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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. Given that educational funding is tied to enrollment, this development has serious implications for the availability of resources in our schools. Some of this decline may be the result of changing demographics.

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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. As an Instructional Leader, I remember sitting at my desk before the start of each semester, turning my wheels about how to make each day longer so I could prioritize the competing needs of my dozens of teachers and maybe have time for lunch.

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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. Today’s schools fully depend on technology. Inside the classroom, it supports teaching and learning; outside the classroom, it powers everything from door access to security cameras and bus schedules.

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How to Prevent ChatGPT Cheating

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

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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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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. I am sure virtually everyone reading this post has been in the same situation at some point, whether in the past or currently.

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FETC 2023: Key Takeaways from a Whirlwind Conference in New Orleans

EdTech Magazine

With more than 1 million square feet of space, hosting the 2023 Future of Education Technology Conference in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center could have been chaos. Instead, signs guided attendees at every turn, and a collection of maps in the conference’s app ensured session destinations were reached. The easy-to-navigate conference allowed attendees to explore innovations and new ideas without getting lost or overwhelmed.

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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. The growth is fueling investment, too, as last year venture capital tripled over pre-pandemic levels. But is all that money well spent on learning products with proven efficacy in the classroom, or are those billions going toward technology for technology’s sake?

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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. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.

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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. While LED video wall technology has historically been associated with corporate fields and large public spaces, a growing number of academic institutions are starting to understand the ir universal benefits and are now capitalizing on the latest Direct View LED display technology.

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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. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Roman Zhidkov, has interesting ideas on easy ways to learn a new language using already-available online technology: How to Use Tech for Language Learning As an educator, I’m always looking for ways to facilitate learning through technology.

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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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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. As competitive gaming grows popularity at high schools and colleges across the nation, it becomes even more important to lay the groundwork for these teams early on. Starting students with online games in kindergarten can create a pipeline that will carry them through high school, into college and beyond.

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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. In this first blog post, Michigan Virtual shares how they formed a grassroots educational leadership movement to navigate uncertainty.

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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. Brad is a Google for Education Certified Innovator, a Google for Education Certified Trainer, an Apple Distinguished Educator, and a National Board […] The post 8 questions to help students identify credible resources appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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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. Today’s tip: How to find a lots shortcut Category: Problem-solving Q: I can’t find the shortcut for a program I want to open.

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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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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. In between sessions on cybersecurity, physical security, immersive technology, device management, professional development and more, speakers emphasized that innovation doesn’t just come from the top down.

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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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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. It may be hard for educators to realize and admit to areas they need to improve due to the stigma in society that everyone wants to focus on what’s going well. However, through effective coaching by educational leaders, teachers can reflect and grow through a coaching process.

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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. The rest will have to wait. The right-hand tools are used independent of the left-hand tools.

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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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The Realities of Working as a College Adjunct Professor

Edsurge

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. Then I got an email from the scheduling coordinator. Just a heads up, she wrote, likely you’ll have just one course next semester. We were about to head into our winter break. That meant I had less than a month to find yet another source of income to pay my bills. My teaching workweek was practically full-time, but I had two other jobs.

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ChatGPT, AI and Student Creativity

EdTechTeacher

Post by Tom Daccord The introduction of ChatGPT has resulted in tremendous public interest and front-page headlines, but it also caused a great deal of concern in schools across the country. For most educators, ChatGPT is their first direct encounter with a powerful artificial intelligence system — one that writes essays, poetry, songs, code and more.

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Predictions for Gifted Education in 2023

EdNews Daily

By Victoria Driver and Anna Houseman New York City’s decision to put on hold the city’s gifted programming has sparked discussions nationwide around the impact and equity of gifted programs. Similarly, recent reports on the COVID slide and the future of education also raise questions about how to meet the cognitive needs of all students, with a particular focus on teaching independent problem solving skills.

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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. Here are factors I consider when I’m posting grades for my tech students: Does s/he remember skills from prior lessons as they complete current lessons? Does s/he show evidence of learning by using tech class knowledge in classroom or home?

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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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. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic.

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Reeling From the Mental Health Crisis, K-12 Districts Turn to Telemedicine

Edsurge

LOS ANGELES — Tucked at the end of a hall in General Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton is Room 105. Students know it as the “wellness center,” where they sometimes go for counseling sessions. “A lot of people believe that it’s only adults who go through things in their lives,” says Neftalí Alcocer, a seventh grader at the school who’s used the center.

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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. But as all our interactions become increasingly rooted in remote digital experiences, what are we actually losing besides the proximity of other people?

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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. –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom Copyright ©2023 usna.wordpress.com – All rights reserved. [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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21 Features of Google Drive

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Teachers should love Google Drive. The features of Google Drive can help us in so many ways. Google Drive is a powerful and versatile tool that offers a range of features that make it ideal for teachers. With Google Drive, you can store, share, and collaborate on your class materials, communicate with your students, and take advantage of the suite of productivity tools that are included.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

Edsurge

Competition is a critical element of our society. It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Some argue that competitiveness is a trait, while others believe it’s a mix of genetic and environmental factors.

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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. What is always very much within the principal’s control, however, is how he/she addresses this discord.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.