eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Many educators have left the school environment to join edtech companies, seeking new ways to serve students while solving for the shortcomings they felt in the school-based workplace. How has it worked out, and what have we learned? The experience has shifted the equilibrium in the corporate world, as edtech companies tap into a larger talent pool and it has been eye-opening for former educators as they bring their expertise to the table in new ways.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

More than a year after Congress passed the 2021 K–12 Cybersecurity Act, the nation’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a report sharing best practices for K–12 schools. The law charged CISA with reviewing the risks schools face and sharing recommendations to mitigate them. Earlier this year, the agency released its report, “Partnering to Safeguard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive. Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Engagement and creativity play such important roles in the learning process, but with the myriad of other requirements and obligations, they can easily get lost in the abyss of deadlines and mandates. Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over. Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

MARCH 9, 2023

Using ChatGPT effectively can not only save you time as a teacher but help you to innovate your classroom. Try these 100 Prompts for Teachers to Ask ChatGPT The post 100 Prompts for Teachers to Ask ChatGPT appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work? Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 9, 2023

Your Library, Security, and Your Relationship with the Police [2023 UPDATED VERSION] Part of the Library 2.0 Service , Safety, and Security Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : The relationship between police officers and libraries is complex, ever-changing, and in fact, changeable. Some libraries see the arrival of law enforcement for an emergency or dangerous situation involving threats or violence as a welcome sight; others don’t want the police coming to their library at all, in good ti

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

MARCH 9, 2023

NEW IDEAS IN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION FOR EQUITY & BETTER LEARNING Our guest, Jay Litman, President of ‘Litman Architecture Educational Consulting Group’ has built and renovated schools all over the globe brings his expertise to our show. It’s a changing landscape Keep Reading NEW IDEAS IN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION FOR EQUITY & BETTER LEARNING The post NEW IDEAS IN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION FOR EQUITY & BETTER LEARNING appeared first on E

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MARCH 9, 2023

Nova Labs PBS is a research-based learning platform that uses real data to challenge students.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 9, 2023

Brittany Collins, the founder of Grief-Responsive Teaching, has taken her own personal experience as a grieving student and skillfully woven it together with knowledge of pedagogical practices and extensive research on navigating loss. For all educators, writes Sara Coppola. The post Trauma-Informed Support for Grieving Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Edthena

MARCH 9, 2023

Addressing teacher shortages is no easy feat. Due to a variety of factors, such as declining completion rates at traditional teachers’ colleges, classrooms face shortages of educators which negatively impacts student learning. However, this USA Today article highlights how some organizations are working to fill that gap. Take, for example, how amid significant teacher shortages, Arkansas Teacher Corps is seeing “soaring retention rates.

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 9, 2023

How are we helping parents and caretakers as they seek to learn more about digital literacy and social media? On this episode Jeff and Tricia discuss recent research that makes the link between too much unregulated screentime and anxiety. So what do we do to help one another be more mindful of our social media use? Jeff walks listeners through his PARENT framework and talks more about ways he can support your parent/caretaker audience and ways he can help your PTA sustain a conversation about so

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N2Y

MARCH 9, 2023

New math courses in Unique Learning System and Inspire, and a fun, standards-aligned Summer Unit!

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 9, 2023

Having been certified in Visualizing and Verbalizing® years ago, I've always found it an essential tool in my toolkit. Scaffolding students toward creating a mental image gestalt, guided by a schema of structure words that aid in descriptive details, is a process that has been useful across reading comprehension to conversation and even executive function (i.e picturing oneself performing a task).

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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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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 9, 2023

It's Spring Break right now for us, and so there's a relative lull in the number of meetings I am attending. (Just two this week.) I've been going to more meetings than usual ever since I started working in the president's office, and this plus the lull is giving me some perspective on meetings and how, in my infinite wisdom, I think they ought to be run.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 9, 2023

After I covered the best web-based AI art generators , in this post I share with you a collection of AI art generator apps that you can use on your mobile device to generate stunning artwork. All of these apps, from my own experience, are simple and easy to use. No technical knowledge is required. The key to generate beautiful AI artwork is to provide expressive prompts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. American youth are in crisis. According to one method of defining and tracking gun violence, compiled by The Washington Post, nearly 340,000 students have directly experienced gun violence at school since 1999, with 366 school shootings since then and no sign of this exposure slowing down.

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