Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
On Feb. 2, 2022, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the pure joy of oral reading with kids of all ages. Created by LitWorld , past years have found over 1 million people in 100 countries joining together to enjoy the power and wonder of reading aloud in groups or individually, at school or home, and discovering what it means to listen to a story told through the voice of another.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Many K–12 districts are not using data analytics tools, which is not to say they shouldn’t be. Good data analytics solutions don’t simply churn out data for IT leaders to analyze and interpret, they give IT administrators visibility into their systems. This visibility can provide schools with the necessary information for government funding audits, help them manage licenses and devices, and show potential vulnerabilities in their networks.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
This fall, students and staff at close to 200 public schools in Wake County, N.C., which includes Raleigh, received an unexpected break. Schools were closed on November 12 for a “ day of reflection and preparation.” That same day, schools in Cumberland County, N.C., about 60 miles south, had the day off for “Wellness Friday.” As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spread around the country, school districts in hard-hit regions of the country gave students and educators a chance to catch their breath.
Hapara
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
K-12 schools and districts are turning to digital textbooks for in-person, hybrid and remote learning. While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. These open textbooks are free for schools and districts to use and distribute. Where can you find these free digital textbooks? Here are the best sources for digital textbooks you can use in K-12 grade levels.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Kodable helps kids learn coding through interactive games and self-guided activities. No prior coding knowledge is required, students start from beginner level and work their way up to advanced.read more.
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
When it comes to providing technology for their students, teachers have dipped into their own pockets to pay for everything from lessons to apps to devices, an EdWeek Market Brief survey finds. The post Teachers Are Paying For Ed Tech out of Their Own Pockets, Survey Finds appeared first on Market Brief.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. The first part of the study, released in 2015, showed slightly negative effects on the academic performance of pre-K graduates by the end of third grade.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Returning to school after winter break brings with it a variety of emotions–excitement, anticipation, and hesitation prompted by concerns around potential COVID-19 outbreaks. And because schools may move to hybrid or virtual learning despite starting in person, digital learning tools that work in the physical or virtual classroom can prove invaluable.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
I have a scar on my forehead. It sits about an inch above the bridge of my nose, and about the same distance from my hairline. It’s dead center of my forehead, as if someone carefully placed it. It seems intentional. I jokingly call it my “third eye” and I am told that it gives me character, makes my face memorable, makes me instantly recognizable in a crowd.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Silver Spring, MD (Tuesday, February 2, 2022) — The STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders?and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – is connecting students to a curated collection of dynamic careers content celebrating Black leaders in STEM during Black History Month and beyond. The array of on-demand resources and an engaging event both introduce and deepen students’ connections to STEM through real-world content.
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.
techlearning
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
At a recent Tech & Learning roundtable, education experts discussed the findings of a new OECD report on social and emotional learning in global students.
MiddleWeb
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Using Google Sheets is an efficient way to keep track of student data and meet other progress monitoring needs, writes NBCT Kathleen Palmieri. Once the initial set up is completed, you’ll find many uses for this quick data check that justify your time investment. Here's how! The post Using Google Sheets to Track Student Data first appeared on MiddleWeb.
PlagiarismCheck
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
When to use Fingerprint? Fingerprint will be helpful in checking students’ works with suspiciously low similarity percentages, especially if you feel that the style of the paper is somewhat off. For example, the document you can see below has a 0% similarity score, but what if the phrasing is very different from what you would typically expect from this student?
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures. Most colleges just aren’t changing fast enough, the theory goes, and many are risking extinction. But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture.
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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