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Professional Development for Parents and Other Caregivers During COVID-19

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Education companies now need to include caregivers in their technical support, professional development, and implementation processes. The post Professional Development for Parents and Other Caregivers During COVID-19 appeared first on Market Brief.

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Here’s a Preview of October

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in October: National Bullying Prevention Month resources. NaNoWriMo and Young Writers. Election resources. Dyslexia Awareness Month resources. Digital Citizenship Week resources. Long List of Shortkeys . Shortkey Posters. Great Websites for Special Needs. Apps that Inspire Students.

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Reading is Still the Golden Elixir

EdNews Daily

By Christy S. Martin, Ed.D. Many experts are saying we will not be out of the woods with COVID-19 for many months. It is an instructional year that is of concern to teachers, parents, communities and even the youth. One thing we can do to promote academic maturity in our youth is to continue to promote reading. Many adults have used the pandemic to read more, something that requires little effort, and is an activity we can do while socially distanced masked and in online and hybrid formats.

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Q&A: Wade Barnes on How to Create a Seamless Transition to Learning

EdTech Magazine

Wade Barnes keeps answering the call to serve. He spent five years in the U.S. Army, then moved to the private sector. He has worked around the world as a U.S. government contractor and in various enterprise IT roles such as senior network engineer and IT director. After 17 years away, Barnes has returned home to Georgia as executive director of ­infrastructure and support for the DeKalb County School District.

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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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Professional Development for Parents and Other Caregivers During COVID-19

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Education companies now need to include caregivers in their technical support, professional development, and implementation processes.

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You Can Now Fact Check Pictures on Google Images

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Images has recently introduced a new feature that allows users to fact check information on images they find online. The new feature, as Google stated, is geared towards helping users make.

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EdTech Rubrics to Help You in Your Distance Education

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As you strive to enhance your online teaching and optimize your students' learning experiences, rubrics are particularly helpful in this process. They, together with other EdTech resources we covered.

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Affective School Leadership Priorities of the Pandemic Principal

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker All educational stakeholders are understandably stressed. The pandemic continues to have a huge impact on all of our daily lives and there is seemingly no end in sight. The associated anxiety and uncertainty engulfing teachers, students, and parents alike ultimately ends up at the administrator’s door. With all of these human elements very much in play now, more than ever, educational leaders must focus on providing affective leadership.

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

Edsurge

This pandemic fall semester has understandably raised anxieties about whether students will receive valuable instruction in the academic topics they study in class. But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Among the hallmarks of in-person higher education that students might lose in a semester or entire year without ordinary campus encounters are chances to learn from and build relatio

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Podcast: Digital Leadership and Curriculum

EdNews Daily

The Education Today Podcast In this episode of the Education Today podcast, you’ll hear from LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, talk about how districts are embracing the digital transition in the time of the pandemic, and how student identity plays a part in successful remote learning. Click Below to Hear the Podcast. The post Podcast: Digital Leadership and Curriculum first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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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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COLUMN: Teachers need to talk about Breonna Taylor

The Hechinger Report

No one has been held accountable for the killing of Breonna Taylor, another innocent victim of police, who shot her at least five times in the hallway of her home during the disastrous execution of a search warrant. A grand jury declined to indict the two police officers who killed Taylor, 26, in her Louisville apartment, finding they had acted in self-defense after one was shot by Taylor’s boyfriend, who stated he did not know the men breaking into the apartment after midnight were police offic

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The Upside of All This

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen You can see an upside of what is happening in America, in Education, in the World, if you know some of How Things Work. Specifically, you might ask, what things? Well, things that indicate a difference in social structure because of functional change in culture or an evolution of economics. Sometimes a change in culture resulted in a peaceful difference such as women doggedly pursuing the right to vote for many decades until they won that right.

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Top 10 Free Sites for Creating Digital Art

techlearning

These free digital art creation sites range from simple web apps for preschoolers to sophisticated software for advanced students, educators, and professionals.

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iTutor’s Virtual School Allows School Districts to Transform the K-12 Online Experience

eSchool News

With most K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators engaged in another semester or full academic year of pandemic-induced remote learning, it is clear that the future of education is going to include a significant online component. That online future will be much brighter for school communities using iTutor’s Virtual School – a secure interactive learning platform that allows administrators and teachers to build, organize, schedule and offer live, synchronous classes and instruction us

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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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OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for the world of work

The Hechinger Report

In a focus group I conducted with a colleague at a community college last year, I learned once again how little students know about the labor market. The ethnically diverse, young and predominantly male students we interviewed were ignorant — not too strong a word — about the relationship between college degrees, college majors and jobs prospects. They asserted with unfounded conviction that the degree itself would guarantee “a lot more” than they were earning currently in their hourly wage jobs

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Minecraft: Education Edition Tips and Tricks for Teachers

techlearning

Minecraft: Education Edition is a powerful tool when used with the right tips and tricks, which are all right here for you.

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How to convert your classroom teaching content into highly engaging online content.

Linways Technologies

While adapting to the latest online learning trends, there are many things our teachers need to consider. Keeping the engagement in your online classroom , finding the right technology for instruction , managing the online classes can all be difficult. We have mentioned these topics in some of our previous articles and you can check them out here if you’re interested.

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How 1:1 provides digital equity during COVID-19

eSchool News

Digital equity, as defined by ISTE , involves “making sure students have equal access to technology like devices, software, and the internet, and that they have trained educators to help them navigate those tools.”. But creating digital equity has historically been a challenge for many school districts – especially those with high need student populations.

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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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Integration with District-Supported Learning Management Systems

N2Y

Presenter. Sarah Moore, Product Director, Unique Learning System. With all the changes and uncertainty that have come with remote learning, wouldn’t it be nice if some part of it were easy? We have great news: Unique Learning System easily integrates with district-supported learning management systems (LMS)! Our expert will explore the benefits of keeping the interactive content within Unique Learning System and how this works in a remote environment.

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How can you protect your students online during hybrid and remote learning?

eSchool News

Students are on their devices and in front of screens more than ever now, as COVID-19 has mandated fully- or partially-online classes across the globe. With more screen time comes the risk of increased exposure to inappropriate content and online predators–not to mention heightened feelings of isolation, stress, and depression brought on by physical separation from friends, peers, and teachers.

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Distance to Hybrid Learning: How to Drive Student Success

techlearning

How to shift to blended and hybrid learning from remote learning

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Learning.com Includes Essential Skills for Remote Learning in EasyTech

eSchool News

To prepare students for success in a remote learning environment, Learning.com is adding remote learning lessons to its EasyTech content library. Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment. “The latest addition to EasyTech is designed to help both teachers and students navigate online learning this year, ensuring they are able to reap all of the benefits that onl

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

Georgia Test Prep

If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. They can indeed influence how your child progresses through school. But what exactly is it, and what does it mean? And as a parent, how can you help your children do well on it? This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about.

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Forming a COVID-19 special education steering committee

eSchool News

The 2020-21 school year has already seen unprecedented expectations placed on school district administrators and educators nationwide – a trend which will likely continue until the pandemic is managed. Over the summer, state education agencies required local school districts to create “re-entry plans” to outline how students can safely and equitably return to school in multiple learning environments.

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Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Website

SpeechTechie

The 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards finalists were announced recently, a development I saw on the news (you never know where you will get therapy ideas). Based on the BBC story about the awards, I found 4 or 5 photos that made for great therapy activities. For example, I used this one. via BBC.with a high school group in Google Slides as a way to review the concept of thinking with the eyes ( Social Thinking® ) but also as a review of Zones of Regulation® , starting with the Blue Zone (well, g

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ST Math and FCPS Partner to Bring Meaningful Math Learning to Va Students

eSchool News

MIND Research Institute (MIND) has announced a partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to bring ST Math® , MIND’s patented approach to math instruction, to the largest public school system in Virginia, as well as the largest public school system in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The partnership will keep meaningful math learning happening for tens of thousands of students across 227 elementary campuses.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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What the Shortcomings of EdTech Mean for Improving Distance Learning and Schools

MindShift

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). But as someone who has spent the past decade researching education technology, Justin Reich observes: “An oddity of my career is that I am an education technologist who often writes about how education technology fails to deliver on its p

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HuddleCamHD Announces Zoom-Certified PTZ Webcam

eSchool News

HuddleCamHD , a well-known manufacturer of affordable USB-based video conferencing cameras and audio solutions, announces two new electronic PTZ webcams: The HuddleCamHD Pro (USB 3.0), certified by Zoom Video Communications, and the Pro IP (4K NDI*). These 4K webcams, that come with a handheld IR remote to control PTZ functions, are like none on the market today.

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School Attendance In The COVID Era: What Counts As ‘Present’?

MindShift

From shiny red pencils reading “My Attendance Rocks!” to countless plaques and ribbons and trophies and certificates and gold stars: For as long as anyone can remember, taking attendance — and rewarding kids for simply showing up — is a time-honored school ritual. For good reason: Just being there, day in, day out, happens to be one of the most important factors that determines a child’s success in school.