Digital Promise

JUNE 7, 2021

The Inclusive Innovation for Adolescent Writing project brings together students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members to explore and tackle secondary writing challenges. We spoke to Ricky Echanove and Sarai Juarez, two Sunnyside High School students from Sunnyside School District in Pima County, Arizona, about their experience on the project team so far, and why they believe more students should be at the table where decisions are being made about education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know that both you and your husband have podcasts and that you love not only producing them, but consuming them. Do you use podcasts in your teaching, too? — From an adjunct looking to expand my use of podcasts beyond my own listening Podcasting is an incredibly powerful and intimate medium.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Tennessee’s small-class experiment produced strong academic gains in the 1980s but that success has rarely been replicated. Credit: Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report. Cutting class size appears to be increasingly popular as school districts figure out how to spend their $190 billion in federal money for coronavirus relief, according to media reports

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. When higher ed leaders woke up during the pandemic, they went to their digital cupboard and found it was bare.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

Math. Social studies. Science. There’s no shortage of important topics the U.S. education system imparts on our youth. And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the classroom: Executive functioning. . Executive functioning is the management system of the brain — it refers to how well students pay attention, organize and prioritize, stay focused on tasks through completion, regulate their emotions, and keep track of the things they are doing.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 7, 2021

Over the last few months we reviewed some excellent free Adobe apps teachers can use in their instruction namely Adobe Spark Video (for creating videos) and Adobe Spark Post (for creating beautiful.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 7, 2021

As a Google Drive user, you are automatically given 16 GB storage space for free. This storage space is shared across three services: Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Drive. Anything you store in any.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! When science teacher Kathryn?Spivey told her students at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland that they were going to take off and visit planet Mars for a day on a Magic School Bus of their own, they didn’t know what to expect.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 7, 2021

Even as internet access for students away from school has increased, many lack the robust connectivity to upload content and do other bandwidth-intensive work, a survey by the Consortium for School Networking finds. The post Big Gaps Remain in Students’ Home Internet Access, Survey Reveals appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

Google has ruined research. Okay… I’m being hyperbolic. Google hasn’t ruined research. But as a senior data scientist, I do worry that search in the age of Google has outstripped our ability to gather, analyze and truly interpret data. Thanks to algorithms, predictive text, billions and trillions of bytes of data, cookies, and the like, we’re used to searching for a needle in a haystack and Google returning the exact needle we’re looking for.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Grand challenges facing society, like social mobility, sustainability, equity and the preservation of democracy, grow in complexity and urgency each day. As engines of knowledge, discovery and innovation, colleges and universities were created to help us navigate troubled times like these. But thousands of colleges pulling separately in their own direction won’t get us where we need to be.

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Edthena

JUNE 7, 2021

Educators often review videos of their teaching to reflect on and strengthen their instructional practice. But what about increasing inclusion in the classroom for students? Video can and should also serve this larger purpose of student equity. Dr. Bryan Carter is the undergraduate program director and a professor at the City University of Seattle in the School of Education and Leadership and is passionate about teacher self-reflection.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 7, 2021

Image Source While many hope to see a return to more face-to-face learning this coming fall, this piece reminds us how much of a negative impact too much hybrid learning can have on developing young. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2021

This Wakelet Lesson Plan is designed to assist educators with incorporating online curation tools for team projects

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

New York – June 6, 2021 – Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced that M. Richard Robinson, Jr. the Company’s Chairman and CEO passed away yesterday unexpectedly. Mr. Robinson, 84 years old, had been in excellent health and had been overseeing Scholastic’s long-term strategic direction and day-to-day operations for the better part of five decades.

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2021

As districts consider extended learning time, it's critical that these programs are not just treated as additional learning time

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 7, 2021

Richard Robinson, who had helmed the giant company in children's publishing for nearly five decades, passed away at the age of 84. The post Richard Robinson, CEO of Children’s Publishing Giant Scholastic, Dies at Age of 84 appeared first on Market Brief.

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2021

Tech & Learning’s award-winning publications, websites, newsletters, and virtual and in-person events provide factual and evaluative information on trends, products, and strategies to education leaders who purchase technology products in their districts and schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2021

This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward. Please also join the Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events. Our second Library 2.021 mini-conference: "Reinventing Libraries for a Post-COVID World," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 17th, 2021, from 12:00 - 3:00 US-Pacific Time.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 7, 2021

‘Curriculum design may thus be centered organically in the rich literate lives and social contexts of the students themselves, rather than merely being manufactured for teachers and transmitted into classrooms.’. In our June reading for LEARN: Marginal Syllabus, we’ll annotate “‘You Can Still Fight’: The Black Radical Tradition, Healing, and Literacies,” the editor’s introduction to the February 2021 edition of the journal Research in the Teaching of English.

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