Thu.Feb 24, 2022

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Using Telehealth to Expand Student Access to Care

techlearning

Renee Kotsopoulo, director of health services for the Garland ISD in Texas, helped bring telehealth to her students and believes technology can help keep kids healthy and in school.

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Data Analytics Tools Show Ed Tech’s Impact: Part 2

EdTech Magazine

Data analytics tools may be the answer to questions that IT leaders are only beginning to ask in K–12 education. Though they are not yet widely used to their fullest extent, they could help IT teams gain visibility into their networks, detect uninvited devices and even prepare for the impending funding cliff, as described in Part 1 of this content. There’s a further benefit to these analytics tools: helping K–12 educators evaluate the impact of their chosen digital solutions and manage their vir

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Pedagogy first, technology second – the key to successful hybrid classes

Neo LMS

In today’s heavily technologized world, pedagogy and technology go hand in hand. The Covid-19 pandemic has urged educators worldwide to embrace technology as many of their classes shifted to a fully remote or hybrid environment. Naturally, this posed some challenges for many teachers, especially those who weren’t used to using edtech tools such as a learning management system (LMS ) or a video conferencing platform to deliver educational content.

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Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change

Ask a Tech Teacher

From Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, retired teacher and education consultant, Christian Miraglia: Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change. In my last post, I wrote about using Twitter for classroom instruction. Here, the focus is how students use social media to advance their causes and concerns. As a history teacher, I emphasized the concept of taking action on social issues to affect change.

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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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Digital Promise Releases Report on Value of Research in Edtech Design

Digital Promise

In an industry that values innovation, cutting-edge design, and lightning response to changing market needs, how can edtech products demonstrate their effectiveness? Typically, efficacy studies serve as a metric for understanding the value of a learning tool. While efficacy studies play an important role in determining product quality, they require a tremendous amount of time and resources.

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Loom- A Great Screen and Camera Recorder (Full Review)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Loom is a screen and camera recording tool that allows you to create screencasts and video tutorials. Loom is available for Mac, Windows, as a Chrome extension, and as an app for iOS and.read more.

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War Breaks Out. How Will Students Get News?

MiddleWeb

As Russia begins its invasion of Ukraine, many adults turn to the news to stay informed. Our students do too. Expert Frank Baker considers where kids get their news these days and shares resources to help them follow current events in an era of sensationalism and disinformation. The post War Breaks Out. How Will Students Get News? first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The best ways to monitor your school’s indoor air quality

eSchool News

COVID-19 ushered forth a plethora of new safety guidelines and strategies intended to bring students and teachers back to the classroom as safely as possible. Indoor air quality has topped the list of school leaders’ concerns. With students back in physical classrooms, air quality must take priority regardless of a district’s mask policy.

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Re-envisioning Teacher Responses to Burnout

MiddleWeb

The increase in teacher burnout started well before the pandemic, author Patricia Jennings writes in "Teacher Burnout Turnaround." Jennings’ strategies can help educators overcome and replace a worn-out education system, reading specialist and coach Ashley Falkos believes. The post Re-envisioning Teacher Responses to Burnout first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Hardin County Schools is Leading Kentucky’s Transition to Dynamic Digital Learning Experiences for Science Instruction Through New Partnership with Discovery Education

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, February 24, 2022) —Kentucky’s Hardin County Schools (HCS) is taking a leadership role within the state through an innovative new partnership supporting science instruction with dynamic digital resources. In collaboration with Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—HCS is integrating a suite of award-winning, flexible digital resources into teaching and learning across the dis

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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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Best Hardware for Teachers

techlearning

Find out which computers, monitors, webcams, headphones and other education technology hardware are best for your in-person or online classroom.

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Spectrum Industries Boosts Esports Solutions Lineup with the Game-Changing Alliance24 Laptop Gaming Cart

eSchool News

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – February 24, 2022 – Spectrum Industries, a leading esports furniture and charging cart manufacturer, has announced the release of their game-changing Alliance24 Laptop Gaming Cart. Created as a mobile esports home base for 24 athletes, the charging cart can store, charge and transport up to 24 headsets, mice and the largest gaming laptops on the market.

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Kialo Edu

Technology Tidbits

Kialo Edu is an excellent learning tool designed to facilitate classroom discussion and ignite critical thinking while providing platform for educators to make it easy to gauge student understanding and differentiate instruction. The way this works is through Kialo's online collaborative platform that creates an interactive tree that depicts pros and cons of a discussion/debate.

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5 steps to building a robust online CTE program

eSchool News

For more than 16 years, my goal has been to help students discover their passions and see their potential through career and technical education (CTE). From when I taught math and programming in a brick-and-mortar school, to creating and designing CTE courses, to teaching AP computer science and the foundations of programming at Florida Virtual School (FLVS), to now researching, developing, and maintaining the FLVS CTE program alongside my incredible colleagues, CTE has never been more important

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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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Difference Between the NCLEX RN & PN Exam

Brainscape

Registered nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) may have different roles and responsibilities within the clinical work environment but they both need to run the gauntlet of the National Council Licensure Examination or NCLEX before they can become employed. The question is: what IS the difference between the NCLEX RN and the PN exam? You’re in the perfect place to find out!

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BookWidgets

Technology Tidbits

BookWidgets is an excellent site for creating educational games/quizzes. BookWidgets is ideal looking for teachers to save time by having their educational games/quizzes automatically graded. This is all done in a user-friendly interface and educational portal that allows teachers to: track and monitor students in real-time. Best of all, BookWidgets makes it easy for educators to assess student learning and differentiate instruction through detailed reports/graphs.

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"Overcoming Self Sabotage - Changing the Story of Your Life" + Webinars and Workshops

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please consider joining us for one or more of our brand new series of affordable 'Survive and Thrive!' webinars, workshops, and summits, part of the LearningRevolution.com family: Library 2.0 , The Future of Education , ReinventingSchool.com , Classroom 2.0 , and TeacherLibrarian.org. More details below. AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS: HOW TO HANDLE DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS WITH PATRONS (LIBRARY 2.0) With Dr.

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Wizer

Technology Tidbits

Wizer is an interesting site for creating blended digital worksheets that I just found out about from Richard Byrne's award winning blog. Wizer lets educators create digital worksheets from scratch by through either a fill in the blank style or by labeling a object. A very nice feature is that a teacher can browse through a wide collection of worksheets already create it and then customize it for their own purpose.

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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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A Simple Drag & Drop Graphic Organizer – CirclyApp

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

CicrclyApp is a free drag-and-drop tool for visually representing concepts by creating circle-based graphic organizers. It’s a great tool for organizing ideas. Just make a circle, add some text, select color(s), and drag-and-drop to organize. There’s even an option to easily upload images to a circle. Plus, students can collaborate in real-time. Graphic Organizer Education.

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Type to Learn

Technology Tidbits

Type to Learn to is an excellent online Keyboarding program ideal for grades K-12. Type To Learn easily lets teachers teach integral Typing skills through game based learning. These games are integrated into 34 lessons that teach the basics from HomeRow to complicated keys such as numbers and other characters. Best of all, Type to Learn tracks WPM (words per minute) , assessing students in real-time and then differentiates instruction by adjusting the difficulty on how well the student is doing.

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Socrates

Technology Tidbits

Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more.

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Mobile Permissions Virtual Field Trips

Technology Tidbits

Mobile Permissions is the excellent free site the educators are using to easily send "digital" permission slips for FREE. Recently, they launched a new feature which lets educators send permission slips "on demand" which is ideal for when teachers need immediate permission of a parent/guardian and don't have time to wait for a form to be returned. Also, this is a perfect tool to use w/ Remote Learning due to the closures of school from the worldwide pandemic.

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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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Brush Ninja

Technology Tidbits

Brush Ninja is a super-fun site for creating customs animations, digital art, collages, and more. Also, Brush Ninja has an abundance of educator resources to help integrate Brush Ninja into the classroom. Educators are using BN in a wide variety of ways such as: digital storytelling, project based learning, "spicing" up a project, and much more. Best of all, Brush Ninja is free, easy-to-use, and requires no student registration making it CIPA compliant for the classroom.

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simpleshow video maker

Technology Tidbits

simpleshow video maker is the best online tool around for making explainer videos. These "simple shows" are very easy to create and can be used in education in a wide variety of ways, such as: digital storytelling, introducing a subject, project based learning, professional development, and much more. Best of all, simpleshow is very user friendly and lets educators/students seamlessly create engaging videos by just selecting a template, typing up a script (storyline) and simpleshow takes care of

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Projector Screen

Technology Tidbits

Projector Screen is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen Store by clicking here !!! *Projector Screen is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.