Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 9, 2022

Help new information stick in students' minds with the "brain dump," an effective, low-prep activity in the classroom. It’s a common request from teachers of students: Study. Go home and study. Go back over the material. Re-read the material. When we ask students to do this, we mean well. We want them to succeed. But we’re asking […]. The post Sticky learning: Digital brain dumps with Flipgrid and Socrative appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2022

A few spring websites, lesson plans, printables, activities: 7 Science Experiments that Teach About Spring. Books from Scholastic about Spring. Life cycle of a snake. Life Cycle Lesson Plans. Life Cycle resources. Life Cycles. Life Cycle Symbaloo. Plant life cycle. Spring Puzzle. Spring Garde n–click to find flowers. Spring Games. Spring Vocabulary (video).

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Education Elements

MARCH 6, 2022

As we write this, we are thinking back to the last “normal” month in 2020 before COVID-19 arrived in full force. A sampling of headlines from Education Weekly in February 2020 highlight social and emotional learning , the role of technology in education, and the importance of effective school leadership. With the benefit of hindsight, we can reflections of what we faced then, pre-COVID, in the complex challenges facing school leaders now.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2022

A great deal has changed since I was in school. I vividly remember getting a TANDY laptop from my parents when I graduated high school. It was a considerable upgrade from the Apple IIe that we all shared in the guest room. I was mesmerized by the black screen with orange text, the fact that I didn’t have to toil over an electric typewriter anymore. Simplistic games were also available that I could now play without being tied to a desktop monitor or television set.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 8, 2022

Anyone who uses online banking these days probably gets multifactor authentication prompts, usually via a text message or authentication app, although fingerprint scans and facial recognition are becoming more common. Users may not like the additional validation prompts, but they understand the function and the need to verify access to sensitive accounts with something stronger than a password.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2022

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th : Pi Day and 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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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

Digital Promise has received a $20 million gift, the single largest unrestricted gift in the organization’s history, from MacKenzie Scott. This catalytic investment will support Digital Promise as it pushes for bold solutions that can create equitable educational experiences to help prepare all learners for holistic, lifelong success. “Digital Promise is grateful to MacKenzie Scott for this generous contribution,” said Jean-Claude Brizard, president and CEO of Digital Promise.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 8, 2022

For learning to be efficient and produce long-lasting effects, it should be engaging. The more learning resembles a game, the more appealing it will be, which is the concept behind gamification. Competitions, leaderboards, and awards are important gamification elements. However, a classroom gamification level system takes the gamified learning experience a step further.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2022

Here are great ideas for how to address the difficult topic of war in the Ukraine, from Ask a Tech Teacher collaborator, Christian Miraglia, recently retired from teaching after thirty-six years: 24/7. As events unfold in Ukraine, people want to know how the situation might play out. Glancing at the Apple Newsfeed or Twitter for minute-to-minute updates becomes an obsession.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

Microsoft has publicly released Windows 11 — the successor to Windows 10. However, responsible organizations shouldn’t upgrade blindly. That’s especially true in education —where updates can impact configurations on closely-managed IT, student and staff workstations. Unfamiliarity with a new OS is a legitimate concern. Administrators have grown accustomed to older versions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Keith Whitfield, president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, is available to chat with all 31,000 students at any hour of the day or night—as long as they don’t mind talking to a digital version of him. The public research university recently unveiled the digital President Whitfield , an artificial intelligence and online avatar that can answer more than 1,000 questions about hundreds of university-related t

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2022

The micro-credentialing field is ever shifting and changing – a characteristic that has made it ideal for innovation. The pandemic has demanded a high level of adaptability in education that micro-credentials can support. To support educators in accessing quality and relevant professional learning tools at the beginning of the pandemic, we curated a list of micro-credentials that could be earned with a remote or hybrid classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2022

Teaching students about current events used to be as easy as picking a trusted newspaper and reading their headlines. Those days are gone with fake news, yellow journalism, and opinions dressed up as news stories. So how to you talk about what’s in the news? Marcee Harris over at Teaching Channel has a lesson plan to help you: How to Talk About What’s in the News: A Lesson Plan.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

Cloud-based applications for education deliver high-end functionality, great scalability, enormous agility and often free up IT teams from the day-to-day grind of keeping apps and servers running and updated. Software as a Service (SaaS)-delivered tools such as learning management systems and student information systems offer faculty and administrators tremendous value, but there’s a catch: When everything moves to the cloud and is accessible via the internet, small lapses in security can have m

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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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Waterford

MARCH 10, 2022

Want More Science of Reading? Check out our seven-part Science of Reading webinar series. Download sessions here to explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Find out how a student’s reading development is strongly related to their speaking, listening, and writing skills. Then, discover helpful strategies for teaching these communication skills in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2022

The people who build and fund edtech tools occupy different professional worlds than the educators who use those tools. And those worlds can sometimes collide. That was clear when we invited a venture capitalist who invests in edtech companies to have a dialogue with a professor who has been critical of the edtech industry. The topic: what role should artificial intelligence play in education?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2022

Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 invention education curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem-identification, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and creativity skills and builds confidence in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship for life. Here are websites to help you and your students learn about the excitement of inventions: A Guide to Inventions.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

K–12 school districts thinking of mothballing their aging fleets of laptops and other end-user computing devices now have an opportunity to give them a new lease on life. Last month, Google began rolling out Chrome OS Flex, a cloud-based, free-to-download operating system that can turn older PCs and Macs into Chrome OS devices. The software holds out the promise that schools can reduce electronic waste, extend the life of older hardware, and save time and money in the process.

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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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Waterford

MARCH 6, 2022

Want More Science of Reading? Check out our seven-part Science of Reading webinar series. Download sessions here to explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. In this article, you’ll discover the essentials of instruction in language concepts, a set of skills that support the development of reading comprehension.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2022

Many of the largest employers in the country are changing how they approach offering training and education benefits to their employees. In some cases it’s to respond to how fast technology is advancing, and a sense that workers need retraining more often than than in the past. But it’s also because there’s a bit of an arms race among large employers to offer education perks and a post-pandemic rethink by many employees about what they want from their jobs.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2022

Online teaching is trending right now, but only a small part of courses is of real value. How to create your online course from scratch? How to make it useful, popular, and interesting? Learning in an online course is built in such a way that you plan a training program and combine several interaction formats to improve engagement – text, video, images, tests, gamification, open-ended questions, and other interactive elements.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

By James Stoffer and Zach Vander Veen Editor’s Note: This is part two of a five-part series (click here to first read part one) Seamlessly connecting the combined strength of community assets is a powerful way to ignite the learning process for students, educators, parents and community leaders. A rising tide floats all boats, and the entire community is strengthened through a very pronounced synergistic effect in the community schools model.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2022

Social and emotional skills are vital in both school, and the workplace. They can help children and adults build and maintain healthy relationships, develop a strong sense of self, manage stress, control their emotions, and more. CASEL has defined five competence areas that lead to social and emotional success for children and adults. Those competence areas are Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2022

Recently, lawmakers in Iowa penned a bill that, if passed, would have required cameras in every K-12 classroom in the state. These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. Both failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 6, 2022

Consider flipping your teaching so students work on some parts of the project offline and use online time for coaching and support. The post Blended PBL: 20 Digital Project-Based Learning Teaching Strategies appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

The idea that teachers stop getting better after their first few years on the job has become widely accepted by both policymakers and the public. Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates popularized the notion in a 2009 TED Talk when he said “ once somebody has taught for three years, their teaching quality does not change thereafter.” He argued that teacher effectiveness should be measured and good teachers rewarded.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

It is impossible to exaggerate how much the edtech sector is growing – in fact, exploding might be a better word! The edtech market in the UK is now estimated to be £3.2bn following growth during 2020 of more than 70 percent. This phenomenal growth ensures that the sector is newsworthy, but what are the key trends emerging? These trends are the ones to watch throughout the coming year–and probably the coming decade.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a buzzword in the edtech sector. The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. Updates must be validated collectively. The technology can be used to authenticate the identities of people, to determine ownership or to verify data. The possibilities for applying this type of system in education are extensive.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 11, 2022

Compete in our 2022 March Mathness challenge for a chance to win cool JiJi Store prizes. Here at MIND Research Institute, we wholeheartedly believe that penguins love basketball, which is why JiJi can't wait to see schools compete for the number one spot during March Madness this year. JiJi and the ST Math team love basketball so much that we decided to bring the fun from the court to the classroom in our first-ever ST Math #MarchMathness Puzzle Challenge!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Below is a collection of some of the best YouTube art channels for teachers and students. The goal is to help with art integration efforts in class and to boost students artful thinking. The.read more.

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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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