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The Pros and Cons of Requiring Students to Turn On Their Cameras

EdTech Magazine

Across the nation, schools plan to open buildings for the return of full-time, in-person learning come fall. Students and teachers will be able to see one another outside of the tiny windows they’ve grown used to on Zoom. That is, if they really ever saw one another at all. The question of whether to require students to turn their cameras on for online learning has been a hotly debated one over the past 15 months.

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Solving the curation equation: Efficient methods for collecting teaching resources

Neo LMS

Let’s face it. Most physical textbooks have limitations: they aren’t current, tend to be dry, and focus on giving information without necessarily offering the best pedagogical methods for helping students learn. More and more, educators are relying on the internet to discover engaging activities, timely research, and the most current studies on how students learn best.

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Going back to school face-to-face: 10 tips

Ditch That Textbook

After enduring remote learning, teachers and students are heading back to the classroom. Here are some things to keep in mind. After more than a year of remote instruction, some schools are going back to school face to face for the first time.For others, they've been face to face for a while, but the remote […]. The post Going back to school face-to-face: 10 tips appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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For Families Who Lack Reliable Internet Access, Help Is on the Way — $7B of It

Edsurge

Over time, internet access has shifted from an amenity to a necessity. Nothing has illustrated that shift more clearly than the pandemic, which forced school, work and most everything else to become virtual practically overnight. But for the millions of students and families without internet access at home, adapting to the virtual classroom became extremely challenging, if not impossible.

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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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Jamboard: Save Frame as Image

Teacher Tech

As Kim Mattina says, “Get on the Jamboard train.” Google Jamboard is FREE. It is a Google tool. It saves to Google Drive. As is to be expected, it is collaborative. Use Google Jamboard to get more than one student sharing ideas at a time. Add a Sticky Note It is so easy to create… Read More » Jamboard: Save Frame as Image. The post Jamboard: Save Frame as Image appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How to Continuously Improve Teaching

Edsurge

Learning science is always advancing, yielding new insights about how people gain and retain knowledge and skills. How can classroom teachers keep up—and even conduct their very own research to improve their instruction, day-by-day and week-by-week? We dig into these questions and more in this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast. It was recorded during a panel discussion about the learning engineering movement that was held last month at the ISTELive 21 conference.

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Summer Reading Recommendations

techlearning

The more you read, the more you know - summer reading recommendations for students and teachers from Melissa Jacobs, NYC DOE Director of Library Services

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5 tools for classroom comic creation

eSchool News

While it may not seem a traditional learning tool, comic creation helps across an array of core subjects and learning objectives. Comics are engaging, fun, and help students take ownership of their learning. Comic creation gives students flexibility for self-expression, while at the same time unleashing creativity and giving students a new way to demonstrate their learning.

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Bringing Robotics to a STEAM Elementary School

MIND Research Institute

Myles has been playing a lot of ST Math. So much so that the ultimate frisbee champion and class valedictorian mentioned it while delivering his graduation speech to the students of Amelia Earhart Options for Knowledge Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, last month. Like Myles, students enrolled at Earhart experience learning a little differently than other kids their age.

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5 learning apps for students with special needs

eSchool News

Millions of students transitioned to online and hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. While that transition was relatively easy for some students, many–including students with special needs–found it difficult or impossible to access in-school services and therapies. While many schools returned to full in-person learning or hybrid learning, COVID-related learning loss is still a concern.

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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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QUICK-Comments: What Is It and How Can Teachers Use It?

techlearning

QUICK-Comments, a new tool in ASSISTments, is designed to help teachers give more individualized feedback to students on open-ended math questions

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7 in 10 Parents Say Children’s Post-Pandemic Social Skills Are at Risk, Per Osmo Study

eSchool News

Palo Alto– According to a new study of 2,000 U.S. parents of school aged-children (5-14 years), parents have tried a myriad ways to keep their kids active and social during the pandemic, however, 7 in 10 perceive their child’s post-pandemic social skills to be at risk, even as things return to normal. The majority of parents (71%) are also worried about potential learning loss that may have resulted by not being in school, and are pursuing a variety of means to keep up their child’s studie

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The Importance of Reciprocated Relationships for Teaching and Learning

The Principal of Change

I am sitting at my desk, and I notice an email from a name I seem to know, but the message still caught me off guard. Earlier this year, I was asked to speak to a small group of students to give them some podcasting tips, and one of the students noticed my basketball shoes in the background of my office. The conversation on podcasting quickly turned into a conversation on our favorite Kobe shoes and basketball stories.

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FREE Templates for Teachers: Where to Find Them and How to Create Them – SULS0119

Shake Up Learning

The post FREE Templates for Teachers: Where to Find Them and How to Create Them – SULS0119 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey chats with Sarah Kiefer, a Shake Up Learning Trainer and the co-founder of TemplatesforTeachers.com. Learn all about the free templates that Sarah has created and curated, get tips for adapting templates for your classroom, and learn how to create your own templates!

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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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Let the Badging Begin: How to Get Your District Started with Micro-Credentials (The Learning Counsel)

Edthena

So you’ve heard about the benefits of micro-credentials but aren’t sure where to begin? Three ways to get your district off to a smooth start with implementation are explained in this Learning Counsel article by Adam Geller, Edthena founder and CEO. Learn all about identifying a district’s must-haves for micro-credentials, choosing the way they will be issued, and recognizing teachers’ mastery of skills.

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Back to School Online Conference (FREE!)

Shake Up Learning

The post Back to School Online Conference (FREE!) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Teaching and Learning in a Post-COVID world is different. The world will never be the same, and schools and classrooms are adapting to the new normal. Are you ready? The Shake Up Learning Team is excited to announce a brand new online conference coming this September!

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Florida’s Martin County School District Selects Award-Winning Digital Resource from Discovery Education to Educate All Students for Success

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Monday, July 19, 2021) — Florida’s Martin County School District (MCSD) today announced a new partnership with? Discovery Education , the worldwide?edtech?leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes?place. Through this new collaboration, district teachers and students in all grades K-12 will, in the coming school year, have access to a flexible, dynamic digital resource that supports instruction and learning in all subjects at home, in

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New Blog Post: "Is There Hidden Bias at Your Library?" Plus Webinar on "Post Pandemic Staff Development and Training"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've posted a new blog post from Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : "Is There Hidden Bias at Your Library?" "Part of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training discussion includes the realities of our biases and the assumptions we make about each other, which are often based on sweeping generalizations or a negative encounter with one individual who certainly does not represent the larger population of a particular group.

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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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Tech Ed Resources–Lesson Plans

Ask a Tech Teacher

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate me

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Grades Have Huge Impact, But Are They Effective? 

MindShift

Grades can determine so much of a child’s future – the ability to get into college, qualify for scholarships and lessen student debt, land a higher paying job that will lead to a better quality of life and accelerate social mobility. At the start of the pandemic, several school districts switched to pass/fail models, but that period of grace disappeared by fall 2020.

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DreamBox Learning® Enters ELA Market with Acquisitions of Reading Plus® and Squiggle Park

eSchool News

BELLEVUE, Wash. —July 19, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Reading Plus, an evidence-based online reading program for grades 3-12 designed to help students boost their literacy skills and reading confidence.

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OPINION: A lack of diversity in research and analytics is not just unethical — it is dangerous

The Hechinger Report

Technology keeps advancing exponentially, making this an inspiring and high-stakes era. The STEM disciplines and social sciences significantly influence the trajectory of American society and the global community in ways that other sectors and fields of exploration cannot match. Today, people of color are underrepresented in all aspects of STEM, including academia, business, research, technology and more.

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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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The child tax credit, not charter schools, was the reform we needed to help kids succeed

The Hechinger Report

When I was a charter school leader, I constantly heard reformers justify district takeovers, teacher firings, ineffective voucher programs and abusive “no excuse” discipline policies by saying, “It’s all about the kids.” They insisted that if we could get rid of the adult problems — replacing teachers, parents and administrators — students could overcome poverty.

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