Fri.Nov 11, 2022

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Making Sense of Web 3.0 in Education

EdTechTeacher

Post by Tom Daccord. “Web 3.0” has been the center of much discussion this year. Advocates believe that Web 3.0 will unleash a radical and beneficial transformation of the Internet. Detractors claim that Web 3.0 is little more than a buzzword for marketing purposes. The following Q&A aims to introduce EdTechTeacher readers to Web 3.0 and outline how it may affect education.

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Q&A: Chief Diversity Officer Plans to Build Equity into Education with Tech

EdTech Magazine

Stepping into GoGuardian’s newly created chief diversity officer position, Dionna Smith plans to tackle diversity, equity and inclusion both inside the company and externally. Conscious of the ways technology has, in the past, provided barriers to equity, Smith aims to turn the tables. She shared with EdTech her vision for educational technology that opens doors for historically marginalized groups.

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Take My Crutches. Please

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A 17-year-old high-school student recently walked into a high-stakes test without the accommodations that he had received for years. This was not an arbitrary administrative decision; it was his choice. “All my life,” he said, “they have been giving me everything modified, adapted or adjusted. In 10th grade, I realized that none of those crutches would be available in the real world.

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How edtech is embedded in Society 5.0

eSchool News

The pandemic saw countless education institutes scramble in a bid to offer remote learning, which just highlighted how ill-prepared they were for future learning. But in this transition, we also learned something vital: Edtech learning helps to level the playing field for those who are unable to join regular classes due to location, illness, or financial constraints.

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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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From TTHWADI to HLLC, thanks in part to NBPNSPP: All to benefit TTTWCS

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik It is hard to believe this school year is almost half over. It feels as though it is literally flying by. After next week, we have Thanksgiving week. And then two more weeks after that, we pull out for the holidays and say goodbye to 2022 (we hardly knew ye). The next stop is part two of our school year in January 2023. Huh? What? 2023?

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Social-Emotional Learning as a Proactive Strategy for Curbing School Violence

Marketplace K-12

Mental health counseling and support for struggling, isolated students is a strategy for averting acts of violence in schools, says Sara Potler LaHayne. The post Social-Emotional Learning as a Proactive Strategy for Curbing School Violence appeared first on Market Brief.

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4 tips for online learning success in schools

eSchool News

Our school has been using online learning since the mid-1990s when we became one of the first to sign up for VHS Learning. Since then, we’ve expanded our use of the program and involved more students. Here are four tips for success that I’ve learned along the way, and that other schools can use to get the most out of their online learning partners: 1.

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Video: Panel Discussion Focusing on the Elements of Success

EdNews Daily

If you are familiar with the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposia, you know that it consists of a region’s best and brightest education leaders coming together for some of the nation’s top solutions-oriented professional development. These symposia follow a fairly standard schedule, packing a couple days’ worth of learning into one action-packed day.

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Some Schools Use 2,000 Apps. Here’s How One District Protects Data Privacy

techlearning

Data privacy is a priority at Lafayette Public Schools. Jim Farmer, the chief technology officer, discusses how the district made that happen.

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5 Best Ways to Make Money Teaching Yoga Online in 2022

Sell Courses Online

If you’re a yoga studio owner or teach yoga in person, you might be thinking of creating an online business … 5 Best Ways to Make Money Teaching Yoga Online in 2022 Read More ?.

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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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Book Creator Templates (including Thanksgiving!)

SpeechTechie

Book Creator has long been a stellar app / webtool and recently I discovered that they have templates to "remix." You can add templates to your app and do a collaborative work on your iPad among students, or if in a Chromebook environment your free account will allow you to share with students' Google accounts easily. This is an attractive option because, well, they are attractive and you don't have to design the book yourself.

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Bounce Episode: Macbeth from Play on Podcast

The Thinking Stick

Play On Podcasts — epic audio adventures that reimagine Shakespeare’s timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of award-winning actors. Each episode explores plays from Macbeth to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in a way that you can actually understand, created specifically for the podcast form by some of America’s most exciting playwrights, directors, and composers, and performed by stage and screen’s best.

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Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster ‘Digital Equity’ in Communities?

Edsurge

The community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, is home to two Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unsurprisingly, these institutions—Claflin University and South Carolina State University—make the internet available to their students and faculty. In fact, earlier this year, the latter institution installed a brand-new, very zippy system. But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where C

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5 Ways for Rural Schools to Get the Most out of a Districtwide Communications Platform

EdNews Daily

By Stephanie Hinds Our rural school district operates from a single campus, but that doesn’t make school-home communications any easier. With 1,500 students across grades K-12, we were previously using a blend of different tools to sync up our teachers, students, and families. The selection included a host of other apps that teachers would discover on their own and begin implementing.

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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.