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How to Hold Better Meetings

The CoolCatTeacher

His first book, Making Your School Something Special , was released by EdTechTeam Press in January of 2017. His second book, Making Your Teaching Something Special , was released in June 2017. His second book, Making Your Teaching Something Special , was released in June 2017. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @ rushtonh.

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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda. The visual is based on guidelines sourced from Facebook help center.

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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

Note: This post is directly related to my work at the International Center for Leadership in Education Efficacy has been on my mind a great deal as of late, and as a result, it has been reflected in my writing. Copyright © by International Center for Leadership in Education, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Fighting Fake News in the Classroom

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PISA scores were recently released , and results of the international test revealed that only 14 percent of U.S. This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to Pew Research Center, 68 percent of American adults get their news from social media —platforms where opinion is often presented as fact.

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Universities Can Combat Misinformation By Sharing Research With the Public

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For instance, since the first Coleman Report on educational opportunity was released in 1966, economists , sociologists , and other scholars have debated ad nauseam the empirical effects of school expenditures on student outcomes. Sometimes, the literature on a given study topic is just mixed. These could even be virtual town halls.

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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

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28, children’s media company Moonbug Entertainment partnered with Outright Games to launch CoComelon: Play with JJ on Nintendo Switch. After pressing the button, a mini-game about identifying simple shapes begins. Once close to an object, an “A” will flash, signaling to the player to push the corresponding button on the device.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

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The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), hoping to understand how these groups perceive issues surrounding privacy and technology, conducted surveys and focus groups from May to August of this year. We can and must do both,” said Bacardi Jackson, managing attorney for children’s rights at the Southern Poverty Law Center.