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Why Single Sign-On Has Teachers Cheering

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Sheryl Abshire and her IT team at Calcasieu Parish School District rolled out Single Sign-On (SSO) technology in September 2017. Almost instantly, nearly 40,000 students and staff each received a single, unique password to use (and remember) for access to almost 3000 different applications and resources. That’s been my motivation.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

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Take a class of thirty students, tell them they are going to learn how to type only by using it in searches on google and creating reports in Microsoft Office. That is an obvious comparison but there is a better one to be made.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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It isn’t particularly good reasoning but it is the sort of reasoning that has come about due to ICT skills in many cases being defined by their output, such as writing a report or creating a slideshow, rather than the underpinning skills such as typing or point-and-click being articulated.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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Instructional technology provides course content, as well as assessment mechanisms and opportunities for students to practice and apply the material. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance. One common form of student support technology provides round-the-clock remote access to academic tutors.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

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All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Half of school leaders expect significant impact from ESSA

eSchool News

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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