A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 18, 2024
Do you ever feel virtually everything seems critical or important as a leader? Most, if not all, of us have been in this position repeatedly. What happens, though, is that we place an emphasis on tasks that seem essential but have little to no impact on student learning. Prioritization The reasons people often prioritize less essential tasks over crucial ones are multifaceted.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 20, 2024
Critical thinking is the ongoing application of unbiased analysis in pursuit of objective truth. Although its name implies criticism , critical thinking is actually closer to ‘ truth judgment ‘ based on withholding judgments while evaluating existing and emerging data to form more accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is an ongoing process emphasizing the fluid and continued interpretation of information rather than the formation of static beliefs and opinions.
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Ditch That Textbook
AUGUST 19, 2024
Student can cite AI in academic work. But should they? Here's some guidance for being more intentional about using AI in student writing and classwork. "Cite your sources."It's been the refrain of educators for ages. In research papers, we want students to practice pointing to reliable texts to determine accuracy. It's a cry for context and […] The post Can you cite AI in classwork?
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 19, 2024
Hello! Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of tech ed professionals who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Our primary focus is to provide technology-in-education-related information for educators–teachers, administrators, homeschoolers, and parents.
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.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2024
When it comes to student success, parent engagement is an often overlooked but key contributor. Decades of research, including Henderson and Mapp’s often-cited “A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,” affirm the importance of parent engagement, which leads to students being more likely to attend school, avoid disciplinary issues, achieve better grades and ultimately graduate.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 23, 2024
This post is a Noelle Gutierrez & Catlin Tucker collaboration. In today’s educational landscape, the emphasis on inclusion and creating the least restrictive environments for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) has significantly reshaped classroom dynamics. This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 23, 2024
I get thousands of visitors a day–over six million since I started. The most common reason why you-all drop by is for resources. I have lots of them–lesson plans, tips and tricks–but one area I have not enough depth is the experiences of fellow teachers: your personal teaching experiences your informed take on tech ed topics Education pedagogy If you’re interested in guest posting on this blog or start your own column, leave a comment below and I’ll be in touch.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
When it comes to student success, parent engagement is an often overlooked but key contributor. Decades of research, including Henderson and Mapp’s often-cited “A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,” affirm the importance of parent engagement, which leads to students being more likely to attend school, avoid disciplinary issues, achieve better grades and ultimately graduate.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 21, 2024
The post How Skill Recognition Can Create Equitable Pathways for Student Advancement appeared first on Digital Promise.
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2024
This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 20, 2024
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate me
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
Organizations across industries have more access to data than they’ve ever had before, but they’re still evolving when it comes to transforming that data into actionable insights. This transformation is especially crucial for customer experience strategies. In K–12 schools, CX doesn’t refer to customers in a traditional sense, but rather technology users such as teachers, students and families.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 20, 2024
The post Unlocking the Secrets: Best Practices in Micro-credential Implementation appeared first on Digital Promise.
Edsurge
AUGUST 20, 2024
As someone who views cooking and baking as hobbies, not chores, I follow a lot of food bloggers and recipe developers on social media. I subscribe to many of their newsletters. I, well, make and eat a lot of their food. Yet I’ve only come across one who devotes back-to-school season to easing the financial burden on educators. Deb Perelman, the best-selling author and food blogger behind Smitten Kitchen, has been running the Classroom Wishlist Project for three years now.
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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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 22, 2024
A lot of teacher-authors also read my WordDreams blog (for writers). In this column, I share the most popular post from the past month. AI in Writing I use AI judiciously and never without adult supervision. It is efficient if well directed, provides good summaries of articles on a factual level, and is fast if I’m not looking for clever, creative, complex, or any sort of conscience.
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
When people think of customer experience in the commercial world, they tend to think of call centers. The K–12 market doesn’t have call centers — or even traditional customers — leading many to believe CX doesn’t matter in education. However, in schools, the customers are the technology users: teachers, students and parents. And instead of relying on call centers, these stakeholders often need to communicate directly with one another.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 22, 2024
Hear the audio version of this story, from Vermont Public. BURLINGTON, Vt. — In his first year in graduate school at the University of Vermont, John Ball lived in a dark studio apartment in the basement of a building three miles from the campus. With utilities, it cost him $1,500 a month — more than the national median rent. “I just needed a place, and I was, like, OK, I’ll live anywhere, basically,” said Ball, who is working toward a doctorate in cellular, molecular and biomedical sciences.
Edsurge
AUGUST 19, 2024
For the past couple of years, unrelenting change has come fast. Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 21, 2024
In the past, I’ve gotten emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the “way things were.” I’m determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! … Could you please elaborate on how you run your class?
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2024
K–12 schools expend a lot of resources to prevent cybersecurity breaches. Implementing effective security measures and training users on proper cyber hygiene is a good start to keeping attackers away from valuable student data. But all it takes is one person clicking on the wrong link for attackers to find a way to breach a school’s defenses. This is when cyber resilience — the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyberthreats and incidents — becomes critical.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2024
Four years after the pandemic shuttered schools, we all want to be done with COVID. But the latest analyses from three assessment companies paint a grim picture of where U.S. children are academically and that merits coverage. While there are isolated bright spots, the general trend is stagnation. One report documented that U.S. students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning los
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2024
“You go into your own world for a moment. Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. “You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. It makes me empathize with other people.
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.
eSchool News
AUGUST 20, 2024
Key points: A creative and flexible approach makes the ELA classroom engaging 4 ways to encourage play in education How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum For more news on instructional trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As a former teacher and current teacher trainer, I have seen first-hand how challenging it can be to create English language arts (ELA) lessons that deeply engage students.
TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 17, 2024
Education has gone beyond acquiring knowledge to acquiring skills using EdTech tools; students learn digital literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking skills. Using technology in learning also enhances the student’s ability to appreciate and ponder on issues in a previously deemed impossible manner. Thus, tech serves as an additional tool for navigation, similar to how tutors and experts at a professional coursework writing service assist with developing writing skills.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 20, 2024
DURANGO, Colo. — For three dozen high schoolers, summer break in this southwest Colorado city kicked off with some rock climbing, mountain biking and fly-fishing. Then, the work began. As part of a weeklong institute on climate and the environment, mountain researchers taught the students how to mix clumps of grass seed, clay, compost and sand for seedballs that they threw into burned areas of the Hermosa Creek watershed to help with native plant recovery.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2024
This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. About nine months ago, Dara told me she was interested in bringing her mother and nephew from Syria to the United States, and she needed assistance. She had immigrated to Evanston, Illinois from Syria five years ago, along with her husband and five children and had a goal of reuniting with her family.
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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
eSchool News
AUGUST 19, 2024
Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden. But the definition of a classic in literature may be changing.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 20, 2024
To avoid experiencing co-teaching within an imbalanced power relationship, author, NBCT and co-teaching coach Elizabeth Stein shares a process that strengthens co-teaching through a dynamic exchange of individual and collective power – truly in partnership with one another. The post How to Create a Co-Teaching Power Zone first appeared on MiddleWeb.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2024
When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case. Like many Black students, I faced challenges throughout my academic journey, with math tracking being the primary one. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school.
techlearning
AUGUST 20, 2024
Many great AI-powered products are available for education but there are also some that aren’t yet a good fit for schools. Here's how to tell the difference.
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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