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4 ways library media specialists lead digital transformations in districts

eSchool News

During the pandemic era of “emergency teaching,” school systems across my state and around the country made deep investments in edtech resources. Educators frequently seek administrator guidance for what they expect to see in the classroom or in use by students. Incentivize use.

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ISTE Launches ISTE U to Help Teachers, Leaders Build Digital Competencies

techlearning

What’s New: New Tools for Schools ] ISTE partnered with D2L to use the BrightSpace learning management system (LMS) to power ISTE U. Selecting the Right Tech Solutions for Your Classroom, developed in collaboration with Mathematica. ? Best Practices in Open Education Resources, developed in collaboration with iLearn Collaborative. ?

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

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Exactly how many schools are actively engaged in iZone projects is unclear: The NYCDOE press office disclosed that 50 schools abandoned the iZone’s iLearn program between 2015 and 2016 to develop their own blended and online learning materials or to use outside resources including Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas.

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Literature-Map: Help students find new authors to fall in love with

iLearn Technology

What it is: Literature Map is a literature recommendation system. How to integrate Literature Map into the classroom: It’s a common problem, a student falls in LOVE with an author and devours everything the author has ever written. It is really easy to discover a new author.

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MobyMax: Tablet + help differentiating instruction

iLearn Technology

How to Integrate MobyMax into your classroom: One of my favorite MobyMax features: it reads each question/problem/challenge for students so that your remedial or ESL students have an additional layer of support. Students who don’t have great support systems at home, now can continue learning independently. Really happy!

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Do you want to form an alliance with me? (Version 3.0)

iLearn Technology

It was also the year that I had to leave the classroom for health reasons. If I couldn’t change education from within the classroom because of my health, perhaps this would be the way! Why were we still stuck in a system of the boxed, one-size-fits-all curriculum? I started asking questions and challenging my own thinking.

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Do you want to form an alliance with me? (Version 3.0)

iLearn Technology

It was also the year that I had to leave the classroom for health reasons. If I couldn’t change education from within the classroom because of my health, perhaps this would be the way! Why were we still stuck in a system of the boxed, one-size-fits-all curriculum? I started asking questions and challenging my own thinking.