EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

For many educators, the shift to remote learning happened overnight. In Oregon, Beaverton School District teachers, students and families were informed one day at noon that schools would be closed the next day and beyond, said district CIO Steven Langford at CoSN2021. Langford moderated a Thursday session titled “Lessons Learned from the Frontlines of Remote Learning,” which also featured Pat La Morte, the K–12 solutions lead at Zoom, and Ryan Imbriale, vice president of education solutions for

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

For more than 35 years, Jean-Claude Brizard has worked in education as a teacher, school leader, superintendent, chief executive, funder, and education advocate. He brings that deep experience to his new role as President and CEO of Digital Promise, at a time when the need for innovation in education is especially critical. During his first official week, Brizard connected with me via Zoom to discuss his thoughts on the future of education, how issues of equity and racial justice shape his work,

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital transformation is a buzzword that can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. What can IT leaders in school districts learn from a peer who has successfully implemented digital transformation to improve outcomes for students and educators? During CoSN2021, we spoke with Dwayne Alton, executive director of technology operations for the School District of Lee County, Fla., about how digital transformation enables teachers and students to differentiate how they teach an

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Neo LMS

MARCH 4, 2021

Education is not a one-way street. It implies joint efforts from both teachers and students to reach the desired outcomes. Moreover, the process of teaching and learning needs to be anchored in real life to ensure students’ ability to apply what they learn successfully. One of the latest teaching approaches focuses on giving students opportunities to take greater degrees of agency over their learning process.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

K–12 school district superintendents have faced unprecedented challenges in the past year as they led their districts amid a once-in-a-century pandemic. They have had to navigate challenges around deploying remote learning technology and maintaining the health and safety of teachers and students. During CoSN2021, we spoke with superintendents to get a better understanding of how they led over the past year amid uncertain times, confronting technology challenges and finding solutions.

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Waterford

MARCH 4, 2021

When families are engaged in their child’s education, everyone benefits. Student scores improve, families become empowered, and educators can build healthier school communities. But while these benefits are so clear and crucial, educators often face significant challenges to improving family-teacher communication in schools—for reasons both recognized and unknown.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 4, 2021

Creating a more supportive environment for students with learning disabilities is vital. One of the best ways to go about it includes mentorship programs, which can help them learn useful skills and build a supportive network of friends and teachers. But thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, our methods of communicating with students have become limited.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2021

The new professor had a choice. He arrived early to a meeting to discover a senior faculty member lying in ambush, armed with a crude joke and disparaging words for a researcher—a woman—who’d applied for a job in their department. An angel appeared at the young man’s side, encouraging him to disrupt the distasteful monologue. A devil appeared at his other side, urging him not to risk riling up an influential colleague.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 4, 2021

In this post we are sharing with you two good Google apps to help your kids develop their reading skills. As we all know, reading is a fundamental literacy skill whose mastery determines, to a larger.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2021

As we face another year of unpredictability triggered by the global pandemic and other factors, perhaps the only thing we can be certain of is that the future is uncertain. An ability to digest data and derive insights from it can equip a person to make sound decisions for everything from purchasing a new car, to interpreting the news, to deciding what college to attend.

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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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MiddleWeb

MARCH 4, 2021

Evaluating the K-12 Literacy Curriculum is a valuable resource for facilitating teams through the overwhelming yet vital task of auditing programs, materials and instructional approaches, writes educator Abby Markley, noting its user friendly organization. The post How to Audit Your K-12 Literacy Curriculum first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2021

New resources from the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) are intended to help K-12 educators, including parents homeschooling their children, plan their science lessons. Based on the best research available on how to engage all students in learning science, NSTA Daily Do Playlists are suggested instructional sequences of NSTA lessons that can be used to help students coherently build science ideas over time.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Leaders in the Virginia Beach City Public Schools have been working on their equity agenda since 2015. But while their first two iterations focused more on achievement gaps and access to rigorous classes for all students, the plans didn’t address systemic inequities or really move the needle forward.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2021

Since last March’s social distancing recommendation, many have had to adjust to teaching and learning over digital platforms. And even though some schools have reopened, digital learning isn’t going anywhere.To help both teachers and students excel in a digital environment, it’s essential that they have the best tools for their teaching and learning styles.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 4, 2021

Though demand rose over the past five years for U.S.- and U.K.-based curricula to be used in international private schools, demand for international curricula at these schools increased to a much greater degree. The post Report Offers Window into International Schools’ Curricula appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edthena

MARCH 4, 2021

In this article from Langauge Magazine, Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena, details how video coaching can provide English learner educators with the specific feedback that they need. “Good teaching requires school leaders and instructional coaches to get direct and deep insight into exactly what teaching is looking like right now.” This is why video is a great resource to facilitate professional learning for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2021

Alyssa Washington, a senior at Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, Conn., who wants to be a nurse, decided not to apply to college this year. Credit: Laura Pappano. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A few weeks ago, ahead of a nor’easter that unleashed biting winds and snow across New England, Alyssa Washington, a high school senior who wants to be a nurse, made her big college decision: Not to go next fall.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2021

Biden Pledging To Open Schools In First 100 Days With In-Person Instruction Once A Week With Schools Needing to Bridge the Technology Gap. Owl Labs , the collaborative tech company revolutionizing how the world communicates with its inclusive and immersive video experiences, today announced a new suite of features that will support the needs of educators leveraging the Meeting Owl (the company’s flagship 360-degree camera, mic and speaker hardware product) for remote and hybrid learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2021

Child care centers, like this one near Austin, Texas, have struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It is well known by now that the pandemic has decimated the child care industry : at the end of last year, there were 166,800 fewer child care workers than the previous December. More than 80 percent of child care centers that are still open enroll fewer children than before the pandemic.

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MindShift

MARCH 4, 2021

President Biden’s new Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, hit the ground running Wednesday. Just one day after being sworn in, Cardona traveled to his hometown of Meriden, Conn. with first lady Dr. Jill Biden, on a tour of schools meant to push for the return of in-person learning and to send a clear message to the American people — that the Biden Administration is doing all it can to get children back in classrooms.

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