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

Waterford

The sudden shift to online or hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has created plenty of challenges for students, schools, and parents. But how can schools and families follow an IEP when learning moves online? 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

It can be a game-changer for so many of the learners we serve: emerging readers, English language learners or readers of other languages, students with such learning differences as dyslexia, dysgraphia, perceptual processing disorders (like Irlen Syndrome ), students with ADHD, and students with visual impairments. Katherine McKnight, Ph.D.,

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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. So it’s not like my projects have to come to a screeching halt in 1923,” he says.

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

The Hechinger Report

When she mustered the courage to research options for joining the profession, she learned it would cost somewhere between $5,000 to $15,000 a year over at least four years. “I Some Reach classes go until 11 p.m. Noble was a bus driver in this area for five years, but she longed to be a teacher.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

The participants: Large district: Dr. Daryl Diamond, Director of Innovative Learning, Broward County Public Schools, FL. 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.

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Read Works Provides Access to Handy Text Passages

SpeechTechie

There's a lot you can teach with a passage as a context! So, where to get the contexts?