EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I’m excited to introduce Empatico , a free, online tool that recently launched with the bold vision of enabling more than one million students to discover how their peers around the world live. Over the coming months, we plan to collect feedback to continue to improve the tool and release more content and features.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 27, 2020

What she discovered, and what more and more educators across the country are beginning to realize, is that VR is a useful tool for students with special needs, particularly those on the autism spectrum. “We’re always looking for what’s new out there to help our students move forward,” Powell says.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 26, 2020

What she discovered, and what more and more educators across the country are beginning to realize, is that VR is a useful tool for students with special needs, particularly those on the autism spectrum. “We’re always looking for what’s new out there to help our students move forward,” Powell says.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

CoderZ , an online learning environment where students learn robotics and STEM by coding virtual robots, has been named a 2020 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Coding App or Tool category. A complete list of winners of the 2020 Tech Edvocate Awards can be found here.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One cohort member, the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC), has been advancing ACP advocacy work in southwest Ohio and the tri-state area. We realized that advocacy would be a critical piece of the puzzle.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I regularly share free web tools, resources, and tips on ESL Library to help teachers find great resources to use with their learners. 7 Incredible Websites & Tools to Enhance English Comprehension & Fluency. 9 Advocacy Groups & Events Enhancing ELT. Below are a list of the articles I’ve written in 2018.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Key points: Dyslexic students often incur additional stress in the classroom Using different learning tools and regular communication can help students’ comfort levels See related article: The intersection of the science of reading and edtech Reading-based learning differences such as dyslexia can pose unique challenges for students in school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

There’s been a lot of consolidation in edtech since the pandemic, with players like Renaissance making big moves, says Anna Edwards, chief advocacy officer and cofounder of Whiteboard Advisors. But this latest deal also makes sense, Edwards says, because Illuminate is known for its assessments and analytics tools.

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Data Advocacy Company Education 157

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

SwiftStudent is the product of a partnership between the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation and FormSwift, a company best known for its tool for creating, sending and signing digital legal documents. Even more, the report noted that schools “are not required to inform students about the dependent care allowance.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In this latest award program, Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) was recognized as a winner in the category of Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool. The company’s highly-regarded Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) was also named a finalist in the category for Best Literacy App or Tool.

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Adaptive Learning Tools Blended Learning EdTech 59

Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, these actions have taken many forms, from advocacy to direct action to storytelling. It’s also a very engaging tool that young people want to experiment with. […] It’s a strong participatory tool and adds people’s voices to the conversation and connects them with decision-makers.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That’s according to the 2021 State of Computer Science report jointly released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. The figure is based on data from public high schools in 37 states, a first for the report.

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Accessibility Advocacy Policies Data 191

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Many students do not have access to the resources needed to address their mental and emotional concerns, and they do not have the proper tools to deal with everything they go through in their lives. Reflecting on my journey from fear to advocacy, I am reminded of the transformative power of restorative justice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative whose eight partner organizations want to improve data interoperability within K-12 education. Project Unicorn provides a rubric that allows school districts and vendors to evaluate where their efforts and tools are on the journey toward interoperability.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

They encourage self-advocacy skills and foster a growth mindset through t heir award-winning STEM curricula, college-access programs , along with a digital platform for educator professional learning. Who is TGR Foundation? I hope you have lots of rest this summer but I encourage you to make time for these modules in your summer learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Have a back channel established and monitored using a tool like TodaysMeet to take educator voice to the next level.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is also strong advocacy for renewed ACP funding from state leadership, demonstrated through letters to congressional leadership by Governor Tina Kotek as part of a bipartisan governor advocacy effort. Additionally, 29 governors have indicated that ACP adoption is a priority in their state.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they are completing digital worksheets, their peers in better-resourced schools are coding, collaborating, and designing and building tech tools. And when exploring new ed tech tools to adopt, the district solicits feedback from teachers, parents and students, the report says.

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Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 89

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By pushing back against social-emotional learning in schools, “some parents or some pundits could say that, ‘We're doing this for students,’ but I would argue that we are just taking away a lot of more tools and resources for students to just be themselves, to express themselves.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Students must think holistically about a real-world problem, and use mathematical tools to arrive at a solution. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

As an organization on a mission to build a strong, socially conscious and diverse tech workforce, the past year showed us where we can strengthen our existing practices and sharpen our focus and advocacy efforts to be even further out on the leading edge of innovative learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

13, 2021) – FEV Tutor, the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, has been named a 2021 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Tutoring/Test Prep App or Tool category. A complete list of winners of the 2021 Tech Edvocate Awards can be found here.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2020

The EdTech Genome Project , a collaborative effort of more than 100 education research and advocacy organizations, reached unanimous consensus on an initial list of those 10 factors with the greatest influence on whether an edtech implementation succeeds or fails. Related content: How better edtech management empowered our district.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. [W]hen

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Now I am not going to rehash the details of this tool as I have been writing about it for years, but I will provide an image of it below. Student agency and technology both play a huge role throughout by empowering learners through choice, voice, and advocacy. Enter the Rigor Relevance Framework.

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Learning Advocacy Blended Learning Personalized Learning 307

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

ABOUT SuperDville: SuperDville is a fun peer-to-peer, video-based social-emotional learning (SEL) tool with corresponding curricula and hands-on activities for kids 7-13 years-old who learn differently (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and ADHD). www.superdville.com

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy. Tools like TodaysMeet and Mentimeter can also be used to gather perception data from kids Implement portfolios as a means of authentic assessment When hiring new teachers and administrators have kids on the interview committee As policies that impact students are created or updated (i.e.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rachel’s story illustrates, in addition to being outstanding assessment tools, rubrics perform another, equally important function. Rubrics as Teaching Tools. For rubrics to serve as a teaching tool, as well as a valid assessment tool, they must meet certain criteria. Rubrics become an information tool.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

Then, being announced today, is " Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques " with Dr. Sue Alman on February 21st. LIBRARY ADVOCACY: EVERYDAY MARKETING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES" A 75-minute webinar (live and recorded) in a special Library 2.0 More details on both are below.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

States face the challenge of respecting local control and leadership of county and district offices AND ensuring that all students across the state have access to quality content, instruction, and the tools they need to be successful.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

While one client may want to pursue a skill like handwriting, another may be more interested in developing self-advocacy, decision-making, or goal setting skills. The reality is that OTs can assist people in many areas depending on clients’ needs and environments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, director of customer advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Related content: 5 discussion tools to fuel student engagement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Such incidents end up causing great expense and learning loss for already stressed out students, since schools have to shut down critical tech tools as they investigate and shore up systems. I think generally things are pretty good,” says Taryn Hochleitner, associate director for policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. “I

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Data Advocacy Policies Trends 131

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

As a part of this initiative, MAP Growth data will transfer seamlessly into DMAC , enhancing this valuable tool used by Texas educators by providing quicker access to student data that supports instruction and student achievement. Portland, Ore., About DMAC.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Please consider joining us for this special Library 2.0 75-minute webinar (live and recorded) with Dr. Sue Alman , this Thursday, February 21st, 2019 , at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. You do not need to attend the live session to purchase this webinar, but doing so allows you to participate in the Q+A.

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