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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. Well, the students are pro-lectures when the professors make them interesting. My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development.

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

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“Imagine a breach like the Equifax one we just had, but occurring with students’ browsing history, the search strings of the school counselor or geolocation of all students in the school,” says privacy blogger Bill Fitzgerald, noting the risks companies are taking while gathering sensitive information on students.

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Free Range Teaching and the Technology Teachers ‘Beg For’

Edsurge

Both Haileybury and CCGS use screen mirroring tools and software by Vivi , an Australian education-focused and educator-staffed company that hopes to bring its successes to schools in the U.S. Indeed, the company actively solicits and integrates teacher feedback into its product development. That’s extraordinarily exciting.”.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

The website offers thousands of hours of video lectures for students from PreK-12 grades in various topics, including Math, Science, Arts & Humanities, Reading & Language Arts, Economics, Computing, and Life Skills. The Math Get-Ready Courses introduce students to third to eighth grades algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus.

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Best Math Apps For Kids

Fractus Learning

Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. Students will not get bored with multiple games, themes, and over 350 math skills to be learned. The engaging game may even relieve some pre-exam stress. The free app requires iOS 11.0

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Technology Integration in a 21st Century Science Classroom

EdTechTeam

As described in NGSS, “students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.” The heart of the standards are based on student design and experience actually “doing” science instead of just “learning” about science. What a game changer! What does the future hold?

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Gamifi-ed Website – 9th Graders in the classroom of Vicki Davis (author of this blog) and Masters students at the University of Alaska Southeast analyzed and tested more than 50 serious games. Appolicious – This site pretty much evaluations iPhone/iPad games but has lots of them in the index. Health Games for Change.