EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Educational technology investments in K–12 are soaring to new heights, putting millions of dollars into the hands of district administrators. However, it’s not always easy for IT leaders to use quantitative methods to analyze the return on ed tech investments. With our 85-plus years of combined experience in purchasing millions of dollars of technology, we recommend fellow school technology leaders use more creative ways to measure ROI, or what we call “return on instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Need a few websites and apps to fill in sponge time? Here are Thanksgiving websites that will keep students busy and still teach them: Berenstein Bears Give Thanks (app). Canadian Thanksgiving. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Plimoth Plantation –a field trip of a Pilgrim’s life. Included on this real-life site is a video of the Pilgrim’s crossing to the New World.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When we built a new 3-story high school building on our former baseball field, we knew that we wanted to incorporate spaces where students could learn and teachers could teach in a very collaborative manner. So, along with our new classrooms, in most areas of our school there are now two hallways with resource classrooms running down the center. Those are our collaborative spaces, and they’re where we got to be creative in terms of planning and design.

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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A 2021 report from the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) analyzed 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools from 2006–2018. The Averting Targeted Schools Violence report reveals the need for greater awareness of and resources for student mental health within our schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Just when we thought the painful trend of ransomware attacks on public schools might be waning, news arrived of a massive incident. Over Labor Day weekend, the country’s largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, experienced a ransomware attack. The district serves 600,000 students and described “significant disruptions affecting access to email, computer systems, and applications.”.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Dr. Carey Borkoski & Dr. Brianne Roos, originally published in Equity & Access The transition back to school and transitions, in general, bring a flurry of emotions including excitement, worry, and nervousness. Each year, students, teachers, leaders, and families. Keep Reading What I Did On My Summer Vacation: Belonging, Beaches & Back to School.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A NEW LOOK AT COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION. LiFT Learning CEO David Lipkin is our guest. LiFT Learning grows out of the classroom experience of it’s educator/founders and works in both competency based learning as well as Project based. This show. Keep Reading A NEW LOOK AT COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION. The post A NEW LOOK AT COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Easy Notecards is a web tool that enables teachers and students to create interactive notecards to use for a wide variety of educational purposes including: studying vocabulary, testing prior knowledge, reading comprehension check, exit slips, and many more. Teachers can also use notecards and flashcards for formative assessment purposes, t hat is, to test students ongoing knowledge as they learn new content.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The purpose of this post is to provide teachers, parents, and students (and anyone else interested in learning history) with a handpicked collection of interactive history games to help with history learning. All you need is a browser and an Internet connection. The games are engaging, interactive, and fun to play. Students won’t complain again about history being boring!

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Zoom' s Virtual Background feature enables you to display 'an image or video as your background during a Zoom meeting'. Virtual backgrounds allow you to hide your real-life background providing you with more privacy and giving your meetings a professional look. Zoom offers a wide variety of ready made virtual backgrounds that you easily apply to your video meetings or you can upload and use your own images and videos.

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