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Losing STEAM: When Technology and Curriculum Collide

EdNews Daily

Many districts have added a Director for Instructional Technology to their administrative roster to help with the integration of technology into existing practices. It has provided immediate information with room for creation in ways unlike any past industrial revolution style teaching method. Jessica Iovinelli, Ed.S,

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A ‘Learning Ecosystem’ Approach to Ed-Tech Acquisition

Digital Promise

It’s a reminder both of how the quest for a definitive answer can stunt innovation and how failure can be inevitable without enough planning. As an industry, we don’t know enough about how these tensions will play out to fully proscribe best practices for acquiring personalized learning technology and resources.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

eSchool News

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s. Although early minimills changed the resources, processes, and cost structure of steel production, their disruption of the industry didn’t happen overnight.

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Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign

Marketplace K-12

The Software and Information Industry Association, in a recent online post , said the campaign—which encourages states and districts to consider open options—wrongly suggests that open resources are invariably linked with districts’ shifts to adopting digital materials, whereas commercial materials are stuck in the print world.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

Edsurge

Gehsmann says in today’s knowledge economy, literacy is a basic requirement for getting and keeping a stable job in just about every industry. Commonlit is a source for free, high-quality instructional materials designed to support literacy development (grades 3-12.). Resources recommended by Linda Edgecomb and GGES teachers.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Méndez-Cupey, and together they’ve adopted a public elementary school that was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria, with plans to provide teacher training and instructional materials. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many.

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Teaching Is a Craft: It Will Never Be a Science

The 21st Century Principal

We are looking for method A that will definitively bring about result B, only discover each time, method A only sometimes brings about result A. This is because our thinking about environment C and the instructional materials we use aren’t as simple and uninvolved as we thought.