Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As we approach the end of 2021, we at Digital Promise also wanted to reflect on the year that was. Below, Digital Promise staff share reflections, lessons, and learnings from 2021 and offer hopes for education in the new year. How 2021 has changed the way we view our role in education. What has inspired us over the past year. ??Juliana

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Ditch That Textbook

AUGUST 18, 2021

The summer of 2021 has been good to Microsoft Teams! Learn about all of the new features for educators and classrooms. Microsoft Teams is the engine that drives class in so many classrooms. The post 10 new Microsoft Teams features for educators (2021) appeared first on Ditch That Textbook. Coming into […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2021

Join me and other education innovators on February 4, 2021 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Join me and other education leaders at the upcoming online conference Engage 2021 sponsored by Kognity. This post is sponsored by Kognity , sponsor of Engage 2021. Engage 2021 Topics.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 17, 2021

A version of this post was originally published in Education Technology , on April 14, 2021. The movement restrictions imposed by governments worldwide to contain the virus have made it clear for many people that learning doesn’t have to be place-based; learning can happen outside of the classroom walls, free of time constraints.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today, she shares their wisdom, including the positives, negatives, the things that shocked her, and what her research shows that everyone should know about moving forward in 2021. Learn about Research on 2020 and What It Means for 2021 Teaching with Pamela Livingston Gaudet. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Promoted by National Geographic, here’s what you should know about Geography Awareness Week which occurs November 15-19, 2021: Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Students may now be learning from home, but many teachers still think in terms of the classroom, whether it’s a virtual one or in a brick-and-mortar building. They provide an all-in-one hub that help teachers replicate — with a few modifications for the digital realm — many of the same activities that are part of their classroom routines.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 has continued to spread uncertainty in our lives, leaving us wondering what would happen next, especially in our classrooms. Our favorite teacher memes for 2021. Clear communication is essential in the classroom, but it’s wishful thinking some of the time. Read more: Our favorite teacher memes for 2020.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Our school provides many applications that I can use with my students, and I constantly share tips with other teachers in the district, encouraging them to use this technology in their own classrooms. For the 2021-2022 school year, Aldine ISD provided every educator in the district with devices.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2020

Options range from continuing home learning programs full-time, to fully reopening classrooms with or without additional public or outdoor spaces and staggered schedules, to hybrid approaches. Digital learning also strengthens each teacher’s ability to meet the needs of each student, regardless of whether they are in the classroom or at home.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Classrooms across the nation relied on remote, hybrid and in-person learning models to continue providing meaningful educational experiences to students. The essential ed tech for teaching evolved alongside classrooms as educators and IT professionals discovered innovative solutions at each turn.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Trying to adapt to learning environments that are both remote and hybrid in nature can create a lot of disruption for classrooms in the short term. In the long term, however, it creates opportunities to build stronger technologies that can reinvigorate the educational experience.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Below, we share some reflections on our recent Equity in the Driver’s Seat project , as well as our considerations for sustaining the commitment to equity in 2021. classroom teachers, students, parents, practitioners and researchers of color, and those with education equity expertise) as advisors, partners, presenters, and attendees.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2021

She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021. Recently, I shared 21 Hot Topics for Teacher Professional Development for Summer 2021. Listen to Tennille Johnston Share What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year. Johnston’s classroom at [link].

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

As of April, at least 14 states were requiring in-person instruction in all or some grades, and the 2021 National Assessment of Educational Progress School Survey found 77 percent of U.S. public schools with fourth and eighth graders were holding classroom instruction this spring.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Separation from peers, adapting to virtual classrooms and dealing with the anxiety around the crisis led to a mentally fraught year. Many students will return to physical classrooms for the 2021–2022 school year, which may prove to be equally challenging.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

While some districts stuck with remote learning for the entire 2020-2021 school year, others opened their doors to students and teachers last August. These schools…

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has identified its top three tech enablers as part of the next report in its Driving K–12 Innovation series, set to be released in early 2021. Based on its…

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. Top 10 Countdown 10. By Jeffrey R.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 14, 2022

One-fourth of districts surveyed by RAND in 2021 planned to run a virtual school in the most recent academic year, up ninefold from before the pandemic. They are also outfitting dedicated physical spaces with technology to facilitate high-quality and engaging online education. Another quarter were exploring a virtual school…

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Challenges of leadership have been at the center of the education discussion over the past year, as the pandemic has reshaped lesson plans, timetables and classrooms. There’s been constant concern about students being left behind.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

Years ago I brought board games into my classroom. I understood this was a problem throughout our time doing remote learning from March, 2020 through the end of the 2021 school year. Research indicates that there is power in using board games in the classroom. As a kid growing up, I loved board games.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2020 and 2021, educators pioneered ed tech tools for their classrooms at an overwhelming pace. Districts with more than 1,000 students accessed an average 1,449 ed tech products online each month during the 2020-2021 school year, according to research conducted by LearnPlatform.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

What can we take from this when we return to our classrooms? And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2022

I think you’ll enjoy this: Coping with COVID in the Classroom. Over Spring Break we set up Google Classroom pages, learned how to do Zoom, and created packets of papers for students’ families to pick up and drop off outside the school weekly. For the 2021-2022 school year, we decided to come back full time. The Long Haul.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Here’s a peek: Top 5 online learning tools for a healthy development of your children’s mind in 2021. The challenge is to keep it simple, safe, and sane. APN News has a great article on tools that make that possible. The benefits of e-learning are tremendous.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was devastating: classrooms emptied, dorms shuttered, livelihoods shattered, millions of lives lost. Then came 2021. “No The following pictures capture the tragedy and resilience that marked 2021. A math teacher at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix teaching online in an empty classroom.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Learn how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Then, we’ll share strategies you can use to help your students develop phonological awareness skills—with free rhyming books for classroom read-alouds! Waterford.org, April 2021. Want more Science of Reading? Johnson, K.

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myViewBoard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Classroom now includes a new Polls feature. Call multiple choice and true or false questions in Classroom. OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are now supported in myViewBoard Classroom. OK, here’s what we’re working on… It’s 2021, and you know what everyone could do without? million words.

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Adjusting Course

DECEMBER 22, 2021

To make sure you don’t miss some of our favorite books from 2021, we’re sharing a “ Best of” show. Edge-of-your-seat battle strategy, political maneuvering between clans, and in-depth dragon stats make this book one of Brad’s Top Five for 2021. Reynolds Forget about 2021…this is one of my all-time favorite picture books.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Experts say to expect more of the same this year and beyond as schools mull how to safely return students to the classroom and maximize technology — both in person and online. The coronavirus pandemic upended education in 2020, sending more students home to learn virtually and bringing new concepts such as hybrid learning to the mainstream.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A version of this post was originally published in FutureScot , on October 5, 2021. Mixing education and entertainment in the classroom. So here are a few ideas on how you can use edtech to bring edutainment into the classroom and create a fun and inspiring learning experience for students: 1. Video classes. Video is everywhere.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

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myViewBoard

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Major updates include features from Classroom and Whiteboard for Windows. Have you taken the session on Classroom and saved the file on the local drive? Now open the same file onto the Classroom canvas and turn on the AutoSave mode. Other Improvements in Classroom. Have a Happy Teaching Session!

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myViewBoard

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Major updates include features from Classroom and Whiteboard for Windows. Have you taken the session on Classroom and saved the file on the local drive? Now open the same file onto the Classroom canvas and turn on the AutoSave mode. Other Improvements in Classroom. Have a Happy Teaching Session!

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The post The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2021 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Here are the BEST Blog Posts and Podcasts of 2021! I have put together a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts and podcast episodes from 2021. The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2021.

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