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Is Dated Technology Contributing to the Great Teacher Resignation?

EdTech Magazine

Could upgrading the technology teachers use every day in their classrooms help make their work easier — and stem the tide of educators leaving school districts? According to some educational technology experts, it certainly can’t hurt. At Bay District Schools in Panama City, Fla., Rhonda Sumpter is on a mission to improve technology in support of teachers.

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3 ways edtech benefits from learning sciences research

eSchool News

A new report on the value of research in edtech design offers a critical and detailed look at how learners and products alike can benefit from research-infused design. An Overlooked Indicator of Edtech Quality: The Use of Learning Sciences Research , from Digital Promise, highlights how edtech products see learning sciences research as a beneficial, and even vital, part of their operation.

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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The harsh reality of classroom life is that students and teachers both report lower motivation and morale right now. We must reengage students! Games can help us! SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Today’s expert, Dr. Matthew Farber , gives us an interesting twist on games by integrating them with SEL.

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10 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes: Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. Physical Education St. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com. Resources for St. Pat’s Day from Education.com by grade and subject.

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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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Equipping Teachers for a Flexible Future

EdTech Magazine

School administrators and teachers face many questions as they plan for the fast-approaching 2022-2023 school year. After more than two years of teaching under pandemic conditions, what can we expect for next school year? Will we need to plan for teaching students remotely? Will supply chain issues continue to snarl procurement of resources — especially classroom technology needs?

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Bulk Send Missing Assignments List for Google Classroom

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

For Google Classroom you can bulk send missing assignments using Schoolytics.com. This is free for teachers and a huge time saver! The post Bulk Send Missing Assignments List for Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Best English Language Learning Websites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Learning a new language is absolutely a challenging but rewarding feat. With the widespread of web and mobile technologies, language learning has become way easier and accessible. You can now learn.read more.

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7 Mindsets Acquires Lessons For SEL

eSchool News

ROSWELL, Ga. – March 16, 2022 – 7 Mindsets, the leader in online Pre-K-12 social-emotional learning (SEL) programs, announced the acquisition of Lessons For SEL, a cloud-based solution featuring a streaming platform of video lessons and SEL content. The acquisition will allow 7 Mindsets to broaden their comprehensive program to include Lessons For SEL’s trademark 6 Minute SEL lessons, SELTV, and the popular SEL Video of the Week, among other assets.

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How Technology Changed Teaching And Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Challenges with privacy, cost, and using new tools in old learning models can make things worse for teachers and students, not better. The post How Technology Changed Teaching And Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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FEV Tutor’s Personalized High-Impact Tutoring is Now Available to Over 5 Million Students

eSchool News

WOBURN, Mass. – March 16, 2022 – FEV Tutor, the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, today announced that its personalized high-impact tutoring program is now used by more than 400 districts with nearly 5 million students in aggregate. The company is projecting a 200% growth in the number of tutoring sessions delivered from 2021 to 2022.

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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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How Do I Create A YouTube Channel?

techlearning

If you want to create a YouTube channel for your class, this is everything you need to know.

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Aperture Education CEO Jessica Adamson Named Board Treasurer of SEL Providers Association

eSchool News

Charlotte N.C. (March 16, 2022) — The SEL Providers Association (SELPA) has named Aperture Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Jessica Adamson, to its board, serving in the role of treasurer for the organization. This will be Adamson’s second year supporting SELPA, which was previously known as the SEL Providers Council. Aperture was also a founding member of the organization.

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5 essential strategies to truly engage English Language Learners

The Cornerstone for Teachers

If you have English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom and are wondering how to best support them, you’re in the right place! You can help better keep ELLs engaged in classroom conversations when you prepare them with these simple scaffolds. This doesn’t take a lot of planning but it takes the initial step to analyze your teaching and where you can incorporate these ideas!

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Riverside Insights Joins Forces with Renzulli Learning to Foster Instructional Equity through Engagement

eSchool News

ITASCA, Ill. – March 16, 2022 – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today announced a new partnership with Renzulli Learning, an interactive online system for whole school enrichment that provides students with personalized learning resources based on their unique interests and learning preferences.

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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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From Ed to Edtech or in Pursuit of It

RafranzDavis.com

When I landed my first interview and then the rounds that followed, I was confident that my next role, post k-12, would be writing curriculum for a coding app company…until I submitted what I thought was a great final round project and it obviously fell flat. I think that I allowed myself to feel upset for a few hours and then I got up and kept searching.

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Enticing Students with New Writing Challenges

MiddleWeb

Although the writing challenges Writing Workshop co-developer Shelley Harwayne designs aim to be rigorous, she tries to make sure there’s an element of joy attached. “When assignments are enticing and engaging, it becomes rather easy for students to do what they’re asked.”. The post Enticing Students with New Writing Challenges first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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VIZOR certified as Google for Education partner

Vizor

VIZOR is proud to announce its new certified partnership with Google for Education, giving K12 school districts the ability to more easily manage their Chromebook fleet. VIZOR is a Chromebook management solution designed specifically for schools and districts, offering a central location for complete Chromebook management. VIZOR utilizes Googles official API to provide seamless bi-directional synchronization of Chromebook data with the Google Admin console.

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Dangerous Situations in the Library: Handling Real Challenges and Keeping Everyone Safe

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

"Dangerous Situations: Handling Real Challenges and Keeping Everyone Safe" Part of the Library 2.0 "Essential Librarian" Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0 and hosted by ALA author and library service, safety, and security expert, Dr. Steve Albrecht. Sometimes library employees are faced with a situation that goes beyond awkward or difficult and is potentially, or actually, dangerous.

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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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I’m a Teacher, Will Artificial Intelligence Help Me?

Digital Promise

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more prevalent everywhere, including in education spaces. Educators may sometimes wonder, “What is AI?” and, “What can AI do?” Let’s address these questions and then discuss why and how YOU should be involved! What is AI and What Can it Do for Teachers? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that lets machines make decisions and predictions.

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How to Maintain Motivation in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Blog post by Stacey Pusey based on this edLeader Panel. Maintaining motivation, especially when facing extreme adversity, is crucial in every occupation. But when teachers are already looking forward to the end of the school year in December, they need additional resources to help them feel inspired and ready to tackle classroom challenges. In the edLeader Panel, “ ‘March Tired’ Already: Maintaining Mental Motivation with Paralympic Medalist Deja Young ,” Young, along wit

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Savvas Delivers New Summer Solutions for Math and Literacy to Move Learning Forward

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — March 16, 2022 — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, launched today several new summer learning solutions to support school districts in addressing unfinished learning in math and literacy. The curated, easy-to-implement instructional materials, combined with state-of-the-art screener and diagnostic assessment tools, are designed to help move learning forward for all students.

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Data GIF Maker: Tell Stories with Your Data

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

Data GIF Maker Designed to help journalists tell stories with data, Data Gif Maker is a quick and easy way to make animated data visualizations. It doesn’t have many features; however, its simplicity makes it perfect for many situations where you’re only comparing data between a few items. Choose Your Template Choose from one of. Read more. The post Data GIF Maker: Tell Stories with Your Data appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.