The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 25, 2022

Many families and children are taking and seeking refuge in new places daily. So, it might not be surprising when you suddenly get a new student in your classroom. When you have a newly arrived newcomer student, the impact you have on welcoming them on day one is so important. Who is considered a newcomer student? A newcomer student is someone who is new to the country and possibly has had little to no English language.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Here is a good discussion on the pros and cons of Turnitin as well as options available, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: Reliable Turnitin Alternatives for K12. It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2022

The second week in May was the 21 st annual Mental Health Awareness Week , which this year focused on the impact of loneliness and the practical steps we can take to address it. . For young people in particular, mental health has become one of the greatest challenges they are faced with today. In the UK, government figures indicate that one in six young people aged 6 to 16 had a probable mental health condition in late 2021, a sharp increase from one in nine in 2017.

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Jamf on EdTech

MAY 25, 2022

Marking its fifteenth year, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report analyzes data breach demographics spread across multiple industry verticals, providing results based on breach cases and incidents reviewed. The data gleaned from its analysis provides organizations insight into what threat types are driving attacks and how trends play a significant role over time in security.

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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

Personalized Learning

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2022

Nearly all students can learn how to read, yet only 35 percent of them are reading proficiently. This widening gap seems insurmountable, but the bottom line is that teachers are the most essential factor in student reading success. However, here’s the problem as I see it: only about half of all teaching institutions effectively prepare teachers for literacy instruction.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 25, 2022

Startup Class Technologies has acquired Anthology's Blackboard Collaborate, and India-based Byju's company Great Learning has acquired Northwest Executive Education. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Class Acquires Blackboard Tool; Byju’s Great Learning Acquires PD provider appeared first on Market Brief.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 25, 2022

The consumer protection agency vowed to keep checks on an industry it said is "dominated by the commercial surveillance business model.". The post Federal Trade Commission Issues Warning to Ed-Tech Companies on Student Data Privacy appeared first on Market Brief.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 25, 2022

In the world of learning management systems for a K-8 environment, school districts differentiate what programs are implemented within their educational organization. For the purpose of today’s post I would like to share best practices for end of year protocols for Seesaw and Google Classroom. Seesaw. The Seesaw Help Center is a great resource dedicated in providing helpful content and assistance for teachers and school admin.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 25, 2022

The growing demand for written content has made the use of correct grammar more important than ever before. Due to the growing competition on digital platforms, bloggers and influencers with proper grammar skills are preferred by both audiences and brands. The importance of grammar can be seen equally in both universities and workplaces. Thus, whether you are writing an email, a blog post, a social media post or an academic assignment, keeping your content free from grammatical errors is a must

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2022

Schools have changed. Learning has changed. The personal lives of everyone involved in those systems have changed. And they’re still changing, after two years of a brutal pandemic, untold economic hardship, political polarization and social unrest. No one understands this more intimately than the teachers, school leaders and students who live through it every day.

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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

MAY 25, 2022

Once the magnitude of the latest elementary school shooting became clear on Tuesday, I heard the same single word repeated: Speechless. Nineteen children in a fourth grade classroom and two teachers, all killed by an 18-year-old gunman, a high school student who police believe also shot his grandmother and was later shot and killed at the scene. While we are reeling from the recent shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead, news comes of this devastating reminder of our vulnerability, of the toll gu

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