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Report: The way we buy digital instructional materials may need an overhaul

eSchool News

Educators stress the importance of state leadership, transparency for purchasing digital instructional materials. A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process.

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

Districts will have access to the nearly $190 billion which the U.S. For example, a product that disseminates instructional materials may be considered successful based on usage data, whereas a product focused on learning interventions or direct instruction may require assessment data evidence to determine success.

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Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. play a guess-the-number game with different colored counters.

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SETDA launches guide on digital instructional materials

eSchool News

Free tool is intended to support clear understanding of state policies and practices related to digital instructional materials. state and territorial educational technology leaders, has launched of a free online tool to support the implementation of digital instructional materials.

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Testimony in Favor of Texas SB 6 Instructional Materials Allotment

EdTechSandyK

Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. More information than you might ever want to know about the bill can be found on the Texas Legislature website.

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Curriculum Associates Updates i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Assessment to Help Accelerate Student Learning for the 2022–2023 School Year

eSchool News

. — To help accelerate teaching and learning this coming school year, Curriculum Associates has updated its award-winning i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Assessment program with new reports, lessons, accessibility features, and more. New Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension have also been added.

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Why the Pandemic Forces Administrators to Rethink Attendance — and Interoperability

Edsurge

Less clear was how deeply the disruption to traditional instruction would impact children who lacked access to learning technology and appropriate resources. Across equity lines, students were left without access to reliable wireless internet and technology, an issue that leaders have not fully resolved.

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