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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

Edsurge

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally.

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5 Ways To Bring SEL Into Edtech Classroom Use

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Mark Sparvell cites current research about what students really want in their classroom and how social-emotional learning relates to education technology. Mark has taught both pre-service and post-graduate studies.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. These goals become a priority at every school, every day.

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – May 15

Discovery Education

From Teacher Appreciation Week to shifting technologies, it’s a busy time in education. For this edition of the DE EdTech News Roundup, we’ll cover: Appreciating Teachers The "Tech" in EdTech Insights from Education Leaders Appreciating Teachers In case you missed it, May 8 – 12 was Teacher Appreciation Week! million educators.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. MOBILE, Ala.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

“We are no longer keeping pace with other countries, particularly China,” it says, calling this a “dangerous” failure and urging decisionmakers to make education a national security priority. This is not an educational question alone,” said Wyner. students scored lower than their counterparts in 36 other education systems worldwide.

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