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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. The website offers strategies to help educators effectively use digital tools. She began her popular blog Cool Cat Teacher in 2005, and in 2017 she launched a podcast, 10-Minute Teacher Show.

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Turning around data culture and student learning

eSchool News

The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students. After principals became familiar with the data tracked and analyzed in Mosaic, each principal developed two SMART goals and used the new tool to measure their progress against those goals over the course of the school year.

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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Approximately 71 percent of K–12 teachers allowed students to use the internet to research subjects in class, according to a 2017 University of Phoenix survey. In addition to extra homework time, offering Wi-Fi during students’ rides might also provide some secondary benefits. Seventy percent of U.S.

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Modernizing student evaluation in 3 steps

eSchool News

The Algoma District School Board (ADSB), located in Ontario, Canada, serves a diverse group of 9,400 students across 39 elementary and 10 secondary schools. Our district uses the School Effectiveness Framework (SEF), a tool that is based on best practices, to help us effectively monitor, reflect and gather teacher data throughout our system.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Guest post: Using EdTech and AI to reduce social inequality

EdTech4Beginners

An article on the newspaper “The Independent” in 2017 claims that the gap between the number of students from private and public schools to reach university has never been larger. Because of that, it is important to find new tools to try and close the social gap between pupils of different socioeconomic status.

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Technology Sparks Growth Mindset and Innovation in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). “We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”.