Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2024

Which brings me to the gist of this article: Teacher Appreciation Week, the first full week in May, this year, May 6-10, 2024. Image credit Deposit Photo Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2024

The post Announcing the 2024 YouthMADE Festival Amplify Grant Recipients appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2024

This year’s K–12 IT influencers have been in their educational technology era since long before the Federal Communications Commission’s cybersecurity funding pilot, the revision to the National Educational Technology Plan or any other federal ed tech topics in the spotlight this calendar year. These fervent ed tech experts come from across the U.S.,

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the 2024 TCEA convention and exposition Monday, instructional technology coaches from the district and supervisor Jason Bell explained how the grant helped the district adopt a one-to-one tablet program for its middle school students.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2024

I must say that 2024 has been crazy in a good way. Without further ado, here are my Top Blog posts of 2024 based on views. It was the first full year that my consultancy, Aspire Change EDU, served education systems worldwide. While this kept me super busy, it also impacted my blogging schedule. Time will tell on this goal.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This year’s VirtCon theme is “Igniting Classroom Curiosity” and features live sessions spotlighting how educators use Discovery Education’s award-winning content and […] The post VirtCon 2024: Discovery Education Invites Teachers and Administrators to Free Day of Professional Learning first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With that winding down in 2024, K–12 school leaders are worried about how they will sustain the essential IT upgrades they’ve made. Distributions from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund helped schools acquire much-needed technologies. The ESSER funding cliff presents risks.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Safety is imperative in conversations today about K–12 education. Schools are looking for the best ways to protect staff and students from on-campus incidents. At the TCEA convention and exposition in Austin, Texas, presenters additionally took into consideration laws the state has put in place around school safety.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The post Building Career-Ready Skills: Insights from our 2024 Micro-Credential Pilot appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

The numbers don’t lie. Compared with K–12 girls, boys are disciplined at higher rates and are more likely to be expelled than girls. Additionally, their test scores are lower, and they are less likely to graduate from high school.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2025

If youre wondering when the artificial intelligence wave will crash down upon education, the October 2024 release of the federal governments toolkit for AI integration, Empowering Education Leaders, serves as a bellwether for the state of AI in K12: a lot of talk but little action.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The potential fallout from a cybersecurity breach is keeping K–12 IT teams up at night.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Despite the pandemic forcing more K–12 schools into some form of technology innovation, the American educational model has not seen massive shifts in recent years. That needs to change if today’s students are to become future ready, said Michael Meechin, Florida state director at the National Center on Education and the Economy.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

To help her audience better understand the earthshaking impact of generative artificial intelligence, futurist Sinead Bovell, one of the keynote speakers at ISTELive 24 in Denver, compared AI to electricity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2024

Schools strive to give students experiences that engage them in learning and prepare them for their future. In today’s education environment, that often means incorporating technology into teaching and learning, resulting in K–12 IT departments looking for ways to sustain and advance their tech investments.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The funding cliff is looming over K–12 school districts this year. The last bucket of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding expires in September. For some schools, this means scrambling to find ways to sustain the technology they purchased during the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Only a few months into the new school year, we’ve already seen a surge in ransomware attacks on schools and sensitive student data being leaked online. Ransomware poses the biggest threat to data privacy and security, and schools are the top target of these attacks.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A 2024 National Science Board report recently shared troubling news that K12 teachers have known for a while: The U.S. Science and Engineering 2024 report goes on to say, We are not producing STEM workers in either sufficient numbers or diversity to meet the workforce needs of the 21st century knowledge economy. The State of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Eligibility would begin in funding year 2024, coinciding with the June 2024 sunsetting of the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), the $7.2 “We are going to help close the Homework Gap and get more kids connected for school,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Its audience increased by 38 million from 2019 to 2020, and it’s projected to reach more than 576 million by 2024. In recent years, esports has become increasingly popular. Female participation in the sport, however, hasn’t quite mirrored that pace. Sixty percent of female gamers in the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

In the Consortium for School Networking’s 2024 Driving K–12 Innovation report, the organization lists generative artificial intelligence among the current tech enablers in schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

in Atlanta at 4 pm on September 11, 2024. New York Post, June 10, 2024. Forbes, June 7, 2024. Convert Google Forms into practice sets in Google Classroom , Google Workspace Updates, January 5, 2024. June 18, 2024. February 9, 2024. The YouTube video will be posted here when it goes live. Planet Money.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A 2024 CoSN survey of ed tech leaders… “We used to have a handful of desktops in each classroom, and you could manage everything easily and efficiently,” says Matt Prause, the district’s senior director of hardware and software support. Now, we have thousands of devices, and we’re ordering thousands of new ones every year.”

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

When selecting the best candidates for K–12 IT leadership posts, are academic credentials and technology skill sets the only things that matter? Not always. That’s what speakers on a diversity in leadership panel said at the Future of Education Technology Conference, going on this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Recently, the topic received renewed attention in the 2024 update to the U.S. Concern about digital equity in schools hit its zenith during the pandemic. However, its importance certainly has not declined. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan, which underscores its continued importance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2024

Full Story: K-12 Dive (3/27) –image credit Deposit Photos Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. Since the pandemic, it is so much more, to the point it is a front-of-mind issue that schools scramble to address.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As the 2024-2025 school year begins, students return to classes, digital assignments and cloud-based educational technology tools. Lessons explore emerging technologies while striving to facilitate collaboration and engagement. And all of these workflows and learning opportunities rely on the internet.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators, administrators and IT experts will kick off the new year with one of the biggest national ed tech conferences for K–12 educators: the Future of Education Technology Conference. Now in its 44th year, the conference will run from Jan. 23-26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

33% off right now through February 3, 2024 How to Achieve Common Core with Tech is a four-volume series that focuses on using technology to meet Common Core standards in Language, Writing, Reading, Speaking/Listening (not yet available), and Math. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 141 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for K-8.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

In honor of Martin Luther King: MLK Day in the US is the third Monday of January, this year, January 15, 2024. Ask a Tech Teacher’s 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is 66% off January 12, 2024 through Jan.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heres the countdown of the top EdSurge stories about the college world in 2024, based on readership. Weve been crunching the numbers, and your votes are in. Nearly half of the stories in our top 10 involve the impact that AI tools like ChatGPT are having on campuses.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 5, 2024

Department of Education released the nation’s signature educational technology policy document — “2024 National Educational Technology Plan: A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and Use Divides.” In January, the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Get Ready for the 2024 Hour of Code Mark your calendars for December 9–15, 2024! Emerging Trends in Computer Science Doug Bergman discusses how schools can prepare students for the future of coding, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and computational thinking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This week, February 18-24, 2024, is DiscoverE’s Engineers Week. Engineers Week, also known as EWeek, is an annual event celebrated in the United States typically during the third or fourth week of February, this week: February 18-24, 2024 dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of engineering. has approximately 1.6

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 1, 2024

According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2024: The picture above is interactive on the website. ” Here’s a 7-minute animation of Steamboat Willie from YouTube, with over 13 million views: Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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