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CoSN2023: Cybersecurity Conversations at the District, State and Federal Levels

EdTech Magazine

K–12 cybersecurity conversations are happening at the district, state and federal levels. An increase in cyberattacks against schools has leaders re-evaluating security needs, and with that comes concerns about upkeep, funding and legality.

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10 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes: Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle Puzzles and games Physical Education St.

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Practical AI Ideas for the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country.

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How to Apply the Concepts of Neuroscience to Create a Thriving Learning Culture

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at LearningToGo

In this webinar, Margie Meacham, CEO of Learningtogo and a neuroscience expert, will show you how to create a training program that promotes psychological safety and uses neuroscience to create a workplace culture where people flourish, connect, and perform at their best.

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Leading Digitally-Rich Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

A thriving culture views technology as a seamless component that can enhance learning in a multitude of ways.

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The Role of Micro-credentials in the Credential Ecosystem

Digital Promise

The post The Role of Micro-credentials in the Credential Ecosystem appeared first on Digital Promise

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Assessing the effectiveness of cloud-based web filters for K-12 schools

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: Not all web filtering tools are effective in safeguarding K-12 learners. Today’s students are learning on computers, tablets and mobile-devices and using the internet for class activities, research, assessments, communication and collaboration.

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Education Leaders Need to Prioritize Cybersecurity to Protect Schools and Students

EdTech Magazine

As most criminals do, cybercriminals make a habit of targeting the most vulnerable. News headlines often highlight the dangers they pose in the context of nation-state threats or breaches that target the data of large enterprises.

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How it Was vs How it Could Be: Reimagining Hiring Season Best Practices

Education Elements

It’s the time of year when hiring managers and principals are gearing up to recruit and onboard their staff for the upcoming school year.

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The Station Rotation Model: Tip #1 Maximize Learning and Minimize Distractions with Assigned Seats

Catlin Tucker

Do you want to design lessons that allow you to work with small groups but worry about keeping the rest of the class on task? Even the most experienced teachers find themselves teaching “that one class” that needs extra support and structure when implementing the station rotation model.

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The Guide to Accessible Learning for Associations

Speaker: Dan Streeter, Vice President of Learning Strategy & Development at Blue Sky eLearn

In this 45-minute webinar, we’ll share real-world accessibility solutions and hidden tools in the applications you use every day such as Zoom, Microsoft Suite, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Articulate Storyline 360, and Articulate Rise 360. This webinar will help you evaluate the accessibility of your current learning efforts and learn about the tools needed to ensure your eLearning is in alignment with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (proposed WCAG 2.2).

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5 Skills Graduates Need to Be Successful

Ask a Tech Teacher

The skills required to succeed in your post-High School life, be it college, a vocational training program, the military, or a job, are surprisingly similar. Commitment to the task at hand by doing your best all the time is a great start, but it isn’t all you need.

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LED Display: The Future of Corporate Workspaces

ViewSonic Education

A n LED display can truly work wonders in enhancing the a mbiance of lobbies, VIP lounges, auditoriums, and other presentation areas. This revolutionary technology has been gaining a lot of attention lately and for good reason – it’s being touted as the future of corporate workspaces.

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CoSN2023: Learning Loss and ChatGPT Open Doors to Innovation in K–12 Education

EdTech Magazine

Innovation is the name of the game when it comes to educational technology, but sometimes, innovating takes courage. This year’s Consortium for School Networking conference highlights all the challenges and possibilities around innovation in its “Reimagine. Redesign. Renew.”

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Seven reasons to include Tripod 7Cs in your Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment

Education Elements

School districts face an increasingly competitive market as districts grapple over teacher talent. In Texas, the state implemented a grant system called the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA), where districts create criteria for designating “Master” teachers to reward their top performers.

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Increasing Equity and Access: A Canvas Case Study of Virtual Arkansas K-12

Virtual Arkansas, a fully online school, had a mission to provide high-quality courses in rural and urban areas throughout the state. How would they simplify content creation while enhancing learning? Discover 3 key insights to transform your classrooms.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

Edsurge

When a Texas task force set out to draft a plan for attracting and keeping more teachers in the state’s schools, it ran into its first problem before work ever began.

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5 ways to make way for science in an ELA and math world

eSchool News

How much time do you think the average K–3 student spends learning about science? Thirty minutes a day? An hour a day?

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CoSN2023: Schools Share Lessons in Disaster Recovery

EdTech Magazine

For a K–12 school system, “disaster” can mean many things. Minnesota’s Minnehaha Academy and Oregon’s Beaverton School District dealt with separate disasters in their school systems, and both institutions found their data completely offline as a result.

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Settlement will wipe $6 billion in student loan debt — but not for these borrowers

The Hechinger Report

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair.

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Unlock the Power of Formative Assessment

Learn how a thoughtful formative assessment approach can help teachers understand where students are in their learning, inform instruction, and in turn, positively impact student learning outcomes. Get the guide today!

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

Edsurge

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. We were discussing the agenda when the topic of ChatGPT elicited a collective groan.

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Math+Tech–a Good Partnership

Ask a Tech Teacher

Technology has been part of math education for decades, mostly as rote drills and a replacement for worksheets, often to assist in memorizing tables. But it’s grown up since those early days.

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3 ways to engage students in productive struggle

eSchool News

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Think about it for a minute. You are facing a new challenge – whether it be learning to fix a burst pipe, tackling a new hobby, or just struggling to figure something out. What do you do?

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CoSN2023: Districts Train Students in Cybersecurity and Network Operations

EdTech Magazine

Schools have always aimed to prepare students for the future, but some K–12 institutions are taking their training a step further today.

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Keeping Students Safe and Productive on Devices

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, we’ll explore the full range of Jamf education products to protect students, including quick and easy tools for IT admins, powerful apps for teachers to ensure student safety anywhere, and parental engagement tools.

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The Key to Keeping Students Safe Online

Gaggle Speaks

I In July of 2018 I went from a high school teacher of 15 years to a building-based administrator. The change, although pre-COVID, was at the beginning of the educational revolution; when technology went from a luxury to a necessity. Student Safety

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As Child Care Programs Adopt Tech Tools, New Questions Arise About Privacy and Security

Edsurge

When Alexis Hancock signed her child up for child care, she wasn’t expecting to have to download an app to participate. When that app began to send her photos of her child, she had some additional questions. That experience is not unique.

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OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

Iterating Toward Openness

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. The two are intertwined now in a manner that would be difficult to disentangle even if you wanted to try.

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Addressing the digital divide’s effects on education and the workforce

eSchool News

Our society relies on the internet for education, jobs, and personal needs, yet our country’s digital divide has been an ongoing issue, affecting the 14.5 million Americans who don’t have access to broadband internet.

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The Best Ways to Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, How to Best Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School, hear the real-world experience of Steven Palomo, IT Director at Beverly Public Schools, regarding how he successfully managed his entire tech stack.

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CoSN2023: Are Men Doing Enough for Women in IT?

EdTech Magazine

Research shows that white men continue to dominate the makeup of K–12 IT leaders. The “CoSN State of EdTech Leadership 2022” report states that the share of female CTOs increased from 25 to 34 percent between 2020 and 2022. Despite the increase, men still outnumber women 3 to 1.

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Two Better Options than “Micromanaging”

The Principal of Change

If you want to go far in leadership, both in and out of education, it is more about the people you serve and what they do than what you do yourself. I have always believed that the higher you go up in any organization, the more people you serve, not the other way around.

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Better Teacher Professional Development: Pairing Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

Pairing Teachers To Improve Professional Development contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Professional development isn’t something that many teachers … Better Teacher Professional Development: Pairing Teachers Read More The post Better Teacher Professional Development: Pairing Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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Inside a growing federal effort to prepare students for cybersecurity careers

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!

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6 Tips for EdTech Evaluation by Adult Learning Institutions

Many continuing adult education institutions have turned to technology used by higher ed with the following benefits: elevates teaching and learning, scales to address changes in staffing, enrollment and budget, and protects student and institutional data.