eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Summer is over and schools are back in session across the country. If you missed the chance to prepare and test your cybersecurity protocols while students were living their best lives on summer break, there are actions you must take at the start of the school year to get your programs in shape. Teachers and administrators are ready to kick off a great year of learning, but must match that same preparedness to ensure their cybersecurity safety house is in order.

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 18, 2022

Video-assisted learning is a growing strategic teaching approach in many modern classrooms. Educational videos are now more accessible than ever and teachers are increasingly making use of this readily available resource. But with increased use of screen-time comes increased controversy and debate. While videos are great for things like social-emotional learning, cognitive ability, and inclusivity, if not properly utilized in the appropriate setting, videos will not be used to their full potenti

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2022

The post 4 Tips for Creating Powerful Challenge Based Learning with Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

AUGUST 18, 2022

Have fun with a Bingo Ice Breaker! Try out this free Add-on by Alice Keeler to create a fun activity to get students or participants up out of their seats and getting to know each other. The post Bingo Ice Breaker with Alice Keeler appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 18, 2022

The purpose of this post is to share with you some handy platforms where you can set up a website or blog for your class. These are websites that simple and easy to use. No coding knowledge is required either. You can simply register your account, registration is free, select a template from the gallery, edit the look and feel of your website/blog and add your personal touch, and click on publish to make it live. 1- Google Sites Google Sites is Google's platform for creating websites.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid environment, they have had to make significant changes in the way they approach formative assessment. Formative assessment is a wide-encompassing term that allows teachers to monitor student progress.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

BOSTON, Mass. – Aug. 18, 2022 – Fifty-six percent of U.S. public schools are using high-dosage tutoring to support learning recovery, thanks to funding from the American Rescue Plan. But is it working? New research from FEV Tutor shows that live 1:1 tutoring with a subject matter expert can help students progress and close achievement gaps. During the 2021-22 school year, students who participated in recommended dosages of tutoring with FEV Tutor , a comprehensive, research-based, virtual tutori

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Jamf on EdTech

AUGUST 18, 2022

Jamf was on-hand at Black Hat 2022 to meet with customers and discuss the modern security landscape directly with the Security and IT professionals themselves. See what they had to say about the current state of security at their organizations when asked about it in Jamf’s anonymous survey conducted right from the showroom floor.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — With inflation reaching a 40-year high and talk of a looming recession, high school students are coming of age during one of the most challenging economies in recent history. To help them make sense of how we got here, Poptential has expanded and updated its Common Sense Economics digital curriculum to include recent economic events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain issues, and the current inflation crisis.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 18, 2022

We've just posted a new Dr. Albrecht podcast in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security " section of Library 2.0 : "The Salman Rushdie Attack: Creating a Library Major Event Security Plan." "So my topic for this half hour is the recent stabbing incident involving Salman Rushdie, a tragedy at a lot of levels, which I'll talk about. We'll talk about the incident what it means to library people in terms of safety and security.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

DALLAS (August 18, 2022) – ActivePure , the world’s leader in air and surface purification technologies, is now available for educational institutions through special funding from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). In 2020, the DOE introduced the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, a signature part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help schools improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and return their students back to the classroom.

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N2Y

AUGUST 18, 2022

Learn how targeted interventions boost student success in the classroom and beyond!

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 18, 2022

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Multigenre Research Project approach lets students truly show their learning and mastery on any topic they choose to explore. Melinda Putz provides teachers across subject areas everything they need to help students go deeper than PBL, says MGRP user Erin Corrigan-Smith. The post A Fresh Way to Engage Students in Research first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

MIAMI, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Open English , the leading English-learning platform in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market, today announced the acquisition of India’s leading mobile language-learning platform, enguru. After establishing a strong foothold in the Americas with 24/7 live classes taught by native-speaking teachers and over 1.5 million students served, Open English successfully expanded into Spain and Turkey, and now hopes to replicate this success in one of the world&#

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 18, 2022

Mental health counselor Emily Kircher-Morris provides parents of twice-exceptional children with keys to help their neurodivergent gifted kids develop lifelong skills with a focus on affirmation and self-acceptance. Amy Estersohn finds the book clear and easy to browse. The post Keys to Helping 2e Kids Develop Lifelong Skills first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., August18, 2022— The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) has added Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment for Grades K–12 to its approved list of Gifted EducationAssessment Measuresto identify students’ eligibility for gifted education programs in the achievement domain. With this approval, districts throughout the state can now use their existing reading and mathematics data from the i-Ready Assessment as a source of evidence to support a referral for gifted educat

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Sell Courses Online

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cohort learning can increase your courses’ effectiveness and student engagement. For this reason, more and more creators are looking to … The 9 Best Cohort-Based Course Platforms Compared (2022) Read More ?.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

AUGUST 18, 2022

Connecticut’s Jumoke Academy Charter School 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. This collaboration provides the educators at the Academy’s three campuses access to a suite of. Keep Reading Connecticut’s Jumoke Academy Charter School Selects Discovery Education Social Studies Services to Propel Student Success.

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Brainscape

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whether you are making web & mobile flashcards in Brainscape or just typing a love letter to your Portuguese sweetheart, it's often helpful to be able to pop the occasional ç or é or ñ into your text without having to go searching one at a time in some "symbols" menu. Sure, you probably already know that the easiest way to do so is to just configure your entire keyboard into that language at the system preferences level.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, former teacher and now education consultant, has suggestions for apps to help the history class: Essential Tech Tools for the History Class. The school year begins in a couple of weeks, and you are excited about using the trending application that your colleagues have suggested will work with your students.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 18, 2022

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Mask mandates. Remote learning. Weekly testing and contact tracing. There are many elements from the past two years that educators are happy to leave behind. But there are also some innovations and opportunities, like virtual professional learning, that they don’t want to forget. During the edLeader Panel, “ Leading Learning in the 2022-2023 School Year: Ready, Set, Go ,” superintendents discussed how they’re preparing for the upcoming year,

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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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