EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sharing artificial intelligence projects as an art teacher yields mixed reactions, Tim Needles said at FETC 2025 in Orlando, Fla. Needles, who works as an art teacher and a technology integration specialist for New Yorks Smithtown Central School District, explained in a presentation Wednesday that the teacher and ed tech communities are often excited by the AI art he shares, whereas his artist friends and followers are more inclined to criticize it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2025

How to use Digital Quick Writes This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: summarized by NoteGPT Summary In this video, Jacqui Murray discusses the concept of quick writes as a dynamic and engaging way to teach writing in the classroom. Quick writes are short, spontaneous writing exercises that allow students to express their thoughts and ideas without the pressure of formal writing tasks.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2025

The post Unlocking the Power of Human Connection in the Age of Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In todays ever-evolving educational landscape, technology continues to redefine how we teach and learn. Often, we didn't know it was coming or even approve its use on our campus but the operating system of our student's phones or ipads or laptops updates and now, a full suite of AI tools are suddenly available everywhere you can type a word.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Key points: AI models are only as good as the data that goes into the tool Where AI and multimodal learning will go in 2025 Teachers: Its time to make friends with AI For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Its never too early for campus or district-wide IT teams to begin planning for upcoming tech upgrades and implementations. Because many of these upgrades happen over summer break, teams can use the upcoming spring semester to ensure their data is in A+ shape to support new

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2025

When we invite students in as R&D partners and honor their lived experience as experts, novel and groundbreaking solutions can emerge.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2025

For all of the ways artificial intelligence is exhilarating and groundbreaking in education, it can be intimidating and alienating for many K12 teachers. For this reason, district leaders must be intentional when they introduce AI tools to their staff. At FETC 2025 in Orlando, Fla., tech specialists who successfully implemented AI in their own districts shared strategies with eager-to-learn attendees.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2025

This is a new Ask a Tech Teacher series on College and Career with a focus on military options. High school students contemplating a military career should research extensively, speak with recruiters, and perhaps participate in preparatory or introductory military programs to make an informed decision. Each branch of the military has unique offerings, so aligning personal goals with the branch’s culture and opportunities is crucial.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Naturally, I sought out someone with on-the-ground experience.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2025

The post Building Language Proficiency through Community Engagement appeared first on Digital Promise.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Forney Independent School District sought to break away from traditional classroom setups, aiming to enhance teacher mobility and foster greater interactivity. Their primary priorities were reliability, consistency, and cost-effectiveness. By pairing Vivi with a projector in every classroom, the district found an ideal solution that satisfied the needs of both teachers and technology staff.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

From areas of progress to rising challenges, SETDAs Universal Connectivity Imperative builds on past reports and connects to the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) assessment of the digital access divide. The experts who put the imperative together intend for policymakers and K12 education leaders to use it like a roadmap. To that end, the document examines the ways states are implementing laws and guidelines concerning various K12 priorities, such as cybersecurity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2025

Natural disasters is a related discussion to any number of topics–geography, ecology, Earth Day, even problem solving. Here are 17 websites that bring the power of these natural forces to students ( click here for updates to the list): Avalanches Earthquakes Earthquakes –an animation Earthquakes for Kids Four scenes of natural disasters EarthquakesUSGS Every Natural Disaster Explained in 12 Minutes (video) Floodhugefloods.com Hurricanes Natural Disasters –for kids–video N

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Can I have your attention? The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Is your technology team spending too much time wrestling with your K-12 school web filter? You may think finagling your filter to do what you need is unavoidable. But how many headaches could you alleviate if you had a better, more capable school web filter instead? If you’re using a filter appliance or a free filtering solution , youre missing out on essential features designed to make your job a whole lot easier.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Key points: AI literacy is critical for students–and for teachers 6 tips to help your school unlock the most value from AI Navigation and guidance in the age of AI: 5 trends to watch For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Avoiding or banning AI in the classroom does students a disservice, and if teachers arent familiar with AI tools and how to use them, who is really in charge of teaching?

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2025

Overhauling your schools physical safety strategies and technologies can seem like a massive undertaking, especially in older buildings. The average age of schools in my former district is 57 years. What we call our four new schools are 25 years old, said Kacey Sensenich, retired CTO of North Carolinas Rockingham County Schools. Presenting a session titled EVERY Second Counts: Ensuring the Safety and Security of Our Schools on Thursday, Sensenich encouraged FETC 2025 attendees in Orlando, Fla.,

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techlearning

JANUARY 17, 2025

New edtech products introduced at FETC that have caught our attention

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

The lights dimmed, and the audience fell silent. It was a cold January afternoon in 2007, and I was sitting in a crowded auditorium in Providence, Rhode Island, nervously thinking about the week ahead. In just a few days, Id travel across the world and step into a classroom for the first time as a student teachera dream years in the making that suddenly felt overwhelming.

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N2Y

JANUARY 14, 2025

Wednesday, February 12, 4:00 PM Pacific Hear from peers on best practices to ensure equity for special educations students. The post Webinar: Equitable Access for CAs Special Ed Population appeared first on n2y.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Generative AI is redefining educator professional development by offering tools and strategies to create smarter, more impactful learning opportunities Teachers: Its time to make friends with AI A look at one schools innovative approach to PD For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping education as we know it.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

As a former high school English teacher, I constantly find myself looking for the stories in the world around me. Whether they happen through social media platforms or face-to-face conversations, our stories define us. They help us understand ourselves and learn from each other. However, this means that we must be able hear the stories around us and be literate enough to amplify them.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Writing effective AI prompts is an increasingly important skill for educators and their students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2025

A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable. Each role, over time, equips the educator to step into the next one, right?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2025

RANDOLPH, Vt. The thermostat was turned low in the admissions office at Vermont State University on a cold winter morning. Its one of our efficiencies, quipped David Bergh, the institutions president, who works in the same building. Bergh was joking. But he was referring to something decidedly serious: the public university systems struggle to reduce a deficit so deep, it threatened to permanently shutter several campuses after dramatic drop-offs in enrollment and revenue.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI can’t replace teachers, but it can support them. Merlyn, a voice-controlled AI classroom assistant from Merlyn Mind, is designed to help teachers and students stay engaged and focused. Merlyn empowers teachers to move around the classroom and manage classroom technology seamlessly, keeping distractions to a minimum and ensuring teachers and students remain connected.

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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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JANUARY 15, 2025

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Keeping students focused is the eternal struggle of teaching. About 30 hours of instructional time is lost to distraction annually, and most teachers have to pause instruction multiple times a day to repeat information and demonstrations that students missed. Fortunately, technology can be used to reduce and recover lost time.

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techlearning

JANUARY 16, 2025

Polypad is an award-winning digital math playground

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ignitionEDU

JANUARY 16, 2025

I have created a number of Chrome extensions to meet specific needs of my district. This extension hides textbox editor for posting Google Classroom announcements. By default, when a new Google Classroom is created, the Stream is set to ‘Students can post and comment’ but that can lead to issues if the Classroom is not monitored by the teacher.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

2025 marks an exciting journey into AI-powered learning! Use these AI tools and activities to deepen AI understanding, spark student curiosity and foster impactful classroom experiences. Click here to see the full infographic. HP AI Spotlight Schools are innovative secondary schools in the United States that are committed to powerful teaching and learning with technology, especially artificial intelligence.

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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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