eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 4, 2023

The post How to Spark Student Agency in the Classroom Through Community Connections appeared first on Digital Promise

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Waterford

JANUARY 5, 2023

Books are an excellent way to help children connect more deeply to science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) concepts they are learning in class. Plus, they practice reading skills as they strengthen STEM connections!

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests.

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Speaker: Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at LearningToGo

In this webinar, Margie Meacham, CEO of Learningtogo and a neuroscience expert, will show you how to create a training program that promotes psychological safety and uses neuroscience to create a workplace culture where people flourish, connect, and perform at their best.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you are like most Americans, a typical evening with your family means that everyone is tethered to a digital device of some sort. Some might be watching Netflix. Others might be strategizing in an online game, and still others may be using a school-issued device to do homework or research.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image Source. Tech advancements are inherently meant to make life easier for us. It’s only when we abuse it or become obsessed with it that it can become a toxin to our health.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The 5Es: A Powerful Framework for Student-centered Blended Learning. Too often in education, students are given answers to questions they did not ask and solutions to problems they have never encountered.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the last year, I’ve visited four different classrooms, three of them within New York City. During my visits, I noticed similar trends: well-organized classrooms, bell schedules, students of varying dispositions (including behaviors), and lesson plans timed thoughtfully from beginning to end.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Why learn art in school? This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!]. Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning.

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Speaker: Dan Streeter, Vice President of Learning Strategy & Development at Blue Sky eLearn

In this 45-minute webinar, we’ll share real-world accessibility solutions and hidden tools in the applications you use every day such as Zoom, Microsoft Suite, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Articulate Storyline 360, and Articulate Rise 360. This webinar will help you evaluate the accessibility of your current learning efforts and learn about the tools needed to ensure your eLearning is in alignment with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (proposed WCAG 2.2).

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

The technology solutions that were once viewed as emergency tools at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are now supporting innovation at Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2023

Since we at Ask a Tech Teacher started this blog fourteen years ago, we’ve had almost 5.9 million views, about 10,000 followers who read some or all of our 2,931 articles on integrating technology into the classroom.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Mike King Providing high school and college students with work-based experiences has been proven to improve their career prospects. Several thought leaders in the industry have documented the positive outcomes that work-based learning can provide.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. I rotate between 7 sites pre-k to 12th grade, but I will be working with 4th grade-12th grade teachers on this date.

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Virtual Arkansas, a fully online school, had a mission to provide high-quality courses in rural and urban areas throughout the state. How would they simplify content creation while enhancing learning? Discover 3 key insights to transform your classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

To turn kids into productive citizens when they go out into the workforce as adults, we want the lessons they learn now to be relevant and useful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you’re like me, VPNs are confusing. They protect me by hiding my IP address from prying eyes, but also change the way I browse and not always in a good way. I tried one which made it impossible to send Outlook emails. I had to turn it off every time I wanted to send.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

What is an LED wall display? You may or may not be aware of it, but you encounter wall displays every day. This latest display technology has become omnipresent in our day-to-day life, thanks to their versatility, user-friendliness, and immersive viewing experience – all in one package.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT. It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human.

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Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, we’ll explore the full range of Jamf education products to protect students, including quick and easy tools for IT admins, powerful apps for teachers to ensure student safety anywhere, and parental engagement tools.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2023

Many school districts are in the process of reducing their use of paper in favor of digital documents. This is better for the environment, and it makes it easier to share information with those working or studying remotely.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 1, 2023

Every year, January 1st is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

What is COB LED technology ? This latest innovation has already significantly impact ed the lighting and display industr ie s. Yet, despite the improvements it can provide, especially with LED displays, many people remain unfamiliar with it. .

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Hapara

JANUARY 6, 2023

Social and emotional learning, or SEL, has been an important part of teaching for years now. But as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still linger in classrooms, we’ve realized just how necessary SEL strategies are.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 3, 2023

By Scott Kinney Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? In the updated version of this classic tale, I recently saw an elementary school teacher deliver, Chicken Little read online that the sky is falling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 3, 2023

Wall Street Journal sent a young-looking journalist back to high school to test out the effectiveness of the web’s newest homework helper, ChatGPT. It will write entire essays for students, take notes on literature, and compare-contrast chosen pieces in seconds.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Adult learning is a vast area of educational research and probably one of the most complicated ones. Adults learn differently and have different strategies in learning. Adults Learning Theory and Principles explain in details these strategies and sheds more light on how adults cultivate knowledge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

You have to see it to be it, the saying goes. Students have to know a job exists before they can ever become interested in it.

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Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, How to Best Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School, hear the real-world experience of Steven Palomo, IT Director at Beverly Public Schools, regarding how he successfully managed his entire tech stack.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

What is COB LED technology ? This latest innovation has already significantly impact ed the lighting and display industr ie s. Yet, despite the improvements it can provide, especially with LED displays, many people remain unfamiliar with it. .

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 1, 2023

Working together in small groups using a book club model has helped sixth graders in Sara Kugler’s K-6 school shift from passive and disinterested to engaged and self-reliant. They’re eager to read and ready to "talk books," writes the literacy coach and co-teacher.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here is a great resource on reading comprehension strategies to use with your students in class. This is basically a chart created by the folks in Scholastic and is available for free download in PDF format. The chart is adapted from the work of Beal, Keene, and Tovani.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The 5Es: A Powerful Framework for Student-centered Blended Learning. Too often in education, students are given answers to questions they did not ask and solutions to problems they have never encountered.

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Many continuing adult education institutions have turned to technology used by higher ed with the following benefits: elevates teaching and learning, scales to address changes in staffing, enrollment and budget, and protects student and institutional data.

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