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8 ways to improve your school or district website

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Statista reported that in 2018 over 52 percent of all website traffic worldwide was generated through mobile devices, meaning those viewing your website are increasingly doing so on their phones. This is where a CMS can help. CMS providers can also equip your website with the ability to scale up or down to meet web traffic needs.

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In the marketplace: Science achievement skyrockets, makerspaces expand, and more

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Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ (CMS) vision for science emphasizes inquiry, problem solving and communication.

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N.C. district targets online, blended learning solutions

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Edgenuity, a provider of online and blended learning solutions, announced that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), North Carolina’s second-largest school district, has selected Edgenuity as the district’s primary online and blended learning solution. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Need an LMS next year? Here are three to consider

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The term ‘LMS’ is often conflated with ‘SMS’ (student management system) and ‘CMS’ (course management system) because their purposes and tools are so similar. There is no report card integration. In this article, we’ll treat all as LMSs. I’m actually ambivalent about that.

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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

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I’m telling you, some institutions are filling out the right paperwork and saying the right things in reports but they’re not really fixing the problem,” Rowland says. That next time, [complainants] are not going back to the Office for Civil Rights; they’re getting an attorney.”

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25 digital tools and edtech resources from FETC

eSchool News

Curriculum Associates , pulling from i-Ready diagnostics data, released reports on what’s happening with unfinished learning related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators also can explore Avanti’s World , an educational VR experience split into two lands with learning zones and scenes for students to explore independently.

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?A Playbook to Go Open: 5 Steps to Adopting OER

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As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Explore cataloging options within those platforms.

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