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Teach Critical Thinking

Ask a Tech Teacher

There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Worse, you’re either right or wrong with no gray areas.

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Best Monitors for Teachers: How to Use Pen Devices to Deliver Lessons 

ViewSonic Education

The best monitors for teachers solve an important dilemma in today’s digital age: how to keep handwriting alive while implementing EdTech classrooms? Contrary to many people’s fears, using digital touchscreens offers greater flexibility for teachers while driving student engagement. There are many other wins that follow and give liberty in terms of how the lesson is carried out for both online and in-class scenarios. .

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Genius Hour: 3 Strategies for Incorporating it in Your Class

techlearning

Educators Vicki Davis and John Spencer share tips for effectively incorporating genius hour into the classroom.

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Help Inspire the Next Generation of Creators and Change Makers

Digital Promise

The post Help Inspire the Next Generation of Creators and Change Makers appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Enhancing Higher Education with Generative AI: A Responsible Guide

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 Siri and Alexa Test

A Principal's Reflections

I absolutely love being at home. Having an intense travel schedule makes you cherish the little things that help alleviate stress and relax. One of my favorite pastimes is taking advantage of being outside any chance I get. Moving to Texas seven years ago meant the weather would stay warmer longer, making this more realistic. There is almost always music, whether in the pool, doing yard work, or hanging out with family and friends.

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8 Exciting International Literacy Day activities for students

Neo LMS

International Literacy Day activities take place annually on 8 September. It’s a perfect opportunity to spend extra time engaging students and motivating them to elevate their reading and writing skills. This year, its need feels all the more urgent. Many students have fallen behind in their education due to the pandemic. This is not a short-term problem.

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How to Make Math Class Student Centered

MiddleWeb

Fresh teaching ideas engulf math teachers each fall. Which strategies take priority as we seek to help students have the best year ever? Teacher and coach Mona Iehl recommends three: build classroom community, review and augment resources, and select engaging lesson formats. The post How to Make Math Class Student Centered first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Abbott Elementary: 5 Lessons for Teachers

techlearning

The popular sitcom Abbott Elementary provides laughs–and teaching lessons.

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Back to School with more free, NEW lessons from EVERFI

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Since last year’s post, 15 Real World Lessons You Can Teach Students Now , the free resources at EVERFI have just grown. From Financial Literacy to Mental Wellness to the Metaverse or vocabulary for younger children, EVERFI has even more free, world-class resources for you to use with your students.

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4 Best Practices for Improving Digital Learning Instruction in Your School Community

EdTech Magazine

Imagine this scenario: An office at the state or district level distributes a lengthy instructional guide to school-level educators and leaders. The resource is chock-full of sound, research-backed advice for effective teaching and learning with digital devices. The only problem? The resource goes unread by practitioners, who have a million things to do and not nearly enough time to do them.

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Enhancing School Device Management for Improved Learning

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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Back To School Websites

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to. BTS resources. BTS resources from Microsoft. Make a class photo in Pixton EDU. We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. Here are some of the past articles I think you’ll like: 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. 3 Apps to Help Brainstorm Next Year’s Lessons. 11 Back-to-school Activities for the First Month of School.

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10 Ways To Keep Your Mobile App Protected

EdTech4Beginners

Mobile devices are rapidly becoming the most common method for people all over the world to engage with the web, and the vast bulk of these consumers do so via mobile applications. However, because we rely so heavily on our cell phones, a security compromise may be disastrous to the user. Over 5 million applications are accessible on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store combined.

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

Edsurge

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic set this work back substantially; teachers and students went into survival mode and volunteer opportunities dried up as workplaces closed.

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Untether Tech in the Modern K–12 Environment

EdTech Magazine

The focus in K­–12 districts has long been on flexible learning spaces, but modern classroom designs are adapting now that most students are equipped with one-to-one devices. Many schools are conceptualizing configurations that move the traditional focus from the front of the classroom. Instead of placing a display at the front of the room, schools are opting for displays on mobile carts.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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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Take a Break–it’s Labor Day!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of September (this year, September 5th). It was originally organized to celebrate various labor associations’ strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. It is largely a day of rest in modern times. Many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

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Maximize the benefits of Social Emotional Learning in your Classrooms

EdNews Daily

By Kim Bollesen After attending a recent principals’ conference, I came back to my school with resolve, knowing exactly what needed to be done in the SEL arena to work with our single, onsite counselor. The problem was that I thought I really needed ten counselors, and we just didn’t have those levels of resources. With an SEL curriculum, we now have a way to get into all the classrooms without having to physically be in those classrooms.

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Teaching ‘Digital Native’ College Students Who Understand TikTok — But Not Microsoft Excel

Edsurge

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. But she found that assumption was wrong. “I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech.

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Report Reveals Barriers for Women in IT

EdTech Magazine

A 2022 report from Logitech and Girls Who Code looks at the barriers faced by women in IT and the forces driving their success. The organizations surveyed 400 individuals in tech and IT positions with the goal of understanding and addressing the barriers women face in tech and ultimately encouraging more girls at the K–12 level to pursue STEM careers.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are designed to help promote civics education especially among middle and high school students. Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more.

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Is it Too Little: Or Too Late?

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik Tick Toc. Approximately 13,800 district superintendents are staring down the barrel of a September 30 deadline. That’s the date that all those ESSER funds must be committed. Here it is, September already, and 40 percent of districts have spent less than 20 percent of ESSER III funding. Further, 60 percent have only spent about 30 percent.

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

EdTechTeacher

Guest Post by Jon Bergmann (Keynote of the Mastery Learning Summit on Oct. 21st, 2022). The pandemic has been hard on schools, students, and yes us teachers. One of the most devastating and demoralizing results of the pandemic has been that so many of our students are significantly behind. The Brookings Institute did a study and found that math and reading scores dropped significantly and that this disproportionately impacted students from marginalized communities. .

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Add-on the Fun with BookWidgets

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Add-on the fun in Google Classroom with BookWidgets. Easy to use for any teacher and student. Use the new Add-on to add directly to Google Classroom or add BookWidgets using the Chrome extension or sharing link. The post Add-on the Fun with BookWidgets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Best EdTech Tools That Helped Me During my PhD Journey

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Now that I am updating this post it has been three months that I defended my doctoral dissertation. I am happy and relieved it is all over. It has been a really hard but enjoyable journey. I learned a great deal from it and I am seriously contemplating writing a short book about my doctoral journey. In this post, I am sharing with you some of the digital tools and apps I have used during my PhD studies.

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Why State Universities Are Buying Up Online Colleges

Edsurge

Even before the pandemic, big-name colleges and universities were getting serious about online education. And that already-growing interest has ballooned since COVID-19 forced pretty much every institution to teach temporarily online. But we’ve seen an interesting trend in how some state universities have decided to get into online learning—with a big splash.

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What if we gave every teacher a work from home day?

eSchool News

School and district-based staff are understandably wary about the new school year. Teachers, the majority of whom are women, are struggling under the immense pressure of pandemic schooling. Many have worked long hours to try to support their own families while keeping up with the demands of online teaching and changing COVID-19 protocols. Teacher retention rates were already declining pre-pandemic, and the shortage of educators across roles may be widening.

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My Classroom or OUR Classroom??

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

If you are striving for a student centered classroom does your syllabus indicate that this is MY class or OUR class? Are students afraid to deviate from the directions? Do they think they can advocate for their own learning or are restricted to following the directions? The post My Classroom or OUR Classroom?? appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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3 Powerful AI-powered Tools to Create Educational Visuals

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making huge inroads in the world of learning with more and more teachers and educators embracing its educational potential. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you a series of posts covering the the topic of AI and its use in education. Stay tuned. The purpose of today's post with you a sample of AI-powered tools (courtesy of Harsh Makadia ) that can help you create awesome visuals and images to use in your instruction.

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OPINION: Former middle school teacher says older students aren’t getting the reading help they need

The Hechinger Report

It’s been years since I was a Los Angeles middle school teacher, but I still remember my students as if they were in my classroom yesterday. There was sweet Alberto with the mischievous grin that made me wonder how sweet he really was, and shy Sara who stuffed notes of appreciation into my hands and ran away before I’d have the chance to thank her. There was please-let-me-help Milena, who always wanted to sweep, pass out papers or put books away.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Emojis

Gaggle Speaks

In the fall I had a group of mothers approach me after a seminar to ask me about what they were calling ‘picture texting’ as a cause for concern that their children were losing their grasp on the English language. I immediately realized that this is not about an inability but rather an intentional choice to move to what I call a teen dialect that helps evade oversight from adults.

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BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS

American Consortium for Equity in Education

WINNERS OF A $10,000.00 GRANT! BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS We welcome Superintendent Dr. Anitra Wells and Vlada Lotkina, President of CLASSTAG, which awarded the grant. Thanks and congrats to you both! ………………………… Everything we do is. Keep Reading BUILDING A CLASSROOM COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON CITY (NC) SCHOOLS.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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.