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New Gaggle White Paper Helps Districts Understand and Support Students Struggling With Mental Health

eSchool News

To help educators understand and respond to this deepening crisis, Gaggle has published a new white paper titled “ Addressing the Crisis in Student Mental Health: How Districts Can Identify and Support Struggling Students.”. For a free copy of the white paper, visit [link]. About Gaggle | www.gaggle.net.

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Technology Makes or Breaks Esports Programs

EdTech Magazine

Technology Makes or Breaks Esports Programs. In competitive gaming, milliseconds matter , and the technology supporting students can make or break an esports venture. My advice, always, to schools starting out is to ensure that all equipment and networking technology can support the speeds and processing the sport requires.

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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. What Is a Flexible Classroom? It’s important that kids be allowed to do the same.”. by Eli Zimmerman.

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ICE 2019: Physical Arrangement Sets the Tone for K–12 Modern Learning Environments

EdTech Magazine

Despite cultural and technological changes over the past several decades, one thing remained the same: the desks. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued ICE 2019 coverage. DOWNLOAD: Get CDW's latest white paper on constructing modern learning environments. Pedagogy needs to change too.”.

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Why K–12 Districts Should Use HCI to Improve Their Data Centers

EdTech Magazine

K–12 schools need powerful data centers now more than ever as their infrastructures feel the increasing weight of new technology integrations, data analytics initiatives and the rising number of personalized devices. Large technology companies are beginning to see the benefits as well. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 01/31/2019 - 09:42.

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EngineerGuy - great videos and resources on how things work

Educational Technology Guy

He explores and explains technology and the human side of technology, in videos and radio pieces, along with some books. The videos are well done, explain the technology in an easy to understand way, and are very interesting. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Using Video and Audio to Share Our Scholarship

ProfHacker

[ This is a guest post by George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and an associate professor at Royal Roads University , where he teaches in the MA in Learning and Technology program , and researches networked scholarship and digital learning.

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