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5 Ways K-12 IT Teams Can Help Teachers Save Time and Focus on Instruction

EdTech Magazine

Having to work long hours is a significant contributing factor to teacher burnout and the resulting teacher shortages dominating news headlines. The spring 2022 Merrimack College Teacher Survey found that a typical teacher works 54 hours per week, with only 25 hours spent teaching students. Not surprisingly, most teachers say they’d like to spend more time on activities directly related to teaching.

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Let’s Change Financial Aid to Help Students Who Pay Their Own Way Through College

Edsurge

Ever since middle school, I knew that it would be up to me to find a way to pay for college. My parents have always supported my academic ambitions while also prioritizing their own financial goals, such as saving vigilantly for retirement. They strongly believe that children should pay for things they want with their own money, including college. Emily Erickson We didn’t think this would be difficult for me to do.

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Few State Officials Believe Their Cybersecurity Funding Is Keeping Up With Threats

Marketplace K-12

A survey of top state officials who oversee technology reveals a gap between their schools' vulnerabilities to cyberattacks and how much their states are spending to combat it. The post Few State Officials Believe Their Cybersecurity Funding Is Keeping Up With Threats appeared first on Market Brief.

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Educator retention hinges on these 3 things

eSchool News

Confidence in the education profession has dropped for the second year in a row, according to the 2022 Educator Confidence Report from learning technology company HMH. An annual barometer for how educators across the country are feeling about the state of teaching and learning, the report found that 76 percent of educators feel negatively about the state of the teaching profession in the U.S.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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LEARNING ABOUT DOODLE LEARNING

American Consortium for Equity in Education

LEARNING ABOUT DOODLE LEARNING Okay, I like the name.Teaching Math and Language Arts and personalizing the learning, it’s now a part of Discovery Education ‘s Ed tech product line. Founders and co-CEOs Nicola Chillman and Tom Minor are my guests with Discovery VP Phil Nanney. Want. Keep Reading LEARNING ABOUT DOODLE LEARNING. The post LEARNING ABOUT DOODLE LEARNING appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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Chicago students can take up to 5 mental health days

eSchool News

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This story was produced as part of the Medill Media Teens journalism program for Chicago Public School students at Northwestern University. The writer worked under the mentorship of Medill graduate Anandita Bhalerao. With working 25 hours a week at her minimum wage job at an ice cream shop, juggling a stressful workload with AP and honors classes, and dealing with anxiety, sometimes Jones Coll

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Lightspeed Unveils Mobile PA, Extending Instructional Audio Beyond the Classroom

eSchool News

TUALATIN, ORE. (PRWEB) — Lightspeed , a leading provider of powerful instructional audio solutions, announces Mobile PA, a wireless and portable instructional audio system that expands access to learning and gives teachers, administrators and students the freedom to be heard and understood anywhere. Barriers to listening are even more prevalent in large, outdoor spaces, making the delivery of instruction and engaging students challenging.

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KyEdRPG, Part Two: The Power of a D & D Club

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

This is Part Two of a three part series to kick off a new website, KyEdRPG , and how role playing games can positively impact student learning. In Part One , we celebrated the launch of the website itself. In this entry, we prove how a D & D club can be a wonderful extracurricular opportunity.before or after school, in person or virtual! File image from [link].

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Incident IQ Releases Integration With ClassLink Single Sign-on

eSchool News

ATLANTA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Incident IQ, the workflow management platform built for school districts, released an integration with ClassLink—a global education provider of access and analytics products that create more time for learning and help schools better understand digital engagement. As school districts continue to rely on more technology in today’s classrooms, Incident IQ offers advanced integrations that provide data-rich help requests to K-12 IT teams, while being easy to us

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Professional Learning Communities (PLCs): What You Need to Know

techlearning

Professional learning communities (PLCs) help teachers thrive, which ultimately increases teacher morale and retention. Here’s how it works.

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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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With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

eSchool News

ITASCA, Ill. – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused on streamlining the evaluation of dyslexia, the most common learning disability, affecting 20% of the population. The new playbook makes assessments more effective and efficient by providing a recommended process for selective testing and a specific test list for querying the most salient features of dyslexia.

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Education Company Employees Overwhelmingly Prefer Remote Work. How Are Organizations Responding?

Marketplace K-12

An EdWeek Market Brief survey of more than 400 education company employees finds that three-quarters of them want to want to work out of their offices. The post Education Company Employees Overwhelmingly Prefer Remote Work. How Are Organizations Responding? appeared first on Market Brief.

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Loudoun County Public Schools Partners with Tutor.com to Provide 24/7 Unlimited Tutoring for K-12 Students

eSchool News

NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest online tutoring services, announced today that it has been selected by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the third-largest school division in Virginia, to provide 24/7 online tutoring for every K–12 student in the division. Through the partnership, which launches today, more than 82,000 students across 98 LCPS facilities will benefit from access to 1-to-1 expert tutoring, test prep, concept review, and homework help

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The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications

Nik Peachey

The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications This app has been designed to help teachers in the physical and remote classroom. The app is a combination of teaching and teacher development tool. You can use it to launch one of over 200 media rich digital lessons with engaging interactive materials for students to work on together or at home. You can use it to develop your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of issues faced by the contemporary English language teacher.

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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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AhaSlides- Create Engaging Presentations Using Live Quizzes, Polls, and Q&A

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AhaSlides is a presentation tool that allows you to create interactive and immersive presentations. It makes use of numerous interactive features such as live quizzes, polls, Q&A, scale ratings, word clouds, and spinner wheels to engage participants and creating immersive learning experiences. AhaSlides works both online and offline and is also integrated with third party tools such as Zoom and PowerPoint.

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Nevada Department of Education Renews Partnership with Nevada Gold Mines and Discovery Education Providing High-Quality Digital Content to Students and Educators Statewide

eSchool News

Carson City, NV and Charlotte, NC – The Nevada Department of Education (NDE) is proud to announce it has renewed its multiyear partnership with Nevada Gold Mines , operated by Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE: GOLD) (TSX: ABX), and Discovery Education , the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports both remote and in-person learning. .

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Interactive eBooks: The Reinvention of Reading and Interactivity

Kitaboo on EdTech

The days of textbooks have not looked bright since the digitalization of education. Online learning has become the norm now, with digital books and interactive eBooks are the ones that make learning possible. One of the major obstacles in online learning is keeping readers engaged throughout the course. If students are unable to concentrate, educators cannot reach their ultimate goal.

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