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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. We couldn’t have enough help.”.

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Why Should Students and Publishers Adapt eBooks in STEM Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

Digital Libraries Offer Additional Learning Resources. With digital content libraries that consist of thousands of learning resources, students can pick and choose the content that they find relevant to the topic at hand. Every publisher aims to get their books to reach far and wide and hope that people purchase these books.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

This started with a pre-test, many of which are available via online programs with one huge caveat: assigning a generic pre-test is a waste of time. Using USATestprep, an online assessment tool, I built diagnostics from scratch to shift the focus from what students didn’t know to what they did.

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BENCHMARK UNIVERSE PRO TIP: How to Get Started with Benchmark Universe Quickly & Easily

Benchmark Education

On the right side of the BU Library interface, there is a blue box labeled “Add New Bookshelf.” Want a super fast way of distributing online tasks to your classroom? From your Library, click the “Assignments” button and type a name for your new assignment. You can then begin adding assessments, eBooks, and ePosters.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. Library Hi Tech News , 32 (9), 1-3. Sue Gorman’s Getting Googley Resource.

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30 Sites/Apps for Differentiated Instruction

Technology Tidbits

Badaboom - A easy way for educators to create learning games to assess and differentiate their instruction BoomWriter - A excellent innovative site that allows students engage their creativity by completing chapters of a book/story and then having other students vote on which one should be included in the finished product.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. About the Host.

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