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Why “offline” digital learning is critical to impact children worldwide

eSchool News

As thousands of educators, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered at the recent ASU+GSV Summit, a growing number recognized both the need and opportunity for educational innovation in developing countries, particularly for the over 250 million children who lack access to schools. But many of the solutions proffered still focus on internet-based solutions.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning in Today’s Education Environment?

EdTech Magazine

Automatic doors, crosswalks with audible directions, adjustable car seats ­— these are all universally designed products. They make the world accessible to a variety of people and they make everyday life easier for everyone. In education, students should have access to learning that meets their needs and makes their lives easier in the same way. The Universal Design for Learning framework supports learning for all students.

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Looking for Summer Activities? Try These

Ask a Tech Teacher

Earlier this week , we posted activities for a summer school student program. Now, we’ll focus on you–what do you want to accomplish with your summer? I’ve collected the most popular AATT articles on how to spend your education time this summer. Pick the ones that suit your purposes: 6 Must-reads for This Summer–2020 edition.

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Where Do We Go from Here?

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik Schools are a business. Demand and supply. To be run efficiently, schools must operate at or near capacity. So, what does it mean when nearly 40 percent of parents opt to take their school-aged children out of traditional public school? In short, it means consolidation. Take the kids out of some schools and pack them into others. Then close the empty schools.

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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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What I Learned When Visiting a Colleague’s Hybrid Class

Edsurge

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. So for my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have exemplified what it means to be an effective teacher.

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How Extended Day Enrichment Can Enhance the Emotional Well-Being of Students

EdNews Daily

By Dawn Bridges, Ed.D. Students’ experiences both inside and outside of school can influence their learning and achievement. Since the onset of COVID-19, children nationwide have had to deal with the emotionally taxing experiences of social isolation and disruption to their routines. Some have also faced stressors such as food insecurity, homelessness, and traumas such as losing a parent or a grandparent caregiver due to COVID-19.

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How Do Technological Tools Enhance Children’s Creativity?

EdNews Daily

By Jerry Kolber The digital revolution is an unstoppable force sweeping across every facet of society, including the education sector. As part of this movement, EdTech has made its way into classrooms, changing the dynamic and contributing to a fulfilling learning process. For children today, often thought of as digital natives, these tools have brought many benefits to the learning experience, including enhancing creativity amongst students.

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End of School Memes? Here Are Excellent Meme Generators for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Memes are cultural phenomena represented humorously using a mixture of text, images, stickers, drawings, etc. For instance, a viral meme that has been recently making the rounds is that of Will Smith.read more.

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Video: Solutions to Equity Issues in the Teacher Shortage

EdNews Daily

A special Learning Leadership Topical Event, presented by LeiLani Cauthen, CEO at Learning Counsel News Media and Research With special guests, Jose A. Viana, Ed.D., Senior Education Advisor at Lexia Learning and Wendee Evering, Assistant Administrator at A.C. Moore Elementary in Columbia, SC Jose A. Viana, Ed.D., Senior Education Advisor at Lexia describes Lexia Learning as being all about literacy.

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Your Final Staff Meeting

Adjusting Course

"This year is bound to be easier." This was my thinking at the start of the school year. I imagine I also believed we'd somehow have enough subs going into the school year as well. Needless to say, this school year was not easier. It presented a host of challenges that came with an unrelenting fervor. The complex needs many students showed up with made this one of the most demanding (and important) years I can remember.

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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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Leadership Lessons: When Binary Decisions Require a Tertiary Option

EdNews Daily

By Zach Vander Veen Decision processes intrigue me, especially as I’ve moved into positions that require far more complex decisions on issues that have a larger impact. There is the self-reflective part of the process – why I make the decisions I make – that I’m examining through the most excellent book, Thinking, Fast and Slow (and if ever there was a book to make us question why we make decisions, that’s the book).

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5 ISTELive 22 sessions that caught our eye

eSchool News

It’s that time of year again– ISTELive 22 is just around the corner, and this year, the nation’s largest edtech show takes place in New Orleans. Focusing on empowering educators and elevating equity, ISTELive features in-person content live and streamed from the conference, along with online content from remote presenters. Sessions include focuses on blended learning, curating classroom resources, using augmented reality, project-based learning, building student media literacy,

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Using Mindfulness and Authenticity to Lead Tech Teams

techlearning

Mindfulness can help school IT staff overcome stress and help spur emotional and professional growth.

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Polaris Recognized as Learning Analytics Solution of the Year

N2Y

Huron, Ohio— Business Wire n2y, the nation’s #1 solution for special education, today announced that Polaris ® has been named “Learning Analytics Solution of the Year” in the fourth annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by EdTech Breakthrough , a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market.

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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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SLAM Card resources for narrative language assessment

SpeechTechie

While supervising this semester at Boston University, I was informed about the resources available through the Leaders Project at Columbia University for narrative language sampling. The School Age Language Assessment Measures (SLAM) materials are a series of story cards and questions with rubrics that are all FREE. We used them for baseline assessments and I recently used them in an evaluation, and found they gathered helpful data in all cases.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Students Who Speak Varieties of English

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording. Everyone in the United States speaks a dialect—not a different language, but a variation of American English. Yet when children come to school, the expectation is that they will automatically understand that they need to read, write, and speak in the academic English of the classroom. In the edWebinar, “ Teaching Reading to Children Who Speak Varieties of English ,” Dr.

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Racing Against the Clock: Spending and Obligating Stimulus Dollars

Gaggle Speaks

The Education Stabilization Fund and Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund have provided funding to help with challenges faced by districts across the nation. When these funds were distributed and obligation dates were set, every district leader got to work creating a plan for these dollars. The biggest issue was the tight timeline to spend—with little time to plan.

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2022 Jamf Nation Live London

Jamf on EdTech

Jamf Nation Live is back after a two-year hiatus! We kicked it off London-style to start the 2022 tour in Tobacco Dock's Great Gallery.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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(Updated) The Armed Attacker: A Rare But Catastrophic Event at the Library?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

By Dr. Steve Albrecht I posted this Library 2.0 blog below in October 2020. What a difference two years has made in the intensity and frequency of workplace violence and school violence incidents. New attacks at an elementary school in Texas, a grocery store, and just recently, a factory in Maryland, show us this disturbing trend of mass shootings is continuing in the wrong direction.

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n2y wins CODiE for Company of the Year

N2Y

Huron, Ohio— Business Wire n2y has been named Company of the Year for 2022 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. The CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative business technology products across the country, and around the world. “Winning Company of the Year is a tremendous honor for us,” said Ed Holmes, n2y CEO. “We love empowering children, families, and educators with our learning solutions and are pleased to receive industry recognition for our efforts.

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