Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In this post, we’ll explore some of the best online tools for writing books and ebooks. By the end of this exploration, you’ll have a clearer picture of which tools and formats can best support your journey from a blank page to a published book or ebook.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

A visit with author and longtime education reporter (NPR, PBS, Education Week) Benjamin Herold about his new book Disillusioned , the astounding story of 5 families across America moving to the the suburbs for a better life and a better Keep Reading DISILLUSIONED: A NEW BOOK ON EDUCATION IN AMERICA’S SUBURBS The post DISILLUSIONED: A NEW BOOK (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. was published on July 12, 2022.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 12, 2014

That’s why I love when teachers get students to act as reporters and regularly produce podcasts, vodcasts, ezines, digital newspapers, or radio shows. In my book, Learning to Go , I include a lesson plan, rubric, script template, and handouts for reporting the news. Reporting the News. Newsworthy!

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2022

Samuels, 18, who uses they/them pronouns, started by beseeching their district to unblock websites like the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for queer youth, and to refrian from banning library books that featured LGBTQ+ characters or dealt with racism. He adds that book distributions are taking place in Texas and Virginia.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

Teacher Survey, more than 75 percent of teachers reported frequent job-related stress. The post 5 Highly-Rated Self-Care Books for Educators first appeared on EdNews Daily. By Chelsea Buchanan According to a 2021 State of the U.S. There are many great […].

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The result is this book with a simple rationale: Education leaders must position themselves as inquirers. The book is organized into three sections: Learning from and with Students, Collaborating with Teachers and the School Community , and Leading System-level Inquiry. But be forewarned: This book is not for the faint of heart.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We provide children with a wide range of intriguing books, which increase in level alongside them as they increase in age. But what choices does he have for books that he is able to read? The books written at a third-grade level are for third graders! But the books with topics and characters intended for teenagers are too hard.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When Oprah pulled Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt off her Book Club, I put it on hold at the library. . When the world makes a fuss about a book, consider my attention piqued. In the Lone Star State, there was an inquiry into the books available to students in Texas school districts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2024

Bookopolis –focused on student reading Books that Grow –read a story at many different reading levels Class Literature Epic –a reading library for kids, 15,000 books; most digital devices F ree Books –download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read Great Books Online by Bartleby Gutenberg Project IBooks –amazing way to download and read books.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, in a briefing with reporters, called the results “appalling and unacceptable.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

She would read a chapter or two out loud during class and later we would read independently until it was time to take a test or write a report on what we learned. I don’t remember ever debating my classmates about the themes in the book or frankly ever even talking to fellow students about what we read.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 1, 2016

In this episode of the Techeducator Podcast we share our digital alternatives to traditional book reports that will get your students thinking creatively and really passionate about their favorite characters. Are you interested in kicking your next literary adventure up a notch with your students?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 12, 2014

That’s why I love when teachers get students to act as reporters and regularly produce podcasts, vodcasts, ezines, digital newspapers, or radio shows. In my book, Learning to Go , I include a lesson plan, rubric, script template, and handouts for reporting the news. Reporting the News. Newsworthy!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

With the passing of Texas House Bill (HB) 900 , school districts face a pressing need to meet the changing requirements for parental engagement on library books that children have access to. Library book challenges are increasing across the US. Reducing costs around the challenged book review process.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. But does simply giving away free books to low-income families with young children help with early reading?

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

Edsoma readers will receive Lexile oral reading measures and the app’s books will have oral readability measures from the Lexile ® Framework for Oral Reading. Edsoma is an app designed to improve literacy through real-time data. . Edsoma’s scoring system is used to identify strengths and weaknesses in children’s reading. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. Episode 5: The Company Teachers call books published by Heinemann their “bibles.” This podcast was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. This podcast was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2021

Hoping to demystify that impact, and to get a comprehensive look at how programs and policies were reshaped over the last year, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University has produced a special report on the topic. First, a look at the staggering number of programs affected.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 2, 2016

My first project of 2016 was to help Kingsley elementary school , a small school in northern Michigan, build an elementary book report machine. A book report is a tremendous way to help students practice reflective, informational writing, and to also encourage them to identify elements of literature such as genre, plot, and setting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Overall, the 2022 NAEP scores showed declines in both math and reading for both age groups, closely tracking other gloomy reports. But it was the detailed data that went beyond national averages that makes this latest report especially worth noting. Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2022 NAEP.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2017

Reports — visualize progress with beautiful analytics that track student performance. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 20, 2020

After sharing presentation templates, today's post features Google Docs templates that teachers and students can use for a wide variety of purposes. The purpose is to empower you with resources that.read more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Parents can sign up home accounts to help students keep track of favorite books. Access this catalog via the website.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Thank you GoGuardian for sponsoring this podcast and the report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Thirty-nine percent of the books children access through the program are opened for the first time outside of school hours, and books have been accessed over 71,718,216 times since the inception of the program in 2012, equating to over 336 million minutes spent reading. in the 2020–2021 school year.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 19, 2016

It was that time of the quarter again – time for book reports. Some students love reading and writing about the book they’ve been assigned, but over the years I’ve found that most pre-teens don’t dream about writing book reports…well, unless it’s a bad dream? The 4 step process was simple to follow.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Among the banned books were children’s stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., Related: Using critical race theory to understand the backlash against it. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

There are more than 711,000 books—and counting—in Bookshare , a digital reading platform for people with reading barriers including dyslexia, blindness or cerebral palsy. publishing industry put out 339,000 new books. That adds up to more than a million new books each year. “We In 2015, the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations. Evans, M.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 4, 2023

We've just posted a new blog post by Dr. Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0 : "Writing a Useful Security Incident Report: A Template for Library Security Officers and Library Staff." Security Incident Reports (SIRs) have legal, historical, evidential, and statistical importance.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

This is what I imagine “Book Choice” looks like, from curricular choices to which books grace the shelves of our classrooms. Of my 1,000+ books, more than a few are on the Banned Books lists of the last century, from Life of Pi & Lord of the Flies to Maus & Pride of Baghdad. The rubber band pulls tight.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Lexile Framework for Reading evaluates reading ability and text complexity on the same developmental scale, providing a mechanism for matching each student’s reading ability with texts such as books or reading passages. To link aReading scores with the official Lexile scale, a study was conducted with assessment results.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Meanwhile, some schools have successfully made the switch, such as Santa Fe Public Schools.

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Waterford

MAY 17, 2016

Bridgespan studied the best available research from over 200 reports, policy briefs and books, and interviewed dozens of experts and the general public, then came up with six “big bets” ideas and roadmaps for making investments with the greatest impact. To read the full report, visit the Bridgespan website.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 2, 2022

"Librarians as Mandated Reporters: Child Abuse, Dependent Adult Abuse, and Elder Abuse" Part of the Library 2.0 How can library employees remain safe while reporting abuse? In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. What is the primary motive for elder abuse? in Psychology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2020

Large print books have a legacy of supporting reading engagement and proficiency in older adults, leading to a narrow – and inaccurate – view of the format’s usefulness.

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