EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In Wisconsin’s Southern Door County School District, STEAM teacher Jessica Meacham no longer stands at the front of the room. Her flexible learning environment “changes based on the type of lesson or activity and desired learner outcomes,” she says. Movable furniture helps, and so does audiovisual technology. “Open and flexible classroom design promotes collaboration and exploration,” according to the Consortium for School Networking.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Most teachers and experts would state that student engagement is mandatory for learners to fulfill their potential, but actually measuring student engagement has always been tricky. Aside from asking students to assess their own levels of engagement — a perfectly valid process, albeit one which is influenced by bias — measurement has often relied upon the perception of teachers or outside observers.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More than ever, teachers need connections and opportunities to talk about student learning, celebrate progress and discuss overcoming challenges. The welcome and standard structure of PLCs in schools is an obvious route for these professional conversations. It is easy for meetings to be eaten up with personal stories, professional questions, and school concerns.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I never saw myself as a writer until I started blogging back in March 2010. It all began with goal setting for the Google Teacher Academy for Administrators, and I haven’t looked back. Consistency has been vital for me, as I have published a post every week since. Therein lies the dilemma I am currently facing. The struggle is real in my case when it comes to finding new topics to blog about or adding an innovative spin to already-prevalent concepts.

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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 Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. That concern now appears well-founded as we’re starting to see evidence that remote school and socially distanced instruction were profoundly detrimental to their reading development. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Education has become a lot more complicated the last five years. Part of that is the impact of COVID on in-person and remote teaching. Another large part is the transparency now requested/required by parents as to what is going on in the classroom. The importance of education consultants, mentors, and teacher coaches has never been more pressing. Here’s a good article from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew on what that means and how you as an educator can confront the issues: Exploring the Need

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 12, 2022

"What did you learn in school today?" It's easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives. The post Alternatives To ‘How Was School?” appeared first on TeachThought.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

School counselors and social workers, teachers, and administrators have always been integral to a parent’s support network. This is particularly true for children who struggle in class and have trouble accessing their curriculum. Collaborative communication between a school and parents is critical for ensuring positive student outcomes. Although clearly an issue before the pandemic, the pandemic has increased our collective awareness of children’s mental health issues and schoolsR

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As mobile learning becomes more and more popular, so does the potential for distraction in the classroom. With so many captivating apps and games, it is easy to see how students would have a hard time putting their smartphones and other mobile devices away. While confiscating or removing them from the classroom is one approach, it might not always be the most effective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. 9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence — December 14th.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A recent study of more than 2,200 children could upend preconceived notions about video games. While previous studies have found negative associations with gaming, the latest research shows that video games can do some good. Children who played video games for at least 21 hours per week showed “enhanced cognitive performance” compared with those who did not, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI. Below are a few prompts and the responses generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) of ChatGPT. Be sure to see the last question below! Your thoughts? — Can Holden Caulfield be considered a tragic hero? Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” could be considered a tragic hero.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In case you’ve been wondering if Direct View LED Video Wall vs LCD Video Wall is synonymous with ‘future vs past,’ you’ve come to the right place. The interest in video walls is only growing and we’ll be seeing more of those, especially within business environments, event solutions, and advertising industries. It all comes down to the technologies that drive both displays, so here’s some food for thought that’ll help with decision making. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. 9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence — December 14th.

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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 11, 2022

I love celebrating the holidays and calendar events with my gifted students from my bilingual, Title 1 school. I ask them to make artifacts and displays that showcase both their talents and the holiday (see my blog posts about Dia de las Muertos and Pi Day for examples.) Not only are the projects fun, engaging, and exciting, they also provide opportunities for students to gain STEM/STEAM/STREAM knowledge and skills that address interdisciplinary standards.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Field trips have long been an interactive complement to classroom learning, providing students with new and interesting learning experiences beyond school walls. However, the past two years of COVID-19 closures and precautions forced schools to pivot, and virtual field trips began to gain ground. Now that students are back to in-person learning, it doesn’t appear that virtual excursions are going away.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Charles Sosnik 2022 will go down in the annals of education history as a milk toast year. Or perhaps, a breather year. After the amazing heroics of 2020 and the outstanding recovery of 2021, 2022 was a year where we got back to work in as normal a pattern as was possible, and we proceeded to conduct business as usual, or as usual as we could. There were challenges.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer — December 13th. 9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence — December 14th.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“When the murders happened in Atlanta, my school said nothing.” On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. Upon capture and questioning, the shooter evoked long-standing, entrenched tropes of sexual violence, racism and misogyny to justify the slaughter.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

When’s the last time you thought about the network wires in your school’s walls? Probably not recently. Cabling is one of those features of our networks that we often take for granted. We plug in a phone, desktop or server, the link comes up, and that’s about the end of it. However, the importance of network cabling can’t be overstated. As our schools come to rely more on wireless connectivity, the quality of the cable that backhauls our wireless traffic from the access point to the internet mat

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Robert Iskander In January 2022, 3,000 schools were caught up in a cybersecurity incident. And the number of attacks continues to increase. Because of the increase in cybersecurity attacks against schools, many districts are considering cybersecurity protection in the form of cybersecurity insurance. The losses that school districts face are enormous.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

DECEMBER 15, 2022

End of the semester, you are managing LAST MINUTE PILE of Late Work. If you are a Google Classroom user here are some tips to help you deal with the inevitable last minute rush of papers. The post Managing LAST MINUTE PILE of Late Work appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. On paper, this was a huge class, with about 220 students registered. But there was not much buzz of activity as the class settled in. Only around 60 students showed up.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wi-Fi 6E, the latest version of Wi-Fi 6, adds support for new spectrum in both the U.S. and Europe. School IT managers may find it hard to keep up with each new iteration of the wireless protocol and what actions they should be taking. Here’s what they should know before making the upgrade. Should I Upgrade My School to Wi-Fi 6 or 6E? Wi-Fi is a mature technology, and most of the advances over the past few years are about fine-tuning and improving a very stable service.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Twana Young, Vice President of Curriculum and Instruction for Mind Research Institute. In addition to access, Young explains that there’s also agency and power and identity and belonging, and those are all part of the different dimensions of equity, especially around mathematics.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How can we Personalize Teaching with ChatGPT? Is the chatbot just a way to let kids cheat or something we can leverage to finally do what technology promised. personalize learning for students? Personalized learning is NOT being self paced. Let it be personalized to the student. The post Personalize Teaching with ChatGPT appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rep. Frederica Wilson has long felt that American teachers are undervalued, an opinion that developed during her time as a classroom teacher, a principal, a school board member and, eventually, as a member of Congress. And she believes the wages teachers are paid do not reflect the importance of their role in society. But Wilson, a Democrat from Florida, hopes to turn that around—starting today—with the introduction of the American Teacher Act, a bill that would establish a federal minimum salar

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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creating a dynamic communication model so that information flows effectively among the leadership team, faculty and staff, and parents and stakeholders helps nurture a culture and climate of shared leadership where all voices are heard and appreciated, writes AP DeAnna Miller. The post The Best-Led Schools Put Communication First first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Pandemic-related school closures wreaked havoc on attendance. Strict quarantine periods and policies demanding students stay home at any hint of a cough or runny nose tormented schools even after they reopened. Students got out of the habit of getting to school on time or going consistently at all. This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

DECEMBER 11, 2022

What to give that teacher on your holiday gift giving list? Edtech specialist Alice Keeler provides a list of items she has and loves for her classroom. So check out this Holiday Gift Ideas for a Teachers Classroom and get something great for that teacher in your life. Check out the Logitech Crayon for the iPad, it is a must have. The post 10 Holiday Gift Ideas for a Teachers Classroom from Alice Keeler appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks

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