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Scribbles Software Named a Winner in the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2023

American Consortium for Equity in Education

The company’s ScribChoice solution for school choice programs and lottery management wins in the Secondary Education category Scribbles Software, a leading provider of K-12 software solutions for document management, records processing, enrollment, and lottery management, has been named a winner Keep Reading Scribbles Software Named a Winner (..)

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Making Sure Your Online Services Protect Your Students’ Data

edWeb.net

Effective ways to evaluate software and online services in regard to student privacy were discussed during a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student.

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How Virtual Reality Technology is Changing the Way Students Learn

Digital Promise

Software like PowerPoint, for example, which has long been used as an education tool, wasn’t designed for education. Research shows that software such as PowerPoint can homogenise and sanitise the way teachers present information to their students. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content.

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Is your classroom ready for BYOD?

Neo LMS

According to Anywhere Learning Foundation’s Bruce Dixon, in his whitepaper entitled Bring Your Own Device To School , it is important to develop a clear policy for schools in conjunction with parents and students (well, at least in the primary and secondary level). Teachers must feel comfortable and confident managing a BYOD classroom.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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