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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation. hands-on basic training, on-demand how-to videos, etc.)

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Data That Educators Need to Reopen Schools Isn’t Coming. So They’re Collecting It Themselves.

Edsurge

Yet without a coordinated national response to the crisis, reliable data that could help inform policy is scarce. They’re not getting health and safety data from the government agencies that might be best positioned to collect and publish it. Some states are collecting data but aren’t necessarily sharing it publicly.

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Crunch the Numbers—New Data on Student Tech Use; Chromebook Predictions; And the Impact of Pandemic Relief Funds

eSchool News

Children watched 27% more video content in 2023 than in the previous year – hitting a world average of 57 minutes per day. The report is based on a survey of more than 1,400 school district homeless liaisons from across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as on analyses of federal data.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For example, at many post-secondary institutions, a teaching space is considered to be a Smart Classroom if it merely comes equipped with nothing more than a microphone, computer, video projector. Likewise, the students themselves had similar options for deciding how and where video files could be posted. and whiteboard.

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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, the way that the 250 secondary school teachers in this study taught didn’t differ that much between math and English. Throughout the United Kingdom, including England where this study took place, 11th year students take General Certificate of Secondary Education [GCSE] exams, which are akin to high school exit exams.

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22 Classroom-Focused Resources on AI from Teachers Everywhere

The CoolCatTeacher

I had students addressing broad topics such as Social Change, and Big Data, I challenged them to build a web visualization using ChatGPT. Generative Video Free Lesson My friend Thomas Ho shared a generative video free lesson in his tweet. This means that you write the text and the video is generated for you by AI.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. A few small containers of Play-Doh. No cell phones in the space. (I