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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

2021, November 10, 2021). 2019, October 14, 2021). UNESCO (2017, September 2017). Resources Cited In This Resource. Barshay, J., ” America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic: remote classes made things worse.” ” Retrieved January 21, 2022, 2022, from [link].

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Experienced Teachers Can Bring Big Value to Schools. Here’s Why They Still Need Support.

Edsurge

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

The study focused on fifth graders who said they were playing online video games, using social media or texting “many times” a day and their characteristics and behavior in kindergarten. “We Hyperactive kindergarteners and those exhibiting aggressive behaviors, such as hitting, were also more likely to become frequent users.

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Small Acts of Kindness Over Time

The Principal of Change

kati97_) March 26, 2021. In fact, I actually saw some Kaitlin tweeted at the beginning of my presentation, and I had understood since I was talking about social media why she wasn’t excited. ” Kaitlin was a shining example of this definition for me in both 2014 and 2021. pic.twitter.com/Z7rwgskYPK.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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