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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

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Excited for the opportunity to focus on their learning, teachers find their seats and start to chit chat about the lesson plans they’ve left for their students. This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

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The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), hoping to understand how these groups perceive issues surrounding privacy and technology, conducted surveys and focus groups from May to August of this year. For both groups, 76 percent support increased levels of online learning even after students return to school full time.

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Four Tips for Choosing the Right Edtech Resources

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3P Learning works with over five million students and educators across the globe, providing online learning solutions in math, science and literacy. Match available resources to your strategic goals Ensure the resources you consider align with your district’s mission, vision and student learning objectives.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

But there are no other formal training programs in the state to cover such things as brewery management and brewing theory. adults who went to college strongly agree that the education they received is relevant to their work , a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights found. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data. The Tech Check survey “opened our eyes,” Mickens said. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We We don’t have a distance learning plan that is operating on all cylinders,” he said in April.

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

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A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. Source: Mursion and Future Workforce: “ VR Changes the Game for Soft Skills Training ” Of course, money talks. Is That Avatar Annoyed or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me?

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