Doug Levin

JULY 5, 2015

Most mornings, over a cup of coffee, I do my daily reading of news about trends and issues related to education and technology – a practice I have more or less followed for at least the past 20 years. I think I’ve learned a few things about how the press covers technology in education over this time (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and have recently started sharing some of the best and most interesting of what I find in a section of my website entitled What I’m Reading.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 31, 2015

In my last post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I provided a blended learning strategy that creates more time in the classroom for teachers to work individually with students. This week I was presenting on technology infused reading strategies and resources for K-5 teachers and wanted to share them.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2015

Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward ! . The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. – John F. Kennedy. When I first began teaching, I remember meeting a veteran teacher who carried a big bag with her everywhere. I forgot what the situation was but I remember her coming to the rescue with masking tape, scissors, and Post It notes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 31, 2015

Multi-user licenses are going up in price October 1st. This includes licenses for: student workbooks. teacher resources. teacher webinar–training. If you’re planning to purchase one, save 25% by purchasing yours now: Room. School. District. Questions? Email askatechteacher@gmail.com or zeke.rowe@structuredlearning.net.

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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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The Journal

JULY 28, 2015

There has always been a chasm between what educational researchers do in their labs and what educational practitioners do in their classrooms. There is no well-defined path for taking an idea from research and putting it into practice. In this week’s post, we discuss the different paths across the chasm that Logo (the programming language) and the graphing calculator took.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2015

As I am driving my SUV and family guinea pig from Staten Island, NY to Texas (more to come on this later) I took the opportunity, when my father was at the wheel, to peruse my professional Facebook page. As I looked through my updates I noticed that I had posted quite a few quotes, ideas, thoughts, and opinions on leading change. The idea then popped into my head that I should archive all of these in a blog post.

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User Generated Education

JULY 27, 2015

Discussions have occurred around some maker circles about what actually is making as related to maker education. I have proposed that the heart of making is creating new and unique things. I also realize that in order for this type of making to occur, there needs to be some scaffolding so that maker learners can develop a foundation of knowledge and skills.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2015

Part of the Effective Technology Integration tips category! In a few weeks, school starts again. This is the best time to begin connecting with students and getting them to connect with their peers. Try something new this year! Get students to talk about themselves by presenting selfies they have taken as part of a mission you have sent them on. First, get students to watch the video, Around the World in 360° Degrees , and reflect on it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2015

In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten several 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?

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 31, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Teachers worry about the Common Core, high stakes testing, accountability, parent complaints, and many other issues that face educators daily. What if you could stop worrying? What if there were quick fixes for your school and classroom that you can implement right now? Sound unrealistic? It’s not. The answer is easy: Instead of using the old committee […] The post 10 Quick Fixes That Every School Can Implement Immediately appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 30, 2015

Everyone who reads this blog knows I'm a huge fan of Chromebooks , especially for education. One area that I get asked about often is 3D CAD and 3D Printing. So here is some info. I am by no means an expert on 3D printing though. Tinkercad is a completely web-based, 3D CAD system that works on Chromebooks. I've used it and found it easy to use and pretty powerful (and I've used systems like CATIA, Pro-Engineer and SolidWorks).

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2015

By D. Frank Smith An Iowa school district plans to have its principals wear cameras to record their interaction with students.

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User Generated Education

JULY 26, 2015

We are living in an age of advanced user-driven technologies, information abundance, and networked, participatory learning. It should logically follow, then, that education should take advantage of these amazing developments. As many of us in education know, it has not. This theme has permeated many of my blog posts: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 29, 2015

July 30, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 15. Sitting in the Atlanta airport watching the planes and passengers come and go, it occurs to me that traditional educator preparation has been a bit like an airport-most of the "customers" (students) treated identically, with the common goal of getting from here to there, from to home to graduation. Teachers have been taught to act as sole pilots, in complete control of their classrooms.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

Lesson planning used to mean filling in boxes on a standard form with materials, goals, expectations, assessments–details like that. Certainly this is valuable information, but today’s lesson plans–like today’s lessons –demand less rote fill-in-the-blanks and more conceptualization, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 26, 2015

Brilliant or Insane Like many educators, I have the good fortune to know and love quite a few school counselors, social workers, and psychologists. I hang out with them inside of the schools that I get to work in, and I get to spend quite a bit of time with them socially as well. It’s very good for […] The post 10 Summer Habits Teachers Should Carry into the New School Year appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 30, 2015

CK-12 , a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that it is integrating with Google Classroom. Google recently updated Classroom to allow third parties to integrate and share with Classroom and CK-12 has just done that. The Google Classroom share button is now in CK-12 so teachers and students can access all of the content in CK-12 from within Google Classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 31, 2015

By D. Frank Smith Should you upgrade to Windows 10? These new features could help empower your classroom and research.

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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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TeacherCast

JULY 31, 2015

The other day I was daydreaming while playing around on YouTube. While I was searching for background music to put on while podcast editing, I came across this pretty awesome video. As a child of the 80’s (weren’t we all?) the nostalgic themes from Super Mario Bros will forever be in my heart. Enjoy this pretty cool video. Oh yeah… the piano is SHAPED LIKE A NINTENDO!

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 27, 2015

July 28, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 14. Driving Question: How to help new teachers face the preassures of this century's classroom? When was the last time you felt like a blind person feeling the leg of an elephant and said "This tree trunk is certainly thick and round' only to hear another voice whisper, "What a long snake!" The story of the blind men and the elephant paints a convenient picture of this month's post authors.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2015

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: Sometimes, I just can’t remember how to accomplish a task. Often, I know it’s simple. Maybe I’ve done it before–or even learned it before–and it’s lost in my brain.

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Brilliant or Insane

JULY 25, 2015

Brilliant or Insane You can’t imagine the excitement I felt when I read the email telling me that 100 Word Challenge had been accepted at #ISTE2015 in Philadelphia! For those of you who don’t know about 100WC (where have you been?!), it is a weekly writing project for students under 16. I set a prompt of a few […] The post ISTE and 100 Word Challenge Founder Collide appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 31, 2015

Cheryl Morris asked me if students can create their own curriculets , embedding questions and quizzes inside a text. Her plan: have students work in groups or as individuals to create their own curriculets and share them with other students to read and answer the questions/quizzes-- like a suped-up literature circle! What a great idea to promote higher level thinking!

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 31, 2015

Long summer days are still here and we hope you are relaxing and enjoying them. In case you missed anything this week, we have compiled posts and tips from EdTechTeacher instructors and friends.

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2015

It’s July 29, 2015, a day that will go down as Windows 10 day! I was excited to wake up this morning and download the latest FREE operating system on my Surface 3 tablet. The install was very smooth taking about an hour and a half. There are several great new features to Windows 10 that are perfect for any classroom. We will be going through these features over the next few weeks here at TeacherCast.

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 26, 2015

July 27, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 13. Driving Question: What is needed to transform urban teacher readiness for 21st Century Classrooms? A Frame of Reference Noting that adult humans use somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the 86-100 billion neurons there are estimated to be in a brain, the neuroscience developed during the last century has demonstrated that all human brains have the capacity for far greater levels of high intellectual performances.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, lab teachers–gathered virtually for three weeks to experiment with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom–Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, backchannels, digital citizenship, assessment, and more (12 topics in all).

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 31, 2015

Optimizing your business for local search starts with working through the fundamentals. Brush up on your tactics with the ultimate guide to local SEO ranking. Looks matter. An experiment revealed that news site homepages get more pageviews and user engagement when they have contemporary image-rich and modular layouts. Modular pages have discrete blocks of customizable and portable content, rather than a running list of stories.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 30, 2015

Making the rounds on the interwebs this week is Key & Peele's Comedy Central skit, Teaching Center , where they pose the question, "What if Teachers Were Treated Like Pro Athletes?" Key & Peele totally NAILED it. Yeah it is Comedy Central, so of course it will be funny, but what makes this video stand out is in the nuances and details. I know very little about Key & Peele, other than they are a TV show, but I can tell they know teachers and the teaching profession.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 28, 2015

Here at EdTechTeacher, we take pride in the fact that all of our Instructors and Presenters have been experienced classroom teachers and dynamic speakers. They not only have a wide array of knowledge in their field, but insights into the future of education. This summer and fall, we want to introduce you to some our EdTechTeacher Instructors and iPad Summit Boston Presenters and in a series called #ETTchat.

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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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