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Top Tweets from 2021

Learning in Hand

My top tweets from each month of 2021. ? Knowing how to create your own graphics means you can design headers for your favorite tools. Registration is open, and the workshop begins Jan 20th: [link] pic.twitter.com/BXh3ATUXFC — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) January 19, 2021. ? ✏️ Weekly Journal ? Tip Tuesday! Tip Tuesday!

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

With little existing research evidence for most edtech products and substantial latitude from the Department regarding what counts as evidence in informing spending of COVID aid dollars, districts will be largely left to utilize their own processes for determining which digital learning tools to invest in.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Launches Free Online Reflection Tool for Students and Teachers

Edsurge

That was the thinking behind Along , a free digital reflection tool developed by the nonprofit Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and announced yesterday at the 2021 annual conference of ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, which is EdSurge’s parent organization.

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Education Has a Three-Headed Crisis. Mental Health Is Only Part of It.

Edsurge

It is now time to update this piece for 2021. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Source: A Year in the Life of a Pandemic , April 27, 2021, by Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi and Nat Kendall-Taylor.

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Adobe Flash 2020 Retirement: The 5 R’s Strategy for Teachers

ViewSonic Education

Fast forward to 2017, Adobe announced its plan to no longer support its most popular success story. On January 1 st , 2021 all applications using Flash will no longer find their programs being maintained. This all contributes to the danger to the security and full functionality of classroom technologies in 2021.

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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

From July through December 2021, I took Teaching Computer Science in Grades 6-12 from Advancement Courses for my three hours of college credit required by my certification organization. . Computer science takes us even further as we make the apps and tools we use have new functions and features. Course Background. Danielson, C.

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3M and Discovery Education Name 10 Grant Recipients Supporting Nation’s Young Scientists 

eSchool News

Kathryn Lampo is a 20-year-old from Colorado and a 2017 finalist. Viraj Pandey is a 14-year-old from California and a 2021 finalist. Sarah Park is a 15-year-old from Florida and a 2021 America’s Top Young Scientist & Grand Prize winner. Moitri Santra is a 13-year-old from Florida and a 2021 finalist.

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