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Navigating the digital landscape by fostering classroom digital wellness

Hapara

? Listen to an audio version of this post: Because most classrooms integrate technology now, it’s not enough to teach academic standards. Laurie Guyon, a digital instruction expert from New York, unlocks strategies for classroom digital wellness with Hāpara.

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How This Teacher’s Influence Reaches Beyond Any Classroom

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My interest was peaked because it was not often that I encountered students at the age of 10 that were able to meet these academic standards.” Max and I began to work on writing stories together and reading advanced books.” ” Smith and Max began to have a long dialogue about his future and his past.

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Ethics in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Educational philosopher Meira Levinson and doctoral student Jacob Fay take up these challenges in the book Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries. The book presents six detailed case studies of common educational dilemmas, each accompanied by commentaries of varying viewpoints. A Powerful Problem-Solving Tool.

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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

Edsurge

As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. Articles , podcasts and books about burnout are released every day.

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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

Edsurge

After more than two decades in the classroom, supporting students facing intense challenges in their home lives and trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations set by administrators, I’ve finally hit my breaking point and all the compassion I have for my students and my dedication to the field may not be enough to help me recover.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. The book is called “Miseducation.”

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We hope teachers find these examples to be relevant and useful tools to integrate CS/CT lessons and to replicate and adapt these lessons for their classrooms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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