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TEACHER VOICE: With hands-on activities, my chemistry students are building cities of the future

The Hechinger Report

Over the 17 years I have taught high school chemistry, the challenges in education have become more acute — even before the pandemic we were scrambling to provide our students with meaningful instruction online and to find ways to get all our students to actively engage in learning. I teach at a public Title I school, where one-sixth of students identify as English Language Learners.

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How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Venn Diagrams are one of the most visual approaches to showing students the logical relationships between sets and connectivity of data. It uses overlapping circles to show the wholeness of data and then where they overlap other data sets. It’s easy to find templates for them–in MS Office, Google Apps, Canva, and more. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students: What is a Venn Diagram.

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Strong Teacher Retention Starts with Onboarding

Education Elements

During the next few weeks, districts and schools will begin the process of welcoming and onboarding their new teachers for the 22-23 school year. When done effectively, new teacher onboarding can allow new staff to gain clarity on their specific roles and feel welcomed into their school community.

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Times Have Changed. We Must Teach Children That Words Actually Do Hurt.

Edsurge

As a child, I was taught that sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. The truth is that society has changed. However, our mainstream education and societal training practices have not. The future of American society depends on our ability as parents, educators, edtech professionals and legislators to collaboratively teach our children that words actually do matter.

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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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What is Digital Literacy and How Can it be Assessed? | TAO

TAO

While educators are long accustomed to developing curricula around core subjects, digital literacy is as an area that must also be addressed.

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As Child Care Challenges Threaten the American Workforce, Business Leaders Call for Action

Edsurge

Many business leaders are asserting that a lack of child care solutions for American employees is a key business challenge that’s threatening the workforce and limiting U.S. businesses’ bottom line performance. Many are also taking action to address child care challenges at their organizations and nationally, after the pandemic brought greater attention and awareness to the issue.

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Two Universities Team Up to Stay Alive, But Stop Short of Merging

Edsurge

Colleges don’t like to think of themselves as businesses, but a growing number these days are facing the harsh reality of falling enrollments and a struggle to make their financial numbers add up. That has forced several institutions to merge in recent months. But two private universities are trying an unusual partnership approach that stops short of a merger while still aiming to restore financial health.

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New Leadership Takes the Reins at Discovery Education’s Social Impact Team

eSchool News

Silver Spring, MD. – Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—today announced new leadership for the company’s award-winning Social Impact Team. Amy Nakamoto has been promoted to General Manager of Social Impact and Jackie Smalls has been named Vice President of Social Impact Coalitions.

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Empowering Educators and Elevating Equity at ISTE 2022

MIND Research Institute

It was a homecoming of sorts this summer at the 2022 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference and Expo! If you've been reading our blog for a while, you might remember my first trip to ISTE back in 2019 when I took in the edtech landscape between viewing the Liberty Bell and chowing down on cheesesteaks. ISTE continues to be recognized globally as the most comprehensive educational technology conference in the world and this year, attracted over 16,500 participants fro

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Another example: Storytelling with Google Slides or Jamboard

SpeechTechie

I had great experience presenting live for SLP Summit yesterday! The people and responses were wonderful. My session will be available in its recorded form as will the other excellent presenters' until August 15. Register here , the conference is presenting more live sessions practically as we speak; CEUs for live/recorded sessions are available for a small fee.

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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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RedCritter Launches CritterCoin, the First EdTech Solution to Leverage NFTs

eSchool News

Lewisville, Tex. (July, 2022) — RedCritter , the powerhouse K–20 technology innovator, today introduced CritterCoin , a free Houses System with Rewards Store for implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in schools and classrooms. Available free of charge for students and teachers, CritterCoin was launched in early 2022 to help teachers tap into the power of positive encouragement for learners of all ages—without interrupting the flow of teaching or creating additional p

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Spending on School Security Tops $3 Billion, With Focus on New Surveillance and Tech

Marketplace K-12

In the wake of the recent school shootings in Uvalde, Texas, spending on school security is poised to grow, The post Spending on School Security Tops $3 Billion, With Focus on New Surveillance and Tech appeared first on Market Brief.

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YouScience Releases National Student Ability Report, Indicates Widening Gap Between Students Aptitudes and Workforce Needs

eSchool News

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , the leading student engagement platform that leverages data science to improve student success and bridge the divide between education and careers, today announced the release of a new national report, ” State of The Future U.S. Workforce: Student Ability Report.” The findings reveal that students have the aptitudes, or talent, to excel in today’s in-demand jobs, but often lack interest in these fields, in s

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Building SEL Support One Step at a Time

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. While school leaders are increasingly recognizing the need to integrate social-emotional learning into the school day, they’re still getting pushback from teachers and sometimes the community. With teachers already responsible for fitting many skills into a brief period of time, adding SEL doesn’t seem possible.

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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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AI is the key to scaling personalized, one-on-one instruction

eSchool News

K-12 school systems are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges today. . The pandemic has put students well behind in their education, with millions of children achieving below grade level in reading and math. The only way to accelerate their learning and get them back on track is to work with each child individually. Yet, at the same time, schools are facing a historic teacher shortage—and third-party tutoring services aren’t able to fill the tremendous need for one-on-one instruction.

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Using AI to Support Teacher Development (Longmont Leader)

Edthena

How is one of the most innovative school districts in the country supporting teacher development? With artificial intelligence. Recently featured in the Longmont Leader, St. Vrain Valley School District (CO) is one of the first districts in the nation that will use artificial intelligence-driven coaching to support teacher professional development this upcoming school year.

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Edtech best practices

eSchool News

In this episode of Innovations in Education , sponsored by Galaxy Next Generation, host Kevin Hogan explores: AI education is critical for an equitable tomorrow Are you tackling the durable skills challenge? Heroes at Work: Navajo Prep goes all-in on internet access during pandemic learning.

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Jamf Teacher app gets usability enhancements and new features

Jamf on EdTech

The newest versions of the Jamf Teacher app for both macOS and iPadOS make it easier for educators to use and add new functionality for accessibility, classroom teaching and learning workflows as well as remote learning.

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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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Best Multi-Tiered System of Support Resources

techlearning

Find out how to use MTSS to support student learning and development.

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State of School Safety Report Reveals Students Want More Social and Emotional Support and Increased Safety

eSchool News

NEWTOWN, CT, July 25, 2022 – A national survey and report released by Safe and Sound Schools with Raptor Technologies and Lightspeed Systems ® surveyed school leaders, public safety, mental health, teachers, parents, and students identifying gaps in feelings and perceptions about school safety, in particular with students. In general, most groups feel schools are safe.

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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

Neo LMS

How to spot fake news ? These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. It is not as simple as that, though. Other words like misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, satire, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories also describe something very similar and have been around for much longer. They do not, however, convey that snappy dismissive air conjured by the words “fake news.

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