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How to Fund School Safety Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

For example, several states have adopted Alyssa’s Law, which requires public elementary and secondary schools to have a silent panic alarm that contacts local law enforcement in emergencies. Many school districts rely on analog camera systems that don’t connect to their networks or communicate in…

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Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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The Problem with AI Prompt Feedback (and How to Solve It)

The CoolCatTeacher

Yesterday I demonstrated how to get AI feedback. I want to take those of you not using AI (yet) into what it looks like to interact with AI, both how I'm conversing with AI and how it responds. I want you to see my issues and how I proceed at each step of the process. But now I want to integrate AI feedback.

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How to Center Equity in Undergraduate Digital Learning

Digital Promise

For instance, suppose participating university leaders identified a challenge about building community in an online course in which some students don’t have consistent access to webcams for ‘live’ lectures or discussions. The post How to Center Equity in Undergraduate Digital Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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How to direct a districtwide tech transformation on a budget

eSchool News

I believed technology would be powerful for our scholars and I wanted everyone to have access to it, but only one student in the entire school signed up for the program. Sometimes it’s just a way to excite students, to immerse them in a different perspective or experience than they might otherwise have access to. We can (and will!)

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How to Promote Family Engagement During the First Weeks of School

Waterford

Learn why family engagement matters and how to encourage it in your classroom from the first day of school onward. How to Prepare for Back to School Night. For this reason, parent-teacher conferences that are as accessible as possible are essential for family engagement. “How to Solve the Parent-Engagement Problem.”

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How to Do Student-led Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

Where traditional conferences seek to delineate how students rank academically at a point in time, student-led conferences revolve around the work students have produced. In fact, the grades earned are secondary to how students understand what happened in the lesson. How to run a student-led conference.