Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. School. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide mo

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We are quite excited to share our very first interview here with Inkeri Martin, English Teacher from 51Talk. . 51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. 51Talk enables millions of students across China to take live, one-on-one interactive English lessons with North American teachers. 1.

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Brilliant or Insane

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Brilliant or Insane. Years ago, I decided to convert my boring traditional middle school classroom into a vibrant, student-centered, project-based learning environment. This was a monstrous undertaking that added a lot of stress to an already stress-filled job. In spite of years of hard work and frustration, I stuck with PBL, because I knew it was best for engaging […].

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We've all been there. We are sitting in a group of peers or strangers ready to discuss a topic but no one wants to take the lead and get things going. You need that one focal point for everyone to rally around to get things moving. Videos and images are a great way to jumpstart creative thought and to get folks talking. The same is true in the classroom.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 26, 2016

To this day I still remember the article that I read about Twitter in the Staten Island Advance one cold Sunday in March of 2009. As someone who was totally against the use of social media for both personal and professional reasons, that article was intriguing to read as it essentially reinforced my negative perception. However, as I neared the end of the piece a light bulb went on.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2016

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Here’s a look at back at some of the year’s most impactful and buzzworthy ed tech trends.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Guest Article by: Matthew Pietrafetta, Ph.D. Grit has been celebrated and critiqued by many in academic circles and the academic press, but the conversation has remained largely focused on the work and opinions of researchers. Less attention has been given to the day-to-day experiences of educators who are working to strengthen students’ grit and incorporate grit into classroom curricula.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The best gift that we can give our students is the gift of self-actualization. Every day, every hour, in every class and every school we should be asking ourselves, “Is this an environment in which our students are discovering and nurturing their interests, skills, and talents to become their best selves and make a positive difference in the world?”.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The notion that teachers can thrive as entrepreneurs is just rising to the surface, despite the ed-tech startup industry’s rapid growth. So, what can other teacherpreneurs do to get to this place faster? The post Four Important Steps When Going From Teacher to Ed-Tech Entrepreneur appeared first on Market Brief.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

There are people who believe that they are only responsible for educating their children until they start some organized form of education: preschool, kindergarten, primary, and so on. Like most of you probably, I don’t agree with that. The human brain learns continuously, throughout our entire lives, from the moment a baby becomes aware of its surroundings.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now!

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 29, 2016

WriteReader is a web based literacy platform that enables students aged 3 to 10 to create their own books while learning how to read and write. It empowers teachers to instil creativity in students by encouraging them to create, share and publish books whenever and wherever they want. It is a perfect English language acquisition tool for elementary teachers to support student writing and 21 st century skills.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Making a difference using positive influence; we love this story and couldn’t be more proud to share it. Thank you DJ Khaled-for making a difference helping students find their paths, follow their dreams and for giving back to the community in countless ways. Get Schooled and Khaled bring student contest winner for the “Get Schooled Goes to Harvard” contest for first hand campus tour and attend “Khaled Keys Class” featuring Q & A with Harvard Business School’s Professor Anita Elberse.

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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wow. The end of 2016. The education scene has seen a continued push in several big areas. Google Apps (now called G Suite), the maker movement and design thinking didn’t start in 2016, but they’ve grown bigger and bigger in 2016. 3D printing, drones, virtual reality and augmented reality have slowly crept into classrooms all [.].

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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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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. Regardless of age, grade level, and setting, I include hands-on and experiential learning as a integral part of my instruction. It is learning by doing with a reflective element which, in turn, creates conditions for deeply engaged learning.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

am·bi·gu·i·ty. noun. • uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. synonyms: vagueness, obscurity, abstruseness, doubtfulness, uncertainty; • a lack of decisiveness or commitment resulting from a failure to make a choice between alternatives. Ambiguity has potential to be a catalyst to new learning. It can be the spark to kindle lateral thinking and creative solutions to huge problems we face.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Integrating technology into your classroom can be overwhelming at first—especially navigating the different resources and district technology support staff that are available to you. But once you know how to get the most out of those resources, your life becomes much easier. Below, we dive into three potential resources and their intended purpose, so you can keep classroom devices working and redefine the way you approach your curriculum with the use of technology.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Immersive VR Education have recently won their fifth International award for their educational experience, Apollo 11 VR. The company have taken out Best Educational Experience at the Proto Awards held in Hollywood over the weekend, after being nominated for five awards. It was an exceptionally proud moment, as both their Apollo 11 VR experience and Engage platform were nominated in the same category.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2016

This is the second part in our series, 4 Ways to Make Sure Your Students Feel Their Degrees Are Worth the Cost, by Pete Wheelan, CEO of InsideTrack. As students progress (or fail to), they need support in the forms of frequent feedback, updates on far they’ve come and how far they have to go, and monitoring systems to raise red flags for support staff if they get off track. 3.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In the 1980s, the organizational leadership world was introduced to the concept of the intrapreneur. Simply put, intrapreneurship is a working style that emphasizes innovation and risk-taking – traits we associate with entrepreneurs. The difference is that intrapreneurs use these skills within, and for the benefit of, an established organization. I consider myself a serial intrapreneur because I constantly look for ways to encourage innovation at every company I am in.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

A couple of months ago I keynoted a STEM conference in Syracuse, New York. I talked a lot about the power of student agency and tried to give numerous, concrete examples of student-directed project- and inquiry-based learning in practice. We discussed the idea that the global innovation economy is pushing the skill sets of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving much deeper into the labor pool than ever before.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2016

December , 2016 As we have pointed elsewhere, in a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really.read more.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

You know the drill—with the winter holiday celebrations come those familiar “Top Ten Lists.” Top ten films of 2016. Top ten books on the New York Times bestseller list. In keeping up with tradition, we here at EdSurge like to throw our hat in the ring with a selection of the top ten most popular tools from the year. But here’s the twist--we don’t choose them.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 18, 2016

At university, I was lucky enough to have some amazing lecturers, including Steve Wheeler. Steve Wheeler is Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at the Plymouth Institute of Education where he chairs the Learning Futures group and leads the Computing and Science education teams. Steve was always keen to prepare us as teachers for the future and share the implications it might have on our practise.

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Teacher Tech

DECEMBER 26, 2016

10 Google Apps Tricks to Learn for 2017 1. Force a Copy When I create templates I like to share the templates in a way that prompts the user to create a copy. Notice if you go to alicekeeler.com/poo that it does not take you directly to the document but rather asks you to copy it […]. The post 10 Google Apps Tricks to Learn for 2017 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Dear Santa, I hope that you noticed how good I was this year! I even learned how to make more friends at school this year! We had these special days at the beginning of the school year where our teacher talked about bullying. My teacher talked to me about why I was mean to the other kids sometimes and I told her I just get mad at them because they are smarter than me.

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Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

Apple empowers educators and students by design. Whether using Macs, iPads, or Apple TV, Apple devices encourage creativity and can simplify teaching with apps to make the classroom more flexible, collaborative and personalized for each student. To unleash the full potential of the technology and create the best learning environment, you need to understand the tools and resources available, and develop an education-focused, comprehensive plan, from equipment purchase to deployment, management an

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When I was in high school, we didn’t have an ‘open campus.’ We were supposed to stay at school and eat our lunches in the cafeteria. Many of us would drive off anyway, hoping that we could make it back in time for our next class. We often were late because of the distance between our school and the fast food joints. But since I ran with a crowd of ‘good kids’ who got high grades and were heading off to college, we could stroll into class late – sometimes with coffee or an ice c

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2016

[ Editor’s note: This piece was originally published here on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog.]. One of the core ideas of the Christensen Institute’s research on innovation is that technologies improve over time to better meet the needs of the people they serve. For example, early smartphones supported only basic apps such as email and web browsing; but, over time, these devices have added functionality to support a huge variety of apps that have dramatically changed how peop

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. The spotlight on these companies have since dimmed, yet they continue to expand their footprint.

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District Administration

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Thought leaders weigh in on a wide range of topics affecting K12 education Tim Goral Education faces no shortage of important challenges in the quest to improve our nation’s schools. Whether it’s the debate over testing, racial issues, learning standards or shrinking funding, 2017 promises to be a year of change—for better or worse.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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