EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

Over the past few months, there’s been a surge in people working from home across all industries — including education. That’s a mistake, especially because school districts have become more vulnerable to cyberthreats with users accessing devices and confidential data outside of school.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 25, 2020

Over the past few months, there’s been a surge in people working from home across all industries — including education. That’s a mistake, especially because school districts have become more vulnerable to cyberthreats with users accessing devices and confidential data outside of school.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Over the past few months, there’s been a surge in people working from home across all industries — including education. That’s a mistake, especially because school districts have become more vulnerable to cyberthreats with users accessing devices and confidential data outside of school.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 24, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion emergency relief fund divided between K–12 and higher education schools. million Education Stabilization Fund. It includes a $30.75

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 23, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion emergency relief fund divided between K–12 and higher education schools. million Education Stabilization Fund. It includes a $30.75

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

TeachingBooks also was awarded the “Common Sense Selection for Learning” as a best-in-class resource for both students and educators. With the addition of the new licenses, more than 24 million readers at over 55,000 schools, public libraries and higher education institutions can now access TeachingBooks’ curated educational materials.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The authors found that digital media has supplanted consumption of “legacy media” like books and magazines across racial and ethnic groups, gender, and socioeconomic status, so much so that “the percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016.”

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edWeb.net

JUNE 9, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has forced schools to close their buildings and move online, inequities in access to technology, books, and even food have become more apparent. Still, there are ways educators can continue to support the learning needs of their full range of students and make the education they provide more equitable.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion emergency relief fund divided between K–12 and higher education schools. million Education Stabilization Fund. It includes a $30.75

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The district was a CDW•G customer, so I worked with an account manager to access the district’s potential data security threats and develop a recovery plan. That’s why an important aspect of a disaster recovery plan is working to educate your users about best practices. Do you have a secondary network connection?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2019

“Access to an effective school library program is one example of information privilege. The absence of access is one symptom of information poverty.”— Our students come to us from a variety of situations, not just of nutritional adequacy, home stability, and family support, but also of informational access.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The district was a CDW•G customer, so I worked with an account manager to access the district’s potential data security threats and develop a recovery plan. That’s why an important aspect of a disaster recovery plan is working to educate your users about best practices. Do you have a secondary network connection?

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We can use technology and move from consumers of education to creators,” said Gaines. “ While a score on a standardized test can provide some access for students from a post-secondary perspective, it cannot be the only thing that defines a school and a school district,” said Schuler. . Create Balanced Academic Assessments.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools re-envisioned what career-focused education could look like. That effort began in the early 1990s and spurred a systemwide resurgence in career and technical education. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools re-envisioned what career-focused education could look like. That effort began in the early 1990s and spurred a systemwide resurgence in career and technical education. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

Not only do educators need to understand effective graphic design, we need to teach it. Sadie Lewis helps educators understand and teach graphic design in this quick, helpful show full of graphic design resources for educators. Free Educator Wellness Toolkit. Educator wellness is now more important than ever.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Ponddy Education , for example, is a San Jose, Calif.-based A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Fill out the form below to get access to the toolkit designed to go with this podcast series. Google Search Education is a great place to find free resources and to help your students become better searchers. Secondary students can use Google Scholar to find credible resources for their research projects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. I’ll be speaking with other amazing educators like Suzy Boss, Janet Zadina, Jay McTighe, Dr. Brendan Ozawa de Silva, Scott Sanchez, Dr. Ayanna M Howard and more. She has a blog on Education Week.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

In my first library jobs, in special libraries at the Newspaper Advertising Bureau and the Franklin Institute, one of my jobs was to copy and distribute tables of contents from new issues of journals and magazines to the professionals and scientists whose practice depended on staying up to date and making discoveries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 27, 2015

20 YouTube Channels for Educators YouTube = Learning at Your Fingertips! Just about all of your favorite educational organization and bloggers have a YouTube channel. Google for Education: If you are a GAFE user (Google Apps for Education), this is a must channel for you. Gotta give some love to my Texas friends!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The 7th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) Starts Sunday! The Global Education Conference Network's seventh annual global collaboration "extravaganza" will take place around the clock starting this Sunday, November 13, and continuing through Wednesday, November 16. Important Updates Below. Become a Partner Organization!

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

However] Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives. Most secondary schools, teaching philosophies, pedagogies, teacher certification programs, and universities would balk at a goal to have students not thinking critically about what they’re learning.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s also a fantastic tool for secondary students to curate and research. You have probably seen these shared a lot on Twitter, like curating your own little news magazine from other sources. and access and share from any device. Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that I have used for several years. That says a lot!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. Students, too, have their own dashboard where they access teacher-assigned materials and more. Educational Applications.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

Several years ago, education officials in Artesia, N.M., The district deployed 10-gigabit gateways and Cisco Meraki MR42 wireless access points (APs) at its schools, and is using advanced 24- and 48-port switches from HPE and Aruba. Robust Networking and Data Center Solutions Power Tech Tools in the Classroom. meghan.bogardu….

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

At K-12 schools and universities, educators and administrators are preoccupied with preparing students for jobs that won’t be replaced by automation. Yet, 69 percent of these educators also say today’s primary and secondary curricula doesn’t emphasize creative problem-solving enough. A lack of educator training.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 10, 2019

The Week’s Classroom Education Program is designed to help solve these problems for secondary teachers. The Week now has a Classroom Education Program, which is designed to make it easy for educators to bring the discussion of current events into the classroom by providing them with the magazine and a matching Lesson Guide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As educators, we use a variety of resources in our classroom to enhance a lesson. When it comes to printed materials, like books and magazines, you may want to dive into DonorsChoose, which connects classroom projects with donors. Another good resource for Copyright ideas for the classroom is Media Education Lab.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Here are some articles to get you started: How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom (Eli Zimmerman, EdTech Magazine, February 4, 2019) Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture (Chrissy Romano-Arrabito, EdSurge, August 16, 2017) 10 Common Flexible Seating Myths (John S.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders. About the Host.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. Vermont’s Agency of Education was represented by its secretary, Rebecca Holcombe., Half of the groups I saw made publicly accessible web pages, built with WordPress, Google Sites, or Wix .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 29, 2019

Just about all of your favorite educational organization and bloggers have a YouTube channel. This is a great way to stay up-to-date with innovative tools like G Suite for Education. Google for Education. If you are a G Suite for Education user, this is a must channel for you. 30+ YouTube Channels for Teachers!

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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