Education Elements

MARCH 9, 2021

For most of us, summer school was a punishment for not passing a class. Sure, plenty of teachers (including myself) framed it as a second opportunity or a chance for more individual support. But at the end of the day, the hours spent in summer school are hours not spent working, looking after siblings, or just socializing. Especially in secondary grades, the primary – if not exclusive – purpose of summer school is credit recovery.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

The past year proved that digital transformation is no longer just important — it’s absolutely essential. During the pandemic, educators and students have increasingly embraced and relied on digital tools, from mobile devices to online learning platforms, to continue learning outside of traditional classroom settings. It’s not just learning enablement that makes digital transformation so critical to school-aged children.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

“Students don’t do the asynchronous work.” “Students don’t work unless I am monitoring them.” “Students will only do the work if I grade it.” I hear statements like this every week. Teachers are frustrated by what they perceive as a lack of focus, engagement, and motivation. I can empathize with their frustration, but I attribute these behaviors to underdeveloped self-regulation skills, especially in online and blended learning environments.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2021

I love coaching as it provides a lens to see how teachers and administrators act on feedback to grow and improve. It also provides evidence that strategies aligned to research and sound instructional design are implemented in practical ways. Even though this year has been dramatically different as a result of the pandemic, I have found myself even more busy supporting districts through job-embedded and on-going professional learning.

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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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Neo LMS

MARCH 11, 2021

More than a year ago, in the context of the international health crisis we are still facing, the entire world had to deal with unique learning circumstances. With schools being shut down, stakeholders, faculty, and institutional bodies had to reinvent teaching, exploring adequate alternatives to ensure successful learning. Experiencing this new reality in various ways, teachers and students around the globe tried their best to move education online almost overnight.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

When school districts went fully remote in response to COVID-19, the need for immediate technology — any technology — often superseded the need to choose the right long-term technology. Now, as more schools adopt hybrid learning models, school districts have learned more about what it takes amplify lessons for students both in class and at home. Even after the pandemic subsides, hybrid learning will continue to evolve the K–12 education landscape.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

As is my habit, I spend a lot of time exploring new ways to teach old subjects. Lately, I’ve concentrated on social studies. I chatted with my PLN, browsed forums where I knew efriends hung out, and taught a slew of online grad school classes to teachers who always are willing the discuss their newest favorite social studies tech tool. I picked everyone’s brains and came up with a list of five webtools you definitely must look at: Classcraft.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

Here’s a riddle for you: What came first: the practice or the research? You might say, “practice, of course!” The first teachers didn’t just sit around to collect data about everything under the sun. They had to teach others valuable lessons, such as Survival 101. While that might be true, the first teachers probably also did some research of their own.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

For K–12 education, it’s no longer a question of whether online learning is here to stay but, rather, how can we make it better for our teachers and students? Even before the pandemic, the situation in many areas demonstrated the potential for the meteoric growth of online learning. Although e-learning already provides a safe and viable option for educational continuity, school districts are investing in several advancements that will help to further and improve its adoption.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Why don’t more people drive a horse and buggy to school? They got the job done. They took us where we wanted to go — just slow. Sure, we had to feed the horses. And we had to live nearer to the schoolhouse. But a horse and buggy got us there. Didn’t they? Sure, cars are faster and can take us further.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Two math celebrations are coming up this month: Pi Day. World Maths Day. Pi Day. Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant ? (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of ? in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

Over the past couple of decades, teachers have seen a new generation of students: those who have never known a world without the Internet. Many of them grew up immersed in a digital world. They are the digital natives. The earliest digital natives are now sending their own children to school. Today’s teachers, many of whom are digital immigrants—people who transitioned from an analog world to a digital one—must find ways to reach digital native students and their caregivers.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

The SolarWinds hack at the end of 2020 highlighted ways in which hackers can use compromised applications and forged security assertion markup language (SAML) tokens to move into Microsoft cloud environments from on-premises systems. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and US-CERT recently issued an alert warning about the malicious activity, and providing information on how IT can secure on-premises and cloud systems to detect and prevent the threats.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

There are longstanding debates about testing in education. Some say we test kids too much and should do away with things like the SAT. Others think assessments still have value and must continue, but delivered in more modern ways. So, what’s the right amount? But what if that’s the wrong question? What if the way we think about testing and how we measure students is broken altogether?

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Personalized Learning

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MARCH 10, 2021

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 11, 2021

I love Google Classroom yet there are a few things I find odd that you can not do in Google Classroom. One is that you can not easily get a roster of the students in your class… in Google Sheets. Pretty much every day I want to check something off. Template Reuse Google Classroom I […]. The post Pop Out Your Google Classroom Roster appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has upended how schools operate, and IT leaders in school districts across the country have had to adapt on the fly in a variety of ways. Modes of learning have shifted dramatically, as has the role of technology leadership. During CoSN2021, we spoke with Pete Just, CTO and COO of the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, Ind., about how K–12 IT leaders have had to evolve toward a new normal.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

“I hope it works, I hope it works,” I muttered to myself as Tonja, the student teacher in our classroom, logged into Zoom to reach the remote learners in our class. As the program started, I couldn’t help but think how different her experience as a preservice teacher was from my own. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 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: How to add accents. Category: Languages, Keyboarding, Writing.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation. by Terry Heick. 22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation. The title is self-explanatory enough: Let’s look at some ways for students to learn from one another in physical or digital classroom. I’ve also marked which of these are also ‘digital and social media-friendly’–that is, useful online as well as off.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 3rd grade science. Developer: Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Developer: Stanford University Research. Curriculum. High school Advanced Placement.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

The following is an edited excerpt from Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education , forthcoming from Routledge. Nearly all of higher education moved online at the beginning of the pandemic. For longtime proponents of online education like myself, you might think it would be an accomplishment. Except that many students showed up resentful, taking digital courses only by force of circumstance, and the teaching they got did not always fit the medium.

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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.

Technology

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2021

Schools worldwide face difficult choices as they try to balance student and staff safety with their educational mission during the pandemic. All-remote learning eliminates the risk of an outbreak at the school, but at-home education doesn’t provide the most productive learning environment for everyone, and it can put at-risk students at a disadvantage for a variety of reasons.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2021

Quilgo is an excellent tool that allows you to time quizzes created on Google Forms. You can specify the duration of the quiz and choose whether or not you want to force forms to close when the.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. We’ve seen firsthand just how true this statement is at Benedict College, our small, historically Black college in Columbia, South Carolina. Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Investment in education technology over the past year shattered previous records. And some surprising new patterns have emerged in certain parts of the world. Brought to you by AWS Edstart, the edtech startup accelerator program. Learn more here , and apply to become a member or get involved today. See where the dollars are flowing, and learn how global edtech startups are working to meet this new demand.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

7 Principles Of Sustainable Learning: An Agrarian Learning Model. by Terry Heick. This post has been updated and republished. What would the opposite of the industrial learning model–the existing vision of most public education systems worldwide in the 21st century–look like? It seemed to me that it might work something like a farm or garden or other ‘human-designed but nature-based model.’ The big idea of this post is using nature as a standard for learning, but it also

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 8, 2021

Immersive Reader is an excellent learning tool from Microsoft that helps students of all ages and skills develop their reading. Immersive Reader provides a wide variety of features to enhance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson had a blunt message last month for anyone following the city’s charged debate about reopening schools. “If we are really serious about equity, we have to address the fact that many of our African American students are struggling in this environment,’’ Johnson said during an appearance on CNN, echoing a refrain that should be familiar to anyone following the debate to reopen K-12 schools for in-person learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Their noses are swabbed. Their exams are recorded. Their Instagram posts are monitored. During the pandemic, college students are surveilled very, very closely. The health crisis has introduced new forms of data collection into higher education, but these are largely changes of degree, not kind. For years now, tech companies have been selling colleges tools that collect information about how students learn, where they travel on campus and what they do online.

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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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