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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

Digital Promise

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded While we’ve known about the challenges of equity and outcomes in U.S. What the education sector should prioritize in 2022.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) chose to administer the NAEP tests in March 2022 , during the downswing of that huge spike in cases and after two years of COVID trauma (six weeks later America hit the 1 million dead mark ).

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Unfortunately, our new LMS lacks these refined media capabilities. As a result, my students now have to use another third-party software when submitting their video projects, a less than ideal outcome for a purported “Smart” classroom. To be clear, this example is not meant to be an indictment of LMS outsourcing.

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An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

Edsurge

the 2022 teacher of the year in Kentucky who is gay and who quit the profession out of fear amid growing hostility toward LGBTQ educators and students at his school. But because of social media, what's different these days is that there are now people who fall into the category of what Amanda Ripley calls ‘ conflict entrepreneurs.

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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources 

eSchool News

Pivot Interactives, which joined the Discovery Education family of solutions in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy. A unique interface allows students to change what happens in the video and see how that change affects the outcome.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

As K–12 schools continue their E-rate processes for 2019, districts should be considering what tools are worth investing in to provide their students with the best outcomes in the coming year. . Members of the online community maintain multiple versions of themselves through social media sites, online profiles and other means.

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As teens rethink college and career options, counselors are trying to adapt

eSchool News

And more kids than ever are considering ways to make money without a college degree, Insel said–driven in part by people and jobs they’ve encountered on social media. Nationwide, 62% of recent high school graduates enrolled in college in 2022, down from 66% in 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.