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AI-Powered Content Filtering Adds New Protection Powers

EdTech Magazine

Schools are responsible for protecting students from harmful internet content, which requires K–12 IT teams to figure out how to keep the bad out and let through only material that is safe and educational. But past efforts have often fallen short. The internet is constantly evolving and adding content, and students are notoriously ingenious at subverting content filtering measures.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Do you need safe, fun ways for students to connect and learn while keeping their distance in the classroom? Augmented reality apps might be for you! Remarkably, there are best practices you can use to teach math, ELA, and more using Augmented Reality. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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Students Find Missing Work in Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

Students can find all of their missing work for all of their classes in Google Classroom. The post Students Find Missing Work in Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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4 ways to transform college admissions

eSchool News

The lasting impact of the pandemic on higher education is undeniable. The number of high school graduates going straight to college decreased by 22 percent this fall , and higher ed lost about 400,000 students in the US. An upside to the challenges of the pandemic is the catalyst for change, and the ability to innovate and update long-standing processes.

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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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Help Students Build Professional Resumes with This Powerful Tool

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

CV2you is an online resume builder I discovered through Christina Yeh. I have been experimenting with it for awhile now and found it really interesting. CV2you allows you to create visually appealing.

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Boost Literacy Learning with Podcasts Kids Love

MiddleWeb

Similar to the benefits of class read-alouds and independent reading, podcasts can be incorporated as a way to increase students' understanding of stories and information, with kids often making “text to self” connections. Kathie Palmieri includes sources and favorites. The post Boost Literacy Learning with Podcasts Kids Love first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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New Innovative SEL Tool from Aperture Education helps High School Students Build Skills for College and Career

eSchool News

The Aperture Student Portal includes gamified goal-setting and SEL self-assessments offering a research-backed approach to understanding students’ needs. Goal-setting and having a voice in their own learning are powerful motivators for students, especially those in high school. To help educators use these strategies to support social and emotional learning (SEL), Aperture Education has created the Aperture Student Portal for high school students, an online platform that gives students access to

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How to Autofit Text in Google Slides

Shake Up Learning

The post How to Autofit Text in Google Slides appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Here’s a great little feature in Google Slides! Do you ever get frustrated resizing your text to fit it in a textbox or shape in Google Slides? Now, you can let Slides autofit the text for you! The font size will slowly decrease to fit the text in the box. You can also have the shape size change to fit the text.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Teaching Strategies Bolsters SEL, Early Literacy Portfolios With Two Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12

Teaching Strategies, a major early childhood education provider, has snapped up organizations focused on SEL and literacy, while Renaissance acquired an early literacy company of its own. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Teaching Strategies Bolsters SEL, Early Literacy Portfolios With Two Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief.

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How using data during COVID becomes more important than ever

eSchool News

For Matt Reynolds, Assessment and Data Officer for the 64,000+ students that attend Douglas County School District in Colorado, running the usual assessment numbers was obviously useless last year. That doesn’t mean that data collection was not an essential part of district operations. Quite the contrary in fact. In this conversation with eSchool News , Matts talks about how they are supporting student learning during this time, as well as helping educators engage students and drive instruction.

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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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Six Strategies to Help You Focus Better

MindShift

Getting and staying focused can be a challenge in the best of times. But with everything going on in the world, concentrating can often feel down-right impossible. Testament to that challenge is the burgeoning self-help industry bursting with books, blogs, videos and TED Talks on the topic. There’s even a site called Caveday where the focus-challenged gather together on Zoom — computer cameras switched on for accountability, all other technology put away — for deep-focus work sessions.

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vFairs Offers Immersive Virtual Graduations to Schools and Colleges

eSchool News

Graduation season is rapidly approaching, and continued restrictions against social gatherings to combat the coronavirus are still in effect in much of the country. vFairs, the leading platform for hybrid and virtual events, is offering immersive, customizable virtual graduation ceremonies to schools, colleges and universities, including features such as creating a virtual campus setting and 3D modeling to make the experience truly memorable.

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Homeschooling Doubled During The Pandemic, U.S. Census Survey Finds

MindShift

In a year when so much about schooling has changed, add this to the list: A significant increase in the number of households where students were homeschooled. That’s according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, an online survey that asks questions about how the pandemic is changing life in U.S. homes. When the survey began, the week of April 23-May 5, 2020, 5.4% of U.S. households with school-aged children reported homeschooling.

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College Credit Classes in Remote Teaching/Blended Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. They include all the ebooks, videos, and other resources required so you don’t spend any more than what is required to register for the class. Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting.

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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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Colleges are withholding transcripts and degrees from millions over unpaid bills

The Hechinger Report

BOSTON — Gabriel Toro choked up behind his mask as he described the lengths it took him to complete his bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Boston. This story also appeared in GBH News. Estranged from his parents and briefly homeless, he took out $50,000 in federal loans. He worked as a mental health counselor, a busboy in a bar, a team member at a Whole Foods and a cashier on the night shift at a diner while juggling a full slate of courses.

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How Much Does the U.S. Spend on Edtech? No One Knows, and That’s a Problem

Edsurge

The U.S. edtech industry is massive. By our estimate, startups and companies raised upward of $2.2 billion in 2020 alone. Yet, curiously, the amount districts, states and the federal government spend on these products each year is something of an unknown variable. According to a new analysis published this week by the Edtech Evidence Exchange, a nonprofit organization based out of the University of Virginia, the total figure is also in the billions—perhaps between $26 and $41 billion a year.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper beats pixels on most picture books, research finds

The Hechinger Report

A meta-analysis of 39 studies of children’s picture books finds that children score better on comprehension tests after reading a paper book than after reading a digital book. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. Digital picture books have been a godsend during the pandemic. With libraries shuttered and bookstores a nonessential trip, many parents have downloaded book after book on tablets and smartphones to keep their little ones reading.

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Internet Safety Tips for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is an infographic we created based on content from Google's Be Internet Awesome and more specifically from the section titled Be Internet Alert. All we did was that we took that content and.

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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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Bringing Race to the Forefront in Schools

edWeb.net

By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. School systems, school buildings and classroom leaders have the opportunity to model methods to promote racial justice. The approaches will vary, from courageous conversations in the classroom to inclusive, student-centered school design. Whatever the strategy, strengthening racial awareness and equity in education, emphasized educators in the recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by Classroom Champions and ClassLink , mus

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