The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 21, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As we prepare for school, learning the current best practices and edtech apps is a great way to get excited (and save time.) On Wednesday, July 28th at 11 am CDT (noon Eastern) and 4 pm UTC Pear Fair Back to School 2021 will kick-off. During the conference, I’m presenting a new presentation “8 Ways to Engage Every Learner.” The conference is free and you can register and see the schedule now.

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techlearning

JULY 21, 2021

Virtual labs are not just a pandemic thing.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2021

The pandemic has elevated the phrase “blended learning.” When schools closed or shifted to hybrid schedules, many institutions turned to blended learning to navigate the new demands placed on teachers and educational institutions. As an outspoken advocate for blended learning over the last 10 years, I was initially excited to see so much momentum in this area.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 18, 2021

Blended learning is something that is near and dear to my heart. For me, the journey began back in 2011 when we first introduced the flipped approach at New Milford High School, where I was principal, with resounding success. As I transitioned from the principalship to supporting districts and schools, I learned that blended learning was a powerful pedagogical strategy that could unleash students' potential while meeting their diverse needs.

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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

JULY 19, 2021

The time to get ready is now. After more than a year of remote and hybrid learning, many parents, teachers and administrators are worried about student performance come fall. But dwelling on the challenges imposed by the pandemic won’t help students. Instead, experts say, we should focus on solutions — ways to identify students who are struggling with online classes and bring them up to speed before it’s too late.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 19, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The farmer and his family were settlers in the Midwest. This family had a house in the middle of a large wheat field they had planted. And all around them was brush and rolling wheat as far as the eye could see. The farmer and his family worked hard and lived far from town or even the closest neighbor.

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Neo LMS

JULY 20, 2021

Let’s face it. Most physical textbooks have limitations: they aren’t current, tend to be dry, and focus on giving information without necessarily offering the best pedagogical methods for helping students learn. More and more, educators are relying on the internet to discover engaging activities, timely research, and the most current studies on how students learn best.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Across the nation, schools plan to open buildings for the return of full-time, in-person learning come fall. Students and teachers will be able to see one another outside of the tiny windows they’ve grown used to on Zoom. That is, if they really ever saw one another at all. The question of whether to require students to turn their cameras on for online learning has been a hotly debated one over the past 15 months.

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Ditch That Textbook

JULY 20, 2021

After enduring remote learning, teachers and students are heading back to the classroom. Here are some things to keep in mind. After more than a year of remote instruction, some schools are going back to school face to face for the first time.For others, they've been face to face for a while, but the remote […]. The post Going back to school face-to-face: 10 tips appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 23, 2021

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach writing and storytelling with comics: Book Creator –(iOS/Android) templates to create digital comic books and graphic novels. Canva –for templates. Friendstrip. MakeBeliefsComix. Marvel – Create comic strips and books with Marvel characters. Pixton.com. PlayComic –English or Spanish.

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Neo LMS

JULY 22, 2021

Vocational training looks different in various countries. For example, in Germany, vocational school graduates are more likely to be employed than their traditional education counterparts. Finland offers free of charge vocational education for all students and even state grants to help them finish their studies. . Having this in mind, in the U.S., 95% of Career and technical education students also graduate high school.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

When 2020 began, who could have predicted the number and scale of changes we’d experience with how and where we work? The pandemic — and IT decisions made in response to it — sent students and educators home almost overnight. It required them to adjust to learning processes that include virtual experiences and multiple devices. In fact, K–12 schools have been among the workplaces most affected by the pandemic-driven evolution in technology, and they’ve been forced to contend with these changes d

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Ditch That Textbook

JULY 19, 2021

This post is written by James Hunt, a 6th grade science and geography teacher in Southeast Missouri. James was selected as Teacher of the Year at his building in 2019. You can connect with him on Twitter at @Mr_JamesHunt. Have you ever tried stations in your classroom before? Stations are centers (or areas) set up […]. The post Getting started with learning stations in middle school appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2021

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: Computer safety. Category: Maintenance, Security.

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Personalized Learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Organizations have become more reliant on networking to help achieve both critical and aspirational objectives as they have struggled to maintain control, visibility and security amid a massive shift to remote work. These types of challenges are now not unusual, nor are they likely to be temporary. They have become the norm — defining features of the future of work, an environment which is decidedly a hybrid of both remote and in-person models.

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Education Elements

JULY 19, 2021

In my 22 years in the K-12 education profession, I have worked for, and led organizations that run the gamut - from those that are very process and compliance driven, to those that multiply and engage creativity. And yet, after experiencing, what some consider the ultimate freedom of being my own boss, I am excitedly joining the Education Elements team.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2021

Every month, we’ll share five themed posters that you can share on your website (with attribution), post on your walls, or simply be inspired. This month: . –for an entire collection of 65 posters, click here. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 23, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

K–12 school districts can build esports programs that support a variety of diverse student interests. These teams can help students build the same skills that traditional sports teach, and they can include any type of student. At ISTELive 21, we spoke with esports experts to learn more about how schools can start their programs and create inclusive teams.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 22, 2021

As educators, we must strive to place students at the center of the learning experience, encourage them to learn through a lens of interest, and enjoy opportunities to pursue their passions. However, inviting students to choose their learning “path” in the classroom may feel daunting. How do we support students in identifying something they are passionate or curious about and provide the resources necessary to facilitate their learning?

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Education Elements

JULY 19, 2021

A recent survey of more than 1,000 districts found that nearly two-thirds of districts are reporting teacher shortages heading into the 2021-2022 school year. To plug or refill leaks in this draining teacher pool, districts are increasingly leveraging stimulus funding to enact short-term solutions such as incentives and signing bonuses. But the foundational cracks in the teacher pool and pipeline are deep, widespread and found at every phase of the teacher lifecycle.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 17, 2021

Here are 4 great questions from my principal licensure students about how we do new teacher onboarding in our schools and districts: Has no one asked new hires what could be done differently to make them feel more welcomed and comfortable? Why are we not spending more money on keeping the people we have hired? There have got to be other areas we can cut back to make this better.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Unfortunately, the industry can’t keep blaming shutdowns from COVID-19 or the cargo ship blockage in the Suez Canal for the supply chain disruptions affecting many industries across the nation and around the world. From automobiles to K–12 classroom technology, it continues to be increasingly difficult for industry leaders to get the supplies they need.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2021

Even as students are sorting through information online more than ever, the number of school librarians who could help them learn the fundamentals of research and media literacy have been quietly disappearing. A report published today from the School Librarian Investigation: Decline or Evolution? (SLIDE), a research project through Antioch University Seattle and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, highlights an ongoing decline in the number of districts nationwide with school

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 21, 2021

In today's post I am sharing with you this collection of Chrome extensions to help particularly students with dyslexia enhance their reading skills. The tools bring added functionalities to Chrome.read more.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 19, 2021

Learn to code Google Docs. Start here. The post Coding Google Apps – Get Started appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition. So I wondered: What compels some colleges to double online tuition while others cut theirs?

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MiddleWeb

JULY 18, 2021

Because motivation is intrinsic, the two words Debbie Silver finds essential are ‘Empower Them.’ The teaching coach and bestselling author shares ways to help students grow into self-directed learners, using constructive feedback as the tool to help them see their growth. The post How to Motivate Kids? My Two-Word Answer! first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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