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67 Essential EdTech Tools To Use This Year

Fractus Learning

These teaching tools streamline the process, help to manage the different aspects of teaching, and create teaching materials that would almost be impossible to do […]. Technology and education is a winning combination that truly helps teachers.

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K–12 Leaders Weigh Threats and Benefits of Increased Web Monitoring

EdTech Magazine

In Alabama’s Marshall County Schools , Securly , the web filtering service the district began using last year, alerted officials to a man inappropriately communicating with students through their district email addresses. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn what K–12 schools can do to balance student privacy and security.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. Savvas worked with the district to successfully implement enVision and develop a multi-year professional development plan for teachers. Read about 10 more finalists here !)

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Are You Still There? How a ‘Netflix’ Model For Advising Lost Its Luster

Edsurge

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. Yet the campus has gained a techie reputation as one of the birthplaces for predictive analytics in education through a tool dubbed Degree Compass. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. —

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Rich People’s Kids Don’t Use Tech" (and Other Stories about the Silicon Valley Elite). Predictions that were consistently wrong.) And “free” doesn’t last.

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