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We talk a lot about student engagement in education. Most educators got into this profession for the students, and, as a result, we want their experience to be as engaging and positive as possible. There is far less written about teacher engagement, even though teacher engagement and student engagement are reciprocal. When teacher engagement dips, it has a negative effect on student engagement. When teacher engagement is high, it positively impacts both student engagement and achievement.
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Using edtech tools just for the sake of using them, without a clear plan for implementation, won't have the desired impact
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Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. He understands how students with learning difficulties can feel separated from the rest of their classmates, how issues at home sometimes manifest as classroom misbehavior, and that being singled out—for both positive and negative reasons—is panic-inducing for just about all students.
However, Davis discovered new constants when he moved out of the classroom and into his current role as instructional technology coach at Downey Unified School District in California. Over and over, he saw teachers resisting technology adoption because they didn’t want to look foolish trying something new in front of students.
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With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the globe and emptying the dorms to send students home for online education, there is a pressing need for the students to be more cybersecurity conscious. There are many things you need to do to secure the system before the virtual class can begin, including using a VPN.
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November 27, 2021 12:41 PM
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Padlet is an online bulletin board that teachers and students can use to collaborate, curate, and share digital content. The way Padlet works is simple and easy: users create padlets and add posts to them; others interact with publicly shared posts(e.g, through comments and reactions) or contribute by adding more resources. Posts can contain various types of digital content such as text, videos, audio recording, screencasts, web links, graphs, images, GIFs, and many more.
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November 19, 2021 3:29 PM
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Racist/racialized malinformation is the phenomenon of how we are conditioned, socialized, and repeatedly bombarded with racist and negative images and stereotypes. These stereotypes are repeated and normalized until they become malinformation. But how can these deleterious and destructive forces be eliminated? They need to be addressed and battled just as other societal ailments are, and critical cultural literacy can aid in this fight.
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November 19, 2021 3:02 PM
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Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007), the postmodernist French philosopher and cultural theorist, examined the ways in which see and interact with the world as simulcra and simulations and hyperreality. Neo, in the film The Matrix (1999), carries a copy of Baudrillard's Simulcra and Simulations (1981), which examines technology, or more accurately its virtual outputs, in culture. More than this, he has created several concepts and theories that redefine what technology is in our lives and culture, way beyond face-to-face and print media.
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November 11, 2021 3:08 PM
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ClassPoint is a new-to-me PowerPoint tool that I’m excited to see used in online and in-person classroom and conference settings. At first glance you might think it’s just a poll and quiz tool. However, when you look a little deeper you’ll see that ClassPoint is more than just a polling and quizzing tool. ClassPoint includes tools for annotating slides and creating online whiteboards on the fly. You can even use it to randomly select names.
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November 11, 2021 2:52 PM
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In today's post I am sharing with you this collection of websites where you can search for and access a wide variety of free clip art icons and illustrations. Browse through millions of free static and animated clipart icons available for download in various formats including PNG and SVG.
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November 10, 2021 5:29 PM
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The webinars are free to all and aimed at those interested in talking about copyright challenges at the current time and how we can address them. We have published a page full of resources and the original blog post that led to us starting this series on Copyright, Fair Dealing and Online Teaching in a time of Crisis.
Remote learning is slowly becoming one of the most popular forms of education in the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While there are plenty of advantages to studying remotely, there are also many challenges that students will face.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenging time for educators. For many of the teachers who responded to a nationally-representative survey we conducted last spring, the 2020-2021 school year was the most difficult time of their careers. But in the midst of these challenges, some teachers found ways to use blended learning to build relationships with their students, identify their students’ needs, and empower their students to take ownership of their learning.
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October 14, 2021 3:58 PM
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YouTube has recently announced a number of new important audio features. Some of these new updates, will roll out later this year. Most of these new features are about making YouTube more accessible and inclusive. Of particular to use in education are the following features:
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Suggestions from students who were surveyed about why cheating occurs about how higher ed institutions can help prevent it.
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In less than a click, share your screen, open a white board or work together on your favourite work apps!
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Use these simple strategies to effectively maneuver technology towards increasing student motivation and engagement, whether virtually or in person
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November 27, 2021 12:43 PM
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10 Fast Fingers is a web tool that allows students to test and improve their typing speed through a number of engaging typing games. Typing or keyboarding fluency has become an important skill for the 21st century learner. In fact, it is not only learning to type that matters in today's knowledge economy but more importantly, learning to type fast.
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November 19, 2021 3:35 PM
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The YouVerify project (I think this project part of Savoir Devenir) funded by the European Union and based in France, has launched the MOOC: Disinformation Step by Step, which starts on Monday 15 November 2021 and lasts a month. It will be given in three languages: French, Spanish and English and is aimed at a wide range of people including educators, students, journalists, librarians, youth workers. Being a MOOC, it is open and free and you can get a digital badge on completion. It has 6 modules: critical thinking, Media and Information Literacy (MIL), disinformation, verification, refutation and building MIL projects. There is a particular focus on visual disinformation. It is led by MIL expert Professor Davina Frau-Meigs. Register here: https://hub5.eco-learning.eu/course/disinformation-step-by-step/
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November 19, 2021 3:06 PM
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PowerPoint isn't the flashiest ed tech tool on the block and it certainly isn't the newest. In fact, you might have read "PowerPoint" and thought "old." But as old as it is (34 years) there are new things added to it and hidden gems within it that keep it going strong. If it has been a while since you looked at PowerPoint, here are some features you might not be aware of that can be helpful to you and your students.
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November 19, 2021 2:49 PM
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In October 2020, the authors accepted an invitation to participate in an experimental collaboration observing an equitable, global, and inclusive process. Inspired by an Inclusive Classroom webinar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the shared Decolonizing Checklist, the authors considered our tasks: 1) to develop a checklist or brief guide that is international in scope to help librarians worldwide develop their own or other educators’ instructional materials, that is antiracist or inclusive, and 2) to publish the checklist/guide and a reflective essay of the process.
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November 11, 2021 3:04 PM
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“Real world projects have to be projects that matter to kids” is something that I say whenever I give my presentation, Connecting Kids With Projects That Matter to Them. When the problem they’re tackling matters to them, students feel ownership of the project process. Even a cursory glance at Tract reveals dozens of interesting projects undertaken by students that could be interesting and meaningful to your students as well.
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November 11, 2021 2:49 PM
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A wordle is a word cloud created from words. The more frequent a word appears in the input text the larger its size becomes in the wordle. Indeed, wordle arts have huge educational potential and can be used in various learning activities. For instance, students can use wordle makers to summarize a text or a passage they have read.
All-In-One Solution For Academic Research Writing Editing Publishing Referencing Connecting the most innovative solutions for collaborative research, writing, editing, and publishing.
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The last two years have been mentally and emotionally exhausting for everyone in education. As I work with leadership teams, many are struggling to engage their teachers in professional learning this year. Schools invested money in purchasing devices and improving access to reliable internet to meet the demands of the pandemic, and leadership teams want to keep the momentum going. They are excited about the potential of leveraging this technology to create more dynamic, differentiated, and student-centered learning experiences.
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October 14, 2021 3:59 PM
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Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging platform among educators. More and more teachers are drawing on its communicative and social networking powers to connect, share, and grow professionally. As such, Twitter embeds tons of educational resources buried deep into its Tweetosphere. In today's post, I am sharing with a host of practical search tips that will enable you to easily locate resources and grow your PLN.
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