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How Can We Close the Digital Learning Gap This School Year?

Digital Promise

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. Last year, my predecessor, Karen Cator outlined ways in which we can finally close the Digital Learning Gap. The post How Can We Close the Digital Learning Gap This School Year?

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Best practices for managing web filtering in a digital learning environment

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. So how do you manage web filtering so that it protects students but doesn’t restrict learning?

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Instructure Launches Canvas for Elementary User Experience for Back to School

eSchool News

SALT LAKE CITY — June 28, 2021 — Today at ISTE Live 2021, Instructure launched the Canvas for Elementary user experience, a combination of features that make Canvas more user-friendly for elementary students. The report found that hybrid teaching and learning will continue. Subject Cards.

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Virtual Museum Tours: Ready to Take Kids on a Field Trip?

The CoolCatTeacher

For those of you who want to go on virtual museum tours, the Museums for Digital Learning may have the perfect answer for you. What is included in the Museums for Digital Learning? That is great that they have a way to report issues. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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Document Learning in a Digital Portfolio

Teacher Reboot Camp

Digital Portfolio Tips, Tools and Resources. Benchmark at regular intervals, such as progress report time, with student led conferences. My elementary students love their Seesaw digital portfolios. Start with goals! Find student goal templates for students of any age to fill out here.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We The report notes that teachers from well-resourced schools typically have more time and training to design lessons that involve creative, non-formulaic uses of ed tech. In addition, the report covers AI and data privacy.

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The 4Cs: How esports promotes student development

eSchool News

4 tips for creating an elementary esports program For more news on esports, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub I first started trying to get an esports program at my school in 2011. About 97 percent report making a new friend. Just as in traditional sports, whether you win or lose, doing it with class is important.

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