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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

eSchool News

The school systems and dynamic leaders that embrace change will succeed and create an educational environment that is more equitable and prepares students for their futures. Those districts and systems have successfully implemented changes and innovations since the pandemic started. “Innovation should spark success.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free.

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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. And right now, you can save 20% off each course with the code COOL20 — that’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. To master keyboarding, one must be able to let fingers flow freely (Waner, Behymer, & McCrary, 1992), a concept backed by Bloom’s idea of automaticity and discussed by Wronkovich (1998), who defines it as a “system of automatic habits corresponding to the system of tasks”.

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. I’ve had a longtime relationship with ISTE. So far we’ve met once and have been assigned to some small groups.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. That means in the course of that class session, if a student makes a comment, they give up one of their Popsicle sticks. Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. How does that work?

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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

Even kindergartners have plenty of questions about the presidential election, the pandemic and the movement to end systemic racism. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.