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Online learning can help schools retain students

eSchool News

There were 1.3 million fewer students enrolled in U.S. public schools in fall 2021 than there were before the pandemic began–a drop of nearly 3 percent.

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Six Ways Instructional Leaders Can Support Curriculum Implementation

Education Elements

As we start the calendar year, many of us have the desire to set ambitious goals to change how we work to make it more fulfilling and sustainable.

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Tech Alone Isn’t Enough to Secure K–12 Schools

EdTech Magazine

The education sector has a cybersecurity problem on its hands. Adversaries have ramped up attacks on K–12 schools and universities, using ransomware and double-extortion campaigns to target institutions with vast stores of data but limited means to protect their critical digital assets.

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How to Prevent ChatGPT Cheating

techlearning

ChatGPT has a lot of potential for teaching, say educators, but it can also be used to cheat. Here are strategies to prevent ChatGPT cheating

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

In this webinar you will get a live demo on how to create unique, dynamic, and engaging powerpoints.

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What Matters Is What Learners Do

Catlin Tucker

What makes an educator – or a class, or a lesson – great? I’ve been fortunate, throughout my life, to observe many amazing educators in action. First, I had great teachers when I was in school.

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How to Lead with Little to No "Experience"

A Principal's Reflections

I vividly remember how frustrating it was to interview for various school administrator positions only to be told that I didn’t have enough practical experience related to the position(s). Well duh, of course I didn’t, as I was an aspiring leader who was just venturing into this space.

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What is the Acceptable Percentage of Plagiarism?

PlagiarismCheck

How Much Plagiarism is Acceptable? The question is worth 10.3 billion search results. Well, to those looking for a simple answer: no, there’s no single benchmark. Or could zero plagiarism count? Different universities, colleges, and high schools have different standards.

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How learning science informs edtech product development

eSchool News

It’s no secret that the pandemic shift to remote learning resulted in boom times for edtech. Market intelligence firm HolonIQ expects global edtech spend to reach $300 billion in 2022 and up to $404 billion in 2025.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes.

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Use Tech to Teach Languages

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every year, the world grows smaller, making the importance of language learning greater.

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How to Apply the Concepts of Neuroscience to Create a Thriving Learning Culture

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at LearningToGo

In this webinar, Margie Meacham, CEO of Learningtogo and a neuroscience expert, will show you how to create a training program that promotes psychological safety and uses neuroscience to create a workplace culture where people flourish, connect, and perform at their best.

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Launching Recruitment and Retention Solutions Designed by Teachers of Color

Digital Promise

The post Launching Recruitment and Retention Solutions Designed by Teachers of Color appeared first on Digital Promise

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Laying the Groundwork for Esports in Kindergarten

EdTech Magazine

The mention of esports typically conjures images of teenagers in headsets, positioned in front of colorful keyboards and brightly lit computer monitors.

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5 Benefits of an LED Video Wall for Schools

ViewSonic Education

From enhancing learning environments to providing a premium feel at a dean’s boa rdroom , t he benefits of an LED video wall for school s are numerous.

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Tech Tip #55 Find a Lost Shortcut

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.

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The Guide to Accessible Learning for Associations

Speaker: Dan Streeter, Vice President of Learning Strategy & Development at Blue Sky eLearn

In this 45-minute webinar, we’ll share real-world accessibility solutions and hidden tools in the applications you use every day such as Zoom, Microsoft Suite, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Articulate Storyline 360, and Articulate Rise 360. This webinar will help you evaluate the accessibility of your current learning efforts and learn about the tools needed to ensure your eLearning is in alignment with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (proposed WCAG 2.2).

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Four Secret Ingredients for Building a Community of Leaders in the Face of Uncertainty

Digital Promise

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes.

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How Instructional Coaches Can Support the Mental Health of Educators

EdNews Daily

By Dr. Felicia Bolden Instructional coaching for any leader can be challenging especially when working with educators who have never been coached, whether they are novice or experienced.

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8 questions to help students identify credible resources

Ditch That Textbook

This post is written by Bradley Lands, the author of the book Knowledge-ABLE, owner of UpLearn LLC, and is currently the Director of Technology and Innovation at The Langley School in McLean, Virginia.

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Photoshop Basics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Before teaching Lesson Plans using Photoshop, be sure to cover the basics with students: Open Photoshop. Notice the tool bars at the top. These will change depending upon the tool you choose from the left side. These are the crux of Photoshop. We’ll cover about ten of them in fifth grade.

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Increasing Equity and Access: A Canvas Case Study of Virtual Arkansas K-12

Virtual Arkansas, a fully online school, had a mission to provide high-quality courses in rural and urban areas throughout the state. How would they simplify content creation while enhancing learning? Discover 3 key insights to transform your classrooms.

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TCEA 2023: Speakers Share Lessons on Collaboration and Trust at Convention

EdTech Magazine

At TCEA 2023 in San Antonio, a conference heavily focused on sharing best practices for marrying pedagogy and technology, several speakers shared lessons on leadership.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

eSchool News

Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. Parents can feel it, and the numbers back them up. Edtech is booming, with 40 times more venture capital invested in the sector in 2021 than in 2010.

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Podcast: Toward Real Transformation

EdNews Daily

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Report, your Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Chris McMurray, the Learning Counsel’s new Chief Academic Officer.

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14 Tech Assessment Strategies

Ask a Tech Teacher

It used to be simple to post grades. Add up test scores and see what the student earned. Very defensible. Everyone understood. It’s not that way anymore.

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Keeping Students Safe and Productive on Devices

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, we’ll explore the full range of Jamf education products to protect students, including quick and easy tools for IT admins, powerful apps for teachers to ensure student safety anywhere, and parental engagement tools.

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6 Best AI Text Writers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As an EdTech blogger and educator interested in the use of technology in education, I have been following with huge intrigue the rapid uptake of AI technology and how this technology is currently reshaping the whole Internet creating a new version, one in which creation (or part of it) is delegated to AI bots.

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Building culture and community takes more than a committee

eSchool News

When organizations are mindful and deliberate about generating and maintaining a sense of teamwork and shared goals, team members are put at ease and more productive. The same is true for building a school culture and community for staff and students alike.

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You can’t teach without eye contact

EdNews Daily

By Martin Demkowicz How do we keep virtual learning human-centric? Remote, virtual, distance learning… call it what you will, millions of us choose – or have to choose – to learn from someone physically separate from us.

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#72: Check Your Math in Excel

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is one of the most popular lessons I teach to Excel beginners. It is relevant, instantly usable and makes sense from the beginning. Click the images below to enlarge them for viewing.

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Unlock the Power of Formative Assessment

Learn how a thoughtful formative assessment approach can help teachers understand where students are in their learning, inform instruction, and in turn, positively impact student learning outcomes. Get the guide today!

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Are We About to Choke on “WOKE”?

My Island View

ChatGPT infused Post After my last post, ChatGPT : Kill it, or Use It?, I thought that I would use that very app to help write this post, and see what all the hubbub was about with this artificial intelligence writer.

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iSpring QuizMaker- Easily Create Interactive Quizzes for Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

If you are looking for a powerful tool to create interactive digital quizzes, iSpring QuizMaker is a very good option to consider. iSpring QuizMaker is a quiz creation tool that you can use to create interactive quizzes, surveys, and assessments.

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Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict – Part 2

EdNews Daily

As discussed in last month’s article, conflict is an inevitable part of school life. While astute leadership can certainly prevent many contentious issues from percolating, there always will be sources of conflict totally beyond the principal’s control.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

FULLERTON, Calif. — On an unremarkable November morning, Jimmie Conner is hunched over his laptop at a dining table in an open-concept kitchen flooded with light.

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The Best Ways to Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School

Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

In our webinar, How to Best Use Managed Apple IDs at Your School, hear the real-world experience of Steven Palomo, IT Director at Beverly Public Schools, regarding how he successfully managed his entire tech stack.