Wed.Aug 05, 2020

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Dear school leaders and policymakers: It didn’t have to be this way

Dangerously Irrelevant

Dear school leaders and policymakers, . It didn’t have to be this way. You had all summer to watch the rising number of coronavirus cases all across the country. You had all summer to educate yourself about the science. You had all summer to read credible news sources and see the viral outbreaks that occurred everywhere that people gathered without appropriate protections.

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Tech Tip #76–13 Tips for using an iPad

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 13 Tips for Using an iPad. Category: iPads.

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3 Tips for Improving Your Cybersecurity Program This School Year

EdTech Magazine

School districts across the country were already increasingly vulnerable to cyberthreats prior to COVID-19. On top of that, many dealt with budget and staffing challenges, making it harder to improve their cybersecurity defenses. Then, the pandemic hit and schools went remote. That shift, which made students and educators more reliant on digital tools, expanded the attack surface of schools and aggravated threats such as phishing and ransomware attacks.

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Springboard Hopes $31 Million Will Launch Its Bootcamps to Next Level.

Edsurge

Digital skills bootcamp provider Springboard has some extra bounce in its step these days, thanks to a $31 million investment led by Telstra Ventures, announced Wednesday. Springboard has shifted significantly since it was founded in 2013. Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. Today, it sells workforce training programs of its own.

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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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Access Tons of Illustrations to Use in Your Multi-media Projects

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In today's post we are sharing with you three important websites where you can access tons of pre-made illustrations and icons to use in your media projects. These are illustrative materials you can.read more.

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5 ways to take STEM outside

eSchool News

The weather breaks. The sun is shining. Nature is in full bloom. Imagine a group of students gathering outside in a large grassy area. Their teacher is giving directions and assigning students to teams. In a virtual setting, the teacher makes a video explaining the task and students walk into their own backyards to execute the lesson on their own. We can all benefit from the environmental learning opportunities right outside our door.

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Combining distance learning with interactive, hands-on STEM

eSchool News

One of the many challenges with distance learning is finding ways for students to engage in active and interpersonal learning experiences that increase their understanding of STEM. These types of activities are especially important because they can make abstract scientific concepts more accessible, and engage diverse learners in using engineering processes that are helpful for 21st century careers.

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COVID Era Brings New Challenges for College Retention

Edsurge

Marjorie Blen had nearly finished her associate’s degree at the City College of San Francisco when the pandemic hit. Suddenly classes moved to an unfamiliar online format, and her life was full of logistical hardships and financial ones. “What am I going to do with my kids home, losing my job and having to pass these classes so I can transfer to a four-year institution?

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10 Actions That Put Student Writers First

MiddleWeb

How do we put our young writers first? We seek to develop a mindset and actions that provide opportunity, dignity, and encouragement, says literacy expert Regie Routman. Then we carefully tailor feedback that celebrates strengths and boosts each and every writer’s confidence.

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Best Webcams for Teachers and Students 2020

techlearning

Get the best webcam for use online whether you're a teacher or a student in remote education learning.

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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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We're All Digital Citizenship Teachers - Here's the "How To Guide"

The Innovative Educator

As schools around the globe rapidly transitioned to remote learning, it became apparent that it is the responsibility of all teachers to engage students of all ages in a dialogue around responsible digital interactions. Most schools will not go back to ‘normal,’ and the importance and benefits of a digital education have become clear. School leaders have finally taken more seriously the work of bridging the digital divide.

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Dogo News for Remote Learning

Technology Tidbits

DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Events, etc.) where educators can then select lesson plans, create assignments, and help students increase their Reading and Vocabulary skills.

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Back to Buncee Sale!

Buncee

The 2020 Back to School season will be unlike any other, with new challenges to face and new opportunities for learning and growth. Whether your school will be starting remote learning, blended learning, or full time classroom learning, Buncee is the one tool you can’t start school without! If you haven’t yet added Buncee to your school toolkit, we’ve got you covered: to celebrate the start of the 2020 school year, we’re bringing you some major Back to School discounts!

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How Higher Ed Can Use WiFi-Based Contact Tracing [Podcast]

SecurEdge

About this episode. Every institution has implemented several well-established short-term practices for reopening, such as social distancing, wearing masks, adjusting classroom capacity, and daily temperature checks, etc. but how can technology be used to enable a new hybrid educational environment that keeps students and faculty safe in the long-term?

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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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Designing Learning to Prioritize Student Voices

MindShift

Excerpted from “ Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom ” by Joshua Block. Published by Teachers College Press. Prioritizing Student Voices, Decentralizing the Classroom. In our society, it is widely believed that because young people lack experience, they aren’t smart, capable, or insightful.

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Parlay

Technology Tidbits

Parlay is a very innovative online tool that educators are using to take classroom discussions to the next level. Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. Also, Parlay is great for assessing students making it easy to differentiate instruction and for "blended" learning.

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#AskExcelinEd Video: How can high schoolers earn valuable college credits?

ExcelinEd

In two minutes, learn how states can jump-start college learning in high school. College acceleration opportunities offer high school students the chance to prepare for college-level expectations while earning valuable college credit. Best of all, the earned credit from opportunities like Advanced Placement (AP), Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE), College Level Examination Program (CLEP), dual credit, early college high school and International Baccalaureate (IB)

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Introduction of Online Examination System: How does it work, its pros & cons?

Think Exam

An online examination system is the complete agenda of an online based test which has got multiple features and functionalities. The online examination system uses online exam software through which the tests are created, conducted and also evaluated. Read what are the Pros and Cons of Online Examination System here. The post Introduction of Online Examination System: How does it work, its pros & cons?

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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.

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Ambassador Launches Revolutionary Course Materials Platform, Easing the Entire Process for Students, Schools and Publishers

eSchool News

Ambassador Education Solutions today launched its next generation Course Materials Platform, RODA , transforming digital content and all course materials for students, schools and publishers. Unlike any other technology on the market, RODA provides seamless access to print and digital materials, publisher and platform integrations, support services, analytics, financial controls, and compliance — all through one flexible and easy-to-use platform.

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