Sat.Oct 27, 2018

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The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again

The Hechinger Report

Jodie Hicks, left, and her husband, Kevin O’Brien, right, with their granddaughter, Tessa. Tessa started living with her grandparents three years ago. Photo: Doug McSchooler for The Huffington Post. This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality

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Some of The Best Brainstorming Apps for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In response to some of the requests we have received over the last few weeks, here is a collection of some of our favourite brainstorming and mind mapping iPad apps. You can use these apps to capture.

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Project Information Literacy News Study: A new study on new adults and news

NeverEndingSearch

For this generation, news is social, visual, and fast. News is often overwhelming, and it can be difficult for students to tell what news is true and what is false. While most students think news is important to democracy, they do not define news by traditional standards, nor do they necessarily assign authority based on the platform or authors from which news comes.

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3 Important Google Slides Features for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Slides has recently added a number of onteresting features that will make it super easy for you to create, edit, and share presentations. Here is a quick overview of these new features : 1-.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Top 5 Ways to Get Creative with Assessment

EdTechTeam

One of the most powerful things about implementing technology in the classroom is the ability to capture a student’s learning cycle in varied ways. Where once, a standard fill in the bubble test was the only indicator of success for a learner in the classroom, there are a plethora of options the teacher can use in their instructional design to have students demonstrate understanding in multiple ways.

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What Does it Mean to Build a School?

Edsurge

Last Friday I found myself sitting in a bright sunlit room in Washington D.C. On my left was the Superintendent of Schools from Newtown, Conn., and next to him, the new principal of the new Sandy Hook Elementary School. On my right sat two high school students, survivors of the massacre at Margery Stoneman Douglas High School. I had been uncomfortable at this event before I sat down in that spot, but once I found myself at this epicenter of pain and loss I realized that I did have a purpose that