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How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child

The CoolCatTeacher

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. We teach people how to live lives. And yes, you’ll hear birds chirping, but that is ok! Students just turn in work.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. Give them guidance in how to make their work relevant for your students. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Start a club.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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The trigger warning is buttressed by a more hopeful message accentuated in green: “& TIPS on how to deal with that.” Google saw a 565 percent increase in searches for the phrase a couple years ago. Climate anxiety isn’t a wholly new concept. And I’m holding those who are part of the problem to the utmost accountability.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool. This need for digital literacy is actually universal.

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Reach out!: Web-Based Advice Service for School Librarians

NeverEndingSearch

A Google form on the site will collect questions, along with context relating to grade level, location, and the category of the inquiry. Librarians may be struggling with how to support kids socially and emotionally, and with assuming that responsibility of how to get kids through this malaise that many now bring to their learning.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Transgender Students Are Still at Risk, But Schools Can Help

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Public Schools, she realized there was a lot she still didn’t know, such as how to make a support plan for her daughter Ellie. In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools.

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