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Starlink–What is it? Why use it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

What is Starlink In a nutshell, Starlink is the brainchild of Elon Musk, the man who is the poster child for EVs and the current international leader in space flight, SpaceX (he also owns X/Twitter, but that’s a story for another day). Starlink is a satellite internet system developed by SpaceX.

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Level Up Your Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

Our goal was simple…acquire skills through analysis, practice, and watching others to reach new or more challenging levels. Strategically utilize an array of free tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok to communicate real-time information that stakeholders can access on any device.

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Vernier Software & Technology Offers Free Remote Learning Resources for STEM

Educational Technology Guy

The free resources from Vernier include the following: Experiment and Sample Data Library: Teachers can access more than 250 free experiments covering many subjects to distribute to students at home. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

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How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance

The CoolCatTeacher

Aaron Johnson shares the techniques to help us do it better From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Aaron Johnson Shares His Way to Engage Students Even at a Distance.

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VHS Learning Is Awarded Teaching with Primary Sources Grant from Library of Congress 

eSchool News

History curriculum and professional development supporting discussion-based primary source analysis online and in other learning settings. During the grant project, VHS Learning will design 33 primary source analysis lessons within a cohesive, newly-developed U.S. History curriculum.” History curriculum. Copyright Office.

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FETC 2019: K–12 Schools Need Evolved Security Protocols to Thwart Next-Gen Hackers

EdTech Magazine

A recent analysis of 4,000 CDW-G security assessments shows schools may not be ready to handle this kind of threat because of outdate or ineffective technology. One hundred percent of the time we were able to get access to information we were not supposed to, but we were only detected less than 10 percent of the time ,” said Lane. “One

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Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success

EdTech Magazine

The department awarded a share of $3 million to six states to improve high school CTE students’ access to post-secondary education and STEM careers. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. The Education Department’s Pathways to STEM Apprenticeship program is another example of a broader interest in CTE.

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