Wed.Oct 28, 2020

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4 Ways Schools Can Improve Cybersecurity — Even When Budgets Are Tight

EdTech Magazine

Whether schools choose to continue remote education, use a hybrid education model or return full-time to campus, some form of virtual teaching system will figure into every school’s plan, even if only as a contingency. With every jurisdiction constructing their own approach to virtual education — then adjusting it in response to a rapidly evolving pandemic — cybersecurity risks abound.

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9 Things That Matter When Hiring Black Teachers

Education Elements

This year has exacerbated the national crisis of staffing in schools. Attrition was already a looming challenge, but with all of the changes in education this year alone teachers are leaving schools and the profession en masse. That, combined with the racial reckoning taking place this year has prompted many leaders to reflect on their hiring processes and look for ways to recruit more Black teachers.

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40+ FREE digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)

Ditch That Textbook

Digital escape rooms bring the excitement of hunting for clues and the joy of solving puzzles right to your student’s devices. Here are over 40 digital escape rooms to try plus resources for creating them yourself! This post is written by Mandi Tolen (left), a math teacher from Missouri, and Karly Moura (right), a TOSA (teacher on special […].

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Supporting Students with Special Learning Needs at Home

Digital Promise

Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. The series centers on the experiences of teachers and parents and provides family-focused tips and resources to support children’s academic progress, social-emotional development, and overall well-being.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Teacher Leadership Opportunities You Can Pursue In A Changing World

TeachThought - Learn better.

In a rapidly changing world, schools and districts have a chance to embrace significant and lasting change in ways never before possible. The post Teacher Leadership Opportunities You Can Pursue In A Changing World appeared first on TeachThought.

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College Students With Learning Disabilities Are Asking For More Support. Will They Get It?

Edsurge

College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. In some cases, the change interfered with the coping strategies students use to learn. But in other instances, institutions seized the unusual opportunity to encourage professors to redesign courses to be more accessible to people with varied needs.

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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

Edsurge

Since arriving from Mexico at age 18 in 2002, Abraham Cachu has dabbled in technology, starting with music software. A self-taught programmer, he found on-and-off work building websites, managing social media and handling e-commerce for dental offices, toy shops and other clients. Still, these gigs weren’t enough to land a full-time job. He didn’t have a bachelor’s degree, dropping out of UC San Diego after one year due to financial difficulties.

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Educational Math Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today’s post we are sharing with you 5 math apps that are featured today in Apple’s New and Notable category in iTunes App Store. Some of you are probably already familiar with Photomath and Math.

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5 Reasons to take this Chromebook Management Mini-Course

Vizor

Reading Time: 2 minutes After schools asked us to help them with managing Chromebooks, we realized that schools were purchasing the devices without best practices in place. As device management experts, we gladly helped them out. However, we thought, “How can we help schools better prepare for an influx of hundreds or thousands of Chromebooks?” We decided to create a new Chromebook management mini-course.

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Google Drive's Collaborative Features to Try out in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Drive is in a continuous flux in terms of the functionalities and built-in features it offers to its users. A great deal of these features are especially useful for us in education. In this.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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School innovation in a challenging year

eSchool News

Across the country, redefining the status quo has become the status quo for K–12 schools. Wide-scale remote and hybrid learning, mask-wearing culture, and “pods” all fall outside the bounds of what most of us imagined as mainstream schooling before this year. But despite how schools all face a similar set of challenges, innovation towards new solutions—especially student-centered ones—can be a surprisingly lonely endeavor.

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It's Time to Clean Up Your App Life

The Daring Librarian

It’s Time to Clean Up Your App Life Unused apps on your phone can do more harm than simply taking up space. We’re using our personal devices like our phones and our tablets more than ever during distance learning. But did you know that unused apps are not only slowing you down but may also be a serious security risk? Inspired by an article in Popular Science , I’ve cleaned up and cleared off nearly 2GB of stuff I really didn’t need.

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Renaissance Launches Major Updates to Star Spanish Assessments

eSchool News

Renaissance, the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has enhanced Star Spanish , its assessment platform for students who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish, with new reports and the first authentic K–12 learning progression for Spanish available in the country. Star Assessments are available in both English and Spanish in order to give educators insight into the abilities, skills, and progress of emergent bilinguals, dual-language learners, and immersion students.

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Europe’s Largest Ed-Tech VC Firm Launches Second Fund With $54 Million

Marketplace K-12

Brighteye Ventures plans to raise a total of $88 million for its second venture capital fund, with a focus on companies that can deliver education "better, faster, cheaper.". The post Europe’s Largest Ed-Tech VC Firm Launches Second Fund With $54 Million appeared first on Market Brief.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Using Edpuzzle to Add Video Pizazz to Lessons

MiddleWeb

It took the pandemic to convince Lauren Brown to finally check out Edpuzzle as a teaching tool. She’s quickly become a fan. Whether you are teaching live, online or in a hybrid model, Edpuzzle can be a helpful way to engage students in video content that you select or create.

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Learning Revolution Shows Today & Tomorrow: "The Microschool Show," "Educators Unmuted," "Power of Paraprofessionals," "Learning as Hero's Journey" #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We have three live Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" and "Thrive in EDU" are on hiatus this week) plus one pre-recorded show. Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site. EMERGENCY HOME LEARNING SUMMIT : PRE-RECORDED - The Microschool Show #4 with Mara Linaberger.

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#AskExcelinEd: How well is Indiana addressing public charter school facilities needs?

ExcelinEd

Nationwide, millions of students are enrolled in public charter schools, and millions more are on waiting lists to attend one. Despite their obvious success, public charter schools often lack access to affordable facilities, which would allow these in-demand schools to serve more students. The National Charter School Resource Center’s new report “A Synthesis of Research on Charter School Facilities” examines charter school access to facilities—including facility acquisition and ownership—as well

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OPINION: Tests are not the problem; how they are used can be

The Hechinger Report

In a year unlike any in recent history, one thing will surely happen this winter as it always has. Students will finalize and submit applications to colleges and graduate schools across the nation. But this year, some students won’t submit any test scores at all. And after they receive their admissions decisions, they’ll never know how they were or were not selected.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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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Looking for teaching inspiration? Here are 5 cool strategies for you to try in your classrooms to make learning more fun.

Linways Technologies

Teaching is the god of all professions. It’s the one that makes all other professions possible. However, teachers can have it hard to maintain engagement and capture the interest of their students over the course of a whole year or semester. Also, teachers can use several teaching strategies or techniques in order to make learning fun and keep the interest of the students.

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Although States and Districts Have Acted Swiftly, More Is Needed to Close the Digital Divide, a New Analysis Finds

Education Superhighway

Report from BCG, Common Sense, and EducationSuperHighway Offers Fresh Insights and Guidance on How States and Districts Can Make Greater Progress During COVID-19 on One of America’s Toughest Challenges. BOSTON, October 29, 2020 —Last spring, when authorities closed school buildings where 50 million US students attended classes, the “homework gap” threatened wholesale learning loss.

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Minecraft Mock Poll Aims To Educate Kids About Voting

MindShift

At the top of a hill sits a large white building with columns and draped with American flags. It resembles the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., except for a key difference. It’s built out of Minecraft blocks. The popular sandbox video game has been used to host graduation ceremonies , concerts , recreated school campuses and even a library of censored journalism.

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Hampered by pandemic restrictions, campus organizers are working overtime to make student voting easier

The Hechinger Report

Aiyana Edwards, a student at Spelman College in Atlanta, is part of a national effort to improve voting rates among young people. She helps friends, classmates and other college students in Georgia register, check their registration, make a plan to vote, see a sample ballot and research candidates and ballot measures. Credit: Aiyana Edwards. When not in an online class, Aiyana Edwards, 18, who’s in her second year at Spelman College in Atlanta, can be found texting first-time and young voters, e

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.