MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The recent school closures due to COVID-19 mean that most students will not be returning to the classroom for several months. This situation has sparked a lot of conversation across the education landscape about how student learning will be impacted. At MIND, we know that school closures are exacerbating the existing problems with both traditional math education, and with society’s relationship with math.

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

As schools and districts across the country transition to remote learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. In this post, we highlight how HP Teaching Fellows Josh Luukkonen , Chad Sorrells , and Mahfuza Rahman are designing authentic learning experiences that connect learners with real problems and audiences.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Education will not be the same. Now before you think that this is a “doom and gloom” outlook, let me elaborate. The COVID19 pandemic has fundamentally changed our world more than we could have ever imagined. In the case of schools, there has been a dramatic shift to remote learning that has allowed all of us to reflect on where we are, but more importantly, where we want and need to be in the near future.

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Neo LMS

MAY 12, 2020

Faced with a pandemic that has dramatically altered the way we do practically everything in a matter of weeks, teachers, in particular, have been tossed outside of their comfort zones as schools remain closed and educators are asked to teach remotely. Read more: On challenges and opportunities: Emergency remote teaching. While this sudden turn of events has caused much anxiety for both teachers and learners, there have been valuable lessons learned about how we can leverage technology to benefit

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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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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Even amid the uncertainty of what the school year will look like in the fall, teachers are itching to get back to some semblance of normalcy. Greeting students at the door each morning, chatting with them about their weekend, providing in-person feedback on projects, and facilitating student-led conversations are among the many joys we miss during this pandemic.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

Donald Rumsfeld once said that there are three things we know - the things we know, the things we know we don’t know, and the things we don’t know we don’t know - and that it’s the last category, the unknown unknowns, that tend to be the most difficult things we encounter. The vulnerability of our global economy to a novel coronavirus may go down as one of the greatest unknown unknowns in our lifetime.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different. It is also true that engaging students in learning activities online will require (at least initially) that teachers onboard students to those technology tools and support them in learning how to navigate online tasks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 11, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The current education climate has created unique social emotional challenges for students, parents, and teachers alike. Today, Dr. Amy Cranston helps us understand how to create effective social emotional learning (SEL) environments online. As we move forward and plan, we need to make sure that the environments we create for learning help children thrive educationally and emotionally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2020

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Find Public Domain Images. Category: Images.

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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

At this point, you’ve probably heard enough of the recent changes brought about by the pandemic. While it’s important to discuss what is happening right now, we’ve had enough time to also think about the future. Specifically, many teachers are wondering: What’s in store for the future of education? As usual, these things are hard to predict and nobody has a definite answer.

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 11, 2020

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students, parents, and teachers have social emotional learning skills that are needed in today’s climate. Dr. Amy Cranston helps us understand how we can help our children (and families and schools) make it through this difficult time. Sponsor : In today’s challenging times, we know how critical it is to make sure kids are equipped with social and emotional learning skills to cope with the world around them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2020

Choosing what to do after high school used to be simple for those who had good grades: Apply to college. Now, not so much. For one thing, college has become increasingly more expensive and students are asking whether there’s enough value in what they get to offset the costs. Another worry: Colleges sometimes seem dangerous hotbeds of protests and riots.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2020

In this episode of The Balance , I chat with Rachelle Dene Poth. Rachelle is a Spanish and STEAM teacher, presenter, author, and lawyer! In 2019, Rachelle received the Making IT Happen Award and a Presidential Gold Award for volunteer service in education. She is a Buncee Ambassador, Edmodo Certified Trainer, Nearpod PioNear, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and Google Certified Educator.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2020

How can educational researchers ensure continued data collection in the wake of COVID-19? Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team is experiencing what many educational researchers are familiar with by now—an untimely intrusion by the COVID-19 pandemic that compromises data collection at the end of the school year. This is an especially painful prospect for projects using a pretest-posttest design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2020

Neuroscience and a Student's Need to Move From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Have you ever wondered why kids never stop moving? Suzanne Cresswell shares the neuroscience behind student’s need for movement. This is one of the most popular posts we’ve aired on the 10 minute teacher and right now is a great time to remember what we know about movement and student academic and physical growth.

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Waterford

MAY 12, 2020

School funding issues have been both brought to light and exacerbated due to the COVID-19 crisis. As schools adapt to teaching in these new circumstances, many educators are in need of resources to make their lessons accessible online. And existing issues, such as a lack of educational technology in schools with low budgets, have only become more limiting during this time.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 14, 2020

Google has been announcing a lot of things to support educators, students and families with remote learning. The newest is a Distance Learning specific resource and course for Educators. The course goes through a variety of topics and how to utilize G Suite for Education tools in each area. Topics: Instructional Design, communications, SEL and more are all covered, with specific examples of how to implement this in your classroom.

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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

MAY 12, 2020

The end of the year is unique. Google tools can help! Here are 20 ways to use them in class.?When the end of the school year is in sight, it's a time of excitement coupled with the importance of finishing the year STRONG.The end of the year is a time unlike any other.State tests are […]. The post 20 ways Google tools can make the end of the year ROCK appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 024 is below. Thank you, Michael Walker and Sean Beaverson , for sharing how the Edina Public Schools in Minnesota are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

School’s out, and it’s time for both teachers and students to relax before preparing for next year. But even over summer break, students still need educational opportunities so they can return to school strong and ready to learn more. Unfortunately, not all students have the same academic opportunities available to them during the summer. One of the most common causes of the achievement gap , or the differences in scores between disadvantaged and advantaged children, is summer learning loss (als

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2020

Educators are always looking for ways to meet the needs of English language learners in their school district. After all, the number of ELLs entering U.S. public schools continues to rise. In fact, they are the fastest-growing student population, according to the National Education Association , and by 2025, are expected to make up an estimated 25 percent of public school 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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. Below are some free resources to inspire students to enhance their STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) skills and also for Social and Emotional Learning. Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. But for now, some experts say to start simple: Take a short online course, for example, to see what students experience. (The in-depth workshop or multi-day training can come later.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

"Resilience doesn’t just mean getting back to normal after facing a difficult situation. It means learning from the process in order to become stronger and better at tackling the next challenge.”. – Quote by Donna Volpitta shared in Inside the Box by George Couros. A little more than a month ago, school teams transitioned to distance learning arguably overnight.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 13, 2020

Educators are always looking for ways to meet the needs of English language learners in their school district. After all, the number of ELLs entering U.S. public schools continues to rise. In fact, they are the fastest-growing student population, according to the National Education Association , and by 2025, are expected to make up an estimated 25 percent of public school students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 11, 2020

“Zen-Relaxed and not worrying about things that you cannot change.” – Cambridge Dictionary. Distance learning has transformed the routines and lives of all stakeholders- students, families, and educators. How do we reduce the stress and find some peace and balance? I recently presented for the Minnesota Distance Learning Summit, Teacher Zen During Distance Learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At first the closures seemed short-term, maybe a few weeks at most. Many teachers posted up at their kitchen tables or logged on from their couches—a temporary setup to get by until schools reopened and regular classes resumed. But day after day, it became clearer that there would be no swift return to normal. So teachers settled in—or at least tried—to their newly-virtual classrooms and made their home arrangements more manageable for the longer term.

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Education Elements

MAY 13, 2020

Every summer, I look forward to seeing the Little League World Series prominently displayed on ESPN. Over the past few years, we could see more and more of the journey teams would go through as they play their way to their final destination in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. There is something about the freshly cut grass, the metal bleachers filled with people from all over the world.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

Immersive technologies such as AR and VR have the potential to transform student learning in the K–12 classroom. They can help educators provide a hands-on approach to learning , accommodate students’ diverse needs and promote a sense of curiosity and wonder. “In an ongoing quest to maintain students’ attention, new visualization and interaction tools are a natural fit,” says Eric Abbruzzese, principal analyst at ABI Research, in a press release for their “Augmented and Virtual Reality in

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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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