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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. The independent private school in Medina, Wash., which has 330 students, is not alone.

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Outdoor classrooms should outlast COVID

eSchool News

Many educators deployed it in fall 2020. In fall 2020, many districts, schools, and individual educators across the country took to learning outdoors out of necessity. Green Schoolyards America led a beautiful collective effort to document outdoor learning practices in a National Outdoor Learning Library. But it’s hardly new.

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Online learning for special education

eSchool News

Vizzle FREE through August 1, 2020. It includes: Thousands of lessons Vizzle has a growing library of 15,000 interactive lessons, games and activities aligned and searchable by state learning standards. Assign lessons or view data using an Internet-connected tablet or computer. Personalized student experience.

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OPINION: How technology can help parents communicate with preschoolers

The Hechinger Report

As a result, the education gap is likely to worsen in 2020, as the fallout from Covid-19 takes a disproportionate toll on learning opportunities for young children from low-income families. reading two times or less per week using a book or a tablet) has increased significantly from last fall, from 18 to 28 percent.

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Now is the time to plan for next year’s technology upgrades

eSchool News

In 2020, after the onset of the pandemic, the program was created to provide funding to schools and libraries to purchase eligible equipment and services for students and teachers who lack connected devices, including laptops, tablets, or even broadband access.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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How to Choose a Presentation Display for Your Meeting Spaces

ViewSonic Education

And if you still aren’t convinced, check out Cision PR Newswire ’s news about our Visual Solutions panel at ISE 2020. Some portable monitors are even more fragile than a standard tablet. Input lag can be higher on portable monitors than on standard tablets. Factors to Consider Extra devices to carry can be burdensome.

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