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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

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King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Some institutions are even cutting teacher degree programs, such as Oklahoma City University, which has suspended its elementary education and early childhood education tracks. “We Murphy says.

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The newly reimagined Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

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Her blog post shares: In 2019, SLSA approved re-imagining the ESIFC to adapt to the changing information, education, and technology environments, as well as the increasing diversity in our student populations. While I was initially planning to share it with NYLA/SSL, others encouraged me to share more broadly via social media.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL), stated, “We were not as prepared as we could have been to have made that shift in terms of our practices and pedagogy.” Personalization and digital collaborative environments identified in the fall of 2019 have accelerated due to the pandemic. Dr. Carol Kelley.

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Cybersecurity is Still Paramount for Schools

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Under the leadership of Dr. In 2017, the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class. In 2019, Mehlville opened academies at each middle school to expand personalized learning experiences at the middle-school level.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

In the absence of detailed information about Asian American history at school, they’re teaching themselves through social media — such as videos on Tik Tok and infographics on Instagram — and their networks of friends. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 175,340 Asian American students (comprising 16.6%

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Logan is part of a generation of “digital natives” who were raised on screens.

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