Digital Promise

JUNE 16, 2020

Lauren Williams, a fifth grade teacher in California, works in a predominantly Latinx and Black K-5 elementary school, where almost half of the students are designated as English Learners (ELs). Black and Latinx students, students with special needs, and ELs are disproportionately left behind in digital learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They are also concerned about exacerbating existing inequities in accessing digital technologies and tools, presenting further structural barriers for students and communities. AI literacy enables educators to understand how AI works, how to evaluate it and how to best adapt it for their disciplines and learners. What Is AI Literacy?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Inspiring Journeys of Certified English Language Educators The recent changes in the working environment and the ongoing global economic crisis have brought about significant shifts in people’s lifestyles. Some nations mandate a university degree and/or citizenship from specific English-speaking countries.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Many products, though, are being elevated as primary or core resources with limited information available about the research backing each design. So, how can teachers and parents discern if these tools are designed with each learner’s variability in mind? Are the edtech tools designed to support learning differences?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our learners have assignments, assessments, permission slips, school communications and Google files to keep track of. We’ll explore what they are and how they contribute to the overall success of diverse learners. For example, I had several learners in the gifted program with high intelligence. Sound familiar?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Learning a second language is a challenge, whether it be English, Russian, or any of the hundreds of world languages we find across the globe. You’ve come to the right place if you want to improve your English language skills. You can freely express your concerns and questions when you learn English through private tutoring.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

By incorporating a range of media formats, such as videos, podcasts, digital storytelling and interactive presentations, educators can address different learning styles and preferences. Blend Creativity With Real-Life Relevance Many educators working with diverse populations often try to find new ways to meet the needs of their learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2021

ClassMate Gradebook – This grading and class management program is designed for all education levels. It is flexible and easy to learn, so the educator can monitor learner activities. Edusight – Edusight is an app that allows elementary educators to collect and monitor accurate data about their learners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Digitally-savvy students can include technology into their PBL, making collaboration easier and the final product more appealing. 7 Digital tools for project-based learning that any teacher can use. Read more: 4 Digital tools for creating animated videos for students. Also, “Monster Attack!” Voicethread.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2020

At Digital Promise, we value educators’ work and expertise. Educators often tell Digital Promise that figuring out which edtech tools will support their learners and sifting through the enormous marketplace without any criteria has felt like an impossible task. A Matter of Urgency. Creating Edtech Accountability.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 21, 2021

Read&Write –for students with dyslexia or English language learners who struggle with reading and writing. Speech Therapy and Language Apps –apps like Conversation Builder, StoryBuilder, Tense Builder, Rainbow Sentences, designed for kids who need a different approach. Signed Stories –beautiful stories in sign language.

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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. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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Hapara

JANUARY 16, 2024

The SAMR Model was designed by education researcher Dr. Ruben Puentedura in 2010. He was looking at ways to rethink the undergraduate science curriculum and how they could use a tool such as digital storytelling to enhance learning. Examples : Learners write the first draft of a narrative on paper traditionally.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

In this episode of the EduJedi Report podcast, Host and Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning about digital learning design that is heritage-relevant. Lexia English is a K-6 product that helps promote bilingualism or multilingualism.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

As K–12 teachers seek to create classrooms where all students have an equal opportunity to learn, they must be mindful of physical and digital elements that could potentially be a barrier for students with special learning needs. . Many traditional classrooms are filled with colorful bulletin boards and brightly designed posters.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2021

More crucial than ever in the age of COVID, learners need to reconnect and build strong relationships. He takes time to engage learners’ hearts and minds, and in turn, his students can better engage in their learning. The post HP Teaching Fellows Support Students with Social-Emotional Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As more schools and districts explore curriculum focused on college and career readiness, expectations on what learners should be able to do across content areas are rapidly changing. As classrooms continue to become increasingly diverse , providing high-quality instructional support to English learners (ELs) becomes critical.

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Securly

APRIL 2, 2024

Other AI-powered tools provide accommodations to support students with disabilities and increase accessibility for English-language learners. Beyond its impact on academic integrity, AI use in schools also raises issues about student data privacy and digital citizenship.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Each year I like to explore different digital tools in my classroom to see what kind of an impact they will make on students and learning. Here are five tools that offer a lot of possibilities for students to create, to explore, to develop digital citizenship skills, and which promote social-emotional learning (SEL) skills as well.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

When students are actively engaged in tasks that require them to use higher-level critical thinking skills and communication and collaboration activities, it helps promote deeper learning in the classroom and successfully prepares learners for college, career, and life. Have learners create digital products to demonstrate learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

They fit into the categories of SEL, digital instruction, engagement/management, and leadership. Recently, while discussing the next steps for schools this fall with two instructional designers in the webinar “10 Ways to Move Learning Forward”, we identified ten considerations for school. Online and Digital Instruction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In an era where technology and digital platforms are integral to our everyday lives, the role of digital citizenship is ever more critical. This is especially true in educational settings, where equipping students with digital citizenship skills is essential for their safe and responsible navigation of the digital landscape.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

For more than 30 years, California’s Outreach and Technical Assistance Network ( OTAN ) has been at the forefront of meeting the technology needs of adult education providers, including English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In each other, we found kindred spirits, both passionate about better ways to teach today’s learners. When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited. It’s an important issue with not enough solutions. Typing by the Numbers”. Dr. Bill Morgan, Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The goal of Digital Promise’s Marketplace Research work has been to create smarter supply and smarter demand in the education technology (edtech) marketplace. Some have even stopped sharing the research rationale supporting their product’s design out of concern that their reports will be perceived as biased.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they are completing digital worksheets, their peers in better-resourced schools are coding, collaborating, and designing and building tech tools. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms, things tend to follow the old paradigm, especially with K12 students. Imagine an American teaching English overseas; for example, in a Japanese or Chinese high school. A native speaker’s mastery of the language will be superior even to the proficiency level of many advanced learners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The divide in access to digital tools , systemic racial gaps and biases , increased learning and opportunity disparities and rising poverty have all affected learners from under-priviledged backgrounds. In real life, curb cuts on sidewalks are intentionally designed for people with disabilities. As a mother, 2020 was unsettling.

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Tom Murray

MAY 14, 2017

Book: Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today. Murray outline eight keys each a piece of a puzzle for transforming the K 12 education system of teaching and learning to intentionally design tomorrow’s schools so today’s learners are prepared for success. Sheninger and Thomas C.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

Edtech has the potential to ignite the power of learning by helping teachers tailor learning environments and instruction to reach the full diversity of learners. Implementing Research-based Digital Supports for Students. Essentially, having features to support learner needs reduced barriers to learning. 6th Grade Teacher.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

When learning objectives are clear, and students are allowed to engage in organized and meaningful activities to help them become proficient at a targeted skill, it will lead to a productive classroom where learners are focused on achieving academic goals. Learners can spend each moment in class on purposeful, enriching activities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated. Some parents received analog games designed to convey math skills, while others received a storybook. But there was another, unexpected finding. So the stakes are high.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 5, 2022

While many cities across the country may find themselves unable to accommodate this influx of learners, here at Newcomer Academy, we have built a curriculum and infrastructure to support learners of all types and at scale. This year, the county has enrolled more than 14,000 English learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Designing Blended Learning for Student Engagement and Achievement “By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement meaningful blended learning experiences with objective-aligned assessments and activities that foster core 21st-century skills.” This approach will take learning to a new level in your classroom.

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Hapara

AUGUST 17, 2022

Textbook funds could instead be used to help lower class sizes, invest in ELL assistants, build outdoor learning areas, take learners on field trips, purchase new technology or upgrade buildings. Because OER textbooks are digital, teachers and learners can access them online or download them to their devices.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 18, 2020

To summarize: rejoining reading, rigorous and creative literacy activities, and receptiveness to digital tools to promote possibility are the 3 Rs of teaching reading remotely. Digital Story Hour Offered in COVID-19. These guides follow themes such as friendship and family and are available in English and Spanish.

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