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8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. Moreover, research on Business Insider shows that the more skills you have, the more likely you’ll get hired in 2020. Data Analytics. Artificial Intelligence.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence.

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5 Creative Ways to Connect Young Adults to Reading

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. Check out @EmilyBHardeman on Twitter. UNICEF (2020, September 2020). “The Economic & Social Cost of Illiteracy.”

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires DoodleLearning

eSchool News

DoodleLearning complements Discovery Education’s other award-winning digital services, which include Discovery Education’s K-12 platform , Mystery Science , STEM Connect , and the Math , Science , and Social Studies Techbooks. . More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.

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The ST Math Fall Challenge is Back

MIND Research Institute

A study released by Proving Ground , part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found that students who increased their average weekly usage in ST Math practice show higher math test score gains compared to the matched comparison group whose use remained the same. October 3, 2020. November 6, 2020.

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Texas’ Corpus Christi Independent School District Expands Partnership with Discovery Education by Selecting New, TEKS-Aligned Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in Science

eSchool News

Mystery Science , which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science.