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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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Discovery Education Offers Educators New Resources Supporting Black History Month Observances 

eSchool News

Discovery Education today unveiled a new collection of engaging, high-quality digital learning resources supporting Black History Month observances. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform nurtures student curiosity and supports learning wherever it takes place.

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5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. We may install things on their Chromebooks, but when they are on their phones, they are getting unfiltered access to the internet. You know, we may filter at school, but our students are taking everything home.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. Can provide access to a broad range of tools to store, organize and present their learning. Thus, supporting the inquiry process.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

In 84 of 124 reopening plans (68 percent) analyzed by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, a research organization affiliated with the University of Washington, the district is offering guidance or training to parents on how to help students learn at home. It’s a priority for many U.S. school districts. Multi-channel communication.

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It’s late 2015 and we’re still overblocking the Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. There are numerous reasons why we overblock the Internet. Sometimes it’s simple confusion around what actually must be filtered.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – September 2021

Edthena

Many school systems issue weekly newsletters to keep the school community up-to-date on safety policies and conditions, as well as provide updates on social media feeds and emails. These efforts should also be consistent schoolwide, advised a June paper from the Center on Reinventing Public Education.