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

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Google saw a 565 percent increase in searches for the phrase a couple years ago. Designing for Climate Education Architects designed a rainwater collection system for Springdale Park Elementary School in Atlanta, where it is used as a teaching tool for the students. Climate anxiety isn’t a wholly new concept.

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

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The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. She relied on Google Translate and other parents to help her compose emails asking why he didn’t receive that support until the third grade.

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

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NCDE hopes that this, and its other collaborative projects with school librarians, with help professionals build capacity as local systemic digital inclusion leaders. A Google form on the site will collect questions, along with context relating to grade level, location, and the category of the inquiry. Ballard; Cassandra G.

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How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child

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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. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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

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With help from Hameed, the lead instructor, and several teaching assistants, students learn how to use search engines like Google, how to research and verify information, create presentations online, answer emails in a professional manner and use Google products like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive.

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

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It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

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in elementary education from the University of Virginia. Tim, a veteran educator of over 20 years, has a background as a high school social studies teacher, is a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, and a Google Certified Trainer. In 2010, he was hired by Albemarle County Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist.