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5 Hidden Building Blocks for a Successful Scholastic Esports Program

EdTech Magazine

In education, people are accustomed to building out and supporting instructional programs, athletic teams or standard extracurricular activities, but they often struggle when something new comes along. If there’s a new set of standards for math and we have to revamp our program, there are steps we know to follow.

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Lesson Plan: Online Art Sites

Ask a Tech Teacher

Lots of kids think technology is technical, another word for complicated/difficult/math-like. Here are six websites students can visit that will change their minds: Note: Mr. Picasso Head is no longer available. Click image to enlarge if it’s blurry. –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Here are more online art websites: BigHuge Labs.

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CDW Acquires Leading Cybersecurity Firm

EdTech Magazine

CDW announced last month that it had acquired Focal Point Data Risk, a leading U.S.-based cybersecurity services firm that specializes in cyberstrategy, governance, risk and compliance, development and data privacy services. The company, which has managed the unique challenges of protecting data within school districts, also has expertise in identity and access management, cloud security and digital transformation.

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Chrome: Show Warning Before Quitting

Teacher Tech

Do not accidentally close your Chrome. Change the settings to give you a warning. The post Chrome: Show Warning Before Quitting appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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Time for Kids Offers Educational Reading Resources to Use in Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Time for Kids is an online platform owned by TIME that provides educational reading materials tailored for young learners. You can use these materials with your students in class to engage them in.read more.

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6 female tech leaders offer advice for women in STEM

eSchool News

It’s common knowledge that engaging–and retaining–girls and women in STEM classes, STEM degrees, and STEM careers is an ongoing challenge. Some key elements in this equation are representation, along with ensuring girls and women have role models to support them in their STEM learning and career paths. The pandemic has prompted many workers to change their career paths, and many STEM sectors like cybersecurity struggle with talent shortages.

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Student Voices: 4 Ways to Amplify at Your School

techlearning

A recent online summit brought students together to teach educators to promote equity in part by listening to their students.

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It’s beyond time to showcase all postsecondary education paths

eSchool News

COVID-19 has caused a marked shift in attitudes toward higher education, particularly among high school students who are rethinking their options as they look ahead to a future career path that remains in flux due to the pandemic’s impact on the workforce and economy. While exacerbated over the past year, this was a trend we were seeing in the United States even before our nation went under lockdown.

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Tuition freezes cool prices for some while affecting financial aid

The Hechinger Report

In July the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin convened to finalize the budget for the 2021-22 academic year. The Covid-19 pandemic had walloped the system, leading to a net loss of nearly $170 million as of spring 2021. Weeks before, a new state budget had freed the regents to let tuition rise for the first time in nearly a decade. State experts thought the system risked falling further behind.

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Teaching on Laptops and Digital Whiteboard Might Not Be as Different as You Think. 

myViewBoard

The pandemic influences our life in all aspects. Most teachers and students stay at home and conduct distance learning. Teachers are worried about student engagement and interaction online. Meanwhile, students find themselves hard to adapt to online learning, and learning outcomes drop significantly. A lose-lose situation is never what we want to see.

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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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An Appalachian county kept school Covid cases down with strong community partnerships

The Hechinger Report

It’s difficult to get good internet access in Garrett County, Maryland. The county lies in the Appalachian Mountains, full of peaks and ridges, trees and rivers. This geography blocks signals and slows internet speeds, even for Garrett County residents who do have a router at home. And the county’s southern edge meets the National Radio Quiet Zone , where cell and internet service is restricted in order to preserve data collection for West Virginia’s Green Bank Telescope.

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How to Secure Online Examination With Remote Proctoring & Preventing Cheating?

Think Exam

In the outgoing pandemic, examination centers are shut down. Many institutes are relying on online examinations to continue the teaching process. There is a huge demand for online visibility in the current scenario. Test centers are looking for organizations that can eliminate the problem of conducting exams manually.

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How the AIDS epidemic prepared a small town to combat Covid

The Hechinger Report

In 2015, Austin, Indiana was hit with a deadly epidemic: HIV/AIDS. This city, then over 4,000 people, saw over 200 HIV cases in about a year during its outbreak, which one health reporter called “the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever to hit rural America.”. This story also appeared in COVID-19 Data Dispatch. So when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the small city was prepared to respond.

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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

Edsurge

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. have received billions of dollars in combined donations and gifts from private companies and individuals. Verizon has committed over $3 billion to help schools pay for technology, hoping “to leave no student behind.” Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, gave $10 million to a single school district in California, aimed at closing digital disparities.

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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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Relying on personal responsibility to prevent Covid spread in schools

The Hechinger Report

On July 28, 2020, before the start of fall extracurriculars, Andrews Independent School District held a town hall in the high school auditorium. Parents and community members came from across the county to grill the district administrators on their reopening plans. While some parents wanted the details on safety measures, others were more concerned about their individual freedoms.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Follett Sells K-12 Software and Content Division to Global Investment Firm

Marketplace K-12

Follett's K-12 content and software division is being sold to Francisco Partners, and U.S. regulators have approved the merger of game-based learning platform Kahoot! with single-sign-on provider Clever. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Follett Sells K-12 Software and Content Division to Global Investment Firm appeared first on Market Brief.

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Getting educated while on active duty is getting harder as military rolls back benefits

The Hechinger Report

Prepping for a deployment in the Sea of Japan that would leave them with some downtime, Sam Brenner encouraged the U.S. Marines under his command to take advantage of an online college education program made available to active-duty service members. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The Pentagon promises soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen tuition money to take college courses while they’re serving, giving them a head start on credits they can use to rise up the ranks in the mil

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6 Strategies To Make Classrooms Safer As The Delta Variant Spreads

MindShift

It’s the kind of news story that keeps parents of school-age children up at night: Kids go to school, dutifully wear masks, and still half the class ends up infected with the coronavirus. That’s what happened this past spring at an elementary school in Marin County, Calif. The school seemed to be taking all the right precautions against COVID-19 transmission.

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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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Why is the attorney general of New York state suing college students?

The Hechinger Report

Amanda Belony was rushing to work when she saw a fat yellow envelope sitting on her kitchen table. She opened it and immediately noticed the New York attorney general’s official seal sitting ominously at the top of the page. The state had filed a lawsuit against her for unpaid college tuition. This story also appeared in The New York Times. Belony had registered for classes at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in the spring of 2016, when she was 21, but she’d had severe health prob

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