15-year-old Ka’iulani Iaea first moved schools, she struggled. She missed her friends and familiar teachers. Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It was very hard and rough because I hate change. But being able to feel the music and express myself freely made it very much easier for me,” the high school student shared on the Tamron Hall Show during the announcement of the 2023 Lewis Prize awards for commun

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s accepted wisdom that good relationships between teachers and their students lead to students who are willing to work harder in the classroom. Could those positive feelings also have an impact in the other direction, leading teachers to up their instructional game? As it turns out, yes. A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the expo hall of the Future of Education Technology Conference, there’s an esports theater. It’s surrounded by esports-adjacent vendors, such as CDW and Spectrum Industries, and it’s almost always bustling with curious conferencegoers. Beyond the theater, conference organizers lined up roundtable discussions on esports leadership, Intel-sponsored esports sessions and a “meet the author” experience with the education program manager for Epic Games.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2023

Project-based learning is all about student inquiry, collaboration, creation, reflection, and sharing with an authentic audience. Book Creator is designed to enhance all of this, and more! Here are four reasons why Book Creator is so well-suited to PBL experiences. Ease of Use for Student Creation Versatility in Student Products Robust Accessibility Features Simple and Effective Publishing Learn more and access tons of examples and teacher resource guides in the presentation below from FETC 2023

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Virginia psychologist Daniel Willingham Credit: Adam Mohr for Simon & Schuster Daniel Willingham is a University of Virginia psychologist who frequently engages in pop culture battles armed with academic research. He has made it a personal crusade to persuade teachers that the idea of learning styles is a myth. (Research evidence shows that we all learn through a variety of ways: visually, aurally and kinesthetically.

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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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