Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2023

The post Five Tips for Creating an Effective Asynchronous Learning Environment appeared first on Digital Promise.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2023

As dust from the pandemic settles, students across America are facing another disruption to quality education. This crisis, however, shouldn’t be a surprise. It is two centuries in the making. The most recent legislation introduced in Congress, which would see a minimum salary base of $60,000 for public school teachers, is certainly a welcome step in the right direction.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 14, 2023

How can we implement AI in schools responsibly? How can we set policies fairly? This story can give us some guidance. In February 2023, a Florida high school found that students were using artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT to do their schoolwork. The response, according to news reports: students could face "more severe consequences" if they […] The post Setting school policy about AI: A cautionary tale appeared first on Ditch That Textbook.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Schools can’t use E-rate funding for strictly cyber tools when it comes to cybersecurity, and ed tech advocates like the Consortium for School Networking have been lobbying to change that. The federal funds are intended to help schools “obtain affordable broadband,” according to the Federal Communications Commission, the organization responsible for distributing E-rate funding.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? To find out, last week we gathered a panel of experts at the intersection of brain research and teaching practice to hear their latest thinking for a live taping of the EdSurge Podcast.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2023

Everyone loves a great story. We spend countless hours visualizing how they unfold when reading and watching them come to life through our device of choice. It comes as no surprise that civilizations across the globe have been curating and sharing them since the beginning of time. From cave paintings, stone carvings, and ancient papyrus paper, the most significant stories of our past have been preserved.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 14, 2023

The generative AI world continues to develop at a very fast pace. I’m buried in project work right now, but wanted to quickly note some developments. The big announcement today was OpenAI’s launch of GPT-4 , the next version of its large learning model. 4 draws on a larger training set and can also write responses to user-uploaded images.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

MARCH 15, 2023

Choice has many benefits to students in education to increase their motivation, efforts, and engagement. Gamified choice boards bring together the power of choice and the power of fun. Join Alice Keeler as she explains some options for creating a gamified choice board. The post Gamified Choice Boards appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2023

Digital learning has not always been as ubiquitous as it is today–in fact, a decade ago, the concept made many educators uncomfortable. But today, digital learning resources are embraced as tools that highly-skilled educators can use to boost student engagement and connect classroom lessons to the real world. Digital Learning Day celebrates this evolution and highlights how educators across the country are using digital learning tools to create authentic connections and personalized learni

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

Four days of networking, learning and innovating await attendees of this year’s Consortium for School Networking conference. Bringing educators, administrators and other IT leaders together in Austin, Texas, CoSN2023 invites participants to “Reimagine. Redesign. Renew.” Presenters will delve into this year’s theme in sessions taking place from March 20-23.

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Speaker: Joseph Suarez - Learning Experience Designer at Suarez Media Production

What makes an instructional video engaging and effective? Why do Learning and Development professionals often struggle to produce quality videos? What can we do to change that? In this webinar, Joseph Suarez will break down the craft, the art, and the science of video production and reveal how to leverage the production process to create great videos of all types and sizes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 14, 2023

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th : Pi Day and World Maths Day Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant, holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 13, 2023

Have you tried Canva? It is my favourite publishing tool! Why? Because it is so easy-to-use and it makes everything look so good! Click here to get the app, or visit Canva.com. See the gallery below for some examples of things I have created… A Bedouin Desert Diary An activity page for a lesson on measurement. My Year group’s homework template.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

When a Texas task force set out to draft a plan for attracting and keeping more teachers in the state’s schools, it ran into its first problem before work ever began. The group initially was composed of school district leaders and had no more than one teacher, recalls Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers. That didn’t sit well with him or members of the Texas AFT.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

As most criminals do, cybercriminals make a habit of targeting the most vulnerable. News headlines often highlight the dangers they pose in the context of nation-state threats or breaches that target the data of large enterprises. But in 2022, according to a recent report, 89 educational institutions were hit by ransomware, impacting nearly 2,000 schools in the U.S.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2023

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes: Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle Puzzles and games Physical Education St. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com Resources for St. Pat’s Day from Education.com by grade and subject St.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 12, 2023

I’ve discussed offering electives to my gifted elementary students. My group of 2nd/3rd graders chose space. It began as one would expect any study of space would begin – watching videos, visiting NASA websites, even playing some online games. They then selected planets to learn and research about. They learned basic researching skills and created a guide to their planets.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they bring students. This was a key theme I heard at last week’s SXSW EDU conference, where several panels addressed what today’s generation of students want, and how colleges can respond. It was also a top-of-mind issue for me coming into the conference.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

The metaverse is a tool that blends experiences typically associated with either the virtual or physical worlds. It can deliver greater immersive learning for students while also creating some new and exciting teaching opportunities. For educators, it is crucial to not only understand what the metaverse is and its uses within education but to also realize the benefits of immersive learning with the metaverse.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

This is a question I get often from teachers: Technology is always an extra layer of work in my classroom. How can I blend it into what I already do without taking time I don’t have? When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openi

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. My hands, raw from cleaner, fail to remove remnants of short-lived romances tattooed into the laminate. Profanity from past students lives on in the rubber sidings of these desks.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Think about it for a minute. You are facing a new challenge – whether it be learning to fix a burst pipe, tackling a new hobby, or just struggling to figure something out. What do you do? I’ve asked hundreds of people this question and the first thing they often say is, “I Google it.” (Then I joke about the times before the internet when we needed to spend time looking through the Encyclopedia Britannica to find our answers.

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Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either. I tossed it into the category of something to try when whatever I was using didn’t work. That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work?

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

MARCH 14, 2023

How will schools handle the rapid shifts necessary to adapt to AI chatbots like ChatGPT? Adapt to ChatGPT with Art! Art makes learning more meaningful and personal. School should focus more on making great well balanced human being rather than competitors of technology. The post The ChatGPT Effect: Art Projects as the Key to Student Adaptation appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

How can teachers engage students to learn problem-solving skills across the curriculum? One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. In the process, students develop persistence and creativity while teachers connect their learning with professional standards aligned with ISTE micro-credentials.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2023

Gone are the days when a school librarian’s job was defined by shushing, rocking, and reading. While reading out loud and building a love of literacy is still a foundational part of their job in a school, school librarians wear many, many hats and touch many lives in the course of a day’s work. As an avid, life-long reader, I can come up with dozens of things I love about school librarians and libraries (I was actually named by a librarian!

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Speaker: Aaron Webb, Jamf

Apple empowers educators and students by design. Whether using Macs, iPads, or Apple TV, Apple devices encourage creativity and can simplify teaching with apps to make the classroom more flexible, collaborative and personalized for each student. To unleash the full potential of the technology and create the best learning environment, you need to understand the tools and resources available, and develop an education-focused, comprehensive plan, from equipment purchase to deployment, management an

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2023

This is a topic every teacher I know is talking about. BAM Radio has a couple of podcasts you’ll enjoy: Why Some Educators Are Convinced Artificial Intelligence Can Make Teaching Less Stressful Millions of schoolchildren walked into their classrooms at the start of the academic year missing one crucial element that should have set them up for success: the prior knowledge they needed to take on a new grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers. Credit: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Education researchers have been urging schools to invest their $120 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds in tutoring.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

The original version of this essay was published by the TRiiBE. In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2023

Even if the old spoon under the pillow trick hasn’t worked for the students in your district yet, it doesn’t mean it won’t be your turn next! No matter how well prepared you are, weather cancellations can be cause for confusion. It’s worth taking a few extra precautions so your families know exactly what the story is. Here are a few simple tips districts can follow to make sure weather communication messages are reaching home without causing confusion: Tip 1: Reach Families Where They Are Most d

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

Things just got real. You’re committed to ensuring the online education your association supplies is accessible to all your members and employees. But how do you make it happen? 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.

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