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"SMART Notebook 2015 introduces Concept Mapping, a powerful visual tool for a variety of grades and subjects. Easily create a concept map in class by typing,writing, or adding photos right into your SMART Notebook page." Via Jim Lerman 
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The parents/teacher relationship used to happen once a term at parents’ evenings when every parent can have 5 minutes with each teacher to discuss a whole term’s work, while the next parents in the queue eavesdropped. Via John Evans
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"Learner profiles will soon drive "push learning" that will queue playlists of learning experiences to help learners skill up." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Students and teachers speak out on what they want for the future of moblity in this survey from Project Tomorrow.
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A new book by Greg Toppo goes deep into a world alien to many adults but one that may be the way forward.
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We trust you to make good choices. We trust you to follow basic guidelines, good manners, and common sense. We trust you to be an ethical member of our community and to choose civility. Via John Evans
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If we can time-shift entertainment content, why not college lectures?
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Both formally and informally, some teachers use Twitter to share ideas
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As instructional designers, you have to create courses that are easy to remember and difficult to forget. Here's how:
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Two authors share tips that school technology administrators can use to make their own jobs easier while supporting their institutions with solid, safe IT practices.
Mel Riddile's insight:
"School staff is working toward a common goal, but from differing viewpoints. “When it comes to technology usage and student safety, everyone working with a school comes at the issue from a different angle,” says Brown, who explains that there are administrators, teachers, students, parents, and other constituents to consider when developing good technology usage policies. And while everyone generally has the same common goal of keeping students safe, “everyone also has a different perspective on how that will work—or, what actually poses a threat.”
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Free teacher training tutorials on using ICT in our teaching and learning. Developed by Russell Stannard
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View commentary on the latest education topics and footage from events hosted by NASSP, the preeminent organization of and national voice for the nation's mi...
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Virginia School System At Risk For Cyberattack.
WTOP-FM Washington (5/8, Smith) reports on its website that the Virginia school system “may not have the resources” to safeguard parent and teacher information. The Virginia Cyber Security Commission Paul Kurtz said Wednesday that while the problem is widespread, smaller districts appear to be particularly vulnerable. He adds that the issue’s importance will only grow as more technology is used in the classroom. Kurtz recommended school systems protect their information and adds that the commission looks to confront the commonwealth’s state-wide network.
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Robin Good's curator insight,
May 8, 2015 5:03 AM
Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways. The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to elegantly display and publish data sets in one of several alternative formats which include:
How it works: Import a table from Excel, Google Sheets or any .csv file, select the fields you want to import and Silk does the rest offering you tools to filter, edit and select your preferred visualization approach. You can also create data sets and displays from scratch inside Silk, and set each Silk either as public or private. Why it is relevant for content curators: Silk provides a unique and powerful opportunity to leverage existing data and information assets, spreadsheets and databases and to convert them into highly legible and visually impactful data displays on a very specific topic. My evaluation: Paired with the power of Kimonolabs or Import.io to convert any website or page content into a spreadsheet, it offers great potential in creating value by providing multiple professional formats to display, present and interact with such data. Free forever for public Silks of up to 3000 pages. Try it out now: https://www.silk.co/ Video tutorials: https://www.silk.co/product 
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March 10, 2016 3:54 PM
Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any site and which can be viewed in multiple ways. The value of Silk is specifically in making it easy and immediate for anyone to elegantly display and publish data sets in one of several alternative formats which include: Table ListGrid MosaicGroupsBarsMapDonutLinePieScatterStacksHow it works: Import a table from Excel, Google Sheets or any .csv file, select the fields you want to import and Silk does the rest offering you tools to filter, edit and select your preferred visualization approach. You can also create data sets and displays from scratch inside Silk, and set each Silk either as public or private. Why it is relevant for content curators: Silk provides a unique and powerful opportunity to leverage existing data and information assets, spreadsheets and databases and to convert them into highly legible and visually impactful data displays on a very specific topic. My evaluation: Paired with the power of Kimonolabs or Import.io to convert any website or page content into a spreadsheet, it offers great potential in creating value by providing multiple professional formats to display, present and interact with such data. Free forever for public Silks of up to 3000 pages. Try it out now: https://www.silk.co/ ; Video tutorials: https://www.silk.co/product ;
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"Technology should be used to enhance learning, but we need to be careful that it doesn’t become the focal point. As much as I am a proponent for online education and all the tools that go along with it, it is hardly a substitute for live teacher-student interaction. Still, ed tech is here to stay – as is evident by the infographic below (created by ISTE)." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Arkansas will upgrade its broadband infrastructure in order to adequately support schools and students.
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Educators, students, and parents have noticed how schoolwork suffers when attention is split between homework and a buzzing smartphone. Read how teachers are responding.
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A closer look at key issues identified by Insight Public Sector and what administrators should keep in mind. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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SOUTHEASTERN N.C. | For children of the digital age, technology has crossed into almost every section of their lives, including schools.
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Social media can enhance differentiated instruction if the tools are selected with a careful eye on individual students' readiness, interests, and learning profiles. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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May 10, 2015 11:26 AM
The variety of tools allow students to process content in the manner that best supports their learning modalities
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The state blames the vendor. Students across Florida were supposed to spend Monday taking computer-based standardized exams — high school students, end-of-course tests; kids in Grades 5-10, the math portion of the new high-stakes Florida Standards Assessment.
Mel Riddile's insight:
In some states, it is the vendor. In others, the problem is the state computers and servers. In some instances, the district is the problem. While in other situations, the school has the problem. States, districts, and schools with more experience with online testing have fewer issues. Dragging educational assessment into the 21st Century has proven to be much more difficult that anticipated, unless one goes through a multi-year transition process as our school did.Then you completely understand the potential issues. These are predictable problems that must, at some time, be addressed before we can enter the modern age.
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"...it is not enough to ponder from afar what student writer might do with technology. You really need to dig in, write poetry with digital tools yourself, and then reflect on the experience."
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Tech-using teachers must not only harvest the ideas of others but curate what's valuable & create opportunities to learn. Curtis Chandler shares 5 digital tools
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