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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

With K–12 schools leveraging connected technologies to help improve student outcomes and boost classroom collaboration, effective cybersecurity is not optional. This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? eli.zimmerman_9856.

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Students then receive personalised recommendations based on their progress and can choose how to be assessed. This will not only improve academic outcomes, but also enhance retention rates and the ability to apply what they’ve learned during work experience, internships, or in future jobs.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds. At the close of 2023, 75 Rhode Island educators were enrolled in the new and cutting-edge program.

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New Effort Adds College Credit to Apprenticeship Programs

Edsurge

This really is a bridge that helps a candidate—a learner, an apprentice—achieve both outcomes,” says Kelli Jordan, director of IBM career, skills and performance. “It Figuring out how to make that manageable for more workers is part of our collective challenge.” It’s one that the federal government has started to tackle.

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Micro-credentials for teacher PD: Why? What? How?

Neo LMS

Many teachers are also quick to point out that teacher outcomes are improved when districts place as much attention on salaries, infrastructure and improving the “school climate” as they do on PD — which I’m sure every teacher would agree is a fair point. The outcome is usually a PD learning portfolio that excites and empowers.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Empowerment and ownership need and should be associated with learning to increase relevancy, value, meaning, and outcomes. There is a great deal of talk and focus on the need to improve student agency in our schools and rightfully so (see my post on this topic HERE ).

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

Edsurge

Its answer: one that offers evidence of competencies and corresponds clearly with positive employment outcomes in fields that have substantial job opportunities. We haven’t had the ability to look across all credentials to allow us to have some sense of how to make the best determination of quality,” Cheney says.

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