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Building an Impactful Education Ecosystem: The 4 Key Components

ViewSonic Education

Building an impactful education ecosystem is a challenge that many educators have been faced with at some point in their careers.

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Product Review: Logitech StreamCams for Better Virtual Parent-Teacher Meetings

EdTech Magazine

When streaming live video, the right camera makes a difference. Camera quality is second only to sufficient network bandwidth for ensuring that a virtual meeting is not disrupted by choppy or frozen images. Virtual meetings are now commonplace in school districts.

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How and When to Choose the Right LMS for Your School Community

Digital Promise

This 3-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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19 Tech Problems Every Student Can Fix

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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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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When Growth is the Only Path Forward

A Principal's Reflections

No pain, no gain has been a common saying for years. Truth be told, getting better is hard work, no matter the context. When faced with adversity, we take one of two paths. The first is seeing the inherent opportunity in a challenge through a growth mindset.

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Data-driven Design: Use Data to Personalize Learning in a Blended Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Blended learning environments offer a unique opportunity for teachers to shift the control of the learning experience from teacher to learner by combining active, engaged learning online and offline.

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Why Hidden Artificial Intelligence Features Make Such an Impact in Education

Edsurge

When classrooms and conference rooms abruptly moved online three years ago, we all experienced moments of technical frustration. Whether dealing with connectivity issues or clumsy virtual interactions, which were sometimes accompanied by awkward background noises, we persisted.

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CISA Urges K–12 Schools to Prioritize Stronger Cybersecurity Investments

EdTech Magazine

More than a year after Congress passed the 2021 K–12 Cybersecurity Act, the nation’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a report sharing best practices for K–12 schools. The law charged CISA with reviewing the risks schools face and sharing recommendations to mitigate them.

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20 Of The Best Learning Apps For Elementary Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

This is a diverse collection of apps, from games to digital media software to math and literacy apps. The post 20 Of The Best Learning Apps For Elementary Students appeared first on TeachThought. Technology Apps Elementary School New Teacher Tools

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

Ask a Tech Teacher

When you teach typing, the goal isn’t speed and accuracy. The goal is that students type well enough that it doesn’t disrupt their thinking. Let me say that again: The goal of keyboarding is students type well enough that it doesn’t disrupt their thinking.

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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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Gardening Program with SAGE Elementary Students

User Generated Education

Our Title 1 school is lucky enough to have a decent size outdoor garden that is overseen by community volunteers. One of their goals is to teach our students about the garden. Because of the that, I offered gardening as a possible elective for my GT (gifted and talented students).

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How Ed Tech Can Help Reverse Post-Pandemic Learning Loss in K–12

EdTech Magazine

For the past three years, K–12 educators have been raising concerns about the cost of the pandemic on academic achievement. That cost has been steep: According to the nationally administered 2022 NAEP assessments, nearly two decades of student progress in reading and math scores have been erased.

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More than a new logo: the deeper layers of change management in a mascot change

Education Elements

It’s hard to believe, but we’re approaching the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown in our schools. We’ve all been through a great deal of disturbance over these past three years.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive.

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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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A Whole-Person Approach to Education for a Changing World

EdNews Daily

By Justin Bean Our world has changed radically over the past two hundred years. Our education system has not. The foundation for our current Western education system was designed for a very different time, one adapting to the nascent Industrial Revolution and moving from an agricultural society.

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Dual-Credit Program Gives Lake County Students Hands-On Manufacturing Experience

EdTech Magazine

Junior Gunner Kimble typically gets to Johnsburg High School around 7 a.m., but by 7:30 he’s heading out the door again. Kimble makes this quick departure because he participates in a dual-credit program through Illinois’s College of Lake County.

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As Safety Threats Rise in Schools, Could SEL Programs Help?

Edsurge

Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. American youth are in crisis.

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25 Sites to Add Rigor and Authenticity to Word Study

Ask a Tech Teacher

Memorizing word lists and testing on them doesn’t really work very well. Here are lots of websites that will make student academic and domain-specific word study more relevant and sticky.

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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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She Blinded Me with Science (of Learning)

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill From my heart and from my hand Why don’t people understand my intentions? –Oingo Boingo Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-faster pace.

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Shifting From an Audience of One to an Authentic Audience

Catlin Tucker

What is problematic about teachers being the only audience for student work? When teachers are the only audience for student work, it creates an unsustainable workload because teachers are responsible for reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on all of their students’ work.

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The Idea of a Teacher Salary Minimum Is Gaining Steam in Congress. Where Has This Worked?

Edsurge

Congress is weighing a significant change to the teaching profession — one that proponents hope could help attract strong candidates to the classroom while retaining those who are already in it. The American Teacher Act, a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in December by Rep.

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What You Might Have Missed in February–What’s up in March

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the most-read posts for the month of February: #WorldReadAloudDay February 1st Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School 14 Tech Assessment Strategies 72: Check Your Math in Excel Is ChatGPT Writing Your Students’ Homework? New Tech Will Detect It Tech Tip #45 My Screen is Sideways!!

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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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How Speaking Two Languages Is A Superpower

EdNews Daily

The Benefits of Being a Multilingual Speaker Do you speak more than one language? Are you a multilingual speaker? This is part three of our interview series, “Thinking in Two Languages.”

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Celebrate Pi Day with MIND

MIND Research Institute

Fun and Inspiring Pi Day Activities Everyone Can Enjoy! Why should you never talk to Pi? Because they’ll go on forever! We joke, of course. It goes without saying how much we love Pi Day here at MIND.

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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity

Edsurge

Engagement and creativity play such important roles in the learning process, but with the myriad of other requirements and obligations, they can easily get lost in the abyss of deadlines and mandates.

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The Keys to Shaping Your School’s Reputation

MiddleWeb

Leadership consultants Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn identify the essentials in shaping a school’s reputation and suggest ways the principal, teachers and staff can assure their school has a positive image among students and families and in the community at large.

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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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Matters of Principal: Building Your Staff

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay This is the time of the school year when principals do their best to meet two very important, and very different, mandates: ensure a successful conclusion to the current school year and begin the planning process for September.

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

The Hechinger Report

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students.

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Building pathways to successful STEM careers for ALL learners

eSchool News

The journeys that children take through education are not as straightforward as most people think.

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11 Best AI Art Generator Apps (iPhone + Android)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After I covered the best web-based AI art generators , in this post I share with you a collection of AI art generator apps that you can use on your mobile device to generate stunning artwork. All of these apps, from my own experience, are simple and easy to use. No technical knowledge is required.

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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.