Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Historically, underserved communities of Black and Latino students experiencing poverty underperform in mathematics as measured by various academic indicators. The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this phenomenon, impacting teaching and learning for all students, especially students from underserved communities. Overnight, the modality of remote learning became necessary, and these underserved communities encountered the most difficulties.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Right now, I'm filming senior “memory videos” where they share their favorite memory of being at the school. As one was thinking, he looked at a friend and said, “Quick, generate three ideas of my favorite memory from here.” And as I looked at him, he said, “I'm just obsessed with ChatGPT now.” As so are many of the creators on Tiktok.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

CDW Education’s Laura Boone, collaborative manager, and Akilah Willery, K–12 education strategist, co-host a new webinar series called EdTech Coffee Talk. In the show, these educational technology experts talk about the ed tech landscape in K–12 schools. They have these conversations “over a cup of coffee” as casual discussions. The webinar frequently features guest experts to share knowledge on K–12 security, devices and more.

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Hapara

APRIL 21, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Every school district needs to protect learners and educators as they navigate online, as well as protect the network and school devices. That’s where a powerful web filter comes in to keep out malware, protect privacy and restrict harmful and inappropriate content. There are several types of web filtering software for schools, though.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

The word ‘metaverse’ has certainly been used a lot recently, specifically within conversations around the advancement of technologies and the ever-changing landscape of how we work and live. More often than not, it is usually connected to the gaming industry and does not tend to come up in conversations about education. However, the AI-powered virtual world is becoming increasingly appealing to content creators and educators as they recognize how it can be used to improve engagement and creativi

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techlearning

APRIL 21, 2023

Educators need training on how to effectively incorporate artificial intelligence into their teaching practice, says Lance Key, an award-winning educator.

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Brainscape

APRIL 21, 2023

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Before the pandemic, U.S. history teacher Travis Malekpour hesitated assigning his students work in the classroom that required a computer. He knew not every student had a laptop or tablet. Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device.

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Minga

APRIL 21, 2023

Activities Director Katie Baker adopted Minga to increase student engagement and create a positive campus culture. At first they saw their engagement levels rise with the communication module. Once they added Digital Hall Passes and Digital IDs , the number of students engaging with the platform increased significantly, marking a new stage in their journey with Minga.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Discovery Education and the Northrop Grumman Foundation announced today the launch of EcoTech Innovators, a new education initiative connecting STEM education and conservation. Designed to engage middle school students in sustainability-focused innovation with hands-on problem-solving challenges and connections to STEM professionals, Keep Reading Discovery Education & Northrop Grumman Foundation Launch New Initiative The post Discovery Education & Northrop Grumman Foundation Launch New

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 21, 2023

Any tech resource that is simple, reliable, with content worth more than one visit, and that will tie in with instructional strategies is one to save on your list. Such a thing is the New York Times' What's Going on in this Picture? The site provides a weekly Interesting Image and instructional tips. You can consider using this content with: -Instruction on story grammar, as each picture can be used to form a story -Visualizing and Verbalizing® strategies -tie-ins with forming inferences and Soc

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Testpress

APRIL 21, 2023

Promising to keep a blog up to date seems to be more of a hurdle than adding new features to our product. While we genuinely wanted to keep it up to date, we simply couldn't. Lack of motivation maybe?! While it is no excuse for not updating, no apology is better than addressing and fixing the same. So here are a few updates, which got shipped in the past few months.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

As a newcomer specialist, I teach students who have been in the United States for less than a year. There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. I spend a lot of time thinking about how monolingual teachers can support multilingual students and I am actively searching for ways to reduce the isolation my students experience as they begin learning English, and to build a sense of belonging for students in m

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Minga

APRIL 21, 2023

Chris James is a Minga Superstar, dedicated to creating a safe, and inclusive environment for students on campus. This year his focus is putting students first, and he’s using our Campus Management Platform to do so. Key Problem Areas: Admin scrambling for information in multiple tools Limited restroom facilities and hallway capacity Lack of knowledge of whos on campus Inefficient ways of managing extracurricular activities Wanting to grow safety and security on campus in a tangible way Lack of

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When the pandemic threatened to shutter child care centers and their enrollment was sporadic and unreliable, many used federal emergency fu

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