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School technology integration challenges

Byryan September 21, 2016September 28, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. A panel of 59 experts from 18 countries discussed major trends in education that are driving the adoption of technology, as well as the big challenges to effective implementation. This collaborative effort helps to paint a picture of where things stand now and where they might be going.

Source: The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools | MindShift | KQED News

I don’t know about coding being a short-term goal, but at least it’s mentioned.

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Create animated gifs and crop video with ezGIF

Byryan February 19, 2020February 17, 2020

Source: Animated GIF editor and GIF maker As I was preparing for my conference presentations, I needed a cropped animation. So, naturally, I started searching the web for some tools that would let me crop video and I came across ezGif. Not only can you create animated gifs, you can edit and crop video, add…

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Questions that can lead to innovative breakthroughs

Byryan March 31, 2017March 30, 2017

I’m an idea guy. That is, I have a lot of ideas. As a teacher I would constantly improvise, come up with new projects, lesson ideas, tweaks to traditional assessments, and have an organic approach to learning in my classroom. But they were still my ideas. I was failing to value, foster, and spark ideas…

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Poor grades can be related to sleep schedules

Byryan April 18, 2018April 17, 2018

Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands….

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How rudeness can affect your day

Byryan June 16, 2018June 16, 2018

We posit that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate employees’ perceptions of subsequent social interactions leading them to perceive greater workplace rudeness throughout their workday. We expect that these contaminated perceptions will have important ramifications for employees’ work behaviors. Source: PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET Think about that student that comes to…

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Full page screenshot in Chrome without an extension

Byryan June 27, 2019June 13, 2019

Google Chrome has a hidden feature tucked away inside Developer Tools that lets you take full-sized screenshots of any web page. This feature captures the entirety of a page, similar to a scrolling screenshot, without the use of a third-party extension. Source: How to Take Full Page Screenshots in Google Chrome Without Using an Extension…

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Digital Portfolios and Blogs: Use Authentic Technology, Not Technology Made for School

Byryan August 23, 2016August 21, 2016

Currently in my district we’ve had some preliminary talks regarding if/how digital portfolios could be implemented on a wide-scale. Of course, while the focus shouldn’t necessarily be on the technology, one of the first questions asked by everyone (both in and out of district) always involves what type of platform we have in mind. While these portfolio…

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