Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 20, 2022

In November 2021, I presented at EdSpaces21 in Pittsburgh, PA on the challenges, joys and lessons learned from opening Marnel C. EDspaces's Essentials online magazine reached out to me and asked if I wanted to write an article based on my Pittsburgh presentation. Flashback time!

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

If you’re on the list of 30 K–12 IT Influencers to Follow in 2021, spread the news and grab our influencer images for your social media pages or websites. Congratulations! Below you will find a header image for your Twitter profile and a social object to share on your social media pages. Please be sure to tag @EdTech_K12 when you post!

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

Join EdTech Magazine as we cover FETC 2021 from Jan. 26 to 29!

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Educators who rose to the many challenges presented this past year often did so with the aid of educational technology. Many K–12 districts adapted to new learning styles, sometimes more than once, as the year progressed.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

percent increase from the 2021-2022 school year and a nearly 190 percent increase from the 2018… But, with so many software applications, devices and other technologies on the market, it’s easy for teachers to become overwhelmed with the array of opportunities available to them. This is a 1.7

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

CLEVELAND – February 3, 2022 – TeachingBooks , an online database of supplemental resources that enrich children’s and young adult books, had a busy year in 2021. In addition to being acquired by OverDrive in October, TeachingBooks announced the signing of four new statewide licenses and one territory license in 2021. million students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Students may now be learning from home, but many teachers still think in terms of the classroom, whether it’s a virtual one or in a brick-and-mortar building. That’s why collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams have become so valuable during the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Challenges of leadership have been at the center of the education discussion over the past year, as the pandemic has reshaped lesson plans, timetables and classrooms. There’s been constant concern about students being left behind.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2020 and 2021, educators pioneered ed tech tools for their classrooms at an overwhelming pace. Districts with more than 1,000 students accessed an average 1,449 ed tech products online each month during the 2020-2021 school year, according to research conducted by LearnPlatform.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, the educational services sector experienced 1,241 incidents in 2021, with 282 involving confirmed data disclosure. Of those attacks, 75…

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

One of the becoming-forgotten subjects I have begun to fear is Civics so I loved this article from Commonwealth Magazine on how this understanding our our form of government in America is not forgotten, in fact taught well: Mass. getting good grades on civics, history. The State of State Standards for Civics and U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2023

A 2021 Code.org report notes that only 51 percent of high schools offer computer science coursework, and a 2021 Pew Research Center report shows that Black students earned only 7 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees in 2018.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

December 13, 2021— The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) recently named Audrey Muhammad, college success instructor at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, NC, as the recipient of the 2021 NABSE $10,000 Scholarship Award, which is sponsored by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., About NABSE.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

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JANUARY 28, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic upended education in 2020, sending more students home to learn virtually and bringing new concepts such as hybrid learning to the mainstream. Experts say to expect more of the same this year and beyond as schools mull how to safely return students to the classroom and maximize technology — both in person and online.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

By Franklin Schargel Like many of you reading this, I receive magazines, newspapers, and blogs about the educational disruption. In the school year 2020-2021, there was a 40 percent increase from the previous year. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I live, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of educational retirements.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

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MARCH 9, 2023

More than a year after Congress passed the 2021 K–12 Cybersecurity Act, the nation’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a report sharing best practices for K–12 schools. The law charged CISA with reviewing the risks schools face and sharing recommendations to mitigate them.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Thursday, June 24, 2021) – 3M and Discovery Education today announced the top 10 finalists and four honorable mention recipients in the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The competition event will take place from October 18-19, 2021, at the 3M Innovation Center in Minneapolis. SILVER SPRING, Md. & PAUL, Minn.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Trying to adapt to learning environments that are both remote and hybrid in nature can create a lot of disruption for classrooms in the short term. In the long term, however, it creates opportunities to build stronger technologies that can reinvigorate the educational experience.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

This year’s TCEA Convention & Exposition promises to “explore education from every angle,” and the wide-ranging lineup of speakers and sessions bears out that description. The virtual conference happens February 1–6, with live and on-demand sessions complemented by breakouts, social events and activities such as virtual scavenger hunts.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Think Together, a Santa Ana-based and California’s leading nonprofit provider of afterschool, expanded learning and school improvement programs, is proud to announce the National AfterSchool Association (NAA), has named Think Together Regional Operations Analyst Helen Welderufael, as one of NAA’s 2021 Next Generation of Afterschool Leaders.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

To help, the Consortium for School Networking submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission in 2021 asking it to expand E-rate funding to cover cybersecurity solutions.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

high schools, only 51 percent offer computer science coursework, according to the 2021 State of Computer Science Education report by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 23, 2023

billion toward physical and health safety efforts from the federal government’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund — launched to provide K–12 support during the pandemic — in fiscal year 2021. Local education agencies put $2.4 They also have plans to spend an additional $18.5

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A LearnPlatform survey recently found that, despite concerns about known risks, districts accessed an average of 1,417 ed tech tools every month during the 2021-2022 school year. In response, IT teams are employing more measures to keep student data safe. While many of these…

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Wednesday, June 23, 2021) – 3M and Discovery Education today announced 30 State Merit Winners in the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge State Merit Winners are listed below in alphabetical order by state: [Alabama] Sophia Al-Halaseh, Fort Payne Middle School, Fort Payne City School District.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Three stimulus bills passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021 provided nearly $190.5 billion to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. Many district leaders invested extra dollars into devices and connectivity initially, which may leave them searching for a way to allocate remaining funds.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

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AUGUST 27, 2021

Add in the number of kindergarteners whose parents have opted to hold them out this fall, and it’s no wonder experts are concerned about young learners’ reading skills heading into the 2021-2022 school year. Literacy is foundational to childhood education. In fact, one study suggests that literacy in early childhood directly…

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Teachers will get a boost in efficiency thanks to machine-learning tools.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A mandate in Ontario, Canada, requires all school districts in the province to provide a virtual learning option to K–12 students for the 2021-2022 school year. Over the summer, families were asked whether they wanted their students to learn virtually or in person.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

I do a lot of those same things in my Spanish classes as well because I love all the possibilities that are out there,” says Poth, one of EdTech’s 2021 K–12 IT influencers. “My My students were seeing some of the augmented and virtual reality, and they’re like ‘Why can’t we…

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

In Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s 2021 Educator… Additionally, the increase in technology has broken down geographical barriers that formerly determined how students could learn. From virtual field trips to specialized classes, ed tech is taking students all over the world.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For example, 3,600 education jobs in Illinois remain unfilled, teacher retirements are up 38 percent year over year in Oklahoma, and teacher vacancies in Florida were up 67 percent in August 2021 compared with the same time last year. Other states, too, are reporting problems hiring teachers and substitutes.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In an April 2021 survey, 39 percent of rural residents reported that their children had some difficulty in using technology and the internet for online instruction.…

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

K–12 Education Faces Growing Cybersecurity Concerns Across sectors, 2021 has been a banner year for ransomware. FortiGuard Labs found that average weekly ransomware activity in June 2021 was 10 times higher than activity in the…

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