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Don Johnston Incorporated Joins Texthelp Group; Edtech Giants Join Forces to Help Students Across North America and the Globe

eSchool News

10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Texthelp , a global leader in literacy and accessibility technology, today announced that they will acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc., a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. WOBURN, Mass.,

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. Products that use voice assistant technology to measure a student’s language comprehension and creation skills are one example.

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Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool – SULS080

Shake Up Learning

When it comes to digital learning tools to support blended and remote learning, one tool has stood out above the rest in 2020, Flipgrid. I am super excited to announce that I have two books that will be released in 2020! More information will be posted soon. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Two New Google Books COMING SOON!

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. In 2020, Reach University started the program focused on school employees without a degree. She’s also a teacher-in-training.

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How to provide effective and engaging virtual therapy for kids

eSchool News

As was the case for so many other therapists working with children and families, March 2020 felt overwhelming in our center for child and family therapy. After three weeks of participating via the monkey, the client felt comfortable and connected enough to join the handshake, and soon after that, to join the entire group session.

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Learning with Google: Announcements for 2021

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

It was a bit of an information blitz and I felt exhausted afterward trying to take notes and keep up. Google Classroom, Forms, Docs, and Jamboard Upgrades Fun fact: since February of 2020, Google Classroom has gone from 40 million users to 150 million worldwide! For more details on your options: Read this Google blog entry.

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