EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Digital equity is a complex topic. To begin a conversation around it, we must first define the term. The Consortium for School Networking’s “Driving K–12 Innovation: 2021 Hurdles + Accelerators” report describes digital equity as three interrelated concepts: digital foundations, learning conditions and meaningful learning opportunities. Part of building digital foundations is ensuring students have access to connectivity and devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2021

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in April: Easter resources–websites and apps. Invention Convention? Get started! Tech Tips. Websites to teach financial literacy. Subscriber Special. Math resources online. Earth Day activities. Virtual Reality in Schools. Free posters! Secure your personal privacy. Websites to teach word study.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Five years ago, many students in the District of Columbia Public Schools had to share computers with one another. Most of the district’s schools had one laptop for every three students, but the devices had to stay in school; no one could take them home. It wasn’t ideal for modern-day learning, acknowledged Karen Cole, deputy chief of academic and creative empowerment for DCPS.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 29, 2021

[ I’ve been fairly quiet here during the pandemic. However, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. I thought that I would share a little of what I’ve been doing for the past year… ]. My very last face-to-face engagement with schools before the pandemic was for the 5Sigma EduCon at Anastasis Academy. Kelly Tenkely is the Founder and Executive Director of this very innovative private K-8 school in Centennial, Colorado.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

I was 20 years old and wearing my best suit. I woke up early so I could make the one-hour trip to Midtown Manhattan to begin my Wall Street internship orientation. The Sponsors for Educational Opportunity team planned an intense training. We learned Excel modeling, financial terms, and networking. The goal was to leave the summer with an employment offer in hand.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 29, 2021

Slidesgo offers a wide variety of free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates to use in your presentations. It also allows you to customize these templates the way you want. I spent sometime sifting.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Teamwork and communication are the top skills employers are looking for, a new survey of hiring managers reveals. That bodes well for the students at a Los Angeles secondary school who are taking part in an innovative program that uses esports to teach critical 21 st century skills: Teamwork and communication are also the skills these young gamers have seen the most improvement in so far.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

When the pandemic struck last March, schools across the country and in my district in Grand Island, Nebraska, quickly stepped up to the challenge of providing at-home learning and supporting our students and families. We shifted lesson plans, handed out laptops and hotspots and adjusted food distribution — all at top speed. But another crisis has been plaguing schools for much longer than the coronavirus: structural racism and inequities that too often limits students of color from living up to

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Universal Screener Provides Data to Strengthen Social -Emotional Skills, Informs Instruction for Students Who Need Additional Support. The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) announced it is entering into a partnership with Aperture Education to provide a statewide SEL assessment for K-12 schools. Starting in the fall of 2021 and after a thorough procurement process, CSDE will make Aperture’s research-backed social-emotional learning assessments, the Devereux Student Strengths Asses

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 29, 2021

To encourage her seventh graders’ reading, Katie Durkin finds herself constantly searching for new ways to keep books in the hands of students. She shares four sustainable practices she uses throughout the school year to plant the seeds of reading with her students. The post Planting the Seeds of Reading Enthusiasm first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented its fair share of challenges. It has also brought many new ideas to the table for the field of education. Not only have teachers rewritten history with virtual teaching, virtual engagement and new guidelines for health and safety, but they have risen to the challenge of maintaining communication with parents and guardians.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 29, 2021

Universities and K-12 educators alike are experiencing challenges in keeping students engaged and finding the right tools to digitally transform the classroom during distance learning. Students are. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

NetSupport today announced that its new solution for classroom management, classroom.cloud , is available to schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. This is the latest product from NetSupport, which has been supporting teachers with award-winning instructional and educational technology for over 30 years. As teachers and administrators are once again thinking through major transitions in learning locations and models, classroom.cloud is now fully available domestically. classroom.cloud provides

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 29, 2021

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a giant in the education sphere, is selling its book publishing business and forming a new platform team to focus on digital-first delivery. The post Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Sell Consumer Books and Media Division to Refocus on K-12 appeared first on Market Brief.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Discovery Education and leading corporate and community partners are offering K-12 educators and students three engaging new virtual field trips (VFT) debuting in April and May. Focused on an array of diverse topics, these new virtual field trips connect learning to the real-world through relevant and timely digital content that supports learning wherever it takes place.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 29, 2021

May Bulletin Board ideas vary from saying goodbye to Spring and the school year to introducing Summer and all the fun and memorable days between Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and Mother Goose Day. Here is a list of the best May bulletin board ideas and door decorations for your classroom. Some are cute, some funny, and some are so unique and beautiful.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Evoca, a revolutionary next-generation television service, today announced a new initiative, Evoca Learn. In addition to its lineup of 60+ traditional entertainment, news, and sports channels, Evoca Learn will curate 24-hour educational programming and is committed to contextualizing classroom learning, deepening understanding, helping students identify and connect with career paths, and fostering a lifelong dedication to learning.

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MindShift

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids have dealt with a lot in the last year, says Ashley McCall , a third grade teacher in Chicago. . “Our students have had COVID-19, have watched relatives struggle through COVID-19, and lost relatives. And yet the world keeps spinning around them with seemingly little interruption or change in what’s expected of them,” she said. To help students name their emotions and develop coping strategies, McCall and her colleague Lindsay Singer developed social studies and reading units centered

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 29, 2021

We have a collection of resources from Dr. Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0. Today we've added a blog post from him on the North Vancouver Library stabbing attacks, " Edged Weapons Awareness." Since a knife or other cutting/slashing object is a proximity weapon, your best defense when confronted by a person holding one is distance, and a lot of it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

As educators gain more experience with hybrid and fully remote learning models, they're optimizing classroom technology to meet their students' needs. Teachers must have creative ways to actively engage their remote students, going beyond asynchronous teaching that simply sends recorded lessons to students' home devices to watch on their own time. With collaborative technology tools, teachers can facilitate synchronous classroom discussion and sharing, compensating for the socially-distanced set

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Summer school may seem like a common sense way to help children make up for the months of lost school time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg urged President Joe Biden to push every school in the country to stay open this summer in a March 2021 Washington Post opinion piece. Governors around the country from Virginia to California are endorsing summer school, as has the powerful teachers union leader Randi Weingarten.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Carousel Digital Signage and mobile device management company Moki have announced a new partnership that will simplify the deployment and management of media player software across multiple operating systems. To be integrated within Carousel Cloud’s CMS, Moki’s cloud-based mobile device platform (MDM) will establish a unified interface for digital signage networks with a diverse mix of media players, and remove the burden of working across different device management interfaces.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. That meant that Kelley had to get him set up with schoolwork he could do alone, lay out Legos on the floor beside her chair for his 4-year-old brother and hope for the best as she joined Zoom discussions about what must be done for families grappling with school closures across California.

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