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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

eSchool News

Personalized paths, oral histories, and local histories are strategies that resonate with the NCSS definition to bring the human experience into the K-12 classroom, because these strategies allow students to determine how their life fits into the story of history and to discover why the past matters to them.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Smart Classrooms have become popular because they provide a flexible, self-paced learning environment; one that levels the playing field for students by making education more accessible to all types of learners. and whiteboard. overall user experience.

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Powerful Learning With Artificial Intelligence For Educators

Edsurge

They are also concerned about exacerbating existing inequities in accessing digital technologies and tools, presenting further structural barriers for students and communities. How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community How Using AI Optimizes Instruction and Learning in Secondary Writing Can AI Help Teachers With Grading?

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Educational Technology Trends to Look Out For in 2022

EdTech4Beginners

In the US alone, students experiencing more than 60 minutes per week of device use achieved higher academic results through 2020, while 81% of facilitators said that having access to EdTech improved outputs considerably during the same period. between 2021 and 2026.

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Occupational therapy is the antidote for pandemic skill loss

eSchool News

Although students and participants have different goals, OTs work with the same guiding mission: to help clients become more independent and achieve their own definitions of success. This gives me hope that other schools can broaden access to OT services for their students, too.

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Understanding and Addressing the Surge of Chronic Absenteeism

Edsurge

This definition differs from truancy, which only calculates unexcused absences. This exacerbates existing social inequalities by limiting access to quality education and opportunities for upward mobility. Chronic absenteeism also impacts post-secondary outcomes such as financial well-being down the road. While the U.S.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. A few small containers of Play-Doh. No cell phones in the space. (I