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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways. 5 practical lessons for elementary classroom inclusion. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

Want to hear another episode on technology tools? Jon has served as an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Technology at the county level. VICKI: Happy edtech tool Tuesday. So John, what is our edtech tool today? And this is the beauty of technology.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

In this post, Tony will show you how Shapegrams can challenge students much like a puzzle while also teaching them technology skills. You might be looking for ways to boost students’ communication, creativity, and technology skills. Students actively learn digital drawing and technology skills while being creative problem solvers.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

Edsurge

In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Over the past three years, private equity groups have upped their stake in education technology companies. Yet that’s not all.

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To Leverage Tech in Writing Instruction, This Superintendent Channeled Justin Bieber

Edsurge

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. At their age, Cotton remembers, he was writing for an audience of one: his teacher.

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Research Shows Technology Strategies That Positively Impact Student Learning

EdTechSandyK

The following was written as a reflection on what I learned during the second week of the Teaching With Technology course I am currently taking as part of my masters in educational technology leadership program. 6) was again reaffirming what I have come to know as best practices in the use of technology in instruction.