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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

Edsurge

This past year was a hard one, defined by the exhaustion of trying to return to “normal.” And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk. Test scores fell dramatically.

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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

One of the best and most gratifying aspects of my job is getting into classrooms and providing feedback to leaders, who, in turn, help their teachers grow. Most of my blog ideas materialize during these times of bliss.

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5 Tips to Simplify Tech

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher has a book of 169 tech tips to energize your classroom. We’ve added about ten more since publication. Here are some of the tips educators find most useful. The heading will click through to a more detailed article on the tip: Tech Tip #167–How to Evaluate Apps.

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How Technology May Transform the Education Sector in 2023 and Beyond

Kitaboo on EdTech

In the past three years, we have experienced a major shift in the methods used to impart education around the world. Education, as we know, is no longer bound to a specific location.

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How to Apply the Concepts of Neuroscience to Create a Thriving Learning Culture

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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Announcing the VITAL Prize Challenge to Support the Next Generation of Equitable Learning Technologies

Digital Promise

The post Announcing the VITAL Prize Challenge to Support the Next Generation of Equitable Learning Technologies appeared first on Digital Promise

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Shifting From Whole Group Teacher-led to Small Group Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Discussions are a powerful tool for making meaning. Engaging in academic discourse allows students to test their ideas, ask questions, make connections, and learn from their peers.

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How to Help Gifted Children Prepare for a Career

EdTech4Beginners

Throughout his or her school career, you’ve become accustomed to hearing about how gifted your child is. You’re proud and thrilled that these natural talents prepare your child for a highly successful career. But do they really? Research has shown that being brilliant and achieving a satisfying career are not necessarily one and the same thing. Here’s how you can help a child who falls into one of two distinct expressions of brilliance.

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Introducing ChatGPT to Your Classroom

MiddleWeb

While there are many unknowns about the long-term impacts of ChatGPT on education, middle school teacher leader Kasey Short dives deep into the AI software’s potential for expanding teachers’ options and supporting student learning through prompts, writing, feedback, SEL and more.

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5 ways video improves school-home communication

eSchool News

Increasingly, district leaders are incorporating video into school-home communication.

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11 Ways to Add #Inquiry to Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

You became a teacher not to pontificate to trusting minds, but to teach children how to succeed as adults. That idealism infused every class in your credential program and only took a slight bump during your student teacher days.

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The Guide to Accessible Learning for Associations

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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K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship

EdTech Magazine

Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky., is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens.

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Launching an OpenSciEd Community to Support Research and Practice

Digital Promise

The post Launching an OpenSciEd Community to Support Research and Practice appeared first on Digital Promise

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Podcast: Cybersecurity in K12

EdNews Daily

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco.

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Tech Tip #38 My desktop icons changed

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.

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Increasing Equity and Access: A Canvas Case Study of Virtual Arkansas K-12

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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K-12 Schools Share Their Strategies for Addressing the Coming Federal Funding Cliff

EdTech Magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially ended the conversation about whether school districts should embrace one-to-one programs that put a computing device into the hands of every student.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal.

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Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict (Part 1)

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay Conflict is an inevitable part of daily life, and it is certainly an inevitable part of school life.

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6 Best Online Avatar Maker Tools

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

An avatar maker is an online tool that allows you to create a digital representation of yourself. Avatars are especially ideal to use for profile pics on social media or gaming websites.

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Keeping Students Safe and Productive on Devices

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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K-12 Schools Modernize Their On-Premises Data Centers with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

EdTech Magazine

When it was time for New Albany–Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. in Indiana to upgrade its aging server and storage hardware, it could have purchased another server and storage area network.

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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

Edsurge

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media.

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Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

contributed by Samantha Saumell As teachers, we may have moments where we stand in front of our bright-eyed students, and … Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students Read More.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. A Michelin engineer picked it up off the concrete and opened it, revealing a cracked, leaking egg. The third graders at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess.

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Unlock the Power of Formative Assessment

Learn how a thoughtful formative assessment approach can help teachers understand where students are in their learning, inform instruction, and in turn, positively impact student learning outcomes. Get the guide today!

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IT Leaders Say Strategic Communication Can Support Technology Investments

EdTech Magazine

K–12 schools have always had an inspiring mission — to prepare the next generation to lead — and IT staff have always worked to help educators fulfill this critical mission, often with limited budgets.

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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

Edsurge

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. After being thrown into the public arena, my image, my story and my classroom were displayed and open for critique.

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Crafting a Teaching Matrix

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen A Teaching Matrix for an educational institution is a collection of discrete digital resources (files), courseware, courses and systems newly organized into a logical and cooperative whole.

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Best YouTube Alternatives for School

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Youtube is a great video website that since its introduction in 2015 has revolutionized the media world in unprecedented ways. Millions of content creators are using YouTube to share their works and reach audiences from all around the world.

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The Best Ways to Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School

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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OPINION: Why the U.S. must recognize and support caregiving students in middle and high schools

The Hechinger Report

Middle and high schoolers juggle a lot between school, friends and family life. But an estimated one in five have even bigger responsibilities — they are also caregivers for their families, at a time when most U.S. schools do not formally identify or support caregiving students.

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Explaining ChatGPT using ChatGPT

Dr. Shannon Doak

ChatGPT has been all the buzz lately and we are putting together an initial PD session at my current school for our teachers. While looking around at the types of things we might cover, I wondered if ChatGPT could tell us about itself in simple terms so that anyone could understand.

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Video: Two Models that May Save Education: Hybrid Logistics and Hyflex

EdNews Daily

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Horizon Room’s Open Mic series, a chance for educators to be a part of a national discussion on the most important issues facing education.

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AVID has huge benefits for high school students

eSchool News

New UCLA-led research finds that a college preparatory program for youth experiencing educational inequities that operates in about 13 percent of U.S public high schools has a positive effect on students’ social networks, psycho-social outcomes, and health behaviors. The findings, published Dec.

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6 Tips for EdTech Evaluation by Adult Learning Institutions

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.