EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 25, 2023

Educational technologies, when carefully designed and thoughtfully applied, have the power to amplify the impact of high-quality teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Student data privacy has been at the forefront of district leaders’ minds well before the pandemic. However, since COVID-19 shifted schools and classrooms online, it’s not surprising that tech usage has reached an all-time high.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

I published this several years ago, but with the current dissatisfaction of many parents with traditional education, it’s worth revisiting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Subscribe today! I really wanted a bot to write this.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

Teacher retention is anticipated to become one of the biggest challenges in K–12 education in 2023. Educators are leaving the profession in droves, with numerous states facing severe teacher shortages heading into the 2022-2023 school year.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 23, 2023

The post Improving the Odds: A New Study to Improve Undergrad Math Results appeared first on Digital Promise

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Education Elements

JANUARY 24, 2023

Raise your hand if you are still trying to fill teacher vacancies, even though it’s the end of the first semester. How about if you’ve had teachers start the year, but they’ve since exited?

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techieMusings

JANUARY 24, 2023

I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with the team at Kami, creating a series of micro tips. These tips were initially posted on Kami’s TikTok and Instagram channels. To make it easy for you to watch them all in one place, I’ve compiled them into one video.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

One day, when Nicole M. Joseph was in the third grade, she raised her hand in class to answer a math question. The teacher did not call on her. Her mother happened to be standing outside the door observing the classroom and was unhappy about what she saw.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some students just don’t like writing. A page filled with black-and-white words intimidates–or bores!–them –them making it almost impossible to explain their ideas for an assignment.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Although education has undergone rapid changes in the past few years, many of the processes have stayed the same.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2023

The post Celebrating Youth Voice and Innovation on International Day of Education appeared first on Digital Promise. Challenge Based Learning Educators Learning Experience Design Uncategorized

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2023

I remember vividly as a young principal when I started to drink the “edtech” Kool-Aid many years ago. It represented a true turning point in how I thought about change in education. Up until this point, my thinking was relatively traditional and as such, so was the culture of my school.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2023

Do your first graders love vehicles? Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to teach about them: Build a car–abcya Design your very own vehicle with ABCya’s Create a Car! Choose from cars, trucks, buses, and even construction vehicles.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you are a novice or an expert, the 2023 TCEA Convention & Exposition will offer attendees their pick of hundreds of sessions focused on the intersection of education and technology. With the theme of “Passionate Educators. Limitless Possibilities,” the four-day event begins Monday, Jan.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2023

The post Understanding Two Powerful Student-Centered Product Certifications: Universal Design for Learning and Learner Variability appeared first on Digital Promise. Blog Marketplace

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. I have been named a New Pathways Fellow by Getting Smart in support of this work.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

2022 saw some significant advancements in artificial intelligence. My threshold for “significant” here being that the advances moved out of labs and arXiv.org preprints and into tools that many people were using and talking about.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Use student data to personalize learning: The concept isn’t new. Educators have been doing it as long as they’ve been in the classroom. The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. While the curriculum and learning standards are of course important, you can’t simply put all of your focus on academics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

I love learning. As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 25, 2023

The journal Nature, and all other Springer Nature titles, have updated their Guide to Authors with rules for using LLMs like ChatGPT when writing research articles for the publication. To summarize, the rules say: 1. DO NOT list the LLM as an author, and 2.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Educators are frequently thinking about the future. They’re preparing young learners for a world that doesn’t yet exist, but will in five or 10 or 15 years. But how can anyone prepare for what’s coming in 40 years? How can that future be imagined?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

When 15-year-old Ka’iulani Iaea first moved schools, she struggled. She missed her friends and familiar teachers. Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It It was very hard and rough because I hate change.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGPT.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 22, 2023

Like much of the current K-12 universe, Sarah Cooper is both excited and concerned about the impact of ChatGPT’s disruptive technology. Recently she checked in with her 8th graders for insights into how they might use it and how they think AI may impact their lives in the future.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the expo hall of the Future of Education Technology Conference, there’s an esports theater. It’s surrounded by esports-adjacent vendors, such as CDW and Spectrum Industries, and it’s almost always bustling with curious conferencegoers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Virginia psychologist Daniel Willingham Credit: Adam Mohr for Simon & Schuster Daniel Willingham is a University of Virginia psychologist who frequently engages in pop culture battles armed with academic research.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s accepted wisdom that good relationships between teachers and their students lead to students who are willing to work harder in the classroom. Could those positive feelings also have an impact in the other direction, leading teachers to up their instructional game? As it turns out, yes.

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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.

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