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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

Edsurge

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. Using calculators increased mathematical thinking skills, but not just by themselves; there was a lot of really thoughtful pedagogy on when and how to introduce calculators.

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53 back-to-school tips and insights for a great year

eSchool News

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts. We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students. In order to keep this industry flourishing, schools need to prepare the next generation of workers in this industry.

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What We Heard From Early Childhood Educators During the Pandemic Year

Edsurge

Others were unsure about how to react when parents asked if they could send their children back to school immediately after traveling. Keeping the Doors Open In the absence of expansive governmental support for the child care industry, the early childhood education workforce has long faced low pay and poor benefits, with turnover rates high.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. After years of underinvestment, and an end to pandemic-era aid, the industry is struggling.

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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

Edsurge

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. Others cater to specific industries, such as Discord, which is often used in gaming. It’s a problem that involves tradeoffs.

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How schools can help students overcome the digital divide

eSchool News

Significantly larger shares of teachers thought that families did not live in buildings that were wired for broadband, did not know how to set up the Internet, and did not have devices than the share of parents who raised these barriers.

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Learn how the Alliance for Excellent Education can help you and your students! | @All4ed

TeacherCast

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington based advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are ready for success in college. Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School.