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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math. by Dennis Pierce. Like many U.S. school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

September 16, 2017 Academic writing is not easy and can be extremely challenging. As a research student, you get to do a lot of this type of writing. However, working on a thesis or a dissertation.read more.

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Amy Brown Science

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

The benefits of taking our science students out of the classroom for an outdoor activity are many. BUT , you better be prepared and super organized! If I ask my students what the term “environment” means to them, I am going to get a wide variety of answers. Many of them will automatically think of a beautiful setting in nature, such as a bubbling creek through a forest, a field of wildflowers, or a stand of shimmering evergreen trees along a mountainside.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

As the school year launches for students across the nation, questions from passionate and innovative educators come into my networks on how to effectively support student learning. One common thread comes from innovative educators who have several classes of students and are trying to figure out how to manage all the demands placed upon them. They know that learning is not effective if you don't get to know your students.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Recently I wrote a blog post about Intentional Creativity. Here is the graphic created for that post. Below the graphic are specific ideas I am using with my gifted elementary students this school year. What follows are the activities I am using this school year to be intentional with sparking creativity in my gifted education classrooms. The titles are links for these activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As schools look ahead to serving not just student needs, but the greater needs of their community and world, service learning becomes an increasingly important part of high school education. The positive relationship between personal success and giving has been proven over and over, but it is not intuitive. When students become involved in ventures that give of their time and knowledge, they understand how important helping others is, not in an academic way but in a hands-on practical sense.

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Jay Flores

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I’ve always been in search of the best avenues to encourage excellence in STEM among youth on their terms — through platforms they feel most comfortable. STEM activities that are as exciting as they are educational are often hard to come by. Last year I was given the perfect opportunity to make this happen. I was invited to influence the next FIRST Robotics Competition.

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STEMx

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Many states and local districts honor outstanding schools and teachers. But those that win The Succeeds Prize will really hit the jackpot. The Succeeds Prize, which celebrates outstanding schools and innovative teaching in Colorado, is sponsored by Colorado Succeeds, a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of business leaders focused on improving the state’s education system.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

I had the opportunity to visit Facebook to learn how other school districts and businesses were using Workplace : Facebook's answer to connecting whole organizations with familiar tools like chat, Facebook Live, and groups, so they can turn ideas into action. While it comes with a price tag for businesses, it happens to be free for education institutions.

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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Quizster is a innovative site/app that I just found out about for assessing and grading students work. All a student has to do is snap a photo of their work and send it via the free mobile (iOS/Android) to their teacher. The teacher can then annotate, comment, and grade using Quizster and respond instantly to the student. All information then gets backed up to the cloud and helps decrease the frequency of lost homework.

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Informed K12

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Sandy is a School Success representative, the first point of contact for any and all potential customers. She constantly engages in call and email outreach to school districts to see where Informed K12 might fit into their processes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

T he unauthorized use of another’s creative content has always been a problem but with the growth of the Internet, it’s become epidemic. The prevailing wisdom seems to be: cc. If it’s online it’s free. This, of course, isn’t true but the rules and laws surrounding plagiarism and copyrights aren’t nearly as well-known as those that deal with, say, driving a car or crossing a street.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Many of my most popular articles are about mouse skills. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers visit Ask a Tech Teacher to find resources for teaching students how to use a mouse. No surprise because using a mouse correctly is one of the most important pre-keyboarding skills. Holding it is not intuitive and if learned wrong, becomes a habit that’s difficult to break.

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These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Designed by Freepik. In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Everywhere outside of the education industry (which seems to focus on Google Forms), JotForm is the gold standard for creation of forms whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. It can be used to sign up volunteers, get feedback on events, enroll people into classes, ask for donations, or collect payments. A JotForm can even show different questions based on what a user answered in prior questions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

10Greatest.com has a comprehensive list of the top education blogs. It covers everything from grade-level resources to topic-specific. I’m proud to say that Ask a Tech Teacher is the first blog on the list–but we have a lot of august company, everything from Richard Byrne to Alice Keeler. Here are a few: ASK A TEACHER. LEARN LEAD GROW. COOL CAT.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Labor Day is annually held on the first Monday of September (this year, September 2nd). It was originally organized to celebrate various labor associations’ strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. It is largely a day of rest in modern times. Many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 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: #69–Instead of Emailing, Share.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Type Dojo is a new free comprehensive approach to learning keyboarding. The ad- and distraction-free interface provides not only practice drills but quick links to grade-appropriate keyboarding games (including the popular ones from DanceMat Typing ). It’s easy to get started and just as easy to use making it the perfect tool for busy teachers and students who have lots to do besides keyboarding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 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: #61–Email from MS Office. Category: Email.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

One of the largest online marketplace for teachers is Teachers Pay Teachers. If you haven’t heard of this estore, you are either new to teaching or long since retired. This vibrant educator community hosts teacher-authors who wish to sell their original lessons and ideas to other teachers, district administrators, homeschoolers, and unschoolers.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If you have questions about how to build good digital citizens, questions like: how DO you get students not to steal images from Google and how important is that? what’s the best advice to students when they face cyberbullying? how do you know if you are plagiarizing or if you’ve been plagiarized? We have a new certificate class (with 18 ECUs) called “Building Digital Citizens ” that covers thirteen of the most-common topics everyone should know about Digital Citizenship

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Ever wonder what it takes to successfully prepare for back to school in a building where there is a 1:1 iPad implementation? Llianna Villegas opened the doors to PS 96 in Manhattan to show exactly how this works at her school. The school is a part of the Verizon Innovative Learning program which works in partnership with Digital Promise to provide all middle school students with iPads that can connect to internet at school via the internet and away from school via a data plan.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

The book inspired by the card may be found here. The Freakonomics podcast here and the show on NPR here. It’s no wonder Harold Pollack’s photo of the infamous index card with all the financial advice anyone would ever need, went viral. Americans have a thirst for quick advice on making sound financial decisions. That’s because, when it comes to personal finance, Americans are woefully under-prepared.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Following the airing of XQ: The Super School Live program m y social media feed blew up a bit with comments from my educator friends on threads like this one. The program featured a project spearheaded by Lauren Powel Jobs (aka Steve's window ) and Russlynn H. Ali , who served as the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights during the Obama administration.

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Informed K12

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Did you miss last week's webinar on cost reduction optimization strategies? Don't worry, we've made a recording of it available for you here.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Educators know that when it comes to gender roles, the media can do a better job of promoting more positive, accurate gender representations that give kids the freedom they need to be themselves. Parents agree. According to a study done by Common Sense , they are concerned about what their children see in the media. 5 Qualities Parents Want for Role Models Here is what the Common Sense study shows Americans want for their children in terms of role models.

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