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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

Chief among those is determining how to support students with special educational needs. In the United States, about 14 percent of students in public schools receive specialized education services.[1] Families whose students have an IEP may need extra support in managing distance learning and special education.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Take facial recognition technology. Subscribe today! The extent to which that will be realized remains to be seen.

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Immersive Reader: A powerful tool to support schoolwide literacy

NeverEndingSearch

Here’s a (rather incomplete) list of some of Immersive Reader’s current partners: Immersive Reader will be available for additional Microsoft apps including Forms, Whiteboard, and Minecraft: Education Edition–to support the reading of game text, dialogue, chalkboards and more. in Minecraft Education Edition.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

Through the HathiTrust Research Center , scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright. Without Google’s backing and technological abilities, a resource like HathiTrust would have been much harder to create, she says. “We

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. She’d finished her workday as a special education teacher’s aide around 3:30 p.m., She’s also a teacher-in-training.

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2024 National Education Technology Plan targets the digital divide

eSchool News

Key points: A federal outline for education technology intends to close access gaps How to work for equity of access in classrooms How schools can help students overcome the digital divide For more news on digital access, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership page The latest iteration of the U.S.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. Howard: Her concern is the amount of training educators need with new edtech. About the Presenters.

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