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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. One drawback to LMS platforms is that they are not uniform in the level of technological support that they provide to users.

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Discovery Education Offers Educators New Resources Supporting Black History Month Observances 

eSchool News

Career profile videos show students a variety of STEM careers across software engineering, chemistry, and technology support. The Coalition is an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations that has provided equitable access to STEM resources and career connections since its launch in 2019. Discovery, Inc.

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5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. We may install things on their Chromebooks, but when they are on their phones, they are getting unfiltered access to the internet. You know, we may filter at school, but our students are taking everything home.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

Can provide access to a broad range of tools to store, organize and present their learning. As you can see from the excerpt above, the effective use of technology in the PYP does not significantly differ from non-IB schools. How does technology support the development of international mindedness?

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It’s late 2015 and we’re still overblocking the Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. Sometimes it’s simple confusion around what actually must be filtered.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

As part of their strategy, MPUSD launched a live Q&A on Zoom for families with multiple time options as well as meetings in Spanish and English to make them more accessible. They’re shared on Fridays via email and social media and have become a routine communication outlet for the district that families are engaging with.

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What has been and what is yet to come

Learning with 'e's

As such, the country has made access to the Web free and easy to use for everyone. In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises.

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