eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Who out there doesn’t enjoy some form of game? Whether it be watching or playing a sport, a card game, a board game, or video games, most people would say they at least enjoy one. Games are part of many people’s lives–so why not use them to benefit students when teaching? From a 5th grade teacher lens, it is evident that students are more likely to engage in an educational activity when it is “gamified,” and even more so when it is gamified with technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Where did Windows Explorer go? Category: PCs.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Working against looming deadlines, The Lincoln Academy public charter school partnered with corporate and community stakeholders to build a STEM-infused K–12 program integrating tech throughout all grades, just in time to welcome its first incoming class in September 2021. The 115,000-square-foot charter school in Beloit, Wis., exposes students to academic and vocational learning tracks, including welding, agricultural science and EMT classes in more than 17 specially designed labs and learning

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Staffing shortages continue to impact schools across the U.S., and vacancies are an increasingly common occurrence. Parents’ minds often jump first to teacher shortages, with significant numbers of teachers leaving schools in 2022 in search of less stressful work. But another essential role in schools is facing an equally urgent staffing crisis: paraprofessionals.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 27, 2022

Concentration is a complex brain function. It involves a combination of various cognitive abilities necessary for holding your attention on something without being distracted by anything else. Like any other skill, concentration is something that improves with practice, and what's better than 'solving puzzles' to improve one's concentration? Complete puzzles are usually considered to be large jigsaw puzzles that can be as big as 32 inches.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 27, 2022

Chinese education companies are once again going public, moving past government restrictions that temporarily put a halt on tech firms making that leap. The post Emerging From Crackdown, Chinese Ed-Tech Firms Make a Return to U.S. Market appeared first on Market Brief.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 27, 2022

Whether it’s our students or our colleagues, the mentor relationship is a win-win for mentor and mentee. As mentors, we can realize a unique personal fulfillment and grow as a listener, a coach, a friend, a leader. And one day, our mentees may decide to “pay it forward.”. The post Paying It Forward: Why We All Need Mentors first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 27, 2022 — Vernier Software & Technology has launched Light & Matter: Vernier Supplement to OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. This free e-book incorporates data-collection technology into the first lesson in OpenSciEd Unit 6.1, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to help students gain a deeper understanding of the initial scientific concepts being taught and to motivate the

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2022

To improve mastery, increasing the intentionality and continuity of certain best practices will undoubtedly impact overall student success.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

WOBURN, Mass. – July 27, 2022 – FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, was selected as a 2022 Educators Pick Best of STEM Award winner in the “Bridging the Gap: Tutoring Programs for STEM” category. The 2022 Best of STEM Award provides EdTech companies with a fresh twist—an awards program judged by STEM educators for STEM educators: “The Educators Pick Best of STEM Awards.

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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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JULY 27, 2022

Blackbird is a coding platform that works across the curriculum for effective use in education.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 27, 2022

We live in a world where there is no shortage of technology and that also holds true for classroom technology. However, in the long run, only those study tools with innovative features and capabilities that reduce cognitive overload and facilitate personalized learning will survive the test of time. Specifically, EdTech tools facilitate teaching for the teachers and make learning more engaging and immersive for the students.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JULY 27, 2022

Program honors the hard-working nutrition professionals serving over 30 million students each day Looking ahead to the 2022-23 school year, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and rising gas prices continue to produce unprecedented complications for school nutrition teams. Continued troubles come on the. Keep Reading LINQ Announces Winners of the 2021-2022 Lunchroom Rockstars Program.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 27, 2022

What exactly do ESOL teachers do? How do they support English Language Learners and general ed teachers in and out of the classroom? I am going to share bits and pieces of the life of an ESOL teacher. This is my seventh year as an ESOL teacher and every year, there is always something new to learn. Depending on your district and school size, an ESOL teacher might be spread across many buildings and grade levels.

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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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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JULY 27, 2022

The partnership between TutorMe and Park County School District #16 provides students with on-demand and one-on-one online tutoring services to remote school community TutorMe, an online tutoring solution creating access and opportunity for all students, announces a partnership with Park County. Keep Reading TutorMe Partners with Rural Wyoming School District, Providing Students with Diversified Academic Support.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 27, 2022

I started writing this blog post a month ago after attending #MyFest22 sessions that really required a lot of thinking and reflection. Sessions in Creating an Accessible Syllabus, Global OER, Entangled Pedagogy and Liberating Structures may at first seem totally different. But my mind is always trying to find links and common threads. So needless to say, my mind has been peculating.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JULY 27, 2022

Vernier Software & Technology has launched Light & Matter: Vernier Supplement to OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. This free e-book incorporates data-collection technology into the first lesson in OpenSciEd Unit 6.1, which. Keep Reading Vernier Software & Technology Launches E-Book to Support Hands-On Science Learning for Middle School Students.

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Saving Socrates

JULY 27, 2022

Many schools and districts find it unusually hard to find staff to fill teaching roles. The reasons for this are vast. One major issue is that faculty simply feel overworked, underappreciated, and underpaid. Thmainly dueargely to parental demands, state regulations, increased oversight, and inflation. Ultimately, this creates a situation where teachers go from feeling like managers of their classrooms to feeling like the hired help.

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JULY 27, 2022

Last Monday, a coalition of parents, educators, students, and New York City Councilmembers came together to rebuke school budget cuts to New York City schools. For their part, the present City Councilmembers sought to atone for their yes votes in favor of the decimating budget, elevating activists who’ve been at the forefront of a plethora of fights regarding our schools.

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