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3 Cybersecurity Resolutions for K–12 School Districts

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez As the new year approaches, users and IT teams should focus on developing better security habits.

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Four Steps to Better Decision Making

Edsurge

While decision making engages many different centers of the brain and starts a chain of events long before we become conscious of it, there are things we can do which can make a significant impact on how the decision-making process inside our head, works.

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5 Features of Google Keep

Teacher Tech

5 Features of Google Keep Google Keep is like digital Post-it notes but better! I highly recommend you switch from the notes app on your phone to using Google Keep. Because Keep is by Google you can access your notes easily on almost any device. Use the Google Keep app on your mobile device and […]. The post 5 Features of Google Keep appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How an R&D Mindset Brought Teachers and School Leaders Closer Than Ever

Edsurge

Great. Another bogus professional development day with a guest speaker, a workshop, and a 50/50 chance that the lessons and/or message of the day will find its way into a classroom for any length of time. Chances are, we’ve all sat through professional development exercises and wondered where the relevance for our own practice was. Sit-and-get PD rarely engages our interests and, at best, only temporarily sparks inspiration.

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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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Top Education Foundations Supporting K-12 Schools Score Record Funding, Report Says

Marketplace K-12

Florida and Texas are home to some of the highest-performing local education foundations, which raise funds for specific school districts to meet student and teacher needs. The post Top Education Foundations Supporting K-12 Schools Score Record Funding, Report Says appeared first on Market Brief.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin for tuition payments, a move that seemed more of a PR stunt than the start of some new movement. Much has changed since then, including the value of Bitcoin itself, which skyrocketed to more than $19,000 earlier this month, catapulting cryptocurrencies into the mainstream.

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?Online Communication Will Open New Doors For Community in 2018

Edsurge

As citizens in an increasingly wired world, we frequently hear about the adverse impact of technology in everything from eroding our attention span to fueling the dissemination of fake news. But despite these dire warnings, it is important to acknowledge that technology has had a positive effect in at least one arena: building community. In 2017, there has been an emergence of online communication tools connecting users online from across the globe.

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SelfCAD’s Top Ten Things Teachers Should Know About 3D Printing

EmergingEdTech

Many teachers feel a little apprehensive about incorporating 3D printing into their programs. We hope to dissolve some of this apprehension by sharing with you our top ten things teachers should know. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Deeper Collaboration Is the Answer to Higher Ed’s Challenges

Edsurge

We’re closer to the next recession than we are the last, a higher ed official recently reminded me. Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them. But the prospects for 2018 are not looking so great. This month, the credit-rating agency Moody’s Investors Service changed its outlook for higher ed from “stable” to “negative.

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Top 10 Gaggle Speaks Blog Posts from 2017

Gaggle Speaks

Before you ring in the new year, we’ve compiled this list of top blog posts based on traffic to the Gaggle Speaks Blog and the number of shares each post received. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out the top Gaggle Speaks posts from this past year. What the New Features in Google Vault Mean to K-12 Administrators. Google has released some new Vault features that likely caught the eye of K-12 technology directors and email administrators.

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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 to Purchase Wi-Fi: 2 CAPEX Challenges and How to Solve Them

SecurEdge

No matter what industry you’re in today, you really have to provide wireless, one way or the other. As more and more applications move to the cloud, and more of your employees and guests are bringing mobile devices on to your network and expecting a fast, secure experience, Wi-Fi is now essential to your business. If your network goes down, your business goes down—it’s that simple.

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Facilitate Smooth Business Operation By Getting Custom Software Development Service

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Just as an entrepreneur has his or her own personality, the business he or she builds usually follows the same. A thriving business is a living entity. Like its human founder, it has a specific set of needs that is unique to itself, at every stage of its life cycle. Even though these needs may evolve and change over time, and at a rate that is dependent on many variables, the most important thing is to provide a supportive atmosphere for this business to grow by ensuring its needs are met. .

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Your International Recruitment Agency Might Be Next Door

MiddleWeb

Demographics are pointing toward a continued global talent shortage. Experts are predicting a greater need for employers to consider hiring internationally and opening their minds to foreign staffing options for hard to locate talent. These shortages are going to become obvious in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) areas before other executive/professional talent segments experience shortages.

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TED Talks for Teachers 2017

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

TED Talks for Teachers 2017 It’s hard to believe that this is my 5th annual collection of TED Talks for teachers. Every year it’s increasingly difficult to narrow the list to just five TED Talks. In addition to new TED Talks showing up each year, I’m always discovering older talks that catch my attention. This. Read more. The post TED Talks for Teachers 2017 appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.

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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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SETDA Highlights from 2017

SETDA Says

2017 was a great year for state leadership for educational technology. SETDA engaged members, affiliates, private sector partners, and partner organizations around federal and state advocacy efforts and provided national leadership for broadband, digital instructional materials, and data interoperability. Below are highlights from the work of 2017. Advocacy With a new federal administration in 2017, […].

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New Media Consortium, Nonprofit Voice on Ed-Tech, Abruptly Closes

Marketplace K-12

The consortium, known for publishing the "Horizon Report" with predictions about ed-tech, is preparing to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy to liquidate its holdings. The post New Media Consortium, Nonprofit Voice on Ed-Tech, Abruptly Closes appeared first on Market Brief.

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What Is COPPA?

Graphite Blog

The Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act, more commonly known as COPPA, is a law dealing with how websites, apps, and other online operators collect data and personal information about kids under the age of 13. COPPA basically says -- among other things -- that tech companies making apps, websites, and online tools for kids under 13 must: Have a “clear and comprehensive” privacy policy.

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My Top 5 Posts from 2017

The Principal of Change

One thing that I have learned about blogging is that it is a beautiful way to see your growth over time. Bill Ferriter , both a friend and a colleague I look up to, recently wrote a post titled, “ Maybe There IS Some Value in Graphic Novels? “, Where he shows a change in attitude toward a practice in education where he once shared an opposite viewpoint.

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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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Congress Delivers on Promised Tax Reform Christmas Gift

eSchool News

The tax reform bill reduces the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent and restructures tax brackets for all wage earners.

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Top 10 Informz Blog Posts from 2017

The Principal of Change

Over the 2017 calendar year, we published 125 awesome blog posts across the spectrum of marketing automation topics. As we start a new year, let's take a look back at the top 10 most popular posts. 10. How to Build an Easy Engagement Scoring Model that Works. Engagement scoring is a great way to keep tabs on your members' interests and interactions with your association.

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What’s In? What’s Out? And What’s Likely? Decoding Higher Ed Act Reauthorization

Edsurge

On December 12, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took its first meaningful steps toward reauthorizing the Higher Education Act since 2008. Dubbed the PROSPER Act (Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform), their opening bid includes provisions that have significant implications for the education industry, as well as issues of access and equity in higher education, such as a proposed elimination of the 90/10 rule, granting for-profit instituti