The Journal
APRIL 3, 2017
Five years from now K–12 classrooms will look dramatically different than they do today because of the four trends identified in this week’s blog post. You can take that prediction to the bank!
Digital Promise
APRIL 7, 2017
Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. The district provides opportunities to its students through its emphasis on the fundamental ABCs – adapting, balancing, and collaborating – which they will highlight at the spring 2017 League of Innovative Schools meeting in late April.
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EdTech Magazine
APRIL 4, 2017
By Steven W. Anderson Don’t limit yourself to 60 minutes, coding projects, like making apps and programming computers, can last and last.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 3, 2017
I work with teenagers so organization (or the lack thereof) is always an issue. In a blended learning model where online and offline tasks are blended together, students frequently struggle to keep track of everything. In an effort to support my organizationally challenged students, I regularly introduce strategies and technology tools that I hope will help.
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.
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
APRIL 4, 2017
Everyone wants to give startup entrepreneurs advice. Your job is to figure out which is helpful and which to ignore. The post 6 Important Lessons From an Ed-Tech Startup CEO appeared first on Market Brief.
Teacher Reboot Camp
APRIL 4, 2017
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost. April is National Poetry month. Poetry is a great way to inspire your learners to be creative and imaginative with a topic. You can introduce a topic with a poem or have your students write poems where they explore various topics. Writing poetry can be difficult for students; therefore, you might want to get your learners to start writing haikus, limericks, or shape poems.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 6, 2017
April is National Poetry Month. For thirty days, we celebrate the value and joy that poetry brings to our world. According to the Academy of American Poets , the goals are: Highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets. Introduce more Americans to the pleasures of reading poetry. Bring poets and poetry to the public in immediate and innovative ways.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 7, 2017
Written by: Brittany Bir, COO, 42USA. 42, a non-profit, tuition-free, computer programming school is not only disrupting the traditional education model, but also the traditional admissions process. By ignoring their academic or financial standing and thus allowing them to distinguish themselves by their talent and motivation, each candidate is placed on a level playing field.
Neo LMS
APRIL 6, 2017
In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. I recommend you having a read of the entire post, but I also know that time is money, so I’ll give you the TL;DR version below: Competency-based education shift the focus from time to mastery of competencies/skills. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 5, 2017
It’s standardized testing season again in American schools. And that means it’s also time for many schools to bribe and punish their children into submission because those tests are ones they don’t want to take. Over the past couple of decades, the political stakes attached to standardized testing have accelerated greatly. So too have teachers’ and administrators’ concerns about their schools’ scores.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 5, 2017
I published this about a year and a half ago, but with April’s focus on financial literacy, it’s time to repost. When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. Do they understand the consequences of unbalanced budgets?
Teacher Reboot Camp
APRIL 1, 2017
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove. April is National Poetry month. Poetry is a great way to inspire your learners to be creative and imaginative with a topic. Writing poetry can be difficult for students, but the engaging apps below will help your students create and learn with poems. For more ideas and activities, see the slide presentation, Learning with Poetry , and the bookmarks below for more ideas and resources.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 2, 2017
“ People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ” – Maya Angelou When I was asked a while back to write a book for Jossey-Bass, I was relatively non-committal. I had just finished back-to-back projects that resulted in Digital Leadership and Uncommon Learning, which took up a great deal of my time.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 3, 2017
By Calvin Hennick School districts cut costs, conserve energy and have more control over their lighting, HVAC and security systems using software and sensors.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 4, 2017
April 6th- 15th. a Two-fer. Sign up for Summer PD; get a friend in for free. Classes available: Tech-infused Teacher. Tech-infused Class (sequel to Tech-infused Teacher). Teach Writing with Tech. 20 Webtools in 20 Days. Here’s what you do: Sign up for any of these four classes between April 6th-15th. Under ‘special instructions’, include the Coupon Code #twofer2017.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 7, 2017
Celebrating Episode 50 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today I’ll tell some crazy stories about the lengths I’ll go to get a laugh in my classroom. These 5 ways are how I introduce a little laughter into my classroom and still get a lot done. We’re celebrating 50 episodes of the 10-Minute Teacher!
Neo LMS
APRIL 4, 2017
Sit still! a frequent, despairing instruction from so many teachers, and yet occupational therapists tell us that it is a surprisingly tricky task for children. In fact, compared with the 1980s — when kids played outside more, merry go rounds and play gyms were more common, and parents had less fears of their children playing outdoors — only one in twelve of today’s children have normal core strength and balance.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 4, 2017
By Marcia Wade Talbert How Santa Fe Public Schools got their community on board with a new initiative.
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 7, 2017
Many Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. The date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. This year, it’s April 16, 2017. Here are some websites your students will love: Easter color-me (for Kindergarten/first grade). Easter Color Me to print or import to drawing program. Easter games II.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 3, 2017
A conversation with Michelle Cotrell-Williams on episode #46 of the 10-minute Teacher Show From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Michelle Cottrell-Williams @WakeHistory applies Brene Brown’s research on vulnerability to make her classroom a safer place. Motivate yourself to be more authentic with your students as we talk about vulnerability, shame, and guilt in the classroom.
Digital Promise
APRIL 3, 2017
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to children when they participate in shared reading? Does it make a difference to their learning?
EdTech4Beginners
APRIL 5, 2017
Typeform is a fantastic website and app – perfect for creating online quizzes, tests and feedback forms. Is it easy to make quizzes? Have a look at my video tutorial to see how simple it is to use: How can Typeform be used in the classroom? Lesson reflections. Lesson assessment tests. End of unit assessments. Lesson starter quizzes (great for assessing prior knowledge).
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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 3, 2017
Here are the most-read posts for the month of March: What to do when Computers are Down? How to Run a Parent Class. How to Teach STEM Every Day. 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech. Always Know Which Virtual Speakers Are Available for Your Classes. How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Class. 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes. Summer Professional Development from Ask a Tech Teacher.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 6, 2017
Episode 49 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Sylvia Martinez @smartinez co-author of Invent to Learn talks about tinkering today. Some teachers have a misconception that kids just pick up and play with materials and learn, but it is a little bit more nuanced than that.
Battelle for Kids
APRIL 3, 2017
As we move into the latter half of this decade, it becomes more evident that 21st Century Skills must be deeply embedded in the authentic experiences we design for our learners. It wasn’t that long ago when we were introduced to P21 and their concepts of 21st Century Skills in education.
Ditch That Textbook
APRIL 6, 2017
Google is a behemoth. With all of its tools and apps and programs and initiatives, there’s no way to keep tabs on everything. As such, it’s easy for newer Google tools — and even some that have been around for a while — to slip through the cracks. The problem with that: there are some [.].
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EdNews Daily
APRIL 5, 2017
Learn about building online professional learning communities with Merry Cora, 51Talk Teaching Specialist. Interview conducted by Kerry Gallagher. This teacher interview features Merry Cora, a 51Talk kids’ specialist. In this piece, she shares her experience working for 51Talk, and how she built an online professional learning community through respect and politeness.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 5, 2017
A conversation with Felicia Casto, a 2017 Milken Award Winner on episode 48 of the 10-minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Felicia Casto @jfcasto28 2016 Milken Award Winner, used to hate math. But one day, she woke up and realized she was bored and her students were too. She set about to find answers.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 4, 2017
By David Hutchins CoSN report highlights the need for a nimble partnership between curriculum and IT.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 7, 2017
Tom Nichols said: Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. via [link]. Or perhaps we’re only gorging on dessert at the all-you-can eat learning buffet… No related posts.
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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