EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While many educational software providers offer students helpful and engaging content, some can end up exposing student data. A December 2022 report from Internet Safety Labs confirmed that 96 percent of school apps shared student data with third parties, and 28 percent exposed kids to advertising. These findings highlight the need for K–12 schools to improve their data privacy and security practices governing educational technology use.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our newest book, Shift Writing into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learning , Dr. Katie Novak and I guide teachers in creating the time and space to support all parts of the writing process in the classroom. Not only has the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots created concern about assigning writing, but myriad challenges exist when we send writing home with students. #1 Hard to Motivate After a Long Day at School After spending six to seven hours in a structured, often

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The post 4 Key Components of an Impactful Student-Led Project appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The post 3 Tips for Guiding Students Through Inquiry-Based Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a kid, I loved designing and building things! All my dolls had their own custom- made furniture and Lego cars. I recently had the opportunity to design and build a maker space for educators to implement making and tinkering in their libraries and classrooms. Talk about a dream project-it was easy to get caught up in the fun of purchasing new equipment, gathering supplies, and designing experiences.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll accomplish in the New Year. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence — December 11th (today) 8+ Ways to a Speedier Computer — December 12th Backup and Image your computer — December 13th Regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher know these are updated each December.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Feedback loops can help identify what a teacher needs and strategies to implement to achieve a better outcome and can offer a valuable solution to challenges they face.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. In the weeks leading up to the conference, I obsessively checked our registration platform almost hourly to see if the confirmed attendee numbers had increased beyond the low double digits. Sadly, I never received the confidence boost I had hoped for as our attendance numbers remained, and were, embarrassingly low.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are the most-read posts for the month of November: ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone 25 Online Resources About Brainstorming and Mindmapping Tech Tip #26: My Mouse Doesn’t Work Left-brain or Right-brain Dominant? Explore the Ideal Subjects to Nurture your Strengths Geography Awareness Week: November 13-17, 2023 Understanding Behavioral Learning Theory & Its Applications In The Classroom 14 Apps and 2 Projects for Thanksgiving Pros And Cons of AI in Education Here’s a preview of

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Higher education institutions know the benefit of a strong pipeline. Reinforcing established community connections helps colleges and universities grow enrollment via local students and offers those students and others invaluable connections with nearby employers once they complete their college degrees. Increasingly, esports is becoming part of that pipeline.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The post How Middle School Students Are Leading Digital Citizenship appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or pulls small groups. But when I reflect back on my own childhood and on what I’ve learned in my career as a paraprofessional, it’s clear that the most effective classrooms aren’t necessarily the ones that are most quiet or still, but the ones that prioritize relationships and community building.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. December 14-18th Buy the K-8 curriculum ; get the 55-page Hour of Code bundle for free Perfect if you’re doing Hour of Code in December. What’s in the Hour of Code bundle? 30 K-8 coding activities, organized by grade 138 images aligned with ISTE and Common Core lots of options to differentiate for student needs Questions?

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To address the ever-present and evolving threat of cyberattacks, Microsoft recently released Windows 11. “We’ve had upgrades, such as Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10,” says Jason Brown, senior field solution architect at CDW. “Windows 11 isn’t an upgrade so much as it is a complete redesign of the entire platform. In earlier versions of Windows, hardware was just hardware.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The post 12 Education Stories to Get You Ready for the New Year appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high. The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 12 Ways to Update Your Online Identity — December 11th 8+ Ways to a Speedier Computer — December 12th Backup and Image your computer — December 13th (today) Regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher know these are updated each December.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Recently, my son did an active-shooter drill at his school. I asked him how it went. He mentioned how it was fine, but a few students couldn’t be quiet. I nodded, remembering my days as a middle school teacher when I’d have to insist that children be quiet when, developmentally, they’d want to shake the room. An active-shooter drill means that teachers have to lock their doors, cover their door windows, command students to hide in a corner or a less obvious spot in the classroo

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The post How Teachers, Researchers, and Tech are Partnering to Make Math Accessible appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S. these days, including the fallout from COVID-19 and America’s ongoing racial reckoning; teacher burnout, low pay, and systemic teacher shortages; and how best to utilize new tech and curriculum with inc

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of projects you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you’ll get ( links won’t be active until the post goes live ): 12 Ways to Update Your Online Identity — December 11th 8+ Ways to a Speedier Computer — December 12th (today) Backup and Image your computer — December 13th Regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher know these are updated each December.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By most measures, Abre is one of the most successful and fastest growing EdTech companies around. Over the last couple of years, they have practically invented a category, DaaS, or Data-as-a-Service. In short, these former school and district data guys have figured out how to take the entire data headache away from your district, and hand you back a finely integrated service that organizes all your data and makes it actionable to every stakeholder, including teachers, administrators, parents, st

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

88 finalists have been named across 25 awards categories honoring the companies, products, and leaders whose work is advancing educational equity and access WASHINGTON, DC — December 11, 2023 — The American Consortium for Equity in Education today announced the Keep Reading 2023 Industry Finalists Announced for Excellence in Equity Awards The post 2023 Industry Finalists Announced for Excellence in Equity Awards appeared first on American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Need for AI Literacy in Education The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) requires school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (Gen AI), are being integrated into schools and districts across the United States. Much uncertainty exists about what AI is, how it works and its implications for students, families, educators and the broader school community.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, when I dropped my son off at school, my first question to the staff was “What’s changed?” After the cuts came down, students felt a palpable loss across the board. We can enumerate the problems with leaving any school budget thousands of dollars short: less teachers per class, tired adults carrying more of the load, less electives, desolate classrooms and hallways, less people for communities to turn to, less resources, less … of everything really.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sample question on the math section of the 2022 PISA exam. This one is rated a level 2, a level of difficulty that 34 percent of U.S. 15-year-olds could not answer correctly. (Answer revealed at the bottom of this story.) For more PISA questions, there are PISA practice questions on Khan Academy and publicly released questions from the 2022 test. Source: OECD PISA 2022.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: It can be tough to get shy students to participate–but edtech can help See also: 4 thought-provoking videos about education See also: 5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school For more news on teaching strategies, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Engaging shy students in K-12 classrooms can be a rewarding challenge, and edtech is a valuable tool in creating inclusive and interactive learning environments.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities. Too many young people have school experiences that leave them disengaged and ill-prepared for the future.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Introducing digital tools into your teaching can seem challenging at first. There are many tools out there, and it might feel like there's a lot to learn. But with easy steps for teaching with digital tools, you can start simply and gradually. There's no need to dive in all at once – just take it one step at a time. Taking easy steps for teaching with digital tools starts with trying something!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a former public-school teacher, I know that my students sometimes acted out when they didn’t receive the additional educational supports they needed. Too often they then faced a choice: Get your licks or go home. “Licks” meant an assistant principal beat their backsides with a paddle. “Go home” meant suspension. Those who chose the former would come back to class dejected, disengaged and depressed.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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