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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career

Ask a Tech Teacher

Smartphone Choices A smartphone is almost as essential as a laptop in the modern landscape. When selecting a smartphone, consider its compatibility with other devices like your laptop and tablet. For instance, if your school uses a lot of Apple products, a MacBook might be a more seamless fit.

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Teachers Drive Innovation. This Time, Will They Do So Within or Outside the System?

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Like so many of our underinvested institutions, COVID-19 has pulled back the veil on a crumbling system whose cracks have deepened into crevices perhaps too vast to fill. Will our leaders modernize our school system so that our teachers choose to work there? Our public schools have operated in a precarious, neglected state for decades.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

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She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial. Maria is also in the sixth grade.

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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

We all need to find a system that works for us and we need to choose tools that align with our individual preferences and workflows. In this show, I will cover digital Note taking notes on selecting your own system. So pick your workflow, pick your system, and there's a lot of templates. I've been using it for a long time.

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Why Bloomz is the Best Parent-Teacher Communication System for Me (and Probably You)

The CoolCatTeacher

Bloomz is my parent-teacher communication system. Jessica Meacham has a comparison of all of the parent-teacher communication systems. At my school, we have a school-wide Bloomz system. Smartphone Notifications. I use the iCal calendar link from my Learning Management System (LMS) and linked it to the class calendar.

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

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Endless Network , a global organization committed to addressing equity disparities stemming from issues such as inadequate internet access, strategically invests in companies worldwide that align with their mission and actively contribute to its realization. This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, Rocket Learning.

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Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal

Edsurge

Now, several companies that sell student-record systems based on blockchain—the technology behind Bitcoin—are pitching their products as a way to prevent that kind of fraudulent record tampering in the future. In the case of Varsity Blues, the system might have revealed that the athletic profiles were forged, he says.

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