The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Angela Cleveland on episode 254 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Guidance counselors are challenged to encourage students into exciting opportunities that fit their skills and abilities but also to be careful not to stereotype. Today, Angela Cleveland talks about the tips, resources, and ideas to help encourage young women to go into Computer Science.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Most teachers groan at the mention of “articulation.” It’s not that we don’t see the value in the articulation process but getting everyone on the same page is time-consuming and cumbersome. In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. When teachers know what they are trying to achieve, they design lessons with intention and a clear sense of purpose.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

What Is a Modern Learning Environment? meghan.bogardu…. Mon, 02/12/2018 - 12:47. Education has shifted dramatically in recent decades — from an emphasis on fact memorization through “drill and kill” and “sage on the stage” teaching styles to a focus on higher-order thinking and future-ready skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. Along the way, schools have raced to incorporate technology, first through stand-alone computer labs, and then through one-to-one device initiatives and m

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We are fond of a quite in-depth approach on this blog, and try and drill down to the bare bones of a debate or subject, hoping to provide food for thought, as well as some unique references and sources. Today is different. Today I will put aside the complexities of migrating to a flipped , or tech-enabled classroom, and instead offer you a quick listicle of a bunch fun, useful, trendy and simple ways to bring tech to a classroom near you. 14 Quick ways to tech-up your classroom.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Day 37 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Do you know where you’re aiming? What does excellence look like? You can’t be complacent and strive for excellence. Excellence requires effort. “If you don’t aim for anything, you’ll hit it every time,” Zig Ziglar.

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Let students put what you're studying in MOTION. Animation is easy with stop motion Google Slides. (Icons via The Noun Project with NounPro account.)For years (centuries. really, millennia), students have had access to paper. And with that, they've been able to gather their ideas and turn them into static, two-dimensional images.To put those images […].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Ask a Tech Teacher routinely shares favorite websites and apps that make a difference in the classroom. Over the last month, readers voted on which tools had the greatest impact on readers. To award this Best in Category badge, we asked them to look for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about), the ones that made them say Wow and rush to share with colleagues everywhere.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Day 39 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Silence is not always golden, sometimes it is very dark and needs the light of the right word spoken at the right time. To be a good listener, we must not only hear what people are saying but also to hear the sound of silence. Learning when to speak and when to break the silence can make all the difference in whether we can be a more excellent person or whether we sit by and let thing

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Ditch That Textbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The Internet is a treasure trove of information and resources for learning. Not all of those resources are created equal, and not all were meant for the classroom. If we can find the right ones, it can transform an otherwise lifeless lesson. But how do we find the right ones? And when we do, how […].

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Technology Can Give All Students a Voice. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/13/2018 - 11:47. Holly Clark believes there are three simple things teachers should be doing with technology in order to use it to its fullest: make student thinking visible, give every student a voice and easily share work. Clark, an educational strategist for EdTechTeam , which bills itself as “a global network of educational technologists,” spoke at the TCEA Convention & Exposition about formative assessment tools that hel

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The Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Why don’t techies typically understand how to reach the Holy Grail of ed tech with their apps? In this week’s blog post we look to Kahoot! — a Jeopardy-style game — to better understand the value of making a teacher’s life easier!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Day 36 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Part of loving life is learning to laugh. The harder life is for you right now, the more you need to laugh. And I’m not just talking about watching a comedy but finding funny moments. So, today, think about the funny things of life.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

“Great classrooms are characterized by positive, open relationships, mutual respect, and a shared responsibility for the learning process.”- Robert John Meehan. School tragedies occur way too often nowadays. Often we find the students at the center of these tragedies didn’t feel they fit in. I know a bigger issue lies in dealing with mental health, but I also know too many classrooms do not help their students build relationships with each other and the teacher.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Principals Believe in the Power of Technology, but Schools Face Challenges Ahead. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 02/14/2018 - 16:56. Now, more than ever, school leaders believe in the power of technology to transform learning. A whopping 90 percent of principals surveyed in a recent MDR EdNET Insight report say they believe that technology is integral to student learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

After school visits, focus groups, design sessions, and dozens of interviews with superintendents and district leaders, Digital Promise is launching new initiatives to expand the impact and scale of the League of Innovative Schools. Our goal in this work? To advance equity and excellence. We will prioritize and practice the advancement of equity for the 2.2 million students our leaders serve, so that each student has access to high-quality, research-backed, innovative learning opportunities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Natalie Hampton on episode 252 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Natalie Hampton, a senior in Los Angeles, was bullied and ate alone every day. After she transferred schools, she found teachers and other students who wanted to make sure no one ate alone. Her “Sit with Us” apps and clubs are sweeping the US and other countries as kids use social media to find other kids and stand against bullying.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Education is changing. Again. This time, it’s not about iPads and Chromebooks; it’s 1:1 computing. More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

CUE 2018: Educators to Explore the Ins and Outs of Tech Integration. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 02/16/2018 - 14:59. When it comes to innovating with technology, sometimes teachers need a little help. Thankfully, conferences are the perfect place to learn more about the craft and develop valuable communities. From March 14-17, teachers, administrators, IT staff and thought leaders from around the country will head to Palm Springs, Calif. to celebrate the 40th anniversary of CUE at its annual spring co

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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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

You know the saying “The only constant is change”. Life means change, and every aspect of life is affected by it. Thanks to — or because of — technology change happens at a faster rate than ever before, and education makes no exception. Edtech is always changing. Edtech trends come and go. While some are worth following or at least worth considering , others fall flat in the abyss of time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Rick Rando on episode 260 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. School culture and policies are part of what helps us combat bullying in schools. Rick Rando, school empowerment speaker, shares what schools can do to help stop bullying. Check out Reinventing Writing , the book I authored that teaches about the nine collaborative writing tools, how to build writing communities, and tips and tricks for collaborative writin

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

America’s student math scores continue to drop. Headlines such as “ Less than half of Maryland students pass English, math assessments ” and “ Internationally, U.S. Students Are Falling ” have become so common, we are almost immune to the message. The knee-jerk reaction “That’s not my school; that’s someone else’s” has become the excuse for fighting efforts to fix kids’ math aptitude when those fixes are outside the box or difficu

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

CUE 2018. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 02/16/2018 - 15:06. Join EdTech: Focus on K–12 as our editors cover the Spring CUE 2018 conference. Keep this page bookmarked for stories the EdTech team. Follow the hashtag #CUE18. Event Image Toggle. Off. Feb. 16. 2018.

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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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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Always. Read. The. Terms. That’s the ‘digital citizenship’ lesson that an 8th grade middle school student from New York recently learned (“ How a kid cartoonist avoided Scholastic’s digital sharecropping trap “) when she decided to submit her artwork for a Scholastic Art & Writing Award , the “nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12.” In its most recent year of operation, students lik

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Day 41 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. To complain without action or to pour yourself out without reservation: both of these habits are a waste. Not all bad things are worth belaboring. All good things are not you-things that you have to do. Sometimes a desert of exhaustion and despair is of our own making.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Teaching technology is a difficult profession because people learn in different ways and at different rates. However, one thing that can make it easier for students to learn is for teachers to include instructions on basic academic skills like vocabulary, keyboarding, digital citizenship, and research. The better a student’s vocabulary, the easier it is for them to improve their comprehension and express themselves in oral and written form.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

CoSN 2018: K–12 Innovators Explore the New Age of Tech. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 02/14/2018 - 14:40. From March 12-15, thousands of innovative educators and IT stakeholders will gather in Washington, D.C. at the CoSN 2018 Annual Conference. With the theme of exponential change, thought leaders and presenters at the conference will focus on how to design learning for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. As a new year ramps up, so do goals for student achievement, curricular reforms, teacher development, and more. Setting high expectations, though, isn’t enough to guarantee that those expectations are met. After all, many of us set goals for ourselves every year that we fail to achieve.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Martha Rush on episode 251 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students can seem tired and bored, but we can engage them in learning. Martha Rush has ideas and inspiration to help us reach our students this week! Martha is the author of Beat Boredom: Engaging Tuned-Out Teenagers.

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Battelle for Kids

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We feel fortunate at P21 to work with a national network of Exemplar schools and learning centers that are anchored in best practices of 21st Century teaching and learning. That’s why we used our research on the network to form the structure of our Patterns of Innovation conference , set for March 27-28 in Napa, California.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

CoSN Conference 2018. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 02/14/2018 - 11:20. Join EdTech: Focus on K–12 as our editors cover the 2018 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Conference. Keep this page bookmarked for stories, videos and tweets from the EdTech team. Follow the hashtag #CoSN2018. Event Image Toggle. Off. Feb. 14. 2018.

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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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