EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Instead of spending hours in the library or trying your luck with search terms, you can simply ask a question and use its answer as a reference point for your essay. Bad Research Artificial intelligence can be used as a way to research topics more quickly. This is a more honest application of services like ChatGPT. Sounds great, right?

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Industry Classroom Guidelines Secondary 261

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Compare this to the old school way of doing research: spending hours in a large library and slowly filling out flash cards. Now research is as efficient as doing a Google search to find relevant websites and then bookmarking the site for later reference. Much of the information we gather comes from secondary sources.

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Tools Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary 156

Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

For example, in a survey investigating the impact of collaboration in the learning of secondary school Statistics, one school found out that students had a 11.8% Students can refer back to their goals should they get stuck at some point during their task. increase in the test scores following group-based learning activities.

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LMS Flipped Classroom Groups Blended Learning 197

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

She started the practice during COVID-19 lockdowns, when she couldn’t get to a library or coffee shop to work among other people as she had done in the past. That practice is called “body doubling,” and it refers to having a partner watch you do a task that involves focus to keep you in the zone. “A I’m an extrovert,” she says.

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Study Social Media Libraries Smartphone 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Some teachers (in some states) are taking this for re-certification. . Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? That’s called ‘learning’.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

Summer PD is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-8 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Some teachers (in some states) are taking this for re-certification. . Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? Just as they tell students, it’s OK.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Some teachers (in some states) are taking this for re-certification. . Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? That’s called ‘learning’.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Learning Common Core 155

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

As a result, Reynolds says, students in secondary and postsecondary programs often lack a sense of context or connectedness in their learning. TEL offers its library of general education courses to high schools, colleges and universities, and homeschool parents and organizations. For more information, please visit [link].

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Learning Education Outcomes LMS 111

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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Libraries Classroom Digital Citizenship Resources 75

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Once your school district makes the commitment to have a digital library, the next step is for people to understand how they can stay engaged. In just one year of having a digital collection, checkouts from the district’s digital library increased by 184 percent. Don’t forget to involve teachers in the digital library.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

During his career as a secondary school computer science teacher, he inspired students to create games and apps for social causes and implemented initiatives to broaden participation in computer science among underrepresented groups. It's not just out there on its own. It's not just the OpenAI website on its own.

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Policies Tools Microsoft Video 326

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world. Over 99% of the web fits into this category (YouTube, CNN, etc.).

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OER Advocacy Policies Libraries 112

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher. She also hosts the Bulldog Reader blog and writes about books, lessons, technology and all things library. Julie Hembree is a teacher-librarian at Cougar Ridge Elementary School near Seattle, WA. This is her 29th year of teaching.

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Education Chromebook Microsoft Company 219

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract. That’s cool.’”

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Libraries Study Exercises Course 168

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Behind the Headlines: News and Media Teaching Ideas The Guardian Foundation offers this collection of educational resources "for teaching students how the media works and how to write and interpret news, and can be used across the secondary curriculum." What is false information (fake news)? In this short guide, Webwise.ie

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Resources Social Media Libraries Guidelines 120

edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

Sarah Culp Searles, Supervisor of Library Media Services for Knox County Schools (TN), pointed out that many teachers don’t feel they have room in the curriculum for curiosity-borne projects, especially when there is an emphasis on teaching efficiently, generating high grades, and sticking to a schedule.

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Learning Secondary Trends Report 98

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. As an encyclopedia, it is a tertiary source.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

The sets model conceptualization, a skill that includes distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and using primary sources to generate and refine research questions. These collections of resources provide instructors ready-made materials for discussion or a reference point for students to use in expanding their research questions.

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Resources Libraries Classroom Conference 64

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. This is our routine every Monday.

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Secondary Classroom Strategy Google 52

iLearn Technology

MAY 8, 2017

Check123 is a great one to keep bookmarked on classroom and library computers for quick reference. The short format gives students just enough information to whet their appetites and encourage additional questioning. With Check123, they are sure to get some quality results back to kick start their learning and research.

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Video Libraries Student Engagement Classroom 64

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

Created for elementary and middle school grades, these banners are perfect for daycares, libraries, and learning centers, brightening spaces with lively educational content. References Cauley, T. Helping Secondary School Teachers Make Better Use of Audio-Visual Aids. A wise investment indeed! link] Logan, L. 6(19), 226-234.

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Classroom Elementary STEM Secondary 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 15, 2018

Avoid the trap of closing up your classroom library, centers, packing up textbooks, and so on a full month in advance. For secondary teachers (and others who see multiple classes each day), be sure to break down the jobs into tasks that can be completed within a single class period.

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Classroom System Libraries Secondary 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

David Simpson ([link] will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools. In general, references management software is expensive. link] CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE-FEATURED TEACHER CAROLYN STANLEY ( Classroom 2.0

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Blackboard MOOC Digital Citizenship Secondary 48

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

I’d venture to say that most of us could stand to learn a little more about ESSA and its potential for school libraries and the communities we serve. Deb’s presentation ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act: Implications for School Library Programs , shares critical background on the ESSA reauthorization and a plan for moving forward.

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Libraries Advocacy Broadband Learning 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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Future Ready Libraries Professional Learning Personalized Learning 46

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. Users may save citations and create alerts.

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Tools Microsoft Libraries Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. We piecemealed as much as we could in March and April 2020,” she said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” Denver Public Library Dev Camp : a week-long summer camp where young adults learn the basics of web development, including HTML and CSS, as well as an introduction to JavaScript. .

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. Bridges, churches, libraries, banks, colleges, and stores all appeared in 3d printing form in that gym, flanked by historical letters, old magazines, books, iPads, laptops, and busily working printers.

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Technology Moodle Secondary Blackboard 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. The clog of discouragement in the teacher pipeline starts in primary and secondary school. Washington teaches a class in 1916.

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Policies Outcomes Libraries Secondary 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 15, 2018

Avoid the trap of closing up your classroom library, centers, packing up textbooks, and so on a full month in advance. For secondary teachers (and others who see multiple classes each day), be sure to break down the jobs into tasks that can be completed within a single class period.

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Classroom System Libraries Secondary 45

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 3, 2018

Buildings included libraries, post offices, hotels, prisons, churches, schools, and homes. Perhaps we’ll cease referring to these as separate categories in a few years. Identify a local building of historical interest, then model it. It’s another example of digital and non-digital pedagogy blending together.

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LMS Libraries Secondary Laptops 44

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post. One possibility is research-oriented libraries mutating into entrepreneurial entities, aimed at business and with fewer professional librarians.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Do you have students or library users ages 9 - 17 that can answer the questions Do you have what it takes to put a robot on the Moon?

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Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education. One person thought shifting tertiary school content down to secondary could help reduce adjunctification, by (I think) reducing teaching hours in colleges. For example , Kristin Vogel : “Libraries ally, champion and offer expertise on this very value.

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