Catlin Tucker

MARCH 7, 2017

This won’t surprise anyone in education, but class size matters. It matters a lot. The bigger the class, the harder it is to meet the individual needs of the learners in our classrooms. As I began to pilot NEW School this year, my goals were to: provide students with individualized learning paths. make time for conversations about where students are at in their learning. engage students in meaningful project-based learning. provide real-time feedback on student work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2017

10MT | #29 Steven Anderson talks technology trends From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality and virtual reality. Are these buzzwords or are they things that can be used to improve learning? Today Steven Anderson @web20classroom brings back the veil and helps us learn about these emerging technologies.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 9, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The Connecticut school district offers advice on how to successfully transition from low-tech to tech-savvy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. These four topics cover every aspect of our life. Science is our natural world, from the land we live on to the oceans and space we aspire to visit. It’s the weather that changes our picnic plans to the natural disaster that destroyed a town in our own state. Technology includes the iPads toddlers play on, the smartphones we use to guide our days, the apps that turn our lights on and off–or start our car.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Observing a pianist at a recital – converting musical notations into precisely timed finger movements on a piano – can be a powerful emotional experience. As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain regions.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2017

Surface learners are not a new species. They’ve always been here. They just weren’t called by such a scientific name. For those of you not familiar with the term, surface learners are those students that are accepting new facts and ideas that are unconnected in their minds, with the sole purpose of memorizing and storing them as isolated items. In other words, they don’t care about learning new things, they just care about getting a passing grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2017

If you’re a fan of Kiddom , the easy way to plan, assess, and analyze learning, you’ll be excited to hear that they added more than 50 features to the new Kiddom 2.0 (see my review of Kiddom ). These include: Planning — personalized curriculum to meet the changing needs of students. Reports — visualize progress with beautiful analytics that track student performance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 10, 2017

Episode 30: Excellent Language Arts with Teacher Alex Corbitt on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast | 10MT From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today teacher @Alex_Corbitt from the Bronx has 5 created ideas to help improve and make language arts learning fun. Listen to Alex’s Ideas for Improving the Language Learning Classroom.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 7, 2017

Every day, more teachers leave the classroom, and they are looking for different ways to stay in education and still make a difference using their skills, talents, passion and knowledge. Becoming an online teacher is a big step , one that most educators have never even considered. However, online teaching is becoming an option for many. Teaching English online to students who live in other countries is starting to become a very attractive possibility for many educators.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 8, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez K–12 educators find they must teach students to better evaluate information from the web.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: #120–Why Use Airplane Mode.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2017

10MT | 10-Minute Teacher #27 Interview with Suzy Lolley From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When you have shared iPads, Seesaw is a fantastic way to get the work off the iPads and into the online classroom. Seesaw embodies simple authentic assessment. Today Suzy Lolley @suzylolley teaches us the ins and outs of Seesaw.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 5, 2017

The high school years are a time for discovering oneself — learning strengths and weaknesses, identifying dreams and goals for the future, developing key communication and real-world skills, and mapping out plans for college or a career after graduation. Many high schoolers never receive the guidance, training, or opportunities necessary to adequately prepare them for post-graduation life.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2017

Let’s face it – great things occur in all schools on a daily basis. We see the fruits of our labor through our students as they show growth in learning over time. There is nothing more gratifying as a servant of education then when our passion translates into helping students of various ability levels accomplish tasks that they themselves never thought possible.

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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

MARCH 6, 2017

Parents often find technology a roadblock to helping their children with classwork. There are too many geeky tools with too few instructions, and every year, what they thought they understood changes. Like students, they don’t want to sound like Luddites, so they struggle for a while and ultimately give up. With that comes either disinterest or pushback against your efforts to blend tech into learning.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MARCH 8, 2017

One of the best lessons we learned while growing from subject-matter experts to running and scaling a business was how important it is to stay focused, and not become overwhelmed with the sheer number of tasks. A couple of years ago, we asked a start-up experienced colleague to put together a “Business Bootcamp” class… The post Avoid Rabbit Holes appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 8, 2017

10MT | Kyle Taylor tells how they saved half their setup costs per classroom on the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Kyle Taylor @kyletaylor13 and his school have implemented iPads with Google Classroom and are saving half (yes, I said half) of what it previously cost to set up a classroom with technology.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 7, 2017

Classroom newsletters are kind of hit and miss. If you’re sending photocopies of them home in students’ backpacks, I’ll bet your success rate is less than 50 percent. (And that’s being generous.) There’s a big reason I believe that these newsletters — which could be great parent/teacher communication tools — fall on deaf ears (or [.].

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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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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 6, 2017

When announcing a writing task, on a number of occasions, I have been asked by my students, “Why do we have to do this?” It’s a question that can sometimes be difficult to answer. All too often the work is stuck into their English books and is only seen by the teacher. Here are 10 ways to use technology to give your pupils a real audience for their work: 1) Class blogs.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2017

By Amy Brown Simulation challenge looks to prepare students for the modern workforce.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2017

10MT | Episode 26 Josh Harris gets us motivated to try new things From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Josh Harris @edtechspec an elementary edtech director from California, talks about an attitude of innovation. We can empower ourselves with an attitude of fearlessness and trying new things. Listen Now.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 6, 2017

Yes, there are mounds of curricula students must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters.

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 7, 2017

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” – Anaïs Nin. March is Women’s History Month and March 8th is International Women’s Day. It is important for teachers to recognize these events and highlight the great women of history. Even though we have made progress as far as equality and rights for women we still have much more progress to be made.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2017

BYOD — Bring Your Own Device — has taken the education system by storm. The idea behind it is simple: students are allowed and encouraged to use their own phones, tablets, e-readers, or notebooks in the classroom. There’s been a lot of talk about BYOD in schools, on whether or not it is beneficial for the learning process of students, with serious arguments in both camps.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 8, 2017

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) agree that today’s students need learning that goes beyond the traditional subjects and modes of learning. In 2016, ISTE released updated standards for students that envision a significant shift in learning and teaching amplified by meaningful use of technology in education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

A few weeks ago we were talking about school ‘accountability’ in one of my classes. I mentioned that I didn’t think that most schools were yet producing ‘future ready’ graduates. If they were, we would see more school environments that immersed students in deeper learning, student agency, authentic work, and rich technology infusion opportunities. [ Download this image ].

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 10, 2017

For a long time, I’ve been a list-maker and a note-taker. You should see my desk. It can get littered with them pretty easily. The worst is when I would take down some valuable details and then leave the paper sitting on my desk at school. I have literally driven to school late at night [.].

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Brilliant or Insane

MARCH 8, 2017

Brilliant or Insane. 5 Coping Mechanisms for Bouncing Back from Your Bad Teaching Day by James Sturtevant Just because I’ve authored a couple of books and host a podcast on engagement does not mean that I don’t have challenging days in the classroom. Last Friday was one of those days! The first three periods went great. My students […]. The post 5 Coping Mechanisms for Bouncing Back from Your Bad Teaching Day appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 6, 2017

When I was first approached by RWS to start a business in my first grade class, I was hesitant. How would a student-run business work in the first grade? What did I know about business myself? My only experience operating a business hails from a less than profitable summer hosting a lemonade stand when I was six.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2017

Every winter, we celebrate Engineers Week by learning about the various types of engineering, such as mechanical, electrical, civil, computer, software, aerospace, and others. We learn about many famous engineers and their contributions, but most importantly, we understand what it takes to become an engineer. This time is particularly meaningful to me, since I was lucky enough to grow up with an engineer.

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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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