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The benefits of using a web filter for digital learning

Hapara

There are social media games and shopping websites, just to start. That could be their Chromebook, a family tablet or their phone. This is helpful, too, if students are learning remotely due to school closure. Does your school or district web filter software do enough to help digital learning?

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Best practices for managing web filtering in a digital learning environment

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. So how do you manage web filtering so that it protects students but doesn’t restrict learning?

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A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success

A Principal's Reflections

As teachers and administrators we must be more intentional when it comes to digital learning. If the norm is surface-level integration that asks students to demonstrate knowledge and comprehension the most beneficial aspects of digital are missed. Just using it to access information is also not a sound use.

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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

The bilingual (English/Spanish) mobile-first digital tool was informed by what parents say they need and developed by leading content experts. As teachers look for supplemental material to send home, they can share this Roadmap with parents via school portals, email, social media platforms, and texting.

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Reality Checks of Digital Learning

RafranzDavis.com

A few days later, I received an email from her that while her kids were enjoying this new way of learning, they could barely stay online, but were being such great sports trying. It was such a profound moment because until that point, I made an assumption that one should not make in planning for digital learning initiatives.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With school budgets being planned on a year over year basis, the concern over long-term sustainability for digital learning arises.

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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

edWeb.net

Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.