EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Every district has a different plan for bringing students back into the classroom. Some schools, like those in Florida’s Martin County, reopened for in-person instruction in August and have offered full-time, face-to-face instruction since. By contrast, in some California schools, students have not returned to school buildings since March of 2020. The pandemic created a mandatory pilot program for virtual learning that many schools weren’t prepared for.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 7, 2021

Here are the most-read posts for the month of April : Whiteboard Apps You’ll Love. JotForm Approvals–Great Way to Manage Workflow. 5 Websites for 4th Grade Word Study. 16 Spring Cleaning Steps for Computers. What Do You Think is the Hardest Tech Problem? (a poll). 5 (free) Security Posters. Using VR in Schools. Classroom Activities for Earth Day. Need math resources?

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 7, 2021

Flipgrid is a fantastic tool that students can utilize to create videos. Using Flipgrid, students can record videos of themselves telling a story, speaking in a target language, practicing reading fluency, solving a math problem, and much more. Flipgrid can be accessed from almost any device including computers, iPads, Chromebooks, and smartphones. When students are on a computer or Chromebook, they can also record their screen as they present a slideshow or create a demonstration of something t

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

Fact: Every job in every sector will require soft skills. These soft skills include what many call durable skills—professional and personal competencies that span a person’s career—and they are requested in job postings much more frequently than hard skills. A new report from student success nonprofit America Succeeds leverages data from 82 million employer job postings and reveals the critical importance of durable skills training for long-term success in the workforce.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 7, 2021

If you’ve ever found yourself asking what it would be like to take your teaching to the next level at a university, you know that making that move isn’t as easy as applying for a new job. Instead, it often involves earning additional degrees and adapting to an entirely new teaching environment. It’s a lot to take in. If you’re thinking about making a change, keep reading to learn what you’ll need to do before making your big move.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K – 12 public schools. It’s enabled online learning during a time of critical need, and the schools who have embraced cloud adoption have thrived and will continue to do so. Cost efficiencies are a big driver of cloud adoption. For schools grappling with budget cuts, the cloud offers a cost-effective way to educate students and streamline operations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 7, 2021

I absolutely love people who make the Herculean effort necessary to view well-known things from a distinctly different point of view. One person making that effort is Chiara Marletto. I was introduced to her work a few years and reminded of it again this week by the wonderful interview with her in Quanta Magazine. (I was ecstatic to learn that she has published a book about her work – The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals –

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2021

The best tips and tricks for Adobe Spark for Education can make all the difference in the classroom.

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Jamf on EdTech

MAY 7, 2021

See how you can perform automatic in-place upgrades to macOS Big Sur with minimal user interaction and authenticated FileVault reboots.

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MAY 7, 2021

Adobe Spark for Education is the tool for sharing visuals, used by teachers and students.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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myViewBoard

MAY 7, 2021

Read a summary of all the exciting new features and improvements to myViewBoard released this May. Classroom. Clips Quiz integration. A powerful new feature has been released this May which students and teachers alike are sure to love – quizzes! But not just any quiz, video-assisted learning quizzes from myViewBoard Clips. Teachers can now add their Clips quizzes directly into Classroom, allowing students to view an educational video and get pop-quiz style questions during the video.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

Infobase, esteemed provider of the Infobase Media Cloud and the Infobase Learning Cloud, today announced that Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center was named a 2021 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the “Best College & Career Readiness Solution” category. CODiE Award finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the PreK–20 sector.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MAY 7, 2021

A few months ago, Google announced a lengthy roll call of upcoming changes and upgrades across its tools and platforms, which I summarized here. One that really caught my attention: starting with Chrome version 90, the Chrome OS for Chromebooks will now include a built-in screen capture and recording tool called (wait for it) Screen Capture! We've been deploying this latest version of Chrome to our students' Chromebooks for a few weeks now, and recently I was able to go to classrooms and see it

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

DERRY, N.H. – May 6, 2021 – Once again, CoderZ has earned prestigious industry recognition, this time as a finalist in the Best Coding and Computational Thinking category for the SIIA Education Technology 2021 CODiE Awards program. CoderZ is a powerful, self-paced virtual learning platform that is designed to teach students valuable principles of coding, robotics, and computational skills through the engaging and challenging context of robotics.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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N2Y

MAY 7, 2021

Our much‑anticipated Summer Unit is available now through August 31, 2021! This year’s engaging theme, By the Sea , will keep your students motivated, participating, and advancing toward their learning goals with evidence‑based lessons, hands‑on activities, and more.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. COVID-19 was tough on schools, calling for swift shifts in teaching and learning practices to support virtual learning environments and a host of new pedagogical demands. The changes altered the educational landscape, inspiring educators to embrace new instructional methods and carry them over to their classrooms once they returned to normalcy.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2021

In the American Jobs Plan , the Biden Administration has put a stake in the ground on a bold vision to “ensure workers have ready access to the skills they will need to succeed,” especially those from historically under-resourced communities. The plan includes targeted investments in both existing and “next-generation” education and training programs, as well as career pathway programs in middle and high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2021

Will California colleges return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic? Lande Ajose hopes not. The pandemic forced postsecondary institutions into triage mode and left working-class students with difficult decisions. It also opened the door for advocates like Ajose, a higher ed policy advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom who leads the state’s Council for Postsecondary Education, to develop a vision for the future of higher education that could be a model for the rest of the country — if it can get pas

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